as i celebrated chinese new year, i wondered what it would be like years down the road.
the generation would have successfully changed and now we, the children, would become the parents.
we would then be the ones bringing out children around to visit our parents.
then it struck me that i think the chinese new year spirit would be lost by then.

with shrinking family sizes and blending of cultures, i doubt chinese new year would be so lively in the future.
especially for families with only one child like mine.
instead of having your 10 other siblings along with their children squeezed in a house, greeting each other, eating, playing mahjong, playing cards etc it would just be my parents and me, and hopefully my hot husband and cute children HAHA.
well you could count in your cousins etc but that would fail to make up for the fact that the nuclear family has shrink drastically in size.

so i would advice for everyone to soak up the chinese new year spirit before it may fade away!

anyway, found two more japanese films to watch.
IM SO EXCITED BUT I CANT SEEM TO FIND THEM SUBBED ONLINE AT ALL ARGH.

okuribito and tokyo sonata, the first being nominated for best foreign film for the oscars.
okuribito is about the tradition japanese undertaker occupation: nokanshi
the film paints a warm-hearted depiction of death and is about a struggling cellist that moves to the country-side and ends up being a nokanshi.
he loses his wife who is ashamed of his occupation but discovers the beauty of the occupation and finds the determination to continue doing what he does.
i cried buckets during the trailer, absolutely loved it.
AND I WANT TO WATCH IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW :(

tokyo sonata touches on family problems that confront contemporary japan.
the story is about the breakdown and redemption of an ordinary japanese family where the father loses his job and keeps it from his family due to his pride, the older son is away at college and rarely comes home, the younger son has a passion for piano and picks it up secretly and the mother who knows her job is to hold the family together but cant find the will to do so.
and the father is played by teruyuki kagawa who was another memorable actor from the movie tokyo!.
he was fantastic in the third story, shaking tokyo, though i think the plot had some flaws which caused it to be unable to fulfil its potential.

ok time to hunt them online sigh :(