Sakari
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1 hour ago, mylovelystar said:OMG so cute!!!
But what do they say? "Tsutto! Motto! Emme!" ???
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On 7/3/2018 at 3:32 PM, widala said:
Recently, I watched a Japanese movie about teacher-student romance, My Teacher (Ikuta Toma, Hirose Suzu).
It was a sweet story about a highschool girl who had a crush on her teacher.
Ha! That's Kazune Kawahara's classic (in my view) manga Sensei! that was published 1996-2007. Took the Japanese a while to come out with a live-action version.
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On 6/27/2018 at 10:17 PM, popai5 said:
What was the response when 'My Spring Days/The Spring Days of My Life' with Sooyoung and Kam Woo Sung (20 year gap), 'Marriage Contract' with Uee and Lee Seo Jin (17 years), 'Entertainer' with Lee Hyeri and Ji Sung (17 years), 'The Flower in Prison' Jin Se Yeon and Go Soo (16 years), 'Beautiful Gong Shim' Bang Minah and Namgoong Min (15 years) and 'A Beautiful Mind' with Park So Dam and Jang Hyuk? Oh I forgot 'Prime Minister and I' with Yoona and Lee Bum So (20 years).
Sorry for the long list. I don't know what the age gap between these characters are supposed to be. I guess younger actresses are often paired with older and more experienced actors to help with the acting and maybe to help with ratings. But did the public make a big fuss with those shows too? Or is it a newer thing with the voices from the more recent 'feminist activists'?
That's seven dramas, and I have only seen three of them. I don't know whether there was any fuss about those, but if there wasn't, I would presume it was because of clear differences from My Ajusshi.
As in: in both My Spring Days and Marriage Contract, the Young Woman was dying, which made it all right for the Older Man to take care of her. Even fall in love with her – it would never last, anyhow. In Prime Minister and I there was no hint of a romance during the first half, or at least, I didn't see any. Maybe there could have been in the latter half, but by then, the very weird arc with the Older Man's wife had taken over (IIRC, the wife was supposed to be dead, but then she wasn't). Also, the Young Woman in PM&I was played by Yoona. While she is easy on the eyes (at least mine), she seems never to project much emotion. Quite a difference from MA's IU.
Then again, in both MSD and MC, the Older Man was rich; in PM&I, he had a position of great power. In MA, he has neither much money nor great power; he is just a rather normal salaryman. So the three earlier dramas looked very much like fairy tales, whereas MA has a very realistic feel – things like this could really happen, or even be happening right now. Even if I found age gaps to be a problem, I would probably not mind them much if they occurred in fantasies – but would react to them if they occurred in reality, or in a drama that seems as real, and intense, as MA.
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Someone else posted about the possibility of a Japanese remake (of MA) 50 or 100 pages ago, and I remember having the same idea. Now I find it even more probable – witness the Japanese remake of Signal airing right now: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Signal_(2018)
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I just finished my rewatch, and... What can I say? This drama is magic.
Anyway... I wonder about the translation of what Ki Hoon starts writing in the last episode: "They are at the Grand Canyon." What on earth could that mean? I'm sure there must be a mistake. Isn't "Grand Canyon" the nickname of Yoo Ra, a.k.a. Dorky Actress?
OK. Tomorrow, I shall have a look at Yoona's Street...
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My rewatch has progressed to E13. Regarding the oft-quoted OhmyStar article, I strongly disagree about the drama's supposed portrayal of Yoon Hee – Cheating Wife – as supremely bad (and of Dong Hoon, as supremely good.) Even before Dong Hoon learns about the adultery, there is ample evidence of the insensitive way he treats his wife, of how he essentially has given up on the marriage.
I think I have said this before... My explanation for the breakdown of their relationship is the decision to send the son off to school and the resulting emptiness of the "new" family home – which leads to Dong Hoon returning to his "old" home. But I admit, this is never spelled out in the drama. Is it just my non-Korean imagination? Does this point ever come up in the DC Inside discussion? What little Korean I know is not enough to find out for myself...
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5 hours ago, justamom said:
How am I going to watch any drama after My Ahjussi???
If you are suffering from withdrawal symptoms, may I suggest I Am Sam from 2007 with Park Min Young and Yang Dong Geun (not Jang Dong Gun)?
There is an age gap and an OTP and lots of other seriously fun stuff. You want K-Pop? There is T.O.P from Big Bang – with a wig, right? You want Hallyu star? There is Lee Min Ho. You want Miss Korea? There is Son Tae Young.
The ending isn't too shabby, either.
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1 hour ago, sadiesmith said:
Paju was one heck of a shock for me. Not sure if you should go there.
Paju is OK if you want depression.
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5 hours ago, Kimchi Sweet Potato said:
How is everyone fairing? I feel lost
Need a new addiction stat!
I started rewatching, one episode a day.
I had forgotten how downright unpleasant Ji An is in the first few episodes. A nasty piece of work, she is.
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On 5/18/2018 at 10:50 AM, africandramalover said:
I felt like the closing statement was direct from the writer, even if it was attributed to the Loans Gangster....
"You are all decent people.May you hang in there till you find comfort for yourselves. I was once in the same situation as you. I will help you as if we were family."
I think there are actually two parts here. The first part could be from the writer to the viewers: "You are all decent people.May you hang in there till you find comfort for yourselves".
The second part ("I was once...") is clearly the mission statement from Yeongkwang Loans. You can see it on the wall here (start of E02):
The Korean text is
저 도 한때는 당신과 같은 처지였습니다.
가족 같은 마음으로 돕겠습니다.-
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54 minutes ago, aisling said:
Quick questions! Have JA and DH ever touched each other except for that forced kiss and head hit? Is it possible that they never even touched?
I'm sure they touched each other – a lot – during the subway ride when Ji An installed the wiretap in Dong Hoon's handphone.
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10 hours ago, hushhh said:
I don't think this drama has been written as a healthy romance. The relationship is too asymmetrical as it is for it to be healthy. The asymmetrical nature is not about the age. JiAn knows too much and hero worship Donghoon to be his equal at this point.
That is precisely the point. I think we, as viewers, keep forgetting how little Dong Hoon has known about Ji An's doings for the last weeks. Since the start of this all, the bug incident, they have eaten together three or four times, ridden the subway sometimes together, taken care of the grandmother once or twice, and Dong Hoon has learned some details of Ji An's past. But he has no idea at all of what Ji An has been doing with Scheming Boss, or whether she has friends, or what she does on, say, Saturday night. As of now, he has no idea why Ji An disappeared. It was because of Gi Beom getting caught – but Dong Hoon doesn't even know there is a Gi Beom.
Also, Dong Hoon doesn't know it was Ji An who told Cheating Wife about him knowing about the adultery. He doesn't even know Ji An has met Cheating Wife, does he?
On the other hand, Ji An knows absolutely everything about Dong Hoon. She has him in the palm of her hand, as I believe the saying goes.
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I was quite surprised when Dong Hoon, looking for Ji An, went to Ji An's "apartment" and was asked by the friendly neighbor what brought him there. Dong Hoon should, of course, have told the truth, that he was looking for Ji An. But no, he said that he had heard "that there was a crack in the building up there."
He lied.
Fishy.
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4 hours ago, sadiesmith said:
Seeing how this show turns us into obsessive souls, can everyone share with me which other dramas you have similarly obsessed over? Any other dramas where you just could not stand it anymore if the OTP don't move toward each other, where you root for their happiness so hard your heart hurts, where you fear they won't/will be together in the end? Where you hunt down fanfics to ease the anxiety? Maybe I will watch them when this show is over because I will not know how else to pass the days.
I think I was rather heavily invested in SECRET (KBS 2013) with Ji Seong and Hwang Jeong Eum. Not that my heart really hurt, but, you know, that was a classic OTP.
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5 hours ago, h2ogirl said:
I'd say My Ahjussi has set the new gold standard for so-called healing dramas.
"Healing" dramas? I have been wondering about that word for a while as it keeps popping up here – "healing" this, "healing" that. But what is a "healing" drama? My Mister isn't a medical drama, is it? Are there sick people here? OK, there is Ji An's grandmother – but is she enough? And nobody is even trying to heal her, are they?
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14 hours ago, h2ogirl said:
Why doesn't DH regret it after hitting JA? I thought he considers that the most disgraceful thing a guy could do? He acts like he never hit her, that things are "cool" between them, and that's what bothers me.
This scene is preceded by one at the office where Dong Hoon is told that Deputy Kim has a crush on a female colleague, but that the lady already has a boyfriend. His reaction is that Deputy Kim "is letting his imagination run wild, that's why he feels like he's going crazy. Those kinds of emotions will be gone as soon as he gets a good slap on the head." And Dong Hoon proceeds to do just that, to give the poor guy a good slap on the head. Ji An witnesses all of this.
So, this is what Ji An refers to in the evening scene. She asks Dong Hoon to give her a slap like that, to rid her of her "pathetic" emotions. Unfortunately for Dong Hoon, when he finally does slap her on the head, she overdoes the physical effect and falls to the ground. But this is not because of being hit violently, it's for theatrical effect – for the lurking photographer.
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1 hour ago, maddymappo said:
The way the story is set up is very brilliant and clever, how she deceives him and uses him, then to find out how deeply she admires him and how he treats her with respect and understands her regardless of her past. So this is the perfect setup for an older man - all systems go, given the green light.
Most dramas are fantasies. This one is an ajeossi fantasy. I
I don't think all systems are go. Ajeossi here has a son, albeit an absent one. Let's say the son comes home for a vacation – will Ajeossi have a serious talk with him and prepare him for a divorce? Because Dad has found a nice young woman at work whom he wants to date? I don't think so.
I also don't think Do Hoon's staring occasionally at Ji An and his waiting for her at various places necessarily mean that he is head over heels in love with her. Because of the wiretapping, he has become just about the center of Ji An's life. But the relation is completely lop-sided. Do Hoon has no idea about the wiretapping, has he? For him, Ji An is a sympathetic, young, female temp worker who recently – one evening, out of the blue – declared that she loves him, and keeps declaring it. It is understandable that he cannot stop wondering about something like that, and will feel a need to understand more about Ji An. Any decent person in Do Hoon's situation versus Ji An would, in fact, wonder whether they have done something wrong to bring it about.
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42 minutes ago, reign143 said:
Have you seen the English Translation of the interview of IU with her friend Ki bum? Why they bring out that question if Ji An is the granddaughter of chairman? Is it a hint? She even said watch out until the last episode lol! :))
This occurred to me when something about "comedy in the last episodes" was mentioned in the press conference a few weeks ago (by the director?) I mean, suppose that in E15 or so:
Ji An's father shows up!
And he is... MR MONEYBAGS!
From AMERICA!
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9 hours ago, arctichare said:
DH has every right to be extremely angry at JA for this incredible breach of privacy/trust. We know he is an extremely private person - even his family and closest friends have no access to his thoughts most of the time. He has said so himself - "It's difficult to be around someone who has seen you so vulnerable".
Every time I see that quote from E06, "It's difficult to be around someone who has seen you so vulnerable", I wonder whether it's the correct translation. I would prefer "It's difficult to be around someone whom you have seen so vulnerable". Does anyone agree?
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1 hour ago, dekaron said:
In most asian countries eldest son takes care of his(parents) family even after marriage, becomes head of the family once the father passes away.
That's it. That's so it. It's what is crushing Sang Hoon, isn't it? He is Eldest Son, but he is such a failure, business-wise, that only a handful of people will come to his mother's funeral. As if he even could rent a proper venue when the day comes.
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4 hours ago, dvdwyn said:
i dont understand why DH brother saving up money under the carpet bed to buy an iphoneX, he can just get installment or small downpayment with contract in korea..
iphoneX? That was a joke, I think.
No, the money is not for an iphoneX. It's for his mother's funeral. The flower arrangements alone will cost a fortune.
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As regards Do Hoon's marriage, I think the big question is: how long has Absent Son been absent? He cannot have been away when he was five or six ,say, can he? I am pretty sure Cheating Wife only started cheating after Absent Son went to a foreign country.
To put it bluntly, the main problem in this marriage seems to be sending the son away. That is when the home became empty, that is when both Cheating Wife and Do Hoon started not wanting to come, after work, to something that was just an apartment – that no more was a home.
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Does anybody else have the feeling Monk might be gay? That instead of coming out 20 years ago, he left for the temple in the mountains? The only character who seems to have a problem about his departure is Jung Hee. The way I interpret her history is that she was Monk's girlfriend at the crucial time (and long before that), but when Monk left, he did it without telling her – but told Do Hoon, for instance. Why didn't he discuss his momentuous decision with Jung Hee? Or at least tell her where he was going? If it didn't have anything to do with her being a girl? Whom he could not live with, and even try to make happy?
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8 hours ago, timidjock0819 said:
If they will be endgame, I wish the PD has the courage to show a simple gesture of a light kiss between Jian and DH. Their age gap is nothing to be ashamed of particularly if both are consenting adults. Age does not matter if love happens at a right place, right time, and with the right person.
Light kiss? Wouldn't "consenting adults" do more? And hasn't Ji An already played with ideas like stripping naked for Do Hoon (E08) and sleeping with him (E11)?
In any case, "a light kiss" would break badly with the tone of "gritty realism" that we all are (well, at least I am) enjoying in this drama. Particularly lighting. Almost always, indoor scenes in KDramas are lit as if by the giant floodlights you see at sports stadiums. Not here. The heart-breaking scene, say, with Do Hoon and Cheating Wife facing each other on their knees on the living-room floor would not have the same impact at all if it was lit "better."
There are other touches that seem refreshingly realistic. Working part-time in a restaurant's kitchen isn't really Hell on Earth, the way it is often portrayed in KDramas – Ji An just gives the tableware "a simple rinse" and puts it in a machine (and, sometimes, gets stuff to eat). She had overwhelming debts, but not because she was Born Poor; it was because she did not know enough about inheritance laws. Taking care of her grandmother required an almost superhuman effort from Ji An – but it wasn't really necessary; it was just that her knowledge of her country's social security system was lacking.
So "a light kiss" doesn't sound right. If Ji An and Do Hoon are endgame, then – realistically thinking – this drama would have them go at each other like dogs in heat. But that is not something they would show on Korean TV, even cable, is it? So my guess is that the physical aspects of their relationship will be left to the viewers' imagination.
That is, if they are endgame. ..
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[Drama 2018] My Mister, 나의 아저씨 - Best Drama at 2019 (55th) BaekSang Arts Awards
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That was quick! Thank you!
Next question: do you know how the drama is aired in Japan? I mean – is it subtitled in Japanese? Or dubbed?
And, more generally: are Korean dramas often aired this soon in Japan after being shown in Korea?