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On Higanbana - Women's Crime File Oct 27, 2014
Kinomiya Nagisa (Horikita Maki) is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Seventh Investigative Division. She is attuned to the evil intentions of other people and usually wears headphones to block these out because they interfere with her life. This ability distresses her, but she exercises it in investigations. She gets clues to arrest criminals by sensing a criminal’s urge to kill or a suspect’s hidden evil intent at a crime scene. The Seventh Investigative Division which Nagisa belongs to, was established with the objective of taking countermeasures against female criminals and female victims. It is a unit made up of idiosyncratic women from the head of the division, Segawa Sumire (Daichi Mao), to Nagisa, Minegishi Yukino (Dan Rei), Ito Rin (Takanashi Rin), Yanagi Sachiko (YOU), and forensic researcher Nagami Karuko (Jiyoung). The male detectives who do not look kindly upon the presence of the Seventh Investigative Division, insultingly liken the women to the poisonous flower, the red spider lily. One day, a threat is delivered to each media outlet, hotel in Tokyo, and wedding place. It says, “If all wedding ceremonies to be held in the metropolis on 26th of this month are not cancelled, people will die” The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department start to investigate this warning of murders. The wedding ceremony of the famous plastic surgeon Eto Tamaki (Kokusho Sayuri) is scheduled on that date. She declares that she will not call off the ceremony. On that day, the First Investigative Division guards her wedding. However, a murder occurs at the hotel venue. The detectives of the Seventh Investigative Division head to the scene. The victim is a female in her 30s. Nagisa feels the murderous intent of the criminal when she sees the dead body. She deduces that the criminal is a man with financial trouble. On the other hand, the investigation task force considers the profile of the murder suspect who sent the threat, and judges that it is a female who has a grudge against marriages. The criminal soon appears at the police station. As Nagisa had seen it, it is a crime by a man who had been cheated of money by the victim and has no connection to the threat. Meanwhile, Tamaki is poisoned to death. Nagisa tries to read the murderer’s mind at the crime scene, but is for some reason unable to detect any malice. While making enquiries around Tamaki, her acquaintance Inoue Mayumi (Ishino Yoko) emerges in the line of investigation. Nagisa meets Mayumi and senses her evil intentions towards Tamaki. However, Mayumi has a conclusive alibi for the day and time that Tamaki was murdered
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On Pinocchio Oct 26, 2014
Title Pinocchio
The drama stars a foursome of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rookie broadcast reporters at the city news desk, and will be a coming-of-age story about launching themselves into their first real-world social battleground in their twenties. They’ll basically spend every waking moment together because they have to work around the clock, and naturally, hijinks and romance will come to pass.
Choi In-Ha (Park Shin-Hye) suffers from a form of Pinocchio syndrome, which makes her hiccup whenever she tells a lie. For some odd reason she chooses to be a news reporter because of this, likely because she’s idealistic enough to think she won’t ever have to lie on the job.
Choi Dal-Po (Lee Jong-Suk) is a young reporter who’s been working at the news desk for a year. He’s tall and good-looking, but his shabby appearance (rundown clothes, bowl-cut hair) hides all his good features and nobody gives him a second glance. But he’s eloquent and has an especially sharp memory, and just needs the right grooming and cultivating to put his best foot forward.
Seo Bum-Jo (Kim Young-Kwang) is a well-dressed, confident and handsome chaebol heir, with a sunny disposition, who’s never once had to live like a commoner while growing up. He spent a year working at a fashion magazine and quit, and tries his hand at broadcast news instead.
Cha Hye-Seung (Lee Yoo-Bi) is a timid but extremely dogged ex-sasaeng-fan (in her high school and college days) who turns her idol fangirl know-how into useful skills as a reporter.
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On Liar Game Oct 25, 2014
Title Liar Game
I watched first 2 episodes and surprisingly I liked it. The acting is not stellar, but not bad either. Each of them slowly grows on you and you start to care about their characters before you know it. Sure, Lee Sang Yoon is no match for Matsuda Shota, but you know what? The setting, general atmosphere, everything has such a distinctive Korean touch, that you don't need to compare to the J version all the time, hence Korean cast fits in just as much the Japanese one did in that version.
I like that they changed several things (all the secrecy and underground/illegal way of organizing the games in J version is gone here, being replaced with a sort of a reality tv game show. This alone completely sets a different premise and tone for the drama, so you don't feel like watching a cheaper 1on1 replica of the Japanese drama, but a separate Korean story based on that manga. So even if I already know the main story, i still find it new and thrilling, because I don't know how they will execute it and what will be added or left out here.
Lastly, for those who just don't "click" with that weird Japanese sense of humor or those manga like characters, the Korean version might be more pleasant and entertaining after all.
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