Urge to kill...rising - seriously, I am livid.

[dangermousie]

I posted some time ago that I find the very concepts of some dramas off-putting. Well, I found one that takes the cake - just reading the synopsis gives me RAGE.

Koibumi is a very well-acted series that stars Watabe Atsuro, Mizuno Miki, and Wakui Emi. The story is based on the 1984 Naoki Award-winning short story "Koibumi" by Mikihiko Renjo that addressed the subtleties of male and female relationships. It was made into a film the following year. The story was adapted for the screen by renowned scriptwriter Okada Yoshikazu.

Shouichi (Watabe Atsuro) is an art teacher with a very eccentric style. He basically has the personality of a young boy who does things that he feels are right, and doesn't really think too much about the consequences of his actions. Shoichi's wife, Kyouko (Mizuno Miki), is a no-nonsense mother figure that always has to clean up after Shoichi's mistakes. Their two personalities strike a balance and they enjoy a happy life together with their son, Suguru, who has grown up to be more responsible to make up for his father's childishness.

One day, his former lover Etsuko (Wakui Emi) shows up at his school, and tells him that she is dying from a terminal illness and has only six months to live. Shouichi decides to be with her until her death, so he quits his job, leaves his family, and finds a new job so he can spend more time with Etsuko at the hospital. Kyouko wakes up to find her husband gone with no explanation, and goes out in search of him...

Apparently when she finds him, she agrees to the husband's request to not only let him go but to visit the girlfriend so she won't be lonely.

DISHRAG DISRAG DISHRAG.

I want to find the male character and set him on fire! Sure, go ahead (*&^%, abandon your wife and young kid to play house with some dying chick - so noble of you! And with the nerve to ask your wife to help!

If I was the wife in this scenario, not only forget acquiescing in his insanity, I'd serve him a meal with tacks and nails in it and send the videotape of him choking to death to the girlfriend.

WTF!

Seriously.

Which insane male fantasy is THIS?????????

SO MUCH RAGE

Comments

[mishane.livejournal.com]

I'm of the mindset that, if you want to leave me, go ahead. Your loss.

So that drama would have been over in 2 episodes.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He can go, but I am going to take every penny first. So it's be a bitter divorce court drama :P

[cocori.livejournal.com]

I liked that drama, but I HATED it as well. I never liked Watabe Atsuro in any of the dramas I've seen him in and his wishy-washy character just sealed my hatred for him.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It just - I cannot see how this story is put-upable with. At all. Ugh.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaha.

have a dishrag in my icon, just to increase your happiness level;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Have a dishrag back :)

I am not even someone for whom cheating is an automatic dealbreaker in a story but this is truly really something else. WTF!

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

cheating is pretty deal-breaker-ery for me(see City Hall) but I agree, this is quite momentously appalling.

hehe:)

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Which insane male fantasy is THIS?????????

Sadly, this sounds like less of a male fantasy and more of like:

Dear Women,

This is an example of a good man.

Sincerely,
The Patriarchy

;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ugh. You are totally right.

[(Anonymous)]

Well.

I'm sure it's not as bad as it sounds. Judging a drama by the description of a plot...Is very shallow.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am a shallow and frivolous person.

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

The drama sounds. . . odd. In a way, I could see it as a good thing: spending the last weeks with someone who always loved you, even if you might not love them anymore. But, on the other hand - he's married with a child and he wants his family to go along with it. That's weird.


I will admit to never getting past the first three or four episodes, but didn't 90 Days sort of have the same plot? The dying man leaves his wife because he wants to spend his last few months with the cousin he loved and he asks the cousin (whose engaged or seriously seeing someone, I think?) to leave the guy and come with him.


They are similar in that way. So, I have to ask: did you ever see anything wrong with the 90s Days plot? I see something a little wrong with a man leaving his wife to spend his last days with his cousins - in a way, regarding the feelings of others.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I will forgive anything to Kang Ji Hwan. :)

Joking aside, it's different to me. See, I would have no problem with the story if it was about this guy discovering his old gf who is dying and who he loved all his life and leaving his wife for it. It's selfish, sure, but understandable and interesting.

But here he doesn't appear to have loved the ex all this time, and moreover, he expects wifey to go along with it, and they also have a child. WTF!

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

But here he doesn't appear to have loved the ex all this time, and moreover, he expects wifey to go along with it, and they also have a child.

WTF, indeed. I think it would be interesting (I've never seen it, so I don't know if it goes down that way), if the husband had been in love with the girlfriend, but also loved the wife and thought she could help him get over the ex. It would make his character a bit horrid - no one should marry someone to get over someone else - but, it would make things less icky. Maybe.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah - it would be interesting.

Re: RAGE.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. Basically that's it.