JDrama Recommendations

WhiteHawk wrote:

Woot! :woot:

Get ready to waste about 9 hours of your life watching this horrible drama. :bleh:

sadacori wrote:

Get ready to waste about 9 hours of your life watching this horrible drama. :bleh:

:hehe: :hehe:

Has anybody seen the drama Aishiteru from this year. Would you think it's worth "wasting 9 hours" :mrgreen:

EstherM wrote:Has anybody seen the drama Aishiteru from this year. Would you think it's worth "wasting 9 hours" :mrgreen:

Definitely! :applaud:
Plays on the number one fear of all parents, must see for them. "Drama of the Year" for me (JIN may be nice, but not very serious).

Aishiteru is a good drama if you can take the subject matter. Inamori Izumi is good in this. To me her character evokes more sympathy than the other grieving mother. Tanaka Misako is very good as usual too, even though she isn't one of the two main characters.

I was actually surprised that this was adapted from a manga.

Definitely worth the time to watch a family drama that deals with a serious subject.

Also, the ending surprised me a bit.

EstherM wrote:Has anybody seen the drama Aishiteru from this year. Would you think it's worth "wasting 9 hours" :mrgreen:

Wot the above 2 posts said, i think it was good try it :victory:

Thanks guys! ILll give it a try - I was afraid it would be on the too cheesy/melodramatic side.

EstherM wrote:Thanks guys! ILll give it a try - I was afraid it would be on the too cheesy/melodramatic side.

nono not melodramatic at all but a dorama that makes u think alot in many ways, they filmed this from an interesting angle :applaud:

sadacori wrote:Get ready to waste about 9 hours of your life watching this horrible drama. :bleh:

I pretty much agree... Jodan ja Nai! had an interesting premise, but the story was awful and was a waste of time for the cast. :bleh:

yoz...would like to catch up on some Jdoramas over the New Year holiday..

any good recommendations? preferably with eye candies and NO tragic stories.. it is the holiday ne....

many thanks in advance!!!!!!!

BOSS has lots of eye candy, both male and female. It's a police/detective show and is fast paced and funny.

Gwynnie wrote:BOSS has lots of eye candy, both male and female. It's a police/detective show and is fast paced and funny.

thank "Gwynnie".. but you think I would miss that??? more than 50% of the cast are on my top 20 idols list.. i practically follow the show every wk..

hmmm.. actually i have been following jdoramas very closely from 2008 to now. so i want more recommendations before 08. ^^;

Hi chokakoi,
I saw in profile you liked Love Letter. If you liked the main actors, the series Love Story from 2001 is perfect for you.

Lighter stuff I'd recommend and I didn't see in your watch list:
- Mop Girl
- Tiger and Dragon
- Himitsu no Hamazono
- Golden Bowl

and perhaps those two, which have a bunch of then unknown heartthrobs in them:
- Long Love Letter
- Yankee Bokou no Kaeru

Hi! I'm looking for a few drama recommendations, I have no real preference on the genre, as long as the plot and acting is good. Some dramas I've LOVED are:
-1 Litre of Tears (Ichi Rittoru no Namida)
-Hotaru no Hikari
-Kekkon Dekinai Otoko
-Kimi wa Petto
-Last Christmas
-Last Friends
-Lunch Queen
-Nobuta wo Produce
-Nodame Cantabile
-Orange Days
-Pride
-Proposal Daisakusen
-Ryusei no Kizuna
-Shiroi Haru
-Yamada Tarou Monogatari

I've seen more dramas (I've added them to "My Drama" list if you guys can view that) but those are the ones that stuck with me. Is there anything you guys can recommend? I'd prefer more dramas no older than 2000 since the quality seems to drop a lot before that and I'm so spoiled by HD that it bothers me... :shakehead:

gwenny wrote:I'd prefer more dramas no older than 2000 since the quality seems to drop a lot before that and I'm so spoiled by HD that it bothers me... :shakehead:

Actually, it's more the reverse: the quality has tailed off since 2000 with the advent of Johnny's showing up in more and more dramas. :bleh:

Taiyou no Kisetsu i think is good too. but then, that's probably because I'm a Takizawa Hideaki fan!! SOS was okay..not the best but not the worst.

gwenny wrote:Hi! I'm looking for a few drama recommendations, I have no real preference on the genre, as long as the plot and acting is good.

Maybe Medaka, Churasan, Ame to Yume no atoni, Koi no Chikara, Ruri no Shima, Tiger and Dragon, Kisarazu Cat's Eye ...

They are all on or after 2000, but don't know if they are available in HD (probably not).

I just finished watching Dare Yori mo Mama wo Aisu and thought it was great. Story wasn't the best, but the characters were all great, enjoyable characters. Lots of character development, and def one of the feel good dramas :)

gwenny wrote: Is there anything you guys can recommend?

My recommendations. They're all filmed in the recent years, definitely after 2000. I prefer more recent dramas because I find the odd fashion sense in the earlier years quite disconcerting.

My number 1 favourite is Security Police. Pardon if you've watched some of them. :mrgreen: The genre are in brackets.

- Security Police (crime/terrorism thriller)
- Tiger and Dragon (comedy)
- Bambino! (Bildungsroman - young man's character development as he works in an Italian restaurant)
- Bloody Monday (terrorism thriller)
- Jotei (Bildungsroman - young woman working as a hostess)
- Liar Game (psychological thriller)
- Meichan no shitsuji (romance set in a school for the exclusively rich)
- BOSS (crime/detective/police)
- Sapuri (younger guy/older woman romance)

Hi guys-this is my first post-Sorry-you guys all seem to know each other!
Basically I love Doramas---I'm not too fussy-I can watch ones that are just relaxing or whatever-I think too much at work and school as it is so I don't mind if it's silly^_^*
My husband is kind of fussy though-he doesn't really like those younger Johnny boys much-and by not much I mean he says "eeeee......kimochi waruiiiii" when he sees them...so.....
I'm trying to find dramas that we can watch together. So far we enjoyed watching:
Jin
Kekkon Dekinai otoko
at home dad
Home drama
hotaru no hikari
konkatsu
.......
I wanna watch more from edo if possible....We both LOvED Jin...And he loves Ryoma.....
Thank you for any advice....
And nice to meet you!!!
Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu!