I’ve had this movie in my laptop for a month now… and I finally managed to finish it. And I must say, I <3 “Sukida”.
A black screen and a female voice narrating: “Yosuke, do you remember? I remember..” starts “Sukida” with the youthful days of the two main characters Yu & Yosuke. Yu, played by Miyazaki Aoi, has a crush on her classmate Yosuke, played by Eita. However, Yosuke seems to have taken an interest in Yu’s older sister, who just recently lost someone whom she loves dearly. Here is where our conflict begins.
“Yosuke worried about my sister. My sister, who smiled more often than before.” Don’t you just love the subtleness of that line? Anyway, the synopsis can be quite misleading.. because the story is much more than a love triangle.. actually it is not really. The scenes of Yu & Yosuke sitting by the floodgate as Yu sits idling by while Yosuke picks on his guitar, are my favorites. The guitar tune is quite lovely by itself.. and I’m disappointed that it wasn’t released into an OST or something similar.
The movie doesn’t have much dialogue and even when it does, it’s quite subtle. But I think there’s where the beauty of this movie lies in… the cinematography is exquisitely beautiful and the actors/actresses performances are superb. I don’t think Sukida is meant for everyone.. Some will find it dull, slow, and meaningless… But some, like me, will remember this movie for a long time…
SS501 new Korean single – Deja Vu sure is a hit. There are three songs on this single… and I think they’re all equally as good. Deja Vu’s “dibidibidipdip” melody is additively catchy… the “lalala” chorus in A Song Calling For You is fresh and fun. My Destiny is good also. The boys all look good here.. Welcome back to Korean, SS501!
Deja Vu
1. Deja Vu
2. A Song Calling For You
3. My Destiny Download
Bara no Nai Hanaya is a Jdrama starring Katori Shingo (SMAP) and Takeuchi Yuko (Pride).
Synopsis:
Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing that gives meaning and joy to his life is Shizuku, but even that begins to trouble him when Shizuku begins acting strange, hiding her face by putting a cloth over her head when around other people.
One day after opening his flower shop, Eiji comes across a blind woman standing by the door, taking shelter from the rain. When he invites her to come inside the shop, she at first refuses, but later gives in to Eiji’s kindness. They become intimate friends and she slowly grows to depend on Eiji’s sincerity and goodheartedness. After rescuing her a following evening when she walks into the street and is nearly struck by traffic, Eiji himself inexplicably discovers the cold of winter that has saddled his heart all these years slowly melting away…
I’ve always found Jdrama’s synopsis to be quite boring, and sometimes misleading. At first the drama sounds really boring to me… and the lack of a handsome male lead is another reason to be troubled over. But I gave this drama and chance anyway and surprisingly, it’s good.
Katori Shingo is not particularly handsome and he doesn’t carry a certain aura of attractiveness like Kimura Takuya. But, I love love love him in this drama as the almost-too-gentle Eiji aka hanaya-san. His smooth, deep voice is to die for… I think it’s his biggest attraction.
And plus, there’s Matsuda Shota.. what can you hate about him? The guy always has such weird roles that I’ve stopped being surprised. This time he’s a private-detective… but he’s almost playing something like Kurosagi. Everytime I think of Matsuda Shota.. it’s always that mystery… “is he a good person? is he a bad person?” His characters are always like that.. very mysterious… you can’t clearly say that he’s good or bad.. because he’s both. And I like those type of characters so much more than the one-sided “goody-two shoes” or the “beyond-bad-and-evil”..
The new boyband Ast1 recently released their promotional video with the message “overthrow” Super Junior. I find it kind of funny and interesting why their company used this tactic to promote the boys. Why SuJu, though? I wonder what it would be like if it were against DBSK.. hehehe. My friends and I joked that everyone would just laughed. But yea, size-wise, SuJu is doubled Ast1’s… so I wonder how they can “overthrown” them. LOLZ.
So I finally decided to open a new blog reserved only for blogging about the insanity of fandom. Which fandom, you ask? Too many to count. Anything from jpop, kpop, jdrama, kdrama… you can find it here. Most of the posts here are for personal purposes – relieving stress, rantings, and fangirling – but I’ll try to be helpful and upload stuff in case people need it. Anyway, I hope I’ll have a good time here. ^_^
Welcome back to Korean, SS501!