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I'm judging you, Japan.
Judge!
★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Overview
Judge! is about a young man working at an advertising agency who is sent off to be a judge at a commercial contest in California in order to take the fall for his boss’s terrible commercial. The catch is that he doesn’t speak English so he takes Kitagawa Keiko with him.
Closer Look
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Hate is poison.
Higanbana
★ ★ ★ ☆
Overview
This special follows a special investigation unit comprised of women who don’t mix well with the rest of the police force. In particular Horikita Maki plays a young detective who “connects” to the conscience of criminals and can feel what they felt at the time of the crime. And then she passes out at the scene. It’s an ( Read more... ) -
Time to grow up.
Sprout
★ ★ ☆ ☆
Overview
I think I’m getting too old for high school love stories. Too much drama. It’s kind of ridiculous hoe they get all worked up over nothing and let it ruin everything. That being said, Sprout does have some touching scenes and there’s a good laugh to be had at the occasional antics of Tanaka Juri and Yasui Kentaro. It’s ( Read more... ) -
It's all about the money
Yamikin Ushijima-kun
Season 1 + movie, season 2 + movie
★ ★ ★ ☆
Overview
Ushijima (Yamada Takayuki) is a loan shark in Tokyo and the drama follows the lives of people that come to him for help. Violent and sexual (they deal a lot with the sex industry so lots of women walking around in their underwear all the time), it maintains a good mix of ( Read more... ) -
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Court is in session
Saibanchou! Onaka Sukimashita!
★ ★ ★ ★
Overview
I had no expectations for this drama, I only picked it up because Kitayama was in it so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is hilarious. Each episode is a 10 minute skit in which the prosecutor, Totsugi Shigeyuki, and the defense attorney, Kitayama Hiromitsu, have ridiculous verbal battles ( Read more... ) -
What is marriage?
Saikou no Rikon
★ ★ ★ ★
Overview
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Saikou no Rikon follows two couples through their complicated and drawn out divorces. It’s about finding love and happiness and what that really means sometimes in ways that are so heat wrenching that it makes you want to curl up and cry. But the sadness is balanced well with ( Read more... ) -
Bang Bang, but don't die...
S -Saigo no Keikan-
★ ★ ★ ☆
Overview
Mukai Osamu plays the passionate pacifist cop in this action packed drama. The main character Ichigo is recruited to the newly established special attack team NPS that, unlike the brutal SAT, aims to solve crises peacefully by capturing all culprits alive. Putting aside the usual over-the-top terrorism, I was ( Read more... ) -
High school do-over
Again!!
★ ★ ★ ☆
Overview
Imamura Kinichiro spends his 3 years of high school as a social outcast so when he suddenly has a chance to do it all over again, he decides to do it differently and takes an interest in the doomed Oendan (traditional Japanese cheer club). The fast paced story follows his misadventures as he tries to bring the diminished ( Read more... ) -
Virtual friends or virtually friends?
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
(I don’t have many friends)
★ ★ ★ ☆
Overview
This out-of-this-world movie is about a bunch of high school kids who don’t have friends so they make “The Neighbors Club” to help them find new friends. Thankfully, this movie doesn’t take itself seriously at all. The over the top situations and fast paced storytelling keep ( Read more... )