Kuitan 2 Ep. 8. Still oishii!

Anime Dad wrote:

Kuitan 2 Ep. 8. Still oishii!

Itadakimasu!

Shinsengumi episode 17. Still enjoying it!
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Brother Beat 9 and 10. Will finish up the final episode soon, I hope.
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Watching Innocent Love with subtitles. Sheesh, the lead actor needed to take some lessons first.
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Daisuki! epi 8. Karina is great, but

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It was just a little to coincidental how Katsume's Dad met Yuzu, and the old "terminal illness" cliche is starting to rear it's ugly head

I just finished The Way We Live

http://jdorama.com/drama.804.htm

It's simply a TV remake of the 1979 Dustin Hoffman film, Kramer Vs. Kramer

That said, it was done pretty well.

In the world of, It's good to be a pop star, the women in Kusanagi Tsuyoshi's life are Koyuki. Ryo! And the magicaly delicious Yamaguchi Sayaka.
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marspeach wrote:

Watching Innocent Love with subtitles. Sheesh, the lead actor needed to take some lessons first.

Seconded. He tries too hard.

marspeach wrote:

Watching Innocent Love with subtitles. Sheesh, the lead actor needed to take some lessons first.

LOL.

Gotta be a JE boy, eh?

Kuitan 2 Ep. 9 & 10. Yep, the 2 lead guys are Johnnys too, but they do the comedy thing on their ear

bmwracer wrote:

LOL. Gotta be a JE boy, eh?

Nope, but he's mainly a singer and has no big acting experience.
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marspeach wrote:

Nope, but he's mainly a singer and has no big acting experience.

I was close.

marspeach wrote:

bmwracer wrote: LOL. rofl Gotta be a JE boy, eh? Nope, but he's mainly a singer and has no big acting experience.

STRIKE TWO!
just one more

Kuitan 2 Ep.11 - finished!

It was a case of more of the same from the Kuitan and the rest of the gang from Holmes Agency - which is a good thing. I actually enjoyed this even more than the first series. 9/10

Anime Dad wrote:

It was a case of more of the same from the Kuitan and the rest of the gang from Holmes Agency - which is a good thing. I actually enjoyed this even more than the first series. 9/10

I agree AD, I liked the second helping better than the first.

Anime Dad wrote:

Kuitan 2 Ep. 9 & 10. Yep, the 2 lead guys are Johnnys too, but they do the comedy thing on their ear

The exceptions and not the rule.

Also, have either of them done anything of note before or since?

I wonder if this is what Genma had in mind when he started adding YouTube videos. There's a video from Ring:Saishusho http://www.jdorama.com/drama.335.htm on the homepage, and just for the hell of it, I watched it. Just finished epi 1 and it looks pretty good. Yanagiba's at his jaw sucking best and a horror drama with Hitomi Kuroki AND Kyono Kotomi, how can I NOT watch it?!!? Thanks to whoever posted that video!!

bmwracer wrote:

The exceptions and not the rule. Also, have either of them done anything of note before or since?

Nothing i've seen, although they both have a reasonable list of credits.

I think it was a case of perfect casting for those 2 in that series. Something you can't always say about jdramas

I've just finished the first series of Jikou Keisatsu, and very good it was too. Hilarious in places, and it doesn't resort to either rampant overacting or stupid slapstick for laughs. The leads, Odagiri Joe and Aso Kumiko are both great, and have a real chemistry together. It must have been really difficult to sub, given the amount of puns and word play.

I'm also up to episode 7 of Haikei, Chichiue-sama. Ninomiya Kazunari is that rarest of beasts, a Johnny who can act, and he is excellent as the lead. Equally as good are Takashima Reiko who plays his mother, and Yachigusa Kaoru.

Cerebus wrote:

I'm also up to episode 7 of Haikei, Chichiue-sama. Ninomiya Kazunari is that rarest of beasts, a Johnny who can act

He was a co-star of Watanabe Ken in Letters From Iwo Jima, I believe.

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Yachigusa Kaoru.

She played Otsu opposite Mifune Toshiro's Musashi in 1955's Miyamoto Musashi trilogy.