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Jmoview review: Shoutai
Shoutai is the movie version of the Kame WOWOW series that showed he could actually act if he had a good script. This time the star of the story is Yokohama Ryusei who was in The Journalist. Like the...
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Rokunin no Usotsuki na Daigakusei / 6 lying University Students jmovie review
The premise of the movie Rokunin no Usotsuki na Daigakusei is that 6 uni students are applying for a job at a prestigious IT company. Everyone has their own special skills and they were told to work on...
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Octo: Kanjo Sosakan Shinno Akari Episodes 3~6
The one good thing I can say about Octo is that I liked the ending of episode 4. Similar to the ending of episode. I like my stories a bit twisted.That being said, I am dropping Octo because I can't...
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Jmovie review: Karaoke Iko! / Let's go karaoke!
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?Karaoke Iko! is a bout a kid, Oka who is in final year of his junior high choir group, facing the prospect of his voice breaking and not being able to sing the soprano part anymore....
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Rewatching Takane no Hana
I sat down to rewatch Takane no Hana on prime and could not stop watching. Nojima Shinji's dialogue is amazing. The dialogue literally sings. It not only looks beautiful, but I am captivated by every...
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After rewatching Takane no Hana in glorious 1080 on prime, I knew it was time to do something I had been procrastinating on; redownload/update my jdorama collection. I have over 5TB of jdoramas but a...
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Eroi Kareshi ga Watashi wo Madowasu Episodes 1~4
Since I have been on a Nojima Shinji blitz with Nanyobi ni Umareta No and Takane no Hana, it is time to watch a show that has been sitting in my downloads folder for a very long time, Eroi Kareshi ga...
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Fukuyadou Honpo Episodes 1~9
Saw this 2016 jdorama on Prime and thought why not? Hayami Akari was great as the sister in Nanyobi ni Umareta no and you can't go wrong with Sasaki Nozomi. Fukuyadou is about 3 sisters who are from a...
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The Great War of Archimedes jmovie review
In the 1930s after WW1, there are two camps among the commanding Japanese naval officer. One camp wants Japan to build a the largest and greatest battleship in the world aka Yamato and the second camp...
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Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan season 2
It has been a while since I watched the first season of Double Cheat. A reskinned version of Kurosagi for an older audience about a police officer who scams the scammers. I had forgotten a lot of the...
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Dareka ga Kono Machi de jdorama review
WOWOW has done it again! Dareka ga Kono Machi de is small town crime thriller about a little boy who was murdered in Yokuna town 23 years ago and the disappearance of a family. Eguchi Yusuke is an...
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Oshi no Ko Episodes 1~7
Finally got around to watching Oshi no Ko on Prime, the live action adaptation of the super popular manga. I knew nothing of Oshi no Ko except having seen the main character Hoshino Ai everywhere and...
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Game no na wa Yuukai Episodes 2~4
One thing that happens a lot in jdoramas is a very good first episode introducing the characters and the plot of the story because the possibilities are limitless and I salivating at another must watch...
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Respect the source material: Adaptations in jdorama and jmovies
There is a story in Oshi no Ko about the mangaka played by Shida Mirai who was not happy with the script of her the dorama adaptation of her work got me thinking about adaptations in general. Shida...
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Your Eyes Tell / Kimi no me ga Toikakateiru jmovie review
I have had this 2020 Yoshitaka Yuriko movie in my hdd for a very long time. She plays Akari, a blind woman who likes to watch this dorama with an old man working working at a car park because he could...
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Shoujiki Fudousan Season 2
Shoujiki Fudousan was a surprisingly watchable jdorama. It was the first Yamapi lead role jdorama which I did not dislike and that is a miracle in itself. It was an educational and fun story about a...
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Informa - Yami wo Ikiru Kemonotachi
The first season of Informa was an ambitious but flawed yakuza action jdorama that had a really good parts and action scenes you don't normally see in jdoramas. As Kaname Jun said in Oshi no Ko,...
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Hagetaka 2018 jdorama review
The 2009 NHK jdorama Hagetaka is one of my favourite jdoramas ever. Who would have thought that a story about foreign funds buying up Japanese companies after the collapse of the bubble would be so...
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Golden Kamuy live action review
Once upon a time, the idea of a live action remake of manga/anime shows would send a shudder down my spine. Sure we had shows like H2 which are easy to adapt but we had crap like Ranma 1/2 and Shingeki...
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OKURA ~ Meikyuu Iri Jiken Sousa ~ Episodes 1~6
Okura starts off as a police department that solves cold cases. They have a quota of cold cases to digitise everyday and they have cases to solve. I wanted to give Okura a try because of Sorimachi and...
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