Film #15 in the Filmspotting World War II Marathon!

Written By: Natto Wada
Directed By: Kon Ichikawa

I once wrote about Hotaru No Haka and its ability to create beauty out of ugly situations. It’s not easy to pull off, but Nobi manages to accomplish the same thing. It is a beautiful movie in its composition, the way it is put together and shot is almost breathtaking. Nobi is also as ugly as could be, what Tamura witnesses and what he does can’t be described as anything but ugly. The world is an ugly place, and it takes a special movie to present that ugliness in a beautiful way, Nobi is a special movie.

Eiji Funakoshi has an odd head, I tell you this because it helps in his portrayal of Tamura. His character is sickly and from the moment he appears on screen he is able to look the part because of how disproportionate his head is with the rest of his body. He’s a skinny guy, but his head is huge and that only helps to highlight that something is wrong with him. I know this seems like an odd facet of Nobi to center on, but sometimes it is the little touches, maybe even unintentional, that help to enhance a good movie.

It takes Nobi a while to get going, and I don’t mean this in a bad way. Tamura is a slow and labored character, every movement he makes appears as if it may be his last. Nobi is the same, it presents itself in a slow and labored fashion, never moving too fast or jumping ahead of itself. This creates the sensation that the movie itself will break down at any moment, that the next reel will rip in half as you are in the middle of the film. It’s a very meta experience, but yet another way in which the film is enhanced.

As much as I lauded the pacing of Nobi above, it does come off the rails a bit around the hour mark. When Tamura and the Japanese soldiers first encounter US troops the film meanders for a bit too long. It loses focus for only a few minutes, but those few minutes of lost focus are quite noticeable. It may only be a few minutes but it is enough to knock the movie back a bit in my estimation.

Nobi isn’t the best I’ve seen in the World War II marathon so far, nor is it the best I’ve seen from Kon Ichikawa. However it is a great movie with an interesting presentation style that masks its brutality and graphic nature under a veneer of outward beauty. Nobi is definitely worth a watch, especially if you are into war movies.

Rating:

***1/2

Cheers,
Bill

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iPhonAsia comment: Wired.com wrote a slanted article yesterday titled “Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone” … The author, Brian X. Chen, used an 8-month old quote attributed to Nobi Hayashi to support his piece. Nobi took exception to Chen’s article and posted his recent “pre-publication“ e-mail correspondence with Chen.  

Brian X. Chen

In my opinion, Wired.com has practiced tabloid journalism by distorting the intent and direct statements provided by Nobi, a key source for their article. Nobi went to great lengths to share his balanced views with Wired.com (see excerpts from Nobi’s e-mail below), yet Chen somehow divined an entirely different message.  

Comment from Nobi responding to Wired.com via AppleInsider post > HERE

Update: It now appears that Brian X. Chen misquoted another source for his article, Daiji Hirata who has also published a rebuttal. Daiji Hirata’s rebuttal to Wired.com is a MUST READ > HERE  (thanks Torley)

It is amusing to see how Wired.com is now in full damage control and furiously re-editing (fixing) the story to make it correct; “His [Nobi's] cellular weapon of choice when he spoke to Wired.com June 2008? A Panasonic P905i” …  Pssst … Brian, um, regarding your attempted “fix” … OF COURSE Nobi wasn’t holding an iPhone in Japan in June 2008! The iPhone wasn’t launched in Japan until JULY 2008!

Original cached article (sans “fixes”): http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q…8dd12,806a5f49

Note: For those that don’t know, Nobuyuki “Nobi” Hayashi is the “Walt Mossberg” of Japan and is known for his reviews of tech/mobile gadgets. I have included short excerpts from Nobi’s post and his e-mail to Brian X. Chen.  In order to get the full context, I strongly encourage readers to view the full post on Nobi’s blog > HERE

What is Japanese people’s take on iPhone? Good: 93%  Bad: 7%

My view of how iPhone is doing in Japan by Nobi (Nobuyuki Hayashi)

Nobi

EXCERPTS:

…. “I was quoted for something I haven’t told to Brian at all.”

…. “I can’t agree with what Brian’s article had to say and here is how I view the iPhone market in Japan.” 

Exceprts from Nobuyuki Hayashi’s e-mail to Brian Chen @ Wired.com:

…. “To answer your question, I don’t think iPhone is such a big failure in Japan. The perception of iPhone being a failure was created by a newspaper in Japan, Sankei Shimbun. Last fall, it wrote although Softbank tried to sell one million units by the end of 2008, they only sold about 200,000. This article was wrong in two fronts. One is that Softbank nor Apple never publicly claimed they would sell 1 million units. Second, their estimate of 200,000 units were also wrong. Although Apple nor Softbank releases the real number of shipment, today, it is strongly believed that they have shipped more than 300,000 and possibly near 400,000 units in Japan.”

…. “Also on January 11th, 2009 they [Sankei Shimbun] looked back how iPhone did in the first six month and seem to have concluded it wasn’t that bad after all”

…. “Now let’s talk if 400,000 (or 300,000) is a strong or weak number. I think this is not at all a weak number especially if you are talking about 2008.”

…. “In January 2007, Steve Jobs said he will have 1% share of the worldwide market. Well, in Japan, too. They got that number of share in this very competitive market.”

…. “I think iPhone sales in Japan can improve much more here in Japan. But in order to do that, I think SoftBank has to have more control in how they market / advertise the device here in Japan.”

…. “I love iPhone and I think iPhone can be a bigger success here in Japan, but in order to make it so, Apple has to trust SoftBank and reinvent the relationship”

iPhonAsia comment: Again, I urge PhonAsia readers to click the post on Nobi’s blog > HERE in order to get the full context. See also a revealing comment from newton via MacDailyNews (copied/pasted below):

If you read the original Wired 2008 article by Lisa Katayama…

Hayashi owns a Panasonic P905i, a fancy cellphone that doubles as a miniature but crisp 3-inch TV. In addition to 3G and GPS, the device has a 5.1-megapixel camera and motion sensors that enable Wii-style games to be played sitting on the train. “When I show this to visitors from the U.S, they’re amazed,” Hayashi says. “They think there’s no way anybody would want an iPhone in Japan. But that’s only because I’m setting it up for them so that they can see the cool features.” [i.e. its not user friendly; my comment] In actuality, Hayashi says, the P905i is fatally flawed. The motion sensors are painfully slow, and the novelty of using them is quickly replaced with frustration. And while being able to watch TV anywhere is a spectacular idea, there’s no signal in the subways, and even above ground, the sound cuts out every few seconds. “There’s nothing more annoying than choppy TV noises,” Hayashi says.

…then you can plainly see that Brian X. Chen purposely misused the Hayashi quote in his Wired article to disinguenously and unethically bolster his theme.

It also seems, based on Hayashi’s blog post, that Chen snuck in a “June 2008″ edit to cover his butt after Hayashi called him to task.

tadi sore gw *akhirnya* ketemu juga sama rara dan nobi..(miss u guys) sebenernya sih gw mang ada rencana jalan sabtu ini ma temen2 kampus gw ke parkit ada acara green-something gitu lah.. ada artis manggung juga sih.. (kayaknya ada maliq juga deh) tapi brubung anak2 kampus pada gak ada kabarnya walhasil gw ngajak rara dan nobi jalan…

akhirnya jalan lah kita bertiga ngelilingin jakarta naik sirion putih.. (gak ngelilingin sih, cuma ke lamandau aja kok)

iya rencananya emang cuma ke lamandau aja beli blenger burger yang emang bikin blenger.. tapi ujung2nya ngiter2 juga.. abis dari blenger kita memutuskan untuk solat asar di mesjid agung dan foto2 gitu deh.. hahaa.

abis itu kan kita rencananya mau nyari someplace cozy buat hang out sambil makan tuh burger.. tapi karna penunjuk arahnya agak2 dogol (bukan agak2 lagi sih, tapi uda keterlaluan dogolnya) jadinya gw muter2.. ngelewatin roti bakar eddy (yang emang cuma numpang muter doang), salah ambil jalur (mestinya ke arah blok M malah terus ke kanan ke arah semanggi.. bodohnyaa), dan si nobi yang seenak rahangnya dia nawarin tempat2 absurd bin ajaib buat dikunjungin..

but at the end of the day it still a fun day to spent.. lumayan lah agak terobati kangen2an gw sama anak HomeComing Crew.. which by the way mau ngumpul besok (minggu).. i’m looking forward to it..

that’s it for today’s story.. mudah2an besok bisa dilanjutin lagi..

Ich habe ein Problem. Mein FTP spinnt herum. Egal was ich mache er will mich nicht hinein lassen und das jetzt schon seit zwei Tagen. Das erschwert natürlich meine Arbeit an thombl.de gewaltig. Also habe ich gestern mal den Fairhost24 Kundenservice angerufen.Nobi (mein neuer Lieblingssupporttechniker), der freundliche Supporttechniker nahm sich meines Problems an. Wir probierten immer wieder neue Möglichkeiten aus um mich auf den FTP zugreifen zu lassen, aber es passierte nix. Komisch ist/war, dass er sich einloggen konnte, ich aber nicht. Ich vermutete das Problem lokal bei mir, aber auch da war nichts zu finden, denn eine Verbindung über das Terminalskript funktionierte. Ich gebe gerne zu, dass es nur, weil ich nach Fehlern gesucht habe, nicht heißen muss, dass es keine Fehler gibt. Möglicherweise habe ich sie nur nicht gefunden. Wie gesagt möglicherweise.

Nobi war total gelassen und störte sich kaum an meiner laienhaften Art mit irgendwelchem Internetgedingse umzugehen. Später kam er auf eine Idee und versprach mich später wieder anzurufen. Das war so gegen halb 9.

*grml* ER HAT NICHT ANGERUFEN …

Jetzt komme ich immer noch nicht auf meinen FTP und bin genau so schlau wie vorher. Also irgendwie ist das Käse. Trotzdem wird ab Sonntag nicht mehr hier, sondern auf thombl.de weiter gebloggt. Was das Theme angeht werde ich wohl in ein oder zwei „Wartungssitzungen” das Design anpassen. Solange gibt es dann auch kein Geflickre oder Getwittere … Schade.

Ich bin mal gespannt was Nobi nachher sagt wenn ich ihn anrufe. Wollte da gestern gegen halb 10 keinen Stress mehr machen. Der arme musste schon genug mit mir leiden. Aber wehe ihm, der sagt ich hab dich vergessen, dann war es das mit dem lieblings Supportblabliblub.

Der hat seinen Feierabend gestern wirklich verdient. Hoffentlich knackt der das und kommt mir heute nicht um die Ecke mit, „wenn das nicht funktioniert dann müssen wir alles noch mal neu aufsetzen”. Das wäre totaler Shiat, weil ich dann gar kein fertiges Theme mehr hätte. Denn Thommy backuped nicht. Das ist was für Versager *gnar*.

… sambungan dari part3

berikut ini adalah photo ketika PLC sudah dipasang di field (baik outdoor maupun indoor).
(biar ada gambaran bagi yang blum tahu atau baru belajar  )

panel di atas, PLC yang digunakan adalah PLC Allen Bradley SLC dengan Controller 5/03.
untuk detail mengenai SLC ini coba buka link ini http://www.ab.com/programmablecontrol/plc/slcsystem/controllers.html

(catatan: kabel yang keluar dari depan itu adalah kabel komunikasi serial yang dihubungkan ke laptop buat upload atau download program atau setting konfigurasi dan lain sebagainya. Hanya temporary saja apabila dibutuhkan)

Panel di atas, PLC yang digunakan adalah PLC Siemens S7-400.
Untuk mengetahui lebih jauh tentang PLC ini, silahkan klik link ini http://www.automation.siemens.com/simatic/controller/html_76/produkte/simatic-s7-400.htm

Panel di atas, PLC yang digunakan adalah PLC Modicon Quantum.
untuk mengetahu lebih jauh tentang modicon quantum silahkan klik link ini http://www.telemecanique.com/en/functions_discovery/index_fon5_fam11_aut_modiconquantum.htm

Dalam Panel ini selain PLC, biasanya dipasang juga circuit breaker, terminal block, relay, dan lain lain.
kemudian di design sedemikian rupa supaya compact dan rapi.
Kabel yang dipasang dibuat jalurnya dan ditempatkan di cable duct (yang warna abu2).

Dalam design panel diusahakan panelnya compact karena kalo panelnya kegedean, tentu saja jadi mahal. apalagi kalo panelnya dari stainless stell.

Oh iya berdasarkan yang saya tahu, produsen panel di indonesia adalah dari Nobi. bisa lihat websitenya di http://www.nobi.co.id/

Sedangkan dari luar salah satunya adalah Rittal. Kebetulan di perusahaan yang sebelumnya di PT. ZI-TECHASIA (kantornya di Wisma Budi, daerah kuningan), saya satu divisi dengan teman (sales) yang jual panel ini
websitenya bisa klik link ini http://www.rittal.com/

bersambung ke part5 …..