look above, i suggested some dramas, and i am
including "Pretty Girls".
currently d/l'ing Tokyo Friends, My Little Chef, and Densha Okoto. Going to take awhile on Bittorent......
favorite, that is a hard one to choose, maybe anything drama with Nana Katase in it, So far i only have "Pretty Girls" with her in it, but also GTO, great series, probably this one is my favorite.
:lol: :bonk:
@qilver,
I appreciate your suggestions. I wrote them down for future choices. :) I really am a novice when it comes to these series. I have seen in total "Watashi No Aozora or My Blue Sky" and "Sakura" completely. So I have quite a ways to go to catch up and join in the discussions here. :sweat:
@Enna: you can check in my profile for the dramas I voted for....but ones I liked the most are GTO, Summer Snow, Hero, Waterboys, Last Christmas, and Kinpachi Sensei 6 (the one with Ueto Aya in it). I feel i can watch these over and over again :victory:
K.T.Tran wrote:@Enna: you can check in my profile for the dramas I voted for....but ones I liked the most are GTO, Summer Snow, Hero, Waterboys, Last Christmas, and Kinpachi Sensei 6 (the one with Ueto Aya in it). I feel i can watch these over and over again :victory:
Hope this helps you out
@K.T.Tran: Yes it helps a lot! Thanks! :say_thanx:
Enna wrote:Just started Seikei Bijin. My very first Yonekura Ryoko acting experience. Pretty good so far. :) I have gotten used to looking at her beautiful still shots that some fella here likes to display and share with us. ;) :D
I appreciate your suggestions. I wrote them down for future choices. :) I really am a novice when it comes to these series. I have seen in total "Watashi No Aozora or My Blue Sky" and "Sakura" completely. So I have quite a ways to go to catch up and join in the discussions here. :sweat:
sure, thanks to this great forum, i got my opportunity to watch lots of japanese dramas, through trades, and now hopefully downloads via bittorent. But d/l'ing takes forever as it is very very slow, but i downloaded the first episode of "Tokyo Friends" that stars Ai Otsuka, but unfortunately there are no eng. subs available for that series.
also, Kt_tran has been a big help to me with avatars, signature pix/gif, and other things on this forum and using bittorent downloads. :woot: :thumbsup:
K.T.Tran wrote:@Enna: you can check in my profile for the dramas I voted for....but ones I liked the most are GTO, Summer Snow, Hero, Waterboys, Last Christmas, and Kinpachi Sensei 6 (the one with Ueto Aya in it). I feel i can watch these over and over again :victory:
Hope this helps you out
yeah, probably going to be on my want list of d/l's
summer snow
hero
aim for ace(japanese name?, aya-chan stars in this one)
shotgun wedding
golden bowl
attempting to d/l
My Little Chef
Densha Okoto
The Sad Love Story (K-drama, stuck at 99.9% :argh: )
Tokyo Friends ep's 2-5
Last Christmas
going to continue watching GTO, ....episode 2 now. :thumbsup:
finished d/l'ing Tokyo Friends ep1, and The Sad Love Story ep1(finally....) :woot:
still d/l'ing others, and always so slow, need seeders... :puppydog:
I was going to start watching "Beach Boys", but I couldn't leave the image of Miki Nakatani as a cello playing Zombie ("Harmonia") in my head. So I broke into my "Save for Emergencies" stack and pulled out "Renai Hensachi" aka "Love Quotient".
This is an anthology series with 4 leading ladies each getting 4 episodes of their own to tell their story. I have the first 4. Miki's.
One episode in and I'm happy as a clam. In this story she plays a woman who falls apart once her lover leaves her. So in the first episode she's movie star perfect. You know, so that they have somewhere to go in the later episodes as her emotional breakdown screws up her life. (I have the feeling she's gonna look real bad by episode 3.)
MPD Psycho was a 6 part mini series Miike Takashi directed for Japanese TV a couple of years ago.
Because I like to support Japanese TV when it crops up on the U.S. market, I ordered it from Netflix when they started carrying it.
Two episodes in, and it's totally unintelligible.
The English subs are clear, and they match what's being said. So that's not the problem.
I see two possibilities as to why this thing is, in my opinion, unwatchable.
1) The film company sent the episodes out of order. And somehow mixed up the order of scenes in the individual episodes. Making the whole thing a jumbled mess.
2) Miiki Takashi is one of the worst directors in the history of film and TV.
Since possibility #2 matches up with my opinion of Takashi based on the movies he's made that I've seen... I'm gonna go with #2.
Geezer wrote:MPD Psycho was a 6 part mini series Miike Takashi directed for Japanese TV a couple of years ago.
Because I like to support Japanese TV when it crops up on the U.S. market, I ordered it from Netflix when they started carrying it.
Two episodes in, and it's totally unintelligible.
The English subs are clear, and they match what's being said. So that's not the problem.
I see two possibilities as to why this thing is, in my opinion, unwatchable.
1) The film company sent the episodes out of order. And somehow mixed up the order of scenes in the individual episodes. Making the whole thing a jumbled mess.
2) Miiki Takashi is one of the worst directors in the history of film and TV.
Since possibility #2 matches up with my opinion of Takashi based on the movies he's made that I've seen... I'm gonna go with #2.
ooh, miike takashi, got a few of his films sitting around on my shelfs, quite a fan, might have to see what other people think about this then maybe give it a look.
I watched all of Summer snow the other day, have to say I love it! Seen it discussed before and I know a hell of a lot of people really hate it, which is kinda confusing, as it got to number 2 in le charts on here...
Got beautiful life and pride downloading at the mo, so might start one of them tomorrow :)
Geezer wrote:2) Miiki Takashi is one of the worst directors in the history of film and TV.
Absolutely!
Actually, the way I see it, if one looks at his IMDB page, he does 4,5,6 or sometimes more productions a year, a few are good, many are blah, some are downright embarrassingly crappy. He's definately a quantity over quality guy. Very productive, but he sure as hell doesn't have a great overall batting average.
Too many people outside of Japan only see the cream of his output, and have elevated his status based on their skewed sample. I've seen probably 15-20 of his works, and I'd say only 3 or 4 are really worth watching. Of course, that's colored my my personal taste, but well, that's the way I see it.