Archived entries for jdrama

SOS: Strawberry on the Shortcake

When you have a piece of strawberry shortcake, do you eat the strawberry on top first, or last?
SOS (Strawberry on the Shortcake) is the story of a total creepster, Irie-kun. In the first couple of episodes he does delightful things such as:
Tries to shoplift, but fails to work up the courage
Thinks about killing himself, [...]

Smile Episode 7: Matsujun vs. Oguri Shun

Just when I was starting to wonder if Oguri Shun had disappeared into oblivion…
Smile is this season’s Friday night TBS drama, starring Matsumoto Jun (Matsujun) and Aragaki Yui. Matsujun steps outside his typical role as an overly arrogant, overly rich, overly permed high school student, and instead plays Vito, a half Philippino aspiring cook [...]

Mizushima Hiro gets married??

Japanese celebrity gossip. So I was talking to Karen last night about jdramas, and she told me some gossip about Mizushima Hiro (who was in a bunch of great dramas since his debut in 2005 in Gokusen 2, including Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, Zettai Kareshi, and Room of King, to name a few). [...]

a really great kiss from Love Shuffle, Episode 3

This clip just MADE MY WEEKEND. So here’s the scenario: Kei (Tamaki Hiroshi the guy standing next to the girl) and Ai-Ai (the girl) were pissed off at Ojiro (the guy in the silky pajamas) because he lied and said he’d slept with Kei’s ex-girlfriend (well, they haven’t totally split yet). They found [...]

SCANDAL

With 9 out of 10 dramas I watch, I know in the first 30 seconds exactly how good they are. With SCANDAL, a Fall 2008 Fuji TV drama, the first 30 seconds had me hooked and I didn’t look back after that. Less than two days later I was done with the series.
Here’s [...]



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