kyaaa~
nodate-san, eriko-san .. okaeri!
waiting for BOSS Family.
the parents and their kids .. in action.
i was o-hehe reading her latest interview... talking about nodate papa.
seriously... me and Jfans... everybody is waiting for their development.
we can expect that since the staff are looking forward to it too.
waaa~ doki doki suru!
i really really really love nodate-osawa combi. as much as kuryu-amamiya pair.
it's so great to see how open the staff and fans keep on supporting and shipping those pairs.
*he always makes me truly madly deeply droooling slurrpppee crazy*
....
BOSS family still remains the same.
but we'll have additional members ... yokatta yokatta.
i know it's still freezing up there in Japan. i hope those survivors have enough blankets, warm meals and safe drinks. i know it's tough. it's tough no matter how strong and calm they are. it's not an easy task to rebuild. but i believe in them. no matter how long the time would take, how big sacrifice and perseverance they would have. meanwhile in Libya, Gaddafi forces still continue attacking the civilians who want democracy and freedom. [sigh] saite da ne. who does he think he is.. another Pharaoh? :( and what's up with US's strike. it's already sixth day.. nanda sore, America.. are you still the world superhero who can do everything, anything, something out of nothing? no i guess. coz we are just the same normal human being, deshou.
'what you give, you get back'... every time Israeli military were killing Palestinian civilians, there will be counter attack that injured/killed Israeli civilians. the thing is.. world media always voice up for Israel side and remains silent on real situation of Palestine. frankly, i'm quite happy when Israel sending their aid team to Japan. they should do more positive thing like that. if they could do humanitarian and social work to others, i hope they would do the same to Palestinian. Israeli are smart, wise people. i just wish they'll be gentle, kind and respect towards muslims. .... moral of story: abused no more - violence will brings more violence.
right here in malaysia .... still lots of clowns and puppets who love talking bullshits. crimes rate still high. voice of freedom still low. and ... should i introduce you with our malaysian imelda marcos? emph, disgusting.. totally wasting my time : /
anyway, kuala lumpur still in cloudy mood.
and most of the time, we have thundershowers here.
for the time being, sun still rise and still set.
and we can still feel the breeze and the wind.
dakara sa...
ikiru!
keep on living.
because spring is coming...
i'll say, i'll be getting hyper for upcoming dorama season.
it would be my treasured fiesta ... katori shingo + amami yuki + takenouchi yutaka + sorimachi takashi + ashida mana ... and plus nakai masahiro [if Fuji TV still on with Waratte IiTomo Spring Drama SP].
moreover, B'z and SMAP will start busy with their schedule.
i'll try my best to share what's what.
it's been quite long for my hiatus ne.
hehe gomen. i still manage to catch up everything.
so far.. i am still a good fan. lol :D
upcoming Spring 2011
FUJI TV Shiawase ne Narou yo
- Katori Shingo
Good Life ~ Arigato, Papa. Sayonara ~
- Sorimachi Takashi
BOSS 2
- Amami Yuki, Takenouchi Yutaka
[hopefully we still could see Sorimachi again]
Marumo no Okite
- Ashida Mana
On TBS channel, i will definitely watch JIN season 2.
Hancho already entering season 4 ne...
is it good? i would try to look up one day..
i've been following this long before.. but only now i've a mood to write about this movie.
Takako (Kikuchi Akiko) suddenly quits her job when she heard the man she love is getting married. Soon she receives an offer from her uncle to work at his secondhand bookstore in Jimbocho. Here is the beginning of her day life at Morisaki Bookstore - a unique, beautiful quiet surrounding [as what you expected from books' heaven]. She also meets many kinds of customers [including weirdos]. Takako hadn’t read much in her life. But from time to time... gradually, she's drawn into this world - the world of old books. The movie will bring you her time journey from summer to autumn to winter. Within this period, Takako starts growing up through her new-found love of books and personal experience interacting with people around.
maa... i love a character named 'Takako'. [hwahwa, takako matsu]. last time, in tsuyoshi's Japanese American drama.. there's a character named kimura. i gave a small laugh, thinking "okay, who's gonna be matsu here":P
at first... i thought my Tanaka Rena was in a small role or just a cameo. but not really. she's the co-star. her role play as the bar cafe's waitress. since she was introduced to takako, they've become good friends. i still remember watching the trailer... "hee, is that girl in green is rena? kyaa~ rena-chan... kireiii!"
During press conference also she's really beautiful in her black dress. Kikuchi Akiko [former model] was crying ne. this considered as her movie debut. yappari rena was so gentle and kind - showing her support (well, she always like that to her kouhai anyway. that's why i love her much!).
anyway, i dunno why this Morisaki movie was being connected with the late famous director-writer Ichikawa Jun. [oh ya, that's because Akiko was being planned to be in his movie.]. Ichikawa Jun was a director of rena's Tokyo Marigold (one of my all-time favorite movies). rena respected him much and was grieved over his death on last 19 september 2008. emm, yeah... ichikawa jun is one of my favorite director who had his own unique style works. but i don't understand what's the relationship between Ichikawa Jun and Villon's Wife movie ... unn, wakarimasen.
this movie was setting at Jimbocho. FYI, Jimbocho is a town in Tokyo, a neighborhood with Chiyoda. Jimbocho is very well-known as a center of Tokyo's secondhand used-book stores, publishing houses, distribution warehouses, small book cafes and popular antique-curio (novel and rare decorative stuff ) shopping area. Jimbocho is named after a samurai Nagaharu Jinbo who lived in the area at the end of the 17th century.In 1913, the area was mostly destroyed by a big fire. Later, a university professor named Shigeo Iwanami opened a bookstore (today, it's the famous Iwanami shoten publishing house). Since that, Jimbocho become popular with intellectuals, university students and tourists as "Jimbou - The Book Town".
uwaaa... this definitely gonna be my heaven!
[if only i could read those tough kanji] :)
back to morisaki movie... i really wanna watch this. this is my type. LOVE LETTER, APRIL STORY, THE CLASSIC, HATSUKOI, ... err, what else.
------------------------------ latest about tanaka rena, she's now filming two movies
'The Tales of Genji' as one of ikuta toma's concubines. rena is playing as Rokujo no Miyasudokoro (Princess Yoshiko). after became Saio - serving for 9 years at shrine, she returns and became queen consort to Emperor Murakami and gave birth Princess Noriko. somehow, she was deeply in love with Prince Genji (ikuta toma) but her jealousy brought the death of her rivals; including Genji's lawful wife Aoi (tabe mikako).
yosh, rena in evil's character! ... first matsu, then miho, then yukie, then rena... i wanna see arisa after this. and nanako and amami too.
'Bibito's Poetry' - rena as a former designer, being forced to move from city to countryside. as a granddaughter who needs to manage her family's organic tea plantation. the movie is filming around Oita Prefecture.
oh, btw... it's been said that rena now dating with sato yuki. emm, yeah yeah.
but, i'm still in TsuRena mode. i guess i'll be TSURENA FAN forever. hehe.
well, deep thinking... i have a good enough reason.
why. coz they were coupled. which i believe yes.
final episode of MOTHER yesterday night. sugee na.. final episode suddenly increased to
16.3%. the one and only my watch drama for this season. i'm waiting for my DVD.. and i'm gonna spread this to local community. definitely. it's beautiful.... either smile and tears, it's truly beautiful.
now i can't wait to watch ashida mana with o-matsu in CONFESSION movie. it's already three weeks, Confession movie still ranked no.1 in box-office chart. omedetto matsu. now let's break the record..make it 1-2 months, will ya. oh, it's still on-screen... but this 'made in japan' movie already got so many re-make offers from studios all over the world including hollywood. i can imagine nicole kidman in matsu's role play and sarah jessica parker in kimura yoshino's role play. and really, i love so much Last Flowers song by Radiohead. it's really fits with the mood. and i feel amazed knowing about the outstanding 30-minutes opening scene by matsu. and almost 95 percent who came watched the movie were commenting 'very good' and 'good' in survey. it's already become social phenomenon... thanks to free publicity and words of mouth, people keep coming and world still waiting. ... me too. arghh.
for the time being...
Radiohead, send me your Last Flowers.
solo version by thom yorke is soooo beautiful.
Appliances have gone berserk I can not keep up Treading on people's toes Snot-nosed little punk
And I can't face the evening straight You can offer me escape Houses move and houses speak If you take me there you'll get relief Relief, relief, relief
And if I'm going to talk I just want to talk Please don't interrupt Just sit back and listen
Because I can't face the evening straight You can offer me escape Houses move and houses speak If you take me then you'll get relief Relief, relief, relief, relief, relief
It's too much Too bright Too powerful
Too much Too bright Too powerful
Too much Too bright Too powerful
Too much Too bright Too powerful
ashida mana and tsurube are doing their voicing for Universal Studio 3D anime movie. the girl also singing in solo part for Mother drama ost [acapella version]. hehe, yappari... matsu's daughter. lol. tsurube was with matsu last time, right. tsurube won for best actor and matsu won for best actress for Kinema Junpo
okay spring for MOTHER... and yes, i'm looking forward next summer for GOLD drama - amami and sorimachi. yosh, you can expect the return of 'beach boy'. somehow i love the title.. gold. B'z got the GOLD song, darou. it's a 32nd single by B'z in year 2001. and the song was became official song for world sport event too. aaa, sport...... WORLD CUP daaaa..
currently i kinda obsessed with MOTHER... which make me push abe and kimura's dramas aside. hehe. gomen. when i found a 'great beautiful cinematography well-scripted movie stucked in dorama long hours'.. definitely i'll give up all the other glossy doramas.
SYNOPSIS:
Child abuse is arguably one of the cruelest of crimes. But just as despicable, if not worse, is the all-too common tendency of society to turn a blind eye to evidence of such exploitation.
“Mother” is the story of a woman who responds to an abused girl’s silent cries of help. Nao (Yasuko Matsuyuki), an aloof 30-something woman who works reluctantly as an elementary school teacher, notices the unmistakable bruises on her first grade pupil Rena (Mana Ashida). Initially, like everyone else, Nao looks the other way.
But Rena’s wretched desperation soon awakens a passion and determination in Nao. Together they skip town and embark on a risky journey pretending to be mother and child. “Mother” is the story of the transformation of a once-disenchanted woman who suddenly takes on the role of a parent to a child who is starved for maternal love. The drama probes into the meaning of motherhood in modern society. [source: www.ntv.co.jp/english/drama/mother.html]
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this SPRING season, i should give a big trophy to MOTHER.
[1] i love matsuyuki yasukoso much. if only tsutsumi shinichi appeared here as a special guest...
[2] i really really love ashida mana[the daughter of matsu takako in CONFESSION movie].. this is her lead debut in drama after debut in Confession movie. this kid is amazing talented. carrying such a heavy character with different colors and moods. she's a brilliant ... spontaneous and never limits herself with the script. i could see some lines and expression which i believe her improvised. sasuga matsu's daughter!
the challenging part ... when she brought scenes of being abused, before and after.. and the consequence behavior. her colorful behavior and thinking described enough of her character. you can't guess what she'll say or do... and that's the interesting way to learn more and more and more about her.
[3] the return of my favorite tanaka yuko! who will forget this OSHIN. she never fails here. and never bored me. she's exactly resembles my beloved late grand-auntie. certainly me and mom used to cry everytime we watched tanaka yuko.
[4] the scriptwritersakamoto yuji.. beautiful words. until now, i can't expect the next lines .. and couldn't really guess what will happen next. it's relaxing. you'll find several surprises. with a nice momentum and the flow - not so fast, not too slow. at certain moments, i didn't expect that i would be flooded with tears. it's ok not to cry .. but if somebody watching this without feeling or thinking anything, i'm sure that person considered heartless.
very well-developed plot .. this main story slowly moving into several sub-plots which covered many issues that related to motherhood topic. i just watched Ep 4, and i'm looking forward for more. oh, what a great opening in Ep 1... that's what made me kept on watching the two whole episodes non-stop in a row at cyber cafe :P
i've known sakamoto yuji for comedy and humor works [Saiyuuki, RyokitekiNa, TopCaster, TokyoLoveStory etc]. sakamoto yuji awarded for the best writer of kanno miho's OUR TEXTBOOK drama. emm, but my personal view, MOTHER is his best work at this moment. oh wait, i haven't watch Anata no Tonari ni Dareka Iru drama [B'z did all the theme songs for this drama!].
the soft voice of yasuko and the cheerful voice of little mana is such contradiction but melodious to my ear. time to time, i could feel their growing relationship and even their tiny miny detailed expressions would touched and carried me away. ashida mana's memorable cute laugh already became her trademark now ~ ah, i can't sleep. this make me wanna watch NHK The 8th Day Chicada drama [if i could find it with sub].. but i've got a feeling that the plot of MOTHER is more appealling than CHICADA. maybe.
[5] yamamoto kojias the reporter who investigate the case and kept on following the runaway mother-daughter. for earlier episodes, i saw koji as the usual koji we used to know. the handsome and flirtatious face. i wanna see his other side.
at last, at the end of Ep 4 - with his gentle expression, unexpected line came out from him. yosh, i can't wait for upcoming episodes! i hope sakamoto yuji would succeed to develop yamamoto koji's character.
[6] the director ismizuta nobuo.. when i watch the opening of ep 1.. i kept asking who direct this drama... yappari, no wonder MOTHER is soooo movie-mode! ^^
the director is a film director. this is his debut in directing drama. .... oh, wait .. his debut was in yutaka takenouchi's Psycho Doctor drama. hehe, he's a director of Maiko Haan!! and No More Cry!!! movies.
another director is naganuma makoto - i'm not familiar with his works. oh wait, he's one of directors of miyazawa rie's Ichiban Taitsetsu drama and nakama yukie's Kao drama.
[7] music ... i can't let off the theme song.Nakigao Smile by Hinaco [rythm zone]. i just love it so much. beautiful sad + happy + mixed feeling melody. really wanna know the meaning of the song. you could easily find fanvideos of this drama online :)
i'm waiting the english sub for for Ep 5 and 6 now ... seems suddenly rating for Ep 6 increased from 11.9 to 13.9%. this is NTV's production. i don't think it will get a high rating, beating other glossy doramas. but overall ratings still good, so far.
i wish ashida mana will act with matsu again. as her daughter ... together with kimura. it'll be a miracle if suddenly LOVEGENE sequel come up. oh, btw.. from now on... i will refer ashida mana as matsu's daughter. i'll pray that she'll be a great actress in future .. like his 'first mother' matsu takako. although i love her 'second mother' matsuyuki yasuko too.
she's so small and cute... with such heavy and challenged roleplay on her own.. i've to say, she's on top of the list now .. high above from the other child actors/actresses. this small young kid is really something, ya'know!
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i just finish Ep5 and 6 without sub. ~ dramatic scenes.
uwaa, stress ~ i want more...and more...and more!!!
END of EP5: actually from episode trailer, i already knew the real mother will found the girl. But.. as i said before, over and over... ashida mana's acting is powerful amazing! exactly when she voiced out, "Mama" ... i was shivering. her one word gave me such goosebumps. oh my ~ i was weak, half-fainted. just in a blink of an eye, her face turned into horrible traumatic expression. i could feel hers. she was deeply frightening. iyadaa~ doushiyou?!! if only i could hide her under my bed. poor child.
EP6: dramatic episode. i can see that the character of yasuko's younger sister started developing here. yamamoto koji such a jerk.. with his gentle face, i still can't get why he's trying to manipulate everyone. what his motive anyway? money? scoop? being fun playing with people's feelings? i'm indeed madly-cursed on him.. [anyhow i still can't resist this playboy... lol] ........ and the real mother. uwargh, i feel like i wanna kick her into the sea. not worth to be 'mama'. hikhik, why i'm feel tensed here.. anyway, this is one of the best drama that i will treasured.
alright, to cool down of myself... let's hear Kokoro by Oda Kazumasa. {do you know matsu takako was contributing her sweet voice at the back ^__^}
