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Buka puasa dengan friends and fans di fukuoka
Me and one of the festival volunteers

Hey gang, its about that time again when we meet up somewhere and berbuka sesama. To check the details please go this link.
Makan bayar sendiri-sendiri (we go dutch ok!) but I will bring some really cool limited sumolah merchandise and Kodok stuff to give away (and some to buy! if you guys wantlah) so check it out buyakasha!!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5789889391

but basically macam ni..

Tarikh: 6th October 2007 (Sabtu)
Tempat: Chitralada Restaurant, Great Eastern Mall, KL
Time: 6.30 ptg
Buffet Price: RM38.80++ per pax

Sesiapa yg nk join, please rsvp to Cik Anne by sending her your name, contact no & no of pax before 4th October 2007 to anne.khalid@gmail.com. Tapi kena cepat pasal seats are quite limited.


Sekarang ni terlalu kerap layan FACEBOOK sampai blog pun di anaktirikan. Alangkah nyamanya jika blog gua boleh ada kat facebook?.... hmmm siapa ada jalan dia? hubungi gua diemail gua selambakodok@gmail.com

Anyway, kalau u guys dapat sama memang kewl.

Power to the People

Adlin Shauki

Moshi! Moshi!

Basikal. Main mode of transportation
Stesyen keretapi near my hotel

Hi there it has been an interesting trip to fukuoka thus far because there have been loads of stuff happening. Besides the film festival there is also a cultural exchange programme with thailand and India.... really cool. So everyday ada dance and other performances there.
El Gala Hall in the background. In the foreground the fukuoka people celebrate asian cultural diversity
Thai meets India in japan
Interview with J-COM tv... out in the open, in front of city hall

Some really great movies from Asia, termasuk juga some from iran and iraq. Memang menarik melihat filem diorang kerana ianya memberi gua sedikit insight on how they think and since their movies are mostly about human issues, a little bit how the people live in that part of the world. Walaupun iraq sedang menghadapi kesusahan gua amat kagum yang karyawan mereka tak give up berkarya. More power to them.
Next to me a member of the Fukuoka film commision yang banyak membantu kita dalam penggambaran SUMO di Jepun.
A Malaysian student in Fukuoka who helped us out during the shoot dulu in a clip they played on J-COM tv live.
Cun jugak presenter jepun yg baju pink ni. nasib baik puasa.
Haha gua dapat elmo untuk Anais!!!
Depa kata ada Typhoon coming .... tak taula macam mana


Sekarang ni gua nak menjemput sesiapa rakyat Malaysia (student or otherwise) yang berada di Fukuoka dan yang belum sempat menonton filem Sumolah untuk datang esok ke El' Gala Hall 17 hb September, pukul 7.00pm. Sebuah lagi filem dari malaysia arahan Deepak Kumaran Menon 'Dancing Bells' akan dimainkan pukul 10.30am on the 18th, juga di El Gala Hall. Sumollah ataupun LET's SUMO (japanese title) juga akan di mainkan on the 21st September di Solaria Cinema 1 at 4.00pm and again on the 24th Sept at the Nishitetsu Hall at 1.15pm

Kodok-kodok di Malaysia kalau u all ada member kat sini... please holla kat depa kalau nak tengok something from home. If they come tomorrow, we can meet up and borak or buka sesama.
Today i watched the presentation of 'Season's Change' from Thailand at the Solaria cinema
Gua dan orang-orang jepun yang mukanya blur.
Aktres filem Thai 'Season's change'
Inilah Solaria Cinema hall 1 yang dipenuhi about 200 people yang menonton filem thai itu
Gua di depan lokasi 'kelab jiwa luka, tempat' gua, pacai dan awie selalu lepak lepas shooting dan berkongsi masaalah. di seberang jalang Nishitetsu Grand Hotel.

Miss my family at home. Hope everyone is ok. My phone charger still belum sampai mama.
Hope the rest of you are all safe and happy. Chow chin chow. Assalamualaikum.

Power to the People

Afdlin

Selamat berpuasa dari Fukuoka, Japan.

Assalamualaikum dan harapnya semua sihat-sihat belaka. Hari ini adalah, hari pembukaan festival filem Fukuoka dan saya berasa amat nervous sekali untuk mempertontonkan filem saya ini kepada masyarakat Jepun, walaupun Sumolah is out of competition. It's been a year since the last time i was in fukuoka and it is nice to be back. Festival filem Fukuoka tahun ini bertemakan 'wanita dan tarian' dan Filem Malaysia yang berada in competition adalah filem Dancing Bells dari Deepak Kumaran Menon. I hope he does well. It will be great for Malaysia.
Fukuoka currently is quite hot and dry but walking down the streets of tenjin in downtown Fukuoka brings back so much fond memories of shooting Sumolah here. The Fukuoka film commission which helped us a lot during the shooting of Sumolah, has invited Sumolah to be presented to the residents of the city of Fukuoka.
Yesterday i met with Mr. Ariga from Touch Planning (himself a film director having recently shot a movie based on a Manga) and he has agreed to be our sales agent in Japan. This is great news for us and Malaysia as it is not easy to get a sales agent to believe in a relatively unknown Malaysian film. Since there is many other forms of deployment of a film besides the cinema here in japan, he believes he can make some headway with our film to also be released on the dvd market which is huge (because there is no piracy in japan) , the internet, broadband tv, video on demand etc. This is exciting news, plus i have also brought some Malaysian movies for him to consider from Mamat Khalid, Ahmad Izham, Bade. I hope to bring more movies in time to come.

Bilik ku yang agak kemas. Amazing.
The Mayor of Fukuoka giving his welcoming speech.
The ballroom of the Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel
Karyawan-karyawan dari seluruh Asia. Festival ini hanya terbuka untuk Asian Filmmakers sahaja.
Gua besama pelakon filem Vietnam 'The White Silk Dress'
Bersama Pegarah dan Producer Jepun bagi filem 'Fuckin' Runaway' (mind my french), Keita Motohashi dan Osamu Yanagisawa
Bersama Festival Director, Hariki Yasuhiro
Bersama Pengarah filem Thai 'Season's Change' Nithiwat Tharatorn
Kyoko my ad-hoc interpreter and Takayama san, what a friendly and funny politician.
The restaurant that i had supper with my new japanese friends.
The many people i've met from the organising committee who have seen the movie, really loves the movie. They actually thought it was very funny. Tonight i had supper with the guy who is running for Mayor of Fukuoka, Mr Takayama Hiromitsu, who seem to have taken a liking to me mainly because I am Malaysian. Most of our conversation revolves around how he is such an admirer of Tun Mahathir and how he loves Malaysia because the people have warm hearts.... hmm.. masih lagi ke?... Are we still like that? Or are we too becoming too money hungry that we have stop being the legendary gentleman of Asia. I will keep you guys updated as the days go by.

Mope power to the people

Afdlin Shauki

Thank you Michi and Tomoko fo helping organise the schedule and also your wonderful contribution to Sumolah. Whatever success it receives is also because of your efforts.

i miss you mia and anais. i want to huggy huggy you and kissy kissy you guys. Mama, what i want cannot write here.