Author: amy

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Werewolf Boy, A

Of course, you would think… girl and boy wolf meet each other and fall in love, however, I never really saw Jo’s A Werewolf Boy as a romance, but a film about companionship.

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Chennai Express

An orphan sets on a journey to immerse his grandfather’s ashes in the holy waters of the Rameshwaram, when all he really wants is to party with his friends. Lucky (or not) he’s got Meena to keep him company.

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Galileo XX: Utsumi Kaoru’s Last Case

Raise your hand if you missed Kou Shibasaki on this year’s Galileo series? It certainly doesn’t seem like I was the only person to do so, because according to rumors- Fuji TV got fan letters requesting Shibasaki be back… so they did.

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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…

Well, Indian stories live up to the titles of their films, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…, which apparently translates to ‘sometimes happiness, sometimes sad’ really contains moments of pure elation followed by moments to crush your heart.

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Pushing Daisies

Part fairytale romance, part quirky crime mystery solving, part snarky comedy food-loving musical and more; Pushing Daisies achieved a stroke of genius uniqueness that is hardly ever going to show up on television again.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

This overly-long melodramatic rom-com is the best fluff I’ve watched in a very long time, as we follow a man looking to reconnect with his ex-best-friend.

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

The film’s plot is simple and straight forward enough- a proper girl of an Indian family living in London is betrothed to her father’s friend but before she leaves London, she sets out to tour Europe with her girl friends, when she meets Raj.

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Garpastum

A war movie without war, a slow-paced drama exploring the boyhood of a group of friends who live for football (soccer) in 1914, in the eve of World War I.

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Bitter Sweet Home Kyoto

Kamo is a Kyoto woman who hates Kyoto’s hoity-toity attitude towards tradition, hence she left for Tokyo to never return again, but now she must return to take over the troubled family inn.