...and there's goes my only reason for following the show. To look on the bright side, I'm a little glad she went when she did. I really don't have time to waste on escapisms like American Idol any more. Anyhoo, I'll keep an eye out for her post-Idol CD or some other curious stuff she comes up with. I just wish that she sang "Wicked Games" or even "House of the Rising Sun" in her last performance. I understand that "Think" made her a front-runner and it's only logical for her to remind America of that before they finally close the curtain on her, but IMHO the song is not her best performance. Not even the second time around. Tsk-tsk. Disappointed. But oh well. At least, there's YouTube to remind me of better days.
I've heard about this story for sometime now. The Japanese title is Ooku , which refers to the chamber in the shogun's castle where all the women of the shogun's harem are kept. However, Yoshinaga Fumi's manga, on which this movie is adapted, adds a twist: the shogun is a woman and beautiful men fill her harem. THE STORY In the year 1716 Japan, most of the men have died from a deadly disease that only affects men, resulting in their population dwindling to as much as 1/4 of the total population of women. Consequently, women fill in the traditional roles of men, performing hard labor, managing businesses and running government while men are pampered, protected and allowed only to indulge in light entertainment. In this nonexistent Japan lives Mizuno Yunoshin (Kazunari Ninomiya), a teenager from an impoverished samurai class family. He likes fencing and his childhood friend, O-Nobu (Horikita Maki), but because of his family's financial status (O-Nobu is a daugh...
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