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Passing the Reins japanese drama review
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Passing the Reins
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by Carra
16 days ago
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.5

The Beauty Of Horse Dance

The Royal Family. A tale of surviving through something impossible that depict into a horse racing form. The sacrifice, bettings, and facing the bunch of obstacle were immerse yourself into brutal challenge, ambition, and egoistic. In the other hand, it's a good start for deepen your knowledge of horse race.

Exploring everything about horse race. Such as horse riding, buying or auction, horse breeding, training, management, strategy, legal law, jockey, etc. Every single thing was detail yet realistic. The way they serving the explanation through a dialogue and slice of life things was indeed exact. The best experience of sportmanship, especially the legacy of horse racing theme.

I love how the main focus was clear and on point since the very first sequence, on track, and neat. Eventho, there's a slight touch of romance and dramatic life issue, but the main focus of sportmanship still dominant. It's a good manage craft, by the way.

The chemistry of Tsumabuki Satoshi and Sato Koichi was top tier, they giving its teacher-student vibes that bold. While Tsumabuki Satoshi and Meguro Ren, giving senpai-kohai vibes. Speak about the relationship between Senpai-kohai (senior-junior), japenese always masterclass at it. The dynamic, love-hate, the respective, and bortherhood were flowing natural. Oh, I love their relationship.

Kudos to Takasugi Mahiro, I don't even know whether he's really can do horse riding or did training before shoot, but he seems like a real jockey. I'm not being exaggerate, but his routines seems natural and realistic. He did a great job to maintain his role as jockey. What a genius actor, Mahiro!

Anyway. The cinematography looks simple but pretty delightful. The lighting was the best. The color grading was success to enhance the ambience. Also, I wanna give a highlight of their timelapse. I love the way they serving the best cut of timelapses. Not an awkward timelapse, instead a very thoughtful manage.

Oh also, those timelapse would be nothing without the make up of the actors. The prosthetic make up was INSANE. In span of 2 years, the difference of make up that they do was utterly detail, unbelievable. Oh gosh, also the casting of child actor who played as young-Shohei and the old-Shohei was nearly similar. How did you find that exact actor who fit the same face, honestly? I was stunned while watching it.

All in all, I highly recommending this series. The tension of sportmanship was cliff-hanging. The touch of romance of social issue was balance. Also, the horse looks pretty. Simply, one of the best dorama I've ever watched this year!
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