Jonbu the baker

I finally remembered to watch “Initial D”, the HK movie based on the Japanese Manga/Anime. The movie looks nothing like the picture above, except for the car. I had no prior knowledge of the Initial D universe, but I got a taste of it through the movie. Kudos to them for shooting it on location in Japan.

My summary:

It’s a Story of a Tofu-delivery man. And he has a customer at the top of the mountain. So after years of delivery he got really good at delivering Tofu in a timely manner through those winding mountain roads. His car is shaped like a Tofu (pictured above).

Who the customer is remains a mystery. My guess is it’s some kind of resort or restaurant with nice views up there. They need a lot of Tofu.

Of course the main backdrop of the story is the underworld of drift racing. And the genius of this storyline is not something I can translate here, not that I know much of it. All I watched was this 3rd-party movie (which did a fine job).

Some cool trivia from imdb:

• Three new Toyota AE86 Sprinter Truenos, a car out of production since 1987, were especially built by Toyota for the film.
• A number of Toyota Trueno AE86 cars were used during production, at least one of which was personally wrecked by Jay Chou.

Ignore some flaws and it’s a pretty good movie. And it’s great to see Anthony Wong in there.

Chunk Ahoy! Cookies. Not my favorites but they’re pretty good. Some of them have so many chocolate chips on it that the cookie becomes just something to hold the chips together.

Summer is here. Living in warm weather is like living in a different world. I’m no longer hiding from the cold.

Slippers slapping on concrete floors, sound echoing through the warm air just like grandma’s house back in childhood.

Icelandic band “Múm” makes simple music out of simple sounds. Like drinking a clear glass of water (but not always).

It’s been a week since we got that lemon in the kitchen.

I got some Japanese Mapo Tofu mix and had it for dinner. All you add is ground meat and tofu!

From Wikipedia:

Ma stands for “mazi” (Pinyin: mázi Traditional Chinese 麻子,) which means a person disfigured by pockmarks. Po (Chinese 婆) translates as “old woman”. Hence, Ma Po is an old woman whose face was pockmarked.

Elegantly put. Wikipedia.

The Machinist

Most people know Christian Bale as the new Batman. Watch The Machinist and you’ll respect him in a totally different way.
Deep and Dark, kinda creepy at times and overall awesome. I say it’s a must watch unless you purposely avoid these kinds of movies.

Jack Nicholson is AWESOME. But the movie itself was ok.