Closed Notes [Jmovie] (Sawajiri Erika, Yusuke Iseya, Yuko Takeuchi)
Title: クローズド・ノート
English: “Closed Note”
(Kurozudo noto)
Release: September 29, 2007 (nationwide cinema release)
Production Company: Toho
Cast:
Sawajiri Erika
Yusuke Iseya (Casshern, Memories of Matsuko, Honey & Clover, …)
Yuko Takeuchi (The Ring (Ringu), Be with You, Spring Snow, …)
Director:
Isao Yukisada (”Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World”, …)
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Synopsis
Kae, a college student who dreams of becoming a teacher, discovers a notebook in the house she has just moved into. The notebook turns out to be the diary of a woman, Mano Ibuki, who had just started teaching in primary school. Kae becomes absorbed by the woman’s pure heart, reading about her life and love. She falls for a painter, Ishitobi, while working at her part time job. As time passes, she finds out an unexpected sad truth.
Theme Song: Love & Truth (By YUI.)
Powerful Opponents [Kdrama] (Chae Rim, Lee Jin Wook, Choi Ja Hye)
- Title: 강적들 (强敌) / Powerful Opponents
- Also known as: Rivals
- Genre: Romance
- Episodes: 16
- Broadcast network: KBS2
- Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-14 to 2008-Jun
- Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)
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Miss Gold Digger [KMovie] (Han Ye Seul, Kwon O-joong, In-kwon Kim, Lee Jong-hyuk)
Cast:
Han Ye Seul
Kwon O-joong
In-kwon Kim
Lee Jong-hyuk
Synopsis
Finally, a must-have handbook for finding Mr. Right! Dedicated to love-craving moaners and disgruntled whiners, Miss Gold Digger is a one-stop guide to weeding out the bad apples from the goodies. In his first feature film, director Park Yong Jib hires the bubbly, effervescent Han Ye Seul (Fantastic Couple) as his leading lady along with Lee Jong Hyuk (A Day For An Affair), Kwon Oh Joong (His Last Gift), and g.o.d’s Son Ho Young, to provide some new insight into the age-old mystery of locating one’s soul mate. Just as an avid shopper would know which stores to target before stepping out of the house, Han’s character suggests that women too should go on a massive shopping spree for men. Her candid philosophy of “experience brings wisdom” offers some tips to those still trying to figure out the Mr. Rights from the Mr. Wrongs.
According to Mi Soo (Han Ye Seul), a “love expert” who’s got all the 3 b’s a woman can possibly possess (beauty, body, and brain), the first step to achieving success in finding Mr. Right is open-mindedness. Whether it be a filthy rich hunk or a total loser, Mi Soo recommends that you keep them all on your shopping list. Like the saying “if you don’t try, you’ll never know”, Mi Soo’s next step suggests a little taste of everything that’s on your list. Sound agreeable? Unfortunately, there seems to be a little glitch in the handbook as our Ms. Know-It-All is about to face a major crisis in her own love fest. Take a brisk walk down the path of wisdom with our quirky heroine as she hunts for her Mr. Right!
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Waruboro [Jmovie] (Matsuda Shota, Aragaki Yui)
Matsuda Shota and Aragaki Yui take audiences back to rough-and-tumble high school days in their new film Waruboro. Based on Gets Itaya’s autobiographical novel, this brawling youth film about love, friendship, and fisticuffs is set in the 1980s, and Matsuda Shota and company have the hairstyles to prove it. Rising to fame after Hana Yori Dango, Matsuda took supporting gigs in 2006’s A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth and A Long Walk, and he gets his first leading film role here as a rebellious juvenile delinquent. Matsuda’s Ko-chan crosses paths with girl-next-door Yamada, played by current it-girl Aragaki Yui who won Best New Performer accolades at the 50th Blue Ribbon Awards for her impressive 2007 trifecta of Waruboro, Koizora, and Koisuru Madori (which incidentally co-starred Matsuda Shota’s brother, Matsuda Ryuhei). Directed by Sumida Yasushi, Waruboro also features up-and-coming heartthrobs Kimura Ryo and Seiji Fukushi from Nodame Cantabile and D-BOYS members Kaji Masaki and Shirota Yu (The Prince of Tennis).
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Seven Days [Kmovie] (Kim Yun-Jin , Park Hee-Shun)
Seven Days (세븐 데이즈) is a South Korean feature film released in 2007.
Synopsis
Ji-yeon is a successful lawyer and single mother to a seven-year-old girl. On her daughter’s field day, Ji-yeon competes with other parents in a running race and almost comes in the first place. However, nowhere could she find the girl who’s been watching and rooting for her mother to win. Later that day, Ji-yeon’s receives a phone call from an anonymous man, who tells her he has her daughter in custody and proposes a deal. To see her daughter alive, Ji-yeon needs to prove a convicted murderer not guilty on his second trial, only within a week. Ji-yeon tries to convince herself the murderer should be innocent, but the encounter with the victim’s mother makes her understand what drove crime-to-crime.
Last Friends [Jdrama] (Nagasawa Masami, Ueno Juri, Eita, Nishikido Ryo, Mizukawa Asami) (updated with english hard-sub)
Details
- Title: ラスト・フレンズ
- Title (English): Last Friends
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Friendship, human drama
- Episodes: 11
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-10 to
- Air time: Thursday 22:00
- Theme song: Prisoner of Love by Utada Hikaru
Synopsis
Last Friends tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru’s mother has brought a man back to their home and she is bullied at her workplace where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and the only person who can give her emotional support, but ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru’s in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents or close friends grows evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to females due to his kindness and perceptiveness, and finds himself attracted to Ruka but has a phobia of sex as a result of a past trauma. The three of them become house mates and through their associations with others, gain the capacity to be positive about life. –jade_frost
Shinku - Deep red [Jmovie] (Rina Uchiyama, Fumiyo Kohinata, Maki Horikita)
Title: Shinku (aka The Deep Red)
Starring: Rina Uchiyama, Fumiyo Kohinata, Asami Mizukawa, Maki Horikita
Released: 10th February 2006
Synopsis
With a title that means “deep red” in Japanese, Shinku is certainly an appropriate name for the movie considering its bloody subject matter. Boasting a screenplay by the late novelist Nozawa Hisashi (who committed suicide in 2004) and based on his identically titled book, Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student played by Uchiyama Rina (from the TV series “Musashi”). The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender played by Mizukawa Asami (from Go and 69). A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer’s daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance? As the dramatic tone of the film soon transforms from social drama into pure terror and blood-splattering horror, audiences are taken on a whirlwind ride to a dark destination they could not have expected. With a unbelievable climax, Shinku is a terrifying, atmospheric, and eerily realistic tale of psychological terror that will leave audiences breathless!
I Love You [Kdrama] (Ahn Jae Wook, Seo Ji Hye, Hwan Hee)
Details
- Title: 사랑해 (我爱你) / Saranghae
- Also known as: I Love You
- Genre: Romance
- Episodes: 16
- Broadcast network: SBS
- Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-07 to 2008-May
- Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)
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Synopsis
Suk Chul Soo and Na Young Hee are a newly wedded couple with an age gap of 14 years. This is a drama that tells the story of a couple who just had a baby because of a one night stand. It will portray the modern generation’s view on love and marriage as well as the responsibility of raising a child. Park Byung Ho was thoughtless and threw away his child for a better income and life who later regrets this and learns to love.
Cast
- Ahn Jae Wook as Suk Chul Soo
- Seo Ji Hye as Na Young Hee
- Hwan Hee as Park Byung Ho
- Park Hye Young
- Gong Hyeong Jin
- Jo Mi Ryung
Extended Cast
- Kang Yi Suk as Byung Ho’s son
Scout [Kmovie] (Im Chang-Jeong)
In the midst of the political crisis marked by the Gwangju Uprising in 1980, the country was in an absolute craze over a new baseball phenom, Sun Dong Yeol. Known as a ghost pitcher at the time, Sun topped the list of every scouting agent, both nationwide and overseas. Director Kim Hyun Seok (When Romance Meets Destiny) presents Scout, a touching comedy which takes the audience behind the scenes to the world of Korean baseball and reveals intriguing antics surrounding the scouting of real-life legendary baseball pitcher Sun Dong Yeol. Lim Chang Jung (Miracle On 1st Street, Underground Rendezvous) stars as a talent scout who takes on the impossible mission of searching for the most wanted baseball player in the nation. First conceived by director Kim when he read Sun Dong Yeol’s autobiography, Scout also stars Uhm Ji Won (Traces Of Love, Mutt Boy) as Lim’s first love. Lightly demonstrating the strange correlation that exists between politics and sports in our society, Scout also offers its audience the opportunity to witness the beauty of one man’s transformation as he gives up his most prized possession.
Ex-baseball pitcher Ho Chang (Lim Chang Jung) now works as a staff member at a university baseball team. He is given the difficult task of scouting a ghost pitcher named Sun Dong Yeol from a Gwangju high school. While roaming through the city, Ho Chang runs into his first love Sae Young (Uhm Ji Won) who broke up with him seven years ago. Sure enough, Sae Young appears quite uneasy around him and to make matters worse, Gon Tae, a street gangster who fancies Sae Young, is more than eager to get rid of Ho Chang. Suddenly the city of Seoul turns upside down when a rumor sparks that Sun Dong Yeol is being scouted by a rival university. With his reputation hanging by a thread, Ho Chang must look for a way to seal the deal with Sun whom he has yet to find.