Long Vacation Episode 11

Interesting series great acting and feisty females for once!

Being a relatively newbie to jdramas and kdramas, the previous 'oldest' jdrama series I watched was 'Orange Day's" which I really liked. This series is almost 30 years old. What I really liked about it was the female roles: the women were independent feisty and dressed how they liked... they spoke about sex and appeared totally normal etc... It seemed to me to be a series that could have represented a lot of different cultures. Not knowing the history of jdramas or mangas I don't know why there is such a modern feel to this series which is 30 years old compared to some more recent series where the female roles are passive and not very vocal. Not being from Asia I am not the person who can explain why this series seems more modern than stuff produced now! As I watched it on Netflix (where I watched 'Orange Day's) It would be great if there were more 'older' jdramas available to watch.. I recognised the actor who played the FLs brother from "Step mum and daughter blues" and the young gifted pianist is actress from the quirky "Quartet". I believe that this was an extremely popular series at the time for the main leads.. I've seen the ML in some other series but unfortunately haven't gotten to see the actress who played the FL in anything else which is a shame.Really realistic story with great acting 90s costumes and nice OST.

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Outstanding Love Story

tl;dr - An amazing and unpredictable love-story that will be hard to put down. Worth giving a chance!I was hooked on this story and could not get enough of it. Its a great romance where the Sena (Takuya Kimura) and Minami (Tomoko Yamaguchi) both complete each other, and how supportive each of them are to their dreams/lives. The story starts out with each of them at the lowest point of their lives - Sena is a pianist but is missing something that holds him back from being a professional, so he gives up and becomes a piano teacher for annoying kids; Minami is about to be married but left at the altar and finds out her would-be husband just ran off with a younger, more attractive woman and on-top of that, her modeling career is coming to a close as she loses opportunities to her age. Both Sena and Minami start filling in the gaps and lift each other up in odd ways, and its a love-story of 2 people at rock bottom who both make an incredible comeback.Something I loved about this one is that usually for romances, its relatively easy to predict how the male/female love interests will respond to certain events - for example, when a guy finds out the girl he has a crush on likes someone else, you predict he'll be upset and maybe take out his frustrations on one of them. In this drama's case, the personalities are unique, you can't predict how each of them will react to the situation and that makes it that much more enjoyable. Music is great, I still listen to some of the tracks of the drama to this day, and probably will still continue to. The acting is also top-notch as well.

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