Never Mind The Jackal, Here Comes Seo YiAn

Kim Jaejoong and Song Jihyo in Codename Jackal  I’ve been dying to check out the Song Jihyo/KimJaejoong movie The Jackal is Coming ever since I first heard about it almost a year ago, so I’m kind of bummed to report that I wasn’t overly thrilled with the movie when I finally DID get to see it. The story of Jackal Onda which concerned a hapless Hitman named Min-Jung (Jihyo) who’s on the case to assassinate Hallyu Star Choi Hyun (Kim Jaejoong)...

Read More

Oh Aunty Michi, How I Have Loved Thee!

The Lovely Kimiko Yo as Aunty Michi in the 1997 Drama Virgin Road   Watching Summer Nude, (gee a lot of posts have been about that drama lately, haven't they) the Photography Studio that Asahi (Yamapi) worked at reminded me so much of the Studio/Living Place that the family owned in the superb classic 1997 J-drama Virgin Road, that I just HAD to dig up my old dramas and compare the two.   While the two Studio-Homes ended up not...

Read More

Who's That Girl: Yamamoto Mizuki

Mizuki Yamamoto as Aoi in Summer NudeOkay, who's this pretty young thang playing the bold and seductive Aoi Hirikiri in the Yamashita Tomohisa drama Summer Nude, anyway? In the story she's referred to as "that half-white girl" so I assume she's an Asian mix nationality, while that's kind of obvious with her striking features, I have to say that the first time I saw her sassily playing mindgames with Yamapi in Summer Nude's first episode, I thought...

Read More

Favorite J-Pop Songs: Morning Musume / Dance Suru No Da

Decided on a whim to take along an old Morning Musume collection I’d made awhile ago with me on my errands today, and I have to say that after all these years I still can’t believe how much those songs still hold up-I love those old tunes! And going through all the hits and singles, one song that REALLY hit home and took me back was the Girls’ superb “Dance Surunoda”. MAN, how I love this song- in fact, the last time (way, way back in the day) that...

Read More

The Sexy As Hell Dan Mitsu

Oooh man, I KNOW that the point of the thrilling drama “Hanzawa Naoki” is for said Bank Operative Hanzawa to catch Loan-jumping Con Man Higashida and recover the millions swindled out of them, but DAMN, as long as that criminal is on the run, we’ll continue seeing his seductively slutty girlfriend Miki, and as lusciously played by super-babe Dan Mitsu, I’m praying for her to continue escaping the arm of the law!!Man, when I first took a fancy to...

Read More