God Give Me More Time: how could you go wrong with crying, wet Takeshi Kaneshiro?

[dangermousie]

Today's 'pimp' post is for Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake (God Give Me More Time), a jdrama starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, number 4 on dangermousie's favorite jdramas list (and somewhere in the Top 10 overall) (If you want to know jdrama ranking, it'a 1: Pride, 2: Kurosagi, 3: Forbidden Love, 4: Kamisama, 5: Hanadan).

One of the most awesome, melodramatic, unabashedly romantic dramas I've ever seen. And it's a jdrama, not a kdrama, but it has a kdrama's swoony sensibility, against-everything doomed romance and some incredible kissing, the best I've seen in jdramas. Not to mention Takeshi Kaneshiro, probably the most purely beautiful man I've ever seen. The plot involves a 17 year old girl dying from AIDS (which she got as a result of a 'paid date') who crosses paths with a haunted young composer (I think he is in his mid 20s). Incredible angst, love, and sheer fanservice follows (Keigo, the hero, wears black leather pants and white shirts and runs a hell of a lot). And you know I find the ending uplifting.

The second one is very spoilery:

I did lengthy, incoherent, madly in love posts when I first watched it, if you want a lot of details. Click on the kmsd tag.

Comments

[grey-fuzzy.livejournal.com]

"Uplifting" is definitely a good word to use when trying to convince others to watch tragic dramas. In fact, I converted quite a few friends to Silence using this particular adjective ;P. It's interesting that Hanadan is 5th on your jdrama list. I loved Kurosagi and Pride, but for some reason I find Hana Yori Dango a lot more emotionally evocative...

I haven't watched Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake but I just checked out your MVs, and I do believe I may have to give it a try.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I really really love Hanadan, but ultimately I think more 'dramatic' and 'angsty' storylines sort of trump. And of course Pride has Kimutaku :P I have never seen anything as awesome as Pride (nuanced, and complex, and moving) except Mars, in doramaland.

Re: uplifting. LOL. I find some tragic dramas have that (Kamisama, Snow Queen) and others (A Love to Kill) are just tragic. I'd actually place Silence in the latter category :)

But yeah, KMSD is awesome.

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of watching this but illness girl dramas kills me. They make me cry too much. I think one day when I have enough courage and huge supply of tissues I'll definately have to give this a watch. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's really good. And with a LOT of kissing :)