What dramas are you currently watching?

Epi 9 of Boku Dake mo Madonna. I'm gonna try to finish this drama today... so if I don't post again this weekend, it means I'm in "recovery".

Ep3 Trick 2.. something strange.. I'm not laughing as much as the first one.. :sweat: :sweat:

Final epi of Boku Dake mo Madonna... I can see the light!

Jaegal_Maut wrote:Ep3 Trick 2.. something strange.. I'm not laughing as much as the first one.. :sweat: :sweat:

Yea somehow second season lost charge, but then gains back speed during third one.

Wynter wrote:Final epi of Boku Dake mo Madonna... I can see the light!

Brave girl :applaud:. I took huge fastforward steps to finish that dorama.

I'm currently on ep. 8 of Summer Snow.

boris wrote:
Brave girl :applaud:. I took huge fastforward steps to finish that dorama.

I'm currently on ep. 8 of Summer Snow.

Epi 8 already! How are you liking Summer Snow? It's one of the better dramas I've seen. :)

On Topic: Finished epi 1 of Taiyou no Uta. Gonna watch epi 2.

finished Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu movie and also finished watching the first episode of the dorama version.

Just like Taiyou no Uta, i liked the movie version better. It's more compact but still meaningful.
Although there are a few differences from the dorama version.

:thumbsup: Moriyama Mirai and Nagasawa Masami

8/10

on topic: Kunimitsu episode 3 and in progress of getting Lunch Queen :mrgreen:

monta wrote:And from what i've read from the manga, Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu by Katayama Kyoichi and Kazui Kazumi... i realized that Yamada Takayuki, again, is such a lame fruityboy :bleh: . I felt that Saku's character in the dorama was so miscasted he was an expressionless mellancholy boy from the begginning until the end. And the movie version actually has a big difference in, quite a big one actually.

This should be posted in the drama's thread, not here, silly. :shakehead:

Wynter wrote:

This should be posted in the drama's thread, not here, silly. :shakehead:

:hehe: . moving...

HYD2 episode 7

Finally finished Suzuran, an Asadora drama from 1999. It takes place between 1923 and 1999 and covers the life (and beyond) of a typical Asadora heroine--in this case, a character named Moe who as a baby was abandoned in a railroad station in Ashimoi, Hokkaido. Three different actresses portray her in this series: Yumi Hiragi (she was the voice of Chihiro in Miyazaki's great movie Spirited Away) gives a wonderful "adult" performance as the 10-year old Moe; Nagiko Tono plays Moe as a teenager and young adult--she is OK, a little bland and often overshadowed by the veteran character actors/actresses who surround her; and Chieko Baisho (one of my favorite actresses) plays Moe in her twilight years--she's terrific as usual. In an interesting bit of casting, Chieko Baisho's real-life younger sister, Mitsuko Baisho (herself a very accomplished actress), plays Moe's mother. Asadora dramas have large ensemble casts, and the one here is very good in terms of quality and quantity--the list of fine veteran supporting performers is seemingly endless. The story runs the gamut from scenes of gut-wrenching pathos to fall-down hilarity, all the while presenting the typical Asadora themes of perseverance and family. Of the half dozen or so Asadorama I have seen, this one has become my favorite.

Nodame redux, episode 5.

Mongoose.....!!! :victory:

bmwracer wrote:Nodame redux, episode 5.

Mongoose.....!!! :victory:

Nodame addict... :hehe:

Nodame episode 2.. :victory:

NODAME eps 7... :victory:

slashersam016 wrote:Nodame addict... :hehe:

Hai... Ushirometai...! :beaten:

currently watching, nobuta wo produce

Wynter wrote:
Epi 8 already! How are you liking Summer Snow? It's one of the better dramas I've seen. :)

Definitely a good dorama, serious acting, decent plot, they don't make it that way any more.

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Only thing that bothers me is Chika and the course of action she picked...

watching nodame cantabile and hanayori dango 2.
are there any recommendations for new drama?

>anca<

boris wrote:

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Only thing that bothers me is Chika and the course of action she picked...

:headscratch:

yo mean

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the pregnancy stuff or her attitude?

?

>anca< wrote:are there any recommendations for new drama?

Here's one: ask this questions in the "Recommendations" thread.

shin2 wrote:Finally finished Suzuran, an Asadora drama from 1999. It takes place between 1923 and 1999 and covers the life (and beyond) of a typical Asadora heroine--in this case, a character named Moe who as a baby was abandoned in a railroad station in Ashimoi, Hokkaido. Three different actresses portray her in this series: Yumi Hiragi (she was the voice of Chihiro in Miyazaki's great movie Spirited Away) gives a wonderful "adult" performance as the 10-year old Moe; Nagiko Tono plays Moe as a teenager and young adult--she is OK, a little bland and often overshadowed by the veteran character actors/actresses who surround her; and Chieko Baisho (one of my favorite actresses) plays Moe in her twilight years--she's terrific as usual. In an interesting bit of casting, Chieko Baisho's real-life younger sister, Mitsuko Baisho (herself a very accomplished actress), plays Moe's mother. Asadora dramas have large ensemble casts, and the one here is very good in terms of quality and quantity--the list of fine veteran supporting performers is seemingly endless. The story runs the gamut from scenes of gut-wrenching pathos to fall-down hilarity, all the while presenting the typical Asadora themes of perseverance and family. Of the half dozen or so Asadorama I have seen, this one has become my favorite.

Hmmm... that showed here in Southern CAl a few years ago.. I came away with a total opposite impression. I thought it dragged along interminably.... And it once again bought out the Japanese desire for drama masochism to express the worst boring kinds of lives possible... I was releived when it finally finished.
But I will give Kudos to the trainmaster who also plays the lawyer in Matriarchial Family. The only drama that was almost worse for boredom was My Blue Sky. Gomen...
:bonk: