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WAH! thanks for flooding me with so much surprises! Almost got a heart attack when i saw tsutsumi sama got another dorama!! And he is the BOSS!!! Tsutsumi do it best when he is the superior! *thinks koi and GL* I'm really looking forward to it.
For FDF, i think i can't wait already! I hope it'll come to sg~ ano... FDF got official site?
Anyway... the ubume webby looks scary sia... _________________
WAH! thanks for flooding me with so much surprises! Almost got a heart attack when i saw tsutsumi sama got another dorama!! And he is the BOSS!!! Tsutsumi do it best when he is the superior! *thinks koi and GL* I'm really looking forward to it.
For FDF, i think i can't wait already! I hope it'll come to sg~ ano... FDF got official site?
Anyway... the ubume webby looks scary sia...
noleh... FDF official site is nowhere in sight yet
Saw HMV selling One Missed call today but errrrr no i m not going to buy it .... *shiver*
Hills ni Koi shite (temporary title)
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Tsutsumi Shinichi
- Kusanagi play a man who lost his factory and family. This made him a money minded person. He then decided to work in IT company in Roppongi Hills. Tsutsumi will be his boss.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/feb/o20050206_20.htm
Matsushita Nao (�����ޏ�) has been named to play the part of the secretary and girlfriend of Tsutsumi's character. The love triangle between Tsutsumi, Matsushita and Kusanagi will also play a major part in the dorama
The Title will be changed to~
Koi ni Ochitara ~ Boku no Seikou no Himitsu
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A submarine movie that has no trouble staying afloat
By MARK SCHILLING
Lorelei
Rating: * * * 1/2 (out of 5)
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Running time: 128 minutes
Language: Japanese
Opens March 5
Submarine movies have less room to maneuver than other war films. Instead of ranging about the Philippine jungles or post-D-Day Europe, the characters spend most of their time cooped up in a steel tube, following much the same genre rules as their predecessors in "Das Boot," "The Hunt for Red October" and "U-571."
First there is the mission, which inevitably involves dodging depth charges, stanching leaks and dealing with the freak-outs of the weaker-minded. Second, there is the captain, that ultimate grown-up, who may furrow his brow when the sub is being shaken like a tin of hard candy by a bored child, but never freaks out himself, even when the water is lapping his chin. Third, there is the comic relief, usually a colorful old salt who is utterly loyal to the captain and missing a screw or two from his torpedo.
Shinji Higuchi's "Lorelei" has all these elements and more, but is nonetheless a genre stand-out -- and the first Japanese submarine picture in nearly five decades.
It is not for lack of stories: The Japanese built the most diverse submarine fleet in World War II, ranging from kaiten minisubs for suicide missions to long-range subs that were then the largest in the world. They went on sorties from the Indian Ocean to the U.S. West Coast and engaged the enemy hundreds of times. But of the 174 ocean-going submarines that fought in the war, 128 did not survive it. In other words, not many happy endings for local audiences.
The makers of "Lorelei," beginning with Harutoshi Fukui, who wrote the best-selling novel on which the film is based, finesse inconvenient historical facts by an up-front resort to "what if" fantasy. The starring sub, the I-507, is a gift of the dying Nazi empire to the Japanese Navy in the closing days of the war. This sleek behemoth is equipped with imaging technology that is far in advance of the era's primitive sonar -- and is pure manga-esque invention.
The mission, as revealed by grim-visaged Chief of Staff Asakura (Shinichi Tsutsumi) after the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima, is to intercept U.S. ships carrying more such weapons to Tinian Island, the base for B-29 bombing runs to Japan. This, of course, is complete fiction, as is the man charged with the mission, Commander Masami (Yakusho Koji) -- a brilliant destroyer of enemy ships relieved of his command when he opposed the navy's increasing reliance on suicide tactics. Given a last chance to redeem himself, he is burning with zeal, but is ignorant of the various secrets the I-507 carries on board.
Once at sea, Lt. Takasu (Ken Ishiguro), the owlish technician in charge of the imaging system, refuses to tell Masami what it is or how it works. Masami also discovers that two crew members belong to the "kaiten" suicide corps. He has no idea why they are there -- and neither, for the moment, do they.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy is tracking the I-507 with more than usual interest. What, Masami wonders, is going on here? Enough to say that a sweet-voiced teenage girl (Yu Kashi) is part of the master plan and that one of the minisub pilots (Satoshi Tsumabuki) becomes her protector -- and something more.
The script by Satoshi Suzuki ("Spellbound") is loaded with the sort of high-flown sentiments and on-the-nose pronouncements ("I hate this war," "We must save Tokyo!") that would usually sink a film of this type, whose very premise verges on the incredible.
Koji Yakusho rescues it, however, with a low-key, stripped-down performance that redeems even the clunkiest of lines. His Masami is not a patriotic poster boy, but a man sick of war, resigned to his certain defeat. He does the stern sub-commander act to perfection, but has human affections, human flaws. And, best of all, he never flares his nostrils or flexes his jaw.
Following Yakusho's lead, the supporting players, including Toshiro Yanagiba as the sub's second-in-command, look like a crew who have been through hell together, not actors indulging in macho theatrics. (One reason may have been the grueling shoot on a full-scale sub mock-up that looks all-too-realistically cramped and stifling.) Even the American sailors are reasonably life-like -- not the usual gaijin caricatures.
Credit is due to director Higuchi, an effects specialist who helmed three Gamera installments and the 2001 Godzilla film. He and his team may not have had a Hollywood budget, but their various CG-generated vessels, both above and below the water, have a solid, if grainy, presence. The I-507, especially, is a swift, dark, muscular thing of beauty. Also, the depth-charge explosions, with camera shakes by cinematographer Akira Sato and booms by Skywalker Sound, are satisfyingly stomach-churning and teeth-rattling.
"Lorelei" is no "Das Boot" -- that unsparing, unfaked document of submarine war. Despite its strainings after gravitas, it is, first and foremost, a thrill ride. Find a theater with a decent sound system, sit in the middle -- and take the plunge.
The Japan Times: March 2, 2005
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Tsutsumi will play the part of Takayanagi Toru (�����O)(yes.. Toru ... again ). He is the president of a IT firm, an aggressive and person of high pride. He thinks that money is able to solve any problem.
Tsuyoshi requested Tsutsumi to employ him after Tsuyoshi lost his family business. Kimura Yoshino will be Tsuyoshi's sister.
The other employees in the IT firm are-
Matsushita Nao as Shirakawa Kaori, Tsutsumi's secretary. Tsuyoshi likes her.
Wakui Emi as Kirino Nanami. She's a department head? (����) who recognises Tsuyoshi's ability.
Takizawa Saori as Fujii Yumi who is Tsutsumi's girlfriend cum secretary.
Tanihara Shosuke as Tsutsumi's right hand man.
On the other hand, Yamamato Koji will be Tsuyoshi's childhood friend who manages a fish shop.
Read from some Japanese website tat Tsutsumi's secretaries r both 174cm.. wow .. with high heels they'd probably be towering over him
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject:
nikyy wrote:
Tsutsumi will play the part of Takayanagi Toru (�����O)(yes.. Toru ... again ). He is the president of a IT firm, an aggressive and person of high pride. He thinks that money is able to solve any problem.
Tsuyoshi requested Tsutsumi to employ him after Tsuyoshi lost his family business. Kimura Yoshino will be Tsuyoshi's sister.
The other employees in the IT firm are-
Matsushita Nao as Shirakawa Kaori, Tsutsumi's secretary. Tsuyoshi likes her.
Wakui Emi as Kirino Nanami. She's a department head? (����) who recognises Tsuyoshi's ability.
Takizawa Saori as Fujii Yumi who is Tsutsumi's girlfriend cum secretary.
Tanihara Shosuke as Tsutsumi's right hand man.
On the other hand, Yamamato Koji will be Tsuyoshi's childhood friend who manages a fish shop.
Read from some Japanese website tat Tsutsumi's secretaries r both 174cm.. wow .. with high heels they'd probably be towering over him
NIKYY NIKYY~~!! U made it sounds so exciting!!! But wat coincidence ne.... TORU & Tsuyoshi childhoodfren manages a FISH SHOP *osuke flashes past*
174... OMG... i hope they were ordered to wear FLATS so Tsutsumi will seem taller... _________________
Suzuki's (Tsuyoshi) father passed away and left behind a factory. He stayed with his mother & sister who's working as an OL. Even though Suzuki and his family are not rich, he is happy with his life.
One day, he won a trip to Hawaii. In Hawaii, he met Takayanagi (Tsutsumi) and Kaori (Matsushita). Suzuki was attracted to Kaori.
When he came back to Japan, due to the fault of an employee in the factory, the factory went bankrupt. His mother was shocked and had a heart attack. Suzuki was advised by the doctor that she needs a heart transplant. But Suzuki doesn't have enough money to pay for the medical fees... Suzuki, seeing himself in such situation, remembered Takayanagi once told him "if you feel troubled, you are always welcome to see me.."
The next day, Suzuki stood in front of the building where Takayanagi's firm "Frontier" is and made a decision...
Not sure if I have translated correctly... feel free to make any corrections
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"After you have gotten everything you want, what will you do?"
This was asked by Suzuki (Kusanagi) after Takayanagi (Tsutsumi) told him that "Everything in the world can be bought by money", in a suite room in a luxurious resort located in Hawaii.
This is a success story of how Suzuki, being a "student" of Takayanagi , aims for the top and strived. The theme of the drama is - "What is considered the real success and happiness in life? " - thus, the confrontation between Suzuki who believes that money not everything and Takayanagi who believes that money is everything.
Pls feel free to make any corrections
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thanks for flooding me with so much surprises! Almost got a heart attack when i saw tsutsumi sama got another dorama!! 
And he is the BOSS!!! 
I'm really looking forward to it.
ano... FDF got official site?
