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Going My Home ep 1
The very anticipated Going My Home by Koreeda Hirokazu, director of After Life, Nobody Knows, Still Walking, Air Doll and last year's Kiseki (I Wish). Out of his filmography, Nobody Knows is the best...
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Double Face - Senyuu Sousa
Firstly, I bloody love the whole Infernal Affairs trilogy. Secondly, Japan needs a good kick-ass police show and the general public's idea of a good police show is Odoru Daisasousen and not Gaiji...
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Mano Erina 2013 Calender
The end of the year is nigh and its time for annual calender lucky draw. Lucky draw as in I can never find decent sized previews of all the pictures and I have to go by cover and hope for the best....
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Yuusha Yoshihiko to akuryo no kagi ep 1
The biggest concern heading into season 2 was are there enough JRPG jokes left to mine? After all, there were times in the first season where things got a bit repetitive though on the whole it was a...
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Jmovie review: Spec: Ten
I enjoyed the Spec series. Its half investigative X-men story with quirky Trick-like humour. The overacting final boss of the first season kept it from being must watch and I very much enjoyed Spec:...
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16th Japanese Film Festival is coming to Melbourne!
This year's Japanese Film Festival has a kick-ass line up. Its basically going around Australia at the moment and will be in Melbourne from 29 Nov to 9 Dec this year. Having missed out on tickets for...
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Tokumei Tantei eps 1-3
If you're looking for a hard boiled detective dorama/comedy dealing with issues like adultry, blackmail, affairs, chikan and various adult stories, this spiritual successor to Tokumei Kakaricho Tadano...
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Jmovie review: The Wings of the Kirin
I didn't particularly like Shinzanmono. Its less police procedure and more feel good stories as every episode Kaga uncovered stuff about people's past. You can be 100% sure that its basically someone...
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Yuusha Yoshihiko to Akuryou no Kagi eps 2 and 3
The Hirano Aya cameo was ok. Not too funny but wasn't that bad. The punchline of the joke being Yoshihiko's face.The ugly princess/maiden joke never gets old. Yoshihiko is best when it takes RPG...
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Further thoughts on The Wings of the Kirin and trying to hard to touch the...
First of all, the end of the world is nigh cause d-addicts is down. Usually happens once a year and we should offer sacrifices to the jdorama gods so that it comes back again. I've had this post...
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10 things to do when d-addicts is down
1. Press F5 repeatedly while shouting ganbare!2. Cyberstalk Ruroshin and keep asking him when it will be back up.3. Go to France to study to be a patisserie and find out why Japanese doramas always use...
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Jdorama horror story
Today, my worst nightmare as a jdorama fan came true: one of my hard disks died. Actually my worst nightmare would be my 2 jdorama backup HDDs dying. The one that died was a 1TB HDD and I've lost my...
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Double Face - Gisou Keisatsu-hen
Coming into this series, I was afraid that they would infuse Infernal Affairs with all the Odoro Daisasousen cliches that that plague so many Japanese cop shows; the inability to go dark and serious...
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Going My Home eps 2-4
And the very slow burn continues. I enjoy every minute this dorama but I wish storyline-wise I would have something to look forward to or get excited about. Its a Koreeda dorama so I might as well...
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Kodoku no Gurume ep 3+4
OMFG, I want to eat this wasabi karubi. Very rare karubi with wasabi. Can't imagine how it tastes like. Tempted to go random yakiniku and just ask for wasabi.Does this guy have the best job in jdorama...
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Poison eps 1+2
A midnight dorama about a mysterious fella who lends this super untraceable poison to people in trouble. The poison is undetectable and takes 24 hours to take effect. Since the premise is that the...
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Going My Home ep 5
Currently waiting and hoping that Tsugunai gets uploaded.Ep 5 is when going my home is starting to click for me. We finally get a picture of what the story is about, name regret with the whole Kuna...
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Tsugunai ep 1
Something unrelated first, was out all night in the city and I brought my 3DS and turned on wifi for streetpass, ie if someone with a 3DS is close by you'll exchange miis. Should have done this stuff...
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Hitori Shizuka ep 1
I feel bad I didn't talk about Hitori Shizuka in my jdorama write up for this season. I've learned my lesson; any WOWOW dorama is worth checking out. The main character for ep 1 is Takizaki played by...
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Tsugunai ep 2
Who would have thought that my two favourite doramas at the moment are similar in that they are both serial murder thrillers with a young killer? I thought the end of episode 1 underplayed the...
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