[xyznicks]

Maybe something by studio Gibli?

Or try a book?

[Brewpralgar]

Tampopo is hilarious.

[Rufio]

[BruceQW]

Kurosawa did Rashomon which is good and stuff, but the play (by Ivor Benjamin) is like a million times better imo (even though it's in english).

[Precturge]

Akira has some pretty cool cinematic elements to it, which you might have to help her pick up on, and is mandatory viewing for anyone with a passing interest in anime. If you're going to go with Mononoke, you might as well just look at everything Miyazaki. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads -- they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude

[StizePypemype]

Also, My Neighbor Totorro would be good to expose her to now while she's still young enough to appreciate it's more childish elements; Howl's Moving Castle has the whole emoish conflicted cute but dark guy element which she'd likely react to what with being fifteen and female.

Edit: That's l33t semicolon skillz right?

[HoniSoniproca]

Kurosawa is generally B&W iirc, so that might put her off a bit.

[agrismhig]

I was pretty disappointed by the battle scenes in Seven Samurai, TBH. By modern, computer-aided standards they're really quite fake-looking. I enjoyed a lot of the movie anyway, but it's hard when you have to giggle at the battle scenes. I'm spoiled by stuff like Kill Bill, and I bet she's got it worse.

Anyway, I liked Ran better than SS. It's Kurosawa's final film, based on King Lear but set in feudal Japan. It's also his biggest-budget feature (it's in color, made in the eighties IIRC), and the production values tell. Of course, this 15yo probably isn't a Shakespeare freak like I am, but it's a good film by its own right.

[scoundtrack]

Well there you go, then.

[Chito]

To be honest, watching movies in Japanese would be of little benefit to someone who's only taken one-year of Japanese. The odds of them understanding anything more than a fraction of the dialogue are pretty slim.

If you really want to help her out, you might consider buying some simple books for her to read. Manga would be a good choice and she probably already has some on hand considering she enjoys anime. You are right to be worried about her solely watching anime/reading manga, though. The language used in most anime/manga is extremely informal and unlikely to be useful or appropriate in a classroom setting. As such, you might want to also get some Japanese children's books.

Your daughter probably can't read many kanji yet, but she should have mastered hiragana and katakana by now. You can purchase books intended for Japanese children that are written entirely in hiragana/katakana. These are a good way to learn vocabulary and grammar structures that will be encountered on a regular basis in a Japanese classroom setting. The trick is finding books that your daughter would want to read. I don't know much about her, but I can imagine a teen being reluctant to read kid's books. You probably know what topics she might be interested in, though. I personally like to read folk tales and there are many Japanese kids books about those. Just find a type of book she might like and make sure that they don't have too many kanji.

[education]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
To be honest, watching movies in Japanese would be of little benefit to someone who's only taken one-year of Japanese. It will help more with nailing the subtleties of the language like timing, intonation, syllabic emphasis, etc. If anything she'll be more used ot hearing it and presumably have a leg up on understanding it if she ever decides to go live in Japan or anywhere else where Japanese is the dominant language (is there anywhere else other than anime cons?)

[picinaRefadia]

Gladiator dubbed in Japanese

[Gazeboss]

Gladiator dubbed in Japanese

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[AnetTeilor]

Azumanga Daioh. Since there are a lot of phrases common to classrooms that she would have learned in her first year class. Then there's a lot of obscure Japanese stuff that she'll never get and will make her abadon the language for something less challenging, like Chinese.

[EasyLOAD]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
awesome anime Oxymoron

[violetgorman]

That was the one that they wondered why it was made an anime (the critics). I liked it also.

JM

[mirex]

Here, here, honey...I want to teach you some Japanese...painlessly...*rubs hands together and cackles*

[Siuchingach]

Originally posted by Wiglaf


You force your kid to watch movies so she can learn Japanese **** "painlessly?" That's a little pushy maybe you should STOP FORCING movies DOWN HER THROAT. She is getting of age if you know what I mean (sexual implication there), controlling parents such as yourself tend to have a bad reaction when she brings a guy home who doesn't even brush his teeth Brace yourself.. Nobodys forcing anybody to do anything.

I go to blockbusters. I rent Seven Samurai. I announce "Im playing Seven Samurai, anyone want to watch it with me?"

If she'd rather read Harry Potter, or IM her friends, fine, so be it. I know her well enough to imagine she'd be curious to want to watch the movie.

I dont know why you would think otherwise?

[EnubreBense]

Yeah cinema is a good choice then. It's pseudo intellectual, but still earns you big culture points for some reason (probably because it was created and refined over the past century). So if anything you'll give her something to talk about at cocktail parties.

[casinobonusfrees]

Point taken.