Isle of the Dead

     So, the other day I am walking around Ikebukuro in Tokyo with a friend when I see a HUGE poster for Island of the Dead (Romero's Latest Film) advertising that it's playing in the theaters.  I thought to myself, "If I could find a theater today, I'd probably go see it.'
    A little later, my friend had to go and I still had another 4 hours to kill.  So I went back to look for a coffee shop so I could take a break, read my book and kill some time when I see the theater playing the movie.  I know that Island of the Dead came and went with out anyone realizing it was even made.  You had to be a fan to know anything about it.  Anyway , I forgot all about the coffee and immediately bought a ticket.
     The theater was small and I had a reserved seat. It was towards the back, but it wasn't an issue because I was going to get to see Romero's latest film.  I'm jazzed up.  While I'm sitting there, a young Japanese couple comes and sits behind me on my left.  The boyfriend starts talking to his girlfriend in a conversational tone and since I have nothing else to do, I'm half listening.  Then he says, "I always feel a little awkward watching movies with foreigners because the timing when they laugh at something is different (from when I do reading the subtitles). "  Seeing my window of opportunity I turned around and said, " You are soo right."  His girlfriend was the first to realize that I was a foreigner and she looked really surprised. It wasn't until after I comment again that I understood and he was right on that he realized that I was a foreigner.  Needless to say, he looked surprised and a little embarrassed because he hadn't seen me there when he was talking.
    After the initial shock, we talked a bit about zombies and I gave them both zombie stickers. After the film we even talked some about Zombie Land, which comes out here NEXT month.  Can you believe it?!!   Needless to say he was really jelous that I had not only seen it once but 5 times and had the DVD already.  We parted ways with him saying he'd find me on the internet.
    So, the moral of this story is always be careful of what you say.  You never know who is listening. That and there are really cool zombie fans all over the world.