Last Present
*Strongly Recommend*
* Title: ラスト・プレゼント
* Title (romaji): Last Present
* Genre: Romance, human drama
* Broadcast date: 2005-Jun-11
* Synopsis:
Kanzaki Kenji is one half of a comedian pair that hasn't had any success for a long time. Kanzaki's wife, Taeko, owns a baby clothes shop. The couple had a child who died at a very young age. Husband and wife seem to live separate lives and both are unhappy, maybe due to the loss of their child and the frustration that the husband's career is going nowhere.
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Comment about drama:
- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, I have to say this is one of my favorite 1 episode drama ever &hearts &hearts &hearts &hearts &hearts I love every single scene of it o(>.<)o Really!!!
- Though just about 10 fist min and you will know what happen at the end of the drama but you just can't stop watching it. Watch to see how our characters deal with the situation, see how their emotions grow.
- Starting from 00:25:27, i cried a lot non-stop till the last scene TT^TT Because it was so sad yet so beautiful at the same time.
- All of the characters in the drama, they live for each other, live strong despite having illness or pressure of the daily life. They live for the happiness of the one they love.
- You will see a wife who know her time limit is gonna end but still refuse to be hospitalized because she doesn't want her husband to worry about her so that he can try his best for work. Though she knows she's gonna gone soon but everyday she still write a note so that when her husband left alone on this life, he will know how to take care of himself. And no matter what other says about her husband, she still keep her keen faith on him. She risks her own life just so she can fulfill her promise with her husband "You're a comedian. Your calling of life is to make people happy. And I will be the one who make you happy."
- You will see a husband who know his wife is gonna leave him soon but he's still smile and acting stupid in front of her just so she won't worry and then he just crying all alone when there was no one see. Though he knows his time left with her won't be much anymore but he still tries his best at work, just so that she can happily go, she won't have to worry about him anymore. Any how funny but so sad at the same time that though he loves his wife so much, at the end of her life, he still whole-heartedly searching for her first love just because he saw her hold a picture of her first love when she's sleeping. He's a comedian, his job is too make people laugh but he himself can just cry in silence.
- This is what I call dying for love. Not something stupid like in "To Heart"
- Though it was sad, it didn't dark any at all. I feel like I'm a fool when I cried so hard but laughing like crazy at some scene o(>.<)o Really, my tears couldn't stop falling down but my lips couldn't help but smiling like crazy XDDD How funny when a swindler who try to swindle the wife's money just find himself end up taking the wife to hospital and being scold by the doctor for neglecting his wife XDDD And how funny when those 2 swindlers going around all the country trying to find the wife's first love and then just end up throw him out of the window car XDDDD
- And every time they flashback again the time when they just meet each other for the first time, how they got to date, how he propose to her... it's just so beautiful and so romantic yet cute and funny at the same time o(>.<)o
- And the ending is just awesome o(>.<)o This is the first time that I see a character death that is so beautiful and not painful at all TT^TT . The way she gone, it’s just awesome. Smiling one last time, watching her husband on stage, that’s what she want for her whole life. The last view of her is full of her husband.
- Though the last present she's supposed to give him is the note book & the scarf but indeed her last present to him is something more: his future ahead & his happiness forever.
- The most beautiful scene in this one is the scene when they have just say out loud everything and that night, they sleep on the same bed again after a long time. at first they just lying with their backs against each other, then she stretch out her hands, he held it and then they slowly turned around facing each other. This scene just represents their whole relationship from the beginning to that moment. At first they were so cold with each other and seem like living in their own world. But yet when they confront everything, when they finally say out loud everything, they come to realize that they still rely on each other so much o(>.<)o
- In general, this is a wonderful drama that you should watch if you want something fuzzy and warm., something to believe in this life when daily stress can track you down.
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Comment about cast:
• Domoto Tsuyoshi as Kanzaki Kenji
I love him in this one as much as his role in summer Snow, no, maybe even more!!! Because he acted this role even more real and mature than he did with Natsuo o(>.<)o
- I love it when he rushed back home after hearing that his wife is gonna die soon, looking like crazy for her and then when he saw her, he couldn’t say anything but acting stupid and then run away fast fast fast to the park where no one see him. And then he cried. He didn’t cry hard, he bite his lips and his fist so that she wouldn’t make a sound as if he worried his wife will heard. But his tears kept falling and falling and falling.
- I love it when he told her to stay in the hospital but she broke down and cried, and then he broke down to. At that moment, all of his strength seemed to be washed away, as if all the acting up until now can’t stay anymore. And he held his wife falling down on the floor, looking empty.
- I love it when he asked her ut for the first time, when shyly proposed to her…
Generally I love every single thing that he did in this one.
• Kanno Miho as Kanzaki Taeko
at first I was a bit worried because Kanno looks older than Tsuyoshi, she looks more like his sister than wife o(>.<)o But my worry soon be washed away because they actually looking very good together. And Kanno is beautiful too.
- I love it when at this moment, she looked so cold to him as if he’s the most disgusting thing in her life but just one second later, she proudly tell her friend that someday her husband will be success for sure. Such a strong faith in s/o you love &hearts
- I love it when she gently folded clothes, writing every single note to him. I love that she can be so strong to act cold to her husband even when she can die for him.
- I love it when the last meal they have together, she making her husband take note of everything as if he will be on a trip tomorrow but in fact she’s the one will be far away. And she smile all of the time when in fact both she and her husband can’t stop their tears falling down
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Like:
- the development of the story
- background music & camera angles & the color
- Domoto Tsuyoshi & Kanno Miho. Despite their looks, they made such great chemistry &hearts
- So sad yet so funny
- Beautiful scene & cute detail
- Kenji's proposal: "I'm a comedian, therefore my calling is to make people happy. But first I have to be happy. If I have you by my side, I will be the happiest on in this world"
- Almost everything
Don't like:
- none!!!
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