okay. i don't know who reads my blog. probably like 2 people. that's fine. hope you know that one of my hobbies is watching dramas. doesn't matter if it is Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or even English TV-Series, i'm normally not too picking about drama or tv-series. this time i'm going give out some of my opinions about the drama that i recently watched (literally just finished like 8 hours ago) "Karei-naru Ichizoku". this is a real complicated story. to put it in a simple way, it's a drama that takes place in the 1960s in Japan, a time where the country is trying to stop an invasion of foreign banks by merging banks and a time where they are trying to enter into the industrial world of steel making. this is a story about the manpyo family where Daisuke Manpyo, the father director of the Hanshin Bank, tries to gain power by coming up with schemes to eat up bigger banks to gain power and stay control. this is also a story about his first born son, Teppei Manpyo, an engineer who specializes in steel and who is the director of the Manpyo family steel firm Hanshin Steelworks, trying to stay afloat in the industry and trying to build a blast furnace, which he believes will benefit Hanshin Steelworks by producing as quantity of steel related products and with his own technologically advance designs, can make Japan visible on the world map as a powerful industry country.
err... okay, that WAS the short version. you don't want to read about the long version because it would be like a 15-20 page essay term paper.
10 episodes running at about 45 minutes per episode except for the first and final episode, this is one drama that i strongly urge people to watch. comparing with the dramas that had came out in the recent 1-2 years, this one is refreshing because it's a time period drama. almost all of the current dramas take place in the 2000S. and the scale of this drama is pretty magnificent. dramas in Japan are like movies in the United States, and to see the scale of this drama series is pretty amazing because i have not seen something like this from a Japanese drama. first and foremost, an all star cast, which i believe is probably one of the better castings in recent Japanese dramas. because this is a time period drama, they needed experienced actors. those stupid jpop singers wanna be actors not here, which is a plus because 90% of them can not really act for shit. big name actors in this one - Takuya Kimura, Kyoka Suzuki, Kazue Fukuishi, Toru Nakamura, Hiroki Narimiya. i don't have time to say who they are but they are pretty big name actors. if you watch Japanese dramas, you know Takuya Kimura. he's dramas generally generate a view rating of at least 20% and this one was average at around 25% to 30%.
the storyline is very good. in some ways it's very political but not to the extent where you do not know what they are talking about. the main points are clear and the storyline twists is very good. the acting is very good and of course, like i said, the scale and the scenes are really beautiful. it really got me hooked after the end of episode 1. not only is the acting and story good, it makes you think about all the stuff not being said. the characters are manipulative that sometimes you just want to spit or slap them from your sofa or bed or where ever you are watching from. long with the story and actors with their great acting, it really just engulfs you in. i've watched about 5 different dramas this year and i can safely say that this one is number 1 compared to the others.
watch it. feel it. then, you'll know what i mean.
1 comment:
Hey, I watched this drama too! The storyline is sooooo sad... =(
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