ラブシャッフル Love Shuffle Episode Two First Aired: Winter 2009 Carlie’s Rating:
Rate This Episode: Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. First week of love shuffling. Ojiro discovers a bit about AiAi’s past and why she has trouble in relationships. Older woman tries to seduce Kei and ends up in a bar fight (Hmm… Bad English there… I mean Kei ends up in a bar fight!). And there is a couple of pyjama parties…

Wow! This is a pretty crap show. The whole thing just seems pretentious. Let’s say it one more time, come on… “Love Shuffle”.
The music is soooo bad as well. The music sounds like it belongs in “Priscilla , Queen of the Desert.” I really don’t have much to say about this episode. It just didn’t excite me at all. The characters are just so bland. The good thing about this episode was the bad English. I love listening to bad English. One thing I don’t get is why the native English speakers always seem to slur their words/don’t talk clearly at all. It is almost impossible for me, a native speaker, to understand them. It’s not just in this, I’ve seen it before in other shows. The rest… Liar Game, also staring Matsuda Shota, I thought was bad but actually got pretty good. Will this also improve? We’ll see if I can continue to watch through this boring program. Who would have thought that swinging could actually be boring?
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ラブシャッフル Love Shuffle Episode One First Aired: Winter 2009 Carlie’s Rating: Rate This Episode: Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. This is about four peeps who get stuck in an elevator - it turns out they all live on the same floor. They are all a bit disgruntled with their love life and decide to get a new moral outlook - and to shuffle their romances. That is, each week they will swap partners. No keys in a bowl here, it seems like fate is decided by cards. Awwww. The characters here are unusual which usually works for me, but some how… some how I don’t know what to think. They aren’t bland, that’s for sure, but I’m not really loving them either. The therapist’s hair makes me laugh though… And this was strange too. I usually love strange. Peeing into cups… Really bad and old back ground music… Lame kisses that make me giggle. This should have me excited but I’m not. It some how just feels bland. At the same time, this was more like an “intro” episode. No shuffling has taken place yet. I’m hoping the next episode will be better and will grow on me. For now, meh, I’m not so impressed but I’m not hating it either. Daigo’s character. Some how, out of all the characters, I think he’s my favourite. It wasn’t bad, it was just a bit bland. These guys also live in an awesome apartment complex. I would shuffle with them just to live there!!! note: tbs drama alert!

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ただ、君を愛してる Just, Loving You International Title: Heavenly Forest Staring: Miyazaki Aoi, Tamaki Hiroshi, Kuroki Meisa, Koide Keisuke Rating:
Rate This Movie: Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. A story of a group of university students. Makoto is a quiet and awkward guy who loves photography. Shizuru is a weird and childish girl who often lies. They trespass into a forest to take photos. This movie has great quirky characters and a beautiful soundtrack. Bring tissues, I’m sure this sentimental flick will make you cry!

This is a really nice movie. It’s not slow paced, but it is not action packed either. The characters, I believe, are what make this movie work. I particularly like the fact that Shizuru is ambiguous, you can’t tell if she is lying or telling the truth, and poor Makoto is as gullible as they get. However, It is hard to review this movie critically without giving away important plot developments. Thus, I’m putting a lot of my review under spoiler tags: Show ▼

In the end, yes, Shizuru died and I think it was well handled, it didn’t feel too sentimental. However, the nature of the disease felt contrived which I think made her death lose some of its powerfulness. I cried my eyes out the first time I saw the movie, but on this second viewing some many months later I did not (I need to point out that I am a cry baby and usually cry in all films). I don’t know, it some how felt disappointing that she had to die. I wasn’t expecting some kind of Hollywood ending, but I don’t know what I was expecting. Somehow the ending feels a bit cheap, like we were cheated…

Some of the English in this was hilarious! In particular when Makoto goes to a gallery and an English speaker just says “Hi! Please”. At least they didn’t subtitle. I really have to commend Tamaki Hiroshi, he is really great at being socially awkward. I love everything Miyazaki Aoi does as well as Koide Keisuke even if he does look like he spent too much time with a bottle of fake tan. Really liked the characters There was just something about the ending… Over all it was a nice film.

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