Movie #3: Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) is Japanese film masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa. I watched this movie in 2015, 61 years after the release. Old movie, indeed, but great thing will last as the time passed, won't it?

I expected I would watch an epic colossal battle of Samurai and those seven samurai would be the heroes who saved the day. Instead, Seven Samurai was a simple yet honest movie (and this is the reason that this movie is so remarkable). It showed true condition in the old Japanese social life without any flowery plot:

Indonesia Cultural Camp 2014 - Alternative Project

Let's start understanding, let's spread positive energy, let's build peace!

March 6-13th, 2014, I joined a cultural study camp held in Yogyakarta by Japanese NGO - Alternative Project. This project's participants were five Indonesian students (from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) and eight Japanese students (from Nippon Bunri University, Japan). In this project, we did some cultural activities like Indonesian religion workshop, contemporary puppet making, dancing, and playing gamelan (traditional instruments from Indonesia). We also had voluntary work in an elementary school - Sanggar Anak Alam - to teach Japanese dancing and cooking.

What I've learned from this camp was: STOP PREJUDICE.