What dramas are you currently watching?

Started by Pemu · 2 Aug 2003 · 27,479 replies

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21 Nov 2006, 23:44 #8741
thtl wrote:If you think that's bad, try "Kurokawa no Techou", also starring Yonekura Ryoko.

Yet she won an award for her role in that drama. :sweat:
21 Nov 2006, 23:46 #8742
gaijin mark wrote:But I kept watching and eventually got into it.

Same here... Mainly 'cause I figured a major payback was in the making. :)
21 Nov 2006, 23:54 #8743
boris wrote:
Good :thumbsup:

I tried a Teppan Shoujo Akane ep.1, but stop it, because got hungry and there was nothing in the fridge :drooling:


It's quite possible that Teppan Shoujo Akane is one of the best dramas ever made. :good:
22 Nov 2006, 02:53 #8744
Hanzo21 wrote:

It's quite possible that Teppan Shoujo Akane is one of the best dramas ever made. :good:



With the ratings.....I highly doubt it.
Well I myself have yet to dl and watch it. Will give it a try though....
22 Nov 2006, 03:11 #8745
bmwracer wrote:
Yet she won an award for her role in that drama. :sweat:


A really terrible drama is not always a reflection on the actor's ability. :patpat:
22 Nov 2006, 03:22 #8746
Watching Teppan Shoujo Akane , 14 Sai no Haha and Nobuta wo Produce
22 Nov 2006, 03:56 #8747
Shuin wrote:Watching Teppan Shoujo Akane , 14 Sai no Haha and Nobuta wo Produce

Is Teppan Shoujo Akane okay?
I'm planning to start downloading soon (I reformatted my crappy laptop)
22 Nov 2006, 05:17 #8748
Wynter wrote:

A really terrible drama is not always a reflection on the actor's ability. :patpat:


except in the case of kyoko fukada where it always is....
22 Nov 2006, 05:18 #8749
I went past "Nyokei Kazoku" a little too quickly, simply labeling it "gawdawful", and I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression.

My distain for this series has little or nothing to do with the actors and actresses. I'm a huge fan of both Yonekura, and Seto. And Reiko Takashima did what she could wth the part of the evil, wicked, evil, eldest sister. Who's evil.

My problem is with the genre.

If any of you have ever read novels by writers like Judith Krantz or Danielle Steel and said to yourself when finished: Mmmm. That was tastey. I think I'll read another. Then A) You might really like "Nyokei Kazoku". And B) Shame on you. (That said, these two women sell more books world wide than almost any other writer.)

The books are almost always the same, simplistic, over the top, soap operatic bits of fluff with strikingly one dimentional characters.

The heroine is almost always a beautiful young shop girl born on the wrong side of the tracks, but through pluck and general all around goodness of spirit (and a rockin' bod) makes her way to the top.

Ah, but there are battles to be fought along the way. There's always a rich, evil family, or a rich evil corporation that does everything and anything it can think of to keep our plucky heroine down. They lie to her, they lie about her, they hit her, they try to kill her, they call her hurtful names... it's just heartbreaking. (Or stomach turning depending on your tastes.)

In the books everyone makes a point of having sex with everyone else, and they went light on that in Nyokei (because Japanese TV has become rather prudish of late) but all the rest of the banal, overused, hackneyed plot points are there in this series.

It's a genre that demands you root for the humorless and stupid... and it makes my teeth itch.
22 Nov 2006, 05:42 #8750
littlemissfab wrote:
Is Teppan Shoujo Akane okay?
I'm planning to start downloading soon (I reformatted my crappy laptop)


its ok for me =) depends on individual i guess ;|
the food really makes me hungry~ especially when I watch it in the middle of the night! =)
22 Nov 2006, 05:42 #8751
just noticed that SARS released the hardsubbed version of Lunch Queen ep. 11
22 Nov 2006, 05:52 #8752
mentioned it in the LQ thread that they were working on it.
22 Nov 2006, 05:53 #8753
krim wrote:mentioned it in the LQ thread that they were working on it.


voila.....
22 Nov 2006, 05:54 #8754
didn't think it'd be that quick... :woot: :woot: :woot: x100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
22 Nov 2006, 05:56 #8755
krim wrote:didn't think it'd be that quick... :woot: :woot: :woot: x100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000


yeah it's been a long time coming but at least it's confirmed that the project is still alive.
22 Nov 2006, 06:32 #8756
Just finished episode 6 of "Nodame Cantabile". The Chinese subs will probably be available in a couple days, and the English subs in a week. Until then...
22 Nov 2006, 09:10 #8757
Downloading Lunch Queen Ep. 11. YAY! I have been waiting forever for this. :hehe:
22 Nov 2006, 09:12 #8758
Tu_triky wrote:

except in the case of kyoko fukada where it always is....


She's always the exception, that one.

Hotman 3 epi 4
22 Nov 2006, 09:19 #8759
Wynter wrote:

She's always the exception, that one.

Hotman 3 epi 4


she is the dregs of dorama
22 Nov 2006, 09:58 #8760
Geezer wrote:If any of you have ever read novels by writers like Judith Krantz or Danielle Steel and said to yourself when finished: Mmmm. That was tastey. I think I'll read another. Then A) You might really like "Nyokei Kazoku". And B) Shame on you. (That said, these two women sell more books world wide than almost any other writer.)


That's precisely why juicy boys (and girls too, let's not be sexists now) who can barely act and hardly put two (musical) notes together often get voted, idol, singer, artiste etc. of the year.

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