Japanese Movie: HK Hentai Kamen (Live Action) 2013

Japan, Oh Japan! Why do you make such crazy movies. Anything Japanese always amaze me and wonder what they are thinking when they created such a masterpiece. One thing that the Japanese has perfected throughout the years is their animation. Because of the popularity of some anime, they are made into live action films. One of the recent live action film is Hentai Kamen.

Movie: HK: Forbidden Super Hero
Romaji: HK Hentai Kamen
Japanese: HK 変態仮面
Director: Yuichi Fukuda
Writer: Keishu Ando (manga), Yuichi Fukuda, Shun Oguri
Producer: Koji Hyakutake, Takahisa Miyaji, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Kazuo Kato, Hiroo Murakami
Cinematographer: Tetsuya Kudo
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Runtime: 105 in.

Cast:
Ryohei Suzuki as Kyosuke Shikijo / Pervert Mask    
Fumika Shimizu as Aiko Himeno    
Tsuyoshi Muro as Tamao Oogane     
Ken Yasuda as Teacher Towatari    
Nana Katase as Maki Shikijo  (Kyosuke's mom)


I can't believe I watched this film. LOL It is the live action of a popular manga series, Kyūkyoku!! Hentai Kamen most popularly known as Hentai Kamen. You read it right, it's "hentai". Well not really. Uhmm, sort of. hahaha XD

Jang Geun Suk and many other Hotties plan to enlist in military service this year

As we all know, all Korean men have to serve the military between 18-35 years old. A lot of Hallyu stars are planning to enlist in military service this year. One of the rumored actors to enlist is Jang Geun Suk.

We cannot deny that at the age of 26, Jang Geun Suk is at the prime of his career. Most Korean men would enlist before they reach the age of 30. At 26, Jang Geun Suk is at the perfect age for the military service. Oh no! What to do if Jang Geun Suk will really serve the military. There won't be anymore of him for the next 2 years. That would be tormenting. Unfortunately, even if he does not enlist this year, sooner or later he will have to. Perhaps it would be better for him to enlist early on so that his career would go smooth after his service.

It is not only Jang Geun Suk who is rumored to serve the military this year. Other Hallyu stars who are planning to enlist this year includes Yoo Ah In, the genius pianist in Secret Love Affair. He will just finish the drama before he will enlist. Inspiring Generation's Kim Hyun Joong plans to enlist in October.

Kim Soo Hyun of You Who Came From The Stars already went through the first stage of admission which is the physical examination. However, there is no definite time as to when he would serve the military. Choi Jin Hyuk of Emergency Couple also passed the exams for military service but will serve the police first before he enlists. Park Yoo Chun who stars in the current drama Three Days has asthma so he is a reserved member and will serve as a public service worker.

Fortunately, 26 year old Lee Min Ho has no plans yet to serve the military yet. Taecyeon of Wonderful Days plans to serve in 2016. That means that we still have some hotties left if all those mentioned above would really enlist this year.

Although these are just rumors, the drama world would be quite affected if all of them would serve in the same year. There are still a lot of hotties left to *munch* on, Lee Hong Ki, Jung Yong Hwa, Kim Woo Bin, Joo Won, Yoon Shi Yoon and many others. Let's not forget those who just returned from the service Kim Jae Wook and those who are coming back after a year Song Joon Ki and Yoo Seung Ho. Let's see what the service had made them.

Korean Movie: Hope 2013

So-Won, also known as Hope, is a South Korean movie released on October 2013. The movie is based on a true story, the Nayoung case where an 8 year old girl who was sexually abused by an ex-convict. The girl was on her way to school when she was raped, beaten and left to die on a public toilet on a rainy morning. The Na-young case stirred the people of Korea because the offender only get 12 years of imprisonment for the brutal crime he committed. See summary at Wiki

Hangul.......소원
Revised Romanization .......So-won
Directed by ....... Lee Joon-ik
Produced by ....... Byun Bong-hyun, Seong Chang-yeon, Kim Yong-dae
Written by ....... Jo Joong-hoon, Kim Ji-hye
Release dates....... October 2, 2013
Running time ....... 122 minutes

Cast:
Lee Re as Im So-won
Sol Kyung-gu as Im Dong-hoon, So-won's father
Uhm Ji-won as Kim Mi-hee, So-won's mother
Kim Hae-sook as Song Jung-sook, psychiatrist
Kim Sang-ho as Han Gwang-sik, Dong-hoon's best friend
Ra Mi-ran as Young-seok's mother and Gwang-sik's wife
Yang Jin-sung as Do-kyung, police officer
Kim Do-yeob as Han Young-seok

Korean Drama: Secret Love Affair 2014

Who doesn't love a storyline that revolves around a cheating husband or a cheating wife? I do not know anyone who dislike such dramas. These are the type of programs or series where we, as viewers can relate to and the whenever the lead characters do their cheating acts, who doesn't react? I know I can't stop myself from squealing of anger or annoyance. A new Korean drama, Secret Love Affair, would surely make you want to slap the characters on screen. ^_^

The series is about a 40 year old planning director, Oh Hye Won, who had an affair with a 20 year old piano major student, Lee Sun Jae. Hye Won is an elegant and classy woman who has an image to protect as her job deals with a lot of people. Given that Lee Sun Jae is in his 20's, he has strong feelings towards her. The title of the drama says it all. See how their secret love affair would remain a secret to the people around them including Sun Jae's piano mentor which is Hye Won's husband.

    Drama: Secret Love Affair (literal title)
    Revised romanization: Milhwe
    Hangul: 밀회
    Director: An Pan-Seok
    Writer: Jung Sung-Joo
    Network: JTBC
    Episodes:
    Release Date: March 17, 2014 --
    Runtime: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:50
    Language: Korean
    Country: South Korea

Cast:
Kim Hee-ae as Oh Hye-won
Yoo Ah-in as Lee Seon-jae
Park Hyuk-kwon as Kang Joon-hyung
Shim Hye-jin as Han Seong-sook
Kim Hye-eun as Seo Young-woo
Kim Yong-gun as Seo Pil-won
Kyung Soo-jin as Park Da-mi
Choi Tae-hwan as Son Jang-ho
Lee Kan-hee as Myung-hwa
Kim Chang-wan as Min Yong-ki
....... and many others....

Watch Secret Love Affair at GoodDrama. Link here.

I am watching this drama not because of the actors. I honestly do not know any of the actors of the series except for Chancellor Min, who was Lawyer Jang in The Man from the stars. ^_^ The title caught my attention as well as the plot since it involves piano and music. I have heard great music scores from the first few episodes plus Yoo Ah In (Lee Sun Jae) plays the piano well. 

UPDATE: HA! When I said that I do not know the actors here, I take it back. As I was doing a little research, I found out that Yoo Ah In was in Sungkyunkwan Scandal. He played the character of Moon Jae Shin. In fact, Moon Jae Shin was my favorite character in that drama because he was so cool. Hope Yoo Ah In can pull this one.

South Korean Ferry tragedy leads to the cancellation of TV shows in major TV networks

Just an overview of the recent tragedy in South Korea. One of South Korea's most heartbreaking tragedy of all time.

Photo Courtesy of time.com

Death toll increases to more than 100 after a week since Sewol, South Korean ferry, capsized and sank off Jindo Island in the morning of April 16, 2014. Sadly most of its passengers are high school students as they were going to Jeju Island for a school field trip. Out of  400+ passengers on board, roughly half of them were rescued, many were students.

Survivors said that they heard a loud bang before the ship tilted and the command they heard from the deck was to stay on board. Many followed the order and unfortunately they were the one's who were not rescued and sank together with the ship. Rescuers are still doing their best to find survivors but because of extreme water temperature and it is almost a week since the incident, chances of finding survivors are less and the rescue is now on a search and retrieval operation. Parents of the children are anxiously waiting to get news from the rescue operations.

J-Drama: Bitter Blood 2014

You read it right, it's Japanese. I still love Korean Dramas and will always watch it. This time I am watching a Japanese drama only because of Takeru Sato. Although, I have also watched other J-drama before but that was a long long time ago, Kimi wa petto and Princess Princess. I'd rather watch Japanese Anime than their drama because of the animated way that the actors act.
Since it's Takeru Sato, I'll give it a shot. I loved him in Rurouni Kenshin Live Action Film. I am excited to watch the second movie. It was after watching RK that I discovered that he was also portrayed one of the characters of Princess Princess Live Drama. He looked so gay then.

Sahara Natsuki (Takeru Sato) is a new detective at the Ginza Police Station. Unfortunately, he had to work with his father who abandoned them and had a another family. He does not like his father at all. They are very different since his father is playboy while he is not so good with the ladies. See if this father-son partnership would last.



Drama: Bitter Blood
Romaji: Bita Buraddo
Japanese: ビター・ブラッド
Director: Hiro Kanai, Masaki Tanimura
Writer: Shusuke Shizukui (novel)
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes:
Release Date: April 15, 2014 --
Runtime: Tuesdays 21:00-21:54
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan





Cast:
    Sato Takeru as Sahara Natsuki
    Watabe Atsuro as Shimao Akimura
    Kutsuna Shiori as Maeda Hitomi
    Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Inaki Toshifumi
    Tanaka Tetsushi as Koga Hisashi
    Minagawa Sarutoki as Togashi Kaoru
    KEIJI (ケイジ) as Takano Koji
    Takahashi Katsumi as Kagiyama Kensuke
    Hirose Suzu as Sahara Shinobu
    Kusamura Reiko as Yamamura Machi
    Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Kaiduka Takehisa

Watch Bitter Blood online at GoodDrama. Link here.


As expected of a J-Drama, their expressions are a little exaggerated, just like what you see in anime except that they are real people doing such expressions. The animated acting makes it more fun to watch. First episode show how different the father and the son are. Both show how they disliked each other and their ideas clash. Sahara Natsuki is a very righteous person, one that will not leave things the way it should be which lead him to cause trouble on his first day of duty.

Korean Drama: Hotel King 2014

Lee Dong Wook and Lee Da Hae is together again in this new Korean Drama, Hotel King. It has been 9 years since they starred together in 2005's My Girl which was a big hit during that time. Their tandem as a couple then looked cute, hopefully, since they have aged and matured it would be romantic.
Hotel King is a story about Cha Jae Won (Lee Dong Wook) who seeks revenge  against the owner of Korea's top hotel, which is his biological father, after he was abandoned when he was a child. As he was plotting his revenge as the hotel's manager he came to love the heiress of the Hotel Ciel, Ah Mo Ne (Lee  Da Hae). Unfortunately, his revenge would include destroying what Ah Mo Ne is trying to protect. Jae Won has to decide if he wish to continue his revenge or not.

Drama: Hotel King
Revised romanization: Hotel King
Hangul: 호텔킹
Director: Kim Dae-Jin
Writer: Jo Eun-Jung
Network: MBC
Episodes: 32
Release Date: April 5, 2014 --
Runtime: Saturdays & Sundays 21:45
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea 

Watch Hotel King Episodes at GoodDrama