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Ishitsubute
Ishitsubute is yet another WOWOW corruption dorama, this time Kitamira Kazuki as the employee from the Ministry of Foreign affairs who is involved in a very interesting corruption case with Sato Koichi...
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Anone Episodes 1~4
There were quite a few comments about Anone and I was supposed to do the Hamsapsukebe 2017 awards but I could not wait to see what the fuss regarding Sakamoto Yuji's new jdorama was about. It starts...
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Hokuto ga Gotoku review
Ryu ga Gotoku Studio's latest game after the disappointing Kiwami 2 is Hokuto ga Gotoku, a mashup of Fist of the North Star and Yakuza series of games. The Yakuza series is no stranger to spin offs set...
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Hamsapsukebe Jdorama Awards 2017
It is time for this small blog read by 5 people to honour the best that Jdoramas had to offer in 2017. The year started with the incredible Quartet and the whole year has been about whether anything...
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Museum jmovie review
Museum is a Se7en-ish crime thriller/gore fest about Oguri Shun playing a cop who trying to find the identity of this serial killer who runs around in a frog mask. Ono Machiko plays Oguri's wife who...
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5 reasons not to watch Creepy 2016 movie
1. Nishijima Hidetoshi's very wooden portrayal of the ex cop with an obsession with serial killers. I know he's supposed to be a detached character but Nishijima's acting felt so fake. 2. Kawaguchi...
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Anone 6~10 Spoiler review
Anone is a show about a group of people who have been hard done by life and somehow got together to form this little family and got caught up in a scheme to print counterfeit money that could work on...
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Legend of Galactic Heroes Die Neue These Episode 1
It is here! The remake of perhaps the greatest anime series ever made! When news appeared maybe two years ago, I was skeptical. How could you remake perfection? As a fan, I only wanted one thing; that...
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Goodbye Games Ma-ya
Today is the last day of Games Ma-ya in Kasai and the whole thing is being streamed on Niconico here. Game Ma-ya is a Japanese gaming shop that has been around for 35 years and I have only been aware...
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Chinmoku Hotei
A big thank you to Buck for reminding me about Chinmoku Hotei with Nagasaku Hiromi (Aoi Tori) as this dubious house cleaner with a muddy history who is suspected of committing murder.THE GOOD+ Tanaka...
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The Third Murder Jmove review
The Third Murder is Koreeda Hirokazu's latest movie after the ho-hum before the storm. Yakusho Koji plays an ex-convict who in the beginning we see commit his third murder killing his former employer...
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Denei Shoujo Video Girl Ai 2018 1-5
I was a fan of Masakazu Katsura's Video Girl Ai manga back in the day. While its not my favourite Katsura manga, that honour belongs to I's, the tale of a girl appearing out of the tv due a videotape...
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Yami no Bansosha Henshucho no Joken Episodes 1-3
Apologies for the long absense. I was away on family business and did not have time to blog but I did get to watch some jdoramas. The second season of Yami no Bansosha is my most anticipated show of...
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Innocent Days Episodes 1+2
We just had the wonderful Hokuto last year about a person who has had a horrible life commit an unforgivable crime. WOWOW is doing the same type of story again with Innocent Days with an incredible...
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Repeat jdorama review
I am a fan of Kanjiya Shihori. She's been playing supporting roles since the days of H2 and Swing Girls but there's no denying she has talent and I always look forward to seeing her in starring roles....
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Four things I do not like about Signal - Choki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sosahan
1) A lot of times it feels like the profiler detective is skipping a step or two when he comes to conclusions ie A leads to B but he always makes a leap of faith and jumps straight to D.2) Signal tries...
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Harmonium jmovie review
Harmonium has been sitting in my hard disk for a long time. I had read somewhere it was critically acclaimed which in my experience doesn't mean anything and the fact that it was low budget meant that...
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Seigi no Sei Episode 1
Me like Yoshitaka Yuriko but Seigi no Sei is another one of those jdoramas where the main chatacter is new at doing a particularly difficult job which in this case is being a prosecutor acts like a...
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Yami no Bansosha Henshucho no Joken Eps 4+5
What a fun mystery jdorama the second season of Yamiban was especially after watching Signal and Innocent Days. Nowhere as good as the first season though, but they've largely kept all the things that...
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Innocent Days Episodes 3-6 spoiler review
I finally finished Innocent Days despite the fact I wasn't really into it and it turns out Innocent Days is about this depressed, suicidal woman named Tanaka Yukino who willingly admits to a crime she...
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