With a few hours extra of sleep and a "late" wake up time of 10pm, I spent the day doing little, save for watching two films on DVD. "tokyo.sora" and "Bounce Ko Gals".

Tokyo Sora revolves around six women and their desire for relationship and connection.

Bounce Ko Gals is the story of a high school graduate who is robbed and must get her money back in one night to leave Japan.

Both films are, for lack of a better phrase, all over the place. "Sora" is too slow and "Bounce" cannot be taken seriously. It's a sad thing because I was hoping to find some gratification from at least one of these features. I wasn't able to sit still for both - instead I found myself leaving to the kitchen to keep from being hungry.

I think part of it has to do with the subtitling as well - the subs for "Bounce" were so rough that I spent half the time not watching, but figuring them out based on context.

For "Bounce", the nice surprise was seeing Koji Yakusho, the lead actor in Masayuki Suo's "Shall We Dance?", which is one of my favorite Japanese films. In addition to his acting, Hitomi Sato also does a good performance.

While I was able to see these two in a good light throughout "Bounce", the film's rough cinematography and inconsistent editing gave me headaches.

With a few hours before the evening is over I'll have to plug in to something that will make me feel like I didn't waste my Saturday. Like I said, I'd hoped to enjoy both films. Instead I feel lost thinking about them.