Last night I watched Love me not, which is another Moon Geun-young (문근영) movie. It’s about a “host”/playboy who is in deep money trouble. To get a hold of the money he needs, he poses as the long lost brother of a young heiress (played by Geun-young) who has been blind since her teens. It’s a “will she warm up to him, or will it be the other way around”-movie.

I thought the movie would be more tear-inducing, but I didn’t really feel that much for either character. There’s nothing wrong with the movie, but I actually liked Innocent steps more.

Last night I was randomly browsing through my music videos and I came across this PV of Tomiko Van. I had downloaded the video ages ago, but I had never watched it. The song must be a cover, but I don’t know the composer or original artist. I just recognize the song from the Korean/Japanese movie 26years diary anata wo wasurenai, starring (among others) Maki Onaga (翁長麻紀) of High and mighty color. I have had this song on my mind from time to time after watching that movie, so when I watched this video I was like “it’s that song!!”. The song is called Cherry (チェリー).

Tomiko Van ~ CHERRY

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Here’s a clip where the song first appears in the movie:

26years diary anata wo wasurenai clip

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I don’t know if Van-chan’s way of singing suits the song, but it’s a good song none the less.

I just watched the Korean movie Innocent steps on DVD. I bought it when I was ordering some other stuff just because Moon Geun-young (Mun Geun-yeong, 문근영) is in it. I’ve seen her in My little bride, A tale of two sisters and the drama Autumn tale before this. I think she’s an excellent actress. I’ve seen My little bride several times. Well, back to Innocent steps.

The movie is about a former professional dancer, Na Young-sae, who is convinced to make a comeback with a new partner, Jang Chae-min, who’s a talented dancer from China (Yanbian). In order to keep her in Korea he has to fake a marriage with her. Only it turns out that (more…)

Joint Security Area is a Korean movie that takes place on the border between North and South Korea. I first heard about this movie in a documentary about Korean cinema. I thought it seemed interesting, but I forgot what it was called. Then, a few weeks ago, I was zapping through the channels on the TV and I landed on SVT2 (one of the Swedish public service channels) where the movie just started. I thought “ooh, Korean” and started watching, then I quickly realized that it was the movie I’d heard about before.

The movie is from the year 2000. It starts with a Korea-born Swiss major played by Lee Yeong-ae (Last Present, (more…)

I’m a fan of Korean actress Kim Tae-hee (김태희). I’ve seen her in a few drama series and one movie, The Restless. Oh, now that I look at IMDb, she’s also played a smaller part in the movie Last Present which I also have. I’ve watched that movie several times, but it must have been before I knew who she was.

Now her third movie (the second where she’s starring) has been released. It’s called Venus and Mars and is about a divorced couple who hate each other, and instead of letting things be, they battle it out. At first I thought this sounded mediocre at best. This is partly because her last movie The Restless was kind of meh. Then I saw that Venus and Mars is directed by Han Ji-seung who also directed Too Beautiful To Lie, which I love. But that movie is carried by Kim Ha-neul, who is one of my favourite actresses. All the same, this makes me interested in Venus and Mars, so I went ahead and ordered this DVD. I’ll post a review when I’ve watched it.

I bought a Love Hina DVD box last week. It was fairly cheap and I thought it could be fun to re-watch the anime, since it’s been been quite a while since I first watched it. Then I put the first DVD in and saw the Swedish subtitles… (more…)

I’ve noticed that the Swedish children’s TV channel (barnkanalen) is airing a lot of Japanese children’s programs, like drama series and movies for children. I don’t keep track of what airs when, but I like watching them because the Japanese is pretty basic and they speak clearly, so I can understand a little. I just watched a movie called Hinokio, which had YUI’s song Tomorrow’s way during the end titles.

I’ve been catching up on the Bleach anime lately. Last week I watched the Bleach movie Memories of Nobody. I know it’s been out for ages, but I had totally missed it. I liked the movie and I thought that Senna was a pretty cool character. When they had Senna in the opening for the series ages ago, I thought she’d appear sooner or later in the series. It turns out that it was just a commercial for the movie. Now I guess I’ll have to check out the next movie that they’re promoting in the intro to the episodes I’m watching now. Seems cool.

On another, equally Bleach related, note: the fifth Bleach game for the PSP is coming out this year. (more…)

No, I’m not talking about practising, but about Japanese actress Keiko Kitagawa (北川景子). Normal people know her as the sidekick mechanic in The fast and the furious: Tokyo drift. The rest of us know her as Sailor Mars.

Keiko is now featured in two photobooks! The first one (more…)

I was just clicking around on IMDb and saw that Jeon Ji-hyeon is filming an American live action version of the anime Blood: The Last Vampire where she’ll be playing the role of Saya. I hadn’t heard about this before. I hope it’s a good movie. You can tell that Ji-hyeon is moving into the American market because now she’s credited as “Gianna Jun” on IMDb. It sounds kind of strange to me though

Well, I’ll have to watch this movie. I’ve seen all her movies (except White Valentine, I have to watch it) and even a drama series she was in. It will be interesting and strange to see her act in English.