Bokura ga Ita Zenpen - 僕等がいた (We were There)

The movie start with Takahashi Nanami - Nana for short (Yoshitaka Yoriko), who recall her past in her old high school. She was in her first year of high school when she met this boy, Yano Motoharu (Ikuta Toma). Yano is a very handsome, popular and cheerful boy, people said that two third of girls in class will like him. But Takahashi dislike him at the beginning because Yano sometime tease her and made her class representative. But he often help her in class rep tasks without much talking. After met Yano at the roof and talk, Takahashi felt something different toward him, as she can see his pain in his eyes but he just keep smiling.

There's rumor about Yano's exgirlfriend, Yamamoto Nana, who died in a car accident when they were in middle school. And the relation between Yano and Yamamoto Yuri, their classmate and sister of Yano's exgirlfriend. Then she knows the story from Yano's friend from mid school, Takeuchi. All girls in class are curious and wanna see his exgirlfriend face from yearbook. Takahashi doesn't really interest in that thing at first, but then she open the yearbook after all students go home. While she search for Yamamoto Nana's picture, she busted by Yano. Takahashi flustered and ended up confess her feeling to Yano. She gets more shock when Yano just said "yes" abruptly.

Takahashi and Takeuchi get closer when they always talk about Yano

After the confession, they become closer even they're not dating. Takahashi's feeling for Yano become deeper along time. And finally at firework festival night, Yano tell Takahashi that he loves her too.

Their relationship's just fine until Yamamoto Yuri involve and always disturb them by remind Yano about her sister death. Takahashi then feel something wrong with Yano and Yamamoto relationship. Her suspicion proven when Yano stood her up on their date and accompany Yamamoto take her mom to hospital. After that they just break up.

When school festival come, Yano then try to explain to Takahashi about his relation with Yamamoto. Takeuchi, who finally admit to Yano that he likes Takahashi too, try to prevent Yano meet Takahashi. Finally, Take just let Takahashi meet Yano instead confess his feeling. Yano then admit that he slept with Yamamoto because he wanted to forget about Nana, who died in car accident while driving with her exboyfriend. And he repent that thing to be happen.

After one problem arise another, Yano's mom wanna move to Tokyo to get a new job after her divorce. Yano confuse for stay in Hokkaido or go along his mom to Tokyo, moreover after he knows that his mom is sick. By support from Takahashi, Yano decided to go to Tokyo though he has to leave her.

Then the story back to adult Takahashi Nanami, when she's turning 22 years old. She's getting closer with Takeuchi and never saw Yano since he left Hokkaido for Tokyo.

To be continued to part two.........

PS : Like I've said before, I like sweet love story~ >.< and I like it more when Toma in it~~!!!kya~
He's in highschool uniform, uwaa~ natsukashi~ though compare with Hanakimi he's alot mature here.....but still- kakkoi!

who's this? ehem.....

wow! mabushi!! >,<

I like Yano's reply to Takahashi when he's off to Tokyo ----- "I've been living so I could meet you. It wasn't a plus cancelling out the minus. The plus was greater than minus" ----- so sweet :)

The story in this movie is a bit different with manga and anime, yea you know, duration, in manga there were 70 chapter and 26 episodes of anime. The plot in the movie isn't really detail so I think people who haven't read or watched anime version would a bit confuse with the fast plot. But that's ok, overall this movie is nice to watch, sweet love story~ and Toma offcourse *laugh*

Manga and anime version, I've watched them all.
At first I interested with Obata Yuki's drawing, and finally Toma end  up (??) play the movie!
LUCKY! I'm happily watching it!!

Rich Man, Poor Woman -リッチマン、プアウーマン

Hyuga Toru (Oguri Shun), a high school drop out man but become success in IT bussiness, even called as billionaire since his assets more than 250 billion yen. He is a CEO in IT firm called Next Innovation that he build with his friend, Asahina Kousuke. He is a genius but introvert so he need Asahina's help to correspond with others. And he has 'medical condition' that he always forgot names and faces unless he really attracted to the person. And then Hyuga meet Sawaki Chihiro (Ishihara Satomi), who attracted him because her name is similar to his mother's who left him since he's little. Chihiro is graduated from Tokyo University but doesn't have the chance to get regular employment. Hyuga found Chihiro's talent in memorize things in express and use her in his project. 

Upon meeting Hyuga, Chihiro begins to unravel the solitude inside him and draw her closer to him. They repeatedly conflict each other, but little by little learn about one another after encounter and solve many problems. 

cr : official source

Aibu Saki plays Asahina Yoko, Asahina Kousuke's sister and falling in love with him since the first time they met. But Hyuga didn't remember a thing about her because his 'condition'. Yoko is a straightforward but kindhearted girl that she always pursue Hyuga to like her back. She even help Hyuga when her brother betray him in their firm and her brother jailed for 2 years.

PS : I love Oguriiiiin! He's so kakkoi in this dorama........i like his messy-CEO style.....it'll be nice if my boss is    cool and trendy like him....LOL

The story is really interesting, me and my sister watch it in two days because we curious about the ending :D

My fav part in this dorama is to see Next Innovation office and when Hyuga presented his interface idea, cool~ with Next Innovation Wall, the idea is really fresh and typical of young generation. *I really wanna work with that atmosphere*
Even the website for Next Innovation is exist! I search it in Fuji TV website and it's like the real one exist. 

Next Innovation's web, there's a message from Hyuga Toru too!
cr : official source

Hyuga Toru's Office

Next Innovation Wall, i like this idea

Staff Room

Freeter, Ie o Kau - フリーター、家を買う。

Take Seiji (Ninomiya Kazunari)  is 24 year old man who always feel his life is flat, graduated from second rate university, poor relationship with his family and enter a ridiculous company. He feel that all things in the company are absurd - new employee orientation, drink after work time, even the boss.And then he quits his job after 3 months He tries to apply to many companies, but no result. He keep working part time, from one part time job to another if he dislike the old part time job.   
Then when his mother falls ill with depression, because she's been bullied by their neighbor, and the only way to cure his mother is by moving from that neighborhood. Seiji wanted to help his mother with moving fund and buy a house for his family. And he ended up working part time at a construction site.
AT Oetsu Company - construction site where Seiji work- he meet Chiba Manami (Karina), who graduated from top class university and joined a well known general contractor firm. Manami is the complete opposite of Seiji. But while their personalities clash at first, they gradually come to understand each other. Manami then help Seiji realize that his life isn't as flat as he thought. He realize that wherever he work, even just at a small company, as long as many kind hearted people around you and care about you, you would happy to go to work everyday. Finally Seiji accepted as permanent employee at Oetsu Company and medical equipment company, which one will Seiji choose?
And for the romance? Seiji chase Manami when she would depart to her  job transfer training for two years, and you can guess the ending by yourself. :D


PS : The story is really close to everyday life and I've cried a lot when i watched this dorama~ i even said 'poor you Nino' hah? :'( 
And in the SP, Seiji and Manami who being apart for two years encounter a problem wheter they wanna married or not. The ending was sooo sweet....... *_*
Maruyama Ryuhei from Kanjani8 played in this dorama, too. As Seiji's co worker at Oetsu Company.
Along the dorama going i wonder if other Arashi member will be cameo as always ,  and then, Masaki Aiba appear! Hurrayy!

Theme song : Hatenai Sora (Arashi) , Kimitte (Nishino Kana) - i like these songs and play them over and over in my playlist haha

jaa ~ ありがとう ~

100 Scene no Koi - 100シーンの恋

Mizushima Hiro stars in three different love stories, this is a mini drama with 3 chapter. He played 3 different role in this mini drama.

First story - "If it makes you happy" ~ Chapter of the Surfer (Mizushima Hiro, Yuki Saya)
In this first chapter, Mizushima Hiro portrays Yoji, a surfer who fall in love with his friend, Anna. But this girl seems already has a boyfriend name Takumi. Anna lost her bracelet that Takumi gave to her and Yoji help her to find it and try to confess to Anna.

Second story - "Confession kiss" ~ Chapter of the Stylist (Mizushima Hiro, Uehara Misa)

Second story, Mizushima as stylist name Sota. At the beginning of this chapter, we can see Sota convince himself to confess to his coworker, Midori. Midori is his childhood friend, clumsy and sloppy girl but Sota just like her whatever she is. Sota recently knows that Midori has a crush with Tanabe, their superior. Sota then cancel his confession and decides to help Midori with his love before he transfered to New York.


Third story - "The last asking" ~ Chapter of the Beautician (Mizushima Hiro, Sugimoto Yumi)
Kazuya left by his girlfriend recently. But he do his work as Beautician as usual, kind and friendly to his customers although his heart confuse wether to call his girlfriend or not. One day, one of his customer come at night and ask to cut her hair, Kazuya refuse because the shop has already close. Tomorrow night, the costumer come again and asking the same thing, Kazuya can't refuse twice and cut the girl's hair. But the girl ask one other thing that Kazuya can't fulfill. The next day Kazuya got a letter from the girl who already pass away the other day. From the letter, Kazuya realize that people can die easily, anytime, anywhere. So Kazuya directly to his girlfriend place and try to get her back.


PS : I don't really understand the plot of first chapter, and the story just like finish without i can understand the meaning. It's hard to make an interesting story in 15 minutes.

Second and third chapter are better, i can enjoy it without question. I like the second chapter best, the story is a cute and warm romantic story. 

I suggest to watch one of this story if you have 15 or 20 minutes of boredom. It's quite nice story :D

HUNGRY! - ハングリ-！

Yamate Eisuke (Osamu Mukai) is a man who always do what he wanna do in his life. After graduated from cooking academy, he decided to live his life as a bassist of rock band instead inherit his parents french restaurant. He formed a rock band called ROCKHEAD with his childhood friends, Sumiyoshi Kenta (Tsukamoto Takashi) as guitarist and Fujisawa Tsuyoshi as drummer plus Hiratsuka Taku (Miura Shohei-Hana Kimi 2011), the new member and the youngest as vocalist. 


Unfortunately, their band wasn't a big hit while their age are in the late 20's and when his mother passed away he gave up his dream completely and decided to inherit his mother's restaurant. But his decision is too late bacause his father already sold the restaurant to Aso Tokio (Inagaki Goro). Their restaurant be modified by Aso become new restaurant. Eisuke who determined to meet his mother's expectation and wanted to do something matter - before his age reach 30 few more months- decided to make a new restaurant with the same name to his mother's, Le Petit Chou, with his friends help. 


Between the journey to fulfill his dream, Eisuke will face many problems. Eisuke who has a fiancee - Tachibana Maria, will involve a love triangle with Okusu Chie, a 20 year old girl who fall in love with Eisuke's food at the first sight chew. Eisuke will confronted many problems with Aso. He feel Eisuke is his rival, not agree with Eisuke takes after his mother's restaurant name and suggested Eisuke change his restaurant name become "Harapeko (Hungry) Kitchen". But finally Aso become one of Eisuke's cooking fan and help him fulfill his dream.

This dorama made into manga with the same title will be released in paperback on March 13th.

PS : Watching this dorama make me hungry, it suits the title, really, there were many foods shown. I can't help  but my mouth was watery~ :D~
Osamu Mukai is a gorgeous chef much more than he was in Bambino *ahaha*, i want all of foods that cooked by him.....@,@ and i like his idea about his restaurant, french restaurant that all kind of people can entered, customers don't have to be formal, even accompanied by rock music. *if that kind of french restaurant exist, i can enter with no hesitation LOL* 

ハナミズキ [Hanamizuki - May Your Love Bloom a Hundred Year]

Hirasawa Sae [Aragaki Yui] is a high school girl who studying hard for university entrance. On the day of her exam, she met Kiuchi Kouhei [Ikuta Toma] who attend a special fishery high school. Kouhei offer some help to Sae when their train stopped and she said she almost late for her exam. Then they ride "a borrowed car"- with Kouhei driving ability - their car sink to a field. Sae then didn't make for her exam, Kouhei got suspended from his school for driving without license. Kouhei - who felt guilty - met Sae to apologize and give her courage to take entrance examination.

Kouhei keep encourage Sae until she succeed to entry Waseda University. They have long distance relationship because Sae live in Tokyo. Five years later, Kouhei's father died and he felt he can't be Sae's future because he can't leave his mother and sister in Hokaido.

After their separation, few years later, Sae Sae attend her friend's wedding and found out that Kouhei has married and Sae is engange with her senpai from her college Kitami Junichi [Osamu Mukai]. Unfortunately, her fiance died in his duty as a war photographer. On the other side, Kuohei has bankrupt and divorce with his wife, then he became a fisherman in tuna boat.

Short story, few years later they meet again and they love has reunite....


PS : i always like sweet love story~ Toma never let me down.....♥♥♥♥♥

* Toma in school uniform......whuaaaa~  #no words can describe #nosebleeding

~ ありがとう ~

VOICE - ヴォイス

Kaji Daiki (Eita) is medical student who failed to get into heart surgery seminar but he accidentally got in to medical forensic seminar instead, although he's not submitted to that seminar by himself. Then he approaches Professor Sagawa and ask him why his name was in that seminar, the Professor said that he know Daiki will suit in forensic pathology since the first time he met Daiki.
Daiki then met 4 other whom joined the seminar, they're Ishimatsu Ryosuke (Ikuta Toma), Kuboaki Kanako (Ishihara Satomi), Kirihata Teppei (Endo Yuya), Hanei Akira (Sato Tomohito). All of them have their private reason why they entered forensic phatology seminar. Five of them started to like the seminar, they tried to conveyed the "voice of the dead" to the left family together each time they autopsy a body.

PS : i'm so happy that i can find this dorama, ureshi~ ,really wanna watch this since the dorama came out, but what can i do, i wanna watched it online but it's sooo difficult, i hate 'buffering time'..... -___-
** I felt soooo relax when i watched this dorama, there's no tense or suspense, every character in this dorama was nice and gentle, NO BAD GUY... we just need to think a little to guess what would happened next....
** I like Eita's hairstyle and the way he talk when he disagree with his fellows, "Doushite?doushite~" many times, that words always came up especially in the beginning of episodes.
** I like~ when Toma wear his doctor's uniform, TOMA IN WHITE OUTFIT = 100% KAKKOI~ *nosebleeding*

The "doushite?, doushite?" scene, this scene was from 2nd episode,
where Daiki didn't agree with the way Ryousuke ate his gyuudon.....aahh~

i hope there's a doctor with that face in the real world~ muahaha

~ ありがとう ~

Maou ( 魔王 - The Devil )

Manaka Tomoo / Naruse Ryo (Ohno Satoshi) is two-faced lawyer, known as Angel Lawyer who always defend for many people - and the other who plotting revenge for his brother death. His brother, Manaka Hideo was killed accidentally by his schoolmate, Serizawa Naoto (Ikuta Toma). Manaka Tomoo then had very deep grudge to Serizawa Naoto because his mother died after his brother and he became alone and homeless. The case was closed for self defense and Naoto wasn't get punishment.

In order to succed his revenge, Manaka Tomoo change his name into Naruse Ryo, a friend of him whom he killed to replace his identity. 11 years after his brother killed, he started to revenge to Naoto who already became a detective because his guilt. Ryo started to send tarot card inside red envelope to his kill target (people who involved in his brother's death) and Naoto- to tell who's his next target with Yamano's help (a friend of Manaka Hideo who bulllied by Naoto and his friends). People around Naoto - his close friends, brother and his father has died and he found out that the killer was his family lawyer, Naruse Ryo (Manaka Tomo). In the end, they meet each other and Manaka Tomoo asked Naoto to kill him, but he didn't because he felt guilty that Manaka Tomoo has became a killer because of him. Naoto then was shot by his own gun and died, while Tomoo regret his action and died because got stabbed by Yamano before.

PS :
This dorama will make you always curious about the next episodes again and again.
I like Toma's hairstyle here.
If I don't know Ohno well, i would hate him because he's done terrible thing to Toma. (but i realize this just acting and I admitt Ohno's acting were awesome)
Psst....Ninomiya Kazunari was guest in this dorama, played as the first victim's son.
Toma has many crying scene in this dorama, that made my heart broken...aahhh~ and in the end he must  died....i cried in my heart when i watched it, because there's my sister beside me *shy*

~ ありがとう ~

Fly, Daddy, Fly (フライ，ダディ，フライ )

Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter’s trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara’s school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group’s elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin (Okada Junichi), decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter. *asianmediawiki*

 PS : I've watched this movie in korean version (played by Lee Jun Ki), i thought "this movie is nice"....And then i watched in Japanese version, i said "sugoi~ this movie is awesome!". Okada Junichi is really kakkoi in this movie, i watched it twice because i wanna see his "bad boy" face again *wahaha*.

Fly, Daddy, Fly Korean version

I like the part when Sun Shin asked Hajime Suzuki to win against Ishihara and then Suzuki can protect him.*aww...so sweet~"

psstt...and for you in Indonesia, Okada Junichi's appearance in this movie is look alike Ariel Peterpan ...*at least that was i thought*

Sun Shin, Ariel...which one?

~ ありがとう ~

Homeless Student (ホームレス中学生/Homuresu Chugakusei )

This movie  is based on the best selling autobiographical novel “The Homeless Junior High School Student”, by  Tamura Hiroshi.

Tamura Hiroshi (Koike Teppei) is 14 year old ordinary junior high school student. After a term closing ceremony before summer holiday, Hiroshi comes up home and finds the yellow tape says that his house is sealed attached on the house entrance. Hiroshi and his siblings~ a college student brother and high school student sister~ suddenly become homeless. Hiroshi decides to live alone rather to trouble his siblings. He starts to spend his nights in public park called "poop park" because the sliding shaped like a poop. He undergo the homeless life with laughter and tears, he even eat cardboard and grass to survive, shower when rainy day.
Fortunately, he meet his friend, the parents of his friend and a social worker then help him to find a cheap rent house so he can reunite with his siblings and live together. Through the homeless life and trials, Hiroshi learns important things as a person.

Tamura Hiroshi (Tamuchin) and his siblings, just found out that they're homeless

"The poop sliding" in the park where Hiroshi lived

 PS: it's so sad to see Teppei must eat grass and cardboard, drink rain water and shower in the rain....:'(
but he's really cute as a junior high schooler, it still suits him.

~ ありがとう ~

Kaiji - The Ultimate Gambler

Kaiji (Fujiwara Tatsuya) is a part-timer at a minimarket. His life is just an ordinary life, a young man without money and girlfriend ~ a looser. One day, he found out that his friend leave him a huge debt which he impossible to repay. Then the shark loan offered him a solution, he can aboard a cruise ship and play some game. If he wins, the debt will be even. Kaiji take the offer and thanks to his cleverness, he wins...but a logistical screw-up causes him to fall further into debt. 
He must pay the debt by working in the uderground mining where he didn't know the location. He met Sahara (Matsuyama Kenichi) who inspired him to take the risk in order to get out from that place. Kaiji gets another shot at redemption when he volunteers to participate in a life-or-death challenge atop a skyscraper with Sahara and some other people. He succeeds while other people fell and died, then he gets the chance to play one last card game - if he win, he has a chance to win back all the money he's lost but if he lose, he would back to the underground mining forever. The end of the story, Kaiji succeed in winning the game, but all that money has gone  because his foolishness.


PS : TWO TUMBS UP! I can't guess the trick that Kaiji use for the game until he explain it....I need to think harder while watching this movie. :D~
The message is "we can't get something easily, we needs struggle and work hard to get it"

~ ありがとう ~ 

人間失格 (Ningen Shikkaku ) - No Longer Human / The Fallen Angel

"Ningen Shikkaku" anime version

"The Fallen Angel", Ningen Shikkaku movie version

This movie is adapted from a Japanese novel with the same title wrote by Osamu Dazai. Another alternative English title for this series could be Failure as a Human or Human Failure. The Japanese word shikkaku失格 means fail, failure like with a test or losing a position.

"No Longer Human" tells the story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...
Yozo Oba (Toma Ikuta) was born into a wealthy family in Tsugaru. As a child he practiced smiling to hide his true feelings and to get along with others. His classmate Dakeichi found out about Yozo's eccentric behavior and told others about him. But Dakeichi also told Yozo a strange prediction about his life ... that he will become popular with the ladies and draw beautiful pictures.
During Yozo's high school years he moved to Tokyo. In Tokyo he meets Horiki (Yusuke Iseya), a guy six years older than him. Horiki is known for being a player and one day drags Yozo to the Blue Flower Bar run by Madame Ritsuko (Michiyo Ookusu). At the bar there is poet Chuya Nakahara (Go Morita) who proclaims "war is brown like the color of shit". Yozo doesn't say anything as he takes in the environment.
Yozo starts to drink more often and starts to live the fast life like Horiki. Like Dakeichi's prediction, Yozo also becomes popular with the ladies and always has a woman next to him. But, Yozo starts to become sick of this lifestyle.
At a cafe, Yozo meets Hisako (Shinobu Terajima) a women who lets him drink without paying. Yozo senses that Hisako feels a heavy sense of loneliness like himself. One day Yozo and Hisako attempts to kill themselves out in the Sea of Kamakura. Hisako dies, but Yozo survives. His family then takes Yozo to a sanitarium ...*asianmediaWiki*

PS : I watched this movie on Red Channel few weeks ago. Actually i didn't really understand the plot, I watched it because there was Toma on that movie *laugh*. Toma's acting was really amazing (as usual), he can portrayed the alcoholic and drugs addict character amazingly. :D
(but i don't really like the scene where he kissed the older woman just for drugs *i got jealous* *blush*)
You must watch this movie if you curious with that scene....haha

~ ありがとう ~