A Quick Guide to 2019 Kdramas! Misaki Kyosuke, an excellent plastic surgeon, started living a very private life after his wife passed away, confining his main joys in life to cultivating his herb garden and spending time with his only daughter. One day, a woman enters his clinic and asks that her face be completely changed to whatever Kyosuke wishes. Kyosuke is very suspicious and refuses her request, but she begs him to reconsider and explains that she is trying to escape from her violent husband. Kyosuke finally agrees and alters her appearance to that of his late wife. Afterwards, a relationship begins to develop between the two of them, but things start to unravel when two police officers show up on his doorstep looking for the "missing" woman. (Source: TBS) Edit Translation
- English
- Español
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- dansk
- Native Title: 美しい人
- Also Known As: Le Bel Homme , Beauty , Beautiful People
- Screenwriter: Nojima Shinji
- Director: Doi Nobuhiro, Yoshida Ken, Endo Tamaki
- Genres: Romance, Drama, Melodrama
Cast & Credits
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![Tamura Masakazu in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Tamura Masakazu in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Tamura Masakazu Main Role -
![Tokiwa Takako in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Tokiwa Takako in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Tokiwa Takako Main Role -
![Osawa Takao in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Osawa Takao in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Osawa Takao Main Role -
![Uchiyama Rina in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Uchiyama Rina in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Uchiyama RinaMisaki KeikoSupport Role -
![Yanagizawa Shingo in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Yanagizawa Shingo in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Yanagizawa ShingoKokubo AtsushiSupport Role -
![Ikewaki Chizuru in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)]( "Ikewaki Chizuru in Utsukushii Hito Japanese Drama (1999)")
Ikewaki ChizuruKadokura JunSupport Role
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Reviews
This review may contain spoilers
Every now and then, let down by the current trend of J-dramas, more and more "americanized" or "koreanized" imho, it feels good to jump on a time machine and watch some "oldie-but goldie" from the Golden Era of Japanese Drama.It's been the case with this "Utsukushii Hito", which until the very end I thought I was gonna rate as a perfect 10 and include in my "Top of the Crop" custom list...but then came an ending I really didn't like.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, so jump the next paragraph entirely if you wanna avoid those! ^___-
Now, despite having been an avid J-drama fan for quite a long time (next year it's gonna be twenty years since my first J-drama!), I must confess not liking the way villains are treated by most Japanese scriptwriters. Look, I'm not saying that villains shouldn't be bad - that would be asking the impossible, LOL - but what I'm saying is just that if you have a villain poisoning everybody else's life throughout the whole series, killing, battering, abusing, deceiving, etc.....then I don't want said villain to get away with a metaphorical slap on the hand. I don't want them to be pitied by bleeding hearts, psychanalyzed, understood. And I certainly don't want them to get a completely undeserved happy ending (as was the case here!!!) while the good guys get a bittersweet (more the former than the latter, actually) ending. I want such villains to get punished, to get a gruesome death if possible, or at least a life-long harsh punishment (like, I could have been OK with this villain getting thrown in a cell together with "Bubba, the 7-ft tall, 300-lbs serial gay raper", who would've made his sorry @ss repent day in and day out! I suppose I'm more Chinese than Japanese in that aspect (I'm thinking for example of the classical Chinese detective stories - like those about the überfamous Judge Dee - whose last chapter is alway dedicated to describe in quite gruesome terms the killers' punishments! ^___-). OK, END OF THE SPOILERS. ^___-
Apart from the aforementioned ending, the script is very good. The acting superb. The OST marvelous. This could've been a perfect 10, seriously....but it's still a very solid 8 in my book! ^___-
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