I cried so hard at two particular scenes in Goblin that each time I lost my breath for a bit and got a pounding headache. There are many, many other dramas that I've cried during but nothing at quite that level. I was emotionally spent for a period of time afterwards. (I'm actually surprised that I'm not seeing more people referencing Goblin here.)
I also ugly cried (but not quite as hard) during: Just Between Lovers Reply 1988 (like ugly-ugly cried) Alice in Borderland Orange HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count The Red Sleeve Hotel King Back to 1989 Tale of the Nine Tailed Hotel del Luna Life-Love on the Line (three scenes in particular can still make me tear up just thinking about them) Thirty But Seventeen You Are My Destiny Hometown Cha Cha Cha Todome no Kiss Romance is a Bonus Book Melo is My Nature Chicago Typewriter Go Ahead Queen for Seven Days Come and Hug Me
WOW...I cry a lot while watching tv! :-) Thanks for the article!
How can you be 100% sure something is better when you havent even watched it?
"When I will have a movies record?" What does that even mean? I've been watching movies for decades now and have a university background in theater and media analysis.
And one more thing: what you've made very clear across this website is that you hate Netflix and most anything that Americans have produced or helped to produce. You've also claimed that Americans won't admit when we've produced a shitty product or admit when something is produced better. As an American, I'm here to say that you are quite misinformed. First of all, some of the loudest critics of American shitty media are Americans. Second of all, many - MANY - Americans are now watching Asian media because we love it, and we love it more than many American shows, which is WHY we're on this website to begin with! Your negative droning on about Netflix gets incredibly tiresome, especially when my friends who don't subscribe to Viki can finally watch the dramas I've been watching for a lot of years now, including the ones that Netflix just hosts for a while.
Lastly, your point about Squid Game and The Hunger Games would be a whole lot stronger if you actually read or watched what you were commenting about - before you commented about it.
About the Battle Royale/Hunger Games similarity discussion: Along with the surreal experience of watching reality television paired with images from the war in Iraq, Suzanne Collins was also compelled to write The Hunger Games after her childhood experience of waiting at home while her father was fighting what we Americans call the Vietnam War (but referred to by some folks in the region as the Resistance War Against America - just acknowledging the different perspective on history.) Collins also references the severe trauma that her father was suffering once he returned home from the war and the many ways that trauma affected his family and community as well.
Battle Royale film director Kinji Fukasaku grew up as a teenager in Japan during WWII and was significantly impacted by those horrible years. It's been said that he was drawn to Koushun Takami’s book (the source material) because of how much it reminded him of what his life was like then, with some details that are so horrific that I won't write them here. My point is, war is inhuman and horrible and has been written about, sung about, filmed on, and attempted to make meaning of for many, many years. THG and Battle Royale are two of these works, and BR, especially, has gone on to inspire many other films and dramas in the death game genre.
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I also ugly cried (but not quite as hard) during:
Just Between Lovers
Reply 1988 (like ugly-ugly cried)
Alice in Borderland
Orange
HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count
The Red Sleeve
Hotel King
Back to 1989
Tale of the Nine Tailed
Hotel del Luna
Life-Love on the Line (three scenes in particular can still make me tear up just thinking about them)
Thirty But Seventeen
You Are My Destiny
Hometown Cha Cha Cha
Todome no Kiss
Romance is a Bonus Book
Melo is My Nature
Chicago Typewriter
Go Ahead
Queen for Seven Days
Come and Hug Me
WOW...I cry a lot while watching tv! :-) Thanks for the article!
And one more thing: what you've made very clear across this website is that you hate Netflix and most anything that Americans have produced or helped to produce. You've also claimed that Americans won't admit when we've produced a shitty product or admit when something is produced better. As an American, I'm here to say that you are quite misinformed. First of all, some of the loudest critics of American shitty media are Americans. Second of all, many - MANY - Americans are now watching Asian media because we love it, and we love it more than many American shows, which is WHY we're on this website to begin with! Your negative droning on about Netflix gets incredibly tiresome, especially when my friends who don't subscribe to Viki can finally watch the dramas I've been watching for a lot of years now, including the ones that Netflix just hosts for a while.
Lastly, your point about Squid Game and The Hunger Games would be a whole lot stronger if you actually read or watched what you were commenting about - before you commented about it.
Along with the surreal experience of watching reality television paired with images from the war in Iraq, Suzanne Collins was also compelled to write The Hunger Games after her childhood experience of waiting at home while her father was fighting what we Americans call the Vietnam War (but referred to by some folks in the region as the Resistance War Against America - just acknowledging the different perspective on history.)
Collins also references the severe trauma that her father was suffering once he returned home from the war and the many ways that trauma affected his family and community as well.
Battle Royale film director Kinji Fukasaku grew up as a teenager in Japan during WWII and was significantly impacted by those horrible years. It's been said that he was drawn to Koushun Takami’s book (the source material) because of how much it reminded him of what his life was like then, with some details that are so horrific that I won't write them here.
My point is, war is inhuman and horrible and has been written about, sung about, filmed on, and attempted to make meaning of for many, many years. THG and Battle Royale are two of these works, and BR, especially, has gone on to inspire many other films and dramas in the death game genre.