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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:
ilovedrama wrote:
If you like Kisarazu & IWGP then you should definately see Tiger & Dragon. Definately one of his more polish ones and my favorite out of the 3 mentioned imho. Although currently there are only 6 soft-subbed episodes. Expect to see the same casts in Tiger Dragon as in Kankuro's previous works. I put this off for a while until recently and then kicked myself for not watching it.
Just finished Good Mourning, a 1994 dorama starring Atsuko Asano. This drama/comedy series centers around a family-run funeral business, hence the pun in the title. Some topics are treated in a serious vein--financial debt, cutthroat competition, parenthood; other topics are dealt with in a hilarious way--how to correctly put on a fundoshi (loincloth), the intimidation factor of putting on a funeral for a yakuza oyabun. Atsuko is excellent in her role as a university scientific researcher who marries into this wacky, tumultuous, funeral-business family, and the large supporting cast is equally good. Asano's father-in-law, btw, is played by Seijun Suzuki, the legendary director. The screenplay is by Yumie Nishiogi, who also wrote Sweet Home and Double Kitchen, two other excellent series from the 90's. Good Mourning is yet another example which reaffirms my opinion that dorama from the 90's in general were much better written and acted than the dorama in recent years.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:
If you have watched "Swing Girls" and enjoyed it, maybe you would like to get behind the scene a bit. Here is a link to the "Making of... Swing Girls":
wow, you're really moving thru those food doramas by any chance u watching ohsama no resutoran after that?
Yeah, for some reason I just wanna watch dramas that is related to food, even animes (currently watching Cooking Master Boy) . And by watching these dramas, my appetite has increased and have been eating alot recently . Haven't thought of watching Ohsama no Resutoran because I didn't even know it . But since you mentioned it, I guess I'll add that to the list and watch it after Food Fight while waiting for Lunch no Juoo's subs to be completed . _________________
If you have watched "Swing Girls" and enjoyed it, maybe you would like to get behind the scene a bit. Here is a link to the "Making of... Swing Girls":
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:
a-nesuto wrote:
ya i was disappointed too
Dragonzakura #9
yea.....i don't think i'll dl the serie anymore. Gots Attention Please and Top Caster to watch. Also got N's Aoi to finish off. I think i'm set on dramas for now.
Enjoy the rest of Dragonzakura. I liked that drama a lot _________________
yea.....i don't think i'll dl the serie anymore. Gots Attention Please and Top Caster to watch. Also got N's Aoi to finish off. I think i'm set on dramas for now.
Enjoy the rest of Dragonzakura. I liked that drama a lot
just finished watching KKKK2003, it was good, but kinda dark...
a lot of new j-dramas, i got a handful i am working on..
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:
qilver wrote:
just finished watching KKKK2003, it was good, but kinda dark...
a lot of new j-dramas, i got a handful i am working on..
haha. You got enough drama to watch.....like say if you started watchings all day from now till summer, you probably still got more to watch _________________
i was watching Summersnow episode 1 & 2...they're both good...
waa....shun is good...he plays a deaf kid...soo sad...
i only have summersnow 1 & 2...
anyone have episode 3?
Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 5016 Location: Hong Kong Country:
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:
I've been hearing so much about "1 Litre no Namida" so I decided to get cracking on it. After the first 3 episodes I found myself quite drawn to this dorama. My first 'encounter' with Sawajiri Erika was her role as Hotarubi in "Shinobi" - not a very memorable character. In "1 Litre" she really shines though.
To tell the truth I was particularly looking forward to the end of each episode when pictures of Kito Aya flash on the screen.
A very touching story that manages to gets to a hard-boiled cynic, such as myself.
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:20 am Post subject:
saru92 wrote:
i was watching Summersnow episode 1 & 2...they're both good...
waa....shun is good...he plays a deaf kid...soo sad...
i only have summersnow 1 & 2...
anyone have episode 3?
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 3125 Location: S.F. Bay Area Country:
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:19 am Post subject: Tokyo Friends
I�fve been watching �hTokyo Friends�h. A 5 episode, straight to video Dorama. (This is the first I�fve ever heard of a Dorama going straight to video but after seeing 4 of the 5 shows, the reason seems to be the same as the straight to video movies you see in video shops. You know; we made it, we paid for it, it�fs not very good and we�fd like to at least try to make some of our money back.)
The main character in the series is a short girl named Rei. In the first ten minutes of episode one, Rei leaves her small town, goes to Tokyo, finds a job in a hip, wacky restaurant, finds a nice little apartment, finds a group of wonderful friends, and discovers that she�fs a singer, so she joins a band and is a smashing success, and oh, she finds the love of her life. (Yup, the first 10 minutes.)
In fact, the only piece of hard luck Rei seems to experience is that a young girl with no experience as an actress, and absolutely no discernable talent, was chosen to play her.
As an actress, Otsuka Ai is a pop singer. And if she was playing a small supporting role in this thing she might have been able to pull it off. If she was doing a cameo appearance as herself�c she may have been able to pull it off.
But as the lead in the show�c she sinks the series.
Okay, so why watch the whole series? Partly because I downloaded it as a batch and I�fm too stingy to dump it after all the time it took to download it. And partly because I�fm always looking for the pony under the pile.
And there is a pony in this series. Her name is Maki Yoko. (Yoko Maki to Oof-Das like me.) And she plays Ryoko in the show.
Though she�fs not in the database here, and isn�ft even mentioned as a cast member in the show (?????!!!!!) she is, for my money, the reason to watch the series.
She doesn�ft seem to have done much TV, but unlike the pop princess who was given the lead, Maki has talent, and she�fs been paying her dues. She�fs been in �gPrincess Blade�h �gBattle Royale II�h �gKamikaze Girls�h �gInfection�h �gThe Grudge�h �gTime Machine Blues�h �gVeronika Decides to Die�h and �gAme no Machi�h. The parts keep getting bigger, and she keeps getting better.
For me, getting to find out about Maki makes downloading and watching the show worth it. I�fll be watching for her name connected with any project from now on.
�gTokyo Friends�h as a series? I�fve had no regrets as I simply deleted each file when I�fd finished watching it. It really is a dreadful series. _________________
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. Moving on to Food Fight 
by any chance u watching ohsama no resutoran after that? 
. But since you mentioned it, I guess I'll add that to the list and watch it after Food Fight while waiting for Lunch no Juoo's subs to be completed 
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