10 reviews · average 8.8 / 10
ester_grace · 11 Feb 2011
It must be a sad dorama because the main character busan will die soon, busan maybe sometimes feel lonely when it comes to think about his disease. But because he always do crazy thing with his gank, i can't ever cry when i see him.
kacang · 26 Jul 2007
The best of the best drama I even seen.I wacth the Nihon series alot of time n I know what to say when times come. but i"m not have that series anymore coz I'm delect it. I also make this story mymanga in my drawing book
Tokumei · 8 Apr 2007
This is another example of Kankuro Kudofs talent of mixing the hilarity of a screwball comedy with the despair and the loneliness of the people living at the fringes of society. Most of the characters are seeming nefer-do-wells and losers: a dying 21 year-old cancer patient, juvenile semi-delinquents, owners of failing stores, a pathological shop-lifter, a strip tease dancer, a call girl, an unlicensed barber, a teacher who has decided to get back at the students who have tormented her at school. All of them somehow come out as individuals with dignity and humanity. (Kudo does not condone criminality. He describes the brutality and savagery of real predatory criminals (gangsters involved in juvenile prostitution and extortion) without any sympathy.)
As many critics commented, this drama is irreverent, unpredictable and funny, but the undertone is pathos, as was reflected in the scene where one of the characters, Ozzy, who has been brain-damaged in an accident during a baseball match, suddenly remembers the following phrases from Macbeth he played in his high school days. Kudo gets him to recite:
. . . Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Pathos does not diminish hilarity.
A few words about some older actors who are relatively unknown among young JDorama fans: Ozzy, the character who appears in the first scene, saying gIt is the MORNING!h and who later recites Macbeth is played by Arata Furuta who is a star player of the enormously popular Shinkansen Theater Group. gYouh plays a call girl on roller skates. (gYouh played the mother in Kore-edafs gNobody Knows.h) Sadao Abe (who played the incompetent policeman in Ikebukuro West Gate Park and Donta in Tiger & Dragon) plays the Cat. Fumiyo Kohinata, who plays the father of the leading character (Bussan by Junichi Okada), is in numerous movies and TV series including Fuurinkazan.
Susan · 5 Aug 2006
I admit to having an interest in seeing Kisarazu Cat's Eye for quite some time, and I was NOT dissapointed! It was hilarious. The acting and characters were all around superb, the misadventures were engaging, and the writing was endlessly clever! I cannot find a single fault with the series. Even the ending did not dissapoint. Who would have thought...?!? Although it isn't quite one of my favorites, this drama will always have a place in my heart! "NYA!"
K.T.Tran · 21 Jun 2006
These Cats are so funny. Each episode will get you laughing and will make you want to watch more of it. Definately worth downloading. Its not stupid funny either, just great comedy.
SYILA78 · 13 Dec 2005
love this drama especially okada & sho san. sho as bambi hontoni kakkoi. the drama so hilarious and some part of it make me wanna to cry.
youhei_mito · 21 Apr 2005
after watching this drama, i have a feeling i missed out on the whole subtle irony part of the story. o-o tat definitely affected my rating on the drama, coz basically, if u cant get the humor this drama is trying to portray, u wont get the whole story :P i was completely baffled by it. nevertheless, still convinced tat ppl who can catch the punch-line of this drama would be fairly amused :)
amran · 1 May 2004
this one's verry....funny and never failed to make me feel sleepy....nyah..nyahhhhhhhhh
cola_cherry · 21 Dec 2003
it was hard to get inot it at first, on any normal dorama i would've given up, but i hung on for sho and okada^^ and i didn't regret it. it was sooo funny, the ideas they came up with. sho in the guy's kimono was...hot^^ okada's antics were very funny, the way he moved around wen he was nervous because he nearly slept with sho's girlfriend ahah, i cried wen okada nearly died, but everything was alrite in the end. the cats do make a pretty good band don't they? all the cast was realli funni, narimiya hiroki as Ani's lil bro, kakkoii ^^, Master's hair was hilarious^^, Fuji's character....i can't describe it ^^ this dorama was VERY GOOD ^^~nyah
arashinokoto · 3 Jul 2003
the first episode already made me interested as funny scenes were everywhere in the dorama.. the characters were all really special.. esp bambi.. so serious yet so sweet when it comes to moko-chan no koto.. bussan left a great impact on me.. it was the first time i watched a drama where i keep having the thought the lead was going to collapse anytime soon.. the show was filmed in a special way too.. drama fans probably watch lots of shows and are already used to seeing several "stories" happening at one time.. therefore the flashback method used in this show is really ineteresting and new.. it keeps you concentrated on one part of the story only to show the real happenings at the end..