Finally moving on to the second season of Bloody Monday.
Finally moving on to the second season of Bloody Monday.
It's been weeks or months since I watched a J-dorama, I've currently started watching Guilty: Akuma to Keiyakushita Onna (The woman who made a contract or promise with the Devil) and Reinoryokusha Odagiri Kyoko no Uso (Clairvoyant Odagiri Kyoko's Lie).
I find Guilty's plot intriguing and having Hiroshi Tamaki and Kanno Miho is a plus! This is my third time watching a dorama with Tamaki and one of many I've seen with Kanno Miho.
With Reinoryokusha Odagiri Kyoko no Uso, it reminds me of Psych. Kyoko (Ishihara Satomi) is pretty. I am jumping on the Tanihara Shosuke's fanwagon. I like watching him in doramas, he's a great actor. I feel like its hard to not be entertained by his acting. He's got a very interesting voice and he's handsome to boot. I like watching him and Kyoko together. They're a funny pair so far. AH! So I have seen Ishihara Satomi in other dramas, just didn't recognize her in this one.
I just love how you Captivate My Mind
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I just finished watching Joker again. I'm so happy that Sakai-san won Best Actor! Well-deserved, though in all honesty it wasn't the most competitive drama season ever. While there are definitely some similarities to Dexter, I wouldn't call the drama a cheap rip-off. For one thing, Date and Dexter's personalities don't remind me of one another at all.
Next up are Iryu 3, Guilty, and Marks no Yama.
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Wow. I can't believe they made another sequel to Iryu. Is the third Iryu drama any more interesting?
Can anyone recommend some more good J-doramas? I think I've been leaning towards K-Dramas more these past few months.
I just love how you Captivate My Mind
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I'm loving Nagareboshi, I'm not normally Aya Ueto fans, but since Zettai Reido I found her acting is more acceptable and fit the role. And Takenouchi Yutaka is great as Okada Kengo (love the name!). Also finally start to feel interested with Guilty especially after seeing the chemistry between Hiroshi Tamaki and Kanno Miho.
Iryu 3 is so-so ... Asada is having a competition as a plot I suppose with another 'god-hand' doctor.
Spring Summer Autumn Winter.
Pair ducks nest fly together.
Clemencies. Summer life, feather winter white.
Green meadow in spring, before the autumn bite.
Watching the red gown.
And none else, alone.
Watching Himitsu and its rather interesting how a mother's soul exchanged into her daughter's body after a bus accident.What kind of psychological and martial marriage have an impact on the situation for the husband?It's never boring at all,love the bgm music score and insert song .
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10 yrs I still love you with Aya Ueto is the first one I watched.It only contained only 6 episodes with time traveling going back to changed the destined path crossing before a hopeless marriage.It was nice how it wrapped up the ending.
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Iryu 3 was a miss for me. It was clearly an attempt to do a successful drama series to death. I thought the drama failed to deliver on an emotional level. The only thing about it that worked were the surgeries and the soundtrack. The rest were just retracing familiar steps.
Caught an episode of Nasake nai Onna and Kenji Onijima Heihachiro. They were ho-hum.
Marks no Yama was probably the best of the dramas I watched for the season. The story got bogged down a little at the start because of the huge cast but once it settled in, it just blazed all the way with such a riveting narrative and episode climaxes (first three episodes) that it just killed me to have to wait each week for my next fix.
Winter seems dry. Too many CSI-inspired dramas and school dramas to tempt me to buckle in for the ride. No prizes for predicting that Kusanagi Tsuyoshi in Fuyu no Sakura will trump Eguchi Yosuke in School! in the ratings game. Seriously, is that the best that Fuji TV can manage with a time slot called Dramatic Sunday? Perfect Report wasn't it. School! won't be the answer too.
I'm watching 人間の証明 (Ningen no Shoumei) with Takenouchi Yutaka. Been a while since I watched a dorama with Yutaka, and I like his antisocial cop
Currently watching Juui Dolittle.
I'm watching it too!!!! thanks to Nagareboshi, I dig out to watch his olderdrama. I've seen Ruri no Shima (another great ending song by Kobukuro), Yankee Boku ni Kaoru and watching Rondo too at the moment. But I think I will like Ningen no Shoumei better since I can't stand Korean style melodramatic from Rondo.
Guilty was great! I love the twist and already expect the kind of ending they will put. I found Keizoku 2: SPEC has alot of similarities with Heroes, not so much in the plot but in the concept. Also finally finished Zettai Reido.
Too many police drama >.<
Spring Summer Autumn Winter.
Pair ducks nest fly together.
Clemencies. Summer life, feather winter white.
Green meadow in spring, before the autumn bite.
Watching the red gown.
And none else, alone.
I boycott Rondo because I can't stand the lead actress Choi Ji-woo - I will pretend Yutaka never did a drama like that.
How are Nagareboshi, Ruri no Shima and Yankee Boku ni Kaoru? I haven't watched a lot of Yutaka dramas and want to catch up. I was thinking of Tomorrow as well (where he's a doctor and falls for Kanno Miho's nurse - reminds me of her nurse role in Itoshi Kimi e), not sure if it's good. I'm rewatching bits of Koori no Sekai, I love his chemistry with Matsushima Nanako, they kissed like there was no tomorrow
As for Ningen no Shoumei, I really enjoyed it. I loved Yutaka as Munesue Koichiro, and his dynamic with Kiriko (Natsukawa Yui) and the character studies of the people involved. He also spoke pretty good English, which was a pleasant surprise. And I loved the opening theme music.
Yeah I'm tempted to go straight to last episode just to know the ending
I like Nagareboshi, very much, so much that I watched it without subs hehehehee.. Especially the chemistry between Takenouchi and Ueto Aya. and Goro is a real evil here, everytime he's come out the BGM just making me dislike his character even more.
Ruri no Shima is ok, the story kinda bore me, but he teams up with Ogata Ken again in this series. Yankee is much more better. Takenouchi character is so passionate as a yankee teacher and the problems among the students are so real. Not all the solutions is real but it's just for the story sake.
After watching his older drama, he seems older in Nagareboshi now, which is fair enough.
I was trying to watch Koori no Sekai but the video quality really put me off.
Spring Summer Autumn Winter.
Pair ducks nest fly together.
Clemencies. Summer life, feather winter white.
Green meadow in spring, before the autumn bite.
Watching the red gown.
And none else, alone.
Well, I'll send you a link to Koori no Sekai. I think it's worth watching, it holds up well after all these years.
As for Ningen no Shoumei, I think if you're halfway through, you can pretty much guess who the murderer is. What I enjoyed was the process of finding out the murderer, since we get to see Munesue dealing with his own issues. I didn't realise the actress playing Sayaka is Horikita Maki, have to say she was kinda stiff and boring.
I will definitely check out Nagareboshi, thanks for the recommendation! I'm not a fan of either Ueto Aya or Matsuda Shota, but maybe this drama will change my opinion of them... Will probably try Yankee too, though I'm not keen on high school stories. Have you watched BOSS? Was he good in there?
Can't believe this sexy man is already 40! He doesn't really look it.
Yeah he's still so gorgeous after all these years! None of the new generation of actors have that sort of masculine charm.
I thought he was wasted in Boss. The role didn't require him to do much but pretend to be a frivolous sukebe. *sigh*
I watched Ningen no Shoumei years back. It was interesting to watch how they nail the criminal though it is obvious early on who the baddie is.
Totally agree with you, very few actors these days are as hot as Yutaka! *fans self* I can't really watch the newer Japanese dramas these days, full of people I don't really care for, all the idol actors
I'm a bit hesitant on BOSS, because truth be told, I did not like Amami Yuki after her turn in Around 40. I don't know why, she just rubbed me off the wrong way after that drama and I didn't really want to watch her in anything else. And now that you say Yutaka wasn't doing much... well, BOSS is toast for me then. What's a "sukebe"?
Probably will try out Tomorrow. I hope there are some kissy scenes. I haven't really seen make-out scenes like the one in Koori no Sekai and Love Revolution in recent dramas... not that I want porn on TV, but c'mon, these are adults! Getting intimate with the one you fancy is part of life
thanks for the links. I'll put some effort to see it later
Probably I'm dumb but I can never guess whose the culprit until toward the end >.< but than sometimes I let myself just go with the story and didn't bother to think too much. Like in Ningen no Shoumei when they show how his father was killed, I can understand his bitterness toward people.
On the contrary of jade_frost, I like Takenouchi's character in Boss (I even go rewatched this dorama because of him .. Otsukare samantha thavasa), he's role is more useful toward the last case and he's so suave, I never seen him like that before! ladies man and everything. Around 40 give me the opposite way of Amami Yuki to me I totally like her after that dorama and I was able to finish Enka no Jouu which is more stupid story after watching her in Arafo.
I don't like Tomorrow mainly because of Kanno Miho, I fast forward and go straight to last episodes (It's amazing I can still watch Rondo now >.<) Also because of his character too is wishy washy for my taste.
I think "sukebe" means pervert, am I right?
As for today's drama, I go with the story sometimes. I don't like Kanno Miho or too much of Tamaki Hiroshi, but I like the story and their character in Guilty. It's really hard to see what is good drama now, not really depends on the cast. I think Tsuki no Koibito is waste of time even though Kimutaku and Ryoko Shinohara is there.
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Spring Summer Autumn Winter.
Pair ducks nest fly together.
Clemencies. Summer life, feather winter white.
Green meadow in spring, before the autumn bite.
Watching the red gown.
And none else, alone.
Yup. That and actresses who really can't act to save their lives... ...
Sukebe = pervert like eeyore said. I didn't enjoy the cases in Boss and I thought the drama treated its audience as fools. Furthermore, scenes meant to be funny were contrived. It was a waste to have Amami Yuki and Takenouchi Yutaka in it because the cast was too big so there was little opportunity for character development but the worst thing was that there wasn't much room for anything more than superficial acting and emoting so you never really get to know a character better or care for what happens to anyone of them. The drama did well in the ratings because of the casting, but there are way better police detective dramas than this one. Even when they tried to save it at the end with some plot intrigue, all they managed to do was earn my sniggers and annoyance at myself for bothering to sit through it all, hoping against hope that things wouldn't pan out the way it did.
What didn't you like about Amami Yuki in Around 40? I didn't like the story. It felt like they went around but ended back up at square one, but I found her character fine.
I would like eeyore strongly advise against Tomorrow. It didn't work for me. I think it was the multiple coincidences and the characters. I just snapped and even the combination of Kano Miho and Takenouchi Yutaka couldn't save the show.
Kisses ... I haven't watched romance dramas lately (have there even been any real romance dramas these few years?) but I think those soul searing kisses like in Love Revolution are gone forever. Perhaps it's the signal of the times? I don't really know why but one day, someone just woke up and decided that there would be minimal human contact between a couple in drama world. If you have watched dramas lately, you might also have noticed that is has become fashionable to cast characters as successful in career but a failure in love. Or the males as "herbivorous" which could possibly reflective of Japanese society at large. But heck, we're in the drama world where audiences should be given a reprieve from the sorry state in real life and get some heady romancing to give them hope. Leave the lack of kisses to other drama genres.
Maybe you should try movies. You might have better luck there.
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Was Guilty good? I didn't try it because many people were commenting how frustrating it was to watch the character development for Kanno Miho's character.
I only managed 2 episodes of Tsuki no Koibito. It was a horrible disaster. I don't know what made them think the story would work. And it reminded me that Kimura Takuya always plays himself and not his character in every role he takes. But I do like seeing him in the SMAP x SMAP variety show.
Hmmm... I guess I'll have to assess it again after I watch another two episodes. I started on the first two episodes of Tomorrow and they were okay. Nothing spectacular, though Yutaka was so hot I don't mind Kanno Miho since her character seems quite spunky - she was a bit too good to be true in Itoshi Kimi e. I can see the coincidences already, though at this point they're not too dreadful. I'll see how it goes.
I didn't really dislike her in Around 40. I think you and I discussed a bit of the ending and how it was a bit overdone and all. I just... I don't know, I just didn't want to watch another drama with her after that. It was like... okay, seen her in Around 40 and that's the end of whatever interest I have in her as an actress. It wasn't even like Kanno Miho where I am neutral about watching her if she's paired with an actor I adore. For some inexplicable reason, Amami Yuki rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's how she looks...
Yeah, tell me about it! Dramas are our escape from reality, and the lack of a romance drama that tugs at our heartstrings is really sad. I've noticed an increase (?) in procedural dramas, like medical or forensic or police stuff. Not that it's a bad thing, I don't mind me some suave cops or doctors, but it does get kinda boring after a while. And I don't do high-school dramas.
I wonder if something happened in Japanese society that makes it even more... restrained or reserved than it is?
And do you recommend any movies? I know Yutaka did a movie with Kelly Chen, but I don't like her.