What dramas are you currently watching?

EstherM wrote:They allowed Horikita Maki to play a smart adult, perhaps her management realised that all this blandness canLt continue ...

Better late than never. :victory:

BMW

Little update on Untouchable.

I'm through the first 6 of 9 episodes and compared to Joshi Deka & Gokusen this is award winning stuff. (Of course, compared to Joshi Deka & Gokusen, "My Mother The Car" was freakin' brilliant.)

Nakama's comic character is sort of an updated version of her "Trick" character. The smart, beautiful woman, who is wildly insecure, can't get a husband, dresses like a frump, and has some amazingly dorky moments.

In "Trick" she was a Magician with no talent for performance. Here's she's an investigative reporter for a third rate gossip mag, and her main talents seem to be her pettiness, her ability to hold grudges, and her suspicious nature.

On Nakama it all comes out funny.

The problem is... in this show she has no one to play off. If they could have found her someone like Abe's character in "Trick" I think this might have been a major winner. But since she's going solo in this, you notice the plots, the mysteries, the scandals, and the Grand-Dark-Conspiracy behind everything... and that's where the show really falls flat for me.

The mysteries... the stories, are all pretty hackneyed... used... stuff you've seen a million times before.

If you like Nakama Yukie (I like Nakama) it's worth your time. It's a vast improvement on Joshi Deka & Gokusen. But it ain't "Trick" and it doesn't even sniff my favorites list.

Jeez! All that and I haven't even gotten to the grand finale yet.

^ Thanks for the running analysis... I figured it'd be a step up from Joshi Deka! or the Gokusen debacle... Maybe not a big step up, but a step up nonetheless.

Time to download it, I guess.

BMW

Go for it. It won't change your world, but if you're unlucky enough to catch the kind of bug I've been dealing with the last three days... it's a nice way to pass the time between dashes to the bathroom.

Geezer wrote:Go for it. It won't change your world, but if you're unlucky enough to catch the kind of bug I've been dealing with the last three days... it's a nice way to pass the time between dashes to the bathroom.

Eeek... Hope you're feeling better.

^ I've only watched a couple episodes of Untouchable. Not really impressed.

If you want watch a 2009 drama with Yukie, I'd say check out Arifureta Kiseki instead. http://jdorama.com/drama_1372.htm.

It's miles better.

qnuy wrote:

indeed :victory:

I collect his dramas and movies. So far my most favorite is Satorare, a highly recommended drama if you haven't watched it. But his movies somehow are quite difficult to understand :sweat: I love him in Maison de Himiko

Through 3 episodes, every one gets a tad better, both funny and smart, :applaud: like Trick in a way but that's a good thing... and Joe is so, so good like you said, Scrap Heaven is a fave of mine, may need to watch Bright Future again. Only question is, what does Kumiko see in him? :rofl:
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gaijinmark wrote:If you want watch a 2009 drama with Yukie, I'd say check out Arifureta Kiseki instead. http://jdorama.com/drama_1372.htm.

It's miles better.

Hmm, I've got that on a spindle.... Somewhere. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Ah, an escapee, eh? :hehe:

Floated out in the storm drain... :hehe:

NINKYO HELPER Ep. 10. I dread the ending, really I do. :fingerscrossed: (Damn you for making me cry every episode, NINKYO HELPER!!! Damn you!!!!!! *shakes fist* :shamefulcry: )

Ender's Girl wrote:NINKYO HELPER Ep. 10. I dread the ending, really I do. :fingerscrossed: (Damn you for making me cry every episode, NINKYO HELPER!!! Damn you!!!!!! *shakes fist* :shamefulcry: )

Cry? That show made me laugh. The plausibility of those characters as members of Bōryokudan (organized crime) is laughable at best. They should have marketed this thing as a comedy. It has entertainment value though.

Ender's Girl wrote:NINKYO HELPER Ep. 10. I dread the ending, really I do. :fingerscrossed: (Damn you for making me cry every episode, NINKYO HELPER!!! Damn you!!!!!! *shakes fist* :shamefulcry: )

You ol' softy. :muack:

Ender's Girl wrote:NINKYO HELPER Ep. 10. I dread the ending, really I do. :fingerscrossed: (Damn you for making me cry every episode, NINKYO HELPER!!! Damn you!!!!!! *shakes fist* :shamefulcry: )

lol!

that scenes of Ryota and his mom always made me :shamefulcry:

qnuy wrote:

lol!

that scenes of Ryota and his mom always made me :shamefulcry:

I liked the scenes when Kusanagi would insult Ryota and force him to buy free drinks from the vending machine.

Tu_triky wrote:

I liked the scenes when Kusanagi would insult Ryota and force him to buy free drinks from the vending machine.

I couldn't help cringing in the scenes where Kusanagi treated Ryota that harsh :sweat: I can't see the real Kusanagi Tsuyoshi in Ninkyo Helper :mrgreen:

I remember when Kato Seishiro came to Bistro SMAP and said that Kuasnagi looked so scary during filming, lol! the clumsy and blurry Kusanagi :mrgreen:

btw, Ninkyo Helper won big in TV Life 19th Annual Drama Awards. It's based on readers' opinion though, but I'm happy with the result :mrgreen:

http://jdorama.com/viewpost.866396.htm#866396

qnuy wrote:
I can't see the real Kusanagi Tsuyoshi in Ninkyo Helper :mrgreen:

Me neither. He wasn't naked, drunk, and laughing at the park with a chef's hat on from Bistro SMAP

Tu_triky wrote:

Me neither. He wasn't naked, drunk, and laughing at the park with a chef's hat on from Bistro SMAP

LOL!

:sweat:

qnuy wrote:

LOL!

:sweat:

Hehe. Funny stuff. He's not a bad guy. I like his sharp, beak-like nose. It is very aerodynamic and makes me laugh.

Tu_triky wrote:

Cry? That show made me laugh. The plausibility of those characters as members of Bōryokudan (organized crime) is laughable at best. They should have marketed this thing as a comedy. It has entertainment value though.

I didn't cry because of the Yakuza stuff, obviously. They could've taken out the whole gangsta slant and instead focused on an ordinary bunch of misfits forced to help out in a nursing home, and the story would've worked just the same. It was the treatment of the various issues on eldercare -- and just the thought of growing old in general -- that turned on the waterworks for me. That, and the central story arc involving Tsuyoshi, Natsukawa Yui, and the little kid. I did not expect the plot to develop the (ironic) way it did. :pout: This drama made me care about their characters when I never even expected to. And I'm glad the writer went easy on the slapstick, as I doubt I would've invested as much emotionally had the series gone the way of-- oh I dunno, My Boss, My Hero or something. :rolleyes:

@ beemer: I wish I could say I had more emotional fortitude, but alas... :beaten:

@ qnuy: I'm soaking up every look, every curl of the lip, everything from Kusanagi Tsuyoshi. When his character says, "Huh?" in that very distinctive, I-don't-give-a-sh*t way of his, man it cracks me up. :hehe: And OH MY SOUL, that opening song. :metaldevil: What's the title? It's not listed on DramaWiki. ("Sotto Kyutto" ain't bad too, heh heh.)

Tu_triky wrote:I like his sharp, beak-like nose. It is very aerodynamic and makes me laugh.

Maybe he should be in an Olympic event. :hehe: