☆DVD: Okuribito☆

"With no age limits, warrent big pay!!! Real working is a few hours. We are travel helper, NK agent!!!"

"Travel helper is... travel agency?!"

Daigo is an orchestral cellist in Tokyo, but he gives up the road to be a player because of dissolution of the orchestra, and he goes back to his home town is Yamagata Prefecture, and he finds a job of the best requirement in classified ad. At once, he goes to take an interview, but what is the waiting to him, somehow, the office is old and carries the coffin. Sasaki who is a president appears before long, he doesn't glance a paper about Daigo's history, and he looks Daigo's face, and he decides employment soon. Daigo is taken aback and asks the job is what.

Daigo says, "What is the job?" Sasaki says, "You coffin." Daigo says, "I coffin?" Sasaki answers, "Ah, this ad is misprint. It is not 'travel helper'. It is quiet 'helper for go forth.' NK is the coffin what means 'Nokan' in Japanese." Travel helper is a worker to coffin remains. Daigo panics, because he doesn't think content of the job, but he takes on the work at Sasaki's mercy, and he says to take a job relates ceremonial occasion to Mika who is Daigo's wife.

With this, Daigo begins the daily round as a new coffin's worker, and he runs about the Syonai Plain with Sasaki in late autumn...

Daigo thinks a lady is beautiful, but is not lady, and a schoolgirl is hooligan, and dead mother leaves a young daughter, and grandmother yearn to put on loose socks, and grandfather is shown to get many kissing marks and dies a peaceful death... Daigo confuses at first, but he begins to show an understanding for the job without notice while he faces each other to death and parting in various circumstances.

Daigo comes out to Mika that he doesn't work a job related ceremonial occasion, his work is to coffin remains, because Mika has been mistaken, and she goes home and leaves to say "dirty."

Daigo loses his mother before some years, and his father disappears when he is a child. He shocks to leave her who is only family for him, but he has unshakable belief for the job, and he waits her to come back.

The season changes, when the spring will come in the Syonai Plain, Daigo begins to have complaceence and pride as coffin's worker. He has various news that is Mika's pregnancy, death of his childhood friend's mother, and death of his father unknown whereabouts for 30 years!!!

How will he face to precious people's life and death close to his as coffin's worker and a husband and a person?!

[468 words/9412 totals]

MR 06★Whale Rider

There is a village on the beach. The head of Maori had been succeeded a man for generations. The Maori believed legend of brave who come riding on the whale. But, Porourangi who was a head's oldest son, he had only Paikea who was a girl, and she was named same brave. Koro was a Paikea's grandfather, and he was looking forward to be born a successor, but he couldn't accept existence of Paikea.

When Paikea was 12 years old, Porourangi went back home. But Porourangi wouldn't be a head, so he become a worldwide artist in Germany. Koro would look for a successor from boys were 12 years old in the village, but boys weren't successful in the last examination that got a necklace made whale's tooth from the sea. After that, Paikea easily got a necklace, but it was laft Flowers' hand who was a Paikea's grandmother, because Flowers feard Koro was ill-tempered.

Presently, the family of whales were washed up on the beach from the bottom of the sea. Koro believed this was a hint of the close, and he tried to return the whales to the sea, but he couldn't budge the whales an inch. But, Paikea cansoled the whales, and she went riding on the whale to the sea. Paikea would sink in the sea, but she was pulled up safely. And at last, Koro admitted Paikea was a successor.

I was touched Paikea was a solmen cast of mind. I felt wonderful that Koro's love to Paikea, and Paikea would change Koro's mind by her honest feeling and action.

I examined about Maori. Maori is native New Zealander people. Maori decorates tattoo on their face and all over as body decoration, and it is different on village and status. "Haka" is folk dance, and Maori soldier dances before battle, and Maori dances "Haka" in greeting of welcome.

[324 words/8944 totals]

☆Cyclamen☆

These Cyclamen are at my home. Cyclamen is the native flowers of the Mediterranean Sea area. The flower season is to spring from fall. Cyclamen is famous the flower of winter. Japanese name is "manju of the pig" and "grass of the bonfire."

Cyclamen classify as dicotyledon, but Cyclamen actually shoot only one when shoot from the earth. Cyclamen blooms pink, white, red, yellow, and so on.

I intriduce the language of flowers. Red Cyclamen means jealousy. White Cyclamen means pure. Pink Cyclamen means longing.

Also, I introduce the kind of Cyclamen. There are Cyclemen africanum Boiss. et Reut., Cyclamen alpinum Dammann ex Sprenger, Cyclamen atkinsii T. Moore ex Lem., Cyclamen balearicum Willk, Cyclamen cilicium Boiss. et Heldr., Cyclamen colchicum (Albov) Albov, Vyvlamen coum Mill., Cyclamen creticum (Dorfl.) Hildebr., Cyclamen cyprium Kotschy, Cyclamen elegans Boiss. et Buhse, Cyclamen graecum Link, Cyclamen hederifolium Aiton, Cyclamen intaminatum (Meikle) Grey-Wilson, Cyclamen libanoticum Hildebr., Cyclamen mirabile Hildebr., Cyclamen parviflorum Pobed., Cyclamen peloponnesiacum (Grey-Wilson) Kit Tan, Cyclamen persicum Mill., Cyclamen pseudibericum Hildebr., Cyclamen purpurascens Mill., Cyclamen repandum Sm., Cyclamen rohlfsianum Asch., Cyclamen somalense Thulin et Warfa, Cyclamen trochopteranthum O. Schwarz, and so on.

[190 words/8620 totals]