ANNOUNCEMENTS

I am sorry to announce that I have made a decision to officially close Cypsis' Blog.

All the reviews stay up as they are, but I will not write more reviews. Cypsis' Blog had many ups-and-downs during those 7 years and I have tried to give the best I could, but unfortunately my life has moved on so much that finding time for reviewing has become more and more difficult. Closing the blog is breaking my heart, but I have thought a lot about it and understood that it is for the best. I am very thankful to everybody who have enjoyed reading my reviews.
(PS. I am still continuing to watch Asian dramas and you can always find me on Mydramalist.com)

Thank you for all these 7 years. I hope that those 240 reviews made you happy. I truly had unforgettable time writing them!

Sincerely, Cypsis
01.01.2018
Showing posts with label Minamisawa Nao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minamisawa Nao. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Kasa wo motanai Aritachi wa (2016)


Also known as: Ants without umbrella
Country: Japan
Format: short drama in 4 episodes
Genre: drama, slice of life
Cast: Kiriyama Ren, Kato Shigeaki, Minamisawa Nao, Sakata Masanobu, Adachi Rika, Ryu Raita, Watanabe Mai, Kobayashi Ryota, Ichikawa Riku, Takeda Rena, Niitsu Chise,
Synopsis: Hashimoto Jun is sci-fi writer who has been unsuccesful in writing any new book for many years. One day his editor asks him to write love-themed short story for online youth magazine. Writer who has never written anything connected to love, feels the pressure of possible failure. Despite not seeing each other for years, one night his old schoolmate Murata Keisuke stops at his place. While talking to each other, Jun begins to remember his youth years filled with bittersweet memories.  
Rating: 5/5
For me Kato Shigeaki has been genius for all the years that I know him (he is one person who I would like to know personally). The whole "Ants without umbrella" has been put together from his same-named short-story collection. Further more, all the book and story names in the drama are from this short-story collection. I take the moment to divide the story-lines of the drama to the short-stories.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Kimi ni Love Song wo (2010)


Also known as : Love song for you
Country: Japan + Korean band Supernova
Genre: romance, music
Format: movie
Cast: Supernova (Chosinseong) members: Sungje, Yunhak, Kwangsu, Sungmo, Jihyuk, Geonil; Minamisawa Nao, Erena
Synopsis: Chosinseong is in Japan for a second year. Sungje is having troubles with his Japanese pronunciation, while going on a walk he meets with a Japanese girl Saori, who is a Chosinseong´i fan and promises to teach Japanese to Sungje. But.. Saori is blind and Sungje introduces himself as a Jae.
Rating: 2/5
It would have get at least 4 stars (may be even 5), IF it would have been drama... As its run time was only a hour, everything developed too fast. It still was cute love story and so on, but it would have been something amazing when they would not have rushed with the time. I understand that actually they did not have much time, but it seemed even shorter.
I learned a new word from there too. "Nanpa" - a skirt chaser. XD Yes, movies and dramas can be really educating for language learning.
Even though it was a sad movie... I started to laugh too many times. Like one of the things I started to do was "Ikemen YAY!~" expression ("Ikemen" means "good looking guy"). Sadly I cannot show you how it goes, but it happened every time, when Yunhak (Yoonhak - i do not know the right way to write his name) entered the screen XD For you to know, it was my first time seeing Chosinseong (sad, but true). But I really like their songs - as much as I heard their songs there.
I hated the sister.. she was so annoying. I understand that she was afraid and everything, but really! I understand Saori´s point of view more (especially because of the end).
If you want to know more, why it got low rating, then read the spoiler part below the pics.

SPOILER!!! The dying part was just tooooooo weird... it was fake... and it definitely was because she finally saw how Sungje looked like. If you have a weak heart, then you should not watch ikemen!!! It will definitely cause a heart to stop, especially when you understand that the idol, who you love, was that ikemen!!! and when he has said that he loves you too.. Even thinking about that makes your heart skip a beat! I must say that the dying scene just took a star away.. otherwise it would have gotten 3 stars.