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Not sure where to put this, but Abe Hiroshi will co-star with Yamaguchi Tomoko in her first drama in 16 years: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/06/yamaguchi-tomoko-to-star-in-her-first-drama-in-16-years/ This together w/ " Ooku ~ Arikoto . Iemitsu Hen " adapted from a manga by one of my favou...

zettaiKaren

Check out Abe san's...uh...assets in a pre-edited screenshot from his latest movie Thermae Romae.

Courtesy of http://jdorama.info.

zettaiKaren

While waiting for my daily fix ( Umechan Sensei ) and the raw of one of my favorite dramas this season ( LEGAL HIGH ), I finally caught up w/ the snorefest (aka Taira no Kiyomori ) up to ep.16, and am happy to report that the pacing finally picked up around ep.13, and things actually got interesting...

zettaiKaren

seirin wrote:Antique has a gay guy in it I think. Well, they hint he's gay.

The drama doesn't do justice to the manga, which is hilarious and has at least 2 gay characters. The drama made it too wishy-washy.

zettaiKaren

Not sure where this should be included, but if ' nosnoop ' san can take over this I'd be grateful: Umechan Sensei Kanto ratings (courtesy of http://dorama.info/ ) : 04/02 - 04/07 18.5 18.1 20.0 18.8 20.0 20.5 04/09 - 04/14 18.5 18.9 19.1 20.9 20.1 19.7 04/16 - 04/21 18.0 19.4 16.7 19.7 19.7 20.6 Avg...

zettaiKaren

Reading and collecting mangas dating back to the 70's. My all time favourite:

Hikaru no Go

BTW, the long out of print (AFAIK) manga GON is being reprinted in HK and available on YesAsia.com. This is the only manga I've read w/o a single word of dialog, and it's hilarious.

zettaiKaren

I want to watch is bad, but doesn't seem like any group is interested in picking up to do subs. I can't even find it in Chinese subs. So sad. Traditional Chinese soft subs for the 1st 5 episodes can be found here: http://bbs3.gogo.la/thread-325578-1-2.html Registration is req'd; no news on the subs...

zettaiKaren

I've been watching this ' 24 ' clone on and off, mainly to improve my Japanese reading comprehension skills, esp. the Kanji characters. Same Kanji characters can have totally different meanings in Chinese and Japanese (e.g. if you write the 2nd part of my user name out in Kanji, they have almost the...

zettaiKaren

Thanks! Just watched the first 6 episodes of Umechan Sensei today. I like it very much. They got right into it and every fifteen minutes felt like more in that they told a lot about the story and the characters but without feeling rushed at the same time. That impressed me. A lot of outdoor setting...

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xploring wrote:Can you let me know where to download this please?

http://bbs3.gogo.la/thread-325976-1-1.html

Just watched the 1st week. Even though I can't identify w/ ep.1, I can already say that it's better than the 1st week of Tsubasa (most recent one I've seen and dropped), by a country mile.

zettaiKaren

I think if you got the free weekend Japanese programming in early to mid 2000's (like in Hawaii and California), you (like me) might have also seen Sakura, Wakaba , and Kaze no Haruka , etc.. So I guess nobody watched these? I thought Sakura was pretty interesting, and I watched Wakaba because of Ha...

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Sawaguchi was too beautiful to play Nene. How could Nene be more beautiful than Chacha? Voilà, all my opinions for these two roles. lol, is Nene not suppose to be beautiful??^^ My problem with Sawaguchi's Nene is that she portrayed the role too gloomy. Thus, there's no fun in Hideyoshi-Nene's relat...

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Just when I thought the series is loosing steam, ep. 09 is, IMHO, one of the best episode in any JDrama series I've watched in a long time. From the script to dialog, pacing, editing, acting, comedic timing, and even the camera work, every aspect is as close to perfection as I can imagine.

zettaiKaren

There seem to be so many outdoor scenes in this series. Such a refreshing view for me, after watching GOU which was 90% shot indoor studio. And I'm impressed in "Taira Kiyomori" the scenes inside the house doesn't look like a studio set either... there's no way they shoot 100% outdoor, ri...

zettaiKaren

The actress who played Shizuka should just shut up and keep dancing... maybe take off a few more articles of clothing. Ha ha that's Ishihara Satomi, not too many fans of her reading this thread I guess... :P However, unlike for Gou and the Sengoku period, there is little in the way of Heian period ...

zettaiKaren

NHK's Saka no Ue no Kumo (2009/2010/2011) is another big budget drama, with filming locations in China and Russia. It's a historical drama sets in the 1900s. No space opera J-drama, so far. But they have the widescreen movie Space Battleship YAMATO , and it cost alot for the CGs. Saka no Ue no Kumo...

zettaiKaren

As for the drama it tried pretty hard to be grandiose but somehow I just felt it used too many gimmicks and there was too much preaching and tried too damn hard to be deep. I got tired of all that BS. Anyways, since you read the manga maybe you can give me some insights. How is manga Jin comparing ...

zettaiKaren

Q: what became of Nokaze's husband? I watched both seasons of Jin with no subs. I understand everything pretty well. He's now in a parallel universe in which things are different. His girlfriend is no longer in a coma, and doesn't recognize him. But I somehow missed one thing: why didn't Nokaze's h...

zettaiKaren

IMHO, Manga >>>>>> Drama by a country mile. The drama has a lot of unnecessary narratives and dialogs which don't really move the story forward, thus making it felt draggy and caused a lot of pacing problems (that's why I only skimmed thru S1 and S2). Read the manga if you can; if provides a more lo...

zettaiKaren

Yeah the Battle of Yamazaki is almost non-existent in ep 6 :( My guess is don't expect any big scale battle scences in this taiga, as I suspect most funding is probably being diverted to "Saka no Ue no Kumo" 's post-production SFX work on the 2 remaining major battles ('Battle of 203 mete...

zettaiKaren

Just a small update to raven-frost's excellent summary for this season's drama: TV Tokyo 1.Saijo no Meii Time: Mondays 22:00 22:54 pm Starting Date: 10 Jan 2011 Official Site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/meii/ Cast: Takumi Saito, Manami Higa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Hiromi Kitagawa, Shigeru Izumiya, Chiharu...

zettaiKaren

[I didn't realize Nakama Yukie acted a 6 yrs old in Komyo ga Tsuji, the early eps. She didn't act like a 6 yrs old at all XD Hmmm....I'm quite sure there's a child actress for Nakama Yukie's role in her childhood (confirmed by drama-wiki, but doesn't list when Nakama took over so I'll have to go ba...

zettaiKaren

^ To me it's no biggie. If no one had pointed out that the characters being portrayed were supposed to be children, would anyone have noticed or complained about it? :scratch: From what I've seen so far, I don't think it detracts from the story one bit... If the viewer can't get over the age issue ...

zettaiKaren

But better than Galileo, right? :pray: :pray: :pray: Uh...I would have to say 'NO'. IMHO, what JDorama doesn't do well are action-oriented thriller/police-detective dramas (or movies, & still haven't found a very good one in 20+ yrs I might add). They are often ruined by huge plot holes (or jus...

zettaiKaren

yeah same here... can't wait... i collect the manga as well and i must say the TVdrama was a success... but i'm not gonna compare the manga with the movie... i want the anticipation lol. arh... tsk... cant wait.... miss them... Yeah, but I'm just a bit disappointed at the sets, although it goes w/o...

zettaiKaren

Haven't watched the first movie but from the trailers, looks like part II will follow the manga more closely (?) and Nodame's really going to play Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 w/ Stressmann (although the location certainly doesn't look like London Symphony's Barbican Hall). IMO from the manga's pov, p...

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I'm pretty sure he wasn't some random guy that came out of nowhere. Wasn't he the guy who had drugged Shiori? After leaving the hotel room we see him with a very pissed off look towards Haruo when he's car passes by Harou like he wanted to kill him... if it wasn't that guy then yeah this guy really...

zettaiKaren

Read from other boards that Fuji Telebi was inundated w/ phone calls complaining about the ending, using terms like 'bakayaro'. On 2CH, people were flaming the drama's production staff (with even more expletives) for sacrificing logic and reason solely for the purpose of shocking the audience. I'm n...

zettaiKaren

i knew it. i should have known that when i cried in every single ep throug out this drama, i am going to cry ten times more by the last ep :cry: :cry: :cry: why on earth, they have to end it like this? i thought of every possible sad ending excep this one. I really did not see that coming at all. a...

zettaiKaren

The finale. I know the missing 8M and the confrontation w/ the Yakuza in ep. 08 is going to get resolved in the finale, just didn't expect it to end this way.

zettaiKaren

Just as I feared, the finale was handled by IMO the worst director of the 3 in charge of the series. I looked up his track record in the Japanese drama wiki, and this seems to be the first time he'd directed a comedy (a parody no less). The finale is a parody of Agatha Christie's 'And then there wer...

zettaiKaren

...IMO more plot twists and drama than almost all of the previous episodes combined... Correction - I was referring to all the previous episodes written solely by the same writer, Hayashi Hiroshi. Ep. 6 (which he co-wrote), 7, & 9 (written by another writer) are actually quite decent and also r...

zettaiKaren

ep 10. It may finally explain why Takenouchi agreed to take on such an insignificant role in previous episodes. Lot's of references to other dramas and movies 'The infernal affairs'/''The departed' as well. IMO more plot twists and drama than almost all of the previous episodes combined. I just hope...

zettaiKaren

I didn't want to post another comment until after the finale because last time I did I seemed to have jinxed the series (ep. 08 was horrendously bad, the worst in the series because the script was probably NOT based on the novel, and ep. 09's rating paid for it). However, for the sake of those non-m...

zettaiKaren

I am definitely not holding my breath. Haruo's decision to leave the field was not shocking in itself since 2 had become a crowd. But for breaking that little girl's heart, yurusenai ! And here we go again with yet another show attempting to wrap up half a dozen under developed story lines in the f...

zettaiKaren

For those who've watched ep. 10...

zettaiKaren

Ep 10. At least it doesn't seem to be going in the direction I'd feared. :sweat: From the rest of the caps, looks like the 800M yen mystery won't be revealed until next week's finale. Wait a minute, isn't there supposed to be 12 episodes ? If so, there are another 2 episodes and the finale should b...

zettaiKaren

Ep 10. Courtesy of btpig. http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa196/tantei_conan/124455022-1.jpg http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa196/tantei_conan/124455023-1.jpg At least it doesn't seem to be going in the direction I'd feared. :sweat: From the rest of the caps, looks like the 800M yen mystery w...

zettaiKaren

If you want to know why the ratings drop you have to do some quantitative analysis. It's on Saturday at 8pm. What else was on that day? Any big sporting events? Was it a holiday or special day? Any world events happened? Saturday, June 6th happened to be the clincher game for the 2010 World Cup: Ja...

zettaiKaren

I normally don't like pissing on a drama more than once especially in its own thread, and these days I'm only watching this show if there's an interesting guest appearance such as in ep. 08. I've already given up on the characters having any common sense or the ability to think logically (checking y...

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zettaiKaren

Was it that bad? I want to watch it but reading your comments here turn me off. The only drama I like Kimura in is the Karei (splendid family), the rest of his other dramas I thought was ok....he is not handsome, and his acting is ok to me. I hate watching detective dramas that really insult the in...

zettaiKaren

Also, I have some speculation on what is to come: I think Sachi has some type of genetic sickness that will probably require a blood transfusion or organ transplant. Her only hope will be Haruo OK, after watching ep. 8 and the preview for ep. 9, I'm not as upset about the narrative coincidence as I...

zettaiKaren

... And if the others are all good like that... The show will be one of my favs~~ *____* :wub: Well, it all depends on your perspective. If you're a big mystery fan, then ep. 3, 4, & 6 may be more enjoyable because they sort of spoofed the mystery cliches in a proper and funny way (you really h...

zettaiKaren

Also, I have some speculation on what is to come: I think Sachi has some type of genetic sickness that will probably require a blood transfusion or organ transplant. Her only hope will be Haruo Just saw the hi-res screencaps for ep. 8 and preview for ep. 9, and :faint: there's one that may support ...

zettaiKaren

IMO so far ep. 3 is the best in parodying mystery dramas/novels, but ep. 7 is the funniest. As a mystery buff, I've an idea what trick was used in the novel and understand why they sort of side stepped the mystery solving/parody part and changed it instead into a complete farce. I got a real kick ou...

zettaiKaren

Given the fact that the writer of the movies is the same as the one for the drama/SP and his prior work was Last Dance :pale: ... Sorry I meant Slow Dance, the drama that starred Fukatsu Eri and Tsumabuki Satoshi. Every time I tried to finish it, I ended up :sleeping: so I eventually gave up. ...I ...

zettaiKaren

Given the fact that the writer of the movies is the same as the one for the drama/SP and his prior work was Last Dance :pale: , I'm really apprehensive as to how well he can choose the appropriate musical pieces (I'm sure he'll have help) and integrate them seamlessly into the story. So far, he's d...

zettaiKaren

From blogs (May 26th): "Nodame movie started its filming today, but Juri-chan's not there.. Shot a 3-minute scene for 8 hours, what a movie! The conductor is Tanihara Shosuke...." ------- New cast revealed :cheers: :mrgreen: I don't want to rain on anyone's parade; I love the manga and th...

zettaiKaren

Also, I have some speculation on what is to come: I think Sachi has some type of genetic sickness that will probably require a blood transfusion or organ transplant. Her only hope will be Haruo I hope they don't go the KDrama-ish route for the ending, although I agree something bad is going to happ...

zettaiKaren

Hi Res Screen shots of ep. 5 (lots of Yoshitaka Yuriko closeups :w00t: ) http://bbs.btpig.com/viewthread.php?tid=837733&page=66 As a heads up : My browser goes crazy when I try the above site. I get a malware alarm so I stayed away. I'm running latest version of IE8, Firefox 3, Symantec Antivir...

zettaiKaren

I thought ep7 was one of the best and storongest ep so far. it seems that i can't hold my tears whenever i am watching shiroi haru. every ep has to make me :cry: I agree. Now that the writer has taken his sweet time to get us emotionally attached to the characters, the plot may actually start movin...

zettaiKaren

More thoughts on ep. 1 after rewatching it w/ Chinese subs, mainly on the plot. At first, I thought all the "apparent" plot holes can be explained away by the fact that Ebizo's character and his Yakuza chronies are accomplices. It's apparent the murderer needed assistance in committing the...

zettaiKaren

First impression of ep. 1 was ok or above average. I watched a low res version so the vidoe/audio left a lot to be desired; my opinion will probably change after watching the 720p version. For all the talk about the eccentricity of KimuTaku's character, IMHO he's really not very different than the o...

zettaiKaren

watched eps 3, 4, 5, 6 last night in one go. i am loving this drama more and mre and being a crybaby, i could not help not to get teary eyes in each ep. :cry: here is my thoughts about this drama so far althought i am loving it but i have to say that its pace gets slow sometimes. the fact the only ...

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zettaiKaren

bshater wrote:
marspeach wrote:
Yokogao by Sakai Ayumi
thanks but when i typed in Yokogao at youtube, it came up with a different song by Noriko Sakai. do you have a link to the song by any chance?

Just posted yesterday

zettaiKaren

Geez, I wonder if Yamada Takayuki regrets his cameo in Ep4 and the upcoming Ep5 granted that Ep4 hasn't been as disastrous as Ep2 but all the episodes so far clearly show that the writer and probably the producer are far off from their element. I thought ep. 4 was just as disastrous. Note to direct...

zettaiKaren

I bought an import commercial DVD (2-disk set) from Amazon but the English subs are really, really awful, and my Japanese isn't good enough to follow it without subs. I've been trying to d/l the torrents but there's never any seeds available. Anyone want to rip a DVD-R of the raws and trade me for ...

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zettaiKaren

There's nothing wrong w/ watching a drama purely for certain actors/actresses regardless of content, although I do draw the line when a drama is total crap. In defense of the original poster, I think s/he was only complaining about the number of posts for dramas such as Atashinchi no Danshi (just fo...

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8thSin You have to think that this days are not exactly the best ones for SMAP... I don't think what happens to SMAP right now is related to KonKatsu's ratings. People aren't just into this kind of drama anymore, seem like they weren't interested with this drama since the beginning, remember that e...

zettaiKaren

bshater wrote:
marspeach wrote:
Yokogao by Sakai Ayumi
thanks but when i typed in Yokogao at youtube, it came up with a different song by Noriko Sakai. do you have a link to the song by any chance?

The single hasn't been released yet (not until 5/13). You can check yesasia for details.

zettaiKaren

Yes, there's a low-res (but quite watchable) rmvb version w/ traditional Chinese hardsub available in the usual places. Also, according to YesAsia.com, the official R3 (HK) version will be out on 3/2 w/ English and Chinese subs (and will probably be a lot cheaper than the R2 version). Wow, the HK v...

zettaiKaren

so sorry... but i have to say, i super duper ultra cannot stand tsumabuki's character anymore in the show.... and it is only epi 7... argh!!! woohoo I'm glad I'm not alone on this...it's really hard for me to care for his character unless he undergoes some kind of metamorphosis or wholesale persona...

zettaiKaren

Yes, there's a low-res (but quite watchable) rmvb version w/ traditional Chinese hardsub available in the usual places. Also, according to YesAsia.com, the official R3 (HK) version will be out on 3/2 w/ English and Chinese subs (and will probably be a lot cheaper than the R2 version). Wow, the HK v...

zettaiKaren

the DVD will be released officially on the 18/3/09 but there are already dvd sample video with chinese subtitles somewhere i heard! so i think it will be at least another 2 months before we will see yougisha na X subbes! huhuuuuuuuu long way to go! Yes, there's a low-res (but quite watchable) rmvb ...

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