Garrison Pleads Guilty in Fatal Crash
Uh-oh...looks like Tweener is going back to the pokey. No Fish to get him outta there this time. :P
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Posted by Unknown at 08:23
Death Note デスノート
Finally got to watch the first part of this live action movie. For those who do not know,
Death Note is a manga series about a high school boy (named Light Yagami) who receives a notebook
called "Death Note" from a shinigami called Ryuk. This notebook empowers him to kill anyone just by writing down a name. Light eventually becomes known as
Kira (Killer).
Ryuk has written the rules inside the Death Note. Interestingly enough, he wrote it in English because it is the most popular language in the world. Cute.
The Death Note rules:
- The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
- This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
- If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject's name, it will happen.
- If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack. (In the crappy subbed version I have, it says 'heart paralyse')
- After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
The manga is up to 12 tankobon, plus a 13th volume entitled "Death Note - How to Read". The anime version is expected to reach 37 episodes and a Nintendo DS game has already been released last month.
Now, the movie...we were able to finish the first part. We still have to find a nicely subbed 2nd disc. Hopefully, the subs will be done this month. Shit, bitin na bitin ako. All I can say it that this is a brilliant movie! It is a real battle of the brains between Light Yagami and L. Actually, I'm still torn...I still don't know whose side I'm on. But leaning towards L for the simple reason that I love sweets. Duh, right?
The thumb-sucking L is played by Matsuyama Ken'ichi, who incidentally is the seiyuu of Jealous, another shinigami in the anime. (Might have to watch Gokusen again...his Wiki profile says he was one of Yankumi's students.)
Light Yagami is Fujiwara Tatsuya, well known for his role as Nanahara Shuya in the cult hit, Battle Royale and Battle Royale 2. He also played the role of young samurai Okita Souji in NHK's Taiga dorama for 2004, Shinsengumi.
I hope to get all the Death Note anime and manga volumes. According to our
Japinoy discussions, only the English version mangas can be found locally. I guess for the Japanese ones, I would have to look at Mandarake... *sigh goes my credit card*
I am really, really praying hard that I can get my hands on the second part. This is one brilliant movie, and I cannot say that enough. ^_^
Labels: dorama, j-dorama, j-movie, japanese, japanese actors, japanese tv
Posted by Unknown at 14:00
Hanadan template for J-things
So happy today! I was able to finally login to Multiply after 52 years, and the first thing I did was to change
my site's theme. I accidentally found a Hana Yori Dango theme from one Multiply group I subscribe to and immediately edited my template. Ta-daa! Here is the result:
Hanadan 2 is way better than the first one, IMHO. Shun Oguri is soooo cute in this dorama. I actually prefer him over MatsuJun. Nishikado also improved in the Looks Department. As for Mimasaka...why don't they do something about his teeth? It's like he chewed on
nga-nga (In English, betel nut?) all his life.
Labels: dorama, hana yori dango, hanadan, j-dorama, j-drama, j-things, japanese actors, japanese drama, japanese tv, japinoy, jdrama, matsumoto jun, oguri shun
Posted by Unknown at 10:22
My Boss, My Hero マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー (A J-dorama review)
Here's something I did for
Japinoy a few weeks back. This funny dorama stars J-pop superstar (and cutie) Nagase Tomoya, of the JE group TOKIO. ^_^
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My Boss, My Hero
Date aired: July - September 2006
Episodes: 10
Starring:
Nagase Tomoya - Sakaki Makio
Tegoshi Yuya - Sakurakoji Jun
Aragaki Yui - Umemura Hikari
Kashii Yu - Minami Yuriko
Tanaka Koki - Manabe Kazuya
Ichimura Masachika - Sakaki Kiichi
Kikawada Masaya - Sakaki Mikio
Synopsis:Sakaki Makio is a 27-year-old next-in-line to a powerful Yakuza family who gets sent to high school again after he botched a multimillion dollar deal in Hong Kong. With his stupidity, his father ruled that he can only inherit the Boss position after getting a high school diploma.
Pretending to be a 17-year-old high school boy, he gets into St. Agnes Academy with the influence of his Yakuza boss of a father. Born under power and privilege, Makio must now try to live the life of a normal high school boy and get along well with his teachers and classmates. Can this feared gangster keep up the act while living a double life? Will he finally get that coveted high school diploma and the Yakuza leadership? Find out in "My boss, My hero"!
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My own review:
Hilarious! Not as hilarious as Densha Otoko, but close. Nagase Tomoya is very convincing as a yakuza boss-in-waiting, and a not-so-sharp high school student. As a student, he appears to be very gentle, especially when he finally warmed up to his teacher and classmates. He volunteers to be the class president, because he wanted to learn how to create a good 'gumi' (group), which he equates to a Yakuza gumi.
One of my most favorite parts include the Agnes exercises. It was so funny watching a tall, macho guy like him trying to do the drills, but always out of beat. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2 Agnes!
His dad reminds me so much of Mojica-sensei, I don't know why. Hehe.
Tanaka Koki (of the uber popular group KAT-TUN) shines as Kazu. He is a natural comedian. I really think he could surpass Kame and Jin in the acting department.
Oh, did I say how much I love "Sorafune"? ^_~ A couple of weeks after we finished the dorama, I couldn't get this TOKIO song outta my head.
Labels: dorama, j-dorama, j-drama, japanese, japanese actors, japanese tv, japinoy, nagase tomoya, review, tokio
Posted by Unknown at 19:20
Finally got to watch the first part of this live action movie. For those who do not know, Death Note is a manga series about a high school boy (named Light Yagami) who receives a notebook called "Death Note" from a shinigami called Ryuk. This notebook empowers him to kill anyone just by writing down a name. Light eventually becomes known as Kira (Killer).
