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some people assume that siblings have to call each other fuckface and other 'endearing insults' all the time to be real siblings. I'm actually fairly formal with my brother and we get along well. only 4 years apart

it should have been a drama.

good actress with good looks. Can play both comedic and serious roles. For some reasons never get the lead roles. Spent her entire 20s not leading any major productions. A bit of a waste of her talent

At episode 27 now. Somehow this series decides to have a Korean character studying law, and not even once she said anything about the colonial rule of Japan over Korea, whether in private with her brother or with anyone else. Not even a thought in her head.

And her friends (the main character included) are pretty concerned about justice and fairness, being law students and all. Yet not even once any of them have any thoughts about their own country's colonialism. If this is an accurate depiction of how Japanese were back then (complete indifferent to the injustice their country wrought) then it is a pretty damning depiction.

maybe the series will have more to say later, but if it doesn't I won't be surprised.

scripts like this are probably better adapted in an animated medium since that allows for more accurate depiction of body types. In real life it's too much to ask the actress to actually look like someone who lifts, but with animation the FL can look as jacked as need be.

this drama presents a very novel view on cheating. First time I see where the guy who helps expose the cheating is hated by basically everyone involved in the cheating, including the victim (at least initially. the older sister realized that our main character is basically right I think).

I do see where the sister (the one who got cheated on) comes from. However all I can say is that if I have a daughter who grew up to be like the sister (in fact either of the sister) then I know I have fucked up.

it has been like two months and the movie is still not on any streaming service, foreign or japanese. I don't even need subs. I can't book a flight just to watch the movie damn it

I don't know much about Korean movies so this is probably an uninformed remark, but Pawn must be the most stereotypical Korean movie. Well acted, looks nice, moving (up to a point), and very prone to make things extremely dramatic. I was crying at the halfway mark and from then on the movie was like 'we made you cry once so cry some more. here are stuff you should be crying about. Please cry. Look at all the well placed markers! this is where you should cry. Cry damn it" At that point I was just waiting for the whole thing to end

appreciate your comment. However it should be pointed out that the mother here is a step mom. That is why she says Amiko-san instead of just Amiko. Also in the movie there's a scene where Amiko and her brother met the step mom for the first time.

The fact that Amiko and the brother (forgot his name) are not the step mom's biological children also partially explained why the stillbirth affected the step mom so much: it was her first child and it was born dead.

if the traditional family can be destroyed by merely having a few gay people appearing on screen then it should be relegated to the dust bin of history anyway