Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

Well here's some Power Rangers actors playing with Gaim's locks... ha ha1 This picture made me wished Troy were closer to Shun in KR Fourze... Lightspeed Rescue... they're going to help rescue the city from Overlords while Gaim fights the main villains... A deadly beauty... Cameron Jebo wants to become a Kamen Rider!

Here's a list of drama I hope to watch soon...while I search for a girlfriend. My first choice would be Lovers of Condor Heroes. My reason for wanting this one is to find out what kind of bad guy was Yang Guo's father.  Return of Condor Heroes' main protagonist Yang Guo is the son of the antagonist of Lovers of Condor Heroes, which explains why Yang Guo must clean his name.  I simply want to check this out. Another is Princess Pearl... one of Qiong Yao's lighter dramas.  Ruby in and Vicki Zhao starred in this one before the remake of Romance in the Rain for the 2001 audience. "Home" starring Vic Chou would be interesting for me.  He is paired with Janine Zhang for the second time (the first pairing was in Tea Fight),  In here Vic Chou's character is a Taiwanese doctor drafted into the military.  So far, Vic Chou's change of image from eye candy to serious actor, he may remind one of Qin Han in classic Qiong Yao. Lian Lian Bu Wang  (Loving N...

Aside from looking past my previous bias for Gaim, Gen Urobuchi really should write another Kamen Rider season or maybe even a Super Sentai season.  Now for my thoughts on how it went... and my criticism of the series so far: So obviously we have some plots similar to Ryuki.  A reward for winning?  Check.  Some kind of parallel world?  Check, we have the Helheim forest in the place of the mirror world.  A battle royale?  Check.  While the concept is silly with the use of fruits, Gen Urobuchi is probably one writer I'd like to meet and be under his wing.  So far, it's working well for a fresh faced Kamen Rider... to be honest it's already getting old to keep using Toshiki Inoue and Yasuko Kobayashi for Kamen Rider.  This was also the first show that got me to get interested in Gen Urobuchi in the first place.  I love the well-timed humor (which shines over my love for blatant silliness) while balancing it with seriousness. ...

SO I've finished with Mischievous Kiss and I would say that maybe, I should also watch the Taiwanese version to a comparison.  I might be biased but most of the Taiwan cast members usually do their best in acting.  And now for more... I'm now in chapter 22 of Gaim which things get interesting.  So I'm in a snail pace right now and I am hoping to get my reserach done and over.  It's getting pretty interesting in spite of its rather silly fruit motif.  Takebe has weird ideas, Gen Urobuchi managed to save the day!  I just wonder how the conflict between Yggdrasil and Gaim will end?  Gaim had a delay of broadcast thanks to golf but yeah, I know it will be worth the wait!

House of Flying Daggers is a Wuxia and love tragedy, which features three characters in focus namely Jin, Mei and Liu.  What's better for me is that they are played by Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi and legendary actor Andy Lau (who I first saw in Magic Kitchen and later saw him next in Internal Affairs).  Also this film was in the memory of the late Anita Mui, who died of cervical cancer before she could be cast.  Now for the review. The film had the Peony Pavilion where Mei sings a song which arguably was the theme of the whole film.  The song goes to describe of how a gorgeous woman then appears which causes ruin from a Han Dynasty poem.  Made me think that I would actually want to see a Wuxia inspired by the Trojan War someday.  In this film both Jin and Liu are both caught against each other, because of Mei's beauty which happens later in the film.  And the whole plot also revolves on the house of rebels as the Tang Dynasty is already in decline...

Black and White is not just a standard police series.  I would even say that the first series of Vic Chou to take him to new heights, is more or less which is all revolving around the anti-hero Chen Zai Tian and his partner, the more honorable Wu Ying Xiong (who is also a douche at times)... which tries to connect these... Chen Zai Tian's identity was a mystery.  So he was supposedly adopted by the mafia leader of San Lian Hui, where he got an identity change.  As the anti-hero, he has one mysterious past which goes to "Well he is... then he isn't..." which actually, his true parentage was never fully covered (weak point).  Then the mysteries move to Wu Ying Xiong, whose shady past is revealed as the series progresses forward. Another of my favorite mysteries in the series is... who is the real main antagonist?  The whole mystery between the Sarkozy and the San Lian Hui is something.  And for one, where in the world did Sarkozy get all that resources? ...

So this is the first version of Mischievous Kiss I've seen... I haven't seen the Korean or the Taiwanese version.  I'm usually more inclined to watch the Taiwanese version tha the Japanese version.  Now my thoughts on this version and I'm ten episodes so far. So Yuki Yamada and Miki Honoka are former Toku actors.  Yuki Yamada was Joe Gibken in Gokaiger and Miki Honoka was Mezool in Kamen Rider OOO.  So okay, I better be careful not to go pedo mode over Miki Honoka... and we have Yuki Furukawa who has not been in Toku. Another familiar face is Kanna Mori from Kamen Rider Decade.  I'm not all that surprised considering after playing the role of Kotaro Minami, the actor Tetsuo Kurata played in J-Drama with Megumi Mori as sidekicks in Hey Brother (which I haven't seen). So my thoughts this is a pretty silly story since I was thinking, Miki Honoka compared to Ariel Lin as the leading lady, is underaged.  And I was thinking that the story itself is more o...