High-End Crush Review

Title: High-End Crush
AKA: The Greatest One-Sided Love
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Webdrama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast Period: Nov-2015 to Jan-2016
Cast: Jung Il Woo, Jin Se Yun, Yoon Bo Ra, Lee Shi Eun, Jung Sang Hoon, Moon Se Yoon,

Romantic comedy depicting the heartfelt and pure love story by a man, Choi Se Hoon (Jung Il Woo) a successful CEO with everything in his hands. He falls in love for the first time in his life with a woman, Yoo Yo Ryung (Jin Se Yun) who has been living in completely opposite circumstances from his and is a rising artist in his own company.

It's the same old same old ultimate jerk, falls for the naïve innocent country girl, being himself and ruins every chance at the relationship. Nothing new, but I always get sucked in anyway so... It helped that it only was a webdrama, so 20 min each episode. That was more than enough. Male lead was THE only reason for watching. Female lead was clueless for the entire time, zoned out to silly land, plus her acting was ‘blaah’. The other cast of characters were more childish than female lead (really overacting and silly). It wasn’t the best, but darn it, it gave me the warm and fuzzies. So if you're in that kind of mood I suggest this and say enjoy!

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars
♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts

Doctor Stranger Review

Title: Doctor Stranger

AKA: Doctor Foreigner / Dr. Stranger

Genre: Medical, Melodrama, Romance, Action, Thriller

Episodes: 20

Broadcast period: 2014-May to 2014-Jul

Cast: Lee Jong Suk, Jin Se Yun, Park Hae Jin and Kang So Ra.

When the war between the North and the South in 1994 was at it eruption, Park Hoon and his father, a brilliant cardiologist, are sent out to the North in order to save the North Korean president. After successfully preventing the war, both Hoon and his father are betrayed by the South and are made North Koreans. Years later Hoon (Lee Jong Suk) is a med student about to get married to his girlfriend Song Jae Hee (Jin Se Yun), but his life is turned upside down when she is imprisoned for treachery. Things run out of hand and Hoon loses not only Jae Hee but also his father.

Later he defects to South Korea, but is unable to stay in business due to his background. Though he saves a patient at Myung Woo Hospital and is offered a job, the moment it is found out that he is from the North he is discriminated by the thoracic unit, led by Han Jae Joon (Park Hae Jin) and Oh Soo Hyun (Kang So Ra), and unwanted even if his skills are marvelous. After hearing rumors that Jae Hee is alive he decides to scramble money in order to get her back from the north. But after seeing someone who looks exactly like Jae Hee at Myung Woo Hospital he is determined to stay there, even with the everyone against him…

Hmm… First of all: Oh my God!! Second of all: What the hell!? And lastly: No why?! That pretty summed up my entire reaction pool. Or rather those were words on repeat. I don’t even know where to start. Like this is a train wreck of emotions, and they really shake you up and spit you out. Okay, weird way of putting it, but North vs. South dramas really drain me out, and adding life and death, and lovestories in it makes it more drainy. Also they HAD to add a revenge story, and a story about bastard children (sorry for my use of words). Like mixing all that gives you a good story, but emotionally destroyed audience. Or at least my emotions were so ridiculous I had to take breaks from watching this.

Actingwise, as Jenji told me, Jong Suk is at his best. The rest are good too, but he delivers what we want, and that is him and cuteness. Lol.

Okay, in order to calm down and to give you my verdict, I say that the drama is a good watch, but be prepared for crying and headaches.

☆☆☆☆/ 4 out of 5 stars

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

Bridal Mask Review

Title: Gaksital

AKA: Bridal Mask

Genre: Period, action, drama, romance

Episodes: 28

Broadcast period: 2012-May-30 to 2012-Sept-06

Cast: Joo Won, Shin Hyun Joon, Chun Ho Jin, Park Ki Woong, Park Joo Hyun, Han Chae Ah, Ahn Hyung Joon, Jin Se Yun, Song Byung Ho, Son Yeo Eun, Seo Yoon Ah, Jun Noh Min, Kim Myung Gon, Park Sung Woong, Ji Seo Yoong ...

Set in the 1930's in the land that would become the Korean Republic, during the Japanese occupation, we follow the story of a hero. The hero known as 'Gaksital', bridal mask. Gaksital is the protector of the people, working against the japanese occupators, the government and regime. Lee Kang To (Joo Won) is a Korean young man working for the police. He is often confronted and molested because he isn't Japanese, but got into the police because of his great skills. Kang To bets his everything on catching Gaksital and is therefore extremely hated by the Korean people. He goes as far as torturing his own childhood friend and first love, Oh Mok Dan (Jin Se Yun), and manages to catch and shoot Gaksital, only to find out that it was his older brother, who was fighting in order to take revenge on the Japanese, responsible for their father's death. Having almost lost everything, he decides to take on the mission of revenge. He decides to keep working at the police office undercover, but meets trouble as his best friend Kimura Shunji (Park Ki Woong) joins as an officer to catch Gaksital, for the revenge of his older brother death, who was killed by Gaksital. This is the story about the struggle and opressed people, fighting for freedom and love.

Halfway through second episode I was so surprised and impressed that's when I understood why this drama was popular and knew I definitely had to watch. I was especially impressed by Joo Won's acting, as it was very different from what I had seen earlier.I reeaallly felt like looking up spoilers and finding out what's gonna happen like already from the beginning. It was almost too much to bear, I couldn't stand having to watch to find out what's gonna happen and get all questions answered. And of course I accidently spoiled a part, seriously if you are like me (don't read or watch anything about a drama before you start) then avoid such as tumblr and youtube aso, which is reeeally hard, but that's what I like the most and that's how I enjoy a drama the most, not knowing anything and just going with the flow. This drama really leads you through it all, it wasnt boring at all, and all these unexpected things happen ALL the time (unexpected if you havent seen spoilers). I was often confused because it is a very different historical drama, it is set in 1930’s and I kept thinking it was long before, so it was weird, but interesting as well. It has some really tough moments and I really cried like really badly. I really recommend it, it is a great drama with action, romance, friendship and revenge. It doesn’t get boring and just leads you through the episodes ;) 

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Bunji's Verdict
This drama is one of this year’s best dramas. Every actor does a great job, and all characters are brilliant. There are some small things that does take you aback, like the that 1/3 of the drama is about torturing people, like really, I think most characters were tortured. And the amount of people dying is like omg, like flies really. Then there is the entire “mystery” about “who is gaksital?” which is really exciting until people find out and then the tension suddenly lessens, lol. But it’s great, as it is. Joo Won is great as a villain, love him like that, and as the good guy he does a great job. I can’t get over of how good Kang To, Joo Won’s character, was at lying, totally believable, making even me believe him, even though I knew what really happened.

All in all a good drama, really recommendable. But be careful, the tension and the hurt actually can (and prolly will) break your heart, or at least make you get strong feels.

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts