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Apr 19, 2013 8 of 8 episodes seen 2 of 5 people found this review helpful

xxxHolic

by sambart
- Overall 6
- Story 7
- Acting/Cast 6
- Music 6
- Rewatch Value 4
Story line and characters are a little different from the Anime but nevertheless they are still similar. The dorama is sweet and interesting and is a little more riskee than I thought it would be.
The music is good.
The cinematography and colouring is amazing.
Also, I'm surprised at Anne's acting. I've never seen her as anyone out-standing but did pretty well in this.
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Mar 28, 2013 11 of 11 episodes seen 4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Karamazov no Kyodai

by sambart
- Overall 9
- Story 9
- Acting/Cast 10
- Music 10
- Rewatch Value 10
This dorama is absolutely amazing. I was hooked from the moment it started to the moment it ended.
The story is so tense and so mysterious I had no idea who it would be or what would happen.
The acting was out of this world, especially Ichihara Hayato he had at least 3 scenes where I just couldn't look away from him, he was absolutely amazing in this! The others were great too! I like they were all flawed and corrupted characters too pretty much!
The music again was absolutely amazing, such good songs, yes they were English but were hella good ones! The soundtrack too was good.
A little film studies here but I loved the crispness of the camera shots and the colouring was awesome and the angels were great too!
Only down side? I felt the last episode was weak and rushed. Besides that I actually have NO complaints about this dorama! Dying to read the book now too! read more
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Mar 17, 2013 11 of 11 episodes seen 5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Pride

by sambart
- Overall 9
- Story 9
- Acting/Cast 9
- Music 10
- Rewatch Value 8
Now I understand when people say the old doramas are the best doramas.
There isn't one flaw about this dorama I don't think.

Story: Ice Skating, Sports, Comedy, Romance, Fun, Heart-Warming, Sometimes Teary in both a good and bad way. Such a good story line and plot set up!

Acting: Amazing cast full of the great older actors (obviously at the time were the 'it' actors) Kimura Takuya, Sato Koichi, Sato Ryuta, Tanihara Shousuke - all amazing actors! Just weird seeing them so young! Well they haven't changed much but it weird seeing them when they were like mid-20s early 30s! xD Amazing cast and awesome characters too! =]

Music: IT'S QUEEN!!! You can't go wrong with Queen. The music along with Kimura Takuya and Ice Skating is what made this dorama EPIC for me xD

ReWatch? Highly likely!

Overall: Awesome, fun and easy to watch! read more
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Mar 16, 2013 49 of 49 episodes seen 0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

by sambart
- Overall 6
- Story 6
- Acting/Cast 6
- Music 7
- Rewatch Value 3
I'm going to be honest (as usual) but this is has become my least favourite Super Sentai, so for me it ranks as:

1. Gokaiger
2. Akibaranger (it's an Unofficial one I know but still!)
3. Go-Busters
4. Goseiger
5. Shinkeger

I understand I've only seen a few, yes, but onto my review:

Story: The concept of 'Samurai' is a good one and very Japanese and quite an educational and fun way of learning some thing's about samurais. I found it very boring and I couldn't find any real plot until episode 42 when BOMB the last 8 episodes are just plot, twist, plot, excitement, twist, all hell breaks loose. I was hooked the last 8 episodes but the rest of the series? I watched while doing work or reading a book, that's how much it didn't interest me. I did however like the running unlined plot of Juzo and ShinkenRed fighting at each other. I normally cry at the end of Sentai's and Kamen Rider's but I only got teary eyed here because of how unattached I was to this series.

Acting: It's Sentai so it's either over the top or doesn't show their full potential. Not showing their full potential is definitely what happened to Aiba Hiroki and Matsuzaka Tori. I love them as actors and yet were so mediocre here because of the genre and the type of show it is.

Characters: I loved ShinkenRed, Gold, Kusakabe, Juzo and those little yellow fluff balls that are always with Dayuu >< Everyone else... sometimes liked, other times I just wish they were dead.

Music: Loved the song Dayuu played and the opening theme was rather catchy, haven't listened to the ending theme enough to have a say on it.

Overall: Bland until the last 8episodes then it's really good, but shame it took so long for me to get hooked. read more
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Mar 15, 2013 1 of 1 episodes seen 0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP

by sambart
- Overall 6
- Story 6
- Acting/Cast 8
- Music 8
- Rewatch Value 3
Story: Not as good as the dorama and a little long but besides that the story is interesting and the comedy is funny (there is an especially funny part I found towards the end) and the part after the credits is good too. A good ending for Makoto kinda. I either wanted him to do that job or be a policeman xD

Cast and Characters: All the good cast and characters back such a the main Makoto, Masa, King, G-Boys and the police guys minus Yokoyama xD I love how there is still rivalry between the East and West side in this.

Music: There are whole music parts in this film, easy to listen to and kinda acted like a break as it was such a long SP.

Overall: Good but not as good as the dorama. read more
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Mar 14, 2013 11 of 11 episodes seen 2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Ikebukuro West Gate Park

by sambart
- Overall 7
- Story 6
- Acting/Cast 9
- Music 9
- Rewatch Value 7
Story: To say this is from 2000 I was impressed with how not crappy the camera/shooting actually was! Didn't feel like 2000 at all until you say their mobile phones xD haha The story changed constantly in my opinion and something new went on every episode and it finally came together at the end. While the dorama was incredibly funny to me, there were times where I just wasn't interested in what the actually story was. The ending kinda ticked me off as well with everyone being 'suicidal'. I HATE what the story did to Shun's character though. Doramas now a days very much try to keep the sex topic quite but I liked how more open about sex this dorama was. It was refreshing and it was overly stated nor a constant theme or being spoken about.

Cast: Amazing, great cast. I was shocked to see Yamashita pop up and I have to say, his acting here is the best I've seen of him since... Nobuta wo Produce. So to me he was better at acting when he was younger compared to how he is now, but that could also be to do with the lame characters and doramas he does now... anyway, yeah loved the cast! Nagase Tomoya only seen him in My Boss, My Hero. Definitely plan to watch more of his stuff now! He looks good in a cop uniform too! haha Kubozuka Yosuke is another I've only seen one or two times and defo want to see more of! Sato Ryuta awesome as always and seriously hasn't changed in 13 years xD I normally see Takahashi Issei do quite everyday characters and I liked he was a hacker in this with a MASS of hair xD WAIT... Oguri Shun was in this?! o_O I do not remember =/ Tsumabuki Satoshi another I rarely see and plan to watch more of. I liked Watanabe Ken in this dorama also!

Characters: Where to start... Favourite characters: Makoto was cool and as the main character you gotta be interesting which he was and he has a nice stomach! Yokoyama - I love his corruption and the fact he doesn't play the 'good' cop that you seem to just see in doramas now these days, The King was AWESOME I think he was my favourite, crazy mother chucker! Kazunori was enjoyable when he popped up. Loved Shun and that he was quiet and has this side of him that was interesting even when quiet! Masa was adorable and fun! Yamai was interesting til he died his hair dark then the rest of the story he wasn't interesting. Characters I hated: Rika, glad she left the show early, and Hikaru - words can not express how much Hikaru annoyed me. I wanted to kill her and he VOICE was hella annoying! Shame the story didn't go the way I wanted with her, grrr...

Music: LOVED the opening theme. Loved Makoto's ringtone was awesome, I want it as a ringtone! The soundtrack was reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1990's film music which I loved so naturally loved this soundtrack =]

Overall: I enjoyed it, sometimes didn't care about the story line and some parts of the story I really didn't like and had that one hella annoying character that I wanted dead from the moment I saw her. But besides that it's interesting, funny, great how the story comes together in the end, it does feel mysterious at times too! Now to watch the SP xD read more
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Mar 4, 2013 16 of 16 episodes seen 13 of 21 people found this review helpful

Flower Boy Next Door

by sambart
- Overall 5
- Story 5
- Acting/Cast 5
- Music 4
- Rewatch Value 1
I'm not a fan of KDramas anyway. So you've been warned.
This dorama started off fantastic, fun, interesting. Quickly went serious and boring and predicable.
I hated Park Shin Hye's character and acting. She can do much better than that!
Cha Do Hwi can do us a favour and jump in front of a bus! I wanted to kill her so badly!
Enrique Guem was annoying and unattractive.
The music was okay to begin with but damn it's repetitive and gets very annoying!
The ending was predictable. Why do they ALWAYS do this '1 year later' crap?
Only good thing really was that Oh Jin Rak was attractive! but alas he didn't get the girl...
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Mar 3, 2013 9 of 9 episodes seen 6 of 6 people found this review helpful

RESCUE

by sambart
- Overall 9
- Story 9
- Acting/Cast 9
- Music 9
- Rewatch Value 7
I have a very strong, positive view about this!

Story: Great story! About firefighters, about life and death, about passion for the job, about friends and being there for each other and never giving up!

Acting: Nakamaru's acting sometimes made me laugh because you could tell he was acting and I'm used to seeing him rather than his character but he did a great job and everyone else did amazing! ^_^

Cast: Amazing cast, strong actors, strong roles!

Music: Well it's KAT-TUN, I'm a big fan, I got no complaints xD Although it kinda doesn't fit this dorama in terms of this rhythm haha but nevertheless RESCUE! xD

ReWatch? Yes definitely! Just so I can see them all topless for starters! haha

Only negative? Some part seemed VERY unrealistic for example wasting time talking when they know there's like a 5minute time limit (I know it's to make everything emotional and dramatic but can't they be realistic at least?), stop talking and get your work done! Or going down into places without masks, surely that's bad for them to be inhaling smoke? Or in Episode 6 Katsuragi is somehow outta breath when all he's done is go down to a platform in a station, run a little, carried and child and is now stumbling back in the station, you can't be that unfit! but besides that I freaking loved watching it! ^_^

Overall: Thoroughly happy with this and wish I'd seen it sooner! read more
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Feb 18, 2013 1 of 0 episodes seen 2 of 9 people found this review helpful

Helter Skelter

by sambart
- Overall 4
- Story 1
- Acting/Cast 8
- Music 5
- Rewatch Value 1
I have to say... I was mortified by this film.
Although kudos to their acting as it must have been challenging for all of them in different ways and must've taken balls to do a film like this. It really was close to the line labelled 'porn' when it came to the sex scenes *shivers* I was horrified sometimes at just intimate it was (I don't like watching stuff with intimate stuff in. I hate PDAs if that gives you a hint as to how much I hate seeing such things in front of me and on screen haha)
This film is just MESSED up - I spent most of the film with a 'what the fudge' face and that phrase coming outta my mouth because sometimes the things that happen are just seriously shocking and ridiculous! The main plot of the story is crappy like EVERYONE knows a career (especially in Entertainment) is limited so why make a 2 HOUR (yes over 2 HOURS) film about it. Just... no.
I have to say the ending was probably the strongest part of this film and the most interesting part too. read more
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Feb 18, 2013 11 of 11 episodes seen 2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Ouran High School Host Club

by sambart
- Overall 9
- Story 9
- Acting/Cast 9
- Music 9
- Rewatch Value 10
This is the 3rd/4th time I'm watching this so naturally my review is positive xD Overall; LOVE IT! It's hilarious, enjoyable, unboring, fun! I really love the dorama version (more than the anime!), all characters and acting awesome. Love that they made it 'fake' like with the use of CG massive words! haha And I love how it's more obvious who likes Haruhi in the dorama also as I had no idea in the anime haha I'm blonde like that ><

Story: A little different to the anime but only minor changes. Still fun, hilarious, enjoyable and still the same story line.

Acting/Cast: I loved many actors in this dorama before I even saw it (Yamamoto, Daito, Chiba) and then those I didn't know, I loved by the end of it hahah They all did a great job. Hilarious Tamaki, amazingly sexy and mysterious Kyoya, lovable Honey, intriguing Mori and incestuously captivating twins xD

Music: The music is cheery and gets stuck in your head in a good way and it very fairytale like.

ReWatch: Like I said, I'm on my 3rd (I think) viewing of this dorama. LOVE IT! I'll probs watch it again in future xD

The downside? I find Haruhi annoying (and I like the actress!), and I'm upset she used a wig instead of actually getting in character and cutting her hair. Some scenes from the anime were changed in the dorama which made my a little sad e.g. The biscuit twin/Haruhi scene and the lightbulb scene in episode one is slightly different. Not much to say that's bad about it really, just nitpicks xD read more
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