thtl wrote:The story is basically the same as Teppan Shoujo Akane, the only difference being the cuisine...Kanjiya Shihori was casted as a guest character in one of the stories (2 episodes). I have not seen her in anything outside of Swing Girls and is very pleasantly surprised.
IMO, it's a bit unfair to compare this w/ Teppan Shoujo Akane (which is crap). As I pointed out in the Sushi Oji thread, not everyone will like the off-the-wall humor and/or get the puns and cultural jokes.
BTW, Kanjiya was also in the 1st 3.3 episodes (plus flashbacks) of this year's Taiga drama 'Fuurin Kazan'.
I've watched 7 of the 10 episodes of My Boss My Hero
http://jdorama.com/drama.1025.htm
and I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised.
This is a funny show. It's goofy, and slap-stick, and comic book... but it's not trying to be anything else but that... and it's being done well.
I was a little leery about watching this one because I'd liked the Original Korean movie. I thought this would suffer by comparison. But they changed just enough (in the Korean movie the lead, Jun-ho Jeong wasn't an idiot. He was a tough, street smart guy who was out of date, and semi illiterate.) to make it interesting. (In the Japanese version Nagase's character pretty much has the IQ of a shoe.)
I have to admit, as a dramatic actor Nagase Tomoyo is a cipher. But he seems to have found his niche playing comic book characters.
It's also fun to see Eri Mirakawa and Masaya Kikawada from Kaze no Haruka in this show. Neither are half as annoying as they are in Kaze.
Geezer wrote:I've watched 7 of the 10 episodes of My Boss My Hero
http://jdorama.com/drama.1025.htm
and I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised.
I'm surprised you like this show and not Tiger & Dragon. I liked MBMH but Tiger and Dragon, I thought, was much wittier in terms of the humor and the storytelling....moreover the supporting cast was stellar.
Tiger & Dragon probably was wittier, and smarter... but it didn't translate through the sub titles.
Remember, your command of Japanese is far better than mine. I could see most of the jokes, puns, and snappy patter being set up in "Tiger", but I couldn't understand them. Hence... they weren't funny, to me.
"My Boss..." is a much simpler show. They're not trying to be witty, or sharp. They're just telling simple jokes, and subs can get that across.
@deep was funny....but you're slowly becoming a johhny's jimusho lover....
I know! the other day i was considering buying a K(r)a(p)t-tun Poster and I have to confess I joined d-addicts recently and contribute regularly to the Yamapi thread there :hehe:
EstherM wrote:
I know! the other day i was considering buying a K(r)a(p)t-tun Poster and I have to confess I joined d-addicts recently and contribute regularly to the Yamapi thread there :hehe:
Geezer wrote:I've watched 7 of the 10 episodes of My Boss My Hero
http://jdorama.com/drama.1025.htm
and I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised.
This is a funny show. It's goofy, and slap-stick, and comic book... but it's not trying to be anything else but that... and it's being done well.
I was a little leery about watching this one because I'd liked the Original Korean movie. I thought this would suffer by comparison. But they changed just enough
Yup! And like you, I'm glad they did. I saw the Korean movie(s) after watching the Japanese drama, and i was shocked at how tame the Japanese version was in comparison. Enough was changed to help it stand on its own. :)
bmwracer wrote:
Like I said in the Koi thread, SMAP is the most normal of the five Stooges and he really impressed... )
I think that Kimura Takuya's good too. He really impressed me in the Karei naru Ichizoku role.
Tu_triky wrote:
As soon as you get a dessert blog up and running :)
I wouldn't create a blog just to post desserts, but I probably would post dessert entries on my existing one. :) That is, whenever my digicam finally arrives.
On topic: I finished episode 7 of Koi ni Ochitara and will start episode 8 some time tonight. Except not during Heroes. :D