Terry Tsurugi

This is the best Freaky Friday type movie I've ever seen.

This is like a cross between and I Saw the Devil and The Devil Is a Part Timer.

Sure, watching evil villains get tortured to death pushes our buttons, but after 1 or 2 of these long scenes, it gets boring, just like explicit sex scenes. Good thing I was able to fast forward through most of these repetitive scenes.

Park Shin-hye was by far the best thing about this show, and the main thing that kept me watching to the end.

But why did she have to give the criminals such light sentences? Couldn't she give them their just sentence and then either sneak in and kill them while they're in custody or help them escape from jail and then kill them while they're on the run? Come on, she's a powerful demon, this should be easy for her.

The main point of the first 5.5 episodes seems to be that life in Jeju in the 60s and 70s was miserable. I can't say more than that without watching more of the show.

It's too bad I had to drop this. I really like IU, I like Bo-gum, and I really love Moon So-ri. My Mister is one of my favorite all-time dramas. But this went too far for me with the misery porn, mean old people, mean bosses, and mean crooks. Except for the protagonists and the haenyeos, almost everyone else in the show is pure evil. Even the IU character was way too mean to Bo-gum, treating him like dirt for years until she suddenly cried out for him at the pier. And the stuff about the boy in ep6 was just way over the top, making me cringe. I prefer more balance and elegance and a lighter touch. Am I the only person who reacted this way?

Man, I hope the 13-year old actress who played the daughter didn't get emotionally scarred for life from what she had to go through in this totally crazy movie.

For shame

Any English subs?

I can't help but wonder if this season was fixed. There's so much chance involved in the games, I find it very hard to believe that one person could be so dominating and come up with the best counterintuitive strategy to win almost every time. Dong-min is clearly an incredibly smart and strategic player, but his consistent domination makes me suspicious.

I was enjoying it up to ep4, which was terrible, so I dropped it. Narumi Riko was great though, and Ogata Ken is a legend.

I enjoyed the first half of the show, especially because of Jang Na-ra's lovable character, but when I saw where the show was headed in episode 11, I dropped it. I don't need to torture myself like that.

Thanks for letting me know!

The ML is such an arsehole. Sam-soon's ex is even worse. She has to put up with so much garbage and violence during the show, it's really aggravating. I think she would have been much better off with that blind date that Hyun-bin interrupted 3 times. And all of the drama of the last episode is due to the wrong mailing address? Give me a break. If it weren't for Sun-ah's sassy performance and the show's more mature and realistic attitude towards love and dating (at least some of the time), I would have dropped this early on.

I wish Korean dramas and movies didn't have so many gratuitous scenes of protagonists sitting on the toilet and going poop.

Thanks!

Thanks, is the sub file available separately?

Dropped after episode 4. The slick Hollywood style of the series reached an embarrassing climax in this episode, with lots of dancing in the rain, running into the ocean in the rain, characters behaving totally irrationally because they value their feelings much more than all rationality, teary speeches, etc., and I just couldn't stand it any more. I don't know why cliched melodrama is so much more tolerable when done by Koreans (or Japanese) than when done by Americans or Asian-Americans.

Anna Sawai basically played the same character that she did in Shogun.

Also, when I read the book, I pictured the sickly pastor as this mild-mannered, scholarly looking guy. Instead, we get this hunky, kkangpae type guy who looks like he's raging with testosterone after having returned from his military conscription as a taekwondo master killer who can beat the leaving crap out of Lee Min-ho--i.e., a little bit of miscasting.

I don't think you're missing much if you never get around to it.

This was totally different from the Korean original. This version was too rushed for me, with weird, disjointed editing. I feel like they should have set up some of the final decisions a little better, because if they edit the footage to make viewers believe something only to pull the rug out from under them in the ending because they hid all the scenes that would have given you a more accurate picture, that's too manipulative.

I like the Korean original way better. But if they could somehow find a happy medium between the super long Korean version that gets too repetitive with the same arguments being repeated every night and this super quick Japanese version that makes you confused and hardly gives you a chance to get to know anyone, that would be the best version of all.

That was nice. It was more serious and less cliched than season 1.

This is one of the most underrated movies I've seen in a long time. It's one of the best Iwai movies I've ever seen, which is saying a lot.