![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is the ideal of the original author Ai Yazawa: the attitude, the attribute, the bearing, the idiosyncrasy of 21st century Japanese feminism (woman figure). On the contrary, they are helping and inspiring each other. Two namesakes of paradoxical personalities live under the same lucky-lucky roof in harmony, both traditional and modern qualities exist, fuse inside one body (Room 707) without causing any conflict. Their names are so self-explanatory, so graphic, so vivid. Comically, Mount Everest sprang from my head when I made the analogy. Imagine a tiny pine tree in a traditional Japanese still and quiet landscape painting, not a grand view, right? And the modern Nana, Nana OZAKI who is independent and strong enough to brave any storms in her life, is given by Heaven a grandiose label, "a huge (o) mountain summit (zaki)". Nana KOMATSU, the traditional Nana who only longs for getting married was born with a last name means "a small (ko) pine tree (matsu)". Two Nanas live together in a "na-na-tse-row(zero)-na-na" room, they rob all the luck of the world! The family names of the Nanas exhibit tellingly their characters. "Seven" in Japanese is pronounced as "na-na", a universal lucky number. The names of the two Nanas and their room 707 are very interesting. but it turned out to be a delightful surprise. Just that the very last rental ticket was idling so I grabbed the VCD without much expectation. Well, as the last page of chick comics said goodbye to me some twenty years ago, and my old bones cannot hold much dross energy for punk or rock n' roll music after work, sorry, not much interest shed in the first place. Even the American girls find time to flip through it. The NANA sensation can be compared with the craze caused by Densha otoko (Train Man) in Japan. An IMDbian recommended this and underlined that it is an adaptation of a popular "shoujo manga" (girlie/chick comics). ![]()
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