Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Full House

Full House is a romance, comedy Korean TV Series. It starred one of the known korean star Bi or also known internationally as Rain and the the star of the drama series Endless Love Song Hye Kyo.

Full House attempts to answer the question whether two people, one is a famous actor and another is just an ordinary woman, can learn to love each other after a marriage that is agreed only on paper. Also, it shows the meaning of the family by showing that no matter how hard the present may seem still it is great to keep being alive because of our family who bring hopes into our lives.

This romance-comedy series shows diverse characters such as: considerate, caring, frank, patient, and sticking to life’s basic values. But no matter how different the personalities, everyone finds happiness in the end.


Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Boys Over Flowers

Boys over Flowers is the third television drama adaptation of the popular Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango. It is a drama and romantic comedy series created by Kamio Yoko.

It stared Geo Hye Sun as Geum Jan Di; and Lee Min Ho, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Bum, and Kim Joon as F4 Goo Joon Pyo, Yoon Ji Hoo, So Yi Jung, and Song Woo Bin respectively.

This is a story of an average girl Jan Di who met the four richest and most spoiled and powerful boys known as the F4. Jan Di who stands by her decision to fight the F4 due their bullying acts became the only one who stood up to F4 specially with their leader Jun Pyo. Eventually, as Jan Di spends more time with F4 Jun Pyo develops feelings towards her but Jan Di's eyes is into someone else. But as Jan Di teaches Jun Pyo a lot of things Jun Pyo also teaches Jan Di to learn to open herself to his love as well.

I can't compare Boys over Flowers to other adaptation as I didn't really had the time to watch the other two before. I've seen some of the episodes of the Taiwanese and Japanese Series but I didn't watched the whole thing. Personally, I love watching this adapatation than the others due to the casting as I found the Korean cast more high school like than the cast of other adaptation, plus the fast roll of the story. With the cast I love Lee Min Ho and Kim Bum. They have different charm that you will love to watch.

There are a lot of reasons to watch Boys over Flowers, first the love story of Jan Di and Jun Pyo; its progress and the problems that they will encounter. Plus the love story of Jan Di's best friend Ga Eul and one of the members of F4 Yi Jung.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Gokusen Series

Gokusen series revolves with the story of a granddaughter of a Yakuza boss. She's been with her father since her parents died and that became Kumiko as the next in line to head the family business as "Ojou".

Kumiko's life long dream is to become a teacher. Her grandfather approves it but the others in the family wanted her to take over and become their next boss.

Gokusen Series 1:

Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) is a young, idealistic teacher. She enters Shirokin Gakuen and become the homeroom teacher of 3-D. Section 3-D is the hardest to maintain class in the school. The principal let her to be their teacher as long as no one will ever know about her family background, her being the 4th generation to the Ooedp Group. The students in this section have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, absolutely NO respect to her.

Sawada Shin is the leader of the class. He is lazy but bright. He shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he become aware of her difference from other teachers. The class tried to bully her to make her quit but their attempts didn’t make anything. Yamaguchi encounter different types of students and learned about their background and help them out to graduate as a whole class. She struggle as they struggle and join them with all the pains and fun they will experience.

Eventually the class learned to respect Yamaguchi and gave her a nickname “Yankumi”.

Gokusen Series 2: (This is my favorite among the three series.)

Shirokin Gakuen has been closed. Yankumi finds herself a job as a teacher of a few kids who doesn’t really benefit with her style of teaching. Through some twist of fate she was offered a job as a teacher in Kurogin Gakuen.

She was assigned to be the advisory teacher of the delinquent 3-D class. Her previous students became angels compare to this new set of students that she’s handling. On her first day she discovered that one of her student, Odagiri Ryu (Kamenashi Kazuya) has not been going to school. And when she asked, she was told that Odagiri has caused problems in the school and that Odagiri’s father and the school had a meeting and agreed that Odagiri will not go to school but still he will graduate. Yankumi don’t like this kind of set up and so she did everything for him to go back to school not knowing that there is conflict between Odagiri Ryu (Kamenashi Kazuya) and Yabuki Hayato (Akanishi Jin). They are the best of friends that became enemies due to a misunderstanding.

The stories of the students have been revealed and lots of lessons have been shared. Such stories are from the students namely Takeda Keita (Koike Teppei), Tsuchiya Hikaru (Hayami Mokomichi), and Hyuuga Kosuke (Koide Keisuke).

Gokusen Series 3: (I like Takaki Yuya. He’s sooo Kawaii.)

Sawatari Goro (Namase Katsuhisa) told the director of Akadou High School that he had an experience on handling delinquent students. And so he was assigned to be the advisory teacher of class 3-D yet it shows that he can’t really handles those guys and so he recommend Yamaguchi Kumiko (Nakama Yukie) to be the teacher of class 3-D as he know what’s she’s capable of as they’ve been colleagues.

Sawatari Goro searched for Yankumi and he found her in a far away land waiting for a bus as she has been fired from her job as a teacher to foreign students. Sawatari and Yankumi agreed that she will be a teacher as long as she will not reveal her family background.

On her first day, she thought that Ogata Yamato (Takaki Yuya) was the leader of the class but Kazama Ren (Miura Haruma) and his gang comes in and all of the students salute on him like he is the captain of the class. She found out that Yamato and Ren has been the leaders since they are grade 1 and now they are on the same class and no one wants to come down as the leader. But, Yankumi will not settle for a class that is divided and so she did everything for the two groups unite and became one.