Sunny Korean Movie Review

Hey it’s Miss Lee Min Ho; today I will be talking about an amazing movie I saw recently. The flm is a Korean movie called Sunny.  It came out on May 4, 2011 and it is 124 minutes long. This film was truly amazing I cried so much at the ending. I feel that many young adults or teens that have really close friends are able to connect with this. Even adults who haven’t seen their friends for a very long time and they become reunited with them again would be able to connect with this movie.

                Na-Mi goes to the hospital to visit her mother in law or mother. As she is leaving the hospital to go home and care for her daughter she realized that one of her high school friends is in the hospital. She decides to visit her and she figures out that she has cancer. Her friend asks her for one favor to bring back Sunny. Sunny is their group of friends that they had during high school. Throughout the movie you see her thinking about the past and we get to see how her life was during the 80’s we also get to see how she meets her friends and all the crazy things they did together. You  go back to the present with Na-Mi trying to find the group of friends and them acting like teenagers for the last time together.

                Where do I start with this review the movie was just so great and I was really able to connect with it, I cried so much during the end but I also laughed a lot throughout the whole thing.  Lim Na-Mi was played by Shim Eun-Kyung the teen version and Yoo Ho-Jeong the adult version. Both were so freaking great I can’t even express how much I loved them. I laughed so much in the beginning the group was going to get in a fight with another group called “Girl Generation” as they were cursing at each other Na-Mi starts shaking in the back and then starts going crazy cursing at them and the other group got freaked out so they ran away. At that moment the group Sunny was able to accept her, I just couldn’t stop laughing I thought she was just so adorable and didn’t expect her to do that. I also really liked the part were Lim the adult version was folding clothes at home and decided to wear her daughter’s uniform to feel young again. As she is wearing the uniform, her daughter comes back from school she tries to hide but her daughter ends up catching her. They just stare at each other and the daughter walks away saying that next time she should buy her own uniform. I was cracking up and I thought how embracing that must be if I caught my mom wearing my clothes I would just laugh and feel awkward.  Kang So-Ra is played by Ha Chun-Hwa teen and Jin Hee Kyung adult. I loved the people who were picked for these characters. I felt that they looked the same adult and young. I really liked the character she was like a tough tomboy and totally had a leader feel to her. She is the one who got cancer in her adult years. She was totally my favorite character because you see how much she cares about her friend and will do anything for them.  Hwang Jin-Hee was played by Hong Jin-Hee adult and Park Jin-Joo teen. All I have to say about this character is that even though she cursed so much she was adorable.  Min Hyo-Rin was played by Su-Ji teen and Yoon Jung adult. I hated this character but liked her. I hated her because of her attitude and she treated everyone like crap. I liked her because at the end of the day she would defend her friends no matter what, I felt that Su-Ji and Na-Mi ended up getting somewhat close by the end of their teen time together. There are more people in the group but these people are the ones who really got my attention and ended up becoming my favorite ones.  Throughout the drama you just see how close they become as friends and see that with each other they are really feel comfortable and could do anything. One of my favorite parts was Lim Na-Mi’s first love which was  Joon-Ho played by Kim Shi-Ho who totally looks like a younger brother of Kim Hyung Joong. I just really like seeing her first love experience and her following him around. But then it also really saddened me because she got heartbroken by him she saw her kissing one of her friends but she knew it wasn’t her fault. As this happened you could actually feel what the character is feeling as if you are the one being heartbroken; I couldn’t stop crying in this part. In the future you see the adult Na-Mi going to see the adult Joon-Ho all she does is give him a drawing she drew of him and walking away I don’t know why but that part just got to me so much and I cried so much more. You see the adult version feeling the heart break of her first love again and trying to overcome it. I really liked the part when 4 of the people in the group when they are adults go to these bullies who were bugging Na-Mi’s daughter and start betting them.  They didn’t care how old they were they enjoyed it because it brought them the feeling of being young together and knew this would be the last time they could ever do this again. The film was just so astonishing there were so many incredible parts to it which I can’t go over.

                I give this movie infinity monohorns out of 10. I highly recommend this drama especially to watch it with a group of friend that you truly care about. You will feel everything that these characters feel. You will laugh, cry, and get mad. I can’t explain in words how truly incredible this movie really is. Please just watch it!!! Thanks for reading my post please check out my previous one which was Infinite Request MV Review   .

                

   

 Question: What is something that made you laugh and cry in this movie or any other movie? Leave a comment answering this questions and opinions on this film. 

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Nobuto Wo Produce Review

                Hey, it’s Ms. Lee Min Ho with another review for you today. Today I am reviewing Nobute Wo Produce a Japanese drama. It came out on October 15, 2005 and ended on December 17, 2005. It has only 10 episodes and each were less than 50 minutes long so it was a pretty fast watch. I didn’t dislike the drama but it just wasn’t for me.

                Nobuta Kotani is new in school but she is very quit and she has a very gloomy look to her.  Shuji Kiritani is very popular in school and everyone likes him but he can’t open himself up to people. The only person he could actually be true with is his best friend Akira Kusano. They noticed that Kotani starts getting bullied a lot especially for the way she looks. So, Kiritani and Kusano decided to give her a makeover so she won’t get bullied. Throughout the process all three start becoming close friends and Kusano starts developing feelings for Kotani.

                I didn’t love the drama I got kind of annoyed with many things of the drama. First of all Nobuta Kotani played by Maki Horikita did a good job. I just didn’t really like her character she was able to open herself up to both of the guys but she still had the gloomy look by the end. I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t change the way she looked but I wish she was happier and had more confidence by the end. It seems that she didn’t because she still always looked down which got on my nervous must of the drama. Shuji Kiritani played by Kazuya Kamenashi also did a great job but again wasn’t my favorite character. It was so obvious that he liked Kotani and I wished he would confess to her but he never did. I felt that he just ignored his feelings which I wish he wouldn’t. But, my overall favorite character was Akira Kusano played by Tomohisa Yamashita he was true to himself throughout the drama. He always knew how he felt and was able to tell Kotani and I truly fell for his characters. What I did like about the drama was that it focuses a lot on friendship and it made it enjoyable. But, it made so many suggestions to romance that I wish it had a little romance in it. School 2013 doesn’t have romance in It at all it was just about friendship which by the end I wasn’t hoping for the romance but of this one I wished that Shuji and Nobuta would have told each other how they felt but they didn’t. That’s what really made me not love the drama.

                I give it a 6.8 monohorns out of 10.  I didn’t like it much I felt that the romance was missing. I didn’t like that Shuji wasn’t sure about his feelings and was never able to confess. I got so annoyed by Nobuto I wished you could see the confidence in her by the end of the drama but I felt like we didn’t. I got so annoyed that she always had her face to the floor ahhhh I hated it. The only person I truly liked was Akira he was so confident and sure about himself which made him a great character. But, I did like that it did focus a lot on friendship showing how important it is. So if you want a friendship type of drama with no romance in it at all this is for you. Thanks for reading my post please check out my pervious one which was about Dream High Drama Review.

Question: Which drama did you almost like but it had something important to it missing? Please leave a comment answering  the question and your opinions of the drama.

For me it’s totally this drama if it had the romance and if Nobuto wouldn’t look at the floor by the end it would have been one of my favorite dramas.

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Blue Spring Ride

Kou and Futaba: Their love seen to be cursed,
something always getting in the way

Konnichiwa~

Nadeshiko-chan here and I forgot to post yesterday. I’m a little late, but anyway I’ll be reviewing Ao Haru Ride by Sakisaka Io on this fine winter day. The ongoing series begins with the heroine, Yoshioka Futaba, in middle school; she’s a timid, cute, and feminine girl who dislikes boys, since she finds them loud and obnoxious. Well, except for Tanaka Kou, a gentle and rather quiet boy, that also has feelings for her. They decide to go to the festival together, but because of a series of misunderstand and mishaps, he stands her up. She wants to confront him and work things out, but when she goes to school she finds out he’s transferred to another school, thus she’s left without closure. Then she begins gaining the attention of other boys because of her cute, girly attitude, causing her female “friends” to ostracize her.

The story then skips to her first year in high school, Futaba working hard to reset her image, becoming a tomboy and making her large appetite known in order to keep boys away. She has very shallow relationships with her new “friends” that only like her because even though she’s cute, she’s too boyish to pose a threat to them. Towards the end of her 1^st year, she reunites with Tanaka, but like her self, he’s changed; first of all he goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou now and more his masculine and sarcastic. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but that they can’t go back and she agrees, just happy to have closure. Her feelings for the past him are done, but she soon starts developing feelings for the present him, for Mabuchi Kou. Also, after she meets him, she befriends Yuuri Makita, who was ostracized by the girls because she’s cute and popular among boys like Futaba was in middle school. Though their friendship takes some time to develop, they soon become true friends that care about each other. Later, they become a trio with Shuuko Murao, the cool “lone wolf” of their class. Though it’s hard to tell whether she likes them at all at first, it soon becomes apparent that she cares about them and she steadily begins opening up to them.  Anyway, as Futaba stops worrying about what others think, her crush for Kou continue develops and her concern for him leads her to helping him deal with his family issues. After which, he also begins to fall for her once again, the only problem is he isn’t very honest with his feelings and someone from his past keeps distracting him. But he better hurry, because he’s not the only one interested in Futaba. I’ll end it at that, I don’t want to spoil too much.

Now the characters: I originally didn’t like Futaba as a heroine, trying to change herself just to make “friends”, but then I realized that it must have been traumatic for her after being abandoned by all those who she thought

Futaba; Kou; Yuuri
Youchi (Kou's older brother); Shuuko; Aya

were her friends. And after awhile I realized she was rather honest, always doing her best and putting in all her power when she’s determined about something. She’s got a lot of spunk and is working on another one of her major character faults: avoiding a problem instead of facing it head on. As you read you might notice this bad habit of hers and see moments where she’s able to over come it. Then there’s the male lead Kou, dishonest and distant Kou, keeping himself away from the rest of group. Originally Futaba simply reminded him of his happier days before his family turmoil, but he starts to developing feelings for the present Futaba as well. These feelings become more apparent after she helps him deal with some his family issues, but he doesn't feel it’s the appropriate time to act on his feelings. Overall he's very kind and looks out for her, he simply can’t be honest with his feelings. The only one whose aware of his situation and his feeelings for her are Aya so far, someone he meets because of Futaba and became best friends with. But the series is ongoing, so things might change. There are 29 chapters out so far and I highly recommend reading those and waiting for the next chapter in this love-fillled high school drama

~Nadeshiko-chan