Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

  Is it me or do I have now an obsession with K-Drama under the law and order genre? I did enjoy Tunnel even with the obvious unrealistic twist. I'd say that Voice also had a fictitious concept which was placed as a disclaimer in the beginning. Now, it's time for me to check out Partners for Justice on Netflix which has two seasons. I watched both seasons of Voice and now I'd like to check this out. Yup, no eye candy here unlike While You Were Sleeping , Kill It , and Justice  but it's really an interesting story.  The story involves the collaboration and rivalry between a prosecutor and a forensic doctor. The main character Baek Bom (Jung Jae Yong) is a forensics doctor who's known as Grumpy Baek Bom due to his disposition. Baek Bom is someone who uses some unorthodox tactics and is pretty anti-social. Meanwhile, Eun Sol (Jeung Ju Mi) is a rookie prosecutor who's got family issues, highly intelligent, and she's one who really emphasizes the importance of pe...

Granted, I don't really see Korean dramas in their most recent all the time so I decided to backtrack and watch some older ones. Before Rugal - there was the OCN sci-fi K-Drama Tunnel which is a bizarre mix of time-travel and realistic crime drama. Rugal was bordered on sci-fi, Manga style, and Hollywood-style action. Tunnel has a time set between 1986 and 2016 while the series was broadcast in 2017 - that would be three years ago! The series was hoping to replicate the success of Voice which I've watched the first two seasons. However, the brutality of this series is far tamer than what Voice offered but not without its realistic dealings with serial killings. What was entertaining was that the hero Park Kwang Ho (and another person with the same name exists too) was sent to 2016. He's in a world that was shaped due to his absence when he disappeared trying to chase serial killer Mok Jin Hoo. I thought Jin Hoo's actor looked familiar - he was actually the same actor wh...

I admit that I was more into the realistic fiction in K-Drama. It's because I wanted to learn about the world of criminology without having to get a degree to know about it! I was having a struggle with what I wanted to watch. There's some interesting K-Drama on the top ten of Netflix. I even think I might watch some J-Drama such as Emergency Interrogation Room or Border . There's also some horror-fiction such as Alice in Borderland from Japan or Uncanny Encounter and Sweet Home from South Korea. So, I thought that my recent obsession with police drama while desiring something obviously fictional has kicked in. So, I did watch Rugal which actually could've been better. So, I decided to give Tunnel a shot after several choices on Netflix . Yup, I might also decide to do the same with Zenkaiger  because I may want to focus on other stuff.  Tunnel's storyline takes place in 1986 and 2016. The story has a detective named Park Kwang Ho (Choi Jin Hyuk) who gets transporte...

I wonder if I'm just being biased or not considering January 3, 2021, was the 10th birthday of  Dream High - a series that was shown on ABS-CBN (dubbed) and I later watched it on Netflix (subbed). I was thinking about the time I wasn't so much into Korean series (yet) until I felt Japanese entertainment was on the decline or that I just needed a break from it. I can't deny that Dream High is obviously J-Drama inspired. They even had episodes in Japan and their theme song even has a Japanese cover. The series is pack full of Japanese influence and K-Pop is obviously inspired by J-Pop. Though, I'd rather really use Dream High to bash one Nickelodeon show that I used to watch until it got so stale. That show is Victorious  and I feel like Stephen Hillenburg did the RIGHT THING to leave Nickelodeon.  How does Dream High actually end up making it shine better than Victorious ? One thing I really hate (now) about American humor is how often character development is ignored. I...