I’ve decided to pick up “Ato 3-kai, Kimi ni Aeru” (literally, “I can only see you 3 more times”), a drama SP that stars Yamamoto Mizuki. Script by Oshima Satomi (Nagi no Oitoma, Sayonara made no 30-pun, Kimi to 100-kai me no koi) and directed by Hagiwara Kentaro (Sayonara made no 30-pun). I watched it …
I’ll be picking up the Winter 2020 drama “Boku dake ga 17 sai no sekai de” starring Sano Hayato and Iitoyo Marie. This drama is produced by Fujino Ryota who gave us Suikyuu Yankees, Koinaka, Sukikoto and Good Doctor, among others. There seem to be some time-travel element in it so I was interested the …
We will be picking up the NHK 8-episode drama “Densetsu no Okaasan” (The Legendary Mother) starring Maeda Atsuko. Chiaki will be translating for this series. We aren’t sure if we’ll have decent raws to work with for all the eps, but we’ll try our best! *Please note that this is a low priority project. Synopsis …
I’ll be picking up the 8-episode jdrama “Sousa Kaigi wa Living de!” (The Investigation Meeting is in the Living Room!) starring Mizuki Arisa and Tanabe Seiichi. It was aired on NHK BS Premium in Summer 2018. Synopsis (from jdramas.wordpress.com): Morikawa Shoko is a detective with the Criminal Investigations Department’s Special Unit but disguises herself as …
[23 Jan 2020] UPDATE: This project has been dropped. I feel bad for the rest of the cast and staff, and the drama itself, who are innocent and dragged into this mess, especially Kiritani Kenta who shares the lead. But I can’t continue working on this anymore, not in the near future at least, unless …
We’ll be picking up the MBS drama “Nee Sensei, Shiranai no?” starring Baba Fumika and Akaso Eiji, a live-action adaptation of the manga by Asano Aya. If you liked the cinematography in Coffee & Vanilla, you’ll probably like this as well as it’s basically the same team working on this one 🙂 Chiaki will be …
So I’m picking up a current season drama after all lol. “Follow Saretara Owari” is a suspense drama on the dark side of social media. It started streaming on Abema last month and will have a total of 16 x 15-mins episodes. This is Okada Kenshi’s first lead in a drama series, and screenplay is …
Tadaima~~ I’m back from my 3-week long trip and have decided to pick up this drama from last year, called “Shufu Katsu!”. Aired on NHK BS Premium in Fall 2018, this drama is loosely based on Cynthia Usui’s book “Eight things Full-Time Housewives Should Do Before Entering the Workforce” and is -as the book title …
I was going through the list of movies that will be released on blu-ray & dvd next month and there are a few that I’m interested in picking up, but I’ll focus on these three first, the ones I’m most interested in ➠ 11/6 – KINGDOM Yamazaki Kento, Yoshizawa Ryo, Nagasawa Masami, Hashimoto Kanna, Hongo …
I’ll be working on the drama SP “Fly! Boys, Fly!” starring Nagase Ren. This special is directed by Shinjo Takehiko who did movies like ‘Your Lie in April’ and ‘Daytime Shooting Star’ 🙂 Synopsis (by Asianwiki): When Chikara Asakawa (Ren Nagase) was a child, he travelled with his parents and boarded an airplane. He got …