Do you watch J/K/C Drama ? If so which are your Favorites

[Zu Ra]

Okay I was going through the suggestions/recommendations section and someone had asked for Dance anime . I remembered a Drama on Para Para which has a Japanese cowboy who helps outs a para para troupe with his weird ways . The only problem is I cant recall the name ........ I am going to google away and its going to good thirty minutes .

I would be greatful if somone can tell me the name of the show , I am hexed when it comes to names . Keywords : Para Para, Japanese Cowboy

EDIT : searched and found Gal's Circle (Galcir)

[darkfreya]

hana yori dango,coffee prince,full house and silence

[xxmimixx]

Well, one of the best friends and I watch RH plus and we both <3 it xD.

I also watched Hanakimi and my friend (the one who likes RH plus) watches Coffee Prince and Happy boys. We want to watch Renai shindan Tsubasa no kakera and the other story that comes with it but nothing came out yet online ><.

[Zu Ra]

After a year of dead torrents and Spanish/Arabic subs later I finally found a torrent of My Girl with English subs . I can finally get to watch My Girl over this weekend . I have been searching forever with zero results and I hope I like ^___^

That dude with the earrings looks like a chick, seriously. O_O

I agree to this comment Also ZOMG yeah Lee Da Hae (Joo Yoo Rin) does look like Song Hye Kyo (Han Ji-Eun in Full House) in this show : D

[Miki7]

I started to watch drama some days ago...but now I'm watching A love to kill, it's korean and thanks for the post...it helps

[Zu Ra]

Originally Posted by Miki7

I started to watch drama some days ago...but now I'm watching A love to kill, it's korean and thanks for the post...it helps

These were the top Korean dramas voted by fans (07/08) Hope this helps : )

I was searching for some good K Dramas and I came across this article . Its pretty interesting its top KDramas voted by Daddicts members . Here is the list I will summarize and picturize them once I get time . The orignal compilation was done by BABAI

ALSO

Spoiler for Summaries of Top 5:

I will do this atleast for the Top 15

#01 Full House



Summary :

Spoiler for Space:

Han Ji-Eun (Song Hye Kyo) lives in a house called Full House, built by her father. She is an aspiring novelist. One day, two of her friends, for money reasons, trick her and sell her house - when she returns from a vacation, she discovers it has been sold to Lee Young-Jae (비/Bi (Rain)), an actor who has just shot to stardom. Though they don't get along with each other, as she is messy and he has a bad temper and an affection for cleaning, they agree to live with each other and Ji-Eun works as his maid in order to buy her house back. Out of a misunderstanding and Young-Jae's ill-fated try to make the love of his life, Kang Hye-Won (Han Eun Jung) jealous, Young-Jae marries Ji-Eun. They set up a contract for the marriage to last six months. During that time, complications ensue and Ji-Eun and Young-Jae become attracted to each other. Also, Ji-Eun starts to hold a strong bond with Young-Jae's family. However, Young-Jae's bad temper along with the romantic attentions of Yoo Min-Hyuk (Kim Sung Soo), Ji-Eun's handsome and friendly publisher, starts to create a rift between the couple. Young-Jae and Ji-Eun get a divorce and he moves away. When he returns, he realizes that Ji-Eun hasn't married yet and knows that he has fallen in love with her - and she with him. He proposes to her, this time for the right reasons, and finally, they get married the second time and live happily ever after.

#02 My Name is Kim Sam Soon



Summary :

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The story revolves around a 29 to 30 year old girl called Kim Sam-Soon, single and overweight, who is the third daughter of a rice cake maker owner. She doesn't have a college degree although she is a patissier with a Le Cordon Bleu certification.

Her main passion and skills are in baking, as she does not have much of a social life, dreams of changing her name (Sam-Soon is considered a very old-fashioned and embarrassing name) and owning a shop of her own. After her breakup with her boyfriend, she managed to land herself in a big French restaurant working as a patiesseur for a rude and angsty 27-year-old man called Hyun Jin-Heon. Both were in bad terms ever since they set eyes on each other. But one day, Sam-Soon finds herself in need of 50 million won (Korean currency, approximately $50,000) to pay for her mother's house. She agrees to be Hyun Jin-Heon's girlfriend for that amount. During their pretend dating they slowly become more affectionate with each other. When things seem to go accordingly, Hyun Jin-Heon's ex-girlfriend, Yoo Hee-Jin, enters the scene and life for Sam-Soon starts getting much worse. Jin-heon then realizes that he is happier with Sam-Soon and can't stop thinking about her. He confesses his love to her after she tells him that she hates people who don't confess their feelings towards the person they like. Hee-Jin asks Jin-Heon to accompany her on her return to the United States. Sam-Soon allows him to go, and he does not return within the promised duration. He soon arrives, and they find out that he has been sending postcards to the wrong address. Sam-Soon and Jin-Heon attempt to get pregnant, in order to convince Jin-Heon's mother into allowing their marriage. The plan fails, but they remain together.

Near the very end of the series, Sam-Soon reads a poem from a poster on a bus stop: "Dance like no one's watching. Sing like no one's listening. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt before. Live like there's no tomorrow."

#03 My Girl



Summary :

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Joo Yoo Rin is an imposter, proficient in English, Chinese, and Japanese, while Seol Gong Chan is the second generation heir of a big corporation. Because of his grandfather's illness, he is forced to ask Yoo Rin to act as his long-lost cousin so that his grandfather's last wish can be fulfilled. So therefore, they are both bound in a lie that no-one in the family knows the truth.

Gong Chan's charming and intelligent ex-girlfriend, Kim Sae Hyun, grew up in a rich family and dreams to become a world-famous tennis star with the nickname "Sharapova of Korea". Upon returning to Korea after winning the title, she works hard at getting back with Gong Chan, thus causing both she and Yoo Rin to compete for Gong Chan's affection.

To make matters more complicated, womanizer Seo Jeong Woo, who is Gong Chan's best friend, falls for Yoo Rin and finally learns to love that special someone despite being an "accomplished" playboy.

#04 Goong



Summary :

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Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, this show revolves around the lives of the Crown Prince (Wangsaeja) Lee Shin, and his new bride, Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1911 and was not reinstated after Japanese surrender in WW2.

The series starts off with the news that the King, Shin's father, is very ill. With the grim outlook on the King's health, the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina Hyo-rin whom Shin initially proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually marries a commoner to whom he was betrothed by his late grandfather in an old agreement with the girl's grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet lovable Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin's rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms between the couple.

In the meantime, however, matters are further complicated with the return of Lee Yul and his mother Lady Hwa-Young, who was once the Crown Princess (Bingoong) before the death of her husband, the late Crown Prince, older brother of the current King. Yul and his mother were chased out of the palace some time after the death of his father, and it is later revealed that this was due to the King's discovery of an affair between Yul's mother and the current King who was his father's younger brother. Yul's mother had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to the throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A series of events befall the palace with the schemes Yul's mother carries out, and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family, which are inclusive of the Shin's continuing relationship with his old flame Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yul develops for Chae-kyeong, his cousin's new-found bride.

In the end of the series, Shin's sister takes the throne and Shin and Chae-kyeong get married once more in a Catholic church in Macau (since they haven't married for love yet). It is strongly implied that Chae-kyeong is pregnant at the end of the series since she supposedly threw up.

#05 I'm Sorry, I Love You



Summary :

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Cha Moo Hyuk is a smalltime scam-artist working the streets of Australia. He was abandoned by his parents as a kid and his foster parents brought him to Australia. Unfortunately, he was mistreated by his foster parents and thus roams the streets, cheating tourists out of their money when they are lost. It is through one of these scams that he bumps into Song Eun Chae. Song Eun Chae is the fashion coordinator and childhood friend of the famous Korean singer, Brother Choi Yune. She sees Brother Yune as her life's focal point and does everything she can to please him. Brother Yune visits Melbourne, Australia to do a photoshoot with another famous Korean actress, Kang Min Joo, who also happens to be good friends with Eun Chae. Brother Choi Yune gets Eun Chae to get him close to Min Joo, as he is interested in her. It breaks Eun Chae's heart but she does so accordingly. One day, Eun Chae's luggage and money are stolen by the same band of vagrant criminals as Moo Hyuk.

Left alone by Brother Yune, tired, hungry and helpless, she wanders the streets aimlessly until she bumps into Moo Hyuk who, moved by her plight, helps her in a heroic action scene. When some gangsters threaten her, she is forced to spend a night with him outside on the docks. The next morning, she awakes to find her luggage and money right in front of her. Moo Hyuk managed to find the stuff stolen by his gang and return it all to Eun Chae, and with her stuff, she's happily on a plane back to Korea, when she bumps into Min Joo and Choi Yune, who are now a couple. Several weeks later, Moo Hyuk receives an invitation for his ex-girlfriend's wedding. At the wedding, Moo Hyuk is accidentally shot twice in the head when someone attempts an assassination bid on his ex-girlfriend's husband. The doctor saves him but only can remove one bullet. The remaining bullet in lodged too deeply within his head such that it cannot be surgically removed. It's killing him, and he has no longer than a year to live. Moo Hyuk is dying and his ex-girlfriend now married. He's a roaming gangster and his life, an utter mess. Guilt-stricken, his ex-girlfriend gives him a huge stash of cash and tells him to go back to his native Korea to find his birth parents. He does so, and finds out that his mother is none other than the famous Korean actress, Oh Deul Hee. She has a son, Choi Yune and both mother and son are adored by the Korean people as they portray a loving relationship and are immensely popular. Moo Hyuk is heartbroken when he even manages to enter the house of Oh Deul Hee, and sees the portrait of Choi Yune and her son. He bumps into his birth mother for the very first time in his life, but can't help but feel so betrayed because she is doing so well in life, whilst he is merely living out the remainder of whatever little time he has left. Feeling angry and full of rage, he vows revenge upon the mother and son. He starts by getting close to Choi Yune, eventually making it to become his manager. Bit by bit, he plots to bring Choi Yune and his mother down, but never expects himself to fall slowly in love with Song Eun Chae, the girl he helped in Australia. Eventually, Choi Yune is struck in a car accident and he will die without a heart transplant. Suddenly, Moo Hyuk is stuck with the decision of saving his brother, or selfishly bringing them down.

Eventually Cha Moo Hyuk finds out the truth that his mother actually did not abandon him. His mother had an affair with a married man. Eun Chae's father(the chauffeur and step-husband of Oh Deul Hee) was the one who abandoned Cha Moo Hyuk as soon as he was born and told his mother that her child had died. Eun Chae's father did this because thought he was "saving" Oh Deul Hee's reputation because if the Korean society were to find out about her affair then she would be treated as a disgrace. Oh Deul Hee adapted Choi Yune in memory of Cha Moo Hyuk, still believing he is dead.

Once finding out this out, Eun Chae's father admits to the truth, and tells him that he is willing to accept any punishment. Cha Moo Hyuk shouts at him, restraining himself from strangling him. He tell Eun Chae's father that one day he will receive one.

Cha Moo Hyuk dies after a dramatic motorcycle-riding scene. Before his death he calls Song Eun Chae and tells her, "I'm Sorry. I love you." His heart is given to Chae Yune, who makes a full recovery. One year later, a heartbroken Song Eun Chae goes to Melbourne,Australia, and then wanders through the same neighborhoods where she and Moo Hyuk first met, and finally arriving at his grave, lies down on the ground next to his plot and appears to sleep peacefully, despite her crying. She dies there next to a small red bottle, leading the viewer to believe she committed suicide. This is the apparent punishment that Eun Chae's father receives - the death of his own daughter.

[Miki7]

Originally Posted by Geta Boshi

These were the top Korean dramas voted by fans (07/08) Hope this helps : )



ALSO

Spoiler for Summaries of Top 5:

I will do this atleast for the Top 15

whow arigato ;D I will definetely see some of those dramas

[The Chaos]

Originally Posted by Miki7

whow arigato ;D I will definetely see some of those dramas

Miki-Chan Watch :
1) Full house
11) Sassy/Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang

they are the best

[Zu Ra]

Originally Posted by The Chaos

Miki-Chan Watch : Sassy/Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang

While both of you are it also watch the movie MY Sassy Girl <not related to the show>. The heroine is kickass also sweet story, I truly enjoyed watching it ^_^ .

Also movie is a romantic comedy with lot of funny scenes like this one : D

[Miko Miko]

I have watched One Litre of Tears, Taiyou no Uta and Life they're all J-dramas.

I watch some asian movies as well such as;
My girl <3
Whispering corridors
Infection
Kamikaze Girls <3
Wishing Stairs <3
1 litre of tears <3
Bounce ko gals
The haunted school
Windstruck <3
The Grudge

[Zu Ra]

I just started watching My Girl turning out to be pretty good I might also pick up Sang Doo, Let's Go To School when I get time . Unfortunately a gorilla stars as the male lead : ( but I have heard about it a lot. So will give it a try ^__^

[AyumiDesu]

Recently, I am watching "Kami no Shizuku."
The story is about wine and the drama is based on the manga.

In Japan, the drama seems like unpopular, but somehow I have kept watching it every
week.

After I start watching it, I really wanna start to drink wine to get images of wine in my mind!

[Miki7]

Until now I did see Love Revolution and now I'm watching A love to Kill, a korean one and it seems very interesting

[SageGaiGar]

Last dramas I watched were Liar Game, My Boss My Hero, and the first season of Nodame Cantabile.

[mg1942]

I watched this Japanese dorama that centers on high school bullying. The story was fast paced and had cheesy emo moments (kinda made me laugh sometimes). Overall, it's a serious dorama that can make your blood boil.

[snowmaiden05]

Definitely Sekai Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu [Crying Out Love in the Center of the World]. This is one of the most moving series that I've watched. :3

For newer series, I like the live adaptation of Mei-chan no Shitsuji (I prefer this than the manga :3)

[The Chaos]

Gonna watch New Drama Called Smile ^__^

• Title: スマイル
• Title (English): Smile
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Romance
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-17 start
• Air time: Friday 22:00
• Theme song: Ariamaru Tomi by Shiina Ringo

Story

Bito is a half-Filipino whose father has died and mother has disappeared. Despite his misfortune and the issues he deals with, such as race, he lives his life positively with a constant smile. Similarly, Hana is a young woman living cheerfully despite losing her ability to speak due to an accident.

Cast

• Matsumoto Jun as Hayakawa Bito
• Aragaki Yui as Mishima Hana
• Nakai Kiichi as Ito Kazuma
• Koike Eiko as Machimura Shiori
• Tokuyama Hidenori as Kawai Kinta
• Suzunosuke (鈴之助) as "Bull" / Kazama Kenji
• Kitami Toshiyuki as Detective Furuse
• Ikeuchi Hiroyuki as Kashiwagi Keisuke
• Katsumura Masanobu as Kashiwagi Keisuke
• Maeda Gin as Machimura Sosuke
• Ishida Ayumi as Machimura Midori

All Info was Taken from DramaWiki

[7thMethuselah]

Originally Posted by snowmaiden05

Definitely Sekai Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu [Crying Out Love in the Center of the World]. This is one of the most moving series that I've watched. :3

This one and Koizora (the series, not the movie) are real heartbreakers

[xKeen]

Never watched other drama besides HK drama.It is broadcasted on TV and I've watched alot(been watching since 6 years ago) ,can't tell which is my favorite as I myself do not know.

[DragoonKain3]

Threadomancy time!

Really, I had to do it. I've been checking out the winners of past J-drama awards, and a good portion of them, I have already watched and agree they're good. One awesome drama that I particularly missed (mainly because it was before I got addicted to J-dramas) would be...

Tiger and Dragon - I really love how they took the stories of one set of traditional Japanese traditional story telling, changed it slightly so it has more in line with current events, and seamlessly weave both comedy AND family aspects to it.


Others I have been catching up on are...

Shiroi Haru - as I mentioned before, I'm a Hiroshi Abe fanatic (I think he's the best actor in the business, bar none). And he didn't disappoint in here; he did win best actor for one of the awards that season after all.

Akai Ito - a bit darker than stories I'm used to, but since both the main LIs for the female lead are basically osananajimis, I can trudge through it. But it suprised me how well the story was written, even though it had only above average actors.

Samurai High School - intentionally cheesy, but man, was it entertaining. Sure part of the reason was because there was an osananajimi LI, but hey, in the end, I was watching it for Samurai-san lol

Hataraki Man - this was good, don't get me wrong, but I think I prefer the anime version. I just love Tanaka Rie's voice, that's all lol

Mei-chan no Shitsuji - was a bit disappointed here. Wasn't nearly as interesting as Hana Yori Dango or HanaKimi (friends told me it was in the same vein as those two), but I guess it's ok. I dunno, lead female wasn't nearly as intersting as either, while the male lead in the former was a character I love to hate, and the one in the latter is the type I just can NOT hate lol. In here, the male lead was just too perfect that I found him boring.