The scene in the elevator with the chairman in the wheelchair was almost an exact copy/paste of a scene in History of salaryman/Salaryman Chohanji (2012 drama) with the secretary. To say anymore than that, would be a spoiler for both movie and dorama.
The movie was so much better than the special drama!! I was quite hesitant to watch it at first because I really couldn't get into the drama "humour", but thank goodness they were nothing alike apart the fact that some actors/actresses played in both. It was a simple movie nonetheless, a little slice of life. Nevertheless, I didn't fast forward nor did I find it boring, so that was quite unexpected! It had some manga feel-like, which amused me and all the actors and actress did play well. Of course some better than the others, but I never found any of the acting exaggerated.
This is my second time watching it, and I didn't even notice the first time. In episode 12, while they are at the restaurant, Edith Piaf song "La foule" was playing in background music. I can see that korean directors like to add french songs from time to time, and it always come unexpected!!
Now I'm supposed to believe that the young, beautiful and always nice wife fell in love with nasty old husband, just because of two/three things he did for her. The man was absolute scum with no redeeming qualities at all!! He was an old man who bought a younger woman abroad, like you would bought a car. And never ever did he consider her once like a human being. He was violent, rough and alcoholic. I can't count how many times he used physical violence on her. I also really disliked how they portray the wife as the most perfect human being on earth ever?! She is not credible for a single minute, because no woman in her situation would act like she did. She never complains, always smiles, is never tired despite the beating and the chores at home she had to do plus her job besides. And last, but certainly not least, she loves the man who never talks to her and of course she's faithful.
This drama was one of the worst I had to watch, because they literally glorified the notion of slave wife, with a trivialization of domestic violence that is clearly unacceptable. There's this scene where the husband rush at her wife's job (she's a teacher), and he beat the shit out of her like a possessed hysterical, in front of her class. Worst is, we never get to know what happen after that incident, so the rest doesn't even make sense.
I was truly expecting something different, but the only good point was that she didn't kill her husband.
Acting is way over-the-top!! Trying so hard to be funny, when they only made me wince... Excessive mannerism and no subtlety at all, but what really made me drop this, was the blatant sexism "I'm gonna have a baby boy" here and there. Basically, the main couple can only inherit if they have a "son", no more less. So it is quite different from the synopsis and not funny at all!! Especially, when you know that a "newborn baby girl" can still equal "bad luck & misfortune"in Asia, to name an example.
Someone please give her the main role in a drama! This actress totally deserves it. Not only is she good at acting,…
I couldn't agree more, you said everything!! The fact is that it's even harder for actresses. I've seen quite some average looking actors who were given lead roles regardless of their faces, for example Yu Hae Jin/유해진. But, when it comes to women that's another story, blame it on sexism!! It saddens me so much, because indeed when you watch some K-doramas, there are often remarks like "If only your face was smaller, you could be so much prettier with rhinoplasty", addressed mostly to women. So it's nearly impossible for actresses who refuse to follow the plastic norm, to shine through screen, no matter how talented they may be...
A truly sad story! Even if in the beginning the protagonist was getting on my nerves from time to time, at the end he really didn't deserve all the bad things happening to him. Though he should have lay low on the soju long time ago...
Si vous appréciez de voir de jeunes femmes minces dévoilant leur atours juste pour le plaisir de s'exhiber, ne cachant même pas leurs seins et leurs fesses, dans des scènes pas forcément appropriées... Ce drama est fait pour vous!! Sachant qu'il y a aussi du "sexe" par ci et par là sans complexe, mais sans vulgarité fort heureusement. Bref, faut aimer voir de la chair féminine totalement dénudée, car après juste un épisode j'ai préféré stopper. Pourtant, cela aurait pu être intéressant mais bon ça fait un peu trop voyeurisme facile et sans saveur. Je suis pas adepte du "ecchi", et cette fiction m'a fait penser à ce qu'aurait pu être "City Hunter" le manga/animé, s'il avait été adapté en drama tel quel... Assez limite me concernant. Certaines choses sont beaucoup plus tolérables en dessin animé qu'en vrai... Un dorama donc plutôt réservé à un public averti!
Plus qu'un mini-dorama, ce serait plutôt une longue publicité pour "restaurants & autres tavernes", avec chaque épisode mettant en scène un établissement différent. Certains gérants jouant même leur propre rôle. Par contre, le truc qui m'a vraiment agacé, c'est l'apologie de l'eau-de-vie qui y est faite. En gros, tous les plats quels qu'ils soient s'accompagnent obligatoirement d'une liqueur ou d'une bière . C'était juste choquant!! Certes vu le titre du drama, je m'attendais à quoi d'autre!? Mais bon... Le rapport à l'alcool est carrément différent en asie et dans certains pays d'europe de l'est...
Et franchement le surveillant pénitencier joue trop avec les sentiments de Ai. Il est amoureux de la veuve à son frère, et Hayakawa Ai ne lui sert que de divertissement. Déjà, il est bien trop vieux pour elle. On sent bien qu'il y a un fossé entre eux niveau maturité. J'en veux pour preuve qu'il arrive à lire en elle comme un livre ouvert, alors qu'elle n'arrive pas à le cerner, malgré ce qu'elle prétend. Hayakawa Ai est encore trop immature et capricieuse pour être dans une quelconque relation de couple. Un mec qui oscille entre 2 femmes ne me donne pas envie de m'investir dans son histoire, vu qu'il joue sur 2 tableaux.
Décevant, et pourtant j'ai tenu 8 épisodes avant d'abandonner. La pseudo romance entre le surveillant pénitencier et la détenue n'est pas crédible du tout. Cela aurait pu être intéressant si cela avait été un brin plus réaliste.
I saw there's a new project to get all the eps subbed in HD, thought that may be of interest to you, seems like…
Hi MaxCriden, Thanks for this information!! Yeah I remember seeing this topic too, although I know that the eventuality of this happening is very low. Indeed, it is an old dorama after all...
I didn't watched all of her movies, but so far her roles in Hap Ki Do/He Qi Dao (1972) and The tournament/Chung taai kuen taan sang sei chin (1974) were where I saw her techniques at their best. I think that The tournament deserves better recognition that Hap Ki Do, that ressembles too many movies she played in, with japanese occupation themes. Indeed in The tournament, at least the plot seems more consistent, despite some flaws. In that movie, her skills are truly sensational and even more impressive, because of the versatily of her moves. It was good to see her doing muay thaï even though she may seem amateurish to some purists. It is such a shame that women still can't seem their pursue their career when they get married and/or have children, especially when they do actions movies. It's like they have to change the path of their carreer and played women roles or get retired. So unfair... I would have loved to see her doing some martial arts techniques in a recent movie, even in a support role, like Michelle Yeoh did in Tiger & Dragon, even though she clearly wasn't old. I really do wish to see more actresses in actions and martial arts movies like what Mao Ying Angela was doing back then, doing great without being provocative. When I think of her colleague Hung Sammo who still has the skills and remains in the business, because he has the luxury to be a man in a man's field... It saddens me, because it seems women aren't allow to grow old and still throw punches. Their retirement is even more precocious than some dancers.
It's unbelievable, because he is the spitting image of the actor Ji Seong/ 지성 who plays Secret/비밀 and Protect the boss/보스를 지켜라. I was so sure that he was his little brother or relative... After watching Wise prison life/슬기로운 감빵생활, I'm stating for sure that he is definitely his look-alike.
The one thing I'll never get in korean dramas business genre, is how even if a woman comes from a wealthy…
Sometimes spoilers are a good thing though, it just depends on the feeling you have while watching. Anyway, it was indeed a good scenario that was well put together, and that we do not have the habit to see.
I didn't watch "추적자 THE CHASER" nor "Punch", be they seem interesting. I'm gonna have to put them on my list. Thank you very much for suggesting them to me!!
Concerning "황금의 제국 - Golden Empire", I've rated it a 7.5, I did take off 3 points, because of the first 4 episodes that I'll never rewatch again, even if I were to watch the drama again. And I also did take off, a half point for the ending, which was a little frustrating.
I'm always quite harsh when it comes to give rating, so when a drama really displeases me, I'll only rate it if I'm able to finish it, because it wouldn't be fair otherwise.
It was a simple movie nonetheless, a little slice of life. Nevertheless, I didn't fast forward nor did I find it boring, so that was quite unexpected!
It had some manga feel-like, which amused me and all the actors and actress did play well. Of course some better than the others, but I never found any of the acting exaggerated.
In episode 12, while they are at the restaurant, Edith Piaf song "La foule" was playing in background music.
I can see that korean directors like to add french songs from time to time, and it always come unexpected!!
Now I'm supposed to believe that the young, beautiful and always nice wife fell in love with nasty old husband, just because of two/three things he did for her. The man was absolute scum with no redeeming qualities at all!! He was an old man who bought a younger woman abroad, like you would bought a car. And never ever did he consider her once like a human being. He was violent, rough and alcoholic. I can't count how many times he used physical violence on her.
I also really disliked how they portray the wife as the most perfect human being on earth ever?! She is not credible for a single minute, because no woman in her situation would act like she did. She never complains, always smiles, is never tired despite the beating and the chores at home she had to do plus her job besides. And last, but certainly not least, she loves the man who never talks to her and of course she's faithful.
This drama was one of the worst I had to watch, because they literally glorified the notion of slave wife, with a trivialization of domestic violence that is clearly unacceptable.
There's this scene where the husband rush at her wife's job (she's a teacher), and he beat the shit out of her like a possessed hysterical, in front of her class. Worst is, we never get to know what happen after that incident, so the rest doesn't even make sense.
I was truly expecting something different, but the only good point was that she didn't kill her husband.
Excessive mannerism and no subtlety at all, but what really made me drop this, was the blatant sexism "I'm gonna have a baby boy" here and there.
Basically, the main couple can only inherit if they have a "son", no more less. So it is quite different from the synopsis and not funny at all!!
Especially, when you know that a "newborn baby girl" can still equal "bad luck & misfortune"in Asia, to name an example.
But, when it comes to women that's another story, blame it on sexism!! It saddens me so much, because indeed when you watch some K-doramas, there are often remarks like "If only your face was smaller, you could be so much prettier with rhinoplasty", addressed mostly to women. So it's nearly impossible for actresses who refuse to follow the plastic norm, to shine through screen, no matter how talented they may be...
Sachant qu'il y a aussi du "sexe" par ci et par là sans complexe, mais sans vulgarité fort heureusement.
Bref, faut aimer voir de la chair féminine totalement dénudée, car après juste un épisode j'ai préféré stopper. Pourtant, cela aurait pu être intéressant mais bon ça fait un peu trop voyeurisme facile et sans saveur. Je suis pas adepte du "ecchi", et cette fiction m'a fait penser à ce qu'aurait pu être "City Hunter" le manga/animé, s'il avait été adapté en drama tel quel...
Assez limite me concernant. Certaines choses sont beaucoup plus tolérables en dessin animé qu'en vrai...
Un dorama donc plutôt réservé à un public averti!
Par contre, le truc qui m'a vraiment agacé, c'est l'apologie de l'eau-de-vie qui y est faite. En gros, tous les plats quels qu'ils soient s'accompagnent obligatoirement d'une liqueur ou d'une bière . C'était juste choquant!! Certes vu le titre du drama, je m'attendais à quoi d'autre!? Mais bon...
Le rapport à l'alcool est carrément différent en asie et dans certains pays d'europe de l'est...
Déjà, il est bien trop vieux pour elle. On sent bien qu'il y a un fossé entre eux niveau maturité. J'en veux pour preuve qu'il arrive à lire en elle comme un livre ouvert, alors qu'elle n'arrive pas à le cerner, malgré ce qu'elle prétend.
Hayakawa Ai est encore trop immature et capricieuse pour être dans une quelconque relation de couple. Un mec qui oscille entre 2 femmes ne me donne pas envie de m'investir dans son histoire, vu qu'il joue sur 2 tableaux.
Thanks for this information!! Yeah I remember seeing this topic too, although I know that the eventuality of this happening is very low. Indeed, it is an old dorama after all...
Indeed in The tournament, at least the plot seems more consistent, despite some flaws. In that movie, her skills are truly sensational and even more impressive, because of the versatily of her moves. It was good to see her doing muay thaï even though she may seem amateurish to some purists.
It is such a shame that women still can't seem their pursue their career when they get married and/or have children, especially when they do actions movies. It's like they have to change the path of their carreer and played women roles or get retired. So unfair...
I would have loved to see her doing some martial arts techniques in a recent movie, even in a support role, like Michelle Yeoh did in Tiger & Dragon, even though she clearly wasn't old.
I really do wish to see more actresses in actions and martial arts movies like what Mao Ying Angela was doing back then, doing great without being provocative.
When I think of her colleague Hung Sammo who still has the skills and remains in the business, because he has the luxury to be a man in a man's field... It saddens me, because it seems women aren't allow to grow old and still throw punches. Their retirement is even more precocious than some dancers.
I didn't watch "추적자 THE CHASER" nor "Punch", be they seem interesting. I'm gonna have to put them on my list. Thank you very much for suggesting them to me!!
Concerning "황금의 제국 - Golden Empire", I've rated it a 7.5, I did take off 3 points, because of the first 4 episodes that I'll never rewatch again, even if I were to watch the drama again. And I also did take off, a half point for the ending, which was a little frustrating.
I'm always quite harsh when it comes to give rating, so when a drama really displeases me, I'll only rate it if I'm able to finish it, because it wouldn't be fair otherwise.