you're not like all the other flowers

Watched the first episode of Bara no nai Hanaya due to kitsune714's shameless enabling last night. And well. So I have three jdramas (Ashita no Kita Yoshio, Daisuki!) I'm watching now, and the common thread between all of them is that they're human interest, and if there's romance, it's done with just the right touch and subtlety. And there's the Matsuda brothers - Ryuhei in Ashita, and Shota in Bara no nai Hanaya portraying very different characters than I'm used to seeing them playing.

I also finally saw Atonement yesterday - ( vague thoughts and spoilers )

Bara no nai Hanaya is just this quiet, lovely thing that is full of surprises.

Robbers continues to be great, and I swear, I'll do a screencap review soon, because come on! The kdrama that brought me back to the fold - it has to be special. And I have a craving to rewatch Stained Glass Window, because I miss Lee Dong Gun.

I'm also watching Moonlight Jellyfish, because I've only seen Tatsuya Fujiwara in that gigolohost movie he did with Oguri Shun, and histrionic video clips of Romeo & Juliet with Anne Suzuki (he speed shouts all of Romeo's lines. You have to see it to believe it.), and he's appearing in a NTV historicalextravanganza with Maki. I have no interest in watching Battle Royale or Death Note, which are the roles he's famous for, so...

Ryo Kimura (everyone's favorite gay sidekick/stalker! in Nodame and Hana Kimi) is also in this, playing his brother.