Hirunaka No Ryuusei [Daytime Shooting Star] (Japanese Movie)

Released Year And Length: 2017 (2 hours)

Main Cast:

Nagano Mei as Yosano Suzume

Miura Shohei as Shishio Satsuki

Shirahama Aran as Mamura Daiki

Yamamoto Maika as Nekota Yuyuka

Synopsis:

Yosano Suzume is a first grade high school student. She lived in the countryside, but, due to her parents transferring overseas for work, Suzume now lives in Tokyo with her uncle. Suzume has never had a boyfriend before, but she has feelings for her homeroom teacher Shishio Satsuki. Meanwhile, her classmate, Mamura Daiki, becomes attracted to Suzume.

My Thoughts:

I found this movie through Youtubers and decided it to be pretty interesting through the trailers of it that I saw. But, thanks to the trailers, I am forced to search for clips of its ending to see whether the ending which I desire will come true or not, if not, I will be broken hearted rooting for the person who is not meant to be with the girl.... And so, the ending was what I desired which meant I watched it! Of course hahaha...

So, there's nothing particularly special about this movie, it was just a simple love story with a little drama of teenagers experiencing love for the first time and reciprocating them. I think that this movie tops quite a few other movies I have watched in that, it does not go into a dark tone with the love triangles and everything happened in a sort of "kind" way. It was a smooth ride pretty much. Argh, it's hard to explain this movie when it's just that simple of a story. A little reveal goes a long way in spoiling the story. 

Anyways, I adore the romance in here. It was really cute watching the awkward and fresh interactions of peoples beginning to be in love and dating. The actors and actresses really portrayed well the innocence of youths about love with the stiff and formal confessions. I initially wanted to watch this movie because the setting is in high school so I expected a lot of the youthful style of acting. And they conveyed it pretty well. 

Go on and watch this simple slice of life, love story. Their cute romances will melt your heart and the ending is just so satisfying for my part. So, hope you all enjoy(ed) watching it! 

Suki Na Hito Ga Iru Koto [ To Have A Person That You Love ] (Japanese Drama)

English Name: A Girl And Three Sweethearts

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama

Episodes: 10

Main Cast: 

Yamazaki Kento as Shibasaki Kanata

Kiritani Mirei as Sakurai Misaki

Miura Shohei as Shibasaki Chiaki

Nomura Shuhei as Shibasaki Touma

Synopsis:

Sakurai Misaki has not dated in a long time. She has focused on her work as a pâtissier to eventually run her own business. One day, she gets fired from work. She then meets her first love from high school Shibasaki Chiaki. Misaki works part-time at Chiaki's restaurant and also stays there. While she lives with Chiaki at his restaurant, she realizes that Chiaki's two younger brothers Touma and Kanata also live there.

My Thoughts:

I will start by saying I really like this drama a lot. There is an abundance of charm to the story and its characters in more ways than one. Again, I started this drama reading the comments beforehand and some were complaining about the slow development of the story and another was defending it. For reasons unknown, I find this drama promising because of that. I began a mindset of a child filled with wonder and then find myself not needing such mindset and that I just need to be myself watching this because it was indeed promising and excel. Read whatever comments you can whether bad or good about this drama, I am gonna defend this drama to the end. No matter if you came in expecting lots or less, I will stick to saying you will be surprised either way. 

To me, this drama is perfect for me right now. I find myself searching for a kinda slow-paced story and something that can attract my attention and seriously, this story got me digging deeper. I thought it was something pointless at first and I will get bored soon and finally say, at least I tried. But, as always, I hit the jackpot, this story not only keeps me entertained, it got me wondering the whole time because I can never guess perfectly what happens next because this drama is super unpredictable. All I could do was guess on small hints. It got me stuck thinking what's gonna happen next. It breaks away from all the cliche that I know. 

Enough blabbing for now, on to the story itself, I like how the writer moves along with the story. The writer slowly brings each and every single character to life even if they appear for a short while. Like that random best friend who always seem to be having parties or those couples who are always having fun with each other. They may seem pointless characters but they do help to develop the story and not serve as filler. The main leads of course always have troubles of themselves, one particularly highlighted in this drama is inferiority complex, you see that a lot and how different characters respond to their troubles is to me, one of the charms of this drama. 

The most obvious charm is the characters themselves. Seriously, I'm falling for the characters so much. So well set-up in their personality,i just love their interactions with each other. There is not a single character that to me have done a stupid decision in their life choices. They did the right thing always, yes they may act silly and irrational but I realize later on, they did so out of pure logical reasons. Some decisions they did were unknowingly for others. I find myself grinning all the time seeing each character because I can't help by their cuteness, boy and girl alike. 

It was a short drama and I didn't want it to end but I was glad to end it because as I quote from W: 'I am one of those people who wants a happy ending' and believe I enjoyed this story  One thing, I know it's cliche for hate to be love but this writer did it with perfect transitions; bad first impressions, misunderstandings, clears up misunderstanding, starts trying to understand, starts caring, falls in love, begins to be super considerate and so on and so forth. This was a well-written drama and one sure to be missed and watched again someday. Took a day to hold on watching the last episode but did not regret watching this drama till the end at all.

Good Morning Call (Japanese Drama)

Genre: Romance, School, Youth, Slice of life

Episodes:17

Main Cast:

Shiraishi Shunya as Uehara Hisashi

Fukuhara Haruka as Yoshikawa Nao

Synopsis:

Yoshikawa Nao stays behind to live by herself when her parents leave to inherit her grandpa's farm in the country. On the day she moves into her new apartment, she discovers that it was rented also to Uehara Hisashi; a cute, super-cool, popular guy from her school. Not only did their housing agency unexpectedly close down, the landlord of the apartment tells them that they had to pay more for their apartment than they had expected. With no money and no home to return to, Nao and Hisashi decide to live together as flatmates.

My Thoughts:

Finally,  a Japanese drama... Hehe... With all that's going on in my life, I could use some casual, frank and cute love story. This drama particularly got to me. There was another drama I wanted to watch but I don't think I am prepared to finish it yet. Anyways, this story came from a manga. Despite the negative reviews about it being too cliche and draggy, I find those negative reviews as an encouragement as it lowers my expectation and makes me constantly think what it is that exactly is bad in these people's eyes. Thanks to that, I enjoyed the drama better. Those thoughts made me all that more excited to see where this story would lead me and it surprised me more than I expected, well, I kind of get the hang of where things will lead to but what makes it unique and engaging is how the characters respond to the problems and oh, the revelations are just so speechless, cute and heavenly (haha).

Yeah, this happens in most stories but still, the way things play out still matters no matter how many times it exists in other stories. It is your typical shoujo manga but at the same time, it is not. How do I say this? I enjoyed it despite all the cliches and that says a lot about how efficiently they play the story. Yes, I know what will happen but I can't help but get excited and enjoy it. 

It may be cheating but I am a little biased to this story because how relatable things are in a sense because I am currently still a school kid and to see this kind of stories attract me the most. I can understand why they do this and how things work at this age. Like, being underage and deprived of many privileges but to know that at this age, we should just enjoy despite all the trouble. Well, yeah we have problems, the characters each has troubles with their own personality but I hope you don't let that stop you from continuing to watch. Some people said the second-lead syndrome is strong in this story and I agree with that. There are many times when I think she should just be with the other guy but that many times and more, I was shown that she truly deserves to be with him despite the flaws. 

I hope you noticed I was trying to say the best for both worlds so that you don't enter this drama thinking it is a rosy world of love. I lowered your expectation hopefully enough for you to start watching this because seriously without a doubt, I highly enjoyed this drama. The caring and thoughtful boyfriend, the loving and dedicated girlfriend, the loyal and understanding friends and other cool characters.