Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 822 Location: England Country:
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:39 am Post subject:
@ Keps - I've been tempted to get Kuitan many times it does look good, so you recommend it? XDDDD
@ The Lyrics - I am sooooo jealous, my copy was supposed to arrive today by fed-ex but it hasn't wah! T_T tomorrow hopefully I'm desperate to watch that show now >_< _________________
Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 822 Location: England Country:
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:01 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
I recommend it, too: if you like food, comedies, and silliness/goofiness, you'll like Kuitan.
Sounds good! I'm into comedies right now, ok YOSH! *Strikes a pose* so I have my next dorama... I'm so going broke!!! In a good way XDDDD
I need the fed-ex man right now I'm in need of my new dorama... so tempted to go off and watch Attention Please right now (I'm on my sescond run through, and I've owned the show less than a week...sounds like someone has a great social life, ne?)
*Shadily heads over to eBay and YesAsia* _________________
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 3125 Location: S.F. Bay Area Country:
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:
I've been on a run of terrific dramas lately, and I didn't want it to end, so I've gone old school again and started a drama from the mid '90's titled, "The Time of Your Life"
This is one of the too few dramas that Shimizu Misa did. But boy did she ever have a great run in movies during the late 90's. Everything she touched turned to gold.
Anyway, this is the 4th of her dramas that I've seen, and she's amazing.
The gimmick of the series is that a group of former classmates return to their grammar school to dig up the time capsule they'd buried 15 years before. The school was being torn down so they had to go get their stuff long before they'd planned.
Many of the former students didn't show up to get their stuff, so that gives the series lead Takashima Masanobu an excuse to go around finding each of his old classmates to give them back their item. It also gives him a chance to see what's become of these people. So they get a different story every week.
Two episodes in and I'm in hog heaven. (These stories are not fluff.)
By the way... one of the classmates is a very very very young actress named Matsushima Nanako. How young? Put it this way... after seeing all of "Toshie and Matsu", and GTO, and at least 5 other series in which she starred... I still had to check the data base to make sure it was really Nanako. _________________
I've been on a run of terrific dramas lately, and I didn't want it to end, so I've gone old school again and started a drama from the mid '90's titled, "The Time of Your Life"
This is one of the too few dramas that Shimizu Misa did. But boy did she ever have a great run in movies during the late 90's. Everything she touched turned to gold.
Anyway, this is the 4th of her dramas that I've seen, and she's amazing.
The gimmick of the series is that a group of former classmates return to their grammar school to dig up the time capsule they'd buried 15 years before. The school was being torn down so they had to go get their stuff long before they'd planned.
Many of the former students didn't show up to get their stuff, so that gives the series lead Takashima Masanobu an excuse to go around finding each of his old classmates to give them back their item. It also gives him a chance to see what's become of these people. So they get a different story every week.
Two episodes in and I'm in hog heaven. (These stories are not fluff.)
By the way... one of the classmates is a very very very young actress named Matsushima Nanako. How young? Put it this way... after seeing all of "Toshie and Matsu", and GTO, and at least 5 other series in which she starred... I still had to check the data base to make sure it was really Nanako.
I think you've just inspired me to go back into the 90s and watch some dramas from that decade. I've heard that dramas have faultered recently in terms of quality, and that they were way better "back in the day". I think I'll check a few out! Thanks.
Currently, however, since I've finished Mat Fam, I'm now watching My Boss My Hero. Only completed epi 1, but i can already tell this drama will have me rolling on the floor laughing. _________________
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 3125 Location: S.F. Bay Area Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:25 am Post subject:
Wynter
Everything from "back in the day" is always better. Didn't you know that?
Truth to tell though... I do love getting to see the shows from the 90s. There seemed to be more solid shows, the writing was better, and the shows featured more actors than pop stars.
Of course, part of that is probably just a matter of the better shows surviving. People tend not to record and save the junk. And the shows from the 90s that I"m finding are all from video tape TV rips that fans recorded and then stashed in a bottom drawer somewhere.
I do wish I could find some of the shows from the 80s or the 70s. I'd like to see what they were doing back then. _________________
Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 2034 Location: United Kingdom Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:06 am Post subject:
ScrappedShinigami wrote:
@ Keps - I've been tempted to get Kuitan many times it does look good, so you recommend it? XDDDD
100%
I'm going to start My Boss, My Hero tomorrow, after reading the good comments it's getting from people (sorry if you haven't got yours yet, mine arrived today!)
So...I started my Kuitan special today. Oh my gosh am I annoyed.
The picture is pin sharp, but the subtitles are WONKY. By that I mean poor English.
I can understand them, but they are distractingly bad. I watched half an hour and then gave up before I got any more annoyed. Grrrr.
So...I started my Kuitan special today. Oh my gosh am I annoyed.
The picture is pin sharp, but the subtitles are WONKY. By that I mean poor English.
I can understand them, but they are distractingly bad. I watched half an hour and then gave up before I got any more annoyed. Grrrr.
Wasn't there an update to those subs that corrected those grammatical errors?
Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 97 Location: sugary land Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:26 am Post subject:
I got tired of most of the recent Jdramas (except for Nodame Cantabile which I just finished recently) so I decided to check out a Kdrama called Alone in Love and I love it! Watching this drama is like reading Maison Ikkoku because the style of story-telling is somewhat similar. The pacing is good, the story is very realistic, the actings are excellent as well. This drama feels more Japanese to me at first though, but then I heard it was adapted from a Japanese novel, so yea, no wonder I kept on having this feeling of 'hey, this seems like what would happen in a Jdrama', lol XD. The next one I'm planning to watch is Kekkon Dekinai Otoko since I heard so many praises for it. I simply hope I can download the eps fast enough though . _________________
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:
mikomi wrote:
The next one I'm planning to watch is Kekkon Dekinai Otoko since I heard so many praises for it. I simply hope I can download the eps fast enough though .
it's hilarious....look forward to some serious laughs.
Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 4058 Location: I'm still all about Ai Otsuka Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:
watched for the first time the Hana Yori Dango series... never thought it is so good for a first episode... Jun Matsumoto really has a great acting skill... and Oguri Shun... looks like another favorite drama of mine... gonna continue watching this... _________________
It was great. But it somehow had this feeling that the director intended to make the world revolve around KimuTaku. I thought the star was Kenji Sakaguchi, he's definitely the hero. It's so unfair to him, he was like in A Series of Unfortunate Events, but it was simply fate and not montgommery.
He got dumped, broke a leg etc. in a row.
Half way through Artificial Beauty.
It's not like there's lack of acting skills or plot. I personally get annoyed by the characters so i don't like it that much. Kurokawa no Techou and Love Revolution is much better in IMO.
Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 2034 Location: United Kingdom Country:
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Wasn't there an update to those subs that corrected those grammatical errors?
Or am I thinking of another drama?
Dunno...all I know is that my disc was produced in Malaysia, and there are also Chinese subs available( on my disc)...don't know if they are as poor as the English ones.
The picture quality is superb, though.
Dunno...all I know is that my disc was produced in Malaysia, and there are also Chinese subs available( on my disc)...don't know if they are as poor as the English ones.
The picture quality is superb, though.
Ohh...... I thought you downloaded your Special from the 'net: the D-Addict's site had updated their soft subs for the Special with corrected spelling and grammar...
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