#hamada gaku

[redsamuraiii]

First Love: Hatsukoi (Ep 8)

When you’re too traumatised by something that you find yourself frozen in place and unable to move out of fear and pain. 

#first love #hatsukoi #first love hatsukoi #mitsushima hikari #hikari mitsushima #hamada gaku #gaku hamada #japanese drama #j drama #jdrama #dorama #japan #asian drama #life struggles #life

[waitmyturtles]

Couple of quick dorama notes:

1) I started Ameiro Paradox a couple days ago to catch up with the Tunku Shower BL series on MBS, and linked up there is the bop of a theme song. New gym song for me, I love it!

2) Speaking of Ameiro Paradox, some super quick thoughts, inspired by a convo I was having with @gillianthecat -- this is definitely not the heaviest or smartest of doramas (the two leads, at best, are questionable at their jobs as tabloid journalists), but I think it’s soapy, kind of melodramatic, and overall very cute! Get two boy band idols together in a BL and hopefully you have a little magic, and at least the two guys have excellent chemistry. I like how, in part, their stories are told for them by their seniors, as Kabu and Onoe learn about each other. 

For a dorama featuring just youngsters that aren’t in a school setting -- I’m really liking it. Perfectly digestible for a stressful moment for me right now (COVID has not left my household yet, unfortunately). Yes to MBS continuing to push their boundaries for BL, and I can’t wait to catch up on Takara to Amagi as part of my essential catching-up work. 

2) I finished The Director Who Buys Me Dinner last night -- I’m not going to do a full-on review, because I don’t think there’s enough there, but I LOVED LOVED THE ENDING. I agree with @respectthepetty​ that the Denis storyline was definitely out. of. whack., but then again, Dongbaek had to get whacked somehow, to continue the curse and approach its reversal. I think the episode lengths just didn’t allow for any development there.

But I really liked how they allowed Dongbaek to be the one with the memories in the end -- and we got to see the full power of his emotions towards Yudam. I thought that was lovely. 

3) Peeping what @gillianthecat and @bengiyo have been writing about The New Employee, I picked it up last night and will catch up with the third and fourth episodes tonight. I’m really liking it -- VERY MUCH ESPECIALLY the overt scenes of LGBTQ+ community life in school. LOVE IT, that made my heart so full (we need to see more of that in dramas/doramas!) and I love that Seung Hyun gets to work with his college homegirl at the same office. I don’t know either of these actors, but I’m impressed by Kwon Hyuk as Jong Chan. I’ll have more thoughts when I catch up on all the episodes -- but I like how Jong Chan is coming to his feelings towards Seung Hyun.

4) Over in cishet land (ha), I’m going to pick up Keishicho Outsider with Nishijima Hidetoshi, because I will forever be obsessed with Kinou Nani Tabeta, and the dorama he was in last year (Unicorn ni Notte) was totally flat -- he was the savior of that show, but I barely watched it because the plot with the main characters was so weak. Anyway, his character looks HILARIOUS in Outsider, and it co-starts Hamada Gaku, who is an EXCELLENT comic actor as well. This’ll be a good one to watch live as the episodes air!

#ameiro paradox #candy color paradox #kaburagi x onoe #onoe x kaburagi #the director who buys me dinner #yudam x dongbaek #the new employee #jong chan x seung hyun #keishicho outsider #nishijima hidetoshi #hidetoshi nishijima #hamada gaku

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Takaie the fanboy. 😂😂😂

In Hand 1.06

#in hand #インハンド #jdramaedit #asiandramanet #jdrama #dailyasiandramas #jboysedit #lextag #usermare #syaring #hamada gaku #nanao #kiyohara sho #subs: blitzfansub #mymymy #ep 6 #CACKLINGGGGGGGGGGG #takaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii LOLOLOL #fans really do be like that thooooooo #but the way yamapi was looking tho like not surprised LOL #i see you boiiiiiiiii i see you #ngl i want WOAH too like ohhh okay okayyyyyy you like that

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the new chronicle of lord nobunaga: classmates are warriors | s01e01

It’s a cast of hundreds, well not exactly right but not going to tag everyone. 

#The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors #Action #Comedy #School #Delinquent #Adapted form a Manga #Asian Drama #Japan #Nagase Ren #Nishihato Daigo #Miura Shohei #Hamada Gaku #Misuchima Shinnosuke #Hagiwara Riku #Inukai Atsuhiro #Yanagi Shuntaro #Suga Kenta #Naito Shuichiro #Matsudai Koya #Kataoka Hisamichi #Shin Shincho Koki: Classmate wa Sengoku Busho #新・信長公記～クラスメイトは戦国武将～

[crazyasianlove]

Kyoujou II Parte 2 Final (Sub. Esp)

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El episodio continúa después de los créditos y es muy importante, ¡así que no lo paréis antes de tiempo!

¡Ahora sí, todo listo para que empiece el drama el 10 de abril!

#kyoujou #kyojo #jdrama #kimura takuya #hamada gaku #kamishiraishi moka #fukuhara haruka #sugino yosuke #yamoto yuma #meguro ren #maeda gordon #ikazaki sae #tozuka junki #drama #dorama #sp #proyectos terminados #sub. español

[sutosid]

Kuroda Kanbee the wise

#shin shinchou kouki #hamada gaku

[stories-that-feed-our-souls]

マイファミリー | My Family

Narusawa Haruto is the president of a gaming company while his wife Michiru is a SNS influencer. When their daughter is kidnapped, the couple use their own ways to save her without depending on the police.

(Source: MyDramaList)

#My Family #My Family TBS #My Family 2022 #マイファミリー #Ninomiya Kazunari #二宮和也 #Tabe Mikako #多部未華子 #Hamada Gaku #濱田岳 #Tamaki Hiroshi #玉木宏 #Tomizawa Takeshi #富澤たけし #Oshima Miyu #大島美優 #TBS #Disney+

[kaipanzero]

Yudo: The Way of the Bath

湯道 (2023)

#Yudo: The Way of the Bath #Yudo #湯道 #Toma Ikuta #Gaku Hamada #Kanna Hashimoto #生田斗真 #濱田岳 #橋本環奈 #Masayuki Suzuki #鈴木雅之 #Japan #movie #gif #2023

[stuff-diary]

First Love: Hatsukoi (初恋)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2022

First Love: Hatsukoi (初恋) (2022, Japan)

Director & Writer: Yuri Kanchiku

Mini-review:

I'm going to start by saying that, from the very moment this drama was announced, it was like a dream come true for me: a story inspired by music from one of my favorite artists of all time (Hikaru Utada) and starring one of my favorite actresses in the world (Hikari Mitsushima). My expectations were obviously super-high, and fortunately, it didn't disappoint at all. Sure, there were a lot of clichés, but I firmly belive that clichés are great when you know how to use them properly, and it's clear Yuri Kanchiku knew exactly what she was doing. The acting is brilliant and there is no weak link in the cast, but I need to give a special shoutout to Taisei Kido. I had never seen him before and I felt he was so charming and charismatic, I really hope this becomes a breakout role for him. Another thing I want to highlight is the cinematography, which is absolutely gorgeous and unlike anything I've seen in a J-drama, it looked even better than many movies. To sum up, this is without a doubt the best Netflix Japan Original released so far.

P.S. The one little complain that I have is that I wish they had used more Utada music, beyond the title songs and Automatic. They have a lot of hits that span more than 20 years, and those songs would have helped a lot with setting up the time-periods. But anyway, that's it.

#first love #first love hatsukoi #hatsukoi #初恋 #first love 初恋 #hikari mitsushima #takeru satoh #rikako yagi #taisei kido #kaho #araki towa #kyoko koizumi #minami #akiyoshi nakao #aoi yamada #gaku hamada #osamu mukai #arata iura #netflix #drama #jdrama #tv shows/dramas watched in 2022

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The opportunity to binge #KamenRiderBlackSun came to me the past weekend and I finished it today.

The series is an unapologetic attack and commentary on contemporary Japanese societal issues, the undercurrents of #unseenjapan that #cooljapan probably tried to paper over throughout the Olympics and decades of LDP rule, and it just grew keener with the assassination of Shinzo Abe and the near-interminable desire to demand change in a society unable to accept it. It is an attempt at portraying, through fiction, that Japan is more multicultural than it tends to see itself, it is harming its soul by denying that, and it deserves better by listening to its youth, and it better do so before they swallow them and their most vulnerable.

Perhaps it is inevitable that this will be another battleground in the role of political commentary/applicability especially when it is appearing in long-running franchises. This is currently the biggest dilemma of franchises like the ones owned by Disney (Marvel and Star Wars), not to mention fantasy (the recent tussles between House of the Dragon and The Rings of Powder for ex.). The fact that *Kamen Rider Black Sun* is in Amazon Prime further highlights this. And yet if Japanese fiction can begin coming to terms with contemporary issues through the medium of its classical heroes (the way *Shin Godzilla* and *Shin Ultraman* already did, not to mention *Shin Kamen Rider* will do soon again), why not this way?

It is a testament that *Black Sun*, based off *BLACK*, probably the most successfully exported Kamen Rider before the Heisei period, is the best way to do this unbridled revisioning. (I personally grew up on BLACK on IBC13 in the Philippines.) This series speaks not only to the child who grew up with Kotaro Minami/Kuya Robert, but to the man, scholar & advocate I grew up as.

This is an unrivalled opportunity to revisit how Kamen Rider stories are told, what kind of storytelling the original creator Shotaro Ishinomori is interested in, and what can heroism possibly mean in a post-nuclear, heavily polarized and infuriating time. It is finding your lines, those who will hold your hands and back, and passing them on.

#kamen rider black sun #kamen rider black #kamen rider #kotaro minami #hidetoshi nishijima #shadow moon #black sun #nobuhiko akizuki #tomoya nakamura #aoi izumi #kokoro hirasawa #bilgenia #takahiro miura #bishium #yo yoshida #lou oshiba #shinichi dounami #gaku hamada

[gregor-samsung]

世界から猫が消えたなら [If Cats Disappeared from the World] (Akira Nagai - 2016)

#世界から猫が消えたなら #Akira Nagai #Japan #time #quote #If Cats Disappeared from the World #Takeru Satoh #Anna Ishii #Japanese cinema #Aoi Miyazaki #Gaku Hamada #Eita Okuno #Far east movies #Eiji Okuda #Mieko Harada #brain cancer #Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara #doppleganger #wisdom #boyfriend girlfriend relationship #video rental #video store #Charlie Chaplin

[shirtlessjohnnysidols]

Ikuta Toma

Yudo (2023) stills

#ikuta toma #gaku hamada #kubota masataka

[storge]

Makino has a child?

In Hand 1.07

#in hand #インハンド #jdramaedit #asiandramanet #jdrama #dailyasiandramas #yamashita tomohisa #hamada gaku #nanao #subs: blitzfansub #lextag #usermare #syaring #mymymy #ep 7 #LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL #the kids do it everyy timeeeeeeeee #thank you for this lovely request friend #sorry it took so longggg #every scene with this kid was hilarious #she was about to tell allll their businesss lololol #and takaie enjoying hokuras roast but when it got to his.... #wait.. wait.. what... lolol #a classic trope

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do you have any jdrama recs? i really wanna start watching them! thank u sm! 💓

hi, anon! I do have some jdrama recommendations but since you didn't specify your preferred genre, I'd take it that you're fine with any. (٥⁀▽⁀ ) You can click the links to check the summary.

Bitter Blood (Partners by Blood) - the first jdrama I finished watching, the comedy in this series is great and aside from the genre mentioned, there are other elements of the series that made it worth watching. Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery Main Cast: Satou Takeru, Watabe Atsuro

Kagi no Kakatta Heya - this got my interest because of the main cast but it definitely became one of my favorites that I still rewatch even to this day Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama Main Cast: Ohno Satoshi, Toda Erika, Sato Koichi

Good Doctor - this one originated from Kdrama of the same title, I watched the Korean and US versions so I can definitely say that this version has a different flavor to offer Genre: Life, Drama, Medical Main Cast: Yamazaki Kento, Ueno Juri, Fujiki Naohito

Mystery to Iunakare - I posted this one before and I even read the manga, the mysteries are not that mind-blowing but the main character is very interesting. this will have a movie that will feature one of the arcs in the manga and I am also looking forward to it. ^^ Genre: Mystery, Psychological, Life, Drama Main Cast: Suda Masaki

Shikaku Tantei Higurashi Tabito - the MC is also interesting, he had an accident in the past that lead to losing all his senses except his sense of sight and he is using his ability as a private detective. this has 2 seasons by the way so if ever you're going to watch this and enjoyed watching the first season, you might as well check season 2 Genre: Mystery, Drama, Supernatural Main Cast: Matsuzaka Tori, Tabe Mikako, Hamada Gaku, Sumida Moeno

Nobunaga Concerto - this one's based on manga, I never read the manga or watched the anime so maybe this could be another reason why I appreciated the live-action version but if you haven't read or watched the animanga, you can give this a try too Genre: Action, Military, Historical, Comedy Main Cast: Oguri Shun, Shibasaki Ko

3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu - you can watch this on Netflix, this is also a very good series Genre: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Psychological Main Cast: Suda Masaki, Nagano Mei

99.9: Keiji Senmon Bengoshi - MC is also weird so it got me, I have a thing for characters that are too weird but too good in what they do. this has season 2 as well ^^ Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Law Main Cast: Matsumoto Jun, Kagawa Teruyuki, Eikura Nana

Radiation House - this is also based on manga, I've read only a few chapters but I think the series was also well-made, there's romance but not to the point that it would go off the actual plot Genre: Mystery, Drama, Medical Main Cast: Kubota Masataka, Honda Tsubasa, Hirose Alice

Bokura wa Kiseki de Dekite Iru - now this one could be a total hit or a total miss for you, some find it boring but I really loved this series, if you are fine with watching a pure slice of life drama, you might also like this one, the MC is also eccentric which also became one of the main element of the story Genre: Life, Drama Main Cast: Kubota Masataka, Honda Tsubasa, Hirose Alice

So these are just some of the series I can recommend. If you're planning to check some of these and liked them too, feel free to DM me so we can talk about it more. It's not often that I encounter someone interested in jdrama. ^^ But damn, just reminiscing about these series makes me want to watch them again.

#jdorama #jdrama #jdorama recommendations #artless

[ljaesch]

Anime Film Review: Miss Hokusai

Miss Hokusai is an anime film based on a manga by Hinako Sugiura that was released in 2015. Miss Hokusai Directed by: Keiichi Hara Written by: Miho Maruo Starring: Yutaka Matsuhige, Anne Watanabe, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kora, Jun Miho, Shion Shimizu, Michitaka Tsutsui, Kumiko Aso, Danshun Tatekawa Run Time: 90 minutes The film begins in 1814 (during the Edo period of Japan), and focuses on O-Ei, a…

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#anime #Miss Hokusai

[enfantsterriblestokyo]

「First Love 初恋」(Netflix) 2022年11月24日〜

Official Site

Official Trailer

Teaser Trailer

[Cast]

Hikari Mitsushima / Takeru Satoh

Rikako Yagi / Taisei Kido

Kaho

Minami / Akiyoshi Nakao

Towa Araki / Aoi Yamada

Itsuki Nagasawa / Jiei Wakabayashi

Makiko Watanabe / Takashi Okabe

Morio Agata

Ren Sudo

Kanji Furutachi

Daisuke Kuroda / Shingo Mizusawa

Osamu Mukai

Gaku Hamada

Kyoko Koizumi

[Staff]

Written & Directed by : Yuri Kanchiku

Cinematographers : Kazuma Shinde / Junichi Nakamura

Lighting : Jin Kobayashi

Sound Recordists : Masahito Yano / Yoshifumi Kureishi

Art Department Coordinator : Nori Fukuda

Production Designer : Yoko Sagae

Set Decorator : Tetsuya Nomura

Costume Designer : Babymix

Hair & Make-up Artists : Takeharu Kobayashi / Aina Hanada

Make-up Artist : Yuko Shimada

First Assistant Directors : Shinya Masuda / Kimiyoshi Adachi

Production Manager : Kota Suemitsu / Taisuke Oku

Post Production Supervisor : Tetsuo Ohya

VFX Supervisor : Koji Nozaki

Editorsr : Emi Onodera / Naoki Watanabe

Re-Recording Mixer : Hiroyuki Ishizaka

Sound Effects : Hiroki Matsuura

Music by : Taisei Iwasaki

Line Producer : Mikiya Sato

Executive Producer : Kaata Sakamoto

Producer :  Kasumi Yao

Production : C&I entertainment

Inspired by the songs “First Love” and “Hatsukoi” written by Hikaru Utada

#FirstLove初恋 #First Love