cori wrote:Sounds like a real positive. From what you and shin2 said, it looks like this is one heckuva drama!
Understatement really, there's a reason why the movies based off of this show were some of the best in the early 2000s; it just draws you on.
Speaking of gravitational pull, I literally out of nowhere did an impulse download of Dragonzakura and watched episodes 1-3 tonight. Pretty good stuff so far, and I'm probably going to try to grab Wedding Planner as well. I dunno, as much as I'd love to be intrigued by this winter season, there isn't anything leaping off of the page grabbing my attention...
Oh, and gearin up for the new Sentai / Kamen Rider shows coming up soon, but that's for a different area, ne? :hehe:
Orion wrote:finished Saitou-san ep1
it's been a while to see mimura act again since ima, ai ni yukimasu drama (2005)
Is Saito-san any good? It's got Takahashi Minami in it. She's a member of AKB48 TeamA. Looks like she has a rather small role in it though.
That's pretty cool... AKB48 TeamA girls. Acchan in a drama last Fall and has the lead in one this winter. Kayano leading in the currently running ChocoMimi. And Takamina here in Saito-san.
Speaking of gravitational pull, I literally out of nowhere did an impulse download of Dragonzakura and watched episodes 1-3 tonight. Pretty good stuff so far
Yeah, I just finished Dragon Zakura...I enjoyed it... it was well conceived and well written and concluded nicely...
and with that, I've reached the 200 mark in dramas/movies watched, according to what's documented in the database...
adylma wrote:I'm watching brother beat and yamada taro monogatari. Speaking of which, I recently saw kiiroi namdia .. how come Nino always plays the poor kid :P
his innocent face fits that role well..
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his innocent face fits that role well..
:hehe: :hehe:
that reminds me one scene in Yamada Taro where he ask by Nakai Masami to sit down and knitting something~~and all the students said, he really looks like a poor and innocent boy :rofl: :rofl:
On topic : Neverland epi 5. Such a dark drama. My heart beating so fast when it comes to suspend part :sweat:
I've been spending my lunch hours watching Kiraware Matsuko no Isshou
http://jdorama.com/drama.1038.htm
and it's so much better than I expected it to be I have to temper my comments.
I saw the movie, and though I thought Miki Nakatani turned in an outstanding performance (she deserved every award she got for this one... and more) I didn't think much of the movie itself.
The movie was all bright colors, and style over substance, and fits and bits of a life gone horribly wrong.
I blame the director. It's a story that needed more time to tell than a single movie afforded.
It is, at it's core, a very sad story. It asks - and answers - the question; How could a bright and beautiful, seemingly intelligent and well educated woman, from a good family... end up a raggity old bag lady, dying alone and unloved, in a crappy little rat hole of an apartment down by the river?
To do the story justice, it should have been done as a series in the first place.
I'm half way through, and though I know where it's going (no secret here, the show opens with the cops finding Matsuko's body) I can't wait to get to the next episode.
that reminds me one scene in Yamada Taro where he ask by Nakai Masami to sit down and knitting something~~and all the students said, he really looks like a poor and innocent boy :rofl: :rofl:
That entire series was like that, it makes you wonder what they were pumping into the classrooms for all of the random images they had (well that, and classmates female and male fawning like that for them :hehe: ).
Congrats on the 200th drama, runup! It makes me think about actually sitting down and calculating out what dramas I've watched so far (I've got to be in the low 100s by now). Not bad for someone who started this whole thing by doing a search on Sailor Moon subs on YouTube and finding PGSM, it went all downhill from there! :victory:
Geezer wrote:To do the story justice, it should have been done as a series in the first place.
I find that to be true about a whole mess of movies that are out there, and in that same aspect it can be said in reverse as well. I suppose it's because I prefer when the story has more time to flesh things out.
For example, I am particularly fond of the drama series of Densha Otoko, and yet the casting and the layout of the movie just wasn't appealing to me (probably due to the lack of stereotypical forum browsers).
On the other hand, the movies for Rhythm and Police (Odoru Daisousasen series, renamed in movie series) were not only EXCELLENT movies, they could've easily replaced the series itself had they made a whole slew of them. Not saying I'd replace the series by any means (one of my favorites), but it complimented it extremely well.
With rumors of a Hana Yori Dango movie in the past (may not be true anymore), and the confirmed announcement of a Galileo movie, we'll see how this holds out for those movies as well. I for one thing Galileo will turn out well, with the way stories are told and all. HYD will...well, it'll be eye candy really, the ending to HYD2 kinda put them in a hard spot to make any kind of good story.
I'm on the 5th episode of Odoru Daisosomething (I promise to remember the titles by the end of this drama!) and I'm really enjoying it a lot. The subtle humor is great, the characters are wonderful (this is the first time that I've ever liked Yanagiba Toshiro in a drama), and I'm slowly liking Oda Yuji a bit more. I loved in the second episode that Spoiler — click to revealwhen there was a bomb in the office, everyone except for Aoshima (Oda Yuji) and Sumire (Fukatsu Eri) ran the hell away, pushing and shoving each other, some even falling down in the craze. Then Sumire nonchalantly calls the bomb squad and a restaurant to change her reservations to a half hour later. Priceless. :hehe:
cori wrote:I'm on the 5th episode of Odoru Daisosomething (I promise to remember the titles by the end of this drama!)
LOL. :hehe:
Spoiler — click to revealwhen there was a bomb in the office, everyone except for Aoshima (Oda Yuji) and Sumire (Fukatsu Eri) ran the hell away, pushing and shoving each other, some even falling down in the craze. Then Sumire nonchalantly calls the bomb squad and a restaurant to change her reservations to a half hour later. Priceless. :hehe:
Make sure to watch the movies too, they are excellent bookends to the series itself, and...yea, they're just awesome!
Anyways, continuing my run of Dragon Zakura tonight. Probably 4 - 6 on my count. Keep it goin, Abe! :victory:
Oh, and it took me a while before I remembered it was Daisousasen (watch it enough you'll remember). If you want to make it easier on yourself, you could go off it's US Title (yes, they showed it over here, and with subs no less!), Rhythm and Police.
cori wrote:I'm on the 5th episode of Odoru Daisosomething (I promise to remember the titles by the end of this drama!) and I'm really enjoying it a lot.
Hey Cori,
Aren't you glad you finally came over to the dark side? :twisted: Hehe.
cori wrote:I'm on the 5th episode of Odoru Daisosomething (I promise to remember the titles by the end of this drama!) and I'm really enjoying it a lot. The subtle humor is great, the characters are wonderful (this is the first time that I've ever liked Yanagiba Toshiro in a drama), and I'm slowly liking Oda Yuji a bit more.
:applaud: Yes, cori!!! Glad you like it!!! I'm hardly an expert on dramas, but so far, there are only 3 dramas I've given a "10". Long Vacation, Shomuni2, and Odoru Daisousassen For me, this one is all about the cast, it is perfect, it's just one of those magical things that all too rarely happens, I can't imagine another actor in any of those roles.
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