Just finished Good Mourning, a 1994 dorama starring Atsuko Asano. This drama/comedy series centers around a family-run funeral business, hence the pun in the title. Some topics are treated in a serious vein--financial debt, cutthroat competition, parenthood; other topics are dealt with in a hilarious way--how to correctly put on a fundoshi (loincloth), the intimidation factor of putting on a funeral for a yakuza oyabun. Atsuko is excellent in her role as a university scientific researcher who marries into this wacky, tumultuous, funeral-business family, and the large supporting cast is equally good. Asano's father-in-law, btw, is played by Seijun Suzuki, the legendary director. The screenplay is by Yumie Nishiogi, who also wrote Sweet Home and Double Kitchen, two other excellent series from the 90's. Good Mourning is yet another example which reaffirms my opinion that dorama from the 90's in general were much better written and acted than the dorama in recent years.
What dramas are you currently watching?
Started by Pemu · 2 Aug 2003 · 27,479 replies
Drama Discussion
Just finished watching My Little Chef. Definitely an entertaining drama :thumbsup: . Moving on to Food Fight :mrgreen: :bonk:
Saito_Hajime wrote:Just finished watching My Little Chef. Definitely an entertaining drama :thumbsup: . Moving on to Food Fight :mrgreen: :bonk:
wow, you're really moving thru those food doramas :hehe: by any chance u watching ohsama no resutoran after that? ;)
If you have watched "Swing Girls" and enjoyed it, maybe you would like to get behind the scene a bit. Here is a link to the "Making of... Swing Girls":
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DDJ49IW2
N.B. It's a 212MB file and will take a while to d'l.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DDJ49IW2
N.B. It's a 212MB file and will take a while to d'l.
Shindou wrote:
wow, you're really moving thru those food doramas :hehe: by any chance u watching ohsama no resutoran after that? ;)
Yeah, for some reason I just wanna watch dramas that is related to food, even animes (currently watching Cooking Master Boy) :mrgreen: . And by watching these dramas, my appetite has increased and have been eating alot recently :bonk: . Haven't thought of watching Ohsama no Resutoran because I didn't even know it :sweat: . But since you mentioned it, I guess I'll add that to the list and watch it after Food Fight while waiting for Lunch no Juoo's subs to be completed :D .
thtl wrote:If you have watched "Swing Girls" and enjoyed it, maybe you would like to get behind the scene a bit. Here is a link to the "Making of... Swing Girls":
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DDJ49IW2
N.B. It's a 212MB file and will take a while to d'l.
Thanks for the headup.
watching ep one of Bengoshi no Kuzu.
Hoshino Aki isn't wearing anything that reveals much :puppydog:
Hoshino Aki isn't wearing anything that reveals much :puppydog:
K.T.Tran wrote:watching ep one of Bengoshi no Kuzu.
Hoshino Aki isn't wearing anything that reveals much :puppydog:
ya i was disappointed too :D
Dragonzakura #9 :thumbsup:
a-nesuto wrote:
ya i was disappointed too :D
Dragonzakura #9 :thumbsup:
yea.....i don't think i'll dl the serie anymore. Gots Attention Please and Top Caster to watch. Also got N's Aoi to finish off. I think i'm set on dramas for now.
Enjoy the rest of Dragonzakura. I liked that drama a lot :mrgreen:
K.T.Tran wrote:
yea.....i don't think i'll dl the serie anymore. Gots Attention Please and Top Caster to watch. Also got N's Aoi to finish off. I think i'm set on dramas for now.
Enjoy the rest of Dragonzakura. I liked that drama a lot :mrgreen:
just finished watching KKKK2003, it was good, but kinda dark...
a lot of new j-dramas, i got a handful i am working on.. :say_yes: :sweat:
qilver wrote:
just finished watching KKKK2003, it was good, but kinda dark...
a lot of new j-dramas, i got a handful i am working on.. :say_yes: :sweat:
haha. You got enough drama to watch.....like say if you started watchings all day from now till summer, you probably still got more to watch :hehe:
K.T.Tran wrote:
haha. You got enough drama to watch.....like say if you started watchings all day from now till summer, you probably still got more to watch :hehe:
by the time i finish all these j-dramas, i would have my job app's done, and applied, and working by now...lol
and probably married. :drink: :headscratch: :hehe:
qilver wrote:
by the time i finish all these j-dramas, i would have my job app's done, and applied, and working by now...lol
and probably married. :drink: :headscratch: :hehe:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Damn......thats a whole lotta dramas there.
in comparassion, that means Doc has enough dramas to watch until his kids have kids??? :beaten:
K.T.Tran wrote:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Damn......thats a whole lotta dramas there.
in comparassion, that means Doc has enough dramas to watch until his kids have kids??? :beaten:
he has an insane amount of j-dramas, probably enough until we have space hover crafts or something... :hehe:
kurosagi
anego
gachi baka
attention please
gal circle
anego
gachi baka
attention please
gal circle
i was watching Summersnow episode 1 & 2...they're both good...
waa....shun is good...he plays a deaf kid...soo sad...
i only have summersnow 1 & 2...
anyone have episode 3?
waa....shun is good...he plays a deaf kid...soo sad...
i only have summersnow 1 & 2...
anyone have episode 3?
I've been hearing so much about "1 Litre no Namida" so I decided to get cracking on it. After the first 3 episodes I found myself quite drawn to this dorama. My first 'encounter' with Sawajiri Erika was her role as Hotarubi in "Shinobi" - not a very memorable character. In "1 Litre" she really shines though.
To tell the truth I was particularly looking forward to the end of each episode when pictures of Kito Aya flash on the screen.
A very touching story that manages to gets to a hard-boiled cynic, such as myself.
To tell the truth I was particularly looking forward to the end of each episode when pictures of Kito Aya flash on the screen.
A very touching story that manages to gets to a hard-boiled cynic, such as myself.
saru92 wrote:i was watching Summersnow episode 1 & 2...they're both good...
waa....shun is good...he plays a deaf kid...soo sad...
i only have summersnow 1 & 2...
anyone have episode 3?
you can get all the episodes here :thumbsup:
http://jtv-tracker.clubbed.org/
Ifve been watching hTokyo Friendsh. A 5 episode, straight to video Dorama. (This is the first Ifve ever heard of a Dorama going straight to video but after seeing 4 of the 5 shows, the reason seems to be the same as the straight to video movies you see in video shops. You know; we made it, we paid for it, itfs not very good and wefd like to at least try to make some of our money back.)
The main character in the series is a short girl named Rei. In the first ten minutes of episode one, Rei leaves her small town, goes to Tokyo, finds a job in a hip, wacky restaurant, finds a nice little apartment, finds a group of wonderful friends, and discovers that shefs a singer, so she joins a band and is a smashing success, and oh, she finds the love of her life. (Yup, the first 10 minutes.)
In fact, the only piece of hard luck Rei seems to experience is that a young girl with no experience as an actress, and absolutely no discernable talent, was chosen to play her.
As an actress, Otsuka Ai is a pop singer. And if she was playing a small supporting role in this thing she might have been able to pull it off. If she was doing a cameo appearance as herselfc she may have been able to pull it off.
But as the lead in the showc she sinks the series.
Okay, so why watch the whole series? Partly because I downloaded it as a batch and Ifm too stingy to dump it after all the time it took to download it. And partly because Ifm always looking for the pony under the pile.
And there is a pony in this series. Her name is Maki Yoko. (Yoko Maki to Oof-Das like me.) And she plays Ryoko in the show.
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Though shefs not in the database here, and isnft even mentioned as a cast member in the show (?????!!!!!) she is, for my money, the reason to watch the series.
She doesnft seem to have done much TV, but unlike the pop princess who was given the lead, Maki has talent, and shefs been paying her dues. Shefs been in gPrincess Bladeh gBattle Royale IIh gKamikaze Girlsh gInfectionh gThe Grudgeh gTime Machine Bluesh gVeronika Decides to Dieh and gAme no Machih. The parts keep getting bigger, and she keeps getting better.
For me, getting to find out about Maki makes downloading and watching the show worth it. Ifll be watching for her name connected with any project from now on.
gTokyo Friendsh as a series? Ifve had no regrets as I simply deleted each file when Ifd finished watching it. It really is a dreadful series.
The main character in the series is a short girl named Rei. In the first ten minutes of episode one, Rei leaves her small town, goes to Tokyo, finds a job in a hip, wacky restaurant, finds a nice little apartment, finds a group of wonderful friends, and discovers that shefs a singer, so she joins a band and is a smashing success, and oh, she finds the love of her life. (Yup, the first 10 minutes.)
In fact, the only piece of hard luck Rei seems to experience is that a young girl with no experience as an actress, and absolutely no discernable talent, was chosen to play her.
As an actress, Otsuka Ai is a pop singer. And if she was playing a small supporting role in this thing she might have been able to pull it off. If she was doing a cameo appearance as herselfc she may have been able to pull it off.
But as the lead in the showc she sinks the series.
Okay, so why watch the whole series? Partly because I downloaded it as a batch and Ifm too stingy to dump it after all the time it took to download it. And partly because Ifm always looking for the pony under the pile.
And there is a pony in this series. Her name is Maki Yoko. (Yoko Maki to Oof-Das like me.) And she plays Ryoko in the show.
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Though shefs not in the database here, and isnft even mentioned as a cast member in the show (?????!!!!!) she is, for my money, the reason to watch the series.
She doesnft seem to have done much TV, but unlike the pop princess who was given the lead, Maki has talent, and shefs been paying her dues. Shefs been in gPrincess Bladeh gBattle Royale IIh gKamikaze Girlsh gInfectionh gThe Grudgeh gTime Machine Bluesh gVeronika Decides to Dieh and gAme no Machih. The parts keep getting bigger, and she keeps getting better.
For me, getting to find out about Maki makes downloading and watching the show worth it. Ifll be watching for her name connected with any project from now on.
gTokyo Friendsh as a series? Ifve had no regrets as I simply deleted each file when Ifd finished watching it. It really is a dreadful series.
Saito_Hajime wrote:
Yeah, for some reason I just wanna watch dramas that is related to food, even animes (currently watching Cooking Master Boy) :mrgreen: . And by watching these dramas, my appetite has increased and have been eating alot recently :bonk: . Haven't thought of watching Ohsama no Resutoran because I didn't even know it :sweat: . But since you mentioned it, I guess I'll add that to the list and watch it after Food Fight while waiting for Lunch no Juoo's subs to be completed :D .
I love cooking dramas, including Shota No Sushi though there was only preparation there. :hehe: Cooking MAster Boy is a fav of mine.
If you havent seen it yet you should watch the film, Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. A terrific movie!! And the chinese cuisine looks unbelievably delicious! :dancing:
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