This is The Prince of Tennis Live Action that I first watched. And this is also the first Live Action made. Because the format is movie, so many scenes must be cut or modified to meet the duration. I can understand that, but there are also some modified roles, which in my opinion are quite essential. An example is Ryuzaki-sensei's role. Here it is told that he was young, so Sakuno's role was abolished, replaced by the younger sister of Higaki.

Overall, the story is close to the story in the manga and quite entertaining, but I would be very happy if this title was made in the form of a drama series. Speaking of acting, the two roles that I like in this movie are Tezuka and Ryoma. Both of them (Hongo Kanata and Shirota Yu) can play Ryoma and Tezuka well, so their role characters are really like the characters in the manga.

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Heartwarming Movie

This is an old movie that I don't know why I haven't watch until now, even though one of the actors is Higashide Masahiro.

First of all, there are 6 short stories in this movie and what I like, some of the actors in a story meet or intersect with the actors of other stories. The main thing about this story is that everything has a setting in Tokyo Station. Among the six stories, there are 2 stories that I really like, namely 'A Half Coming-Of-Age Ceremony' and 'Christmas Eve Lover'.

I like 'A Half Coming-Of-Age Ceremony' because it is a family story, where the father has a secret and tries to tell his secret to his 10-year-old son. Many misunderstandings occur between them because the son does not know that his father has stopped working. The son also feels pressured by his father with many rules which he thinks are binding, while the father intends to prepare the child to become an adult, so he can leave peacefully. Everything is about communication between family members and how to deal with common problems. This theme is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

Then about 'Christmas Eve Lover'. I like this story because it is similar to the stories in the manga, where they seem to meet unintentionally, but there is someone who actually makes them accidentally meet. I like where they disliked each other at first, got into a misunderstanding that made Kazuki hate Reiko, but in the end liked each other.

Of course, because these six stories are put together in a 106-minute film, many details are not included in this story. Also, each story does not get the same portion of each other. For examples are Christmas Present and Christmas Courage. I especially want to know the continuation of Christmas Courage, whether Natsumi managed to express his feelings or not. But overall, this movie is quite heartwarming.

The songs I found in this movie :
1. Mamotte Agetai by JUJU
2. Mamotte Agetai by Yuzu

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Love contract or marriage contract are very common theme for chinese drama/movie. It's indeed not a very original theme, but still tolerable and watchable.

Honestly I can't stand with male lead, he's so childish, arrogant, grumpy and often out of his mind. But the time he (slightly) realize that he has a feeling for the female lead, his character become more acceptable. I think my acceptance to the male lead cannot be separated from the presence of the female lead. She's so independent, have a strong will (especially about money (≧▽≦)) and didn't chase the male lead blindly. Those characteristics makes her character become the great match (or the great counter attack should I say) to the male lead character.

The conflict is around the hatred of some people about their relationship or their personality individually or as a couple. The conflicts feels repetitive for me, thus I feel they have lost their power as a conflict, because somehow I can predict their appearance. Also, for some conflict the disclosure is not too strong, so that it feels the writer just ignore it.

The best plot is at the 3 last episodes. Really played with your heart and emotion, and I really feel suffocated to see them hurt like that. It would be better to have one extra episode to satisfying the viewers, but it's the best to make a season 2 for this drama. Especially more focus for Lin Tian Nuo-Kan Di couple and Lu Ming-Ran Zi Shu couple.

The casts acting are great. They did a great at portray the character’s personality and they’re all have a good chemistry. But, I want to highlight Kido Gao. The first time I saw him is in The King's Avatar and still can't believe to see his character is 180 degrees different from Yu Wen Zhou's character (≧▽≦) I always waiting his appearance, especially in a drunk state. His acting is so good and natural. I can't choose between Yu Wen Zhou and Lin Tian Nuo, he did great in both character.

The music I found in this drama :
1. Midnight Conversation of Fish and Sky by Dai Jingyao
2. Rescue (挽救) by Ning Yanyu
3. Obviously (明明) by Zhang Liange
4. Because of Me (因為我) by Wu Chong Xuan

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I watch this because of Li Xian, but then I really love the story and all the casts. This drama is just like TV Series CSI, and since I love that series, I also love this. But I think I must warn you because the first 2 episodes really shake my stomach in the level I want to throw up. They really explicit about the corpse (or the remaining of it), that’s why I put ‘18+’ sign here. What relieved me was that in the following episodes, they censored the corpse with whatever their conditions.

The story was great. It seems that the cases are stands alone, but then they’re related to the one Qin Ming’s old case. Those case also reveal Qin Ming’s past and his father’s case. Too bad they didn’t show or explain the detail of Qin Ming’s old case which became the background of some case.

As for the casts, they’re really did a great job.
Zhan Ruo Yun did a great job of portray Qin Ming’s stoic and systematic personality.
Jiao Jun Yan also great at portray Li Da Bao’s character. It’s so funny to watch how brave she is when facing Qin Ming at his territory, a morgue (o＾▽＾o)
Li Xian as Lin Tao is also great. He can be serious at some time and be silly in the very next second. But I think he still a bit clumsy when he hold a weapon (^_^;)

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I didn’t watch the Korean and Japanese version yet, so I can’t comparing this movie with the drama. For me personally, this movie quite touching even it’s not perfect. I’ll try to explain it in a positive and negative section.

Positive :
1. The drama and the tragedy are touching. I’m really touched by how Walker love his sister and try his best to find her. Also, how he risk his live to protect Jule.
2. The performance of the casts. I especially love the Male Lead’s acting. Vivian Dawson give Walker the soul and makes me feel his pain and sorrow too. As for the Female Lead’s acting, Swan Xin’s acting touched me at the end of the movie, while she know that Dawson was passed away.

Negative :
1. The movie seems have the low budget, the lighting is not really good, especially at Vancouver’s scene. That’s makes me a little bit dizzy watching it.
2. The story moving too fast (I understand that this is a movie), sometimes I can’t catch up the pace.

But overall, I love the idea and the story, so I still gave this movie 8.0/10.0.

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At the beginning, I really enjoy this drama. It’s really funny to see two people with an opposite character and didn’t like each other must work together. As a couple too! I love how the cold man like Ye Shu Wei meet a cheerful and free-spirit girl like Bei Er Duo. Even he is told to be a cold man, but inside he is caring enough towards Bei Er Duo. Their process to know and make peace with another is smooth and sweet enough.

Like another drama, there’s a second couple too in this drama, but unexpectedly the second couple not a second male lead with a second female lead. A second female lead meet another man in the middle of the series and they live happily ever after. I like this kind of unexpected plot.

The conflict is about how you reach your dream. How the male and female lead compromised with other party’s dream. The peak conflict is on the ending second last episode and mainly at the last episode (that’s why I postponed watching the last episode (//ω//)

The things makes me quite down and didn’t really enjoy the drama are :
1. The way Ye Shu Wei play the violin! I’m not the violinist, but I know that the gesture and the tempo he made when playing the violin is not related with the songs played in the background. I thought it will be better if they didn’t play the background sound at all, or shoot the cast from afar, so the gesture won’t be seen clearly. Since the drama already aired and nothing I can do, I watched those scene with muted sound (⌒_⌒;)
2. They dubbed Bei Er Duo when she speak Japanese! In the last episode, Bei Er Duo who told work at Japanese Restaurant in Japan, talk to one of her customer in Japanese, but it’s just what the dubber do, Zhao Lu Si is still speak in Chinese. It’s indeed just for a several minutes, but it’s simply annoyed me.
3. The voice who dubbed Zhao Lu Si kinda annoys me, she's seems didn't put any emotion to her conversation.

All the casts are doing great. They act naturally and delivered the character’s soul perfectly.

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Easily 10/10

I don’t know why I stumbled with this drama in the beginning, but I must admit that I didn’t regret every single second I watched this! I’m not a gamer and honestly I never too interest with the gaming theme, but I really excited to watch this drama. Well, this drama not exactly about gaming, but about CTF (Catch The Flag), a type of wargame, which is a computer security competition. I’m not fully understand, but I enjoying watching it and somehow understand a little more about CTF.

What I love about this drama is that the CTF, friendship, romance and family have the same portion.
The friendship in K&K team and Team Solo (in the end) is really worth watching for. Their friendship and bond are really sweet makes me want to go to my best friends and give them a hug.
The romance between Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian is really sweet and ridiculous at the same time. At some point I get annoyed at Tong Nian’s attitude or manner to chase Han Shang Yan before he have the feeling for her. But then, I found that that’s really funny I can’t help but laugh. It’s also a cheesy coincidence that their family is an old friend, but thanks to that, the main leads can start their relationship even just a fake relationship. Even it’s just a fake relationship, but I adore how Han Shanyan treat Tong Nian.
The second romance is come from Mi Shaofei and Sun Yaya. Start of idol-fans relationship, their romance is so light and heartwarming. If this drama will have a second season, I want to watch their interaction more.

The first conflict is about friendship of Team Solo, which then divided into two team, K&K and SP. This conflict is not explained directly and explicitly. In the early episodes we were introduced with the conflict, but not until the middle of the drama we understand what the cause of it. The problem solving is so touching and heartbreaking at the same time. What makes it heartbreaking for me is that it’s the first time I saw Han Shang Yan look so sad and lost.

The second conflict is about relationship between Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian. I’m really grateful that the conflict is not about another woman/man. The conflict is come from Tong Nian’s mother and it’s really suffocating. I hate her treatment towards Han Shang Yan and how she forced him to leave her daughter. But, when I place myself into her position, I can understand her reason. Not only Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian have a quite large gap of age, but Han Shang Yan profession is not something can easily accept by any parents, not to mention that Tong Nian’s mother is a teacher.

Now for the positive and negative thing I have for this drama. The positive things are :
1. There’s very little plot hole in this drama I can’t even remember what is the plot hole
2. Each characters are so strong (I will try to describe it in the following paragraph)
3. The extraordinary theme (for me) makes me not bored watching it

As for the negative things are :
1. Tong Nian’s is told to be a genius girl, not to mention she took the major that related to Han Shang Yan business, but the drama didn’t explore her strength. She only asked to make the program for K&K’s speed training and the face recognition at K&K’s building entrance. They can explore more in my opinion.
2. They didn’t show the competition or the comeback of Team Solo. I really want to see their performance (｡•́︿•̀｡)

Now for the acting. First of all, Li Xian (Han Shang Yan). At first, I didn’t really adore him, but his appearance at net café makes me fall head over heels for him. Especially for his physical appearance (≧◡≦) ♡ His acting made Han Shang Yan's character very much alive. He can describe very well for the times when Han Shang Yang became harsh because of his role as leader of the K&K. He can also describe very well Han Shang Yan who is very attentive to his first girlfriend, or Han Shang Yang who is clueless about dating because he is very inexperienced.
Yang Zi’s acting is very adorable too. Even she’s just a year younger than Li Xian, but she can act that she’s much younger than him. Yang Zi also made Tong Nian’s character alive and loveable.
Their chemistry is so real, makes me wish that they’re together in a real life too ( ◡‿◡ *)

Any other casts who I adore because of their acting are Hu Yi Tian and Li Ze Feng.
Hu Yi Tian is played as Han Shang Yan’s cousin (Wu Bai/DT) and he’s like Han Shang Yan’s guardian because of his calmness. Although sometimes he has a different opinion with Han Shang Yan (especially about money), but he is always willing to help Han Shang Yan. He is said to have an interest in Appledog, and I hope there will be a continuation of this drama to tell about the two of them.
Li Ze Feng is played as Han Shang Yang former leader at Team Solo (Wang Hao/Solo). Again, what attract me is his calmness and maturity. Even though Han Shang Yan always showed hatred towards him, he always responded with a smile and still tried to greet or make friends with him again.

Some of music I found for this drama :
1. 无名之辈 (Wúmíng zhī bèi / A Nameless Person) : Chen Xueran (opening theme song)
2. 牛奶面包 (Niúnǎi miànbāo / Milk Bread) : Yang Zi (ending theme song)
3. 爱不由我 (Ài bùyóu wǒ / Love Is Not Up To Me) : You Zhangjing
4. 給未來 (Gěi wèilái / Give to the Future) : Li Xian
5. 我可以不在乎你 (Wǒ kěyǐ bùzàihū nǐ / I Can Not Care About You) : Kimberley Chen
6. Couldn’t Leave : Dimash Kudaibergen
7. 光耀 (Guāngyào / Glory) : Lara Veronin
8. 一起走的幸福 (Yīqǐ zǒu de xìngfú / The Happiness of Walking Together) : Duan Aojuan
9. 海闊天空 (Hǎikuòtiānkōng / Wide Sky) : Fan Yi Chen

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The story is a little bit dark and heavy, but offer a lot. Like, how we should love ourselves so that we have our own self-confidence, not borrowed from a thing or another people. This movie show us what will we experience when we are too dependent on an object or someone to achieve our dreams. I, personally, feel sorry for Kasane who blindly achieved her dream. At that time in my opinion she lost her humanity because she justified any means to achieve it.

I wonder why that lipstick never used up even though being used for quite a long time, at least since Kasane's mother still young. And because of the intermediary miracle is the lipstick, there's quite lot kissing scene between Kasane and Nina. To be honest, the scene makes me a bit annoyed (⌒_⌒;) Some questions unanswered for me is from where Kasane's mother got the lipstick and where's the woman she stole the face.

As for the acting, I'm used to see Tsuchiya Tao acted as a good girl, so I'm really surprised to see in the early minutes of this movie when she become a mean girl. And in my eyes, she nailed it!

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

It should be a nice movie, but I'm not feel something very spectacular with it. Maybe I'll give you a list of the positive and negative points in my opinion; and I'll let you make a decision.

Positive :
1. There's a little spot for psychological issues and I always love to watch it (^_^)
2. The chemistry between hero and heroine is good, but in my opinion they can do better
3. The ending is such a relief
4. The songs are great touch

Negative :
1. The story telling feels not too tidy, which bit rushing at some scene but feels so slow at other scene
2. The back and forth plot is always be my taste, but in this movie I found it a bit boring, maybe because the era (I'm not sure too)
3. They provide enough details, but it feels spread all over the story irregularly

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

"The love in their point of views is based on each other's happiness."

What the heeeeck!!! .･ﾟﾟ･(／ω＼)･ﾟﾟ･.
Just from the synopsis, I know that this movie will be a sad movie, but I never thought that it will be this sad! (╥_╥) Well, maybe there will be other watcher who say that this movie quite cheesy, but this movie really touch my heart (╥_╥)

I never imagine that there will be a mother who neglect her sick son, but thank's God K meet Cream and they take care of each other. The early minutes of flash back feels bit boring for me, but it's just for several minutes, and when they start living together, the story start to feel bitter. Many times when I watching this, I'm thinking, "Just please be honest!" And Cream's last action ... it's unforgivable but understandable in my point of view.

Actually, I can say no more without tell the whole story, so please just watch ... and cry (maybe—because I'm crying hard in the end).

BTW, somehow Jasper Liu remind me of Eita, the Japanese actor (^o^)

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

Austin Lin as a biker??? Love iiit!!! Σ>―(〃°ω°〃)♡→
Well, basically I'm a fans of Austin Lin (^o^)

Okay, let's talk about the movie. This is the 2nd movie I watched about Laplace Theorem. I dislike math and I amaze that there's a theory like this Laplace, everything can be calculated and manipulated.

In my opinion, the story is clear enough, quite easy to understand ... at least until the very end when the other student revealed another probability. I was like, "Damn! She could be right!" But that condition quite sad, so I don't want to think further about it, I just want to believe that Zao An and Xiao Chong are just a pawn (^_^;)

Each casts act good, sometimes Chen Du Ling have a little lack of expression, but it's still ok for me. Another thing is, I hate Yi Fan's hair. I want to cut it! (-__-)

Minus point : no such a romance scene for Zao An and Xiao Chong (^o^) I hope they could be together XD Sometimes they're forget about some little detail, it makes the transition between scenes is not so smooth.

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

I don’t know why the rating is not that high in imdb, because for me this movie is really touching. I have 5 friends too in high school and we still keep in touch until now, 16 years later (Shoot! I reveal my age! XD) Oh—correction—the 5 of us. The other 1 have her own path. Hm, quite similar with this movie.

Okay, this movie will show you the friendship and the jealousy. And since the setting is on 1990’s, I really enjoy watch this. Somehow I’m a bit annoyed with the attitude of young Nami, she’s too exaggerated in my opinion. But the old Nami did a great job. Although the ending of this movie is predictable, but still I cried in the end (ಥ﹏ಥ)

P.S. There’s a soundtrack of an old dorama Long Vacation and anime Rurouni Kenshin (^_^)

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

I watch this movie at WakuWaku Japan and I'm so sorry that I still can't find source to watch it online with subtitle.

As for the story, it's definitely the continuity from the drama and I'm really grateful that Ishikawa can move on from the dark-thought-tunnel he have. The support from his friends, especially his ‘dark world’ friends, are really touching. Despite the ‘crime’ genre, this movie is quite heartwarming for me (^_^)

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[WARNING: the rating and review I give have the possibility to be subjective due to my preference for the genres, scenes or casts]

I always love this series, but this season really awe me, because in this season the casts’ from the previous two season—both their personality and their role—really grow. There’s a new casts too, makes this season different than the other season. The conflict is more varies too. The other thing that makes this season different too is there’s a slightly possibility of romance between Shiraishi and Aizawa. Or that’s just my hope (^o^;)

Nothing I can say except this is perfect for me (◕‿◕)♡

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