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* Title (Romaji): Ryokiteki na Kanojo
* Title (English): My Sassy Girl
* Genre: Romantic comedy
* Format: Renzoku
* Broadcast network: TBS
* Broadcast period: 2008-Apr to 2008-June-
* Air time: Sunday 21:00


Synopsis

Based on the hit South Korean movie, My Sassy Girl, the character backgrounds and plot details will be changed for the drama. While the protagonists in the original film were college students, this time the pair will be a marine biology professor, Masaki Mitsuo, and Takami Rinko, an aspiring writer. --Tokyograph

Cast

* Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Masaki Mitsuo
* Tanaka Rena as Takami Rinko
* Matsushita Nao
* Suzuki Emi
* Yamada Shintaro
* Oishi Mitsuki
* Ichige Yoshie
* Matsushima Nahomi
* Tanihara Shosuke
* Kamikawa Takaya
* Lee Wan


Production Credits

* Original writing: Kwak Jae-young, My Sassy Girl (movie)
* Screenwriter: Sakamoto Yuji
* Producer: Iyoda Hidenori (���o�c�p��)
* Director: Doi Nobuhiro

official website : http://www.tbs.co.jp/ryokiteki/

source: drama wiki
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related article

Kusanagi, Tanaka to star in drama version of "My Sassy Girl"
Thu, December 13, 2007 (3:32pm EST)

TBS has announced a drama adaptation of the hit 2001 Korean movie "My Sassy Girl," which is known as "Ryokiteki na Kanojo" in Japan. The series will star SMAP's Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and actress Lena Tanaka.

The romantic comedy, which originally starred Cha Tae-hyun and Jun Ji-hyun, was highly successful in Korea, and its popularity quickly spread throughout the rest of Asia. Immediately following its release in Japan in 2003, multiple television networks reportedly began fighting over drama adaptation rights. However, it wasn't until Kusanagi was attached to the project that a deal was made this past spring.

The character backgrounds and plot details will be changed for the drama. While the protagonists in the original film were college students, this time the pair will be a marine biology professor (Kusanagi) and an aspiring writer (Tanaka).

Nao Matsushita, Emi Suzuki, Yoshie Ichige, Nahomi Matsushima, Shosuke Tanihara, and Takaya Kamikawa have also been announced as cast members.

Hidenori Iyoda is producing, and Yuji Sakamoto is handling the script. Filming already started earlier this month, with the series scheduled to premiere in April.

source: tokyograph
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Ah! I have not watch the Korean's one before. But this seems good! Looking forward!

Thanks for starting the thread!
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I liked the movie, great story. Looking forward to this. Quite a few drama to look forward to next season. ^^

Thanks for starting the thread.

Can't wait to watch this one!
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i like the movie.......it's funny
definetly going to watch this.......

I just watched the move last night so I've definitely gotta see how much Kusanagi can get beat up

Hmm, I saw the original Korean movie years ago and liked it well enough, but I had no idea that a J-drama was in the works for it!

I just really hope that the drama does a better job of portraying how crazy the female lead is than the American movie version.

From Tokyograph:

Kome Kome Club sings for "My Sassy Girl" drama
Tue, April 8, 2008 (3:13am EDT)

Pop group Kome Kome Club is doing the theme song for the TBS drama "Ryokiteki na Kanojo," which is based on the Korean comedy movie "My Sassy Girl." The song, a ballad titled "Tsuyogari," is the group's first theme for a drama series since their 1995 release "Subete wa Honto de Uso kamo ne."

The show, which stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Lena Tanaka, begins on April 20. The single's release date has not yet been announced.

i thought maybe SMAP will do the cover..

The official website has some new pics

http://www.tbs.co.jp/ryokiteki/special/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAsc4Tguj9g
Mostly NG

Thanks to Pak for finding and sharing this on this Tanaka Lena Forum
http://www.miumu.com/boards/index.php?mforum=tanakarena&act=idx

Has anybody watched the first episode? How was it?
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WD wrote:

Has anybody watched the first episode? How was it?

It had it's cute moments. There was some scenes that followd the movie. While watching, it made me crave for some Soy Joy It was entertaining enough to make me want to watch 2nd Ep.

That's good to hear. Thanks Takoyama. :-)

The rating for the first episode is 13.5, not high but not low either.
Gokusen 3 first episode rating was 26.4. That's just crazy. I guess a lot of Japanese still want to see GTO type of drama? They should have made another series of GTO actually.

The first episode was pretty good. The rhythm and flow was a little bit awkward at the beginning, and it was trying too hard to be funny in a few scenes, but overall it was fun. The poignant scenes were well acted, and Tanaka Rena was good when she was being abusive too. Looking forward to next week's episode. ^^

yeah.. i too find the flow was abit weird... but it was not too bad.
will continue watching...
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xploring wrote:

The rating for the first episode is 13.5, not high but not low either. Gokusen 3 first episode rating was 26.4. That's just crazy. I guess a lot of Japanese still want to see GTO type of drama? They should have made another series of GTO actually.

it's not actually about the drama the reason why the rating was so high is b'coz of the boys a lot of them has many fans across japan, the same thing happened also in Gokusen 2 actually majority of the audience are girls (fangirls) of kat-tun at that time, but this time i guess it's hey say7 or most of the boys are product of Johnny's Entertaiment. co'z if you're gonna observe story wise it's too cliche nothing different from before, so i think it's not b'coz of the drama.
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by: jecca_o9

I had completely forgotten about this drama until I checked the drama thread over at Soompi just a while ago. Just started the download so I probably won't be able to watch it until tomorrow. I really enjoyed the movie, so I'm eager to see how this version turns out.

xploring wrote:

The first episode was pretty good. The rhythm and flow was a little bit awkward at the beginning, and it was trying too hard to be funny in a few scenes, but overall it was fun. The poignant scenes were well acted, and Tanaka Rena was good when she was being abusive too. Looking forward to next week's episode. ^^

I just got watching the first episode, without subs, but I agree that there were parts where it looked like they were trying too hard to be funny. Nice to see some of the familiar scenes here and from what I've seen it looks like Tanaka Rena acts with the right mix of seriousness and sheer wackiness to be that sassy girl Now I just need subtitles...

I think I see a piano in the corner...

hee, I didn't notice the piano before. Significance being?

Rena is so cute in the first screencap
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Source: http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?11080330553459
Thanks to coolmonkey06

Source: http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?11080419171565

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More screencaps here: (possible spoiler of course)

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/goodboy_philip/article?mid=25492