A Quick Guide to 2019 Kdramas! Misaki Kyosuke, a skilled plastic surgeon, leads a secluded life after his wife’s death, finding solace in his herb garden and spending time with his daughter. One day, a woman requests Kyosuke to change her face entirely to escape her abusive husband. Reluctantly, he agrees, transforming her to resemble his late wife. As their relationship deepens, things take a turn when two police officers arrive searching for the missing woman. (Source: kisskh) Edit Translation
- English
- Español
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- dansk
- Native Title: 美しい人
- Also Known As: Le Bel Homme , Beauty , Beautiful People
- Screenwriter: Nojima Shinji
- Director: Doi Nobuhiro, Yoshida Ken, Endo Tamaki
- Genres: Romance, Drama, Melodrama
Cast & Credits
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![Tamura Masakazu in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Tamura Masakazu in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Tamura Masakazu Main Role -
![Tokiwa Takako in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Tokiwa Takako in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Tokiwa Takako Main Role -
![Osawa Takao in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Osawa Takao in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Osawa Takao Main Role -
![Uchiyama Rina in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Uchiyama Rina in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Uchiyama RinaMisaki KeikoSupport Role -
![Yanagizawa Shingo in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Yanagizawa Shingo in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Yanagizawa ShingoKokubo AtsushiSupport Role -
![Ikewaki Chizuru in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Ikewaki Chizuru in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Ikewaki ChizuruKadokura JunSupport Role
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Reviews
This review may contain spoilers
Every now and then, let down by the current trend of J-dramas, more and more "americanized" or "koreanized" imho, it feels good to jump on a time machine and watch some "oldie-but goldie" from the Golden Era of Japanese Drama.It's been the case with this "Utsukushii Hito", which until the very end I thought I was gonna rate as a perfect 10 and include in my "Top of the Crop" custom list...but then came an ending I really didn't like.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, so jump the next paragraph entirely if you wanna avoid those! ^___-
Now, despite having been an avid J-drama fan for quite a long time (next year it's gonna be twenty years since my first J-drama!), I must confess not liking the way villains are treated by most Japanese scriptwriters. Look, I'm not saying that villains shouldn't be bad - that would be asking the impossible, LOL - but what I'm saying is just that if you have a villain poisoning everybody else's life throughout the whole series, killing, battering, abusing, deceiving, etc.....then I don't want said villain to get away with a metaphorical slap on the hand. I don't want them to be pitied by bleeding hearts, psychanalyzed, understood. And I certainly don't want them to get a completely undeserved happy ending (as was the case here!!!) while the good guys get a bittersweet (more the former than the latter, actually) ending. I want such villains to get punished, to get a gruesome death if possible, or at least a life-long harsh punishment (like, I could have been OK with this villain getting thrown in a cell together with "Bubba, the 7-ft tall, 300-lbs serial gay raper", who would've made his sorry @ss repent day in and day out! I suppose I'm more Chinese than Japanese in that aspect (I'm thinking for example of the classical Chinese detective stories - like those about the überfamous Judge Dee - whose last chapter is alway dedicated to describe in quite gruesome terms the killers' punishments! ^___-). OK, END OF THE SPOILERS. ^___-
Apart from the aforementioned ending, the script is very good. The acting superb. The OST marvelous. This could've been a perfect 10, seriously....but it's still a very solid 8 in my book! ^___-
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