Jiro literally broke my heart and shattered in into little Ah Jin sized pieces. Ariel won Best Actress at the Golden Bells for TKA (They Kiss Again), but I thought Joe in ISWAK and especially Jiro was just as good. But sometimes a bit of a revision would have been nice. The only frustrating thing was how good of an actor Ariel is, so that her version of Kotoko was so utterly stupid and dumb as a rock but perfectly capturing the manga original. Nothing at all from directing, writing, acting to music. There is nothing to nitpick about this version. Settle back and enjoy the delicate and wonderfully realized chemistry between Jung So Min and Kim Hyun Joong, and even his acting limitations doesn’t take away from it.
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Plus there are the bite-sized 7 Youtube episodes as dessert afterwards. Go in with an open mind, it’s a cute high school drama that actually tells good lesson by the end. For those who have never seen it, I like to suggest watching it in one go now and I think the episodes and story will flow so much better without the week-to-week wait. I never thought I’d have another opportunity to write about PK since it ended nearly four years ago and goodness it’s been so long! Back then it had a small but rabid fandom but its narrative blips did made it a slow go for the casual drama watcher. PK was the first drama I recapped and it will forever hold a special place in my heart for being so sadly lacking in technique but so utterly captivating in spirit.
What is Your Favorite Itazura na Kiss Cast and Characters Playful Kiss MV “Breathess” (Part 1) and “Just the Way You Are” (Part 2):Now have some fun watching an MV from each version and then take a poll and let the winner forever be validated.įavorite versions of the cast and characters: icy but smirky Baek Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong), earnest but dim Oh Ha Ni (Jung So Min), manly and forward Joon Gu Lee Tae Sang).īest version of the characters: aloof and exasperated Jiang Zhi Shu (Joe Cheng), stupid and means well Yuan Xiang Qin (Ariel Lin), bumbling and sweet Ah Jin (Jiro Wang). After all is watched and done, my heart will always belong with PK while my appreciation will forever be award to ISWAK. In the end, I’m glad Japan did their own ItaKiss again because the original back in 1996 was really terrible then and dated now. I watched InK:LiT intermittently and it never burrowed into my heart the way Playful Kiss did nor did it really wow me with its technique and acting the way It Started with a Kissdid. I found rookie actress Honoko Miki a serviceable Kotoko but she’s not a very good actress and it shows, whereas I am truly baffled by how much love there is for Furukawa Yuki (he is so popular in C-fandom right now it’s crazy) as Naoki because he’s a good actor but physically he just doesn’t cut it for me as the school stud Naoki. I confess that the latest version Love in Tokyo never hooked me, despite being a lovely fun version that tried so hard to capture the original story and essence.
Now that Love in Tokyo has wrapped up, let this be a forum for discussion on which version was your favorite, which Naoki and Kotoko and Kin-chan was your favorite, and which performances was your favorite. I concede all of the above, but even knowing this I still liked watching the various ItaKiss dramas. The narrative is rather childish and simplistic, and the message behind it all fairly screams for feminists to want to rip the heroine’s hair out for being such a doormat. The story of a really dense and not particularly bright high school girl with the most gigantic crush on the smartest and best looking boy in school seems anathema to the repeated cycles of remaking it. It’s sweet, pink, and goes down easy, but a little too much could make it cloying, and not enough oomph makes it bland. I look at the various drama adaptations of the Japanese manga Itazura na Kiss(It Started with a Kiss) as basically different ice-cream shops doing their own strawberry ice-cream. Everyone has their own favorite flavor of ice-cream, and even the exact same flavor of ice-cream can taste different despite the same basic ingredients of milk and sugar.
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