I have just started on the Rurouni Kenshin movie and I adore it to bits! I used to be obsessed with the anime years ago and it's bringing all the memories back. More importantly, the actors just feel right as the characters!

Kenshin (during the Bakumatsu):


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While waiting for our plane to take off (punctuality is clearly not the strong suit of this airline), I discovered Thermae Romae on the little seat screen - a Japanese comedy in which Abe Hiroshi plays a Roman bathhouse architect who travels through space and time to end up in a Japanese onsen ( Read more... )

(Thanks for the heads-up, valkyriesailorKenshin, about a former killer during the Bakumatsu, who gives up killing and tries to settle down afterwards, was one of my first animes and I used to be obsessed with it. Mr. Mousie and I spent many happy hours devouring the anime. (Just click on my 'kenshin' tag for way too many posts ( Read more... )

OMFG EVERY OTHER DRAMA IS ON HOLD


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(This is mainly to check out if I can post through my new firefox because IE refuses to let me open post page but also because this is so gorgeous it beggars belief).


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The awesome trickydaos has just shared this with me and I have to share it with the wooooooooooooorld! Here are FSF and Liu Yi Feng as Xiang Yu and Consort Yu in the upcoming epic (sadly movie, not drama) White Vengeance.


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Head to hanjae's lj for more detail, but have you ever dreamed you are going to get Feng Shao Feng as Xiang Yu, Crystal Liu as Consort Yu, and Leon Lai as Liu Bang? Because you are getting it!!!!! In an upcoming movie White Vengeance? Oh, why is not in my hands already ( Read more... )

Because ockoala is a pusher extraordinaire, I checked out Painted Skin a Chinese horror/fantasy/period movie, starring Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and Zhao Wei.


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