runpup wrote:

It's a goldmine for Ryoko fans, but also for those who love Kobayashi Satomi...They share the female lead...it's almost like watching an acting competition... This is an vastly unappreciated drama...It is superb! * 41st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama * 41st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress - Shinohara Ryoko * 41st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor - Saito Ryusei * 41st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress - Kobayashi Satomi

Downloading the torrent now... I started it at about 10PM last night, and it looked like it would never finish, running at 3kb/s... but this morning it was over 1/3 done

Just got done watching pretty girls!
I liked it alot! Ryoko Yonekura looked stunning as always!

I'm now about to finish muri na renai! <3

Taira-Panku wrote:

Just got done watching pretty girls! I liked it alot! Ryoko Yonekura looked stunning as always!

She does.

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I'm now about to finish muri na renai! <3

On Topic: Top Sales, Episode 5.

Anime Dad wrote:

Downloading the torrent now... I started it at about 10PM last night, and it looked like it would never finish, running at 3kb/s... but this morning it was over 1/3 done

I checked the tracker at d-addicts a few hours ago and couldn't see my IP address listed in the peers. I just checked it again and it's there, 65% complete, with an average download speed of over 450kb/s!

Taira-Panku wrote:

Just got done watching pretty girls! I liked it alot! Ryoko Yonekura looked stunning as always!

Maybe I need to check out Pretty Girls. i always enjoy Ryoko.

Just watched ep 3-5 of Golden Bowl. Like it better every time I see it!

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Eve wrote:

Maybe I need to check out Pretty Girls. i always enjoy Ryoko.

I'm rather stunned that you haven't seen it, Evie.

Pretty Girls... Katase Nana in red leather pants. Yeah, that was a good series.

My shows this week...

I started Zeni Geba as my comfy chair show because it was written by Okada Yoshikazu. The guy who gave us:

Churasan
Beach Boys
Antique
Yume California
Koibume
Home Drama
Ai no Uta
Muri na Renai
among others.

So far... well... I guess nobody hits it out of the park every time at bat. I'm two episodes in and I'm sitting here wondering if I wouldn't rather just watch the news and go to bed.

On the other hand, my lunchtime show is Uta no Onii-San, a silly little drama about a singer in a rock band who ends up as the third banana on a children's TV show, playing everything from a dog, to an acorn.

And I love it. (So much for my discerning tastes.)

Kimura Yoshino is fabulous in this show playing the producer.

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She opens episode 4 teaching a class on how the performers are to behave in public, and I have to say... had she been one of my teachers I never would have missed a class. I probably wouldn't have learned anything... but I would have been there.

Oh, and Katase Nana is in here too... sadly, no red leather pants.
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taroqq wrote:

Kaneshiro has also been in a lot of Chinese movies lately (he's half Chinese and bilingual) and his latest is John Woo's Magnum Opus Red Cliff I & II. There'd been rumors of a 2.5 hr cut for the western audiences (trimmed down from 5 hrs) that will be shown in the European markets first (they've yet to find a distributor in the US). DVDs and Blu-rays are already available (part II this Friday) on yesasia and dddhouse.com. He's also in Wong Kar-wei's Chungking Express (one of his earlier movies); just re-watched it on Criterion's Blu-ray this weekend and I still consider it as one of my all time favorites.

You`re right, it`s the European release of Red Cliff I was talking about and yeah it`s unfortunaley not a rumour, the movies were cut into one 2.5h movie.
The reviews weren`t that good - thy made it sound like a total guys movie a la Rambo but I will be going anyway.

@G-Mark-san - I think I have downloaded Sweet Rain - looking 4ward to watch it
@Evie wow I watched episode 5 of Golden Bowl yesterday as well and I am still loving this show. This must be the 5th time

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I'm rather stunned that you haven't seen it, Evie.

Feeling that way myself

EstherM wrote:

@Evie wow I watched episode 5 of Golden Bowl yesterday as well and I am still loving this show. This must be the 5th time

Think this is only the 4th time for me
On ep 6 now! YES!

@Geezer- Im thinking the show youre watching about the musician turned 3rd rate actor sounds good. I like things light though!
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Finished Aoi Tori it was o.k., but I've never been a big fan of the "star-crossed lovers/tragic romance" genre. Give me Macbeth or Hamlet over Romeo and Juliet anyday. Time for something pointless and mindless.

gaijinmark wrote:

Time for something pointless and mindless.

That shouldn't be too difficult, given the state of most J-Dramas recently.

bmwracer wrote:

That shouldn't be too difficult, given the state of most J-Dramas recently.

Sad but true, I would kill for another drama like Kekkon Dekinai Otoko or Nodame Cantabile.
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Time for something pointless and mindless.

addendum: AND GOOD

addendum part II: is that too much too ask?

Grungir wrote:

Sad but true, I would kill for another drama like Kekkon Dekinai Otoko or Nodame Cantabile.

Something like Nodame sounds good.

Think I might have to watch the Special.

Watching ep 8 of Golden Bowl.
Strike-o!
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Eve wrote:

Something like Nodame sounds good. Think I might have to watch the Special. Watching ep 8 of Golden Bowl. Strike-o!

Yea, Yukan Club isnt quite cutting it for me right now. lol
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Yea, Yukan Club isnt quite cutting it for me right now. lol

I watched Yukan Club but it was a bit ridiculous perhaps?

Im almost done with Golden Bowl again.
About to start on ep 10.

Feeling a bit disappointed that there are only 11 not 12 eps as I thought.
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Currently watching Mei-chan no shitsuji episode 5th,

en Anna san no omame episode 4th, it surely makes me laugh out loud seeing riri with her huge misunderstanding towards all the men that is around her

Okay, so I've started watching dramas again after the trip. Picked up on Atsu-hime... now epi 30. I keep falling asleep! The last attempt I fell asleep within the first five minutes of turning it on.

I'm guessing it's the fact that I hadn't caught up with the sleep yet. I have now tho. I'll try it again tonight.
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Okay, so I've started watching dramas again after the trip. Picked up on Atsu-hime... now epi 30. I keep falling asleep! The last attempt I fell asleep within the first five minutes of turning it on.

LOL.

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I'm guessing it's the fact that I hadn't caught up with the sleep yet. I have now tho. I'll try it again tonight.

Stop making excuses for the drama.

Eve wrote:

Im almost done with Golden Bowl again. About to start on ep 10. Feeling a bit disappointed that there are only 11 not 12 eps as I thought.

I finished it last night I realised although the subs I have are good, they derive too much from the Japanese original for my taste.

I will try to buy the original DVDs when in Japan.