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asiandramafan
London
It is a great love story of a mother and a daughter. Mother's love story never had a happy ending.. She could not have her own happy ending, this shows us not all not every love story can have a happy ending, even if you think that you have your own happy ending, when third parties are involved this happy ending can change to not so happy ending just like we have it in the movie.
Daughter falls ( Ji Hye ) in love with a guy who is involved in their school's theatre club but one of her friend's also fancies the guy she likes.
Her mother (Joo Hye) is the daughter of a congressman and been promised to marry another guy Tae Soo who is a friend of Joo Ha ( the man her mother is in love with) knowing that his friend and his fiance is in love with each other he lets both to write letter to each other using his name but one day Tae Soo's father learns this and he beats Tae Soo to death, Tae Soo commits to suicide and been saved by Joo Ha and one of the other friend the last minute, with the feeling of guilt he joins Vietnam War and loses his eyesight, ( first I thought it might be Korean War but timeline does not fit as it was in 1950 to 1953, and Hippy Hippy Shake released in 1959's) after returning back from War, he meets the woman he loves (Joo Hye) and tells her a lie that he got married and asks her to move on, her mother had no choice but to marry Tae Soo, after his death his friend 's informed her that at the time he was not married but he got married after Tae Soo and her got married, he also had a son, while Tae Soo had a daughter.
I was sort of guessing about who the guy is that our main girl Jin Hye is in love with, glad that I was not wrong...
But I wish I we could see how the daughter & son of the unrequited lovers ( not really unrequited but lovers who couldn't have their happy ending) love developed in the present day, wish they had gave an equal part to present and past in the movie..
The last 45 minutes of this drama was a torture for me as I was bawling all the time..
When it comes to the musics, I only remmeber Hippy Hippy Shake from the dance scenes, so the OST is not that memorable.
OMG Lee Ki Woo, If I am not wrong he is the tallest Korean Actor, 1.95 cm... I think after him Lee Kwang Soo is the tallest Korean Actor with 1.90 cm
I believe I will watch this movie for 2 or 3 more times but not more than 3 times..
I am not going to tell you more because it will spoil everything.
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when I saw chubby Seo In Guk in 70's I said WHAATTT!!! wait!!!! is he really Seo in Guk and when I saw him singing in 2012's I could not help myself but laughing.
Kim Si Hoo as Lee Dong Wook/Lee Sun Ho did not changed much.. In 2012's it was his time to sacrifice, bury his feelings to his heart..
in 1970's Sun In Ha & Lee Dong Wook ( haah such a coincidence we have an actor who is carrying the same name LDW) & Sun In Ha was in love with her, and he was faster and told his feelings to Kim Yoon Hee, in 2012 it was Suh Joon faster told his feeling to her, Lee Sun Ho kept his feelings hidden for his friends happiness, in 2012 we also have Tae Sung we first know about him when they were in Japan and also his feeling about Ha Na when they were talking about Diamond Snow, he silenced his friend by covering his mouth, as seeing - watching Diamond Snow with a boy / girl means that they'll fall in love. This drama is totally about FATE..
So history repeated itself but in a different way..
I loved that it is a happy ending on both parties everyone have their happy ending.
I do not care about the ratings, I loved the drama, I enjoyed watching it, it is a drama filled with romance without being cheesy I cried on some scenes and still cry on some of the musics played in the drama..
I would go and watch this drama again and again without getting bored.
Do not give importance to negative reviews, this drama does not deserve negative reviews.. It is only you who can decide whether it is good or bad.. Give the decision after watching the first 4 episodes.
If you are not into romance- romantic person, who does not enjoy romanticism, do not even start go and watch something else..
This drama was on my target for the last couple of years but not sure to watch it or not but I gave it a chance and I am happy about it.
Other than jumping immediately to 2012 I would loved to see some the transformation how they got married - children being friends wth each other. Just noticed we don't know anything about LDW wife and we know why Chang Mo never got married
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When Yu Xi first became the caretaker of Zhan Cheng i found her loud, annoying, immature. I loved how she helped him to go through his bad times, she even helped him to tango for his mother's birthday, she practiced with him, on the birthday she guided him on the phone. They were friends and they eventually fall in love, it's quite possible that he fell in love with her when she was helping him to tango,
I disliked Yu Xi's boyfriend, he was so sly, doing every dirty tricks to be successful, He eventually cheated on her with Vanessa and pregnante her, Unlike what I expected he did not want the baby, he wanted Vanessa to have an abortion but she refused and decided to give birth
Ya Ti who had a heart transplant, they transplant Lu Han's / YU Xi's twin sister's heart, Lu Han is also the ex fiance of Zhan Cheng and she starts to have Lu Han's mannerisms, like baking the Edelweiss cookies, Yu Xi and her giving exactly the same reactions
When Yu Xi learnt that Ya TI is carrying her twins heart, she even gave up on the man that she loves, and they could not resist but got back together.
Once Zhan Cheng's step sister was in love with him and behaved Yu Xi badly but she also fell in love with Yu Xi's brother who was a priest up until the last few episodes.
Even the chemo between Yu Xi's brother & Zhen Chang's sister was amazing.
This is not a traditional rich boy - poor girl dramas, Mothers were not evil, nobody trying to break the main couple and almost everyone was supporting.
This drama is not bed of roses, it has got tragedies. but at the end It is a great watch.. It is a romantic movie without being cheesy..
Kingone was amazing portraying a blind man... I also like his voice, amazing, intonations great and sexy, he has a sexy voice and he is quite handsome.
The brother is a little bit slow, doesn't talk much, talks slow, it takes him ages to tell smth, I wonder if he has got autism
I love the OST especially Good Night by Huang Yali
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Once you got hooked you don't want to stop watching.
It is breathtaking, it is an old drama almost 17 years old as we do not have much left for 2017. But it needs to be on must watched list.
The Story was great. Although second female lead irritated me.
I actually liked the chemistry between the second leads
If I watched this drama in 2000's at a much younger age I would possibly not liked it. Now I find it brilliant.
The story is a love triangle. A classic Rich Boy Poor Girl Story, a rich boy falls in love to poor girl but there is another rich, mean, stupid, ambitious who is also in love with our rich guy. We watch the schemes she is putting on to get rid of the poor girl so she can be with the rich guy. But she's putting herself into a funny position, she is unwanted, she's still playing games, slanders the poor girl with the help of her ex bf ( who never loved her but just thought she is the daughter of a rich man. as soon as he learns she's the daughter of the driver. he dumps her)
It is also about political corruption. how dad shut his eyes to the things his daughter done just to be a politicain.
How a mother wants his son to marry a woman he does not love, as she did not come from a rich, wealthy family and her husbands family never accepted or liked her. For that reason she wanted her son to marry a wealthy girl whose family has got political ties.
This drama makes me to think how families ruin their childrens life because of their ambitions, and high expectations.
It goes on like that.. The credits gives you a lot of hints about the drama.
As always like in every K-CN-or TW drama I do not feel sorry for the 2nd leading lady..
Devil's tears, showing themselves pitty.. Oh I saw him first, he's my childhood dream, I love him so you get off, he is mine bla bla bla ..
These girls do not have a pride and their mothers who are clapping every single bad thing their daughter does.
Just because of parents ambitions they do force the leads to do what their parents want not right but it is normal in Asian Culture
AND NOW THE MUSIC
Both the soundtrack and the musics used in this drama were superb..
the choice absolutely brilliant
from Rodrigo Guitar Concerto to Boyzone Words.
I'll update the musics as I remmeber
- Mariah Carey Without You
- Boyzone Words
- Rodrigo Guitar Concerto aka Rodrigo Aranjuez
- There was a jazz song which I can not really call it now.
- also a korean song called gwon-yeon-u geojismalcheoleom like a lie.
-My All Mariah Carey
-Scorpions Wind Of Change
a french song from the 60's which I can not recall atm
- Eric Carmen All by myself
This drama deserves a remake
SO I made a list of the actors & actresses to play the characters if there is ever a remake
those are my choice ofcourse.
Park bo Young as Lee Ja Young
Ha-Suk Jin a Jung Hyun Woo
Cha Ye-Ryun as Lee Shin Hee
Joo Won as Park Seung Jae
jung-man-sik as Lee Young Chul
park-mi-sun is Shin Hee's mother
Park Young Kyu Ja Young's father
Na Young Hee as Lee Ja Young's mother
lee yoon ji as Choi Eun Shil Lee Ya's best friend
im-seulong as Shil Lee Ya's brother
lee-da-hae as Shin Hee's sister
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Although I have completed this long time ago, I wanted to share my own opinions. Let me warn you from the beginning my fierce wife is not a typical romance drama, it has got romance yes. but not as much as we expected. It's about a married couple how circumstances change them, how their marriage goes to a break down
An Zhen ( the wife one of the main characters) is a classical housewife. A perfect woman to get married, who works like a maid in her house, cooks, cleans, irons, and looks after her daughter. She's also beautiful, loving, caring, respectful to her husband's family.
So in those regards she has everything that a men asks for.
But her husband never understand her, she was turning around him doing everything for him. And as soon as her An Zhen's cuz moved into their house everything started to go upside down for them
As a typical man when he saw a younger attractive woman and made her his mistress. Of course he did not do it alone, it was the twisted cuz who changed his mind first.
When she was having the most difficult time while she was in the hospital , he forced her to divorce
So she slowly developed and changed, first she has been given a job by Lan Tian Wei ( Chris Wang) and with the help of him she reborns from her ashes..
It was too emotional too depressing. I hated James Wen while I was watching.. Sonia Siu - James Wen & Chris Wang both of them added too much to the drama.
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I have watched the My Sunshine as a drama, I have watched the directors cut and the movie...Contains spoilers..
I like Tiffany & Wallace Chung as actors. So when I see them in a drama I could not miss it, ( Please not that I have watched this drama long time ago and just writing my views on it)
Let me tell you I had hard times recognising Tiff here. She looked totally different.
During the University years Mo Sheng is a girl who enjoys taking photos, one day while she was taking photos, she was Yi Chen sitting under a tree and reading a book, he seemed like he did not notice Mo Sheng so she starts to take his photos, when he finally notices her, she gets embarrassed and tells him that she's just taking photos of nature and suddenly he got into the camera angle.
Starting from that moment she follows him like a puppy dog, I mean in a cute way not like a stalker but like a small fan girl.
Yu Chen is the most popular guy in school so every girl wants him but none can him..
He eventually falls in love with lively Mo Cheng, his friends make a bet on which girl he's going to date, he says I would bet on Mo Cheng.
They start to date, one of the most funniest scenes was Mo Cheng joins one of the law classes of Yi Chen and the teacher asks a question and picks Mo Cheng she could not answer she looks for Yi Chen desperately he says he did not listen and after that she says put them all in prision which made all the class laugh, later on one of the students said she's not from our departrment..
One day Mo Cheng's dad visits Yu Chen and says he is not against their relationship if he agrees he can send both to USA but what he ( her dadt )does not know is he is responsible from Yu Chen's dad's sucide.
In an anger Yu Chen tells Mo Cheng that he does not want to see her face ever again and that day Mo Cheng agrees with her dad and decides to fly to USA for Photography Education
While she's in USA she gets married with a lawyer to be able to protect a child, the child of the lady who was her neighbour who had an abusing husband who was helping her when she most needed.
She never loved the lawyer. The lawyer is potrayed by Kevin Tan he is also one of the hottest asian actors of his age.
So while Ying Hiu ( Kevin Tan ) was drunk he tried to kiss Mo Cheng ( he was also in love with her not in the begining when she first send him money without knowing who he is) when he met her immediately fell in love with her. After that incident she decides to get divorced and thinking that she got divorced she returned back home.
One day while she was shopping Mo Cheng sees Yi Chen and Xiao Me step sister of Yi Chen but she's desparetly in love with him, she immediately thinks that they were together
Yi Chen drops her wallet, wallet found by the security who stops Mo Cheng as he is thinking the wallet is hers as there was a photo of hers inside the wallet, the next day she tooks her photo from the wallet and takes the wallet to Yi Chen's office gave it to his secretary and his secretary to Yi Chen..
Yi Chen follows her and asks the photo back, she says she has no idea, but Yi Chen is clever so finally she agrees to give the photo back.
One night while he was drunk he forcely tries to kiss her, but she's scared.
Yi Chen emotionally tortured her alot, when she tried to explain the reasons she got married he did not listen to her..
He was most possibly thinking she gave up on her while he was still deeply in love with her..
And again this was his fault he never explained the reasons why he said I never want to see your face again.
We also learned that after Mo Cheng left Yi Chen even started drinking & smoking.
He was devastated after her leave..
They eventually got married but up until they finally slept together Yi Chen continued to torture her..
After the intimate night seeing that his wife never betrayed her and she was still a virgin, he got softened and he showed love towards her.
while they were deeply trying to live their love, our hot lawyer shows up, Yi Chen knows that the divorce was fake he never actually divorced her, while he was trying to that out, he takes Mo Cheng for honeymoon and switches off his phone, Our hot lawyer is trying to get back Mo Cheng so he is tracking them out,
Mo Cheng learns that he never actually divorced her much later.. Yi Chen learns about Ying Hiu's ( Kevin Tan)'s company's problems and he eventually agrees to sign the divorce agreement.
By the time Mo Cheng falls pregnant and Yi Chen becomes much more caring.. On the final scene we see that they took their child to the university campus telling how they met.
It was very emotional I have cried most of the scenes. Music was great. I loved the opening music and still listen to it.. ( Zhang Jie is singing it)
I seriously disliked her wardrobe, but maybe they did on purpose as she was playing little naive, lively girl.
Oh and the English Ying Hiu (Kevin Tang), you suppose to be a businessman living in US and your English is bad.
As someone who watched 3 versions of this drama I recommend you to watch this version first and then if you wish watch director's cut and the movie ( the actors are different in the movie, the plot is the same, the only difference is she does not fall pregnant ( Mo Cheng) and she learns that Yi Chen came to US to find her. It is also less violent.
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In the drama Wei Wei was so passive in outgoing, she hardly let him to kiss her. There was basically no chemo between ZHENG chuang & Yang Yang.
The Bromance not as strong as it was in the drama.
So a little bromance is OK, we are not watching River Chen Bromance.
On drama v Wei Wei pissed me off by being overly innocent not even letting him to kiss and when he tries to kiss behaving like he is raping her.
obviously not everyone was happy with the drama and same thing is valid for the movie.
In the drama I disliked the main lady Wei Wei and couldn't ship her ZHENG. Here we have a lot more chemo and they're matching. Also Xing Boran is not or doesn't look as cold- reserved as ZHENG.
In the drama Cao Guan was platonically in love with Wei Wei but than fell in love with Er Xi.
Before I forget Er Xi in the movie portrayed by another actress.
In the drama Wei Wei gets married with Xiao Nai through the end, in the movie they were not married yet when the movies finished.
Other than these it follows the same plot with few differences.
If you do not know the drama it would feel like everything is hanging in the air, so first watch the drama and watch the movie later on.
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GWi Lee Soo Hyuk for me he's a perfect match for a Vampire, he is a perfect with for supernatural characters. He has a pretty unique face comparing LJG, Baekhyun, Changmin, Kang Ha Neul, Bo Gum, Lee Min Ho etc
Yes Yang Sun's ex lover as her reincarnated self gonna play an important role in the drama but I do not really ship them here.
Didn't really like the music but whoever is their stylist is s/he done a great job. I loved the outfits. Actually when YS first saw Choi Hye Ryung as her reincarnated self Lee Myung Hee the outfit she was wearing reminded me what Hae Soo was wearing in Scarlet Heart Ryeo in one of the episodes.
The drama could be less boring but more attractive - exciting to us as audience.
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I still want a S2 if all the fans get together and push them by petitions & twitter parties we'll get it but we won't get anything by sitting and hoping..
I am still not recovered by this drama, I want to go and watch it back, I have done the same on Scarlet Heart a couple of times.
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A werewolf boy it was on my watch list for such a long time but never watched it up until recently. This movie is giving me the taste of pure love. A werewolf boy a wild boy falling in love to human girl and how it develops, it is such a pure love, how girl works on him to teach him how to eat, how to behave, how to read.
So does he protected her from her so called fiance when he had a rape attempt and killed the guy. After that they go in different routes.
When both reunite 45 years later, she said I came back, why did you wait, I had continued to my life, had fun, travelled. Now I am an old lady, got wrinkles, gone gray, Cheol Su still looks the same as he was 47 years ago...
after that moment Cheol Su speaks, says no you are still the same, your smile never changed...
She is also shocked as he could not speak before, she spend the night where he sleeps, he read her a book, the book that her father gifted to her and she gave it to Cheol Su...
When she was talking the Cheol Su suddenly she turns young again. they had a hug ( I think we are seeing it from Cheol Su's eyes, for him she is always young and beautiful)
When she woke up in the morning he was gone. When she and her granddaughter was leaving, we see him making a snow man.
I wish they had given us a kiss..
I never thought that I would be bawling in this movie.. but I was bawling..
Song Joong Ki did an brilliant job playing Cheol-su. Although he was silent up until the last moments of the movie..
We see he never gave up waiting for her, he never lost his hopes.
This movie shows us Song Joong Ki is such a great actor, he only used his body language here and it was so brilliant.
This drama deserves a remake..
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