Monday, November 17, 2008

Noro Kinomichi

Yesterday, I went to a party organised by AI's friend and it turned out to be very interesting and enjoyable.

The hostess of the house is the wife of Mr Masamichi Noro who founded the martial art: Kinomichi in Paris. Perhaps being herself a coach who practices Kinomichi regularly, Mrs Noro looks 20 years younger than her age and was bursting with energy. (3rd from the left)

I couldnt believe she was a mother of 6 and a grandmother of 3 until I was introduced to some of them. The grandchild I met was 8 years old I think, and she was a beautiful little dancer. In fact all her family members look good as they are french-Japanese Eurasians.

The party was meant for her friends and naturally most of the guests were more senior than us.


We ended up talking to her 3 youngest children and their 2 best friends from school. The topics ranged from 007, superman, mid-life crisis, sabbatical, buying books online, travel to Asia, trading of precious metals to employment-freeze in Europe. Im pretty proud of ourselves for making decent discussions in french.

We met this french "budding" actor whose 2nd film will be in the cinemas in 2 weeks time.

Guillaume is quite remarkable, when one sees him, one may think he is a Spanish, but no, he is french. And when he speaks, you will find that he speaks 3 languages perfectly without foreign accent; French , American English and Japanese. Very quickly AI and him became best friends discussing all the Japanese animations. Finally, we decided to join the kids of Noro to support him during the avant-premier of "Le plaisir de chanter"where he played a role of a love-struck singer. I hope his film will be well-received.

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