well.. I'm still struggling a bit with how I feel about this drama. There was a lot of good that definitely outweighed the bad. But the bad got on my nerves or bothered me enough to mark it down quite a bit. I wanted very badly to slap Kim Jee Soo's character several times. I found her behavior irritating or outright dumb many times. I don't know if it was her acting or the character itself, but her reactions every time she was 'caught' were SO frozen (for lack of a better word)! They pretty much consisted of her lifting her eyes to whomever walked in and bugging her eyes out. She was so wooden all the time it was impossible to 'feel' any emotion from her character. I was completely at a loss to figure out if she actually thought she was in love or not since she spent most of the drama being so completely unemotional. What a complete change from her acting in One Warm Word where she was a seething mass of hate and anger and hurt.
Also, there were numerous instances where the writing was very contradictory...e.g when her husband tells her to leave then basically attacks her later for doing so. There were several other things like this that left me talking to the screen about wth was going on when the characters had said things like "you are making a mistake, don't do it" and then 2 episodes later cheering them on to 'fight for the relationship'.
However, other than our lead female, virtually everyone else's characters and acting in this were wonderful. The story was very interesting, especially since it dealt objectively with the subject of adultery....apparently a capital offense in Korea...despite the fact their divorce rate is over 50%! Oddly, though this drama deals with 3 couples who end up leaving their spouses, there is not one single kiss and only a couple very tepid and awkward looking hugs...so extremely far from reality...especially given that we are dealing with people in their 40's. Overall, I really enjoyed the story and the time I spent with these people. I thought I had seen Ryu Jung Han in minor parts in several dramas, but I guess not as there is nothing listed for him! Too bad! I'm now a fan. But, again, everyone really did a good job with their parts in this. It's just the writing was a bit wonky here and there. would have been 8.5, but only a 7.5 from me.
So netflix picked this up from MBC because the ratings were "so good" for the first episode or 2? Under…
sorry...just checked the most recent episode and it looks like someone picked it up and is subbing it. Thanks for the note so I could find this out and re-add it to my watch list!
Stark and depressing as any film you will ever see, this movie is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen, and I've seen many. All of the characters in this are irredeemable as human beings and, while the reasons for what they have become are understandable, the resulting horror is mind numbingly violent and amoral. This movie left me with a dark hole in my mind and a clench of fright in my chest at the very real knowledge that evil like this exists in our world and day by day more of it seems to come unhinged from the constraints that bind it. I fear for our children that they will have to deal with these kind of monsters.
This movie is certainly worthy of all the awards and high reviews it has received. It won Japan's Academy Award for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing and made the short list for the US' Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and was the last film to win for Best Asian Film in the Hong Kong equivalent of Academy awards.
So netflix picked this up from MBC because the ratings were "so good" for the first episode or 2? Under 7% is "so good"? What are they going to do now that the ratings can't even crack 5%. I wonder if we will ever see subs for this now. Maybe if dark smurf subs ever decides to finish it?
I wish for the highest score ever on MDL ( I wonder who has that anyway?) Nothing else I can add to what everyone else is saying. But...this drama has the most evocative music I've ever experienced in a drama or movie in my life! And I am OLD! :)
/I hope it doesn't go against MDL rules, but/ do you guys know an english website similar in concept to asianwiki…
MDL has a suggestion page in their forums and one of those suggestions is that MDL add pages for Directors, Writers/scriptwriters, etc. Then we could build a curriculum vitae for them as well as for actors. Many of us would like to follow certain writers or directors works. So maybe you can add a suggestion for cinematographers, etc? For now, many PD's work with the same crews, so that may be our only way of following those people. And of course, watch anything that shows up on tvN! They consistently have excellent cinematography...they are CJ Entertainment after all!!! :)
Really enjoy these short Special Dramas. Especially when they are well done like this. No dragging things out episode after episode creating a bunch of cliched scenarios just to keep the story going for x number of hours. But mostly I love that I get to see Lee Joon-Hyuk again. I have loved him since Equator Man and every drama since then that I have seen him in... Three Brothers, I am Legend, Spring Day of My Life, Bluebird House and more I know I must have seen him in City Hunter, but it has been too many years to remember him. Anyway...9/10 for me just because I think I was in the right mood for this one and really enjoyed it.
Something about 1%....she was dragging him all over the place! My favorite was when she was trying to find a restaurant for lunch and had ahold of his thumb!! and was pulling him behind her.
Hate all of these equally. Add in psycho ex or wanna be girlfriends who no one ever talks down and dirty to and my head is about to explode. AND WE ARE ALL STILL WATCHING AND BITCHING!! THE perfect cure for all of these scenarios is Something About 1%. I cannot thank this drama more...which is why I have watched it 8 times! Love love love love love the kisses in this...knee melting! (watch all the kisses replay, including one that got cut, at the end of the final episode) The mom agonizes over being mean and then totally gives in. The lead girl mouths off to both our lead guy and rips his ex....repeatedly. LOVE her to death! Love how he retains his power as a man and at the same time totally turns pathetic when he screws up! The biggest problem with this drama is that they ended up editing OUT so much because the big networks didn't pick it up and it ended up on an unknown broadcaster station. Still...if you haven't watched it and need something to offset your frustration with all these tropes...watch them turn all of them on their heads in this one...it's like they made it just to do that.
I hate weak female lead ... but wait they are not only weak, they are stupid and not the less AGGRESSIVE! As if…
LMAO...oh yeah...30+ women in kdrama who are gorgeous (but the drama says they are ugly---as if) and never dated nor kissed anyone...right. That's SO believable. It's been beaten to DEATH!
hmmm...I'm out of the loop on this one. I am a big fan of Sin City and have watched it several times. I won't watch this again. Was it my mood? I don't know but I just could not build a connection with the story on this one. Love the actors, Le Je Hoon is a big favorite and him being in anything means I'll be watching. The kids were adorable. And Kim Sung Kyun was scary bad. But the actual story was just ho hum for me. It felt disconnected or choppy or something. From the first moment I just could not get interested in what was going on and kept pausing and coming back to finish. Nice to look at for sure, tho the cinematography doesn't compare with Sin City, it was still good.
he should get at least a best actor nomination for Awl...but that entire drama was amazing! I've seen A Thousand…
Kisses was marked by the "Ministry of Banishment" (aka Korean Communications Commission for its "unethical development and indirect product placement". SMH Major Cultural disconnect.
Love the homage to CITT (Cheese in the Trap) in ep 7! She appears to be at the same college, walking by the same lake. But the Goblin’s statements (about the baseball player)…’I should have broken his wrist’ and ‘he should have kept playing the piano’ had me on the floor LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
he should get at least a best actor nomination for Awl...but that entire drama was amazing! I've seen A Thousand Kisses and remember liking it well enough to drop everything else I was watching and marathon it. It had it's problems, but watching him was the #1 reason why I was glued to my screen (see my comment...my loooong comment). 8.5 My Sweet Seoul had good acting, BAD story. Did not like it at all 5.5. I watched Birth of the Rich years ago, don't remember much about it but remember I did like it and gave it a 7 with a note maybe 7.5. Don't remember Invincible much but remember being bored and thinking the acting was meh 6.5 LOVED In Hyun of course.
p.s.-ran across a blog on Fever on Thousand Kisses where there was this sentence: "When Ji Hyun Woo first came onscreen, I admit all I could think is "how ugly!" WHAT???!!! I read it like 5 times trying to figure out if there was supposed to be sarcasm there. I guess different eyes and hearts see people differently?
Also, there were numerous instances where the writing was very contradictory...e.g when her husband tells her to leave then basically attacks her later for doing so. There were several other things like this that left me talking to the screen about wth was going on when the characters had said things like "you are making a mistake, don't do it" and then 2 episodes later cheering them on to 'fight for the relationship'.
However, other than our lead female, virtually everyone else's characters and acting in this were wonderful. The story was very interesting, especially since it dealt objectively with the subject of adultery....apparently a capital offense in Korea...despite the fact their divorce rate is over 50%! Oddly, though this drama deals with 3 couples who end up leaving their spouses, there is not one single kiss and only a couple very tepid and awkward looking hugs...so extremely far from reality...especially given that we are dealing with people in their 40's. Overall, I really enjoyed the story and the time I spent with these people. I thought I had seen Ryu Jung Han in minor parts in several dramas, but I guess not as there is nothing listed for him! Too bad! I'm now a fan. But, again, everyone really did a good job with their parts in this. It's just the writing was a bit wonky here and there. would have been 8.5, but only a 7.5 from me.
This movie is certainly worthy of all the awards and high reviews it has received. It won Japan's Academy Award for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing and made the short list for the US' Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and was the last film to win for Best Asian Film in the Hong Kong equivalent of Academy awards.
alsohttp://www.hancinema.net/a-thousand-kisses-gets-a-warning-34946.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hancinema%2FAUJj+%28HanCinema+Daily+News%29
p.s.-ran across a blog on Fever on Thousand Kisses where there was this sentence: "When Ji Hyun Woo first came onscreen, I admit all I could think is "how ugly!" WHAT???!!! I read it like 5 times trying to figure out if there was supposed to be sarcasm there. I guess different eyes and hearts see people differently?