A delightful coming-of-age movie featuring some of the most iconic Thai songs, with two friends who fall for the same girl. A classic for the ages, full of friendship, angst, comedy, and heart. Time well spent :)
This is the kind of romance movies I'm an absolute sucker for; where two lonely and broken souls form a connection,…
My biggest gripe was the brother/sister convo where he mentioned how the mum loved the FL and cared for her. UH SORRY BUT NO. Though it's likely that the FL forgave her mum and would empathize with her, but I'm glad they left out that mother-daughter conversation in the movie.
And one more.. I wish we got more of the ML and his story as well..
This is the kind of romance movies I'm an absolute sucker for; where two lonely and broken souls form a connection, triumphing over the toxic environments they come from, that becomes a warm, healing and safe space they create with and for each other full of love and companionship. How I wish this was a mini-series because I would have loved to see more of Sun Qian and Zhan Xin Cheng together...
P.S That synopsis does not do justice to this movie.
Agreed! JDramas fit my tastes much more than most K Dramas. I drop fewer of them and they have much higher average…
I adore French cinema, but I stand by my opinion of J-cinema being the most diverse I have seen. I have hardly seen them make very silly films. Comedy, yes. But not silly films for young girls or teens (equivalent to shoujo manga adaptations). Also, I haven't seen them make films on expeditions or important historical figures, like Asa Ga Kita (first woman who opened a bank in Japan) or Nankyoku Tariku (first Japanese expedition to Antarctica) or very out-of-the-box storytelling where the script reverses something creepy into something that leaves you wandering about the criminal's perspective like Wandering etc. Please correct me if I am wrong. Would love to have some recommendations if there are.
I agree. Japan is my favorite country for both Asian movies and dramas because there's so much variety, for both…
I'm not sure what genres you are into so I've tried to list some must-watch dramas from a variety of genres -
MARS (Romance, Psychological) In A Good Way (Coming-of-age, college, friendship, romance) Skip Beat (coming-of-age, comedy, entertainment industry, slight romance) Someday or One Day (time travel, romance) Momo Love (siblings relationship, family, first love) The Rose (family, psychological, slight romance) Fated to Love You (comedy, romance) Ghost Bride (horror, supernatural) Black and White (investigation) The World Between Us (mass shooting, social commentary, psychological) Bump Off Lover (suspense, thriller, psychological) Rainless Love in a Godless Land (msytery, fantasy, romance; a little similar to Goblin)
I watched every country's Hana Yori Dango adaptation but the Taiwanese one. I just couldn't stand the outdated…
SAMEEEEEEEEE! I watched almost everything with those actors too, and still continue to! Did you watch Ariel Lin and Mike He's latest drama 'Imperfect Us'? It was fantastic (not a light watch though).
Skip Beat seriously deserved a 2nd season! It was so perfect. Too bad it's been over a decade.. so they're clearly never coming back :(( SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
BTW if you liked Skip Beat, you should check out Glass Mask. They're very similar minus the wackiness. https://kisskh.at/798-glass-mask
I watched every country's Hana Yori Dango adaptation but the Taiwanese one. I just couldn't stand the outdated…
Oh yes all those Rainie Yang dramas <3333 DA LUNG DA LUNG DA LUNG DA LUNG XDDDD I still enjoy watching all those dramas you mentioned. Unpolished but so feel-good and heartwarming. I'm glad at least Japan still makes well-written wacky dramas like those once in a while, specifically those written by Kudo Kankuro. Do check them out!
I watched every country's Hana Yori Dango adaptation but the Taiwanese one. I just couldn't stand the outdated…
HAHA that's fine. I re-watched it sometime back and I found the styling really ugly. But back when I watched it while it was airing, that style was considered trendy and hip. So many people replicated them and found them so cool. The craze for F4 and Meteor Garden was just unreal all over the world. Also, I can't help but mention that the Taiwanese adaptation is the closest an adaptation ever got to the original source material. Taiwan seriously used to make the best adaptations, like MARS, Meteor Garden, Skip Beat etc It makes me sad that they don't make those kind of wacky dramas anymore..
OMG THE CAST LIST IS BLOWING MY MIND Kamiki Ryunosuke Mamiya Shotaro Narita Ryo Sugisaki Hana Shirasu Jin Iitoyo Marie Namase Katsuhisa Ito Kentaro Hirose Suzu Kaneko Nobuaki
What a sincere and beautiful love story of two very flawed, complex, and headstrong adults. Both Li Xian and Zhou…
Sigh I'm probably in the minority who wasn't a fan of the ending.. I wish it ended when they she sent him the 'I love you' voice message after they parted at the train station. I really liked what he said at the train station.. the future is for both of them to plan together and that they could charge forward in their careers and not give up (even if that meant living apart). They could communicate daily and take a train to meet whenever possible. It may not appear feasible but there are couples who do that.. also they were relatively new in the relationship. the whole ending with them hugging and her saying that you're where my home is - felt a bit of a cop out where one of the leads always has to compromise and settle where the other is to make it work. It was too neat, and the "accident-that-didn't-happen" was too convenient and lazy writing to get them to the lets-live-together-ending. An open ending would have worked a lot better for this drama. But again this is a C-drama.. and they barely like to keep it vague and people would probably hate that kind of ending.
Also my biggest gripe with this and a lot of C-dramas: The leads didn't really grow and remained as they were..
the physical difficulties that came with a prosthetic leg were never fully addressed either, like some research, some understanding into her condition would have fleshed out her character better. Same for him - we never truly got to know his journey and how he got into the profession, and how that affected his view of life. Like given that she has a prosthetic leg and there are possibilities of complications that may even result in death or further injury, wouldn't that make the possibility of 'death' be even closer for her.. how did that make him feel? They centred everything around her decision to go to Shanghai when there were so many other things that could have been addressed / weaved into the narrative.. I like it when we have a focus on secondary characters, but in this drama the angle with Grandma Lin brought really little to the table, and the focus could have been a lot more on the difficulties her handicap brought to their relationship.
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FANSUBBERS, WHERE ART THOU?
Plus this has the comedy tag!
PERFECT COMBINATION.
I swear I've seen his name appear in at least 4 or 5.
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for your food
HAHHHHHHHHHA
UH SORRY BUT NO.
Though it's likely that the FL forgave her mum and would empathize with her, but I'm glad they left out that mother-daughter conversation in the movie.
And one more.. I wish we got more of the ML and his story as well..
P.S That synopsis does not do justice to this movie.
Edit: OMG he was in Nanba MG5!
LOVE HIM!
GOOD OLD DAYS.
I have hardly seen them make very silly films. Comedy, yes. But not silly films for young girls or teens (equivalent to shoujo manga adaptations). Also, I haven't seen them make films on expeditions or important historical figures, like Asa Ga Kita (first woman who opened a bank in Japan) or Nankyoku Tariku (first Japanese expedition to Antarctica) or very out-of-the-box storytelling where the script reverses something creepy into something that leaves you wandering about the criminal's perspective like Wandering etc.
Please correct me if I am wrong. Would love to have some recommendations if there are.
MARS (Romance, Psychological)
In A Good Way (Coming-of-age, college, friendship, romance)
Skip Beat (coming-of-age, comedy, entertainment industry, slight romance)
Someday or One Day (time travel, romance)
Momo Love (siblings relationship, family, first love)
The Rose (family, psychological, slight romance)
Fated to Love You (comedy, romance)
Ghost Bride (horror, supernatural)
Black and White (investigation)
The World Between Us (mass shooting, social commentary, psychological)
Bump Off Lover (suspense, thriller, psychological)
Rainless Love in a Godless Land (msytery, fantasy, romance; a little similar to Goblin)
Feel free to reach out for more :)
Did you watch Ariel Lin and Mike He's latest drama 'Imperfect Us'? It was fantastic (not a light watch though).
Skip Beat seriously deserved a 2nd season! It was so perfect. Too bad it's been over a decade.. so they're clearly never coming back :((
SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
BTW if you liked Skip Beat, you should check out Glass Mask. They're very similar minus the wackiness.
https://kisskh.at/798-glass-mask
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I still enjoy watching all those dramas you mentioned. Unpolished but so feel-good and heartwarming.
I'm glad at least Japan still makes well-written wacky dramas like those once in a while, specifically those written by Kudo Kankuro. Do check them out!
I re-watched it sometime back and I found the styling really ugly. But back when I watched it while it was airing, that style was considered trendy and hip. So many people replicated them and found them so cool. The craze for F4 and Meteor Garden was just unreal all over the world.
Also, I can't help but mention that the Taiwanese adaptation is the closest an adaptation ever got to the original source material.
Taiwan seriously used to make the best adaptations, like MARS, Meteor Garden, Skip Beat etc
It makes me sad that they don't make those kind of wacky dramas anymore..
Kamiki Ryunosuke
Mamiya Shotaro
Narita Ryo
Sugisaki Hana
Shirasu Jin
Iitoyo Marie
Namase Katsuhisa
Ito Kentaro
Hirose Suzu
Kaneko Nobuaki
*instantly starts watching*
It may not appear feasible but there are couples who do that.. also they were relatively new in the relationship.
the whole ending with them hugging and her saying that you're where my home is - felt a bit of a cop out where one of the leads always has to compromise and settle where the other is to make it work. It was too neat, and the "accident-that-didn't-happen" was too convenient and lazy writing to get them to the lets-live-together-ending. An open ending would have worked a lot better for this drama.
But again this is a C-drama.. and they barely like to keep it vague and people would probably hate that kind of ending.
Also my biggest gripe with this and a lot of C-dramas: The leads didn't really grow and remained as they were..
the physical difficulties that came with a prosthetic leg were never fully addressed either, like some research, some understanding into her condition would have fleshed out her character better.
Same for him - we never truly got to know his journey and how he got into the profession, and how that affected his view of life.
Like given that she has a prosthetic leg and there are possibilities of complications that may even result in death or further injury, wouldn't that make the possibility of 'death' be even closer for her.. how did that make him feel?
They centred everything around her decision to go to Shanghai when there were so many other things that could have been addressed / weaved into the narrative.. I like it when we have a focus on secondary characters, but in this drama the angle with Grandma Lin brought really little to the table, and the focus could have been a lot more on the difficulties her handicap brought to their relationship.