Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

Netflix had premiered Voice Season 2 which has a nearly, entirely new cast. The second season has Lee Ha Na resuming her role as the team leader Kang Kwon Joo. Season 1 ended with the self-righteous criminal's rather well-deserved brutal death. However, one of the characters Moo Jin Hyuk takes leave to take care of his ailing son. Just because the first mission is over doesn't mean the second one isn't. A new plot brews in after some time when a new criminal emerges with a couple of new cases. A former detective named Dong Kang Woo (who was possibly wrongly framed for murder) appears and challenges the team. What scares me is that the new mystery villain has a fetish for cutting off human body parts. Fortunately, a lot of this cutting is done off-screen since I usually can't handle such scenes even when I'm seldom tempted to mutilate someone. This new villain seems to be an upgrade of the Darkman villain Durant (who ends up being more popular than Strack) in having...

I remembered watching Vagabond last 2019 for a rather stupid reason namely Suzy Bae. Though I was also quite enthusiastic to see her act together with Lee Seung Gi for a second time around even if they weren't lovey-dovey like in Gu Family Book . After I got WTFed by the ending of Vagabond - I decided to check the TV series Strangers which is alternatively titled  Forest of Secrets which had Shin Hye Sun involved in a sidekick role. I think she requested that she be written off so she could pursue better offerings than to be part of the second season which I'm yet to see. Yet, the first season felt like a second season wasn't necessary, unlike Vagabond . Now, the common denominator in them is that actor Lee Geung Young is in them. Both of them have him as the man behind the man. In Vagabond , he played Edward Park, who pretended to be all innocent, and lied that his airlines were hi-jacked by a terrorist when he did it himself. The very statement of Jessica (who you th...

I was thinking about Shin Hye Sun and how much she's a versatile actress. Not pretty? So what! What she lacks in appearance can be forgotten because of her hard work and talent. I exclaimed at how "ugly" she is but I get won over by her performance and maybe her brain way too many times. She took part as a sideline character in the K-Drama Stranger which she was a tragic character. Honestly, she nearly embodied my ideal bride and spoilers - she doesn't make it! Her character Eun Soo is a prosecutor who's held a long grudge against Chang Joon (played by villain actor Lee Kyoung Young who would later play Samael in Vagabond ). She didn't do any action roles and it was in 2017 when she held this role. What happened next seemed to be controversial. Her character Eun Soo is killed off at the end of episode 13. Boy, I did feel sorry for her parents for losing their only daughter and child. Just when she cleared out her father's name - the character Eun Woo is...