harriet wrote:

..., and now I would like to find the one they did a few years ago on Musashi, as I just finished the almost 1,000 page novel about him by Eiji Yoshikawa and just watched the three movie trilogy starring Toshiro Mifume. .

Im not sure if the torrent is still active... I can seed it for you. Or, PM me and I could probably send you some DVDs. I have all the eps and havent even watched it yet
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Anime Dad wrote:

Totally unintelligible Engrish.

It's not even that good, from what I saw...

Grungir wrote:

I have all the eps and havent even watched it yet

You need to do it NOW.

been on a long run of korean and taiwanese dramas lately.....still awaiting something good in the form of jdramas but not too optimistic about that ....
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Saw a little bit of Rookies on digital 18.1 today....

Yet another re-dumb-dant plot about a bunch of misfit students, this time on a baseball team...

These types of dramas must be Japan's equivalent to America's reality TV infestation...

Shindou wrote:

been on a long run of korean and taiwanese dramas lately.....still awaiting something good in the form of jdramas but not too optimistic about that ....

So that's where youve been.

I love the Tiawanese dramas too.

Could you PM me if you can recommend any romantic comedies from there?
Please..
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Atsu Hime ep 33, Love Shuffle ep 7

Finished Psychometrer Eiji (thought it was great!) and I just finished the 6th episode of Home & Away.
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Eve wrote:

So that's where youve been. I love the Tiawanese dramas too. Could you PM me if you can recommend any romantic comedies from there? Please..

haha yes, should've popped in more often check your inbox
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Mei Chan no Shitsuji episode 7
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sadacori wrote:

Finished Psychometrer Eiji (thought it was great!)

I just finished this yesterday as well, but unlike you I wasn't very impressed. I was expecting to like it because silly mid-90s sci-fi and mystery doramas are usually a huge guilty pleasure of mine. But I ended up with too many issues with the characters and the cases that I was just plain not enjoying it by the end.

Also watched episode 8 of Konna Koi no Hanashi, which on the other hand I am enjoying.

Meant to start this one awhile back but kept getting sidetracked, finished epi 1 of Utahime looks like it should be pretty good.

Edit: Now up thru epi 2 of Utahime

gaijinmark

I really enjoyed Utahime. Have fun.

I just finished Kudo Kankuro's Manhattan Love Story

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Manhattan_Love_Story

Just a blast. Pure fun. A farce that moves at 100 miles per hour, complete with a terrific cast from top to bottom.
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gaijinmark wrote:

finished epi 1 of Utahime looks like it should be pretty good.

I like the first episode of Utahime. The rest looked a bit like a stretched out filmed stage play. Maybe because it was orginally written as a stage play.
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ionization wrote:

I just finished this yesterday as well, but unlike you I wasn't very impressed. I was expecting to like it because silly mid-90s sci-fi and mystery doramas are usually a huge guilty pleasure of mine. But I ended up with too many issues with the characters and the cases that I was just plain not enjoying it by the end.

I wasn't totally impressed by this drama, but I liked it a lot than I thought it would. The characters had a lot of flaws and if I didn't enjoy the cases, I'd probably give this drama a 7 or so (Right now I have it as a "9" but I gotta change my score to an 8/10 instead).

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Also watched episode 8 of Konna Koi no Hanashi, which on the other hand I am enjoying.

This was a great one.

On topic: Gonna watch the 8th episode of Home & Away today.
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Waldo T wrote:

I like the first episode of Utahime. The rest looked a bit like a stretched out filmed stage play. Maybe because it was orginally written as a stage play.

Interesting, I didn't realise it orginated from a stage play. I know what you mean about the style, often it was directed to look, and even sound like, a stage play which just happened to be filmed.

On topic:

I'm now up to the 7th episode of Ame to Yume no Ato ni. After the first 4 or so I was ready to dismiss it as another failed j-drama attempt at a sci-fi show, such as the mediocre Nanase Futatabi or the utterly terrible Long Love Letter, but I'm glad I kept watching. The 5th and 6th episodes where great, and the 7th even better, the supernatural element really worked and it was suitably creepy. On the whole it's at it's best when it concentrates on the relationship between the father and his daughter.


I'm also watching Ikebukuro West Gate Park, again I almost gave up on this as after the first episode I don't think I liked any of the characters. But it grew on me, and now I'm loving it. It's rather dark and it can turn from comedy to bloody violence in a blink of an eye and it deals with subjects of a more adult nature than most other j-dramas. I've only just realised that Nagase Tomoya and Sato Ryuta were both in Utahime, I didn't recognise either of them.

Cerebus wrote:

I'm also watching Ikebukuro West Gate Park, again I almost gave up on this as after the first episode I don't think I liked any of the characters. But it grew on me, and now I'm loving it. It's rather dark and it can turn from comedy to bloody violence in a blink of an eye and it deals with subjects of a more adult nature than most other j-dramas. I've only just realised that Nagase Tomoya and Sato Ryuta were both in Utahime, I didn't recognise either of them.

I agree on all accounts. I felt the same way at the beginning, and then eventually really fell for it. I aboslutely LUFF "the king". Prolly one of the best characters I've seen in a drama.

Still on Atsu-hime epi 14. I keep falling asleep! Not because it's boring, but because I have the habit of watching late at night, when I should be sleeping.
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Ep 2 of Atsu hime.

THe certainly is a different feel to it than the previous Taigas Ive seen. But the costumes and locations are quite nice. I havent seen enough for a critque.

Fitting in a silly ep of the Tiawanese drama Romantic Princess for contrast.
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Cerebus wrote:

I've only just realised that Nagase Tomoya and Sato Ryuta were both in Utahime, I didn't recognise either of them.

That's the only part thats got me a little worried, the casting of Sato as a yakuza. He usually plays happy-go-lucky types. I don't know if he can pull this off or not.

Wynter wrote:

Still on Atsu-hime epi 14. I keep falling asleep! Not because it's boring, but because I have the habit of watching late at night, when I should be sleeping.

Yeah right.