Yukan Club / 有閑倶楽部

2007 NTS drama that starred one of my favorite Japanese JPop turned Actor, Akanishi Jin. Episode 7 starred another, favorite actor - this one from Taiwan - Mike He. That's about all the GOOD I can say with regards to this particular drama. Yeeeeesh! what a mess. This was the last of the dramas I watched but had no time to critique here because of college - and I had dumped it five different times before finally forcing myself to go through...

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Ikebukuro West Gate Park / 池袋ウエストゲートパーク

2000 TBS drama that starred a boat-load of hot, fine actors in their prime, including Nagase Tomoya as Makoto Majima, a slacker living with his widowed mother above their fruit shop. I'm curious to find out why 'baka' was translated as 'bitch' only when he spoke to his weirded-out mother. Perhaps the translator has an okaasan complex? Anyway, dude was haaaawt! Johnny Depp vibe Here he is again with no shirt on (giggle): and...

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Yamada Tarō Monogatari / 山田太郎ものがたり / The Story of Yamada Taro

2007 TBS drama that stars a couple cuties from the JPop group Arashi: namely, Ninomiya Kazunari and Sakurai Sho.Uploaded with ImageShack.usThis is yet, another spin-off of a manga series, and in 2001, Taiwan based Ping Qiong Gui Gong Zi : Poor Prince (with Vic Zhou) on the same premise.Kazunari plays Taro Yamada (An-chan), a boy living in poverty with his okaasan and six, younger siblings in a dilapidated shack tucked neatly away somewhere in...

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Densha Otoko / でんしゃおとこ / The Train Man

2005 Fuji TV drama that starred Itoh Misaki, Itoh Atsushi, Shiraishi Miho, Sato Eriko, Oguri Shun, and Hayami Mokomichi, to name a few.Apparently, there is another version of the same story as well:But, I don't know about that.The version I saw is based on an anime about a red-headed chick with carrots up her ass.Or, our Otaku-san, Yamada Tsuyoshi (Itoh Atsushi), is in love with the anime chick with carrots coming out of her ass - I really...

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