JDrama Recommendations

Thanks to Geezer, shin2, and a couple of friends on my LJ, I went ahead and made a copy of Utahime for the person. I hope she likes it. :) I think I'll start watching that after I'm done with the dramas I'm watching now.

Tu_triky wrote:

There's nothing to be scared of...I was more scared when I opened the fridge and they're were no cans of Boddington's Ale left, love.

:rofl: Boddingtons - the cream of Manchester. :mrgreen:

Keps wrote:

:rofl: Boddingtons - the cream of Manchester. :mrgreen:

:hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

A proper drink to celebrate any ASBO.

Keps

I have to agree with Tu_triky on the "Battle Royal" movies.

There's nothing scary about them at all. Except maybe for the level of stupidity.

Plot:

Spoiler — click to reveal

Okay, here's the movie. We'll put a bunch of good looking young things on an Island and have them kill each other. Why? Who cares. Make up any bogus premise you like. It doesn't have to make a lick of sense. The bottom line is... people will pay to see these kids stabbing, shooting, hanging, and poisoning each other for 90 minutes. Okay... Go!

Geezer wrote:There's nothing scary about them at all. Except maybe for the level of stupidity.

:lol: :hehe: :rofl:

A friend of mine wanted to know what I'd recommend for comedies similar to My Boss & My Hero or Dragon Zakura. I couldn't think of anything, so I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions.

Geezer wrote:Keps

I have to agree with Tu_triky on the "Battle Royal" movies.

There's nothing scary about them at all. Except maybe for the level of stupidity.

Yeah, I didn't see the big deal....I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes or so of the first film.....and I was drinking a beer, too.

Hm...interesting. Battle Royale is still one of my favorite books...and I like the first movie (even if it is a bit less than some years ago; and I must say the story made more sense in the book, because for the movie the background story was changed rather drastically). But the second movie...*shudders* There were some interesting characters and some good acting, but the story :banghead:
But I never watched them as "horror movies" so...

I will check out Kaidan Hyaku Shosetsu....it sounds interesting.

cori wrote:A friend of mine wanted to know what I'd recommend for comedies similar to My Boss & My Hero or Dragon Zakura. I couldn't think of anything, so I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions.

i don't quite get this part. how is Dragon Zakura a comedy? :beaten:

Hi all I recently got into japanese dramas I just finished up Stand Up! and Nobuta Wo Produce and I was wondering if anyone could recommend some other J dramas that are similar in any way thanks

himmel wrote:Hi all I recently got into japanese dramas I just finished up Stand Up! and Nobuta Wo Produce and I was wondering if anyone could recommend some other J dramas that are similar in any way thanks

Watch

GTO
Gokusen
My Boss, My Hero

....to name a few.

Oh my goodness, you lot are doing a good job of putting me off the idea of watching Battle Royale.
Thanks Geezer, Triky, Beem and daiango. :mrgreen:

Keps wrote:Oh my goodness, you lot are doing a good job of putting me off the idea of watching Battle Royale.
Thanks Geezer, Triky, Beem and daiango. :mrgreen:

Sorry! I must say that lots of people enjoyed the films...It's not that I don't like far out, or kooky plots, but for me this somehow didn't work...but it did put Chiaki Kuriyama and Kou Shibasaki on the map.

Tu_triky wrote:

Sorry! I must say that lots of people enjoyed the films...It's not that I don't like far out, or kooky plots, but for me this somehow didn't work...but it did put Chiaki Kuriyama and Kou Shibasaki on the map.

Heh. Well, I did enjoy some of the manga volumes, so maybe there's hope for me yet. :fingerscrossed:

Keps wrote:Oh my goodness, you lot are doing a good job of putting me off the idea of watching Battle Royale.
Thanks Geezer, Triky, Beem and daiango. :mrgreen:

ItLs really overrated Keps-chan. Like daiango, I read the book, about four, five years ago and I enjoyed it a lot. It gives you a proper context and describes the rationales of the protagonists. I started the movie 5 month ago and I never finished it. :sweat:

Hmmm, was going to watch that at some stage.

Esther, did you have the book in English?

Keps wrote:Oh my goodness, you lot are doing a good job of putting me off the idea of watching Battle Royale.
Thanks Geezer, Triky, Beem and daiango. :mrgreen:

Since today is Naho Toda's b-day, you could start the rest of Shomuni :applaud: [/list:u]

Anime Dad wrote:Hmmm, was going to watch that at some stage.

Esther, did you have the book in English?

Yes :victory: I read it in English, the author is Koushun Takami.

Tu_triky wrote:

Watch

GTO
Gokusen
My Boss, My Hero

....to name a few.

thanks for the recommendations ill check them out

EstherM wrote:

ItLs really overrated Keps-chan. Like daiango, I read the book, about four, five years ago and I enjoyed it a lot. It gives you a proper context and describes the rationales of the protagonists. I started the movie 5 month ago and I never finished it. :sweat:

Oh. Eek. I read about 3 or 4 volumes of the manga, before deciding the relentless bleakness was too much to continue. The novel seems quite hard to track down. :sweat:
I though the story was an interesting one though, so I thought I might enjoy the films.

gaijinmark wrote: Since today is Naho Toda's b-day, you could start the rest of Shomuni :applaud: [/list:u]

Yes, I saw it was her birthday in the Shomuni thread.
I'm watching Nodame Cantabile at the moment, but after that, I was considering Shomuni series 2. Yeah! :victory:

I'm off to bed now. Good night, Jdrama enthusiasts! :mrgreen: