Samurai High School

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Details
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Title (English): Samurai High School
Format: Renzoku
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-17 start
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Kodoku no Taiyo by monobright

Synopsis
Mochizuki Kotaro is a mild-mannered, unmanly high school student. One day, he visits a library and meets the mysterious librarian Himiko, who recommends to him an ancient book about a heroic general from the Sengoku period 400 years ago. Kotaro notices that he has the same name and age as the general described in the book, and he experiences a flashback... Kotaro later mentions the book to his father, who tells him that he may be the descendent of a powerful samurai. At that moment, Kotaro receives a message from his childhood friend Ai telling him that their classmate Nakamura Tsuyoshi is in trouble. He rushes to the scene but doesn't have the guts to help, until another flashback transforms him into a samurai! --Tokyograph

Cast
Miura Haruma as Mochizuki Kotaro
Shirota Yu as Nakamura Tsuyoshi
Anne as Nagasawa Ai
Ohgo Suzuka as Mochizuki Yuna
Kobayashi Ryoko as Minami Yurika
Sakurada Dori (÷“c’Ê)
Yanagishita Tomo
Nakabeppu Aoi
Ichikawa Mikako as Miki Sayaka
Matsuda Saki (¼“c¹‹I) as Kisaragi Hidemi
Kaneko Nobuaki (‹àŽqƒmƒuƒAƒL) as Motoyama Hiroshi
Kaneda Akio
Kimura Midoriko
Mimura as Watanuki Himiko
Muroi Shigeru as Kamei Kyoko
Kishitani Goro as Mochizuki Shinji

Production Credits
Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Chief producer: Hazeyama Yuko
Producer: Ogino Tetsuhiro (‰¬–ì“NO), Uchiyama Masahiro (“àŽR‰ë”Ž)
Directors: Sato Toya, Inomata Ryuichi
Music: Kanno Yugo

Official Site
http://www.ntv.co.jp/samurai/

This one is up bmwracer's alley. :beaten:

Takoyama wrote:This one is up bmwracer's alley. :beaten:

LOL.

With that girly-man as a samurai... :shakehead:

Talk about Suspension of Disbelief. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL.

With that girly-man as a samurai... :shakehead:

Talk about Suspension of Disbelief. :bleh:

LOL which one?

EstherM wrote:LOL which one?

Miura Haruma. :shakehead:

If there was a Last Friends sequel, he could play the role of Ruka.

bmwracer wrote:
Miura Haruma. :shakehead:

If there was a Last Friends sequel, he could play the role of Ruka.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I am undecided - it could apply to Shirota Yu as well.
By the way, I think he'so heavily clad in make-up because he has acne, which you can see in close-ups. But that doesn't explain or excuse his often shiny lips.

This would not have gotten Shimura Takashi's approval. :hehe:

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^ Don't you mean Mifune Toshiro? ;)

EDIT: Oh, I get what you mean. :doh:

bmwracer wrote:
Miura Haruma. :shakehead:

If there was a Last Friends sequel, he could play the role of Ruka.

:rofl: I think so too!

I would love to see this one.

bmwracer wrote:
LOL.

With that girly-man as a samurai... :shakehead:

Talk about Suspension of Disbelief. :bleh:

But he was perfectly normal in Bloody Monday ..

Lifo wrote:But he was perfectly normal in Bloody Monday ..

He wasn't asked to be a heroic general in that drama.

Even the Tokyograph description above calls his character "unmanly." :hehe: :rofl:

Well itLs true that in most of his dramas and movies he looks like a girl lolol, but he was awesome in the movie Crows Zero II as Bitou Tatsuya.

He was portraying one of my all time favorite manga characters and i was very pleased, Tatsuya is really fierce and badass in the manga, and imo Miura portraied that very well in the movie.

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Anyway this drama can be really cool or a totally waste of time, i have to watch it before jumping into any kind of conclusion.

Sorata wrote:

Anyway this drama can be really cool or a totally waste of time, i have to watch it before jumping into any kind of conclusion.

Agreed, though at this point I'm leaning towards the this-looks-like-pile-of-putty! camp....but Ohgo Suzuka and Anne! (actually don't know how Anne is as an actress, but she's Watanbe Ken's daughter right? Curiosity abounds.)

tabemonster wrote:
(actually don't know how Anne is as an actress, but she's Watanbe Ken's daughter right? Curiosity abounds.)

She was ok in Karei naru Spy.

tabemonster wrote:Agreed, though at this point I'm leaning towards the this-looks-like-pile-of-putty! camp...

Is that good or bad? :headscratch:

Middle. :hehe: . I will download this drama later.

This one will probably be a ratings extravaganza slicing up the competition. :beaten:

Takoyama wrote:This one will probably be a ratings extravaganza slicing up the competition. :beaten:

Without a doubt.

Sad. :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:
Without a doubt.

Sad. :shakehead:

Nah, I don't think so. :hehe: I think the veteran players will rule this season. Aibou 8 started out with 19.4% despite changing the cast for one of the partners. This is one rating which I don't see this drama settle anywhere near by.