Upcoming JDramas

nikyy wrote:

Mother & Lovers
Sakaguchi Kenji, Shinohara Ryoko, Matsuzaka Keiko
http://www.ktv.co.jp/mother/

Younger Men 2? Matsuzaka Keiko, lovely!

nikyy wrote:
Fufu
Tamura Masakazu, Kuroki Hitomi, Kato Ai, Tsukamoto Takashi, Nishida Naomi, Haneda Michiko
http://www.tbs.co.jp/fu-fu/

WAAH!!! Tamura+Kuroki=excellent! Nishida-san too! Hitomi, yay :woot:

nikyy wrote:
Sannen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei
Takeda Tetsuya
http://www.tbs.co.jp/kinpachi/

Kinpachi owns!!! Definitely!

nikyy wrote:
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Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Katayama Aya
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/yakumo/

It's "Hirayama", not Katayama :) in other words, WHEE!!! :love_eyes: Finally a proper role for her, I'm so happy!

nikyy wrote:FujiTV~

Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3
with Eguchi Yousuke, Matsushima Nanako

Mama-Nanako is back! Eguchi is super cool!

Pemu wrote:

nikyy wrote:
Fufu
Tamura Masakazu, Kuroki Hitomi, Kato Ai, Tsukamoto Takashi, Nishida Naomi, Haneda Michiko
http://www.tbs.co.jp/fu-fu/

WAAH!!! Tamura+Kuroki=excellent! Nishida-san too! Hitomi, yay

Hopefully Hitomi is more seductive than she was in Oyaji. But then again, Tamura may get overwhelmed...

nikyy wrote:FujiTV~

Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3
with Eguchi Yousuke, Matsushima Nanako

I can't wait for this one!!! I love Matsushima Nanako! Thanks for the info.

nikyy wrote:FujiTV~

Last Christmas
- with Oda Yuji, Yada Akiko, Tamaki Hiroshi, Yamamoto Mirai, Katase Nana, Ryo, Megumi
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/lastXmas/index2.html

Yada Akiko :woot: :hehe:

IkematsuSosuke wrote:I can't wait for this one!!! I love Matsushima Nanako! Thanks for the info.

http://groinksvr1.no-ip.org/fujisankei/Fujisankei_20040906_MatsushimaNanako.avi

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Pemu wrote:

nikyy wrote:Mother & Lovers
Sakaguchi Kenji, Shinohara Ryoko, Matsuzaka Keiko
http://www.ktv.co.jp/mother/

Younger Men 2? Matsuzaka Keiko, lovely!

I think this dorama will tell a story about a woman's jealousy toward his boyfriend relationship with his Mamma. (a.k.a. Mamma's Boy)

Taken from FUJI TV Official site :

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Between his Mother and his Lover

Tuesdays, 10:00-10:54 p.m.
Beginning October 5, 2004

The Cast
Character Name Played By

Shingo Okazaki Kenji Sakaguchi

Hitomi Sugiura Ryoko Shinohara

Kei Nagano Asami Mizukawa

Kyosuke Nakamachi Takatoshi Kaneko

Maiko Kamino Shin Yazawa

Shoji Taneda Toru Hotohara

Kohei Nomoto Kenji Anan

Maria Okazaki Keiko Matsuzaka


Synopsis :

Parental love is a universal theme. There are a lot of stories about father and son, mother and daughter, but few about mother and son. In Japan at least, men who love and cherish their mother are regarded as "mamma's boys": wishy-washy guys who run home to mommy whenever they have a problem.

What do the "mamma's boys" have to say? "All men are mamma's boys! If we can't love our own mother, how can we love our girlfriend and wives?!"

Shingo Okazaki is a 28-year old guy who isn't ashamed to say openly that he loves his mother very much. One woman falls in love with him. It's 31-year old Hitomi Sugiura. She thinks it's beautiful that her boyfriend values his relationship with his mother, but is irritated because Shingo always puts his mother before herself. She is starting to have second thoughts about marrying Shingo.

Last Christmas, Hotman 2, and Fufu looks good to me :D

Just announced! Or at least this is the first time I saw it on the kiku tv website. But apparently, there's a new series finally, called suekko chonan ane sannin and it starts October 24th at 8-9pm. Looks like kiku is finally starting to deliver the goods with their in-house translation team! Does anyone know anything about the series btw?

hatakekakashi081 wrote:Just announced! Or at least this is the first time I saw it on the kiku tv website. But apparently, there's a new series finally, called suekko chonan ane sannin and it starts October 24th at 8-9pm. Looks like kiku is finally starting to deliver the goods with their in-house translation team! Does anyone know anything about the series btw?

Nope, it's also been a while since I visited the Kiku boards. Nothing they play interest me at all. Even the message board is starting to get old.

But it's good to hear that they have a new drama coming in! :D
About time, rather!

agreed, the message board is admittedly kinda dead right now, but that's only because there's a lack of new drama's coming in, and kiku has lost a lot of viewers and interest, IMO. Hopefully with all these new shows coming in, that will change, and it will renew interest in kiku and ressurect the message board with more interesting discussion and speculation, etc. But apparently, you're still browsing through the message boards occasionally because you seem to know that the same yuki posted the women of the onsen question here too. I still frequent the message boards, but I rarely look at the main page, which is where they post up the new shows. I had kinda given up the hope that they would post anything new, but good thing I did.
and NOTHING they play interests you at all? Not even the great Shinsengumi series? Now that's interesting. Even when they weren't showing anything new, I still had to turn into kiku every week just to see Shinsengumi. That show has definitely got my attention and it's probably one of the best taiga dorama I've seen and has held my interest this much, even Musashi, and even that was painfully slow at times. Well, anyway, now you have a reason to post at the boards again, if the series is any good. Cool and hilarious icon btw. Where is that from?

I don't watch Shinsengumi at all. :beaten:

Not interesting at all IMO. I guess I'm kinda particular on the actors and whatnot. It's too slapstick IMO and I don't think that a group such as Shinsengumi should be portrayed in such a way. Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's a drama and all, but still. Do it like it's meant to be. :)

I only remember Yuki because a person once posted on the Kiku boards (but the username was Yuki) sometime ago. (Feb 2004???)

you'd be very surprised if you only watched Shinsengumi at the very beginning and watched a recent episode now. The series has changed drastically since the beginning and they're now getting into the central story arc. It's been deadly serious as of late with lots of fighting and the Ikedaya incident. It's too bad you didn't continue watching, there are some truly great episodes lately. No more "slapstick", as you say, anymore. Just pure, unadulterated taiga dorama seriousness. And it's very intense and engaging right now, almost like you can't miss an episode. The humor and slapstick feeling was only in the beginning when they were going for that more lighthearted mood to introduce the characters, but as the series progresses, in true taiga, or any drama for that matter, fashion, the story gets much darker, as incidents occur that change things greatly and the characters are put in more intense, dramatic situations. And this series does it better than any other.

Thanks for the update! :)
Gonna check out last week's one on Sunday and the following one on Tuesday!
From there, I'll make my judgements. :)

no problem, just trying to promote a great show that shouldn't be missed, IMO.

hatakekakashi081 wrote:no problem, just trying to promote a great show that shouldn't be missed, IMO.

Appreciated. :)

hatakekakashi081 wrote:Just announced! Or at least this is the first time I saw it on the kiku tv website. But apparently, there's a new series finally, called suekko chonan ane sannin and it starts October 24th at 8-9pm. Looks like kiku is finally starting to deliver the goods with their in-house translation team! Does anyone know anything about the series btw?

It's a family drama of sorts....basically, a woman marries a younger man and moves into his family house. He's the oldest son, but has 3 older sisters, who for various reasons, decide to move back home as well, making their newlywed life....interesting. A lot of the story involves trying to get the sisters to leave. Toss in an eccentric mother and the fact that nobody knows that the bride is older than the husband and that's pretty much the set-up...

ahochaude wrote:I don't watch Shinsengumi at all. :beaten:

Same here, Aho. But we've gone through this on the Shinsengumi and Musashi threads...

Not interesting at all IMO. I guess I'm kinda particular on the actors and whatnot. It's too slapstick IMO and I don't think that a group such as Shinsengumi should be portrayed in such a way. Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's a drama and all, but still. Do it like it's meant to be. :)

Agreed. Too much jpop-ish boy power to take seriously. Hmm, time to revisit my Musashi discs again...:D

zchendevlemh wrote:

Yada Akiko :woot: :hehe:

Yada Akiko as a two-faced ex-punk? Now I want to see that!

UWFShooter wrote:Yada Akiko as a two-faced ex-punk? Now I want to see that!

HAHAHA, I just want to see Akiko Yada period :hehe: :hehe:

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Takashi looks a bit like Dohmoto Tsuyoshi :hehe: