Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

The words Qiong Yao actually trigger the names of senior actors like Qin Han, Liu Xue Hua (who I really get excited whenever I hear she's playing a mother role) or Brigitte Lin.  Now for my ideal love teams for Qiong Yao... I won't mind Vic Chou and Fan Bingbing being paired for a second time. Jerry Yan and Liu Yi Fei.  Well I'd want to avoid overusing them but making a series based on Red Dust and remaking Zai Shui Yi Fang would be good. Jerry Yan and Esther Liu- Another bigger age gap of 11 years but could still work. If we want a closer age gap, we can have Vic Chou and Liu Yi Fei.  Liu Yi Fei is only six years younger than Vic Chou. Vic Chou and Esther Liu.  Both could make a good chemistry as well.

Well here's Rin Takanashi's first lead role and here she is the P.E. teacher Makoto Kiryu.  So she starts off as a delinquent but changes for the better which for me, I really prefer her playing the badass bitch role rather than the flirty bitch at times.  Hmmm while I thought either Nao Nagasawa or Ayumi Kinoshita may have played the role better but hey, let's give Rin a chance shall we?  While she's no Oscar trophy winner or anything but she does pull off the job. So as a P.E. teacher for the whole ten episode J-Drama, I thought the drama itself the student life which reminds me of Gokusen (which I haven't watched the second and third seasons).  She becomes a teacher with the focus of these newbies namely Kiyoharu, Itcho, Minoru, Kotaro (who's pretty short for his age), Chinatsu (who loses her ability to walk), Emi and Aoi who are usually overshadowed by Chinatsu.  Chinatsu herself as a character is interesting considering she lost her ability to walk and Ma...

Well after some time to find some online streaming, I found it but no subs.  Boo!  Well, anyway, I'd rather watch it raw than dubbed.  So what do I think about it?  Here's my two cents and I'm up to episode four for now: The part where Rin plays the delinquent is kinda funny.  Okay she's not really all that spectacular when it comes to action but at least she did it right. Her role as a school teacher is amusing.  Well she's improved beyond her role as Mako Shiraishi. Other than that, the whole drama feels more like eye candy to me. =P

Well I'm back for this blog after some this blog has been inactive.  I guess it's time for me to review the Chinese/Japanese film called Tea Fight.  As a tea drinker, I found the movie interesting and maybe some people really don't like it but I find it kind of cute in its way.  So we begin with Erika Toda who is the main character Mikiko who has her admirer in Murano.  So the other character is Vic Chou who I thought was the leading guy but he is sort of the antagonist (not really in this script) together with Taiwanese talent Janine Chang as Ruhua (whose acting really stands out compared to the rest) and some short minor role by senior actor Eric Tsang.  The film is written by Akane Yamada and Wang Yemin making it a Chinese/Japanese film. Storywise, it is pretty weird but watchable.  I thought of WTF about the battle of tea?  Why fight over tea?  We have the so-called curse of male black tea and female black tea and well, I'm a black tea fan ...

So here's another TV drama I overlooked for reviewing namely Green Forest My Home.  This was another stage in Chinese beauty Esther Liu's stage as a TV drama actor.  Now here's a typical drama story but somehow cuts through Qiong Yao's stereotypes to give you a good ending.  The start of the story is where Sophie has her promise to her "prince charming" William who leaves for England.  She is stuck in a love triangle between two guys- William and the other guy Owen.  For William, she is also stuck in a love triangle for him with her adopted sister Susan whose biological family was of their driver's. Well I do have to admit I really hated Susan at first with her scheming attitude but that mellows down since she's not all that antagonistic.  She had her lover Brian, who is William's executive.  I thought the whole story here is where Sophie is a proud teacher of the pre-school Green House and has to compete with the prestigious university she is l...

Well it's not really time for me to discuss about this or is it?  I just felt seeing me and my best friend over a girl who he won.  So where does this love triangle begin? Xerya's well he's an unknown orphan who has no relation to the Hsu family believing himself to be the bastard son of the family.  In the past, he met Tian Bian at the St. Teresa' Orphanage where the two started a childhood friendship.  Tian Bian was the bastard child of the Hsu family's patriarch which disgraced the whole family.  Xerya kept searching for her from childhood.  Looking at it, they have known each other since childhood and Xerya well, is a better character than the other guy Xiaogang. On the other hand we have the Hsiaogang/Tianbian pairing.  So while Xerya is engaged to his adoptive sister Shanni but the real suspense was to who gets the girl. If you think of Xiaogang he's pretty crude and rude (he is a picture of me in a way) and Tianbian is meek and quiet. ...

Here's a list of my favorite Chinese drama couples namely: Jerry Yan and Barbie Xu- In Meteor Garden, they became an item for two seasons though they never dated in real life.  For Jerry Yan, he has the charisma of senior actor Qin Han and for Barbie Xu, she has the charisma of Liu Xue Hua.  Too bad they never got beyond Meteor Garden.  I mean they could have actually made a good couple for Qiong Yao TV drama.that was previously done by Qin Han and Liu Xue Hua. Vic Chou and Barbie Xu- They had a short relationship that didn't last.  I did think that in Mars, they really had a good chemistry.  While they didn't become a match in Meteor Garden, in Mars they did. Vic Chou and Michelle Chen- I love their performance in "Wish to See You Again" in a rather lighthearted romance series.  But I'd like to see them do serious. Vic Chou and Fan Bing Bing- While I'm to complain to how incredibly teary eyed Last Night of Madam Chin was but the two had their ...