Lately

I am surprised by myself for being able to finish two doramas in a row while I was having pile of works at the office. The two doramas themselves are actually not brand new doramas but I just got a chance to watch them lately.

One dorama is called in English One liter tears (Ichi Ritoru no Namida). The dorama is based on true story which is inspired by Kitou Aya’s diary, a girl who suffered an incurable brain disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration or Spinocerebellar Ataxia. It is really a sad and dramatic story. So please prepare your tissues while watching it. I like the soundtrack songs so much, the ED and the national song (I think the title is 9 march) that was sung by Aya’s in her first year at high school.

Aside from the story, manager Takano (Fujiki Naohito) is playing here as Aya’s doctor…..kakkoi ja!!

The second dorama is Proposal Daisakusen where Yama Pi (nick name of Yamashita Tomohisa) is the main role as Iwase Ken(zou). From the storyline itself, it is actually quite ordinary. It is about a guy who is attending his childhood girl-friend’s wedding and at the same while looking at the fact that he is not the groom he starts regretting his past. Therefore, he makes a wish to turn back time and redo things that he is regretting in order to win the girl of his dream once more. Thanks to a fairy who lives in the church where the wedding ceremony is being held, the guy’s wish is granted and he can travel back to time.

The things that make this dorama special is the flash back plot (when Ken goes back to the past), how the story is being told and the messages behind each episode. Surprisingly, some of the dialogs are taken from bible’s verses. If you have a holy bible with you, try reading Matthew 7 verse 7.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

People who are like me would expect to have a serious romantic drama as it is about the word “love and regret” but YamaP is not cast for that kind of role. “Halelujah chance…NOOO” scene is a little bit eccentric but I get used to it though. Here Fujiki Naohito is also cast as the groom in the wedding, but to be honest I do not like his role that is too kind, plain, and somewhat boring. Anyway, I have fallen for this dorama, both the story and the Ending soundtrack (Kuwata Keisuke – Ashita Hareru kana).