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It was my old friend, June who invited me to go to see the movie with him by E-mail two days ago.
The brand new movie in this summer, Odoru Daisousasen: The Movie 3 (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 3), is the television and movie series known to fans overseas under the title Bayside Shakedown in English (see here**.)
And, with him I have seen The Movie 2 in Koriyame city, summer 2003 when he lived there but I have already lived in Tokyo and its spin off movie Negotiator (交渉人 真下正義) in Odaiba (お台場), Tokyo, summer 2005.
I made an appointment with him to see at Ikebukuro (池袋) 7 p.m.
On the way to Ikebukuro I dropped in at Central Library of Taito ward (台東区立中央図書館) in order to borrow a German writer, Ernst Jünger's book edited in Japan which contains essays, Die Unvergessene (The Unforgetable People, 忘れえぬ人々), Die Totale Mobilmachung (The Total Mobilization, 大動員) and Die Friede (The Peace, 平和) translated into Japanese (著：エルンスト・ユンガー、訳：川合全弘『追悼の政治』月曜社、2005年).
Getting off the Hibiya Line train (日比谷線) at Iriya station (入谷駅) about 6 p.m., I walked along Kototoi dori street (言問通り) in the heat and sunshine of the summer evening westward from this station heading for Tokyo Sky Tree (東京スカイツリー) being now under construction.
It tooks about ten minutes to the library.
Oh, suddenly my memory on 2005 is brought back to myself by standing and walking here around.
July 2005 someday (maybe day 6-8*) in the evening I came here in order to see the Morning Glory Market* (朝顔市) alone.
Tokyo Sky Tree over there; photo taken at Iriya crossing (入谷交差点)
In front of a dog cafe very cute and well-behaved dogs...?
Artificial dogs!
I wanted to take the JR Yamanote Line train in order to go to Ikebukuro, but the library was far from every JR station to go by walk.
(The nearest JR station from the library is Uguisudani (鶯谷駅), but a library staff said that it might take about 20-30 minutes to go there on foot.)
Therefore I decided to take the Community Bus "Megurin*" (めぐりん) which was operated by Taito ward and ran 3 lines, East and West, North, and South, and I knew that this bus had been in service in Taito ward but I had never taken it. So at first I did not know where I had to wait for the bus.
Taito Central Library
Waiting at a bus stop in front of Kinryu Elementary School (金竜小学校) which was located 2-3 minutes' walk north from the library, the tiny bus of South Megurin came to us about 6:40 p.m.
Except me there were a mother who looked young and her baby waiting for the bus there.
And more passengers, about 10 persons, were on the bus than I had expected.
I got off the bus in front of Ueno station (上野駅).
Megurin bus (not my bus)
June and I have known each other since we were eight or nine years old, and we went to the same kindergarten, the same elementary school, and the same junior high school. (By the way, his father and my uncle were classmates when they were junior high school students, which is not related at all to the fact that June and I know each other.) Now he is a station employee in Tokyo because he has been a railfan for a long time. I had not seen him for about one year.
Before going out of my home, he said to me on the phone that he felt sick and might have a slight fever.
And in fact, when I rendezvoused with him at Ikebukuro station about 7:30 p.m., he was sniveling with a cold.
we ate ramen for dinner at Hakata Furyu (博多風龍), the west exit area of Ikebukuro station (池袋駅西口) though I was afraid that ramen was not healthy for a sick person.
He said to me that he loved tonkotsu ramen (ramen in white, milky, pork based soup.)
Tonkotsu ramen (500 yen)
The two and a half hours movie started at 9 p.m.
We were able to see the movie at 1200 yen because it was a late show while a fee for adult was 1800 yen and for student was 1500 yen in the day.
It was about 11:30 p.m. when the movie came to the last scene.
On the way to Ikebukuro I dropped in at Central Library of Taito ward (台東区立中央図書館) in order to borrow a German writer, Ernst Jünger's book edited in Japan which contains essays, Die Unvergessene (The Unforgetable People, 忘れえぬ人々), Die Totale Mobilmachung (The Total Mobilization, 大動員) and Die Friede (The Peace, 平和) translated into Japanese (著：エルンスト・ユンガー、訳：川合全弘『追悼の政治』月曜社、2005年).
Getting off the Hibiya Line train (日比谷線) at Iriya station (入谷駅) about 6 p.m., I walked along Kototoi dori street (言問通り) in the heat and sunshine of the summer evening westward from this station heading for Tokyo Sky Tree (東京スカイツリー) being now under construction.
It tooks about ten minutes to the library.
Oh, suddenly my memory on 2005 is brought back to myself by standing and walking here around.
July 2005 someday (maybe day 6-8*) in the evening I came here in order to see the Morning Glory Market* (朝顔市) alone.
Tokyo Sky Tree over there; photo taken at Iriya crossing (入谷交差点)
In front of a dog cafe very cute and well-behaved dogs...?
Artificial dogs!
I wanted to take the JR Yamanote Line train in order to go to Ikebukuro, but the library was far from every JR station to go by walk.
(The nearest JR station from the library is Uguisudani (鶯谷駅), but a library staff said that it might take about 20-30 minutes to go there on foot.)
Therefore I decided to take the Community Bus "Megurin*" (めぐりん) which was operated by Taito ward and ran 3 lines, East and West, North, and South, and I knew that this bus had been in service in Taito ward but I had never taken it. So at first I did not know where I had to wait for the bus.
Taito Central Library
Waiting at a bus stop in front of Kinryu Elementary School (金竜小学校) which was located 2-3 minutes' walk north from the library, the tiny bus of South Megurin came to us about 6:40 p.m.
Except me there were a mother who looked young and her baby waiting for the bus there.
And more passengers, about 10 persons, were on the bus than I had expected.
I got off the bus in front of Ueno station (上野駅).
Megurin bus (not my bus)
June and I have known each other since we were eight or nine years old, and we went to the same kindergarten, the same elementary school, and the same junior high school. (By the way, his father and my uncle were classmates when they were junior high school students, which is not related at all to the fact that June and I know each other.) Now he is a station employee in Tokyo because he has been a railfan for a long time. I had not seen him for about one year.
Before going out of my home, he said to me on the phone that he felt sick and might have a slight fever.
And in fact, when I rendezvoused with him at Ikebukuro station about 7:30 p.m., he was sniveling with a cold.
we ate ramen for dinner at Hakata Furyu (博多風龍), the west exit area of Ikebukuro station (池袋駅西口) though I was afraid that ramen was not healthy for a sick person.
He said to me that he loved tonkotsu ramen (ramen in white, milky, pork based soup.)
Tonkotsu ramen (500 yen)
The two and a half hours movie started at 9 p.m.
We were able to see the movie at 1200 yen because it was a late show while a fee for adult was 1800 yen and for student was 1500 yen in the day.
It was about 11:30 p.m. when the movie came to the last scene.
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