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A beautiful film. Very much like a stage play in the limited sets and obvious backdrops but that didn't bother me since the scenery was beautiful and I enjoy films that feel like plays. The stories are fairly predictable but that didn't impede me from enjoying the film.

If you want to watch a heartwarming movie this is a good one.

I haven't watched it but thank you for the recommendation. I will add it to the list. :)

Our Shiny Days is my favorite Chinese youth drama. The main characters being so dorky/quirky feels more realistic to me than how most teenagers are portrayed in youth dramas. And the story is fairly unique since it's about folk music vs classical music.

Even though they weren't able to get married, Shi Yi and Sheng Chen were on the same wavelength, of one mind, in harmony, in tune, in sync, complementary, whatever you want to call it. It was beautiful to witness. I'm looking forward to part two. I hope their next incarnations are as wonderful as they were here.

This was a good but very sad film. The scene of the child in the window of the ship as it was sinking was heart breaking. That was just as awful as the scene in the Titanic of the deceased lady floating with her infant.

I just found another one! The currently airing show Kazoku Boshu Shimasu.

Here are some more suggestions for anyone who likes found family dramas. Bad Family, Home Drama, and Semi Otoko.

raredoramas.info just reuploaded the raws several days ago!

I requested it since they had uploaded it several years ago but the links were dead when I wanted to rewatch it recently. Thanks raredoramas!

This is part of the reason why I didn't give this drama a good rating. I wasn't a fan of how the male lead treated the female lead either, but my main problem was that this poor woman deserved to be able to raise her son. It was devastating to me that after all she went through the writers didn't let her have her son back. And I agree with you, San wasn't even with the adoptive parents for that long. He was at an age where he would likely not even remember them if he were to go back to his birth mother.

My heart in episode 14 when Lin Yang found out that Zheng An had his social media set so that only she saw his posts. <3

Morals change over time. I was reading last year about the history of slavery. If you look at the authors from antiquity very few said that maybe slavery was morally wrong. It wasn't even on their minds back then to think of all people naturally being of equal status regardless of who their family was or where they were born. If I was a slave or servant in the past and had been taught my whole life that my master was my better, maybe I would sacrifice myself or my kin to help them, I really don't know. All I know is that it's hard to judge someone from the distant past when it comes to morals since the world was so different back then.

You may like the original show: Wrong Carriage, Right Groom. The female lead is actually physically strong when fighting. And she is clever enough to trick her grandmother-in-law into thinking she has some business sense even though she is illiterate. She works together with her husband (and his grandmother) to take down his evil cousin. The second female lead trains under a doctor and becomes a capable assistant.

The only one of these shows I have watched was Move To Heaven and I agree it was one of the best shows I have ever watched. It made me cry almost every episode, and I’m not really much of a crier when it comes to films/tv. I think the subject of death can be uncomfortable, and even taboo, in the modern world since we focus so much on living and prolonging life as much as possible. I really appreciated watching a series that focused on death and how we naturally grieve and move on as well as how people’s lives have a positive impact others even in small ways. The series reminded me a lot of one of my favorite songs by the band Frightened Rabbit called Heads Roll Off. The chorus goes:

“When my blood stops,
Someone else's will thaw.
When my head rolls off,
Someone else's will turn.
And while I'm alive, I'll make tiny changes to earth.”

I think making small positive changes to the world is all anyone can ask for in the end.

In my opinion this is the best of the 'Eternal Love' series. Both Chang Chen and Ni Ni are amazing actors. I think that comes from both of them having a solid film acting background. They really did Chang Chen dirty in the looks department here though. He is more attractive in the gritty action film Savage, which was released the same year as Love and Destiny. I also think that Ling Xi is the most appealing female lead among the series. Bai Qian is too aloof and Bai Feng Jiu is painfully dumb. Ling Xi can be a little silly sometimes but she isn't dumb and she is a very caring person.

Tang Jun Sang did really well in this. His performance is on the same level as Leo DiCaprio as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

It's on dailymotion posted in six parts by the user a_dirty_carnival.

These days most films will have multiple posters, including some minimal ones and those usually look the best visually. I also think that coming soon posters are often better than the main poster, they tease just enough to get you excited about the movie. I feel the same about teaser trailers, main trailers often spoil too much of the plot. Something interesting to me is in a lot of movie posters you will see have let’s say three characters lined up in a row and the billing will list the three actors names at the top, but their names won’t be in the order they appear in on the poster. Whichever actor has top billing will have their name listed first. There is definitely a formula for a successful movie poster which is why so many of them (in the same genre at least) end up looking the same.

That is immediately what I thought of when I saw The Wandering Earth poster. Marvel films with ensemble casts do the same thing. It’s not visually appealing but studios care the most about making money in the end.