Day 59 - Pause for a movie

Today was lovely. Class, as usual. Kinda blows. Oh well. But dance practice was cancelled today. Instead, I hung around campus until 6, kidnapped another friend, and took an adventure. To shinagawa. I guess I've been there before, as a transfer point on an earlier trip, but this was my first time out and about the station. Lovely at night.

Walkway to the theater. Coincidentally, there's an aquarium in the same building.

The reason for the trip, of course, was to go to the theater. Lets talk about that for a moment, yeah? Theaters in Japan are crazy expensive. Typically, they run about 1800yen per person. In american dollars, that's about $22.50. Yeah. Students have it a little better off at 1500yen($15), and Wednesdays are special, women only pay 1000yen. Which is still about $12.50. Ouch. That's like, brand-new, IMAX 3D movies back home. Crazy.

But we went and watched Dark Shadows. Feel like I kinda should have watched a Japanese film, being in Japan and all, but I wouldn't have been able to understand that anyway… Not that I understood this one much either. Weird, campy, and probably a little too much a throwback to the earlier series and films to make much sense to those of us who haven't seen them. But it was fun, a good excursion. Haven't seen a movie in theaters for a while, and it's a good excuse to hang out with friends. Also, got to see the trailers for Hobbit and Batman, both of which were very exciting. Might see a few more expensive movies while I'm here. But seriously Japan, for three people to go see a movie, it's way better price to just buy three different movies to watch. Or rent. There's 100yen rental places here. Movie theaters are unfortunately becoming obsolete.

Also, it's kinda strange for a minute or two coming out of the theater, because it's all been in english, surrounded by english, so I kinda forgot I was in Japan. But then I was surrounded by it again. Kind of a mini culture shock moment.