Downloading the torrent now... I started it at about 10PM last night, and it looked like it would never finish, running at 3kb/s... but this morning it was over 1/3 done :applaud:
I checked the tracker at d-addicts a few hours ago and couldn't see my IP address listed in the peers. I just checked it again and it's there, 65% complete, with an average download speed of over 450kb/s! :shocked:
Pretty Girls... Katase Nana in red leather pants. Yeah, that was a good series.
My shows this week...
I started Zeni Geba as my comfy chair show because it was written by Okada Yoshikazu. The guy who gave us:
Churasan
Beach Boys
Antique
Yume California
Koibume
Home Drama
Ai no Uta
Muri na Renai
among others.
So far... well... I guess nobody hits it out of the park every time at bat. I'm two episodes in and I'm sitting here wondering if I wouldn't rather just watch the news and go to bed.
On the other hand, my lunchtime show is Uta no Onii-San, a silly little drama about a singer in a rock band who ends up as the third banana on a children's TV show, playing everything from a dog, to an acorn.
And I love it. (So much for my discerning tastes.)
Kimura Yoshino is fabulous in this show playing the producer.
Spoiler — click to revealShe opens episode 4 teaching a class on how the performers are to behave in public, and I have to say... had she been one of my teachers I never would have missed a class. I probably wouldn't have learned anything... but I would have been there.
Oh, and Katase Nana is in here too... sadly, no red leather pants.
taroqq wrote:Kaneshiro has also been in a lot of Chinese movies lately (he's half Chinese and bilingual) and his latest is John Woo's Magnum Opus Red Cliff I & II. There'd been rumors of a 2.5 hr cut for the western audiences (trimmed down from 5 hrs) that will be shown in the European markets first (they've yet to find a distributor in the US). DVDs and Blu-rays are already available (part II this Friday) on yesasia and dddhouse.com. He's also in Wong Kar-wei's Chungking Express (one of his earlier movies); just re-watched it on Criterion's Blu-ray this weekend and I still consider it as one of my all time favorites.
You`re right, it`s the European release of Red Cliff I was talking about and yeah it`s unfortunaley not a rumour, the movies were cut into one 2.5h movie. :grumble: :bleh:
The reviews weren`t that good - thy made it sound like a total guys movie a la Rambo but I will be going anyway.
@G-Mark-san - I think I have downloaded Sweet Rain - looking 4ward to watch it :victory:
@Evie wow I watched episode 5 of Golden Bowl yesterday as well and I am still loving this show. This must be the 5th time :inlove:
Finished Aoi Tori it was o.k., but I've never been a big fan of the "star-crossed lovers/tragic romance" genre. Give me Macbeth or Hamlet over Romeo and Juliet anyday. Time for something pointless and mindless.
Currently watching Mei-chan no shitsuji episode 5th,
en Anna san no omame episode 4th, it surely makes me laugh out loud seeing riri with her huge misunderstanding towards all the men that is around her :crazy:
Okay, so I've started watching dramas again after the trip. Picked up on Atsu-hime... now epi 30. I keep falling asleep! The last attempt I fell asleep within the first five minutes of turning it on. :doh:
I'm guessing it's the fact that I hadn't caught up with the sleep yet. I have now tho. I'll try it again tonight.
Wynter wrote:Okay, so I've started watching dramas again after the trip. Picked up on Atsu-hime... now epi 30. I keep falling asleep! The last attempt I fell asleep within the first five minutes of turning it on. :doh:
LOL. :hehe:
I'm guessing it's the fact that I hadn't caught up with the sleep yet. I have now tho. I'll try it again tonight.
Stop making excuses for the drama. :beaten: :rofl:
Im almost done with Golden Bowl again.
About to start on ep 10.
Feeling a bit disappointed that there are only 11 not 12 eps as I thought. :puppydog:
I finished it last night :woot: :shamefulcry: I realised although the subs I have are good, they derive too much from the Japanese original for my taste.
I will try to buy the original DVDs when in Japan. :woot: :woot:
gaijinmark wrote:Time for something pointless and mindless.
Found it, Taiho Shichauzohttp://jdorama.com/drama.740.htm Sachie Hara and Misaki Itoh as traffic cops. If the plot doesn't keep me interested Hara and Itoh should. :naughty: [/list:u]
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