Monday, May 19, 2008

Project Make Over



AKA:
Operation Makeover
Go Go Sister
Eonniga Ganda

Summary
At thirty and age coming on her, Jung-joo despises how her life has turned up. Degraded into doing simple chores for a designer, she believes that the turning point of her life was failing in becoming the girlfriend of then school poster-boy Ha-ni. What's more, Ha-ni has now become a top star, and that irritates Jung-joo more than anything. When a chance to go back to the past for a week is given to her, she meets her younger self, and is determined to change the course of life that has eluded her for so long. But such a task seems much harder than it had first appeared to be, and she becomes more desperate than ever.

Source of Summary

Review
Although the outcome of her first love is still the same, but she managed to turn some things right.

Firstly, she got to find out Tae hoon's love for her.
Second, she got to realize her ambition all over again.
Third, she can finally get over her first love.

It is a good thing for one to get over a relationship rather than have it hanging there for the rest of your life. The pace of the movie is not bad. They focus on her present life, showing how she could have used the chance to amend things and make it better for her as compared to now.

However, it's sad to see so little of (mature) Tae Hoon although the younger one isn't that bad too.

Cast
Go So Young as the matured version Na Jeong Ju
Lee Beom Soo as the matured version Oh Tae Hoon
Jo An as Young Jung Joo
Lee Joong-moon as Ha Ni

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Iron Man (2008)

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios’ big screen adaptation of Marvel’s legendary Super Hero Iron Man will launch into theaters on May 2, 2008. Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the story of a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. The film also stars Oscar® winner Gwyneth Paltrow and Oscar® nominees Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges and will be directed by Jon Favreau.

Source of Synopsis and Official website of Iron Man

Cast
Robert Downey Jr. As Tony Stark/Iron Man
Terrence Howard As Rhodey
Gwyneth Paltrow As Virginia "Pepper" Potts
Jeff Bridges As Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger
Shaun Toub As Yinsen
Leslie Bibb As Christine Everhart

Source of Cast and Full Credits can be found here

My Review
I like the movie although I have not seen the comics before. It seems possible to achieve.

I had thought that Pepper could have been the partner of the baddy. And I am so so wrong about it. She belongs to the good side (at least in this movie).

I wonder how she could have stay by Stark's side for so long to wait for him to notice her. And how he could have been so blind not to notice her.

I hope and I think there will be part 2. Looking forward to it.

P.S: If you are going to catch the movie, wait till the end of the credits.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Osen

Details
* Title: おせん
* Title (romaji): Osen
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: Food, comedy
* Broadcast network: NTV
* Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-22 to
* Air time: Tuesday 22:00
* Theme songs:
o Opening theme: Odore by Micro (of Def Tech)
o Ending theme: Koi Uta - Koi Uta- by Tackey & Tsubasa

Handa Sen (Aoi Yuu) is the "okami" (proprietress) of a long-standing restaurant in one of the lower parts of Tokyo. Though she is normally airheaded and loves to drink, she has an impressive mastery of a wide range skills, from cooking to ceramics to calligraphy.

Ezaki Yoshio (Uchi Hiroki) is a chef, looking in a 5 star restaurant but he is not satisfy with his current situation. 10 years ago, he went to the restaurant (where Handa Sen is now the okami) and was encouraged by the previous okami (Handa Sen's mom). After much thoughts, he abandon his current position (high pay and good life) and went to the restaurant, hoping to become the top chef. Disappointment follows as he was ordered to start as the lowest grade helper in the kitchen and also with a salary of 50 thousand yen!

While the drama follows various events surrounding the restaurant, one of the series' highlights is its illustration of Japanese food and culture.

Source of Synopsis

Eps 1
Episode 1 of the drama is almost what is written above. The main focus is how Yoshio convinces himself to work in the restaurant.

Official Title: Natural Okami vs Queen of Microwave

Eps 2
Although in Episode 1, Yoshio sort of convinces himself to work in the restaurant, but episode 2 still shows his struggle in working in the restaurant for such a pathetic salary. In this episode, you can look forward to Yoshio's miso paste(the name was specially named after Yoshio as proposed by Handa)

Official Title: The fight between the mother and daughter is over the role of the okami? Bonding over the magical miso

Eps 3
In this week, the start of the show brought us to look at the banner hanging in front of the restaurant mentioning about their main dish. Although the staffs were puzzled as to why the banner must be placed in front of the entrance, they couldn't find any reasoning. The story behind the banner is the main focus of the show...

Yoshio encountered a man whom took advantage of him by getting a free meal from Yoshio. This man is Ryu, an ex-top-chef of the restaurant Yoshio is working at and Handa mistook him as her father. However, to her dismay, he is not. It turns out that Ryu was good with his culinary skills, but it's excellent presentation. Although customers was flocking to the restaurant, the food was not up to standard other than being nice for viewing. Thus, the restaurant long-time customers no longer supports the restaurant and the new customers are more likely a one-time customers. This was the reason why Handa's mother, the previous okami, replaced Ryu with the 2nd chef, Fujishiro Seiji (who is now the top chef in the restaurant). After being replaced, Ryu get involved in a fight which left his hand injured which he kept blaming the previous okami that she was the one who brought his downfall.

The incident was related to Handa in a reversed version but after knowing the actual version, Handa was still upset for Ryu. Fujishiro Seiji, who was also feeling down on knowing Ryu current's situation, decided to make a meal for him: first, to get Ryu's approval of his skills, and second, to get him back to his old self.

The last dish that was presented to Ryu was the dish that was written in the banner placed in front of the restaurant. It is a dish which Ryu had prepared for Seiji years ago which Seiji couldn't forget the taste and the dish was placed as the restaurant's recommended dish.

When Ryu was replaced by Seiji and had start to abandon himself, the previous okami wanted to make him realize that although he has injured his hand, he still can make excellent dishes. With the help of the entire restaurant staffs, Ryu finally regains his confidence and embark on the journey to sell the dish.

At the end of this episode, although all well ends well, but I can't understand why Ryu took so long to realize his mistake and to start all over again..

Official Title: The specialty tororo meal is the secret sign

Casts
* Aoi Yu as Handa Sen
* Uchi Hiroki as Ezaki Yoshio
* Sugimoto Tetta as Fujishiro Seiji
* Mukai Osamu as Tomekichi
* Suzuki Ranran as Teruko
* Kudo Risa as Fuyuko
* Morita Ayaka as Tamagoya
* Okumura Tomofumi as Kenta
* Takuma Takayuki as Hayashi Takashi
* Watanabe Ikkei as Chinpindo-san
* Yo Kimiko as Asai Shizu
* Yuki Saori as Handa Chiyo
* Matsukata Hiroki as Kinoshita Hideo

Source of Details and Casts

Official Website of Osen can be found here

Did you know?
The drama was aired after the drama 貧乏男子?

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Holiday is such a good thing

Nope, it's not because I am working.
(I am still unemployed at the moment)

The weather ain't good either.
(It's still a very hot weather)

First half day
I spend my first half day with my mom and my sister.
(I wished that my dad was there but well, he had to work.)
The meal that we had, wasn't anything fanciful.
(But it's been quite sometimes since I had lunch with them.)

Second half of the day
The remaining half of the day, I went roaming aimlessly with YS.
(How I wish that he doesn't have to work tomorrow, or at least, had more time so we can walk around just like last time.)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Last Friends



Synopsis:
A story about complex relationship? (Sorry guys, let me try to find one decent description for I haven't finished watching the entire drama and I haven't found any synopsis on this drama)

Review:
Eps 1
Just finished eps 1 of the Last Friends.

First of all, I was quite surprised that Ueno Juri could portray the character Ruka so well that I did not, for any second, linked her back to Nodame (her character in Nodame Cantabile).

Second of all, three of the main cast in Nodame Cantabile, Ueno Juri Eita and Mizukawa Asami, are being placed in this drama. And also, their characters in Last Friends are the complete opposite of the characters in Nodame Cantabile.

And finally, I did not have any negative feelings about the relationships that was being portrayed.

Casts:
Nagasawa Masami as Aida Michiru
Ueno Juri as Kishimoto Ruka
Eita as Mizushima Takeru
Mizukawa Asami as Takigawa Eri
Nishikido Ryou as Oikawa Sosuke

Song:
Utada Hikaru
"Prisoner of Love"

Monday, April 28, 2008

"Thank you for coming"

Today, I went for yet another job interview. Although I have did my best from reading the company history, to understanding the job scope, to studying a new programming language, I still failed to get the job. Why? I guess that's because I wasn't ready enough as I wasn't able to answer majority of the questions that were given to me..

Maybe you might wonder how did I know the results?

At the end of the interview, I was told to wait. With such a request, I was happy, for I thought that maybe the next person to come into the room, would be the HR manager, or one who will discuss further about the job.

Five long minutes went by.. And finally someone came in... The person who stepped into the room was one of the interviewers. He stood just one step after entering the room, stretched out his hand and gave me a firm hand shake... and then he told me

"Thank you for coming."

Gokusen 3



It's OUT! Gokusen 3 is out (I hope that there would be Trick 4 but well, it's better than nothing)

Summary/Casts
Currently airing in Japan, I manage to catch the first 2 episodes of Gokusen 3. Back in the sequel would be Yankumi (Nakama Yukie) and Kyoto Sensei (Namase Katsuhisa). The story focus on yet another notorious class (supposed to be even worse than Gokusen and Gokusen 2's class). The class consists of Yuya Takaki (of Hey! Say! JUMP), playing the lead male role, and joined by Haruma Miura, Hideo Ishiguro, Junta Nakama (B.A.D.), Akito Kiriyama (also of B.A.D.), and Shohei Miura.


Synopsis
Eps 1
The show started off with Kyoto Sensei being appointed to a new school, (and he was employed because he was credited for the successful graduation of the previous 2 school's notorious class. Which means, he was being given the credit of what Yankumi did, which explains why no one heard of Yankumi). Anyway, Kyoto Sensei did a good job in trying to mimic Yankumi(although without success). So, in order to secure his new job, he approached (or should I say, coax) Yankumi back to the school (after Yankumi failed to teach proper Japanese to foreign students in Japan).

Fast forward to the 1st day of her new job, she is faced with a class divided into two groups. The class was portrayed as being very fierce, but it seems to me it's nothing as compared to the class in Part 1 and 2.

So the new task for Yankumi in Eps 1 is to:Unify the class!
Official title: That Yankumi has returned. Finally, the revival of the legendary school drama!!

Eps 2
At the end of Eps 1, although the leader of the two groups seemed to be moving towards being unified as a whole, BUT in eps 2, the situation the two of them faced was finding a good reason to do so.

Yankumi tried to explain talk the two into understanding that they shouldn't treat each other as their enemies but well, we can't blame them for not being able to accept this reason as they have been against each other before Yankumi joined them...

Task for Yankumi in Eps 2 is still to: Unify the class
Official Title: From now on, you guys are my friends!!

Eps 3
After 2 episodes of trying to unify the class, Yankumi finally succeeded in doing so. However, unifying the class is different from gaining their trust.. In this episode, it was almost a ripped-off from Gokusen previous storyline.

This week's storyline involves cases where victims got beat up by a group of seven members. The slight difference this time wrong was that NO police/arrests was made. But well, (as ALWAYS) there were accusation that the culprits was students from 3D class.

For me, I was only looking forward to the acting of the casts than trying to guess who is the culprits. (The culprits was made known in the middle of the show anyway)

Objective for Yankumi: I trust you

Eps 4
With the class now in peace with Yankumi, it's back to the individual character storyline for Episode 4.

This week's storyline focus on the sibling relationship of Kazama Ren and his elder sister. The show started off with the teachers trying to enforce something(sorry I wasn't paying attention so I dunno what's that about) where they will patrol the streets (sounds familiar as compared to the previous Gokusen storyline?) at night after school hours. And as usual, Kyoto Sensei told Yankumi to take precaution against her class. After some argument, the scene was changed to the classroom of 3D where the guys had setup a trap for Yankumi. However, Yankumi choose another entry route and Ren's sister, who came to the school to find him, fall into the trap.

After apologizing on the class behalf to Ren's sister, Yankumi was told that Ren has been secretly working. Ren's parents has passed away and his sister was the only one that Ren has and is depending on. Ren's sister work as a dental assistant by day and a hostess by night.

Well, so far, I guess you know how the storyline goes... Ren wanted to work and earn his own living while his sister insist that he concentrate on his studies. Then some trouble arise where he was force to leave the school (At this moment, he wasn't really upset or what. He seems totally fine with leaving school). It was his sister who pleaded for the forgiveness from those people on Ren's behalf.

Ren even got into a fight where his sister intervene but got beat up by those hooligans. Of cos, as usual, Yankumi joins in the fight (actually, more like the savior as those people doesn't stand a chance against her). After the fight, Yankumi lectured Ren about the ordeal that his sister encounters for him. Ren finally realize his fault and plead for the chance to go back to school and continue his studies.

Objective for Yankumi: Bringing Kazama Ren and his sister together

Ep 5
It seems so slow yet its so fast and now we are at eps 5. Almost halfway of Gokusen 3.
In this week, it's san-shon-men-tan aka meet-the-parents session this week. This meeting session involved, the students to discuss their ambition with the teacher, together with their parents/guardian.

Summary
Well, we don't get to see the guys grad! And we won't get to see a repeated storyline of Season 1 and 2 for Season 3 at the later part (Get my hint?) Anyway, if you can't get enough of Gokusen, there is a Gokusen SP Class 3D Graduation and Gokusen Final (Movie where you will see a number of special appearance from the cast of Season 1, 2, 3 and the new class that Yankumi now takes over)

Objective for Yankumi: - Sidetrack

In Gokusen, Yankumi fall in love with a police.
In Gokusen 2, she falls in love with the sensei (teacher) of a all girls school
In Gokusen 3, she falls in love with a doctor-to-be...

So her love life is actually quite exciting.. and there is no mention on her previous love life. From Gokusen to Gokusen 3, only shown 2 characters were casted in the sequels which is Kuma (he appears quite few times as compared to Gokusen 2) and Kyoto Sensei. Why don't they have any special appearances from the main cast of the previous two Gokusen?

(P.S: Note that NOT the entire drama's storyline is described here as
1: I don't want to flood my blog with text
2: It's just a bit review of my thoughts on that episode)

Cast
* Nakama Yukie as Yamaguchi Kumiko (Yankumi / Ojou / Kumichou) (Math Teacher/Class 3D adviser)
* Namase Katsuhisa as Sawatari Goro, Kyoto (School Vice Principal)
* Enami Kyoko (Board Chairman)
* Utsui Ken as Kuroda Ryuichiro (Kumiko's grandpa / 3rd Generation Oedo Yakuza Boss)
* Anan Kenji as Wakamatsu Hiro
* Kaneko Ken as Asakura Tetsu
* Uchiyama Shinji as Tatsukawa Minoru
* Ryogoku Hiroshi as Sugawara Makoto
* Waki Tomohiro as "Kuma" / Kumai Teruo (Former student of Yankumi)
* Azuma Mikihisa as Baba Masayoshi (PE Teacher)
* Koizumi Kotaro as Natsume Seichi (School Doctor)
* Hirayama Aya as Takano Aoi (English Teacher)
* Hoshino Aki as Ayukawa Sakura (School Nurse)
* Sato Jiro as Yajima Hosaku (Japanese Classics Teacher)
* Sakigake Santaro (魁三太郎) as Hatoyama Yasuhiko (World History Teacher)
* Ishii Kota as Tsuruoka Keisuke (Physics Teacher)

Class 3D


* Miura Haruma as Kazama Ren
* Takaki Yuya as Ogata Yamato
* Ishiguro Hideo as Honjo Kengo
* Kiriyama Akito as Kuraki Satoru
* Nakama Junta as Ichimura Rikiya
* Miura Shohei as Kamiya Shunsuke
* Kido Yuya
* Mayama Akihiro
* Wakaba Ryuya
* Warabino Tomoya
* Kanno Atsumi (菅野篤海)
* Kujirai Kosuke (鯨井康介)
* Shimizu Ryodaro (清水良太郎)
* Totani Kimito (戸谷公人)
* Nakayama Masei (中山麻聖)
* Hamao Kyosuke (浜尾京介)
* Maeda Goki (前田公輝)
* Maruo (まるお)
* Yazaki Hiroshi (矢崎広)
* Yuki Jutta (夕輝壽太)
* Yuji

Source of Cast

Official website of Gokusen can be found here

Friday, April 25, 2008

Friends are...

Definition of friends:
1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
3. A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
4. One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement:
Source

"Should I say I have a lot of friends then?" That's what I wondered a lot...

I have friends, yes..
I have...

But..
do they thought of me as their friends?
Or are their definition of "friends" are just like 2., an acquaintance?
My definition of friends is 1. and 4.
Maybe I have not been a friend of such to others, but now that's what I hope to achieve and also to find in a friend.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Zettai Kareshi (絶対彼氏)


Synopsis: Izawa Riko (Aibu Saki) is a ordinary temp staff who fell in love with a guy in the company she is working in. However, she dare not express her love for him. One day, she was given the opportunity to find a perfect boyfriend... But what she did not expect was a perfect boyfriend who is actually a robot, she named Knight Tenjo (Hayami Mokomichi), programmed to suit her ideal boyfriend expectation.

Asamoto Soshi (Mizushima Hiro) works in the same company as Riko, and Riko sees him as a jerk. He has a feel for her (which she doesn't know).



Starring:
Izawa Riko - Aibu Saki
Knight Tenjo - Hayami Mokomichi
Asamoto Soshi - Mizushima Hiro
Namikiri Gaku - Sasaki Kuranosuke
Asamoto Masashi - Nakamura Shunsuke

Review:
Just finished Episode One and I personally hope there is a happy ending. A perfect boyfriend but is a robot, how could there be a ending where the two is together. It's like those drama where there is two guys fighting for 1 lady where one is like the guardian angel, always helping her out when she needs help but in this drama, she can't choose him for he is a robot......

Episode Two
In Episode Two, Riko still insist of returning Knight but she is faced with the two situation:
1) Returned Knight after the trial period but she got to pay an amount (within 7 days) in cash for the repair fee incurred in Eps 1
2) Make the payment of 1 billion yen as the purchase charges of Knight
In order to get rid of Knight (well, she has been with the guy/robot for only a while and definitely she can't have too much feelings for him), so she decided to pay the repair fee..

But will she be able to come up with amount in time for payment, and will she have a change of mind in the end??

Summary
A sweet memory

Sidetrack
The female colleague of Riko, is definitely one who likes to snatch things away from others. Just when Riko give up on the guy she love, that lady also dumped him.

Sidetrack
Aibu Saki makes me think of Nodame (as in Juri Ueno in Nodame Cantabile). Their hairstyles look exactly the same

Do you know?
This drama originates from the manga of the same title and the author of the manga is Yuu Watase (author of Fushigi Yuugi)

Monday, March 31, 2008

Saving up/Spending and get the maximum out of it

1. Earn Points while you spend
When spending is required, get the best out of it. Unless you are buying something that does not allow the use of Visa, else you can look at UOB debit/credit cards.

For students
Don't worry about having to open a saving account with a balance of $500. With UOB, you can apply their UOB campus card with a minimum of $100. (What I do not know is whether do you have to maintain the $100 but you can always asked them to verify these details). It is a Visa debit card (that means you will have to have the $ inside your account before you can do your shopping). where can earn points, where you can redeem the point for vouchers and their redemption categories and items

UOB Visa Campus Debit Card
Pros:
Minimum of $100 deposit
Earn points while you spend and redeem vouchers

Cons:
Sufficient funds to be in your account when you make payment

2. Getting higher interest even with normal savings account
As you know, most Savings account are offering 0.25% per annum interest.

Standard Chartered E-Savers
Pros:
0.8% per annum
Interest is credited to your account monthly instead of yearly

Cons:
2~3 working days for transfer of fund
$5 charges for withdrawal of fund from counters
Cardless and bookless, you only have a few documents to prove your account existence.

3. No minimum income credit card
This card that I am referring to, is the Citibank Clear Card offered by Citibank. Students and NSFs are all eligible to apply.


What you can enjoy:
"Citi Clear Card keeps up with your pace of life, offering you privileges around the clock. Enjoy privileges and discounts at over 600 merchant locations, from the hottest nightspots to coffee chains or cinemas to music and book stores." Source

Let me see whether I can find more...

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Free Laptops From Sony Ericsson - Hoax

Hm.. Recieved an email from my close one today and I thought it is just too good to be true.

Here goes the content of the email:


Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:44:06 +0800
From: esther.gh.lee@bankofamerica.com
Subject: FW: Free Laptops From Sony Ericsson
CC: anna.swelung@ericsson.com

Hello everyone!

The Ericsson Company is distributing free computer lap tops in an attempt to match what Nokia has already done.

Ericsson hopes to increase its popularity this way. For this reason,they are giving away the WAP Laptops. All you need to qualify is to
send this email to 8 people you know. Within 2 weeks, you will receive Ericsson T18. But if you can send it to 20 people or more, you will receive Ericsson R320.

Make sure you send a copy to:

anna.swelung@ericsson.com

Thanks & regards,
Normi Sapuan
nsapuan@ups-scs.com

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This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you
are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error)
please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any
unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this
e-mail is strictly forbidden.

The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. This email is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instruments.

__________________________________________________________

And I still remembered vaguely months/years ago, I received a few of these emails, claiming free iPod/Mobile Phone/PSP etc which nothing happened after I followed through the requirements, spamming my dear friends' email inbox.

Therefore, this time round, I went to make a search and to my surpise~! I saw a few writers on this topic and verified my doubt, this is indeed a hoax.

Official Websites:
http://www.ericsson.com/ca/hoax.shtml
http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/contact/faq.shtml#4

FYI: The person in the spotlight named, Anna Swelunds working as the Executive Promotion Manager for Ericsson Marketing does not exist at Ericsson.

Other sources:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/ericsson_hoax.htm

Monday, March 3, 2008

Death Note Spin Off L: Change The World

Synopsis (Source from Encore Films Pte Ltd)
“The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die.”

A God of Death dropped a notebook which had the power to kill people. Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) found the notebook and tried to become Kira, God of a new crime-free world by executing criminals with the notebook. L (Kenichi Matsuyama), a genius detective confronted Kira who was his toughest enemy ever. At last, L managed to close the case of Kira but had to pay a painful price.

After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari (Shunji Fujimura), L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

A boy and a girl hold the keys to solving this case and L had to get into a desparate situation to protect the kids. L has solved many cases previously through monitors and using his brain power as he has never appeared in public as L. This is the first and last case that he has to deal with people in person...

A person who obtains the most horrible weapon “Death God” created by human says the same thing as Kira... ”I am going to change the world.”

What will happen to L? Is anything in the world going to be changed? The turbulent 23 days even L cannot predict awaits him. The most exciting and moving countdown has now begun!

CAST
* Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note; Death Note 2 - the Last name) as L
* Yuki Kudo (SAYURI, Rush Hour)
* Mayuko Fukuda (Sinking of Japan)
* Shunji Fujimura as Watari

Review
Went to watch with my two buddies and although I find it much better than Death Note (Part 2), they didn't have the same opinion as me. In what way better? Hm... The way that L had developed feelings/attachment with the two children, making him a much better person(than just being clever), and the hope to live.

What I was hoping though was that another new Shinigami (Death God) came to offer the little girl with the option to kill K and group but it would make the whole thing look too easy.

If you are planning to see a battle of wits, I doubt you will see it in this movie because there ain't that much thinking or should I say plotting. It's really focusing on L's last 23 day(To be exact, the last 14 days as the first 9 days was cut and paste clip from Death Note 2 with a few new scenes added in. Fans of Tatsuya Fujiwara or Erika Toda, you might want to give this a miss as the scene with them are clips from Death Note Part 2.

Moral of the story
Treasure everyday like tomorrow is the last(Something that I had hope to achieve too)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Kanojo to no Tadashii Asobikata 彼女との正しい遊び方



Summary
The script won the 2006 TV Asahi contest for new scenario writers. Himura Yuna, 8 years old met Fujiki Takeshi, also 8 years old in a playground. Yuna suggested to play a game of princess and servant and contract binding time is...

forever.
Until someone discovers their relationship.


CAST
* Kurokawa Tomoka as Himura Yuna (18)
* Mizushima Hiro as Fujiki Takeshi (18)
* Hamada Gaku as Mizuno Hideaki (18)
* Tanimura Mitsuki as Saionji Shizuka (18)
* Matsuo Toshinobu as Endo Kazuya (20)
* Mitsuishi Ken as Sumida Masayuki (37)
* Ezawa Rina (江澤璃菜) as Sasaoka Maiko (18)
* Okami Tokihide (岡見時秀) as Otomo Tsuyoshi (18)
* Suzuki Keita (鈴木啓太) as Koyama Keiichi (18)
* Kitazawa Marika (北澤鞠佳)
* Matsukawa Shinnosuke (松川真之介)

Review
Just finished watching the film and it's good. Really it's just nice. The length and pace. If it had been a drama, I could foresee that it will too draggy(which I really hated to see).

Moral of the story
Some things should be said instead of hidden.

Song: Ame Nochi Hare by Nanamusica