[jdrama] Koi ni Ochitara 2005 review
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scottishlassIn my attempt of Pimping Tsuyoshi I will write a couple of reviews for Kusanagi Tsuyoshi's recent doramas. Let's start with this one, shall we?
synopsis
Suzuki Shimao (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) gave up a very promising IT major to continue his late father's screw manufactury. He is a hard working, trusting young man who cares deeply for his mother and younger sister. When one of his employees embezzles all funds for the manufactury and he goes bankrupt, he recalls an encounter with business tycoon Takayanagi Toru (Tsutsumi Shinichi) who told him to seek him out if he ever was in trouble.
What then begins is a battle between two opposites. A battle of wills and the lure of power and money and the sad consequence that absolute power, corrupts even the purest at heart almost absolutely ...
cast/acting
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, the blur man of SMAP, gives a very solid performance as Shimao. You believe his idealistic view of the world, his love for his friends and family and also his deep faith in the good of man. But you can also see the changes in him while he works for Frontier, Takayanagi's global company. shimao is naive, but not as naive as not to make him a good business man. If he wasn't so trusting, his company wouldn't have been robbed. But what impressed me even more was the change between Shimao and Suzuki-san CEO. WOAH! Tsu, you can do evil very well (especially with those eyebrows).
Beside Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Tsutsumi Shinichi plays the *Money Rules Everything* obsessed tycoon with such delicious naughtiness, it is fun to watch. They inevitable clashes over business decisions and their eventual friendship is very well portrayed. I like Tsutsumi very much and I have seen him alongside a lot of Johnny's lately, like Okada and of course, Kimura, but in this dorama he is not the serious and honourable character but high strung, careless and cold tycoon and I love it. It is obvious, he had fun playing Takayanagi and it is fun to watch him doing it.
And I simply love Kimura Yoshino as Suzuki Mariko. She looks a bit like Takeuchi Yuko in some of the scenes but overall she gives Shimao's sister a beautiful, deep and strong image. Together with Yamamoto Koji as Ando Ryuta she makes a cute secondary OTP that gives a lot of comic relief even though their love story has its ups and downs as well.
The other characters, esp. Matsushita Nao as Shirakawa Kaori and Wakui Emi as Kirino Nanami, were very well casted and did very well. Out of the two, I liked Nanami better and even if they had paired her up with Takayanagi at the end, she would have made a wonderful older girl-friend for Shimao (now why do I want to pair up Tsu with older women again and again?? It's bad enough he has a strange fixation with his mom anyway :s) as she had both the big sister as well as a motherly quality with a lot of sex appeal thrown in IMHO.
review:
I watched the whole 11 episodes in two days back to back as it was so interesting to watch how from episode to episode the characters around Shimao and how Shimao himself changed. The series has everything I like in a jdrama, humour, deep emotion and stylish photography. Some of the sets are just beautiful and the director uses them to great extent and from extraordinary angles.
I loved Tsu doing evil. His portrayal of a man who always tried to do good and see good in others, being seduced by power and money is outstanding. And I have to admit somtimes I felt uncomfortable to watch it as he was so good at it. You could relate to his feelings of giddiness, the seduction money can provide and the sheer drug power can be. But it wouldn't be a jdrama if it doesn't show the effect of loss of power and how the protagonists do their best to get out of their slump and carry on, as better human beings ... or not.
The dorama is solidly made and it is sad that it isn't as widely known. All in all, a very interesting, very under-rated jdrama.
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synopsis
Suzuki Shimao (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) gave up a very promising IT major to continue his late father's screw manufactury. He is a hard working, trusting young man who cares deeply for his mother and younger sister. When one of his employees embezzles all funds for the manufactury and he goes bankrupt, he recalls an encounter with business tycoon Takayanagi Toru (Tsutsumi Shinichi) who told him to seek him out if he ever was in trouble.
What then begins is a battle between two opposites. A battle of wills and the lure of power and money and the sad consequence that absolute power, corrupts even the purest at heart almost absolutely ...
cast/acting
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, the blur man of SMAP, gives a very solid performance as Shimao. You believe his idealistic view of the world, his love for his friends and family and also his deep faith in the good of man. But you can also see the changes in him while he works for Frontier, Takayanagi's global company. shimao is naive, but not as naive as not to make him a good business man. If he wasn't so trusting, his company wouldn't have been robbed. But what impressed me even more was the change between Shimao and Suzuki-san CEO. WOAH! Tsu, you can do evil very well (especially with those eyebrows). Beside Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, Tsutsumi Shinichi plays the *Money Rules Everything* obsessed tycoon with such delicious naughtiness, it is fun to watch. They inevitable clashes over business decisions and their eventual friendship is very well portrayed. I like Tsutsumi very much and I have seen him alongside a lot of Johnny's lately, like Okada and of course, Kimura, but in this dorama he is not the serious and honourable character but high strung, careless and cold tycoon and I love it. It is obvious, he had fun playing Takayanagi and it is fun to watch him doing it. And I simply love Kimura Yoshino as Suzuki Mariko. She looks a bit like Takeuchi Yuko in some of the scenes but overall she gives Shimao's sister a beautiful, deep and strong image. Together with Yamamoto Koji as Ando Ryuta she makes a cute secondary OTP that gives a lot of comic relief even though their love story has its ups and downs as well.The other characters, esp. Matsushita Nao as Shirakawa Kaori and Wakui Emi as Kirino Nanami, were very well casted and did very well. Out of the two, I liked Nanami better and even if they had paired her up with Takayanagi at the end, she would have made a wonderful older girl-friend for Shimao (now why do I want to pair up Tsu with older women again and again?? It's bad enough he has a strange fixation with his mom anyway :s) as she had both the big sister as well as a motherly quality with a lot of sex appeal thrown in IMHO.
review:
I watched the whole 11 episodes in two days back to back as it was so interesting to watch how from episode to episode the characters around Shimao and how Shimao himself changed. The series has everything I like in a jdrama, humour, deep emotion and stylish photography. Some of the sets are just beautiful and the director uses them to great extent and from extraordinary angles.
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I loved Tsu doing evil. His portrayal of a man who always tried to do good and see good in others, being seduced by power and money is outstanding. And I have to admit somtimes I felt uncomfortable to watch it as he was so good at it. You could relate to his feelings of giddiness, the seduction money can provide and the sheer drug power can be. But it wouldn't be a jdrama if it doesn't show the effect of loss of power and how the protagonists do their best to get out of their slump and carry on, as better human beings ... or not.
The dorama is solidly made and it is sad that it isn't as widely known. All in all, a very interesting, very under-rated jdrama.
The dorama is available at
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Date: 2008-03-21 09:51 pm (UTC)really?! ooooo &hearts &hearts &hearts
should i read the review before watching it? xD
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Date: 2008-03-21 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-03-21 10:25 pm (UTC)Watch people watch~~
Btw, this even made me get over my dislike for Tanihara Shousuke, for whatever reason.
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Date: 2008-03-22 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-22 11:41 am (UTC)