I almost/kinda liked that hideous orange/purple one Sakae wore, just because it was so out of left field and gaudy. But that weird plastic jacket Mizuki wore crossed the line for me, and the two of them together in one scene almost blinded me. :) Probably a sponsor's designs.
Mizuki is the only interesting part of this drama.
Good. I hope you vomit all evening long. I'm not "fixated," I'm honest. People like you pretend they don't notice whether or not people are beautiful, ugly, somewhere in-between, etc. I'm sure a rotted, dead dandelion weed is JUST AS BEAUTIFUL to you as a rose bush in full bloom. Or, at least that's what you would claim to believe, since you have no "beauty standards." There's a reason Michelangelo's sculpture of David features a young male at the peak of youthful vigor and fitness, rather than a 400-lb. short, bald, 80-year-old dude.
I'm dropping this bomb before I waste any more of my time. Four minutes into episode 5 and my eyeballs nearly popped out of my skull from the centrifugal force of their rolling. Why do Japanese girls dress in floor-length flour sacks and bulky, shapeless sweater-coats, along with clunky penny loafers and white socks, then hallucinate that they are somehow "dressed up" as if to go on the town? Is this a BL thing or do they really think they look attractive to boys?
Did you know that Japanese women and girls walk with their toes pointed inward ON PURPOSE, because they think it looks CUTE? It's true! It's part of the insane Japanese "KAWAII" (cute) culture. For three years since finding Asian drama/cinema I have thought maybe there was something in the Japanese DNA that caused this pigeon-toed thing to happen naturally. Not so! THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!
What got me wondering enough to research it was learning that Chinese/Japanese/Korean people's DNA is more than 99.9% identical. Thus, why the hell weren't the Korean and Chinese girls/women stumbling around with their feet crossed over each other? KAWAII!
There are borderline BLs. Then, there are upper-borderline BLs and lower-borderline BLs. This BL is of the latter variety.
Bad: Plotting/writing/casting/direction/acting/Nishiyama Jun/the two ugliest men's coats on the face of the Earth: Sakae and Mizuki outside the Squash court in episode 10
Good: Kan Hideyoshi's beauty and fairly good acting chops
I can't believe I ended up confronted with yet ANOTHER "I am going to hurt you in the worst possible way to prevent you from being hurt" BL breakup excuse. I can't believe the best solution they could come up with was going BACK to the stupid long-distance relationship idea, which was already proven to be unworkable. The solution is for Soga to work in the local branch where he was ALREADY working. All the horse shit about why that wouldn't work is just that, horse shit.
So, this gets a 5.5/10 rating, which is a D- grade. KH's cheekbones saved it from an F.
Problems: Both leads are in loveless/sexless marriages, one with a bipolar/suicidal spouse. Both leads have a child with special needs, which makes leaving the marriage extremely difficult.
Solution: Both leads remain in their loveless/sexless mariages for the sake of their children, but carry on a long-term, committed, and carefully-planned affair on the side. The nut-job wife already knew, and the husband SHOULD have known, given that he and his wife have not been intimate for a long time.
The IS no perfect solution here, so you choose the most logical. Both leads had been desperately lonely and miserable as human beings. The need/desire for love and affection does not disappear because you have a special-needs child. I would argue that the ongoing affair would allow both of them to have that need met while still doing the best for their kids. Especially in the case of ML, his heartbreaking loneliness was hard to see.
The only thing he did that was shitty was his cowardly act in the hotel near the end.
This world consists of infinite shades of gray. This film's black/white perspective is the saddest thing about it.
I don't want your advice, so consider it ignored. I don't need you to tell me how or what to write. You are the one who has difficulty expressing yourself through the written word.
Any insult inferred by you in the use of the word "Lesbian" is your hangup, not mine. I am a gay man. I know and have known a lot of Lesbians over the years. Many of them would not hesitate to tell you they have a negative view of men, especially straight men, in general. That's a fact. Deal with it.
Furthermore, I did not use the word "Lesbian" in any way having to do with the movie. I used it referring to YOU. If you find that "insulting," that too, is your hangup, not mine. :)
You did not write "this kind of guy," nor did you explain what "this kind of guy" would mean. You wrote "typical MAN," implying ALL men, which is a sexist statement.
Moral of the story: ADULTERY Is bad….it leads to broken homes…..STOP ADULTERY
yeah, uh huh...THAT will definitely happen. Many times, the home is already broken. That's why one of the spouses is vulnerable to an affair; they're unhappy.
The self-righteous judgmentalism on MDL continues to amaze.
Meh...bored. Too many names/offices/cops/gangsters/corrupt politicians/blah blah blah to bother keeping track of. Seems to me they mostly sit around talking without much happening, except for the occasional dismemberment or murder. Can't believe there's two more hours of this to go...
How many similar yakuza/politicians/corporate corruption movies does the Korean film industry think it can make before it's maxed out? I feel I've seen a hundred variations of what's going on here.
Can any Korean actor portray a character without smoking cigs as a crutch? All my favorite movies and actors are Korean, so I get to ask this.
Kissing is important in bl but some are fine if they give us proper chemistry,I have seen so many good kissing…
Are you referring to K-Dramas? I have never watched a non-gay/BL K-drama and from what I have read about them over and over, I'm not about to start. lol I watched three or four episodes of a popular, mainstream K-Drama three or so years ago and couldn't believe how melodramatic and lame the story was.
More than anything else though, I was shocked by the low production values, which included that cheap, straight-to-video look of the final print that you only get with inexpensive cinematography onto whatever the current equivalent of what we used to know as a VHS tape is. Horrible.
And I know from snippets of other dramas I checked out because I liked an actor or actress who I learned to be in the show, that the cheap cinematography is the standard in the K-Drama world. These were dramas featuring major stars I knew of from the movies I'd seen. I watch lots of Korean/Japanese/Hong Konger/Taiwanese feature films, so I was shocked that these big stars were also doing cheap-ass TV dramas. I'd be horrified to see one of them in a mannequin kiss.
But the Asian film/drama industry is way different than here in the U.S.
The only Asian dramas I've watched are non-romantic, thriller-type shows commissioned by Netflix, which are all first-rate in quality.
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Excellent political/international/war thriller. Except for a couple of plot implausables, I'd be tempted to give this a 10/10. As such...
9/10 Highly recommended.
I'm not "fixated," I'm honest. People like you pretend they don't notice whether or not people are beautiful, ugly, somewhere in-between, etc. I'm sure a rotted, dead dandelion weed is JUST AS BEAUTIFUL to you as a rose bush in full bloom. Or, at least that's what you would claim to believe, since you have no "beauty standards."
There's a reason Michelangelo's sculpture of David features a young male at the peak of youthful vigor and fitness, rather than a 400-lb. short, bald, 80-year-old dude.
"body-shaming..." lol
I'm dropping this bomb before I waste any more of my time.
Four minutes into episode 5 and my eyeballs nearly popped out of my skull from the centrifugal force of their rolling.
Why do Japanese girls dress in floor-length flour sacks and bulky, shapeless sweater-coats, along with clunky penny loafers and white socks, then hallucinate that they are somehow "dressed up" as if to go on the town? Is this a BL thing or do they really think they look attractive to boys?
Did you know that Japanese women and girls walk with their toes pointed inward ON PURPOSE, because they think it looks CUTE? It's true! It's part of the insane Japanese "KAWAII" (cute) culture. For three years since finding Asian drama/cinema I have thought maybe there was something in the Japanese DNA that caused this pigeon-toed thing to happen naturally. Not so! THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!
What got me wondering enough to research it was learning that Chinese/Japanese/Korean people's DNA is more than 99.9% identical. Thus, why the hell weren't the Korean and Chinese girls/women stumbling around with their feet crossed over each other? KAWAII!
Highly not recommended.
There are borderline BLs.
Then, there are upper-borderline BLs and lower-borderline BLs.
This BL is of the latter variety.
Bad: Plotting/writing/casting/direction/acting/Nishiyama Jun/the two ugliest men's coats on the face of the Earth: Sakae and Mizuki outside the Squash court in episode 10
Good: Kan Hideyoshi's beauty and fairly good acting chops
I can't believe I ended up confronted with yet ANOTHER "I am going to hurt you in the worst possible way to prevent you from being hurt" BL breakup excuse.
I can't believe the best solution they could come up with was going BACK to the stupid long-distance relationship idea, which was already proven to be unworkable. The solution is for Soga to work in the local branch where he was ALREADY working. All the horse shit about why that wouldn't work is just that, horse shit.
So, this gets a 5.5/10 rating, which is a D- grade. KH's cheekbones saved it from an F.
Highly not recommended.
Both leads are in loveless/sexless marriages, one with a bipolar/suicidal spouse.
Both leads have a child with special needs, which makes leaving the marriage extremely difficult.
Solution:
Both leads remain in their loveless/sexless mariages for the sake of their children, but carry on a long-term, committed, and carefully-planned affair on the side.
The nut-job wife already knew, and the husband SHOULD have known, given that he and his wife have not been intimate for a long time.
The IS no perfect solution here, so you choose the most logical. Both leads had been desperately lonely and miserable as human beings. The need/desire for love and affection does not disappear because you have a special-needs child. I would argue that the ongoing affair would allow both of them to have that need met while still doing the best for their kids. Especially in the case of ML, his heartbreaking loneliness was hard to see.
The only thing he did that was shitty was his cowardly act in the hotel near the end.
This world consists of infinite shades of gray. This film's black/white perspective is the saddest thing about it.
8/10
Any insult inferred by you in the use of the word "Lesbian" is your hangup, not mine. I am a gay man. I know and have known a lot of Lesbians over the years. Many of them would not hesitate to tell you they have a negative view of men, especially straight men, in general. That's a fact. Deal with it.
Furthermore, I did not use the word "Lesbian" in any way having to do with the movie. I used it referring to YOU. If you find that "insulting," that too, is your hangup, not mine. :)
The self-righteous judgmentalism on MDL continues to amaze.
How many similar yakuza/politicians/corporate corruption movies does the Korean film industry think it can make before it's maxed out? I feel I've seen a hundred variations of what's going on here.
Can any Korean actor portray a character without smoking cigs as a crutch? All my favorite movies and actors are Korean, so I get to ask this.
Dropped at 1:03:00
More than anything else though, I was shocked by the low production values, which included that cheap, straight-to-video look of the final print that you only get with inexpensive cinematography onto whatever the current equivalent of what we used to know as a VHS tape is. Horrible.
And I know from snippets of other dramas I checked out because I liked an actor or actress who I learned to be in the show, that the cheap cinematography is the standard in the K-Drama world. These were dramas featuring major stars I knew of from the movies I'd seen. I watch lots of Korean/Japanese/Hong Konger/Taiwanese feature films, so I was shocked that these big stars were also doing cheap-ass TV dramas. I'd be horrified to see one of them in a mannequin kiss.
But the Asian film/drama industry is way different than here in the U.S.
The only Asian dramas I've watched are non-romantic, thriller-type shows commissioned by Netflix, which are all first-rate in quality.