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J-Dramas are really really good but I think in terms of accesibility, they're not as common when it comes to K-Drama and Chinese dramas on any of the streaming services.

Have you watched stuff like Nobuta wa Produce or any KimuTaku dramas?

I've watched a lot of K-Dramas, but recently got somewhat disillusioned by them as they look nice but feel all too similar with each other when it comes to romcom/melodramas from the music/OST feeling like it's the same across various dramas, repetitive tropes, predictability, etc. This could be a fault of the streaming service in not bringing in more variety and usually choosing safe dramas to add to their collections. Once in a while, I will come across a gem though. My preferred genres are Detective, Murder, Mystery and Supernatural dramas but I felt like there has not been enough K-Dramas being released the past couple years that are actually part of those genres unfortunately.

I feel like Netflix UK are finally giving J-Drama a deserved push this year by bringing older dramas like Tokyo Dogs, Galileo, SPECs, etc. I want them to bring even more if possible. I was so happy to see the likes of Kisarazu Cat's Eyes and IWGP to join the service.

I was like is Vincenzo now gay?

So I binged it all in one go on it's release date and I was originally only planning on watching an episode or 2, with the plan to finish the series on the weekend but I couldn't walk away, it was such a delightful watch that I did not realise I had already sat through 4 episodes before I got up to get a drink.

Before the first episode even got past 10 or so minutes, I thought the Japanese was a little awkward for the FL as if it was like her second language or something, this was before it's revealed that she's actually a Korean who recently moved to Japan (I'm assuming about 5 or 6 years at best). Then I realised that the FL was the one and only Han Hyo Joo, I haven't seen her since "Moving". I reckon Han Hyo Joo deliberately lowered her fluency in Japanese to fit the role of someone who's "still learning" Japanese for the most part. She played her role really well and adopted the J-Drama mannerisms more often than the K-Drama style imo.

Shun Oguri, I haven't watched one of his dramas in a very long time, the first drama I watched that he was in was IWGP back around 2008 (maybe even 2006) and the last drama I watched him was Ouroboros, so it was really nice to me on the screen.

It's an adorable fluffy drama, which reminded me of the "I'm Not a Robot" kdrama with it's similar premise. I know that it's technically a JSK drama but for the most part it's a J-Drama done with a bit K-Drama flair in it. Overall, I gave it a 9/10 and I'm really glad I watched it.

It looks more likely that he was murdered by people in the entertainment industry that have strong connections to the government.

I came across his death via this video:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETSJLGyKmF8

It's all pretty sad. RIP Alan Yu

I'm watching the first episode right now (no idea when it joined Netflix UK) but her "Engrish" is so damn awful and infuriating at the moment, not sure I'll get use to it.

I watched this subbed on a China Airlines flight last month, a decent film, nothing too crazy. It has however, got me interested in checking out the anime and manga though.

I saw this on a China Airline flight in September when I was visiting Taiwan.

Wait she's an actual assistant director for the movie "A Samurai in Time", her character in the film is also of a struggling assistant director that is made to do scripts very often, with her life goal of being a director herself.

The movie was a good laugh.

OCN...what on earth happened to them? Read up that, they put their OCN original content on TvN and Netflix.

I think this is the one from VIKI, the movie is something about a poisoned wine case unless that's the one on VIKI.

I was a bit surprised and very happy about the addition as I had literally just finished season 2 of 99.9% Criminal Layer on Netflix on the 13th September.

I hope they put the movie up as well.

I'm watching the 99.9% TV movie special, she's hilarious, cute and adorable in it.

That's the anime, need to watch that too.

That's a shame, I wonder if a batch of Japanese dramas are leaving Netflix along with it.

Gonna check over here:-

https://uk.newonnetflix.info/lastchance

Crap the Devil Judge is leaving too, need to watch the last couple of episodes

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Mrs Fang lived, as she was seen in the time-skip tending to trees.

I think one thing they never disclosed was who was the killer in the mafia game they played a decade ago at their hiking/camping trip, I assume the Mafia killer is one of the "bad guys".

Never ever heard about Q series, I wonder what the others are like and if they're on Netflix UK. I think this drama is my fourth Taiwanese drama I've ever watched, I watched Devil Beside You, Bull Fighting and It Started with a Kiss, all a very very long time ago and half of Copycat Killer (need to go back to this one) within the past few years.

I came across a post on reddit recommending this show after I had watched the J-drama, Million Yen Women (Hyaku-manen no Onna-tachi), and I'm really glad I did.

Brief spoiler before the end of episode 01, I was rooting for Yi Cong to get another chance with Xiao Tong but then the revelation of what happened, killed that notion rapidly unfortunately.

The show kept me guessing who the potential killer was up and until episode 5, there were many hints in the form of random micro-aggressions, red herrings and characters acting very sus or anxious.

Overall, I enjoyed it and I really liked the talking corpses. I'm giving this series a 9/10, I don't think I will re-watch the series but at the same time I wonder what a re-watch would be like when you know the truth.

Just saw her in Close Your Eyes Before It's Dark, she was great in it.