Tomie Collection

I browsing through a category of mystery/horror movies when I saw this particular Tomie collection. Hope to find more information regrading the released date of this movie as it does look like quite old, although the 6th and 7th movies are dated 2005. Now watching the first movie and so far, it looks enjoyable.

Tomie (1999)



















It started off with a guy finding a paper bag containing a woman's head, (which I assumed belongs to Tomie) since the eye opened when shown.

Then, we are brought to the beginning of the movie storyline, showing a repeating process of a lady who lost her memory three years ago during a car accident trying to recover her memory as she is consistently plagued with nightmares which she believed is linked to her accident. Through her consultation session, she provides portion of the accident, bringing in the name of "Tanabe" and "Tomie".

Cast of the movie
Miho Kanno as Tomie Kawakami
Mami Nakamura as Tsukiko Izumisawa
Yoriko Douguchi as Dr. Hosono
Tomorowo Taguchi as Detective Harada
Kouta Kusano as Yuuichi Saiga
Kae Minami
Kenji Mizuhashi as Yamamoto
Rumi as Kaori
Ikko Suzuki (as Ikkô Suzuki)

Renai Shashin - Ai Otsuka

碧々とした　夜空の下で
あなたが見てた　後ろ恋姿

時折見せる　無邪気な寝顔
あたしが見てた　恋しい姿

どんなひとときもすべて
忘れないように
夢中でシャッター切るあたしの心は
切ない幸せだった

「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
ただそれだけでよかったのに

雨降る時の　交わしたキスは
つながれてゆく　2人の姿

一生にもうないこのキモチ
うまく言えないけど
あなたに出会ってあたしの毎日は
キラキラと輝いたよ

「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
あなたがくれた幸せよ

「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
「ただ、君を愛してる」
ただそれだけでよかったのに

小さな部屋に飾られている
2人の笑顔　恋愛写真

___________________________
aoao to shita yozora no shita de
anata ga miteta ushiro koi sugata

tokiori miseru mujaki na negao
atashi ga miteta koishii sugata

donna hitotoki mo subete
wasure nai you ni
muchuu de shattaa kiru atashi no kokoro wa
setsunai shiawase daata

tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada sore dake de yokatta noni

ame furu toki no kawashi ta kisu wa
tsunaga re te yuku futari no sugata

isshou ni mou nai kono kimochi
umaku ie nai kedo
anata ni deatte atashi no mainichi wa
kirakira to kagayai ta yo

tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
anata ga kure ta shiawase yo

tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada kimi wo aishiteru
tada sore dake de yokatta no ni

chiisana heya ni kazara re te iru
futari no egao renai shashin

___________________________
Under the green night sky
You saw the back of love

Sometimes you show your innocent sleeping face
And I saw your dear appearance

No matter what
I can’t forget everything
In dreams, the shutter of my heart turns off
In painful bliss

However, I still love you
However, I still love you
However, I still love you
However I’m glad even if that’s all it is

The kiss we exchanged when it was raining
Ties the both of us together

This feeling will not last my entire life
I can’t explain it well, but
After meeting with you, every day of my life
Has shone brightly

However, I still love you
However, I still love you
However, I still love you
You gave me happiness

However, I still love you
However, I still love you
However, I still love you
However I’m glad even if that’s all it is

Decorating this tiny room
Are 2 smiling faces—a photo of love

___________________________

Did you know?

• This song was the theme song for the show Tada, ima wa, Aishiteru.
  
• There is a movie with the exact title Renai Shashin but it was an early film based on the novel.
• Tada, kimi wo, Aishiteru means It's Just, I love you

Mop Girl モップガール

Synopsis/Review

Tanihara Shosuke, the male lead of the dorama, who has acted in many doramas (such as Oku ~ Hana no Ran~ 大奥～華の乱～) and movies, plays the role of Ohtomo Shotaro, who is always dragged by Momoko in her bid to help people who are about to face their last hour.

Although Kitagawa Keiko is quite young, but I really like her acting and the way she portray her roles. In this dorama, she has definitely improved her acting as compared to the role she took for Sailor Moon Live Action, where she played Sailor Mars. The story plot although is not as mysterious as detective drama, but the different themes in each episodes carries the whole show well.

This drama has it that when Hasegawa Momoko was 8(?) years old, she was given the ability to go back in time to relive what happen in a day. This ability was passed to her by a mysterious lady who saved her from a car accident, by sacrificing her own. Fast forward to Momoko (Keiko Kitagawa) , 21 years old. At the start of the show, she was working in a grand hotel where she messed things up during a wedding (she actually accidentally destroyed the wedding cake, baked by the bride herself, just seconds before the cake have to be presented to the guest). As a punishment, she ended up at a sub-company of the hotel's organization called Little Angel.

Being forced to sign a 3 month no resignation contract, Momoko had thought of Little Angel as a wedding organizer company(which she was totally wrong!) Little Angel is a cleaning company, but for the dead. This is also how she started to get use her hidden/given ability whenever she get in touch with the dead person item.

Did you Know?

• Takaoka Sousuke (as Wakayama Akira) is the husband of Aoi Miyazaki
• Erika who sang the main theme song, Destination Nowhere, is Erika Sawajiri (the female star who acted in One Litre of Tears)

Quote of the show

Although there are many quotes in the show by/for otomo-san, I think the most deserving quote of the show would be the part where the scene of Momoko being rescued by the mystery lady and her passing her power to young Momoko.

"Now I give you my power. Be brave and create your future."

Soundtrack

Like the song in the drama? I have not yet seen the soundtrack in Singapore but the main theme song(although I hope it would be sang by Keiko) is sang by

• Erika (Erika Sawajiri) titled Destination Nowhere

Cast Information

• Kitagawa Keiko as Hasegawa Momoko
  • Miyama Karen as young Hasegawa Momoko
• Tanihara Shosuke as Ohtomo Shotaro
• Asami Reina as Ookouchi Hina
• Takaoka Sousuke as Wakayama Akira
• Sato Jiro as Higashi Shigeo
• Magaii as Yokouchi Atsushi
• Watanabe Natsuna as Nakamura Tamaki
• Ikezu Shoko as Kataoka Miki
• Hori Mayumi
  
• Honda Hirotaro as Hasegawa Ryuji

Guests

• Morishita Yoshiyuki as Policeman (ep1)
• Ogura Hisahiro (ep1)
• Sakai Ayana (ep2)
• Hosho Mai (ep3)
• Katagiri Hairi (ep3)
• Koide Saori (ep4)
• Sakamoto Makoto (ep4)
• Hashimoto Satoshi (ep5)
• Sato Hitomi (ep6)
• Kubota Masataka (ep7)
• Kase Taishu (加勢大周) (ep8)
• Abe Tsuyoshi (ep10)

Source for Cast can be found here
Official Website can be found here

Shiratori Reiko De Gozaimasu (I) 白鳥麗子でございます！(I)

Released on: 14th Jan 1993 (Fuji Tv Broadcast)
Total Episodes: 5

Matsuyuki Yasuko is casted as Shiratori Reiko, the female lead of this drama. Shiratori Reiko is a rich girl who was initially a shy and humble girl until she met Tetsuya (acted by Hagiwara Masato), whom she had fallen in love with at first sight when she was young.

This love for Tetsuya changed Reiko into an arrogant and proud person and because of this attitude, she failed to express herself properly to him when he express his love for her. Thus, when both of them finally went separate ways (for education), Reiko then realised her actual feeling and decided to find Tetsuya and express herself properly.. And this is where the drama begins..

This is one of my very first Japanese drama I started with and it makes me interested in watching Japanese drama till now. Initially, her laughter did not went well with my ears but after watching more, I really like the way Reiko tries to make thing work with so many "coincidences" meeting. However, it's always her pride that is causing her not to go forward..

Did you Know?

• This show origins from the manga of the same title, Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu

Quote of the show

Quote for the show? I would say it's the most heard of of the show, which is the laughter of Reiko

"Hohoho" by Shiratori Reiko

Soundtrack for the show

Song Title: Makenaide
Singer: ZARD

Cast of the drama:

• Matsuyuki Yasuko (松雪泰子) as Shiratori Reiko
• Hagiwara Masato (萩原聖人) as Tetsuya
• Komatsu Chiharu (小松千春) as Tyoko
• Miho Jun (美保純) as Shiratori Reiko's maid
• Takarada Akira (宝田明) as Shiratori Reiko's dad