It’s been a slower than usual summer season for K-movies, other than for the 3rd installment of The Roundup: No Way Out topping three weekends at the box office and Smugglers one weekend, it’s been Hollywood movies at the top. The next big name flick to try to lure audiences in will be Concrete Utopia, the disaster movie starring Lee … Continue reading →
Mark your calendars for September 9th as that is when the long planned second season to fantasy sageuk Arthdal Chronicles hit the small screen on tvN in the Sat-Sun time slot. Starring Lee Jun Ki and Shin Se Kyung as the grown up versions of Song Joong Ki and Kim Ji Won‘s characters from the 2020 drama, with returning antagonists … Continue reading →
Reading Once Promised (Ceng Shu Nuo) and its direct sequel Lost You Forever (Chang Xiang Si) is like two flip sides of the same coin. There are so many parallels but the ends and choices are almost diametrically opposite. It goes to show that what happens to form a person’s life, personality, and background ultimately influences how choices in the … Continue reading →
I remember building a boat in AP Physics to get across the high school pool was the highlight of the year. Sure it was ramshackle but if it got across the pond completely it was a win. Period C-drama Legend of Anle was a boat that kept taking on water and disintegrated probably 2/3 into the paddling but the two … Continue reading →
K-actress Kim So Hyun is back on the small screen with tvN drama My Lovely Liar (Useless Lies) so that’s a nice 8 weeks with her presence. With it also comes pictorials and she has a solo one for Dazed Magazine and feels effortlessly beautiful. Nothing overly makeup or posed, just her natural youthful looks paired with cool chic clothes … Continue reading →
I explained clearly in my book translations that the story of Lost You Forever is Xiao Yao’s story and the male lead of her story is Cang Xuan/Zhuan Xu, her older brother cousin. The growth and evolution of his path to ruling the entire world mirrors Xiao Yao’s return and her trials and tribulations, so the male lead designation is … Continue reading →
So after a really adorable start for me, I totally lost interest in jTBC Sat-Sun rom-com King the Land. And it’s not the dramas fault, from all accountants it stayed consistently just cute so I strayed because I had more interesting fare to watch instead with my limited time. The audiences stayed there but didn’t surge the way it could … Continue reading →
So I’m going to blame the stylist(s) that dressed K-actor Lee Min Ho in this all white look at this weekend’s event overseas because its so unflattering on him. The K-press caught him leaving Incheon a day earlier in all black and he looked great but a day later and it’s like he went from handsome dude to gambling hall … Continue reading →
This weekend was the premiere of new MBC Fri-Sat sageuk romance and war drama My Dearest (Lover) starring Namgoong Min and Ahn Eun Jin. The promos are just lush and visually sumptuous and from the screencaps of the first two episodes the end product delivers as promised. It’s not pretty in a sanitized way though and brings back memories in … Continue reading →
So this is to be expected somewhat but is rather pointless and annoying to see happen. C-drama Lost You Forever has become summer 2023’s hottest drama and there is much love to go around, great characters and acting from all four leads and a thoughtful adaptation with well paced execution. Novel writer Tong Hua is part of the production team … Continue reading →
Talk about playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. Like, did anyone at Youku think in this current climate this was either a good idea or that the authorities would just let it go? Fantasy action modern C-drama I am Nobody with Peng Yu Chang and Hou Ming Hao adapted from a popular manhwa The Outcast was dropped from the … Continue reading →
What great potential casting news at the right time to boot. K-actress Kim So Hyun just returned back to the small screen with tvN mystery romance My Lovely Liar (Useless Lies) with Minhyun but she’s now been offered her next project. It’s the drama Good Boy which has Park Bo Gum as the male lead so yeah this is quite … Continue reading →
Watching dramas for too long has turned me into Xiao Yao from Lost You Forever, rather than be disappointed I choose not expect anything or get my hopes up. Which is why I was even happier with how good LYF the drama adaptation has been, and knowing it was filmed for 73 episodes split into Part 1 with 39 episodes … Continue reading →
