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Heartbreaking queer film

It's painfully sad rather than scary. This is supposed to be a ghost horror story but the scary thing about it is not the ghost, but the living humans. So heartbreaking.

It also felt like I was experiencing high school life again when watching this movie. I went to a mixed high school, but most of my classmates were girls. Like the main character Hyo Shin, I was also an outcast for being a weirdo, or at least that's what they were calling me, just because I'm introverted.

Drama among girls can be very toxic, especially when close friends become enemies. A few scenes in this movie were realistic to me. But I don't think my classmates were as cruel as the girls in the all-girl school in this movie. I don't know. Since I was an outcast, I didn't really care much about them and I'm not sure if there were any lesbian couples in my class back in the days. I don't know how they would act if there were a public lesbian couple in the class.

Another disturbing thing in this movie was that all of the male teachers were disgusting, not just that one character who sexually harassed and assaulted his minor student.

By the way, it’s pretty nice to see some of my favorite actresses Park Ye Jin and Gong Hyo Jin when they looked so young and innocent. I heard this was their debut movie. Gong Hyo Jin looked so cute while Park Ye Jin’s character was badass, despite her tragic fate.

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Great visuals, fights, brotherhood and street vibe

“When you were in that coma, it was like a living hell. At that moment, time stopped for me” - You threw these words to your friend’s face, who just woke up from a coma, and then in the next minute you beat him to nearly dead again lol.

Although I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as the first series, I gave it the same rating. I think it’s a great movie, with great visuals, fights, street vibe, great music and brotherhood, as expected from the first series. I loved it, especially the final battle at the end when the five S.W.O.R.D gangs decided to team up and fight against Kohaku and those bad guys working for a big South Korean mafia group, in order to protect the town where they were born and raised from those dangerous criminals. I didn’t expect this saga to get involved in serious political matters, but it did and I love that. I think politics exists everywhere, and everything and everyone is involved in politic matters, whether we acknowledge or not.

To sum up, the Korean mafia group wanted to use Kohaku to destroy the S.W.O.R.D gangs to destroy their rival, Kuryu Group, which is a big Japanese yakuza organization. They both wanted to take over the S.W.O.R.D district for a new illegal construction. The Kuryu Group had been using wealth and power to take control over the area for years, including bribing to the corrupt police with dirty money earned by committing several serious crimes in the area, such as drug manufacturing, murder, and human trafficking aiming at young women and girls. I think they can be considered as the main antagonist and the biggest threat to the allied S.W.O.R.D. gangs. In this movie, it was revealed that their goal is to destroy the 5 gangs to construct an illegal, government-backed casino used to conceal political corruption.

Those guys working for the Korean mafia group is just as bad as the Kuryu Group. In this movie, those evil crimes I mentioned above were committed by them. Ironically, it was that gross criminal Seungri who played the role of that group’s leader. I can’t stand his disgusting face and voice, and also wonder what he was thinking and feeling when he was offered to play this role, when he is also a disgusting criminal himself in real life. I bet that sick psychopath was just having fun showing a bit part of his true self to the world without anyone realizing.

I felt so bad for the Rude Boys gang, when this time a lot of their people were brutally killed, and their leader was seriously wounded and probably even terminally ill and could die any time soon. They are also the poorest among the gangs. Basically they are a found family including orphaned people, abandoned by their own parents since they were born, and live in a dump. Oh my god, whenever I think about them, it’s so heartbreaking.

I couldn’t fully enjoy the movie mainly because I couldn’t stand the face of that disgusting psychopath and those lame Might Warriors dudes whom I already disliked since the second season of the main series.

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Ridiculously fun. Green flag Leads. Great cast

The plot is ridiculous and exaggerating, which is obviously understandable, as this series is adapted from a comedy shoujo manga. I think it was fun, if we don’t take it so seriously or try to analyze its logic.

The cast is gold. I adore all of them. Surprisingly, all of my favorite actors and actresses gathered together in the same project, and that’s a comedy high school shoujo drama. This drama is amusing to me mainly because of them.

The leads are both green flags. I think they have probably one of the sweetest personalities among a lot of leads in other shoujo mangas and Japanese dramas. The otomen guys are so soft and caring, while the female lead is strong, sincere, straightforward, kind-hearted and has such a pure heart. I love most of the characters, except for the male lead’s parents, and some side characters. And I completely adore our leads Asuka-chan and Ryo-chan. Kaho’s character in this drama is so lovely. Every time Ryo-chan smiled, I can feel that she was smiling from her heart and I totally understand why Asuka-chan fell in love with her at first sight. Their relationship is so pure and their feelings towards each other very slowly develop through friendship. I like that, but I just felt that process took a little longer than I had expected. However, this is also understandable in Japanese high school shoujo dramas, especially when the leads are both shy and pure as oxygen lol.

I can imagine the cast how much fun the cast would feel when filming this series. I enjoyed a lot of their comedic performances. I specifically got secondhand embarrassment to watch the little princess that appeared in the last 2 episodes. I bet she must cringe so much while wearing that princess outfit of hers and speaking all her lines. She actually looked and behaved like a 10-year-old kid to me, not a 17-year-old teenage girl.

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I relate to this drama a lot

To be honest, as a romcom, this series is not a very good one. I enjoyed the second couple more than the main couple.

But this is a quite good slice of life drama. The reason I give it a 8-star rating is because I relate so much to the female lead, Seok Ryu. My life journey and hers have a few things in common. I was kind of a model Asian student and daughter, trying too hard not to upset her parents who favor their son. They’re never satisfied with whatever I do or how much effort I have put. And my mom is very similar to Seok Ryu's mom. It hurt me a lot when hearing what those painful words Seok Ryu mom told her. I also have gut health issues and I had depression for years. Felt like a part of my life was brought to life in this Kdrama. :)

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Patriarchal and Misogynistic

It had the potential of being a pretty good and empowering feminist drama, but the last 2 episodes completely ruined it for me. This drama is so patriarchal and misogynistic.

Like the title says itself, this drama is about a camouflage marriage between a ‘kindhearted’ naive woman and a total a**hole who had already a main girlfriend long before and during their marriage. The marriage was pre-arranged by the cheating couple, because the mistress is a ‘career woman’ who disliked the idea of getting married, while the husband did it to get promoted in his career. How pathetic.

The female lead Aiko is portrayed as a perfect wife material that every man would wish for. She is a kindhearted innocent woman who puts everyone else before herself and even hadn’t experienced love before getting married to her husband. She quit her job to be a stay-at-home wife to support her husband as the guy wanted. Not only that, she was also perfect at doing chores and gently took care of her husband without any complaints. The husband was completely comfortable at home, while his ‘main girlfriend’ was someone else. How convenient was that, wasn’t it? I can’t believe there would be someone else who’s even more perfect than Oshin as a wife material. I mean, what makes Aiko more perfect is that Aiko is loved and adored by her in-law family, and she’s completely naive, while Oshin was strong, smart, stubborn and definitely not naive, and she wasn’t liked by her in-laws. This character doesn’t sound realistic to me, but let’s say women like Aiko do exist. That would be the typical type of woman to easily get ignored and mistreated by their patriarchal husbands, from what I have seen in both fictional works and real life.

On the other hand, the second female lead Ayaka is portrayed as a ‘career woman’ who puts herself and her career above everything else. I think Ayaka would be a great and powerful female character if she weren’t a cheater who tried to ruin Aiko’s life and looked down on other women who had different values with her. I feel like the screenwriters were trying to downplay and devalue those women who love themselves and value their career through this character. That’s why I said it is a misogynistic drama.

Throughout this drama, I thought it was about the divorce journey between this ‘kindhearted’ naive wife and her cheating husband. Although it wouldn’t be a great drama, it had potential to be pretty okay. I agree with the divorce lawyer that divorce is not a negative phase as people usually think. Instead, it’s a rebirth phase in one’s life. A winning divorce case is when the person becomes happy and the cheaters get what they deserve. After all of that potential, what the f*ck with that ending, my dearest screenwriters? Are you kidding me?? You really think that it's a happy ending? It was so ridiculous that I couldn't even laugh. When they cried and hugged each other, all I wanted to do was to slap both of them in their faces. What is the actual f*ck?

The most unrealistic part is that Aiko didn’t feel bitter at all or develop any trust issues after her divorce. Even the cheating husband’s mother in this drama couldn’t genuinely forgive his son for what he had done. I swear that you would never find any woman on this planet and probably even on other planets who goes through the same situation as Aiko would be able to not hate her cheating husband and his mistress. Perhaps she might not spend her whole life continuing hating them, but there’s no way she would be able to genuinely forgive them. It is not called ‘kindness and stubbornness’ as they tried to describe Aiko. It’s the highest level of dumbness and stupidity. Aiko is literally a doormat! This kind of stupid behavior in female characters should not be normalized anymore, now that we are in this 21st century.

I have met at least 10 women of different ages in real life who had cheating partners. Whether they chose to divorce or stay in their marriage because of different reasons, none of them genuinely forgave their husbands or boyfriends, and some of them can’t even stand hearing their names afterwards. Most of them were so disgusted that they didn’t want their partners to touch them right after they found out about the affairs, even if they might choose to stay in their relationships after that. Those who chose to stay said that all of their feelings and trust towards their husbands are dead. There's no such reasons as ‘he was the first man I ever loved so I can’t bring myself to hate him’, or ‘although my married life was tough, I had loads of happy memories with Seiichi-san too’. Men, please wake up and stop fooling yourself with this type of stupid scenario, because there’s no way in any universe it would ever happen.

For any woman who has watched this drama and is reading what I’m writing, please don’t be fooled. A cheater will always be a cheater. If he deceives you once and he succeeds, there’s a high chance that he will do it the second time or even more times. Please don’t ever think you can fix him and make him a better person. Maybe he would show you that he has changed for the better at first to win you back, just like what the cheating ex-husband did in the last two episodes, but he would return to the same person as before once you’ve changed your mind and forgiven him. I have seen too many of these scenarios. It is not that easy for a person to change their mindset and their personality that has shaped who they are for a very long time. Within just one year, do you really think such a patriarchal cheating jerk can completely change himself into a loving and caring husband?

Another ridiculous part of this drama was that there was no bad karma at all for those cheaters. Both of them had their own happy endings. Nothing bad ever happened to them. The guy got back to his doormat after just one year, while the mistress was about to marry someone else so briefly, when she disliked the idea of getting married in the first place. Eventually, they met again and even gently smiled at each other in the last episode. Give me a break! It was definitely not a funny joke. I absolutely despise this kind of ending for terrible characters who have tortured the main characters for a long time.

If I were the screenwriter of this drama, I would let Aiko watch those cheating rats ruin their own lives and careers after the divorce, and let their affair be revealed, while living on her own as a single mother. I might let Aiko end up with the divorce lawyer, or an even better ending for me would be there’s no more husband for Aiko through her whole life. Like Aiko’s ex mother-in-law said, I also don’t think Aiko would be able to remarry after what her ex-husband did to her. Trust issues exist for a reason. Trauma exists for a reason. “Memories build on one another, and our memories change along with them” is total bullshit in this situation. Dear men, no good memories can make a woman forget about their husband’s cheating behavior for 6 years.

For all the things I have mentioned, this drama deserves 1 out of 10 from me. I feel bad for the cast for starring in this. Although there were a few things I liked in the middle of the drama, I genuinely can’t accept its disgusting ending and can’t rate it higher. Please stop making this type of drama already.

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A great work from Bong Joon Ho

Mickey 17 is a great sci-fi movie, packed with good humor, action, romance and touching moments. It’s a nice picture of humanity and modern society. It’s a good blend of entertainment and politics elements.

I had fun watching it, with only me in the cinema. It seems that no one in my town watches this movie. It’s been released in our local cinemas for a week and today is the last day. Anyway, I had the best experience ever!

I love Robert Pattinson’s performance of Mickey. His romance is beautiful as well. Nasha is literally the best female character I’ve seen recently.

It’s also nice to see Mark Ruffalo as a villain. :)

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I don’t understand why they make this drama. It doesn’t make any sense, and brings no value.

If you want to watch this series, don’t think. The moment you let your brain works, it’s over. This is a silly thing you would watch when you don’t think at all.

This series is so bad that I can’t even laugh. Both the plot and the characters are so stupid, and the most annoying character is the female lead. I can’t understand what all the guys see in her to fall for her, a 26-year-old adult who can’t even go around on her own without someone else’s help. She looks and acts just like a little kid, but she’s definitely not cute at all! She is a toxic person who always plays the victim and blame others for everything happening in her life. What has the male lead even done to her? He supports her wholeheartedly, and what happened in the past wasn’t his fault. Yeah, at least the male lead is a good guy and has a good friend. That’s the only good thing in this series. It’s too bad that that they couldn’t give them a smarter plot. However, he also appears as a manipulative red flag at first. He shows too much passion towards the female lead while barely knowing her and I find that kind of creepy. He could be a potential serial killer in another series lol. I mean it.

To be honest, I truly wished the male lead and his friend realized they were gays and ended up with each other and ditched the female lead. They have more chemistry than the leads together, and the male lead deserves better.

Seriously, who wrote this plot? My cat would write a better one.

The acting is not good either. I didn’t feel anything throughout the series. Oh, and don’t let me start on how fake the painting process looks lol. At least the artworks are beautiful and the background music is not too bad.

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A good series about found family, mother issues and realistic adulthood. Not a good romance.

This is a good series with found family tropes. I quite enjoyed it, especially the first half. I love the interactions between the brother-sister trio when they are teenagers, the bickering interactions between the two dads, the father-daughter relationship between our female lead Jianjian and her father Li Hai Chao, and the father-son relationship between Li Hai Chao and He Zi Qiu.

My two most favorite characters are Li Hai Chao and He Zi Qiu. I like He Zi Qiu the most among the trio. I love to see him bickering with Jianjian. He truly loves and cares for Jianjian as an older brother, and always tries his best to protect his family, including Jianjian and her father. He always wishes to become a real family with them, and that's why he mistakes that feeling for romantic love. I love how he asks for Li Hai Chao's permission before making a move on Jianjian. He's one of the lights that I've found in this show. I also love to watch his journey on healing the relationship with his mother. Out of the mothers in the series (I don't include the mother of Zi Qiu's best friend as she is a very side character), she is one of the two mothers that I empathize with and deserves to be forgiven for her mistakes towards her children. I love her happy ending with Zi Qiu and Jianjian's father.

Another light is Li Hai Chao. He is the best dad ever, and the kindest man I've seen. He treats other people, including women and kids with respect. He's so loving, caring and patient towards his children. I love every scene with him in it. He makes my heart feel warm. I've never had a father like him, and have serious father issues, so I always have a soft spot for a nurturing father, and a loving father-daughter relationship.

I also like how the show implies messages about growing up and how difficult adulthood can be, and the relationship between Asian parents and their adult children. I love the friendship between the 3 girls Jianjian, Mingyue, and Tang Can. I think their bonding is beautiful and realistic. I love how they care and support each other through different hardships in life. There are some conflicts between them sometimes but that's how best friends treat each other in real life. They are straightforward towards each other and don't let any boy get involved and ruin their friendship. That's another good thing about this series, that there is no toxic love triangle.

I feel that "Go Ahead" is a series about mother issues. All the characters in this series, excluding ZiQiu's best friend, have serious mother issues. Most of them have toxic mothers that lead to a lot of trauma and shape their personality when they grow up. I relate to Mingyue the most. Some people may find her character annoying but it's realistic when she grew up with her parents. I used to be just as annoying as her. My father is an absent father like her father, and my mother is too controlling towards whatever I do in life. She's never satisfied with whatever I do. I was a model student, but I used to be so unconfident and never thought I'm good enough. I pushed away the people that liked me because I was scared that they would stop liking me after knowing who I am. I see myself in her a lot, and I felt so proud and emotional at the scene when she confronted her mother and expressed her suppressed feeling for a long time in front of her. Mingyue's mother is the other mother besides Zi Qiu's that I empathize with. She's a lot like my mother and I understand she just wishes the best for her daughter, although her method is wrong. I was also touched at the scene where Minyue stood up for her mother when her father confronted her and blamed her mother for an unhappy marriage between them. My absent father also did that, and I also stood up for my mother.

That's a few things I love about the series. Now there are things that I dislike. The first thing is the romance between the leads. They got together so quickly after treating each other like siblings for a very long time since they were kids. It feels so forced to me. I don't feel any chemistry between them either. Plus, I feel like Ling Xiao was forcing Jianjian into their relationship. He did a lot of toxic things. He wasn't satisfied when Jianjian had a boyfriend and tried to break them up. He met her boyfriend secretly and asked him to break up with her. This is different from Zi Qiu, because the reason Zi Qiu didn't approve of her boyfriend is that he was worried about him being a pervert and betraying Jianjian. Zi Qiu is just a protective older brother and wishes the best for her sister. Another toxic thing Ling Xiao did was confessing to Jianjian but didn't give her time to think, but kind of forced her into the relationship, and he kissed her without her consent!

Another thing is that they don't seem to consider mental illness as a serious issue in this series. Ling Xiao was severely depressed, but he never went to therapy and relied on Jianjian for his comfort. That's not a good way in the long run. I had depression for years and I know how burdensome and exhausting it is for people around me to be around me for a long while. That's not a healthy relationship. Also, it’s painful to see how Chinese people think of mental illness. It's considered something embarrassing. My Asian mom thinks so too, and she always tries to hide other people about me going to therapy. I know they care about me but it still hurts me a lot.

My biggest issue about this series is about the concept of family. What I love about this series at first is the concept of a found family. However, later the kids forgive their toxic parents after terrible things they have done for them, just because 'your mother is your mother'. I feel like it's somehow against the series' initial concept. Ling Xiao is forced to take care of the selfish biographical mother who abandoned him and never cared about her children, including Ling Xiao and her 2 sisters. I think the best ending for Ling Xiao's mother should be that both Ling Xiao and her sister cut her off.

Next is Tang Can's mother. She's also one of the worst mothers. It appears to me from the beginning to the end that she only cares about her own pride. When Tang Can was an inspiring young child actress, her mother forced her to do a lot of commercials to earn money, and such a young kid has already earned enough to buy her parents a house and a supermarket to make a living. Who loves their kid that forces her to do that? Later it was her who destroyed her daughter's acting career because of her pride. And then she became embarrassed about her daughter and not satisfied with whatever she did, no matter how hard she tried. She never noticed how exhausted her daughter was at every family gathering, but how much her daughter embarrassed her. Then in the end, Tang Can somehow still tried to please her mother, because 'it's your mother, and mother always wishes the best for their children'. In my opinion, this is not a good message for young people nowadays.

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A light and fun drama with multiple leads, if you don’t take things too seriously

“Perfect Math” is a light and fun Cdrama with multiple characters that take turn to be the leads. Each of them is the perfect match for their partner. My most favorite couple is the fourth lady and her husband. They are just so adorable! I also think they are the only healthy couple and can make sense in real life, while the others are too exaggerating and illogical.

My least favorite couple is the fifth lady and her husband, as compared to others, their story doesn’t make sense the most, and it’s the most dramatic one. They are still fun to watch with good chemistry, although they don’t really have any physical intimacy scenes together.

Don’t take anything too seriously when watching this series. I don’t think this is about women's empowerment or any serious label you want to call it. For me it’s just a pure lighthearted comedy and romance.

I also love the loving relationship between the sisters and their mother. It’s not common in a Cdrama to see this kind of family bonding. I enjoyed watching the son-in-law alliance too. It’s really fun and unique. I haven’t seen any historical drama with this kind of alliance!

I wish there would be more scenes to dig deeper into the relationship between the adopted sister and her husband. The ending feels a little bit rushed that makes me a little confused. I would like to see more scenes of the couples, and I wish to see their kids, not just mentioned.

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Murayama's Departure was beautiful

Instead of the main story and new main characters in this movie, I found myself more invested in Murayama's departure story from Oya High School, along with the story of Housen Academy's leader Ueda Sachio, and Todoroki.

This movie still had great fights and good music. I think the main story is done pretty well. I still liked it, and maybe I would have enjoyed it more if it were an independent movie, not a sequel from the High & Low franchise. It didn't touch me so much as the original High&Low story, with the original characters. I think one of the reasons would be that the plot was very similar to the previous series and movies, which I'm already so familiar with. Besides, it didn't give the same vibe as I had expected. What I loved the most from the High&Low saga, besides great action scenes and distinct theme songs created for each gang, was strong brotherhood, and found family vibe and unique street vibe. It felt like the gangs in S.W.O.R.D district were fighting for something important to them. As it was mentioned throughout the series, the gangs used their fists to protect their friends, brothers, family, women, and also the whole district from big yakuza corporations and corrupt government officials.

In this movie, besides the story of trying to bring back a friend who was choosing the wrong path due to misfortune, which was basically the main theme of the High&Low franchise, the new main characters' purpose is just to constantly pick fights with different rivals to prove their strength and power. It's pretty understandable to me too, as most of them are teenagers and I guess perhaps that's a normal attitude of boys at that age. What confused me a bit was that I felt like they were trying to normalize that attitude and made those young boys look like they were heroes. I actually disliked some new students in Oya High School, but luckily they were not the main characters and didn't have much screen time.

As I have mentioned above, the spotlight of this movie for me was Murayama's departure from Oya High School and his journey into adulthood. Despite Murayama's little screen time, I loved every moment he appeared, including his second fight scene with Todoroki, his wise words given towards the junior students in Oya High School, him at his part-time job, his appearance with his iconic truck, the final big fight against the bad guys in the area, and his iconic line before every fight. It was really nice to see how humble and polite Murayama became at work, in the world outside Oya High School. He was gradually changing and learning to be accept new challenges in life other than being the leader of Oya High School. His departure from Oya High School was inevitable and necessary for his own growth. He was ready for a new chapter in life. I'm happy for him, and glad that I was able to witness his last moments in Oya High School.

I also loved the way Murayama was trying to call Cobra for an advice and for a casual talk, like between close friends. It was another beautiful scene to me. Until now, my top favorite individual fight scene in the whole High&Low saga was still the solo fight between Cobra and Murayama from the first series. I'm so happy to see how far they had become.

My other favorite parts in this movie belong to Housen Academy's leader Ueda Sachio. Shison Jun is one of my favorite actors and he was so cool in this movie, from his look, facial expressions, actions, to his badass fight scenes. Everything was perfect. I wish he had more screen time. He seemed to be an interesting character that I would love to learn more about, and his relationship with our main character Fujio was pretty interesting too. I guess they would become good friends in the future.

Oh, Tettsu and Chiharu appeared again in this movie. This time they appeared together in one scene. They were still a comedic duo as always. It would be nice if Dan could be there too. By the way, Tettsu had a new hairstyle again, which was also nice, but I still loved his dreadlocks style the most.

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Japanese high schoolers are so scary lol

Although I didn’t click with the new characters yet, I found it pretty interesting to see what was going on inside Oya High School during the big fights in S.W.O.R.D district in the main movies. I loved every moment Murayama appeared and every time the other S.W.O.R.D gangs were mentioned, especially Cobra. I believe every High&Low fan would know that Murayama always gets excited when it comes to Cobra. It was also fun to see Chiharu and Tettsu again.

The last episode was my favorite part of the whole series. I quite enjoyed the fight between the two main new characters. I guess I will learn more about them in the next movies.

While I was watching this, I couldn’t help myself from thinking that if I were a parent, I would never send my kids to Oya High school lol. They literally just pick fights all day and don’t study at all.

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The story is lacking compared to the anime series

April is coming to the end. This year I finally decided to watch the live action movie of my favorite anime series.

I think it should have been produced as a drama instead of a movie. A lot of important scenes from the anime was cut off from this live action movie, which made the story very confusing and less emotionally connecting.

Overall, the music performances were nice, the movie has beautiful cinematography and visuals. Hirose Suzu and Yamazaki Kento looked great together, and the cast’s acting was also good. However, the story was very lacking. I didn’t deeply connect with the characters as how I felt when watching the anime. It didn’t really touch my heart.

I think I would probably enjoy it more if I haven’t watched the anime before. I couldn’t refrain myself from comparing it to the anime a bit.

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Pretty good

It’s funny that I watched this friendship sharing show one year after I had watched the drama. The show was okay, but I think it was a bit dragging sometimes in the middle. You can clearly tell it was made to promote the drama and boost local tourism.

What I enjoyed was the bonding between the actors and actresses. I feel like they treated each other like family. I also see that their personalities are very different from their roles in the drama. You can easily tell Wu Xuan Yi and Huang Sheng Chi are the older members among all of them, while Wang Xing Yue and Lu Yu Xiao are among the younger members.

I really liked the last moment when they expressed their gratitude and loving feelings to each other.

I also liked the extra episode of the fourth sister’s couple. Although it was just a short bonus, I’m so glad that they made it. They are my favorite couple of the drama.

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Hilarious

Silly story, but hilarious, like most of other Stephen Chow’s films. I enjoyed it a lot, and specifically found it so funny when all the villains in this movie are from the Chinese government lol. Obviously, it’s a Hong Kong movie.

I don’t know if I was a little biased when Anita Yuen was in this. She’s one of my favorite Hong Kong actresses that I grew up watching in a few Chinese series. She looked so pretty and funny in this movie. I love her short hair. And her interactions with Stephen Chow were great too.

One thing I didn’t like throughout the movie is that one specific scene in the shopping mall where a father was brutally murdered right in front of his toddler. I found this scene unfunny and unnecessary. The film would have been much better without it.

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