Japan trip 2024 day 21+21 : Samurai Time Slipper jmovie review and last days in Tokyo

 

There was one movie that I wanted to watch and that was Samurai Time Slipper. I had seen the trailer in front of Last Mile and I thought it looked like fun. The premise if Samurai Time Slipper is as the name suggests, a samurai goes time slips into modern day Japan. The gag is that he lands on the set where they shoot jidaigeki or samurai tv shows and gets a job as the stunt performer who gets killed in jidaigeki shows.

Samurai Time Slipper is very low budget. They did not even have a big poster being displayed on the wall for it at Toho cinema in Kinshicho. There was not even any poster leaflets and there was only one show at 1pm that Sunday but luckily it was a full house.

Samurai Time Slipper is a feel good comedy. The gags are the usual stuff about the samurai being amazed by modern things and tasting ice-cream for the first time. Everyone assumes that he was an extra who had just lost his memory and was always acting in character. The samurai is skilled at cutting people down but he has to learn fight choreography which goes against his fighting instincts and of course how to get slashed and die,

Samurai Time Slipper is fun because it gives the audience what they want, the story of a character out of time finding his place in life in a story that is a love letter to jidaigeki. It is a very simple story, the jokes are very familiar but it has heart. There is a nice revelation in the middle of the movie that sets up the final battle. Better than It's a Summer Film but not as good as Uzumasa Limelight. Watchable especially if you want a basic, feel good show.

Ichikatsu for dinner. 

Woke up last day 30 September and it was the first day of Asadora Omusubi with Hashimoto Kanna. The story is set in Fukuoka which I miss.

Met up with Micchan and Gran Bleu's mama for my farewell lunch at yayoi sushi. This is the first time I have noticed this kanji 鮨 which is a super fancy way of writing sushi.

Mama ordered the set for both of us.

And finished off with some maguro and I think it was iwashi. Thanks to mama for paying for Micchan and I. Those two really took care of me. The chef was hyping up the iwashi saying it was better than maguro. It was still pretty good but nothing beats maguro. He said it was better in terms of costpa, lol.

I still had time to kill so mama said she knows a place with a nice view and took me to Tower Hall Funabori in Edogawa City.

This place actually had elevator girls and you get great views!

You can see the sky tree straight away which I still haven't gone up.

That is the area where they have the boat races. So many places that I have never been to like Edogawa. I have still not been to Takanawa Gateway, the new station on Yamanote. Didn't get to go Tachikawa, Koenji, Saitama etc. 

Last meal was karubi teishoku from Matsuya at the airport. Should have had the double. It was such a stressful trip to plan but everything went better than expected and nothing bad happened. The 3 concerts and catching up with people were the highlight of the trip. It was a busy trip that was to much gogogo for the first two weeks. Next one is going to be no plans and super slow.