During the Easter holidays I have watched two Japanese dramas I had heard to be very dark and depressing, but I found to be very life-affirming: "Ryusei no Kizuna" and "Last Friends". Both dramas are now in my list of favourites and both confirmed my lately developed love for Japanese dramas.

"Ryusei no Kizuna" : a story of three children whose ( Read more... )

I have finished watching the Korean version of "Boys Over Flowers". Quite predictably, I loved it. Overall , I think I really enjoyed this drama, because many things have been done differently than in the previous versions, because all loose endings have been nicely tied and also because ( spoilers )

"Mei-chan's butler" was a delight!

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I think I am in complete minority with Korean BoF. ( My thoughts behind a cut )

I have been watching quite few Japanese dramas recently, it seems that I finally fell deeply in love with the complexity, psychological depth and realism that Japanese drama has to offer. Japan also does some of the best examples in the weird and wonderful category. I made a short compilation of the Japanese dramas I have finished in the last ( Read more... )

I am staying away from the spoilers for the episodes 9 and 10 of "Boys over Flowers" (I know the main direction from previous versions) because I promised my daughter yesterday to watch them together when subtitles are out. Parental love is the strongest thing in the world.

Also - I am hugely obsessed with Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan's butler). ( Read more... )

I have watched quite few different things recently:

Slow Dance. I gulped it in one go on Thursday which resulted in huge under-sleep on Friday. This is a lovely drama if you are a fan of the story how "an older woman helps a younger man to find himself and after that they marry in a very happy way". To be fair, the drama felt a little as if it ( Read more... )

I have finished Japanese drama "Trick". It has been the funniest and quirkiest show that ever crossed East/West divide and I loved it. To cut the long story short it is about two love-hate partners investigating supernatural phenomena, a magician and a scientist. Only the magician is a cute no-nonsense girl and the scientist is a too-good-looking ( Read more... )

Japanese dramas? Alexandra's favourite flavour of the day.

"Galileo" : consumed in two days on holidays. I wish someone else on my friends list was watching it, especially meganbmoore who may be can like it well. My impression in short: Science indeed rocks and Shibasaki Kou (you can remember her as Ogawa in "Good Luck") is one spunky lady. A science ( Read more... )

My daughter's sleep-over party extravaganza went much better and easier than I expected. Girls did sleep quite a bit of their sleep-over time (8 hours !!!! Weee!) and the rest of time they were happy without big fall outs or any other drama. May be I can do this again. :D

London trip I am off to London tomorrow. About 2 months ago we applied for ( Read more... )