Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Korean Drama: Cantabile Tomorrow 2014

Based from the popular Japanese manga series Nodame Cantabile, Cantabile Tomorrow is a South Korean Drama starring Joo Won ad Shim Eun Kyung.

Drama: Naeil's Cantabile (English title)
Revised romanization: Naeildo Kantabilre
Hangul: 내일도 칸타빌레
Director: Han Sang-Woo
Writer: Tomoko Ninomiya (manga), Shin Jae-Won
Network: KBS2
Episodes: 16
Release Date: October 13 - December 2, 2014
Runtime: Mon & Tue 21:55
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Synopsis:
Yoo-Jin (Joo Won) is a university student majoring in piano. He has a world famous pianist father, exceptional music talent and attractive appearance, but his one weakness is that he can't ride in an airplane or boat due to a childhood trauma. Because of his phobia, Yoo-Jin is unable to travel to Europe to learn conducting even though he badly wants to become a conductor.
One day, Yoo-Jin gets drunk and falls asleep on the doorstep of Nae-Il (Shim Eun-Kyung). She lives next door to Yoo-Jin. The next morning, he wakes up and finds himself in a room full of trash and he sees Nae-Il. Nae-Il falls in love with him and follows him around. Nae-Il is also a piano major and takes lessons from Professor Ahn Gun-Sung (Namgung Yeon). His arrogance has led him to take lessons from Professor Ahn Gun-Sung rather than Professor Do Gang-Jae (Lee Byung-Joon) who is renown for instructing many famous pianists. Professor Ahn Gun-Sung then assigns Yoo-Jin to perform a piano duet with Nae-Il. At first, Yoo-Jin insists that Nae-Il follows his instructions, but he soon changes and accepts her way to play the piano.

Yoo-Jin then hears that world-famous conductor Franz Stresemann (Baek Yoon-Sik) will be coming to his university. Yoo-Jin is ecstatic, because he can learn from Franz Stresemann without going to Europe. Yoo-Jin is unaware though that Franz Stresemann dislikes his father and his famous childhood musical instructor Vieira.  (Source: AsianWiki)

Cast:
Joo Won as Cha Yoo-jn
Shim Eun-kyung as Seol Nae-il
Park Bo-gum as Lee Yoon-hoo
Bae Min-jung as Jung Shi-won
Go Kyung-pyo as Yoo Il-rak
Min Do-hee as Choi Min-hee
Jang Se-hyun as Ma Soo-min

Joo Won's height is emphasized in this drama and I like it. He looks so tall and slim. Did he play all the pieces in this drama? He's good, if it was really him who played the pieces. Eun Kyung is also very good with the piano. The girl always looks stupid in most of the drama I have seen.

The first two episode looks promising and made me want to look forward to the next episode more and more. It's a conflict between Yoo Jin who follows by the book and Nae Il who plays and learns by ear. Will Yoo Jin be able to play a duet with Nae-Il and be accepted to as a conducting student?

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