What dramas are you currently watching?

Tu_triky wrote:Watching Concerto with Rie Miyazawa and Kimura Takuya...haven't seen it in about 10 years...nice to watch it upscaled to 1080i. :victory:

Oh really?
Thats one of my favorite dramas. :D

Eve wrote:

Oh really?
Thats one of my favorite dramas. :D

Yeah...I'm liking it more the second time around even though I haven't seen it in about ten years.....I first watched it when it aired on KSCI 18 International TV here in L.A. back in '96/'97. This was the first drama that Rie Miyazawa filmed after recovering from her eating disorder stemming from a host of personal problems...so she looks thinner than she did during her most celebrated days as a celebrity in the early '90s, around the time Tokyo Elevator Girl was filmed.

Just watch LIFE episode 4 for the...uhm 8th or 9th time.
Some of my friends just started to react like :crazy: as I told them :grumble:
They don't understand how great this dorama is :puppydog:
(every dorama that can make me cry is great... :sweat: )


Okay, now you can go on with your conversation :sweat:

Finished watching Be Nice to People for the second time. I'm now back to Grumpy Genes. I think I'm on epi 2.

And speaking of Grumpy.

I've started watching Dream Again

http://jdorama.com/drama.1216.htm

It's a remake of one of my favorite old comedies,

"Here comes Mr. Jordan"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033712/

A movie that Warren Beaty remade (badly) in the late seventies as :

"Heaven Can Wait"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/

Well... I didn't like the movie remake... and so far I'm not all that happy about "Dream Again".

I'll give it a couple of more episodes... and hope it finds its feet. But based on the first two... I'm getting the feeling that the Japanese writer of "Dream Again" watched "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" without subtitles.

Then again, I might just be in a grumpy mood. After finishing "Kita No Kuni Kara" almost everything looks like the work of a hack to me in comparison.[/b]

^ Makes me want to watch Kita no Kuni kara too.

And I finished the 4th episode (or was it the 5th?) of Hotaru and I like it a lot. Stayed up till about 3am watching it so I feel like going back to sleep. Or watching more episodes. :beaten:

Episode 5 of Grumpy Gene

Anego epi 3.

Fine. Shinohara Ryoko is now in my top 10 list. She is absolutely superb in every drama I've seen her in.. Fake Bride, Haken etc.

This is another excellent drama and that's because of Ryoko chan.

Altough Kuninaka Ryoko will always be number 1 Ayase Haruka may have to share number 2 with Shinohara.
:woot:

Ichi Ritoru no Namida episode 2

I started to like Ryo and Erika. They look good pairing but this drama is too sad, and I don't know whether I can stand watching it until the end or not :sweat:

Maybe Gryzze is on vacation. Normally this Winter's blockbuster Shiori to Shimiko no Kaiki Jikenbo is up by now. We're patiently waiting for episode 6.

But in the meanwhile, we'll watch today's Haromoni& and this weeks AKB48 variety show 1ji 59Fun.


Once Shimiko no Kaiki Jikenbo gets subtitled, you guys should check it out.

Yukan Club

Churasan Ep.1

Thanks, Wyn-chan!

Finished Nobuta wo Produce, good stuff!

Mop Girl Ep. 4's subs finally released, so I was able to take another step forward in that series as well. Despite the amount of time it's taking to be subbed, I'm still enjoying it regardless.

Hmmm, where to go next in my series watching...*glances over to Recommendations thread*

Finished Sleeping Forest, and enjoyed it a lot. I can live with Kimura in darker dramas. The last episode sucked though.

Will now (lucky me I am on skiing holidays in Austria) re-watch a few Tiger and Dragon episodes in the next few days after skiing and before dinner.

Anime Dad wrote:Churasan Ep.1

Thanks, Wyn-chan!

YATTA! I'm so excited. Mebbe I'll watch some Churasan too! Now I know how Ralph felt when I was watching it. :beaten:

@Esther: OMG! I LUFF Tiger & Dragon! Tomoya-kun... :smitten:

Wynter wrote:

YATTA! I'm so excited. Mebbe I'll watch some Churasan too! Now I know how Ralph felt when I was watching it. :beaten:

@Esther: OMG! I LUFF Tiger & Dragon! Tomoya-kun... :smitten:

Toraji was definitely his best role IMHO...

Dear gods... I'm waiting every week for Ashita no Kita Yoshio and Shikaoto Aoniyoshi. I love them both. They're my favorite series this season. Can't wait to find out what's the deal with Hotta in Deer Man (so many strange coincidences) and I LOVE the deer (the voice is perfect, you expect it to talk with a soft, female voice and then it barks at him like an old samurai, brilliant).

But, I even watched 4 Shimai Tantei Dan. But only episodes 2 and 3 (after all... Maeda Sisters :bow: ), but Aki's episode was extremely disappointing (again), that character was crap, it was basically the same as in Aibou 6, Kuitan 2 and Onna Keiji Mizuki, a stereotypical, annoyingly weak thing. Blargh... But the 3rd episode was great, and only because Ai was the killer. YES! I love her when she plays evil.

I want Aki to be the killer. I want to see her be evil. I know she can do it.

Hmmm... a series revolving around 3 female professional killers... played by: Shibasaki Kou, Maeda Ai and Kuriyama Chiaki... I think I'd die of nosebleed, all the magnificent evilness, the icecold looks, the angry glares the radiating dangers!

Tu_triky wrote:

Toraji was definitely his best role IMHO...

I totally second that. Right now. I might need to see more of his work, tho I doubt any of his other roles will have as much impact.

On Topic: I think I'm on epi 6 of Grumpy Gene but I'm not sure. I lost track when

Spoiler — click to reveal

Jinko started crying because of her BF. For some reason I can't sympathize with her. Must be because she sucked face with the professor while having a BF. And she's crying because her BF was walking with another girl? Come on now.

Wynter wrote:
I totally second that. Right now. I might need to see more of his work, tho I doubt any of his other roles will have as much impact.

I like many of his characters...but he played that role perfectly and it was written by Kudo Kankuro who has turned out many of the best Japanese comedies, both in Film and TV. Granted the supporting cast for T&D was just awesome, too. Just awesome. I really liked him in Utahime which was his most recent role.
:)

Wynter wrote:

I totally second that. Right now. I might need to see more of his work, tho I doubt any of his other roles will have as much impact.

On Topic: I think I'm on epi 6 of Grumpy Gene but I'm not sure

About mid-way is when the show starts falling apart, kiddo. Good luck with the rest of it....it stanks, general.