（神童）Shindo's a great movie. For Riko Narumi and Kenichi Matsuyama and music/piano fans. I happen to like all three so yea this makes a great movie for me.
Storyline: One 13-year-old piano prodigy, Uta Naruse (Riko Narumi), and her struggle with the meaning of playing classical music. Her father (Hidetoshi Nishijima) died mysteriously some years earlier, leaving her mother (Satomi Tezuka) poor and obsessed with making Uta fulfill her immense promise. But Uta is not sure if she even wants to play the piano.
She gains a new perspective one day when she runs into Wao Kikuna (Kenichi Matsuyama) in a park.The piano-playing son of a greengrocer who is still trying to enter the music academy after several failures, Wao is six years her senior but far below her level of talent.
Yet through his clumsy and misguided but earnest efforts to pursue music, Uta touches a more down-to-earth love of playing the piano. Wao, although a bit envious of Uta's genius, is sparked by her presence to have his own moments of brilliance.
The show starts off with how Uta met Wao in the park. It's so cute, exactly how my bro would look if this were to happen to him. But of course, my bro wouldn't be cute. Only Ken (and perhaps Leslie) would be cute in this kind of situation.
And then, one day as Uta was going home from school, she heard piano sounds from the room above a grocer's store.. And she goes there to listen, and she saw Wao come out to scold his neighbour who keeps complaining about his over-earnest-yet-far-from-perfect piano playing.
Uta rushes into the house in the ensuing mayhem to play the piano.. And everyone gets enchanted by her playing, including Wao. This builds up to form the amazing friendship between Uta and Wao. One amusing part was when Wao went for his piano audition. Surprised by the favourite toy of Uta's that she had placed in his bag to encourage him, he took the toy out and set it on the audition piano - he plays so earnestly that he topped the audition. Thanks to his own hard work and Uta's encouragement.
Lovely show overall, but some parts were kind of farfetched and hard to believe, especially the part where Litchen-something (a famous pianist) enlisted Uta's help to play in his stead when he didn't feel well. Uta learned the whole score within that few minutes, memorised the whole score (an entire book of at least 10 pages), coordinates well with the entire orchestra.... and sits on the piano score throughout the whole performance. @.@ That part was unreal. Even the best pianists and best talents would have to look at the book for the first time performing an entire recital!
Uta = Song Wao = Sound
I really want this movie. Wao is sooooo cute!! Uta too! I first saw her in 1LoT, she was Ako in there, and she's really really really pretty! She's only 15 though. And she gets to kiss Wao.. So cheeky!
Am a girl who generally acts nice in public, but inside her head, she probably thinks you're a waste of life. And that's why she's quiet.
The One & ONLI evil~ being
• 20
• Aquarian-Piscean
• Split-personality
• Highly random
• Loves to play with words
• Easily amused
• Stony face
• Typical characteristics of a person who loves red - need I say more??
• Singapore
• Would rather be alone than with people she dislikes
• Gets along easily with people sometimes
Wishes
• To be a normal human being
• To adapt more easily
• To integrate into society without conforming
• To be successful in all aspects
• To be an all-rounder
Interests - what activities I'm interested in -
• Reading
• Supernatural
• Watching movies
• Inline-skating
• Surfing the net
• Listening to music
• Going out with friends
• Chatting with friends
• Philosophizing - tho ppl might think it's mundane
• Engaging in intellectual conversations with intellectuals
• Psychology - knowing more about the human mind
Hobbies - what I always do -
• Daydreaming
• Surfing the net
• Listening to music
• Chatting with friends
• Sometimes just being alone with myself
Loves
• Death Note
• Ryuzaki a.k.a L
• Matsukun
• Nakatsu
• Toma
• things that glow/light up in the dark
• Red
• Bright colours
• Horror movies
• Pirates of the Carribean 1 & 2
• Gor Gor
• Dogs esp. Siberian Husky
• Captn Jack Sparrow
• Ice cream
• Chocolate
• Tomato Juice
• Cheese cake
• Reflecting
Likes
• Gore
• Being alone to enjoy my peace
• Reflecting
Hates
• Ppl who yell
• Fakes
• Liars
• Attention-seekers
• Noisy ppl
• Loud-mouths
• Backstabbers
• Unreasonable ppl
• Irresponsible ppl
• Hypocrites (practice what you preach!)
• Act-like-they-know-it-alls
• Fish (whether ornamental or those served as 'food')
• Cake
• Cream
• Dull colours
• Fear
Material Wants
• new BIG sling bag
• L photobook (out in Kinokuniya)
• new Nokia 6280
• Siberian Husky
• Skate Bagpack
• Ski apparatus
• that cool Japanese clamshell phone they always use in dramas
• anything that glows/lights up
• Etnies Skater shoes
• Dramas (DVD with Eng subs)
*Honey & Clover
*Hanazakari no kimitachi e
*Akihabara@Deep
• Musicals (DVD with Eng subs)
*Cat in Red Boots
Message(s) of the Year
• I LOVE TOMA.
• I LOVE CAT IN RED BOOTS.
• I LOVE 'MELTING SNOW' AND 'THE WORLD'.
• I LOVE the song 'American Pie'!!
• I LOVE Angel of Music, Phantom of the Opera
• I want to ski again
• I want to try snowboarding
• I am not HIGHLY intelligent. I dont have a MENSA mind so back off, demanding ppl!
• I hate school.
• I WANT TOMA STUFF!!
• I want to go to Japan
• I want to learn Japanese
