It’s Korean Nodame and Chiaki together! More accurately it’s Seol Nae Il and Cha Yoo Jin together at last in the first stills of the leads filming Tomorrow’s Cantabile. KBS continues to pace the release of new stills for its upcoming Mon-Tues drama, which might be a good thing if it succeeds in whetting the appetites of the viewers since the current drama in that time slot is the low-rated Discovery of Love. KBS needs a hit but I’m skeptical that Tomorrow’s Cantabile will deliver. It might but bear in mind that manga or manhwa adaptations have been a series of epic fails in K-dramas for the last few years in terms of garnering domestic ratings. Group 8 keeps on churning out such adaptations and this one is also coming from that very company which produced Boys Before Flowers, Playful Kiss, Pretty Boy, Tamra the Island, and Goong.
Luckily for KBS Joo Won is a pretty reliable hit maker when it comes to dramas and his dramas on KBS have been rollicking successes for the network. Pair him up with current acting queen Shim Eun Kyung and the K-viewers may actually tune in come October 13th when the drama premieres. The first OTP stills have this interesting lens filter effect of making it feel like a rainy green-tinted afternoon, maybe with a lot of mold around. Don’t get me wrong, the color scheme is actually quite pretty albeit hard to place. Joo Won does have one leg up on J-counterpart Tamaki Hiroshi in looking the age of a musical college student the way he strides around campus. Despite Hiroshi being only 26 when he did Nodame he always looked older than the character’s age. Shim Eun Kyung continues to look just perfect for the part of a oddball piano prodigy with her shining eyes and endearing smile.
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This may sound weird...but doesn't Nodame look too...clean? Or rather not messy enough?
My thoughts exactly. I kind of want to jump in the picture and mess up her hair a bit.
Haha I was thinking the same thing. I was hoping the recently released promotional pic of Nodame was not an accurate depiction of her character in the drama but I guess she really is much cleaner in this version. And Joo Won strutting to class in his white dress shirt... *droolz*
her clothes look ironed! That's just so...not Nodame lol.
As for me, Nodame rather look clean and neat almost all the time in the japanese drama. There are only few episodes where she looks really messy so SEK's look her is a pass.
yeah lol
Why are they so dolled up ? Uggghhhh idk how i feel
Joo won just doesn't cut it for me and SEK looks so pretty but not nodame-ish?
Yeah, cringe was my first reaction. She's too clean and neat (though the dressing is a bit improved on the offbeat scale), and his hair is... the hairstyle definitely ages him. What's with the horizontal stripe that runs across his shirts? And that bag... um...
Tamaki Hiroshi was sexy, arrogant and commanding, especially in his white shirts. More and more, these stills prove that Joo Won just doesn't cut it, he doesn't have that Chiaki vibe and aura.
I agree, Tamaki was Chiaki but Joo Won does not have that commanding aura at all or the look.
Sigh, I still have hope that Shim Eun Kyungs Nodame will be good...
Kinda weird, but nodame looks so clean. Still can't figure nodame character in shim eun kyung. Nodame suppose to be messy n clumsy too. Or maybe ueno juri play the character too perfect. And also for joowon can't see chiaki character yet. But hope the drama goes well eventhough might not be as perfect as j nodame.
love them both.
this drama gonna be romance drama.
hais..
They look lovely but like others have mentioned: too clean. I just hope the execution is better than these released stills.
Sek looks like a younger version of UJ but she lacks the charm that UJ had when she brought to life her character nodame. But anyways we have to see it in action to be fair.
Hot man in crisp shirt XD, this is what i need.
Joowon seriously looking good, althoughTamaki Hiroshi in white shirt still winning for me.
I will watch this as a K drama not a remake of the Jdrama or something. If we keep comparing the two, where's the fun? :p
I dunno... SEK lacks that spark somehow, she just look earnest and endearing.
JW has got a bit of the aloof and irritable attitude in the stills already, that's good. I don't expect him to be a duplicate of Tamaki Hiroshi but to me more in character as compared to SEK in the stills.
When I was watching bride of the century I kept thinking I'd seen the actress. Then I realized I was thinking of Nodame. Bride of century girl may not the greatest actress but that was how I remembered the Japanese Nodame to be like.
He's very tall and lanky.