Coming Soon to Netflix: September 2018
Oooh! Lots of goodies are going to hit Netflix soon, minna-san! Are you excited? I know I am. Thai dramas, Chinese dramas, Japanese movies! Yes, please.
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New Asian Dramas and Movies on Netflix–June 25, 2018
I did a happy dance when I saw the alert on my Netflix account that they’ve added the Japanese movie The Many Faces of Ito. Woohoo! Now we can finally know how the series ends and what becomes of Ito and our protagonist Lady E. I have been so used to Okada Masaki’s bumbling good guy roles of late that
Read moreNetflix Asian Drama Updates – 12 March 2018
Did you know it can take hours to do this research and prepare everything? What I don’t like is Netflix’s new format which makes it harder than it used to be to discover the new arrivals. And I know there are other New to Netflix lists, but I don’t always find the newly added Asian dramas on them for whatever
Read moreAsian Entertainment Streaming Updates – May 15, 2017
Not many new arrivals of Asian dramas and movies, but there is a few…okay, one. If we talk about Asia as a continent, there’s quite a few Indian and Hindi movies and dramas now streaming, but I don’t list those (and if we talked about Asia as a continent…then you’d have to include Russia, too, wouldn’t you?). Ah, just a
Read moreJmovie: Library Wars
My first job was at my local library. I even worked in the college library during my undergraduate years. My first passion and obsession was reading. So the title definitely caught my eye while perusing movies online. This movie is based on a light novel series by Arikawa Hiro with illustrations by Adabana Sukumo. Later the novel series became a
Read moreAsian Drama Streaming Updates – August 25, 2015
No new series for Crunchyroll this week. Nope, nope. No new series on DramaFever either. They have, however, added Chinese movie My Kingdom which stars Wu Chun (formerly of Fahrenheit) and Han Geng (formerly of Super Junior). This is a story of how two sworn brothers become enemies. Oh…and they are Chinese opera performers to boot. This wasn’t a bad
Read moreJMovie Review: Kinkyori Renai
Kinkyo Renai, aka Close Rang Love/Short Distance Love, is a 2014 movie starring ex-News member Yamashita Tomohisa and Komatsu Nana. This movie is based on a manga series of the same name by Mikimoto Rin which was serialized from 2008 to 2011. I do not think this was one manga series that I read, so I wasn’t really expecting anything
Read moreJMovie Review: Rurouni Kenshin Finale
The first movie in the live action Kenshin series was pretty awesome. The next two movies (Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends) both ratcheted up the awesomeness even more! The acting was superb (for the most part) and the action sequences are great and not as bad as some movies with the overly obvious wire work that defies the laws
Read moreJMovie Review: Say “I Love You”
There are tons of dramas and movies that are based on manga. Say “I Love You” is another manga turned into a live action that was released in 2014. Unfortunately, this is a manga that I have read and rather enjoyed. I haven’t finished the series, but I’ve read up to the arc where Megu (more on her later) was becoming
Read moreJapanese Movie: L♡DK
Nothing like a movie about first love. Especially when the film hit theaters in April, a spring month very suitable for first love. L♡DK is a live action movie based off the manga of the same name by Watanabe Ayu. It revolves around a male and female high school student who both live alone in the same building and end
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