A Clinic On The Sea Review

Title: A clinic on the sea

AKA: Umi no Ue no Shinryojo

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Episodes: 11

Broadcast period: 2013-Oct to 2013-Dec

Cast: Matsuda Shota, Takei Emi, Fujiwara Noriko and Fukushi Sota.

In Japan there are a lot of small inhabited islands where there aren’t any doctors, so the government made a boat that is filled with medical equipment and travels from island to island and treats the people. Sezaki Kota (Matsuda Shota) is newly hired doctor who is about to travel with the crew. He is a skilled and talented doctor with an amazing calm in every crisis situation, but he has one weakness: he falls in love in matter of seconds. Every single time he thinks too much of a situation and believes he is in love with any pretty and young woman. On the boat he befriends Togami Mako (Takei Emi) a nurse who at first didn’t believe him as good doctor, but as time passes she realizes how good he is as a doctor.

Together with a crew they treat the people of the islands, and help solve their problems - and try to make Kota stay on the boat, not off trying to wed every beauty he sees…

I rather enjoyed this drama, even though I didn’t expect I would and I found that the story was a bit more fun than dramas alike (Unubore Deka). It did strike me too familiar with Unubore Deka, but hoped and expected it to be a bit more about doctors, as it is about doctors on a boat. It honestly had too little medical in it, and was a bit uncategorized, since I was not sure what the drama was really about. We have a love story, a man doctor that falls in love with every girl he sees, and a lot of family issues, but not general theme - except comedy.

All in all a good drama with good actors and funny screen play.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Liar Game Review

Title: Liar Game
Genre: Psychological thriller
Episode: 11
Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-14 to 2007-Jun-23
Cast: Toda Erika, Matsuda Shota, Kitamura Soichiro, Wada Soko, Iwasa Mayuko, Sakamoto Makoto, Morishita Yoshiyuki, Ippongi Shingo aso..

Kanzaki Nao is an extraordinary girl. She is extremely honest and kind and wouldnt want to hurt anyone, she just wants everyone to be happy and does whatever she can - or cant - just to please them. But then... one day.. she receives a package. Of course she doesnt suspect anything so she just opens it, and inside there is one hundred million yen and a card that says if she opened the package she has to participate in Liar Game. She now has to either trick the hundred million yen out of her opponent who turns out to be her former teacher. How is she gonna manage? will she succeed or is she gonna end up with a hundred million debt ?

I am soooo late on this drama i know, lol, but i guess if i am there must be some others as well so here's an review anyway :P The games they play are like extreme, its extreme how they trick one another and im just sitting there like "whaaa...". So if you're into those mind game dramas this is definitely one you gotta watch. But i still somehow had a hard time watching it. I mean, it wasnt boring, but it wasnt exciting either, yeah it was interesting, but not the interesting that makes you excited. Lol, but it all depends on what you like watching. Maybe because its a bit old. I just wasnt satisfied it wasnt good enough like some other mystery dramas/movies.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥/ 3 out of 5 hearts

Bunji's verdict
This was one of the first Japanese dramas I’ve watched, and I loved it. I loved the psychological part, Toda Erika and Matsuda Shota, heck I even remembered his characters name long after I finished it, but didn’t remember the leads…
It’s one of the few great ones out there; with a brilliant cast, brilliant storyline and not to mention crazy twists. It’s recommendable for people with the likes for messed up confusing dramas - like seriously messed up and confusing…

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Liar Game: The Final Stage Movie Review

Title: Liar Game: The Final Stage
AKA: Liar Game The Movie
Genre: Psychological thriller
Origin: Japan
Release date: 6 March 2010
Cast: Toda Erika, Matsuda Shota, Watanabe Ikkei and Kichise Michiko.

After finally being able to leave the horrible game, LIAR GAME, the naive Kanzaki Nao (Toda Erika) tries to get her life back on track. One day, when she returns home, she receives a letter from the ‘game’, saying that she has been elected to be part of the final stage of the game. In order to get her to join, Tanimura Mitsuo (Watanabe Ikkei) tells her that she is the only one to save Akiyama Shinchi (Matsuda Shota), he friend and helper through the entire game, and the only one he trusts.
As naive as she is, she accepts, and leaves for the finals, were she is shocked to see that the gamers and game have become more horrible than before.

Wohoo!! The best way to end this series, and the best game EVER!! (I mean of all, the “Garden of Eden” game was the best). I liked the fact that Nao became cooler, even though she still is so naive her mind has become smarter. She really makes the twists in this series.
Toda Erika and Matsuo Shota as a couple are beyond amazing! They have this weird chemistry, were you go “is he flirting?” and “did she just say that because she likes him?”. But that is also the one thing I didn’t like; you wonder whether they like each other all the time.
I’m not going to spoil no more.

☆☆☆☆½ / 4,5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Tsuki no Koibito Review

Title: Tsuki no Koibito
AKA: Moon Lovers
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 8
Broadcast period: 2010-May to 2010-July
Cast: Kimura Takuya, Shinohara Ryoko, Lin Chi Ling, Matsuda Shota and Kitagawa Keiko

As the representative director of Regolith, a furniture designing company, Hanzuki Rensuke (Kimura Takuya) has become a cold-hearted and only has eyes for business. One day, as he ordered to shut down a factory in China, he meets a Chinese girl Liu Xiu Mei (Lin Chi Ling), and makes her a spokes model for his company. At first Xiu Mei is against it, but as he promises to let the workers of the factory work in his factory, she agrees. Back home, Rensukes best friend and most trustworthy companion, Ninomiya Maemi (Shinohara Ryoko), works as designer in Regolith, and is quite fed up with Rensuke using her as he pleases, but she simply can’t say no to him. When Xiu Mei comes to Regolith, he tells Maemi to make the ‘non-model’ Xiu Mei, into a covergirl. Rensuke’s right-hand-man Kazami Sai(Matsuda Shota), tries to woo Maemi, who seems to have someone else in her heart.
The top-model and woman who has the current crush for Rensuke, Ozaki Yuzuki (Kitagawa Keiko), hears about this new ‘flame’ of Rensuke, and decides to make life hard on Xiu Mei, much to the annoyance of Maemi.
As the two worlds of Rensuke and Xiu Mei collide, love blossoms, and Rensuke’s dream and world happens to go downhill, as problems arise..

A new record! A jump of 2 stars!! I started this drama with an interest, well mainly because of the Kimura & Shinohara pairing, like can you say AMAZING? But the drama goes on with the “transformation” for around six episodes, where the last two was the wakeup call, and that is long if you wait several weeks for each episode. But the ending and the two last episodes are pretty good, and I guess when you expected to make 11 episodes, and are told to reduce it to 8, you have a lot of loopholes and ALOT of explaining to do, which I think they did pretty well, considering.
Kimura’s acting is as usual well, but the star in this drama was Shinohara, aswell at Keiko, like great!
All in all, love it!

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts