This is available on NHK World-Japan's site. It's free with subs and it's only 3 episodes.
Hiroshige Blue
I know NHK offers short series like these but sometimes I forget to check what's new. Thanks to FB, I'll be watching some reels and NHK has one about their new shows.
Episode 1 is about 41 1/2 minutes long. Sounded interesting so I'm gonna check this out before I go back to my next drama. If this is any good, I'll probably end up watching all 3 now.
I know I said Ties of Shooting Stars was going to be next and I already started it BUT I have started others since that last post.
Though I am fairly easy to please with dramas, I realize that the speed by which I watch them, tells me how good I think they are. I mean, I really have liked all the ones I've watched but now with so many sites and options to watch, if they don't grab me from the getgo, it might take me longer to watch them.
My first love has been and always will be Jdramas. When I found Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! 40 years ago, I never would have thought that all these decades later, I would still love them. When I found it, it was on my local PBS station and it was 1 episode per week. Then almost 12 years ago I started watching Kdramas which were available on a couple of sites. A couple of years later I found the Cdramas.
When I was a kid, we had the 2 major TV stations, ABC, CBS and NBC. Any other stations were just local junk stations that didn't really have great shows on them. If we were lucky enough to have a really good TV set AND a good set of "rabbit ears", we could watch the UHF stations. You could find the Spanish channels (this is where Univision & Telemundo were found before they were known as Univision and Telemundo) and other languages. We had an inexpensive TV with cheap rabbit ears so when I watched my telenovelas, it was 90% snow. It was difficult to make out faces though I could hear everything clearly. On a good day (which happened to sometimes be on rainy days somehow), I could see the actors better but mostly, it was like listening to the shows on the radio like people used to do it before TV was a thing.
When cable came out there were lots of channels to choose from so we watched a lot of shows. Back then I never would have thought there would be a time when there was almost an infinite amount of content to watch. We went from having maybe 10 channels to watch to a couple of 100 and we were in heaven. Little did we know what the future held.
Part of the reason now that it takes me so long to watch a drama is because I have a lot of other shows I watch including a few American ones. The dramas I watch now need to grab me from ep01. Before when there were only a few sites I could watch them on, I could sit and watch 3 episodes before deciding if I was going to stay on it or not. I am still committed to watching at least 3 but now I take my time getting there. If a new show doesn't impress me during e01, I will shelve it for a while. I eventually go back to watch the other 2 but I take my time on it.
Not sure I mentioned I finally finished Miss Night and Day. It took some time precisely because I was watching other shows. I've started a new Japanese one and I'll post that info maybe later today or tomorrow.
I know I had a list of dramas that I wanted to watch an episode of and then figure out what order to watch them in. That plan went a bit sideways when I got addicted to the 2nd drama I chose and I ended up watching all 40 episodes without touching any of the others.
Well, I went back and started watching episode 2 of Miss Night and Day until I got a phone call and I had to pause it. While I was talking I was looking at the list of shows available of Netflix and I happened to see a "Recently Added" drama. I recognized 2 of the 3 actors on the poster. I had to add it to my list and watch 1 episode right away.
Ryo Nishikido was the first one I noticed. Had a crush on him since I first saw him in 2005's 1 Litre of Tears (Ichi Rittoru no Namida). Then I saw him in 2008's Last Friends. OMG! He was so good in that drama but it crushed me to see the character he played. Back in the late 00's it was still a bit difficult to find good J-dramas with subs so I watched what I could find. Luckily, it's a rare thing to find a drama that is just so bad, I can't bring myself to finish it. Recently saw Ryo Nishikido in this year's Extremely Inappropriate. Shortly after I saw 1 Litre of Tears, I researched him and found out he was part of the idol group NEWS. I was able to find several of their songs which were pretty good.
I also recognized Kazunari Ninomiya from Arashi (by far my favorite Jpop band). Saw him in the movie Letters from Iwo Jima and he's in the drama that is on my original list, Black Forceps. I haven't really made it a point to watch dramas he's been in but now that I have access to more Jdramas than I used to, I'm going to watch more of them. He is in a drama from 2009 called Door to Door which looks interesting. I'm pretty sure I watched the original American version of that because the story sounds familiar. I also checked out some movies he was in and I found he was part of the Japanese version of Murder on the Orient Express from 2015 which I now have to watch!
Lastly, though I did not recognize her face, I did recognize her name. Erika Toda. I remember her from Gal Circle which is the 1 Jdrama that I almost gave up on after the first or second episode. She was also in the 2nd season of Hana Yori Dango and in Taisetsu no Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta from 2011 with Miura Haruma (RIP). She was also Misa Amane in 3 Death Note movies. I know I've seen her in at least 1 or 2 other dramas but atm, I can't remember which ones.
Synopsis: (fm Wiki)
During their childhood days, the Ariake siblings -- Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna, lived peacefully with their parents who owned a western restaurant named after their family name that specializes in hayashi rice. One day, in the night, the siblings ran away from home to watch a meteor just to later find out that their parents were killed while they were gone. The case remained unsolved due to lack of evidence and witnesses; only Taisuke has barely seen as a suspect, and a plastic umbrella with no prints was apparently left by the killer. Leaving a great impact to the lives of the siblings, they made a promise to find the killer and kill him themselves.
There was more but I purposely did not read it in case it told me more than I wanted to see. It sounds like a good drama. So, I am going to finish the 2nd episode of Miss Night and Day and then I'll start this one!
I found a few good dramas over on Netflix. One each Chinese, and Korean, and 3 Japanese One of the Japanese is a movie
Netflix calls this a "limited series" but it's got 16 episodes which, to me, it's just a regular K-drama.
The show opens with a shot of "King Hotel" and then goes to various shots of men and women at job interviews for hotel concierge. It ends with candidate 506 burying his head in his hands and telling the interviewers he's shy and he runs away.
They show candidate 511 in a waiting area and a woman comes out and yells for 511. The candidate gets up and walks towards the interview room. As she's walking, the heel on one of her shoes breaks off. She picks it up and keeps going. The interviewers are waiting and looking at her resume. One woman asks "What's with number 511? Don't we require a bachelor's degree?" The man sitting next to her apologizes and says there must have been a mistake during the resume screening process. Then 511 walks in. She walks in confidently as if she still had her other heel. She bows and introduces herself as Cheon Sa-rang
There is silence for a while and the woman mentions she sees her hobby is playing the piano and asks if she'll play for them. Cheon Sa-rang says "right now?" and she is told yes. She looks around and says there is no piano there and the woman says "I know, right?". They stare at each other and then Sa-rang looks at both men sitting at opposite sides of the woman. She then starts to "play" Chopsticks on air piano. The men look up at her. As she is singing the notes, one of them smiles.
The woman, stone faced, says "Your hobby is playing piano yet you played Chopsticks". Sa-rang replies, "It's my hobby, not my specialty. I'm not that good, but I enjoy playing". The woman says "Can you smile for us?" So she does. Then they cut to her in a restaurant not smiling at all as she's drinking a mug of beer. She's sitting with her friend who is using her actual chopsticks to mimic playing chopstics on air piano. She says "You really did that?" Sa-rang says "Yes. What else was I supposed to do?"
Four and a half minutes in and it's funny. I'll watch 2 of these episodes tonight!
I was wondering what ever happened to Nam Joo-hyuk. Last drama I saw was last year's "Twenty Five Twenty One" which I loved. I didn't know he had gone into the military March 2023 and is due to be released Sept 2024. I wonder why not the full 2 years. Gonna have to research that.
I guess part of this story is going to be what happens between Rinko and her mother.
As this episode starts, There's a village and Rinko's mother is laying down on a bed. She has a net all around her. It doesn't say where she is. It doesn't look like a hospital though. She reaches over to grab a pen and paper but it falls to the floor. They then cut to Rinko in a coffin. Turns out the team is taking pictures to send to an Argentinian company to show them how they arrange bodies. Rinko says she's uncomfortable and Nami tells her, "Just close your eyes and be dead". Lol Nami has an idea to put the cover on and take a picture like that but she pulls her back trying to lift the lid from against the wall.
The walkie talkie in the room goes off and calls Rinko to the office. When she gets there, the staff tell Rinko her mother has passed away. Nami tells her to go be with her. She's asked where will she go and Rinko said "her home? the hospital?" but they tell her she's not there. She's in Mocomoco. Shusuke tells her it's near Lake Titicaca (in Bolivia).
This may end up being a resolution episode for Rinko and her mother. I wonder if it'll address Nami and her fiancee. I do hope there is a season 2. This was a great little mini series. Even though the stories were all heartbreaking and sad, it was well done.
I have to opine on something I read online when I was just starting out with the episode in the made up town in Africa. Someone had a blog where they were writing about dramas. Kind of like me but he/she was summarizing up her opinions on each episode in 1 post while I've broken down my posts per episode. It's more organized for me that way. Anyway, he/she mentioned how the episode in South Africa was a little racist in how black people were portrayed as terrorists. I didn't see it that way. There was more he/she said about it but I didn't care to read any more. I don't think it was intentional when they did that.
Great mini series. I want more.
I think I'll be watching Death's Game next week!
This episode starts out with Rinko on a bus. While on one hand she tells her mother her boss asked her to return the next day due to a job they have lined up, Nami scolds her for not having stayed with her mother. Rinko tells her the surgery went well and her mother told her to go back to work. While at the airport, the famous "Lily" arrives and the press hounds her. She's a young woman, maybe in her late 30s? I'm not really good guessing ages. She arrives with a much much older man. Back at the office, the team clues in Rinko on who Lily really is. She married a much older man and days later her died. She married another older man and he died in an accident. They believe she more than likely killed them. While discussing this, someone says the next deceased is about to arrive. Someone asks from where and someone else says "Cuba". They cut to Nami and Yuya tells her she should take a break and he'll handle it. She tells him she's fine; he'll hurt his back. This obviously has to with her missing fiancee.
Lily runs out of a hotel room and she runs down the hallway. There's a flashback scene where she is strangling a man on the couch. She runs away and goes dancing. The team discusses what happened and it turns out he drowned in the tub. The body was taken to the hospital and Lily is with him. Since he's a big Moroccan VIP, Angel Hearse has been given the case. It'll be funny if it turns out Lily is innocent and just has bad luck with men. It's certainly looks like she's guilty but dramas have a great way of explaining things!
Nami and Rinko arrive at the hotel to go over things with Lily and she is one cold witch. She's on the couch smoking not really caring. Nami said she's come back to discuss the casket and Lily told her to figure it out. Nami said she heard she didn't identify the body and Lily told her she saw him drowned in the tub, what else should she do? Damn. She is cold. Seems guilty but... maybe she's not?
After an emotionally exhausting E01, I can't wait to see what this one is about. The title of this episode doesn't make sense to me right now but maybe once I get into it, it'll explain itself and I'll be more clear on it!
This episode starts in Japan with Nami watching TV at 0200 when she gets a phone call from someone she knows. She says "terrorism?" and by 1100 she is walking into a meeting room at Haneda Airport (officially known as Tokyo International Airport). There is a briefing as to what happened in South Africa. I think it involves a company named Mubadal. I Googled it looking for a country as it sounded like it was a place not a company. In reality, there is a company named Mubadala but right now I'm not sure if that's what this company is supposed to be.
The guy doing the briefing says that they have hired Angel Hearse to take care of bringing back the dead Japanese citizens. He gives Nami the floor and she says a few words.
Soon after we get to know the people who were killed.
One victim was an older gentleman was away on business. He had told his wife he was going to retire and leave the younger kids to run things. He said they could make plans to go on a trip to a hot spring.
One victim was a young woman about Rinko's age (according to the conversation she had with the parents). It was her first time abroad and she had been nervous about going. In a flashback, the girl's mother said the place was sketchy.
Another victim was a younger man whose father says his son's wife is pregnant. He shows Nami a text from his son that says "I don't feel like a father yet, but when I look at you, I think that I just need to be kinda like you". He then calls his son an "idiot" for dying before his child is born. They then flashback briefly to 2 months earlier with his son smiling and laughing with his pregnant wife before taking you back to the pregnant wife in the present time. She is on the couch by herself looking at her phone where there is an article about the families on their way to Mubadal. She begins to panic. Her mother appears and tells her she needs to focus only on the baby. So, at this point, I see Mubadal is a location but it is made up.
Once in Mubadal, Nami and Rinko are taken to an area where the bodies of the 6 deceased Japanese citizens are being kept. Nami approaches the first bodybag and unzips it to reveal the older gentleman that was away on business.
I'm going to end my post here so I can watch the rest of this episode. I've watched just under 12 minutes and a lot has happened already!
Sorry for the poor quality pic below of Nami with the first of 6 bodies. It's so difficult to get a good screenshot nowadays
I got involved doing other stuff last night and I ended up not having enough time to watch the rest of this first episode.
Nami and Rinko arrive at HappyLand and we finally learn what happened to Yohei.
The drama starts out showing what looks to be slums in Manila, Philippines. It shows the word "HAPPY LAND" so I immediately go and look this up. The Tondo slums in HappyLand is the worst in the Philippines. How they live is heartbreaking.
You can read about it on these 2 sites I went to.
guardian.com HappyLand
lydiascapes HappyLand
So it start out with someone getting their ass kicked in HappyLand until I assume, he is dead. In the next scene, a worried woman in Tokyo answers her phone. The embassy of Japan in Manila is calling. Her husband walks in and she says she wonders if their passports have expired. The husband takes the phone.
The first body to return to Japan is an old man who was traveling in Palau and died there. You see the body arrive and they open up the temporary coffin to get to the body so they can start working on making him "look handsome" for the family. When they do open the box, it emits an odor that sends the rookie employee outside to vomit. The body is full of toilet paper rolls because it was used to soak up the bodily fluids.
The couple from Japan arrive in Manila and are greeted by someone from the embassy of Japan. The couple is taken to the morgue and are told they need to identify the body. They are warned that because he died from being assaulted, "it won't be pretty". The husband tells his wife to stay and he will go and see. They unzip the body bag and reveal the face. He walks back outside with an expressionless face and he confirms to the embassy official that it is his son. He walks over to his wife and stares straight ahead and says to her "You shouldn't see him" and then walks away.
They flashback to 4 years before with the son putting on his backpack. As he walks out the door, he turns to his mother and says "I'm never coming back here. Bye". The father sits in a chair with that same expressionless face as we see the son walking away.
This is only 11 minutes in and alredy I'm sad. I get the feeling that the father and son had some issues that caused their only son to leave. For whatever reason (they better tell us what happened at Happyland that caused him to get beaten to death) he ran off to the Philippines just to come home in a bodybag 4 years later. That alone breaks my heart.
The employees (one of them is Yuu Shirota) all have these quirky things about them. The rookie employee who is narrating this story, describes the president of the company as a mafia princess. She had a few things to say about all of them lol
Angel Hearse is chosen to bring back the body of Sugihara Yohei, the son killed in Manila. They get word that the body is missing. The father stands looking at the empty slab and says "He can't cause enough problems, huh? Fool!". There was definitely some shit going on between Yohei and his father. So far, his mother has not uttered one word but you can see the pain in her face.
Angel Hearse gets a call from the father and he tells them he doesn't want the body back because he disowned him long ago. "He got what he wanted. So it is what it is. Bye". Yohei's mother needs to say something soon.
The president (Nami) isn't having any of it and she goes to Manila and takes Rinko (rookie employee) with her. Upon their arrival, Nami meets up with the parents at the hotel and tells them she's arranged to meet with some of the Japanese community who knew Yohei and she asks if they would like to have lunch with them. The father declines saying they're "tired". So Nami and Rinko go alone. I'm thinking Yohei may have had some kind of mental illness. There was a scene where it was explained exactly who Yohei was, why he and his father were estranged and why he left Japan.
This is where I stop telling you more so you can go and watch it. I tried my best to give you an idea of the show without giving away too much. Go watch. If I had a star rating of 1 to 10, so far, this would be a solid 9.
I love Seo In-guk so when I saw his drama "Death's Game" was available on Amazon, I logged in to add it to my watchlist. It was there that I saw "Angel Flight" as a recommendation. The Synopsis, according to Amazon:
"Ryoko Yonerkura stars in this series written by Ryota Kosawa about specialists who transport the deceased back home. The company Angel Hearse is run by Nami Izawa (Ryoko Yonekura) and Kashiwagi (Kenichi Endo). A drama thta portrays love between the deceased and the bereaved..."
I usually go and check Asianwiki.com to see who else is in the drama. I haven't watched Japanese dramas regularly for about close to 10 years so there aren't many actors I recognize. However, I have seen some of the younger ones I used to watch. Of course, they are all mature adults now so every now and then I do recognize one!
I couldn't find anything about this drama on Asianwiki. I looked at some of the actors and this drama is not listed for any of them. Weird.
I still researched some more and found 2 things.
First, I actually recognize one of the actors. Yuu Shirota. I remember seeing him in for the first time in Samurai High School which I watched because Haruma Miura (RIP) was in it. First time I saw Haruma Miura was in Crow's Zero 2. I had no idea who he was but he was so good looking and I eventually figured out who he was. It was a little difficult because I don't think he's properly credited for his role. Crow's Zero 2 is not listed under dramas he's been in. Anyway, after seeing him in Crow's Zero 2, I found him on Bloody Monday and then Samurai High School where I saw Yuu Shirota. Glad to see he is in this new drama!
Second thing I found is that Airhearse Interational is a real company. I accidentally stumbled upon their website when I was looking for more info on the drama. There's a notice from March 17, 2023 "An Amazon Original Movie "Angel Flight" created under our support and supervision started to be on air".
So, I'm about to watch an episode and then start Death's Game.
Started watching this one over the past weekend and I finished it tonight. I hadn't planned on watching it; didn't even know about it but Netflix recommended it. I saw it was 2023 so I figured why not. There were no actors in it that I had heard of but I decided to watch it anyway even though I didn't read the plot lol.
The story starts with a nice big house on fire. A woman drops to her knees and says to a guy that it's her fault and she apologizes to him. The woman is Satsuki, the woman of the house and the man is Osamu, her husband. One of their young kids, Anzu, is there and she sees another woman in the crowd kind of smiling and then she leaves.
Years later, Satuski and Osamu are now divorced, and she is in the hospital with a case of amnesia. She remembers her 2 daughters but she's not remembering a lot of other things. It all stems from the stress of feeling guilty of having set the fire in her home.
Anzu is sure her mother was not the one who did it and she sets out to find out what happened.
Osamu is now married to the woman who was in the crowd smiling, Makiko. We find out that Satsuki and Makiko used to be friends. Makiko was divorced and raising her 2 sons who were the same age as Anzu and her sister Yuzu. Makiko was struggling financially and she was jealous of Satsuki because her husband was a doctor and he made a lot of money. Makiko and the boys would have dinner with Satsuki and her family not realizing how jealous she was of the family.
Anzu is sure Makiko was the one who set the fire 13 years ago so she and her sister, along with a friend who is computer saavy, was going to find evidence to prove it.
The story moved fairly quickly. I was all set to see how the girls would find out the truth (Makiko set the fire on purpose over her jealousy) and how they would let it come out. Eventually, Makiko was cornered when presented with the truth by Anzu and she broke down and confessed. She was arrested the next day but, there was a twist in the interrogation. I was NOT expecting THAT twist at all!
Finally, just as the real truth was set to be revealed, there was yet ANOTHER TWIST. I hadn't seen that coming either.
The last half of the last episode was shitty. They could have spent 1 whole episode slowly getting to that ending. For me, it was rushed. And it was rushed in a terrible way. I still really liked it and I recommend it!
After I finished S02 of Dragon Zakura, I needed another J-drama to watch. Found this one on Netflix. I chose it because I recognized Ken'ichi Matsuyama. It's been a really long time since I watched J-dramas regularly so it's very rare that I will recognize any of the actors' names.
So, I recognized Ken'ichi Matsuyama's face and I proceeded to look at the names of the other actors in this drama and I saw one I knew. Mao Inoue. Our precious little Tsukushi Makino from Hana Yori Dango! Once I saw she was in it, I knew I had to watch this. It's been nearly 20 years since I first saw her. Since J-dramas were really difficult to find back then, I never really got a chance to see anything else she did after the last movie. I will be making a list of her dramas and movies and will make sure I watch as many as I can find!
As I started to watch the first episode, it was slow. I have this problem when I start. I want to get to the "good" part right away lol. It wasn't until almost halfway through the episode that I realized the girl I was watching was Mao Inoue. The more I looked at her face, the more she didn't look like her but at the same time, she did. It's years later and she is now 36 YO! She was only 18 when she first took on the role of Makino.
I watched the first episode and just loved it by the end of it. I started E02 but had to stop watching because it was late and I had to get to bed so I could get up early for work. This weekend I plan to watch a couple of more episodes since it's Labor Day weekend and I'll have time!
I am still trying to figure out how I can bypass the black screen thing so I can make screenshots. I miss doing that.
Yes, I skipped commenting on the last few episodes because I was too into the story.
Episode 15 ended with the biggest cliffhanger yet and I don't know what to make of it. Less than 1 minute into this final episode and I am laughing because I think I know what might be happening. I'm probably wrong but it could explain Do Jun's current location. This does not look good for him again but with any luck, he'll figure a way out of whatever situation he's in!
Well damn. I wasn't expecting this to twist all the way back. This episode is just under 90 minutes so there's still some time to explain everything.
Finally done with this one and yes. Yes, the ending wasn't great. Still worth watching though.
Last episode had a lot of really good twists but did not have the impactful cliffhanger from the previous 2.
Just about halfway into this episode now. There's a part where I thought something was going to happen and when it didn't, of course I figured it's part of Do Jun's plan but next scene tells me, it clearly was not and now he is stumped about why things went down one way when the chairman had said it was going to go the opposite way... Hmm...
Hold up. I'm confused again. I can't tell if they went back a few hours or days prior to the present time or if it is present time and something else has happened.
Not even 10 minutes into this episode and yet again there's a situation where it's clear that Do Jun has gotten screwed over. Was that part of his plan or is he going to be able to fix this on his feet?
Well, well, well...If I'm understanding things correctly, the leaker has been revealed.
Now it looks like Do Jun is out in the cold. The siblings think he's no match for them. I wouldn't relax just yet.
There are 5 more episodes left, including this one. I should be done either tonight or tomorrow morning.
I'm a little concerned about the end of this drama. I read there are a lot of people who didn't care for the ending. One comment said they should have kept the same ending as the webtoon. I was planning to read the webtoon after I'm done with the drama anyway so I guess I'll come back here after I see for myself. I'm planning to read it, but I may not have a chance to. I have limited free time but I'll do my best.
Nearly 6 minutes in and while everything starts out kinda normal, it soon becomes apparent that chairman Jin Yang Cheol is definitely not well.
Just under 10 minutes later, a bombshell. As before, just when it seems Do Jun to have outsmarted someone yet again, he finds out someone screwed him over. He's got that surprised expression on his face when he figures it out but...was he really screwed over OR did he plan for that to happen so he could execute the rest of his plan???
A minute and change later...OMG! Was expecting this but not really since it didn't seem like it was going to happen after the end of ep 11 and the start of this one!
So all of it, after the ending of ep 10 was a plan. I wonder who it was that they didn't trust that they had to detour? The doctor? Who else knew? I don't really remember seeing anyone suspicious though. I'm sure they'll explain what happened.
So, while I was waiting for that explanation, I realized that what I thought was part of the plan, was not part of the plan. The "chairman's oldest grandson" just threw a little grenade into the mix and it looks like something is about to fall apart.
Wow. Things are not looking good after that grenade landed. Do Jun finds a way out and then, in the elevator... oops. Do Jun was reborn and he had a mission once he realized what was going on. I'm sure he hated all his "family" members including his grandfather, the chairman. But in the elevator scene, it feels like he's come to actually care about his grandfather or maybe he's just a sweet human and feels badly for his grandfather?
Almost 1/2 way done with this episode and it's been one surprise after another! Great, great show!
This episode had me on the edge of my seat. Last episode's cliffhanger was really good. The outcome was a bit meh for me. The cliffhanger made it seems like it was going to go one way but it did not.
Once again, just when it seemed like Do Jun had been sidelined by one of his family members, he came out on top yet again in a big way.
The cliffhanger ending here made my jaw drop. I'm pretty sure I know what happened since there are about 5 more episodes left. It left me saying "OH....SSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHIT!!!"
About to start 11 now!
I keep forgetting to come here and say a few words about each episode. It's just so damn good I watch 2 episodes and then start to watch something (non Asian) else to catch up on my American shows.
Do Jun has been playing his family on a level his grandfather didn't even know existed. Of course he has the advantage of knowing what is going to happen but he still needs to think of a way to use that info to manipulate his targets.
So far, every episode is a combination of Do Jun making something happen and then make it look like one or more of the family members have figured out a way to one up him but have they really? Even in this episode when Do Jun has played his aunt and she finds out and plays him back, has she really? Even when she is gloating?
I'm up to the part where she asked her SIL how she was able to come up with her plan to save her from what she has figured out, was Do Jun's plan to get her shares of her department store. I already have the feeling that though that plan may have taken the wind out of the prosecutor's (Min Yeong) sails, I feel like Do Jun expected something and clued in Min Yeong and they have planned a counter attack. So far, Do Jun has had an answer for every play that's crossed his path whether it was planned or figured out in a hurry!
I totally forgot to comment on episode 03. I finished watching that and then moved on to the next episode. I started watching this episode but had to abandon it because about 20 minutes in, the video screwed up and I couldn't get the episode to work. I tried closing out all the windows and it still wouldn't work. I rebooted my laptop and still, the video was working but the CC was not working. Then the video was distorted and it lagged. I went to FAQ and saw a big message that they were aware of the issue with the site being watched on Edge. I switched to Firefox but had the same results. I decided I'd check again in a few days and I spent time watching other non Asian shows in the meantime. Today I checked Reborn Rich and it is working again.
I have 25 minutes to go to the end and so far, it was pretty uneventful until NOW. At the 40 min mark more or less is when what I thought was going to happen, actually happened.
I was thinking the end of this ep was going to go one way but then I thought it might be a set up for the benefit of someone's ears. Do Jun is a smart kid and the convo he had with his grandfather might have been why he set this up. Then again, I really suck at predicting outcomes unless they're pretty obvious. Actually, sometimes even when they're obvious I don't see it coming.
Well, with about 15 minutes more left, the last 10 minutes proved me right and wrong. Part of what I suspected was right but the rest of it, the one I suspected of being shady (because they made it too obvious I guess) is not the one that is betraying the family!
AKA Dear Doctor, Have a Crush on You or Love Heals
Synopsis from MyDramaList.com sounds like the Kdrama "Emergency Couple" which I really liked. I'm going to watch some of the first episode tonight and will finish it off tomorrow after work.
I didn't copy the whole summary because it sounds like there might be a bit of a spoiler there!
"Ruan Liu Zheng returns to her hometown after 7 yearas and becomes a neurosurgeon at Bei Ya Hospital. However, she did not expect to meet her ex-husband, Ning Zhi Qian, who is the most experienced neurosurgeon at Bei Yah Hospital.
Ning Zhi Qian volunteers to be Ruan Liu Zheng's mentor in order to make up for the hurt he caused her. Ruan Liu Zheng is no longer a weak and timid girl and shows resolute determination in both her work and relationship. During work, Ruan Liu Zheng clashes with Ning Zhi Qian but also works alongside him to save lives.
Chika reveals to Tetsuo that before they started dating, she used to pass out. It stopped after they started to date but started again after he died.
Tetsuo is at a brand new office belonging to a re-lifer friend and they are discussing an idea for a new business when he gets a call from Chika. "Thank God you're alive". Tetsuo learns that a Polish gentleman he met at the re-lifer meeting has gone missing without a trace. He meets up with Chika and tells her he thinks his time with her will be short.
Tetsuo tries to understand why Chika is passing out again. The answer may lie in her life with her parents and the way she was treated by them. It appears the issue lies with her mother. Tetsuo convinces Chika that it's about time they went to visit her parents since they haven't seen them in a very long time. Knowing that he may disappear any day, he tells her there's something he has to do. She reluctantly agrees to go.
When they get to her parent's home, everything seems normal until her mother starts digging into her. She sits there, takes the verbal abuse in front of Tetsuo and Riku and says nothing. Tetsuo's eyes start to water as he calmly defends Chicka. Her mother doesn't let up and Tetsuo calmly continues to defend Chicka as her father begins to tear. They leave the parent's home and Chika manages to smile a little bit as she turns to look up at her parents before turning around and heading home.
