After walking the lengthy green carpet, we finally entered the Roppongi Hills cinema for the opening ceremony. (the green carpet event lasted for 2 hours, a blessing, actually, without the delay from the rain, it would have been 4 hours! So after walking the carpet, I still had time to head off to a quickie lunch nearby before attending the ceremony)
I was surprised that Jackie Chan was here!
Even more surprised when even the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda came out for a speech! You don't see a country's political leader appearing at a film festival opening ceremony everyday. Noda is also the 6th Prime Minister in my 3 years in Japan, and the first Prime Minister I got to see in the flesh! So I was even more excited, haha. (before this, the closest thing to something like this was meeting and taking a photo with the former First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama at Busan)
My iPhone was running low on battery towards the end of the ceremony, so I had to switch it off when Paul WS Anderson, Milla Jovovich, and company came onto the stage to introduce THE THREE MUSKETEERS.
The screening of EXHALATION is beginning in a few hours (it's 9:40am while I'm writing this, the screening is 4:35pm), time to prepare!
I was surprised that Jackie Chan was here!
Even more surprised when even the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda came out for a speech! You don't see a country's political leader appearing at a film festival opening ceremony everyday. Noda is also the 6th Prime Minister in my 3 years in Japan, and the first Prime Minister I got to see in the flesh! So I was even more excited, haha. (before this, the closest thing to something like this was meeting and taking a photo with the former First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama at Busan)
My iPhone was running low on battery towards the end of the ceremony, so I had to switch it off when Paul WS Anderson, Milla Jovovich, and company came onto the stage to introduce THE THREE MUSKETEERS.
The screening of EXHALATION is beginning in a few hours (it's 9:40am while I'm writing this, the screening is 4:35pm), time to prepare!
