Hana Kimi

Title: Hana Kimi

Original title: hua yang shao nian shao nü

Country: Taiwan

Genre: TV Drama

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 15 + 1 Special

Duration: 95min/ep

Air date: 19 Nov, 2006 - 04 Mar, 2007

Actors: Chen Jia Hua, Wu Zun, Wang Dong Cheng

Plot:

Rui Xi is a girl who's attending to a boarding school for boys only.

The reason why is that she has a crush on a high jumper named Quan, so she's a exchange student from America.

She shares a room with Quan, her guy friend thinks he's gay because he's in love with her.

And finally, Quan finds out that she's a girl and keeps it to himself...

Review:

I admit, when I saw the first episode I was convinced that this drama would be bad, awful, and so on.

But since I'm giving everything a chance, I realized that the drama just became better and better.

It really surprised me, but I fell in love with this drama.

Rui Xi was the one who annoyed me the most.

God, I just wanted to slap her face everytime she cried, which was alot.

She cried about everything, and she's a stalker too.

Following Quan around like a little puppy.

And listening to conversations that she shouldn't have done.

I was very surprised why everyone thought she was cute and wonderful.

She looked like a guy and was annoying as hell.

I don't get that.

I admire Quan that he actually can stand her.

And like her as well.

I really liked him, he was kind, and I like the way he teases Rui Xi.

And his smile, it made me have a crush on him, haha.

I love that he's so caring and funny.

He's my favorite character in this drama.

Xiu Yi is the guy who thinks he's gay because he's in love with Rui Xi.

At first he was really cute, funny and awesome, but when episodes passed by, he turned into a creepy guy who told Rui Xi that he came out of the closet.

But that's not why he's creepy, it's because it wasn't enough for him to tell Rui Xi about his feelings, no.

He had to creep her out and trying to make her gay too.

He was expecting her to kiss him and stuff without even care what she thought about him.

Maybe the two of them would make a perfect couple though, since both of them is stalking who they love and are weird, haha.

Mei Tian is the school doctor who is gay for real.

He was the one who found out about Rui Xi's true gender first.

you have to get used to him if you're going to like him.

He's kinda mean sometimes, but I really like him.

And he has funny ways to trick Rui Xi to either do something or make her go away, haha.

There is more wonderful characters, but I really can't mention them all.

But that doesn't mean that I don't like them.

This drama has become one of my favorites, and it's unexpected if you watch the first episode... it's really bad.

Anyhow, I would give this drama 5 stars, but it wouldn't feel right when the firt episode sucked badly.

So I'm only going to give this drama 4 stars instead.

If you start to watch it, don't give up after only the first episode, give it a chance and watch at least five episodes before you decide it's bad or not.

4/5: 

Heavenly Forest

Title: Heavenly Forest

Original title: tada, kimi wo aishiteru (ただ、君を愛してる)

Country: Japan

Genre: Drama, Romance

Duration: 116 minutes

Released: October 28, 2006

Actors: Tamaki Hiroshi, Miyazaki Aoi

Plot:

Makoto is a guy who hates big crowds and decides to skip the opening ceremony for the university freshmen.

Thanks to that he sees a girl who tries to cross over the street, without any luck.

They slowly become really good friends, and Makoto teaches the girl, Shizuru, to photograph.

Review:

I wasn't impressed by the beginning, it felt more like "Okay, this might be a good movie, and it might not".

Though I really wanted to see how it ended, and I actually was surprised by the ending.

I'm used to these kind of movies, but since it didn't say anything like this in the description, I wasn't prepared.

And it's a good thing, or else this movie wouldn't have been as good as it was.

Makoto is a guy who has a skin disease and thinks that his medicine smells.

Thanks to that he usually wants to be alone.

He's really cute in his behaviour; shy but still can say words correctly.

I really liked him, though he couldn't see his feelings until it was too late.

Hate when that happens...

Shizuru felt a bit childish, but the explanation came in the end.

I admit that I though she was a bit annoying, and her mood could go from very sad to really happy.

Which I felt really confused by, haha.

She's really cute though, and she wasn't afraid of anything.

This movie was nothing as I had expected.

Somehow I always pick these kind of movies without even knowing it.

It was really great though, would never have thought it when I watched the beginning.

It was a cute, sad story that really made me connect with the characters.

This movie is worth four stars out of five.

4/5: 

The Beast and the Beauty

Title: The Beast and the Beauty

Original title: yasuwa minyeo (야수와 미녀)

Country: Korea

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Duration: 101 minutes

Released: October 27, 2005

Actors: Ryu Seung Beom, Sin Min A, Kim Gang U

Plot:

Hae Ju is a blind beautiful girl that sees her surroundings through her boyfriend's eyes.

Her boyfriend, Dong Geon, has a low self esteem and therefore described his looks as the popular boy, Jun Ha, from high school.

When Hae Ju gets a call from the doctor that she could have eye surgery, she's thrilled, but Dong Geon.. not so much.

He lies to his girlfriend and says that he has work to do in Hawaii, but instead he tries to get plastic surgery that doesn't work too well.

In the meanwhile Hae Ju bumps into Jun Ha and believes that he's her boyfriend at first...

Review:

I've only seen three movies that made me say "wtf" out loud, first movie: I'm a cyborg but that's OK.

The second one: The Doll Master.

And the third one is this one.

I guess it's just a coincidence that all three of them comes from Korea?

Actually I think that I've seen more weird movies from Korea.

Anyhow, I didn't like this movie so much, although I laughed at some parts just because it was just too much.

It felt so unreal that even vampires would be more real.

I really hoped this movie would be better, the plot seemed really interesting.

I don't think Dong Geon looked ugly or like a monster, I really think that he was overreacting.

Well, everyone was overreacting.

I really felt sorry for him though, it couldn't have been easy to think that it was unforgivable to lie about his looks and also think that his girlfriend would have been so superficial.

He wasn't a strong character though, but to his defence none of them were.

Hae Ju was really loud and whiny, but I guess it's better than keeping everything to herself.

And wow she was strong, it felt that she could move a truck if she wanted to, haha.

Unfortunately it's also the only thing that's strong about her.

Jun Ha was one of two characters that made me say "wtf" the most.

He's really got anger issues and is used to get what he wants.

He reminds me of a baby sometimes.

Though he really came through in the end.

He was noble enough to finally give other their happiness.

Do Sik was the other character that made me say "wtf" alot.

He was very random, and the ending scene, well like I said wtf?

It's funny that you know everything about him with just one word, and that is: Random.

I don't even have to say what he's like because that's enough.

Even though this movie is weird and random and weird again, it's still worth watching.

Especially if you want to think "wtf" all the time, haha.

I don't know if I should give it two stars or three.

And I really don't want to make a half star in photoshop right now.

But since I don't feel generous at the moment, I'll give this movie two stars.

2/5: