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dangermousieI have just started watching A Million Stars Falling from the Sky, a 2002 jdrama starring Kimura Takuya and Fukatsu Eri.
The drama (the Japanese name is Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi) is written by my favorite jdrama writer, the same woman who wrote Tatta Hitotsu No Koi, Aishiteiru to Itte Kure, Orange Days etc...
The story? When the drama opens, a young rich woman has killed herself but the police suspect this was no suicide but a murder staged to look like a suicide. A few details lead to a police detective suspecting that a chef's assistant Ryo (Kimura Takuya) had something to do with the woman's death, but the whole situation gets much more complicated when Ryo meets and complicatedly connects (on a very different level from his usual superficial-loathing relationships) with the detective's strong-willed younger sister Yuko (Fukatsu Eri).
I have been warned this is a very dark drama and it is, even one episode in. And you know? One episode in...I LOVE IT!!!!! Why didn't I watch it sooner? It's so good. We are basically only introduced to the set-up and the main characters in the first episode (we see the crime scene, the detective, Yuko and Ryo have a first meeting etc) but I am already drawn in.
Kimura Takuya is amazing. I have just finished Pride and it's a huge contrast between Halu in Pride and Ryo. But the same intensity (and kissing ability, whoa, no wonder that rich girl wants him) is there. When he is on screen, it's basically impossible to look at someone else. And even one episode in, you can tell there is something 'off-kilter' about Ryo (maybe he stares too long, or maybe his smile is too sharp) but you can't help but be drawn in anyway. And what little I've seen of Fukatsu Eri so far, I like. She comes across as sharp and strong and interesting and also a little off-kilter (though not in a predatory way, like Ryo).
Not to mention the premise is one of my favorite things: tarnished men and women who save/damn them, is so my thing, in fiction.
You know, it occurred to me after this ep. If they wanted me to be interested in Mawang remake, they should have cast Kimura Takuya as the Lawyer and Katori Shingo as the Cop (hey, they are both in SMAP, they should play off well each other) and Takeuchi Yuko as the woman involved with both of them. It would have been perfect.
Oh, and here is a MV for the drama, made by the awesome![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
walkwithheroes. It's spoilery as hell (I mean it!!!!) but it's really good.
The drama (the Japanese name is Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi) is written by my favorite jdrama writer, the same woman who wrote Tatta Hitotsu No Koi, Aishiteiru to Itte Kure, Orange Days etc...
The story? When the drama opens, a young rich woman has killed herself but the police suspect this was no suicide but a murder staged to look like a suicide. A few details lead to a police detective suspecting that a chef's assistant Ryo (Kimura Takuya) had something to do with the woman's death, but the whole situation gets much more complicated when Ryo meets and complicatedly connects (on a very different level from his usual superficial-loathing relationships) with the detective's strong-willed younger sister Yuko (Fukatsu Eri).
I have been warned this is a very dark drama and it is, even one episode in. And you know? One episode in...I LOVE IT!!!!! Why didn't I watch it sooner? It's so good. We are basically only introduced to the set-up and the main characters in the first episode (we see the crime scene, the detective, Yuko and Ryo have a first meeting etc) but I am already drawn in.
Kimura Takuya is amazing. I have just finished Pride and it's a huge contrast between Halu in Pride and Ryo. But the same intensity (and kissing ability, whoa, no wonder that rich girl wants him) is there. When he is on screen, it's basically impossible to look at someone else. And even one episode in, you can tell there is something 'off-kilter' about Ryo (maybe he stares too long, or maybe his smile is too sharp) but you can't help but be drawn in anyway. And what little I've seen of Fukatsu Eri so far, I like. She comes across as sharp and strong and interesting and also a little off-kilter (though not in a predatory way, like Ryo).
Not to mention the premise is one of my favorite things: tarnished men and women who save/damn them, is so my thing, in fiction.
You know, it occurred to me after this ep. If they wanted me to be interested in Mawang remake, they should have cast Kimura Takuya as the Lawyer and Katori Shingo as the Cop (hey, they are both in SMAP, they should play off well each other) and Takeuchi Yuko as the woman involved with both of them. It would have been perfect.
Oh, and here is a MV for the drama, made by the awesome
walkwithheroes. It's spoilery as hell (I mean it!!!!) but it's really good.
