sengoku 1549

went to yokosuka with nikolai today to see a movie - sengoku 1549. it was the premiere of the movie, so we went early because "there was going to be lots of people buying tickets." and nikolai also had to go buy his tickets to the ueto aya concert (the sexiest girl on earth, in his eyes). he's going to frame the flyer of the concert, after she invites him personally backstage after the concert and signs it for him.

so we did all that and went to buy our movie tickets. there was no one there. probably because we were about 5 hours early. i forgot to take my student id, and i didn't want to pay the adult fee. but i said that i forgot to bring it, and the ticket girl said that she would let me pay student fee this time, but next time please bring it. i bet she only let me off because i have bleached hair. oh, they also allocate seats to you in the movies here, like it's a play or something. since we were the first ones, we got to choose. we just said somewhere in the middle would be fine. then we hung around the shopping center for ages. it was pretty good, we found a shop with lots of nightmare before christmas stuff.

the movie itself was pretty average, i think. but the story was fairly simple so it was good japanese practice. i think i got the gist of most of it. the theatre was tiny though, we were running a bit late and were the last people to walk in, so we had to somehow squeeze in. as we were making our way to our seat, a small japanese boy found out, much to his horror, that 2 huge, stupid foreigners were going to sit in front of him. nikolai said he looked really angry as i sat down. i did make an effort to slouch in my chair though..

we went for a stroll through yokosuka afterwards. it's a bit different to kamakura - wider, bigger, less crowded. we walked down this street were there were lots of africans standing around wearing blingbling clothes so they look american. we only found out they are african because one of them shouted out something in... african, i guess.