Great drama! I love Liu Shi Shi's period dramas and this one has brought me a new leading man to love. I've been admiring William Chan's dimples for the last two weeks.
I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't give this drama a fair chance back when I had finished To The Beautiful You and Hana Kimi 2007. I thought the original was perfect and I didn't need to go on after but it's only now that I've actually seen it (due to a blooming crush on Miura Shohei after seeing him in Daytime Shooting Star) that I'm in love with it all over again. I thought no one could be Ikuta Toma's Nakatsu but Miura Shohei's Nakatsu is just as funny, warm-hearted and heartbreakingly amazing that this version to me is a must-watch.
Hi all, I've finished subbing the movie. You can find the sub here: https://waoowsubs.wordpress.com
Ah, thank you so much for dedicating so much time to this! Please have a very enjoyable weekend and know that you've made a ton of people extremely happy with your hard work. All the best, dear!
I started this drama back when it was airing in August and I couldn't be more hooked. The premise is exactly the kind I love to see in historical dramas and yet, after the first ten or so episodes, my interest waned. I picked it back up this week with the intention of finishing it and thank goodness, I've finally completed it. I struggled with the drama for one main reason - Jing Ke. I just couldn't take to him. He irritated me even when I liked the character. He might be a warrior but he's really kind of pathetic after he 'loses' Li'er. Then there's Ying Zheng who I couldn't help but laugh at towards the end because all he could do for himself was lie, bark orders at people and then cry about being misunderstood. Oddly, I wasn't annoyed by any of the other characters, I more felt sorry for them for having to live with either of these idiots. That being said though, I did enjoy this drama a bit, enough to give it an 8.5. This is more with me liking the ending than anything else (very much like Journey of Flower! They have to kill the person they love most in order to understand. Only here, we didn't have that annoying patchwork ending.) I'd also like to give a shoutout to the real MVP of this drama: Warrior Ge Nie. Badass and intelligent enough to know to stay out of politics. My hope is that he goes on to train Tian Ming who will eventually revive the Gongsun fighter family. Grandpa Gongsun deserved that much, bless him. Special mention to Han Shen - loyal to a fault but unwavering and straightforward unlike the two previously mentioned knuckleheads.
Not sure if this helps but the second server link on this page has Chinese subs on the movie video itself.http://duastu.com/daytime-shooting-star-2017-japan-dvdrip-streaming/I'd…
Yay! Thank you so much for dedicating your time like this. You are an absolute hero to me!
I REALLY REALLY WANT SUBS FOR THIS! I tried watching a bit without and it looks amazing so I started reading the manga, further increasing my desire for subs.
The ending made my eyes water a little bit. Just a little. Okay, who am I kidding? No, but I actually quite liked the ending. They followed the sad history but still managed to make my heart ache with the sweetness of the ending.
To be honest, the character I most enjoyed was Lee Yung. Lee Dong Gun's performance for this entire drama is absolutely excellent. I highly recommend it if only just for him. I liked the main couple as well but oddly enough, even for a romance junkie like me, I stuck around for the story! 9/10.
I went into it with extremely low expectations because of the reviews I've seen but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
The good: I love how ethereal the added CGI makes the story feel - the animated Mi Gu, the underwater traveling bubble and the times we get to see Bai Qian's fox tail and Zhe Yan's phoenix. I thought I'd laugh at Luo Jin's ridiculous costuming but oddly I loved it and it suits him so well; I also adored the smooth richness of his voice actor. I appreciated Yang Yang's smiling handsomeness and gentleness as well as Crystal Liu's literal goddess like presence. The funny moments are the best part of this movie. Most of the costuming is quite pretty too, especially for Bai Qian.
The bad: the story telling is confusing and the editing is choppy. They managed to get most of the points of the story and quotes from the book but they didn't really explain the first life with Mo Yuan and Si Yin. It's mentioned briefly but doesn't really explain the resemblance between between Ye Hua and Mo Yuan nor how Bai Qian ended up as a mortal. Because of that, in the end when Mo Yuan is revived and looks like Ye Hua, you as the audience are left wondering if Ye Hua was really just Mo Yuan in the first life and now that he's "died" in the third life, he's returned in Mo Yuan's body. I'm guessing that's what the ending implies but it's a bit ambiguous. I didn't like that this version left out my pretty boy idiot Li Jing but you win some, you lose some. I also didn't like that Su Jin seemed to get off easy nor did I like that Ye Hua was relatively polite towards her. Minor but it was what I loved about drama!Ye Hua; he never fell for any of Su Jin's crap and it was always clear how much he detested her.
TL;DR: if you're a fan of the novel and drama, you might potentially enjoy it but don't think too much during the viewing
If you've not been exposed to the novel or drama and want a feel of the story, don't look to this version; I think it will confuse you. Try the drama for coherency and the full story. May not be quite as pretty but I think it's worth it.
I've been avoiding the ending because I spoiled it for myself but I'm glad I did because then I wouldn't have been so gutted by the ending. This drama went through a series of ups and downs for me. The ups were more at the Green Hills court for me which explains why I enjoyed the drama so much in the beginning. It was all right when they finally reached Yanbei but the storytelling became more haphazard and the characters more traitorous to what we had known previously. All in all, I liked it - 8/10
If you're looking for romance, watch the last 5 minutes of the finale episode for all the cute stuff. Other than that, the storyline has some action but mostly drama, yet somehow manages to be draggy too. The characters, especially the female characters (I'm looking at you, Koy and Pimdao) annoyed me to the end of my wits. To be honest, I was hoping for more romance like the cute kitchen scene that was shown every commercial break and I thought I'd get to see them as a couple for at least a few episodes but again, that didn't happen. I didn't really like the format of the drama either (too many zoomed in and long lasting shots of someone's face, the two songs that were overused for so many scenes and too many flashbacks). Really, the only two things that pushed me to finish this drama was the very handsome Push and to see all the bad people finally get what was coming to them. Not absolutely a terrible drama but I do kind of regret starting it and then needing to finish it too. Usually I wouldn't bother but handsome Push + really annoying villains that needed to get roasted drove me forward.
I know I shouldn't, especially since he's fated to die and he was a terrible person irl and kind of in the drama too, but I'm seriously loving Lee Dong Gun's performance as the king!
I struggled with the drama for one main reason - Jing Ke. I just couldn't take to him. He irritated me even when I liked the character. He might be a warrior but he's really kind of pathetic after he 'loses' Li'er.
Then there's Ying Zheng who I couldn't help but laugh at towards the end because all he could do for himself was lie, bark orders at people and then cry about being misunderstood.
Oddly, I wasn't annoyed by any of the other characters, I more felt sorry for them for having to live with either of these idiots.
That being said though, I did enjoy this drama a bit, enough to give it an 8.5. This is more with me liking the ending than anything else (very much like Journey of Flower! They have to kill the person they love most in order to understand. Only here, we didn't have that annoying patchwork ending.)
I'd also like to give a shoutout to the real MVP of this drama: Warrior Ge Nie. Badass and intelligent enough to know to stay out of politics. My hope is that he goes on to train Tian Ming who will eventually revive the Gongsun fighter family. Grandpa Gongsun deserved that much, bless him.
Special mention to Han Shen - loyal to a fault but unwavering and straightforward unlike the two previously mentioned knuckleheads.
http://duastu.com/daytime-shooting-star-2017-japan-dvdrip-streaming/
I'd be really grateful if you do decide to sub it!!
To be honest, the character I most enjoyed was Lee Yung. Lee Dong Gun's performance for this entire drama is absolutely excellent. I highly recommend it if only just for him. I liked the main couple as well but oddly enough, even for a romance junkie like me, I stuck around for the story! 9/10.
The good: I love how ethereal the added CGI makes the story feel - the animated Mi Gu, the underwater traveling bubble and the times we get to see Bai Qian's fox tail and Zhe Yan's phoenix. I thought I'd laugh at Luo Jin's ridiculous costuming but oddly I loved it and it suits him so well; I also adored the smooth richness of his voice actor. I appreciated Yang Yang's smiling handsomeness and gentleness as well as Crystal Liu's literal goddess like presence. The funny moments are the best part of this movie. Most of the costuming is quite pretty too, especially for Bai Qian.
The bad: the story telling is confusing and the editing is choppy. They managed to get most of the points of the story and quotes from the book but they didn't really explain the first life with Mo Yuan and Si Yin. It's mentioned briefly but doesn't really explain the resemblance between between Ye Hua and Mo Yuan nor how Bai Qian ended up as a mortal. Because of that, in the end when Mo Yuan is revived and looks like Ye Hua, you as the audience are left wondering if Ye Hua was really just Mo Yuan in the first life and now that he's "died" in the third life, he's returned in Mo Yuan's body. I'm guessing that's what the ending implies but it's a bit ambiguous. I didn't like that this version left out my pretty boy idiot Li Jing but you win some, you lose some. I also didn't like that Su Jin seemed to get off easy nor did I like that Ye Hua was relatively polite towards her. Minor but it was what I loved about drama!Ye Hua; he never fell for any of Su Jin's crap and it was always clear how much he detested her.
TL;DR: if you're a fan of the novel and drama, you might potentially enjoy it but don't think too much during the viewing
If you've not been exposed to the novel or drama and want a feel of the story, don't look to this version; I think it will confuse you. Try the drama for coherency and the full story. May not be quite as pretty but I think it's worth it.