Cats & Dogs (2001)

Koba Evaluation: 8

Exit Wounds (2001)

（電撃）

Koba Evaluation: 8

This is the latest Steven Seagal's film. Since he is old enough, his movement was not so much impressive as before. However, he still looks his best and shows his presence throghout the film. Seven Seagal is a cop in the States and he is forced to be sent to various sections in lawenforcement officers' work because he is too violent and prefers acting alone without listening to his boss. He finally gets to a notorious police brank "15 th Station," where some conspiracy is taking place. The film, from the beginning to the end, is full of actions of every kind; cars, motorcycles, street fights, gun battles and others. In addition, the film is decorated with occassional sexual and offensive scenes with full vulgarism. I found a middle-aged woman and apparently her daughter in her 20s, who were sitting just behind me in one of the smallest theaters in Sapporo, leaving midway through the film, rather toward the end, possibly they had it or felt embarrassed. Anyway, if you like action films with some martial arts nature, you should not miss this film.

PLANET OF THE APES (2001)

Koba Evaluation: 8

This film is a remake of the 1968's legendary work by Oliver Stone with the same title. The orifginal fim was aired on TV when I was still a child of 5 or 6. I remember the film was aired again and again, especially in new year's days. Over 30 years later, during which drastic changes have been seen in fiml-making techonology, the fim has come back. Compared to the old one, the new film was focused more on space traveling since that is the area where present computer graphics could be vitalized most effectively. I did not see any drastic improvements of makeup technology for apes' features. One of the few improved aspects of the makeup skills probably connsists in the richness of apes' facial expressions. That is, they looked more like humans. For those who have seen both of them will notice that the "wild" human beings can speak English just like apes on the planet. This is rather disappointing to me because that does weaken the apes' absolute advantages over human beings. In the old film, they humans were all described as a developing animal without language. Thus, it made us fell really threatened. The new film, however, describes humans too good to be enslaved by the apes. Lastly, I was really amazed and laughed by the last scene. In the old film, an astronaut was astonished by the destroyed Statue of Liberty in New York City that he found on his way to unknown destinations. He got really shocked to learn that the planet was the earth. In the new film, an astronaut successfully leaf the planet and landed on the earth. He made a soft landing in the water before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. He had expected to see the famous marble statue of President Lincoln sitting on the huge chair before he got into the temple. Then, what did he see there? Guess what? Check it out at a theater near you!!!

There you are.	Planet of the Apes
This is weird.	Planet of the Apes
Let's get to work.	Planet of the Apes
Where am I?	Planet of the Apes
Where is this place?	Planet of the Apes
Don't do that.	Planet of the Apes
I apologize for my lateness.	Planet of the Apes
I still care about you.	Planet of the Apes
Someone's coming.	Planet of the Apes
Let me go.	Planet of the Apes
Don't balme yourself.	Planet of the Apes
I'm depending on you.	Planet of the Apes
I don't have much time.	Planet of the Apes
How can you possibly know?	Planet of the Apes
Impossible!	Planet of the Apes
You find this amazing?	Planet of the Apes
Forgive me.	Planet of the Apes
Not always.	Planet of the Apes
We got one shot.	Planet of the Apes
No matter what.	Planet of the Apes

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Koba Evaluation: 8.5

This is one of the most nationalistic films I have ever seen.The film was directed by Michael Bay, who directed "Armaggedon." So, they have a lot in common. However, one of the major defects of the film is its inaccurate desriptions of Japanese military personnel and the sets they appear in.The triangle relation involving two servicemen and a pretty nurse dominates the whole story while the bombardment by zero fighters their suffering American crew members play a rather secondly role. The film can thuse be termed a "romance in war."

How did you get this?	この傷はどうやってついたの？	Pearl Harbor
What will become of us?	これから私達どうなるの？	Pearl Harbor
I'm on my way.	はい、ただいま。	Pearl Harbor
What would you do?	あなたならどうする？	Pearl Harbor
Don't preach me.	おせっかいやめろ。	Pearl Harbor
Hold on a second.	ちょっと待って。	Pearl Harbor
I feel great.	気分は最高。	Pearl Harbor
I'm so jealous.	やけちゃうわ。	Pearl Harbor
It's been a while.	ひさしぶり。	Pearl Harbor
I'll be fine.	大丈夫よ。	Pearl Harbor

15 MINUTES (2000)

Date	Sunday, May 21, 2001
Theater	Sapporo Gekijo
Translated by	KURIHARA Tomiko
Participants	KOBA

Directed by	John Herzfeld�
Genre	Crime / Thriller / Action
Plot Outline	A famous homicide detective and a fire marshall team up to solve a case.
User Rating	6.4/10 (1286 votes)�
Cast	Robert De Niro / Edward Burn / Kelsey Grammer

Koba Evaluation: 8

This film was amazing. No one would expect any character played by Robert De Niro to be killed and gone in the middle of a film. I was totally unable to expect how the story would end. Actually, I even had expected the cop would survive or the whole story was made up just to surprise the audience at the very last moment. But he was really dead.

	expressions	translation	Koba books	page
1	Did you hear what I said?
2	Are you related?
3	It won't work.		Native 2	45
4	What are you suggesting?
5	Well done!		Native 1	200
6	What for?		Native 2	160
7	Are you ready?		Native 3	x
8	Just moment.
9	Calm down.		Native 1	128
10	You know what?		Native 1	208
11	What's going on?		Native 1	202
12	No way!		Native 1	178
13	Shut up!
14	What are you looking for?
15	How are you doing?		Native 2	119
16	Not at all.		Native 1	179
17	You think so?
18	You got it?		Native 2	173
19	How do you feel?		Native 2	118
20	How can I know?
21	What are you doing?		Native 2	155
22	I'll give you a call.
23	I really don't care that stuff.
24	I want to ask you something.
25	have something to do with		Native 1	94
26	I'm on it.
27	Let me show you something.
28	Good work!
29	I'll tell you what.		Native 1	157
30	See you around.
31	Is that supposed to be funny?		Native 1	76
32	How can I help you?
33	I'm afraid so.		Native 2	75
34	I'm on duty.
35	Of course.		Native 1	181
36	Let's get out of here.
37	You speak English, don't you?
38	I think so.		Native 2	122
39	I can't talk right now.		Native 1	112
40	That's all I can tell you.
41	Let me tell you somethig.		Native 3	x
42	Why not?		Native 1	206
43	You understand?
44	I'm serious.		Native 2	38
45	What does that mean?
46	Just kidding.
47	How's it going?		Native 3	x
48	Speaking of shoes,		Native 1	114
49	Oh, my God!
50	You promise?		Native 2	36
51	How's that?		Native 1	150
52	Good luck.		Native 1	142
53	You should know better.		Native 1	210
54	Congratulations!		Native 2	109
55	Go home. Get some rest.
56	Trust me.		Native1	197
57	Who is this?		Native 2	169
58	Are you still there?
59	What the hell are you talking about?		Native 1	200
60	Where are you going?
61	Don't you get it?		Native 1	139
62	That's what I need to know.
63	Say yes or no.
64	mentally unfit

TRAFFIC (2000)

Date: Wednesday, May 2 , 2001

Theater: Shinjuku Picadilly 1

translated by OKADA Sohei

Participants: KOBA

Genre: Crime / Drama

Plot Outline: A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a heroin addict.

User Rating: 8.4/10 (8988 votes)�

Cast: Steven Baue / Benjamin Bratt / Jsu Garcia

Koba Evaluation: 9

I saw this film in Shinjuku while I was enojoying my holidays in Tokyo. I was lucky enough to find the theater on a moview day in Tokyo, which comes on 2nd of a month. As you kow, the movie got several Academiy awards this year. I was fully convinced of the awards by its completeness as a film in terms of active use of photo effects including old-style shooting angles and its complicated but simply composed transitions of the plot. The film describes one of the American's most urgent problem: drug. I am sure you will be fond of the film.

	expressions	translation	Koba books	page
1	What's the hell is that?
2	I gonna miss you.		Native 1	43
3	..or what?		Native 2	87
4	I don't think so.		Native 2	122
5	weird		Native 1	63
6	That's correct.		Native 2	190
7	How about that?		Native 1	95
8	What are you doing?		Native 2	155
9	Nice to meet you.		Native 1	176
10	Excuse us for a minute.		Native 1	142
11	You want to bet?
12	Me, too.		Native 1	175
13	coersion
14	I don't understand what's going on.
15	How long you know about this?
16	I don't know what you mean.		Native 2	122
17	Just tell me what to do.
18	What do we do?
19	I was wondering if...		Native 2	74
20	What do you think of it?
21	Don't tell him that I told you.
22	They are arguing or something.		Native 2	87
23	What did he die for?
24	Sorry about the other night.
25	Did you wake up?
26	I promise.		Native 1	36
27	You don't have to believe me because it's the truth.
28	Let me tell you something.		Native 3
29	What is it?

ENEMY AT THE GATE (2001) スターリングラード

Date: Monday, April 16, 2001

Theater: Teikokuza

translated by TODA Natsuko

Participants: KOBA

Genre: Drama / Romance / War　

User Rating: 7.4/10 (2353 votes)�

Cast: Joseph Fiennes / Jude Law / Rachel Weisz / Bob Hoskins / Ed Harris 　

Koba Evaluation: 9

This could be one of the most well-made war film ever created. It is based on a true story about a heroic sniper who shot dozens of the Nazis officials in the battle of Leningrad during the Second World War. I was intrigued by the initial scene of a battle where thousands of Russian young men were sent by train. Only half of those forced to join the battle had guns. Those without guns had to wait for gun holders to die. They were not allowed to retreat; those who attempted were all shot by their troops. I see Russian commanders were not really skilled in battle fields. This is how so many Russian soldiers, over 20 millions, were killed in the war. This film will also include a love story of the sniper and his girl friend. Fortunately, the couple survived.

	expressions	translation	Koba books	page
1	This way.		Native 3
2	What do you think?		Native 2	158
3	Do you have any idea what this is?
4	Stay away!
5	Sounds good.		Native 1	186
6	I recognize you.
7	Thank you for your hospitality.
8	Stay where you are.
9	That's not true.		Native 2	149
10	I wish you good luck.		Native 1	142
11	It's time.
12	Whatever.		Native 2	166
13	I have a favor to ask you.
14	What's happening?		Native 2	163
15	I think so.		Native 2	122
16	I need to talk to you.		Native 3
17	What happened?		Native 2	160
18	Do you know why?
19	You swear?
20	I knew it.
21	I couldn't stop thinking about you.
22	Oh, my God!		Native 3

Hannibal (2001)

Date: Saturday, April 8, 2001

Theater: Toei Theater

translated by TODA Natsuko

Participants: KOBA/BBB/KID/QUBILAI/MOTOACHI/CHIHARU

Plot Outline: Hannibal returns to America and attempts to make contact with disgraced Agent Starling and survive a vengeful victim's plan.

User Rating: 6.6/10 (6815 votes)�

Cast overview: Anthony Hopkins / Julianne Moore

Koba Evaluation: 8

This film may scare you to death, or at least deprive your appetitie, especially meat like internal organs of animals at a yakiniku restaurant. I saw the prequel of "The Silence of the Lambs" at a theater in Waikiki when I graduated and went to the University of Hawai'i. I sitll remember vividly the face of Dr. Lecter. So, Since I happened to see the preview of this sequel at a theater in Sapporo last year, I had been so much excited and looked forward to see this film. Although I found some of the scenary transitions were not so smooth and sometimes put me bored, the last scene was satisfactory enough to evaluate this firm with a "8" at least. Some may be intrigued by his strength and presence of mind; he was always calm and accute in his action. He made all his killings art and actually produced mastepieces to his heart content. No other actors than Anthony Hopkins could play the role of the psycho killer. Maybe BBB could act as one of the victims if Hanniubal comes to Japan to seek a new excitement in the following sequel with a possible title, "Hannibal in the East."

	Words &phrases	Koba Book	page	Japanese
1	intrigued			魅惑された
2	Thank you very much for your candor.			ご誠意ありがとうございます。
3	I'd appreciate it if you could let me continue.			話を続けさせていただけないですか。
4	Please give me a couple of coffee.	Native 2	68	コーヒー一杯お願いします。
5	Everyone is going to be happy.			皆これで喜ぶよ。
6	It won't change anything.			そんなことしても無駄だ。
7	Perhaps I could be useful.			お役に立てることもあるかも知れません。
8	That's not what I asked.			頼んだのはそれじゃない。
9	Good question.	Native 1	36	いい質問だ。
10	What's so funny?	Native 2	162	何がおかしい？
11	What about you?	Native 2	97	お前はどうなんだ？
12	Go get the X-ray.			レントゲン写真を手に入れて。
13	What did you say about me at night?			夜私のことを何て言っているの？
14	How's it going?	Native 3		どうです？
15	Is that accurate?	Native 1	124	合ってるの？
16	Can I help you?	Native 2	107	いかがしました？
17	What is the poin of that?	Native 2	165	何が言いたいんだ？
18	All you have to do is ....			〜すればいいんだよ。
19	That was a long time ago.			昔のことだ。
20	That's it.			それだ。
21	May I see it?			見ていいですか。
22	Bingo!			やった！
23	Okey-dokey	= okay		いいでしょう。
24	I insist.			お願いだから。
25	This won't take long.			ちょっとだけ。
26	That's all right.	Native 1	193	いいんですよ。
27	I'm not familiar.			知らないね。
28	Not at all.	Native 3		何でもないですよ。
29	May I buy you a drink?			一杯おごりますよ。
30	You sure?			ほんとう？
31	I'm afraid I have bad new.			悪い知らせがあります。
32	See you around.			じゃ、また。
33	I don't understand.	Native 1	151	わからんなあ。
34	So, what do you think?	Native 2	158	じゃ、どう思う？
35	Because of the nature of the contents.			ことがことだから。
36	I want to say something.			言わせてください。
37	He's been always nice to me.			彼はいつも私に親切よ。
38	I'm fine.			だいじょうぶ。
39	so to speak			いわゆる
40	Forget what I said.			じゃ、もういいです。
41	You're going home.			お帰り。
42	Sorry for the inconvenience.			ご迷惑をおかけしました。
43	I think I'd rather not.			遠慮します。
44	What was that?	Native 2	161	いまのは何だ？
45	I'll try.	Native 2	127	やってみます。
46	Understood.			了解。
47	Not in thousands of years.			絶対ありえない。
48	What's that?			それは何だ？
49	Rewind it.			巻き戻して。
50	What is your worst humiliation?			最悪の恥辱を受けたのは？

Unbreakable (2000)

Date: Friday, March 16, 2001

Theater: Sapporo Gekijo

translated by MATSUURA Mina

Genre: Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama

Plot Outline: A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.

User Rating: 7.5/10 (7205 votes)�

Cast:

Bruce Willis / Samuel L. Jackson / Robin Wright /Spencer Treat Clark

Koba Evaluation: 9.5

It was an amazing story in the sense I was not able to tell what would happen after a scene. As any audience can tell quite easily from the atmosphere and its camera works, the film was directed by the same one who directed "The Sixth Sense." This film can be then called its sequel. Actually, I found this film more interesting and I got threby more attracted by each scene, especially by the last shocking scene that would not be predicted by any ordinary people. I was so amazed by the last scene since I can mostly tell how a story will come to end. I would definitely recommend you see the film at once!!!

	phrases	Koba Book	page
1	Is he supposed to be crying like this?	Native 1	76
2	Jesus Christ!
3	Are you alone? ( = Is this seat taken?)
4	take a look at	Native 2	93
5	Not really.	Native 2	136
6	Nice to meet you.	Native 1	176
7	What are you talking about?	Native 1	200
8	I didn't mean that.
9	How are you feeling?
10	Let me ask you some questions.
11	We pray for your soul.
12	What is this all about?	Native 3
13	As always happens.
14	You need to go.
15	anyway	Native 1	124
16	Like what?	Native 3
17	I'm on my way.	Native 3
18	How much it is? (to ask the load of the barbell)
19	Sort of.
20	Why do you keep saying that?
21	Did you load that gun?
22	You are about to be in a big trouble!!
23	Please stay away from my family.
24	I don't know for sure.
25	I'm not supposed to be honest?	Native 1	76
26	What am I supposed to do?	Native 1	76
27	He made it.	Native 1	105
28	genetic disorder
29	instinct
30	One last question

GET CARTER (2000)

追撃者

Date: Thursday, February 1, 2001

Theater: Sapporo Gekijo (Sugai Building 7F)

translated by OKADA Sohei

Genre: Thriller / Action / Drama

Plot Summary: Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his home town.

User Rating: 5.3/10 (468 votes)�

Cast: Sylvester Stallone / Mickey Rourke

Koba Evaluation: 8

Stallone looks so cool in this film. Maybe he acts the best in his whole career. It is simply the story of revenge. He acts as a man who collects unpaid money and he calls himself "financial adjuster" when he mentions his professionto his niece. His bout with Mickey Rourke, who also acted a boxer once, was so real. Besides, this film contains a lot of Koba expressions. I recommend you see this film!!!

1	What are you doing here?
2	Let me ask you something.	Native 3
3	Very sorry about your brother.
4	Hold on a second, will you?
5	Let me get this straight.
6	Take it easy.
7	That is enough! It's enough!
8	What are you gonna do?
9	Now I'd like to be alone.
10	What do you think happened?
11	What's the matter?
12	Got me?
13	I mean ...
14	What kind of question is this?
15	You can't fix things.
16	What do you think you can do?
17	I screwed.
18	What do you want to say?
19	You cover your own ass!
20	Can I help you for something?
21	Why would you say that?
22	Just relax.
23	How can I put this?
24	How are you doing?
25	It's been a long time.
26	I appreciate it.
27	Why not?
28	You have a problem with me?
29	Don't put your hands on me.
30	See you around.
31	Where are you going?
32	That's right.
33	Go ahead.
34	You see what I'm saying?
35	Listen to me.
36	be supposed to
37	It's none of my business.
38	You know what?
39	What was he to you?
40	What do you want?
41	I just want to know what happened.
42	How have you been?
43	I swear to you.
44	What the hell are you talking about?
45	Grow up!
46	You are so freaky.
47	It's no big deal.
48	Me, too.
49	Yes, I think so.
50	What's wrong?
51	I don't know what happened.
52	Revenge doesn't work.
53	It's not your fault.
54	You are nothing like me.
55	Let go.

Red Planet (2000)

Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001

Theater: Sapporo Gekijo (Sugai Building 7F)

translated by KIKUCHI Hiroshi

Production: The Warner Brothers & The Village Roadshow

Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Horror / Thriller

Plot Summary: In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be ... (more)

User Comments: Weak, mediocre attempt at sci-fi.

User Rating: 5.5/10 (894 votes)�

Val Kilmer / Carrie-Anne Moss

Koba Evaluation: 7

The film shows no clear plot that attract audience at all. Since there are several films dealing with Red Planet or Mars in recent years, I see no eye-catching scenes, which were actually shot in Jorden desert. Yet, some of the special effects used in the film look attractive. I do not really recommend that you see the film. The only advantage you gain from this film is many Koba book expressions are used and you can brush up those expressions with contexts. That's it.

items	Koba book	page
figure out	Native 1	87
So what?	Native 1	184
Why don't you go fix something?	Native 2	99
Are you ready?	Native 3
What's your point?	Native 2	165
Listen!	Native 2	133
It's just a joke.	Native 2	27
What do you say?	Native 3
Sounds good to me.	Native 1	186
Take it easy.	Native 1	188
Well done!	Native 1	200
There it is.
What's going on?	Native 1	202
What happened?	Native 2	160
No way!	Native 1	178
We're not supposed to be here.	Native 1	76
Wait a second.
Hang on.	Native 2	115
I bet.	Native 1	96
Give me a hand.	Native 2	113
Does it work?
You're not gonna believe this, but...	Native 3
What's your status?
Let me work on it.
Roger.
I'll talk to you later.	Native 3
What's the matter?	Native 1	202
How are you doing?	Native 2	119
What are you talking about?	Native 1	200
What do you think?	Native 2	158
Hold on.	Native 1	95
How do you know?	Native 1	149
It's over.	Native 2	33
You're almost there.	Native 1	211
a couple of	Native 1	68

THE SIXTH DAY (2000)

Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001

Theater: Teikokuza Kaikan (Tanukikoji 1)

translated by KIKUCHI Hiroshi

Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Plot Outline: Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

User Rating: 6.3/10 (1586 votes)�

Cast overview: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Michael Rapaport / Tony Goldwyn /Michael Rooker

Koba Evaluation: 6.5

I was quite disappointed at this film. The film deals with cloning in the near future. Although the story is based on some scientific truth and thus makes itself rather complicated, I still had a lot of difficulties understanding the whole story. What is worse is the way the film is editted. Some scenes changed into the totally unrelated with quite unsuccessful sound effects. Besides, many of the remarks do not make any sense or sound totally fake. I am sorry to have seen this film as my first film for this year.

items	subtitles	Koba books	pages
Very funny.	yoseyo
What's going on?		Native 1	202
Are you ready?		Native 3
For what?		Native 2	113
How're you doing?		Native 2	119
Any questions?		Native 3
check it out		Native 1	130
Let me think about it.		Native 2	132
That's all I know.
What does that mean?		Native 3
What seems to be the trouble?		Native 3
Now what?
Hold on, please.		Native 1	95
I don't understand.		Native 1	151
You're not serious, are you?
Why do you say that?
Let's get out of here.		Native 3
That's a good idea.		Native 1	191
Let's do that.
Can I help you?		Native 2	107
That's odd.
I'm scared.		Native 2	37
What are you doing?		Native 2	155
felony		4000	186
Cool!	sugee	Native 2	21
What's the point?		Native 2	165
It was a mistake.
Give me a minute.
Calm down.		Native 1	128
Put your weapons down!
Listen to me!		Native 2	133