Maya

10 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

don't really like the FL's act cute either

She might not be cutesy this time, fighting with Sang Yan a lot. 😅 In First Frost there wouldn't be much appearances of Sang Zhi, though I hope they'd include in the drama the first time kiddo SZ meets Wen Yi Fan. 🙂 The second time they'd actually talk would be when SY brings SZ to the rented flat he and WYF stays. This would be just before SZ goes to Yi He uni.

On 3/14/2024 at 3:03 PM, mademoiselle said:

Oh noooo! They re-cast Jia Xu and Sang Zhi too!

I think CZY and ZLS are also filming other projects. 😅 Apparently there are new C-ent rules now of no overlapping of projects to avoid scheduling disruptions and conflicts in the set.

It would have been lovely though if they could make cameos. Their replacements however are also OK - Zhang Miao Yi was the FL of When I Fly Towards You, another novel of Zhu Yi adapted into drama, the author of HL and FF. She's a cutie like ZLS. 

@SilverMoonTea I didn't realise they started shooting FF though I've heard a month or so ago it's BJT as Sang Yan. Did they have a booting ceremony?

On 1/5/2024 at 7:27 PM, SilverMoonTea said:

Maya I'm super surprised you know him. He's super good on My Second Aoharu.

I know him in his 2021 BL romcom Kieta Hatsukoi. The other ML is Ren Meguro, who has become one of my favourites after seeing his movie Watashi No Shiawase Na Kekkon, and dramas 「silent」and Trillion Game. 

Look at these two cuties! 

I haven't watched other dramas of Michieda though I've seen some clips of his other projects. Someday I want to see him as the villain in a psycho thriller. He has such a wholesome face, a plus to mess up viewers if he takes that kind of role. 

Topic 13. A memorable scene from a drama I watched 

1. Breakdown scenes of Sang Zhi at the airport, and Duan Jia Xu's father's death in Hidden Love.

Memorable for me cos I wasn't certain if they would be able to make the viewers feel the raw emotions of heart being broken and losing someone without closure; it wasn’t merely crying. And they delivered. ❤️ 

2. First meeting of Sou and Tsumigi 8 years after they broke up in「silent」.💔😭

3. First confrontation of the two MLs in Under the Skin.

Topic 14. An actor/actress who made a good impression

1. Ren Meguro

2. Liu Haoran

3  Tan Jian Ci

4. Chen Zhe Yuan

5. Michieda Shunsuke

6. Mio Imada

7. Haruna Kawaguchi

8. Ryohei Abe

9. Watanabe Shota

On 12/27/2023 at 5:15 AM, Tofu said:

I really liked this movie too. Have you seen this fan made video of their story? I thought it captured everything so beautifully.

Yep! Fans are so talented with their editing! This is one of my favourite edits, cos it's a mesh of the two roles of the ML and FL, with a song about fireflies and dragons. 

More Ren Meguro worship while listening to the movie theme, hehehe!

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Someone who could be the best villain, but unfortunately a missed opportunity to explore more of her character in the drama, would have to be the obsessed stalker of Duan Jia Xu.

Then there are the villains that make up "Q" in the drama and movies franchise of Detective Chinatown.

And... Tan Jian Ci's Shen Yi in Under The Skin - he is also his own best enemy.

Happy Holidays!

Sorry for being late to the discussion. 😅 Will be answering in general, which hopefully covers the topics. 😆

My dramas and movies journey this year were mostly Chinese the first half, then Japanese the rest of it.

I'm glad that the drama adaptation of Hidden Love has been well-received and there was a clamour of Sang Yan's story to be shot and shown soon. Zhao Lusi and Chen Zhe Yuan were adorable and believable as Sang Zhi and Duan Jia Xu; there were some scenes though that regrettably didn't make the final cut. Also, even if Victor Ma was great as ideal sibling Sang Yan in the drama, part of me prefers that the true Sang Yan, the thug, uncompromising, and darkly secretive brother in the novels, would have been more interesting to watch.

For movies I've seen all three Detective Chinatown, discovering the impressive Liu Haoran. Young as he is, he's heaps better than many seasoned older actors who are more often than not stuck in one kind of role one drama after another, perhaps due to still relying more on their looks but remains meh when it comes to acting.

I've also seen the 12 eps drama version of Detective Chinatown, which was fun for me to watch since a couple characters are dead ringers to two friends. The three stories of cases to be solved were very entertaining since not only the movie leads appear, the timelines for all the leads be it drama or movie versions on when they're off to their adventures are covered.

I've also seen Under the Skin, another mystery genre Cdrama which I've thoroughly enjoyed since it touches on forensic art. Tan Jian Ci and Jin Shijia were perfect for their roles as artist and police detective. More of their bromance in season 2!

The release of the animated series of a novel and manga I've been reading last August rekindled my childhood adoration of Japanese shows. 😊

From this anime:

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I patiently waited for the live action movie, which was, for some months since early this year, I've been seeing the released promo clips in YT every now and then.

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The story of the ML and FL played by Ren Meguro and Mio Imada was so beautifully portrayed! 😍 

And then, they reunited in Trillion Game drama! 🤩 This time, as antagonists! 🤣

The drama that made Ren Meguro one of my favourite, must watch actors though would be Silent.

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This drama is very unique and deserving of the multiple awards it received, and acting awards for the main and support cast.

This drama, had me crying my eyes out in almost all of its 11 episodes. You'd understand from this YT clip link:

https://youtu.be/n555J6pJHcM?feature=shared

I've seen two more movies of Ren Meguro, Phases of the Moon, and him with his idol group mates Snow Man in the live action Osomatsu-kun. For both movies he also received acting awards. Then there's also his light romcom Kieta Hatsukoi with Naniwa Danshi idol Michieda Sunsuke.

I didn't really watch much, and thankfully none of what I've seen made me feel regretful. If anything, I've really enjoyed the time spent seeing these dramas and movies.

I'm having a bit of hesitation to watch live action Yu Yu Hakusho, though I still plan to do so before the year is over. I still can't wrap in my head how a 112 eps anime series is only 5 episodes for its drama adaptation. 

After watching Osomatsu-san Live Action 😆

Here's the main cast of 6 brothers and 3 storyline enders, practice dancing "Brother Beat", OST of the movie:

Official MV:

Trillion Game [Toririon Gemu] (2023)

Cr: @trillion_tbs

Two old friends go into business together – one's a master communicator, and the other's a great engineer. Their goal? To make a trillion dollars. (Netflix - Trillion Game)

Starring: Ren Meguro, Hayato Sano, Mio Imada

Catchy ending theme "Dangerholic" for Trillion Game is by Snow Man. 🙂

Watashi No Shiawase Na Kekkon (2023)

[My Happy Marriage/As Long As We Both Shall Live]

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"Born to a noble family, Miyo (Mio Imada) is raised by her abusive stepmother and married off to Kiyoka (Ren Meguro), a soldier so heartless his prior fiancées fled within three days into their engagement. With no home to return to, Miyo slowly starts to open her heart to her cold and pale husband-to-be, despite their rocky introduction... This might just be her chance at finding true love and happiness." (IMDB)

First singer is the ML of the movie. 😊 

The OST/ BGM of Japanese 2022 drama "Silent".

"Tsumugi Aoba (Haruna Kawaguchi) fell in love with Sou Sakura (Ren Meguro), who attended the same high school. They both shared an interest in music. Their relationship got deeper and deeper, but, suddenly, Sou Sakura said goodbye to her without giving a reason for their break-up and he disappeared.

"Eight years later, Tsumugi Aoba is now in Tokyo and works part-time at a large CD music store. She is surrounded by music she likes. One day, she happens to see Sou Sakura. She wants to talk to him, but she realizes that he has almost lost his hearing." (AsianWiki: Silent)

9 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

don't mind if Victor Ma reprise the role. I can already imagine his facial expressions from all of this. The exasperation. The frustration she doesn't remember it at all the next day. Hahahaha!

It would be darn funny, LOL! WYF doesn't remember nor aware of what she's doing to him, and ehem, blue in frustration SY, will not respond in kind either. 😅

9 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

But it is weird to bobo people in sleepwalking though. The action should be linked to the cause but hers being bobo doesn't... unless she's... ahem, you know. LOL.

She likes him a lot too, but by nature she is prim and then made even more timid by her trash relatives. There's boldness in her though, otherwise she can't be that confident dancer who takes the stage? 😉 What she wants to do but will never do to him while awake, she does while asleep. 🙃

4 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

I can imagine his frustration but still, scores! Is it a bobo or a passionate long kiss (and sometimes french)? There's a difference 😆

Bobo 😅 Began with hugs, then bobo kisses to him and hugs, and then LOL, later on, she would also sometimes invade Sang Yan's room and steal Sang Yan's bed real estate. 🤣 All while sleepwalking.

WYF sleepwalks by 3am when she's too emotionally bothered or stressed (usually by her estranged parent and relatives) the day before. 

10 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

That sleepwalking + kiss bit is just... LOL. Sang Yan scores big time! 

But only Sang Yan would remember, hahaha! 

Whoever would be Wen Yi Fan in First Frost should be beautiful enough to mesmerise little Sang Zhi, and make young Sang Yan fall for her and stay in love with her for many years. 😉

Also she should be able to act convincingly 

On 7/30/2023 at 7:27 AM, mademoiselle said:

Haha! I am re-watching HL again from the start. Still not over it. Are you?

Aww, sorry for replying late. I'm gonna see GPG2, just a bit busy these days to indulge in binge watching. 😔 I would certainly watch, to see how much of her "dada mama" is Qi Pa. 😅

2 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Regretfully it won't tie back to HL very well if they don't use Victor Ma. As in, they can't use any scenes with Victor in it.

Yes, that's a possibility. Or even if there's a new SY, they can't redo in FF the same scenes that appeared in HL. But since both stories are in same production house, there shouldn't be problems.

2 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Maybe they'll cast a completely different pairing of DJX and SZ too. 😥

True, but for this I doubt it would happen, cos CZY and ZL owned their roles, and fans can sway the drama investors to cast the same artists for the drama. It happened before in Eternal Love of Dream. The 2nd leads in Eternal Love reprised their roles as leads in Eternal Love of Dream partly due to viewers' "demands".

3 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

It would definitely be nice to be able to see HL couple reprise their roles! That'd be more incentives for me to pick up FF. Hahaha!

Ahahaha, same with me! There should be cameos like when SY first brought little SZ to meet WYF, SY takes SZ in the rented flat he shares with WYF, or DJX helping Mrs Sang in the kitchen while mother and son verbally fights why SZ isn't asked to help cook, LOL!

3 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Another day of missing the drama and CZY. But I can't believe his new drama will air tomorrow! It's too soon, I'm not ready to watch him romancing another woman!

I'm watching Detective Chinatown 3 movie right now to catch a glimpse of the 2 geges in fancy costumes, hahaha!

3 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

What copyright problems?

If another company produces it, there might be scenes from first drama that can't be used or done again in the following drama even if those happened in both stories. For example, the scenes SY found out who's the guy SZ is dating, him beating up DJX, and him staying in DJX's flat. In FF, these are also in the story. If it isn't Youku producing FF, and if rights aren't granted to re-use or rehash these scenes in FF produced by another, then FF will either not include or make up non-canon scenes that will make SY find out about SZ and DJX.

13 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

I saw one yesterday, plus the fans are also releasing their version of fan taken scenes. LOL

There were so many fans in the shooting sites while filming HL! 😅 

10 hours ago, NiteWalker said:

they need to give us this deleted scenes!!!!

High five! Maybe Youku can do a director's cut edition for HL anniversary? 

I'm still amazed how so close to the novel the drama is. I thought before that 90% same, but now it's more like 95%. The tweaks, like the age and not smoking, were also very reasonable. I'm also glad to hear that First Frost will also be by Youku, so there should be no issues of made up filler scenes to avoid copyrights problems...It'd be awesome if most of the HL cast that are also in FF story reprise their roles. 

@mademoiselle Yep, they were really sitting together in this deleted scene... 😅 

5 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

They sort of releases the movie scene, have you seen it (LINK)? I think this scene happened directly after they had lunch together with Sang Yan because Jia Xu still has the bruise on his face.

Yeah, I saw it in YT last night. 😍

Between SY and DJX overnight at the office scene, it would have been better for this movie scene to be included for the viewers. However, given that BL nuances aren't exactly tolerated, them DJX and SY ending up sitting together in that double seat no matter how funny it is, won't do with those who've the power to release or shelve the project. 

5 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

I think it's a good amount of episodes.

I think so too, that (mostly) the scenes that didn't make the cut didn't alter the story nor change how viewers regard the OP. I feel 25 eps are also enough, unless there's a housewarming, a wedding, time lapse with their kiddos, and a preview of SY's love life in the extra episode. 😅

On 7/8/2023 at 5:18 PM, mademoiselle said:

and why they omitted this scene? I was looking forward to it!

I hear you! The guys and gals doing the promos should really get in touch with the editing team so that there'll be no viewers asking where are those scenes in the trailers and posters! 😬

HL was only supposed to be 24 eps, but at least 1 more ep was added when it was approved for airing. A good number of netizens are grumbling and even blaming another upcoming Youku drama why HL is too short. 😅

I'm watching the Netflix version, cos I'm not yet over SZ, DJX, and SY, LOL!  

1 hour ago, mademoiselle said:

Why does Sang Yan know so much about confinement centre? Is Yi Fan pregnant?

Ahahaha, two possible reasons:

1. Our devoted boy looked that far ahead ever since they rented the same apartment;

2. And, ahem, it's because he and WYF are intimate from that time in Yihe (when SY suprise visited SZ).

SY introduced WYF to his parents some time after DJX started his business in Nanwu. He doesn't want anymore blind dates arranged for him, hahaha!

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

I was hoping to see if there will be a scene of Sang Yan talking to his parents, like Maya mentioned, but looks like this has been omitted.

Happened in Ep25, when he sat with DJX ala face the parents, but SY didn't really have speaking lines. I wish the script allowed SY to voice his objections over the parents' hang-ups on DJX's familial background.

I'd rate the drama 8.5/10 over-all for being so close to the novel, excellent casting choices, and the final editing which included "flashback/background scenes" at the end of each episodes. Moreover, I'm quite happy that from the original 24, the drama was allowed 25 eps which meant there are more eye candies for viewers. 😊

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Regretfully I actually didn't find the kisses as hot as the ones before, plus what happened to the hot kiss after the dinner and on the way home. The BTS version was so much more passionate! Arghhhh.

Same, sigh. Times like this, I kinda wish that the drama is for more mature audiences. Then there would have been, ehem, for one thing, shower scenes. 😅

8 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

First, being him, pretending to be strong/ok and breaking down when Sang Zhi offered him a hug. The endured sobbing and tears flowing out of his big eyes one by one was awesomely well done! Thumbs up + approval from me!

OMO, CZY's crying DJX was so raw and full of pain. The scene was perfectly built up, from being stoic as he talked to his father one last time, to finally breaking down once SZ takes him in her arms.