Sunday, November 26, 2006

The Book of Three Han


The Book of Three Han (2006)
Korean Drama

Director: Lee Joo Hwan

Cast:
Han Hye Jin - Soh Suh No
Song Il Gook - Ju Mong
Kim Seung Soo - Dae So
Hu Joon Ho - Hae Mo Su

Genre: Period

Episodes: 60

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Summary: Ju-Mong, the founder of the Goguryeo Dynasty in 37 BC, and Soh Suh No is extremely intelligent and is King Ju Mong's second wife.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Friday, November 24, 2006

Come Back Soon


Come Back Soon (2006)
Korean Drama

Cast:
Shim Hye Jin - Huh Soon Ae
Park Jin Hee - Han Cho Eun
Yoon Da Hoon - Yoon Il Suk
Lee Jae Hwang - Jang Hyun Woo

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Episodes: 16

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 25, 2006

Summary: For once, something a little fresh, at least by K-Drama standards. We're talking body exchange, which has been done many times on the big screen, but rarely on Korean TV. The idea of Park Jin-Hee playing an Ajumma and Shim Hye-Jin going into sexy mode sounds just about right (the initial setup is the opposite, obviously), and if the script builds on the interesting outline, this could be fun.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

The Snow Queen


The Snow Queen (2006)
Korean Drama

Cast:
Hyun Bin - Han Tae Woong
Sung Yu Ri - Kim Bo Ra
Im Ju Hwan - Suh Gun Woo
Yoo In Young - Lee Seung Ri

Genre: Tragedy, Romance

Episodes: 16

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 24, 2006

Playlist 2

Summary
: A boxer who was previously a genius, and a rich girl who has a serious illness. Despite appearing not to have any connection, they are similar. Nothing can melt their heart of ice. What is the sunlight that can melt their frozen heart? If the answer is love, is it too cliche? Tae Woong`s love melted the heart of the ice princess, Bo Ra. Although this winter will be very cold and scary, winter is not the end of the seasons, but the beginning of the hope for a greater love.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Thursday, November 23, 2006

To Grow with Love


To Grow with Love (2006)
Taiwanese Drama

Cast:
Myolie Wu - Ho Mei Tin
Andy Hui - Tai He

Genre: Romance

Episodes: 22

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 23, 2006 NO ENGLISH SUBS

Summary: Ho Mei Tin is an overweight daughter to a wealthy man in the Philippines. Worried for her daughter's future, Mei Tin's father searches for and finds what he believes to be an ideal life partner for her daughter. However, unable to feel anything for her husband-to-be, the idealistic Mei Tin runs off to Hong Kong. Life in Hong Kong is totally different from the life she left. People are more materialistic, and appearances are everything. Mei Tin's weight makes her the object of ridicule from Tai He especially, the owner of the store she will eventually work in in her time in Hong Kong.

Tai He is a successful designer and the owner of several chain stores selling his own design brand. A perfectionist, he feels that appearances are everything and anyone unable to take care of their own appearance cannot be trusted to take care of anything important.

Quarrels and misunderstandings are the norm between the two polar opposites, and Tai He made life a living hell for Mei Tin who could only shoulder them to keep the job she needs to pay for her living expenses in Hong Kong.

A strange turn of events brings the two together in the Philippines. An accident leaves Tai He with memory loss and Mei Tin, who has since returned to her father, turns out to be the one to shelter him. Still sore about her treatment at his hands in Hong Kong, she plays a prank on Tai He by convincing him that he is her boyfriend.

The memory-less Tai He however, stripped of the defensive shell he placed to protect himself, begins to show another side of him that is not all too different from Mei Tin. What started as a simple prank turns into real romance and Mei Tin begins to worry about how things will turn out when Tai He eventually regains his memory...

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Tokyo Wankei


Tokyo Wankei (2004)
Japanese Drama

Cast:
Nakama Yukie
Wada Toshihiro
Wada Toshihiro
Nakamura Shunsuke
Nakamura Toru
Sato Eriko
Sato Ryuta
Sonim
Hayami Mokomichi
Aikawa Sho
Natsuyagi Isao
Ishizaka Koji

Genre: Drama

Episodes: 11

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 23, 2006

Summary: Coming from a wealthy family, Mika has always had everything she has ever wanted and more. She is a third-generation Korean living in Japan. She loves her job, and her Japanese boyfriend is a doctor.

There's one thing that bothers Mika though... Her father Masao is very conscious of his ethnic heritage and will allow Mika to marry only a Korean. When her relationship falls apart because of her father's interference, she just happens to post the above message on a mobile phone dating service.

Ryosuke, a blue-collar warehouse worker at Shinagawa Pier, replies to Mika's message.

Daiba and Shinagawa Pier are separated by Tokyo Bay. Mika is a career woman working at a major firm. Ryosuke lives a meager life doing manual labor at a warehouse. There seems to be nothing in common between the two. Still, destiny brings them together.

One day Mika happens to find her late mother Yuri's diary. Written within is the tale of Yuri's concealed relationship with a Japanese man before she married Masao. Mika finds out her mother's hidden past and her passion for the man she loved. Without knowing it, she is about to follow the same path as her mother.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

The Queen's Classroom


The Queen's Classroom (2005)
Japanese Drama

Cast:
Amami Yuki - Akutsu Maya
Hada Michiko - Kanda Shoko
Hara Sachie - Tendou Shiori
Omi Toshinori - Kanda Takeshi

Genre: Drama, School

Episodes: 11

Playlist COMPLETE and PRIVATE as of Nov. 23, 2006

Summary: Yuki Amami plays Maya Akutsu, a sixth-grade teacher who dresses all in black and is repeatedly referred to as "oni sensei" (the teacher from hell), when, in fact, she seems to be an ultrarealist at heart. The drama focuses on a year in her classroom and, particularly, the effect it has on 12-year-old Kazumi--a nice but mediocre student whose parents want to send her to a private secondary school.

Akutsu-sensei accomplished this feat by introducing a test-based rank and privilege system on the first day. The highest scorers on the Monday morning test get their choice of seats and other perks while the two lowest scorers are burdened with all the chores for the week from blackboard and toilet cleaning to serving lunch. The system also disallows toilet breaks during class because this reflects an inability to manage one's own schedule.

Kazumi gets the first week's work assignment along with the class clown, a warmhearted boy who is not nearly as silly as he acts. The child actors in the series are all likeable pros who give realistic portrayals of the wide spectrum of an average classroom from the isolated serious students to the sophisticated girls who think they already know what life is all about. Akutsu-sensei lets them know immediately that they do not have a clue.

When the students protest her system and call it unfair, she tells them to open their eyes. In Japanese society, she lectures, those who work hard or have influence get all the privileges, and the lazy or less affluent end up with the leftovers. She says only six in 100 people can expect to be happy and the elite already have most of the advantages and access to the best medical care. She tells them that, as products of the public school system, they will have to scramble to get anything at all, and most of them will end up as "bonjin" (ordinary people), to whom those on the top will be happy to leave the soldiering and service-sector jobs.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Sailor Moon Live Action


Sailor Moon Live Action (2005)
Japanese Drama

Cast:
Kikawada Masaya

Genre:

Episodes: 49

Playlist COMPLETE and PRIVATE as of Nov. 23, 2006

Return of the Condor Heroes


Return of the Condor Heroes (2006)
Taiwanese Drama

Cast:
Huang Xiao Ming - Yang Guo
Crystal Liu - Xiao Long Nu

Genre: Period, Romance, Martial Arts,

Episodes: 40

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 23, 2006

Summary: Adapted from the novel by Jinyong (aka Louis Cha). This is a sequel to Legend of Condor Heroes and a prequel of sorts to Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre. The story concerns the adventures of Yang Guo, an orphaned boy in a mid-13th Century China.

From his humble beginnings, the street wise Yang Guo gets passed around from one prestigious master to another but none of them will teach him any kung fu. While escaping from a tortured experience under Quan Zhen Sect's Zhao Zhi Jing, he meets Xiao Long Nu, the girl who will become his kung fu master and eventually the love of his life.

Unfortunately, even living inside Xiao Long Nu's cave can't prevent the outside world from interfering with their training and blossoming love. Li Mou Chou, Xiao Long Nu's martial sister, returns seeking their sect's greatest skill, The Jade Heart Manual. Li Mou Chou forces the couple out of the cave and into the outside world where Yang Guo learns that the person responsible for his father's death is the leader of the Beggar Clan, his aunt Huang Rong. Huang Rong, besides being a capable martial artist herself, is also pregnant with the child of the preeminent Martial Artist of this time, his uncle Guo Jing. Avenging one's father's murder is the moral imperative of the time but Guo Jing and Huang Rong were also the ones who took in Yang Guo when he was orphaned.

In addition to this complication, Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu must endure countless trials, near death experiences, the social taboo that prevents a master and her disciple from marrying, and the impending Mongol invasion of China if they are to live happily ever after.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Resurrection


Resurrection (2005)
Korean Drama

Director: Park Chan Hong, Jun Chang Geun

Cast:
Uhm Tae Woong - Yoo Shin-hyuk/Suh Ha-eun
Han Ji Min - Suh Eun-ha
So Yi Hyun - Lee Gang-joo
Ko Joo Won - Jung Jin-woo

Genre: Thriller

Episodes: 24

Playlist COMPLETE and PRIVATE as of Nov. 23, 2006

Summary: Suh Ha-eun was only 7 years old when he lost his father in a car "accident". Not knowing he was separated as a child from his identical twin, Yoo Shin-hyuk, Ha-eun was taken in by a kind man, Suh Jae-soo, and eventually falls in love with his daughter, Eun-ha. When an older Ha-eun investigated an alleged case of suicide, he eventually learns of his twin brother. Against his the warnings of his peers, Ha-eun becomes more and more involved in the suspicious case. As a part of a larger scheme, Ha-eun is targeted for a hit by unknown individuals. And when Ha-eun and Shin-hyuk finally meet for the first time in twenty years, the murderers who wanted to kill Ha-eun accidently mistake Ha-eun for Shin-hyuk and take his life instead. As a result, Ha-eun vows to get revenge and takes on his brother's persona as a cover and that is where the drama begins...

~All information taken from DramaWiki~

Princess Princess D


Princess Princess D (2006)
Japanese Drama

Cast:
Kamakari Kenta - Yutaka Mikoto
Fujita Rei - Shihoudani Yuujirou
Sato Takeru - Kouno Tooru
Saito Takumi - Arisada Shuuya
Adachi Osamu - Sakamoto Akira
Nakamura Yuichi - Hanazono Otoya

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Episodes: 10

Playlist Currently Uploading PRIVATELY as of Nov. 23, 2006

Summary: In all-boys school with a tradition of Princesses (boys chosen to attend school functions dressed up as girls to alleviate the tension between the students), Yutaka Mikoto, Shihoudani Yuujirou and Kouno Tooru are this year's chosen Princess team. Dissatisfied with the half-hearted efforts of the current Princesses, Hanazono Otoya creates his own team of Dark Princesses to rival for the students' attention.

~All information taken from DramaWiki~