Katakana

I was trying to avoid putting this into words, but I still haven't learned all of the Katakana. I can really only recall about 20 of them.

Hiragana

So I'm pretty confident that I can recognize the hiragana when I see them. I can produce most of them at this point too.

Guess I should start out by saying that I am very interested in learning Japanese. I think my interest started from watching anime (maybe a little too much). What am I saying? You can never watch too much anime. From there it went on to watching movies and now it's going further.

Ok, so I can produce most of the hiragana at this point. I went through Heisig's Remembering the Kana, part 1 and have been practicing for the last week. I made up my own stories for some of the ones in the book that didn't really make sense to me.

My main problem is remembering the following 6: か　　　き　　　み　　　も　　　ら　　　な
I don't know why those are the hardest for me to remember. So I'm practicing producing them everyday, but now I'm moving to part 2 for the katakana.

I Come With the Rain

I've been looking around for some movies to watch to take a break from the many animes that I am watching. I found one that I think I want to see when it comes out. I found the following on Japan Zone.

I Come With the Rain Premieres

May 28, 2009

Local heartthrob Kimura Takuya (36) joined Hollywood counterpart Josh Hartnett (30) and Korean star Lee Byung Hun (38) last night for the world premiere of "I Come With the Rain" in Tokyo. The actors were in Roppongi at the Tokyo Midtown complex for the event, also enjoyed by an invited audience of about 1,000. The movie is directed by Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung, who is currently working on the eagerly awaited movie version of Murakami Haruki's cult novel "Noruwei no Mori" (Norwegian Wood). It is scheduled to open in theaters on June 6. SMAP's Kimura talked about the tensions of filming in one of the more unsavory areas of the Philippines under the watchful eye of the local military. The movie was also filmed on location in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
I Come With the Rain official website (Japanese)

The trailer on the movie site looks awesome! Can't wait to see this.