Well, it's that time of the year again. The tickets for the Helsinki International Movie Festival (or Rakkautta & Anarkiaa in Finnish) which is held from 17.9. to 27.9. came on sale today. I spent yesterday evening going through the festival catalogue trying to decide what movies I wanted to see and after that checking their airing times & dates ( Read more... )

Based on the first episode, Tomoya Nagase's spy drama Karei Naru Spy looks like silly brainless fun reminiscent of Maxwell Smart (SHOE PHONE!!!! XD), Austin Powers and the Bond movies. I.e. pretty silly, but with the occasional serious moment.

( Random spoilery comments on the first episode )

As I planned, I watched Kimi ga Kureta Natsu, the recent drama special starring Takizawa Hideaki and Fukada Kyoko as the parents of a young child with a serious illness. Since I watched it raw, I couldn't understand what they were saying, which means that I commented on what I understood and made my own interpretations of the rest, while taking ( Read more... )

I've moved quite a lot of my (more rabid) fangirling to a more private community, but since these pictures from Takki's forthcoming drama special Kimi ga Kureta Natsu are extremely cute, I thought I'd post them here as well ( Read more... )

Source: http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-1065

Tackey & Fukada play married couple in drama special
Sun, May 20, 2007 (11:05pm EDT)Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Fukada will star together in a special drama titled "Kimi ga Kureta Natsu ~Ganbareba, Shiawase ni Nareru Yo~." The drama ( Read more... )

Kamisama, stop being so wonderful! I meant to watch just one episode of Kamisama, Mou Sukoshi Dake (or God, Please Give Me More Time) last night (hah, I should know already how well that decision usually holds) and ended up watching five episodes in a row, got to sleep way too late, and I have a strong suspicion I'll end up mainlining through the ( Read more... )