Tadashii Ouji no Tsukurikata (正しい王子のつくり方 -2008)

Starring:
Yanagi Kotaro as Shinozaki Tatsuya
Midori Yurie as Yuki Nami
Aiba Hiroki as Hata Shurinosuke
Takiguchi Yukihiro as Souma Fumizou
Takeda Kohei as Noda Hayato
Kiriyama Renn as Yoshiyuki Kirin
Matsushima Hatsune as Shinagawa Haruka
Kondo Saki (近藤彩希) as Shibata Chiaki
Toriyama Airi as Koshino Misaki
Akimoto Sayaka as Kiryu Natsuki
Arisue Mayuko (有末麻祐子) as Sano Fuyuko
Kumai Kohei as Oshikaga Ken
Yoshida Tomokazu (吉田友一) as Shibukawa Mamoru
Nakagawa Shingo as Hoshino Gaku
Rikuna Yuuka (里久鳴祐果) as Kiriyama Touko
Nishiaki Aina (西秋愛菜) as Andou Hitomi
Miyazawa Sae as Kido Koharu
Kaede (楓) as Suzuki Naomi
Sakai Erika (境絵里加) as Nishiyama Yuu
Sakurai Hijiri (桜井聖) as Koseki Shun
Kawai Ryunosuke as Yamasaki Keita
Nagayama Takashi as Nanbara Takashi
Maeda Ken (前田健) as Senkawa Shigeo
Kuraki Jyouji (倉木譲二) as Mitani Kaname

In this school comedy, a girls' high school suddenly goes co-ed, but the incoming boys are far below their expectations. As a result, some of the girls start a project to reform the boys into "princes." --Tokyograph

At first I wasn't tooooooo sure about this drama. I'm not much for the over-acting that is common in manga/anime related dramas. So it was a little over the top in the first episode. But I overlooked it because...well...it's a Japanese drama and there are a whole lotta dramas of those types.

This was the norm of a female based school that inherits a bunch of boys into their school because the following year it will change into a boy/girl school. So they decided to "test" out the effects of having boys in the school.

Of course, it's a girl-loves-boy theme with the idea of the girls trying to change them (the boys) from losers to "Princes". And, with the eye-candy involved...well, I had to watch. Two of the characters are in my favorite (so far) drama called Tokyo Ghost Trip which is slowly being released (the subbers are having trouble with keeping help). Anyway, Kiriyama Renn and Takiguchi Yukihiro are those two guys...........soooo cute especially Renn-kun.

This is definitely a highschool girl's dream type drama. I, being out of school for many years, didn't mind at all. The sweetness of the story, with the main five male characters each getting two episodes a piece, was nice. Not overly sexual or anything like that.

Yonagi Kotaro


Aiba Hiroki


Kiriyama Renn

The Prince of Tennis (2006)

Starring:
Kanata Hongo - Ryoma Echizen
Yuu Shirota - Kunimitsu Tezuka
Hiroki Aiba - Syuusuke Fuji
Hiroki Suzuki - Syuuichiro Oishi
Masato Wada - Sengoku Kiyosumi
Osamu Adachi - Eiji Kikumaru
Hirofumi Araki - Sadaharu Inui
Yoshikazu Kotani - Takashi Kawamura
Masaki Kaji - Takeshi Momoshiro
Kousuke Kujirai - Kaoru Kaidoh
Ryuuji Sainei - Keigo Atobe
Rikiya - Egate Mcleod Higaki
Goro Kishitani - Nanjiroh Echizen
Hitomi Shimatani - Sumire Ryuuzaki
Sayuri Iwata - Shion Higaki
Kouji Date - Choutarou Ohtori
Tokio Emoto - Gakuto Mukahi
Genki Ishii - Jirou Akutagawa
Daiki Nakae - Yuushi Oshitari
Junpei Suzuki - Shishido Ryou
Kazutoshi Yamakawa - Munehiro Kabaji
Yasuka Saito - Shinji Ibu
Yuuki Fujiwara - Akira Kamio
Daiki Sano - Aoi Kentarou
Eiji Moriyama - Genichirou Sanada
Juri - Hikaru Amane
Mitsuyoshi Shinoda - Sasabe
Kenta Kamakari - Sasabe's friend #1
Takashi Nagayama - Sasabe's friend #2
Yusuke Ishibashi - Referee
Shun Takagi - Masaya Sakurai
Ruito Aoyagi - Bystander
Ryou Washimi - Bystander
Takumi Saito - Bystander

Kanata Hongo stars as tennis prodigy Echizen Ryoma who, after winning four consecutive victories in the USA, is brought back to Japan by his father and enrolled in the prestigious Seishun Academy Middle School, famous for its tennis team.

Ryoma soon finds himself the only first-year on the school team, playing alongside school captain and national player Tezuka Kunimitsu, cool-headed Oishi Syuichirou and the acrobatic Kikamura Eiji. He also attracts the attentions of Higaki Shioin, a strange and quiet girl who watches him attentively from the bleachers. Can Ryoma successfully juggle sports, school, girls and life in a new country to earn the title Prince Of Tennis?



This is my second time to watch this. I really wanted a refresher course but maybe I should have rewatched the anime's instead since they are more closer to the manga than anything else.

I'm not saying this is a bad movie. Not at all. It's just hard to fit a year's worth of manga into two hours. They did their best. It was fun to watch but if you have read the manga and watched the animes...well, this would be a disappointment. Luckily, I saw this first before anything else. So I wasn't a wee bit angry. And I'm still not.

I hope they make a PoT 2. They need to finish the manga out....even if we have to have a 3rd movie. They pulled a 3rd Deathnote out of their asses...they can do the same for PoT.

I love the manga/anime series so much! I hated the fact that it ended. I, actually, balled like a baby. I was a blubbering idiot. Yeah, I know you're laughing. *Ha-Ha*

Sukitomo (2007)

Starring:
Saito Takumi
Aiba Hiroki
Komatsu Airi

The young and earnest Tomokazu (Saito Takumi) is in his third year of university and a member of the boxing team. He has a close friendship with freshman Yoshiki (Aiba Hiroki), whom he sees as a little brother. Little does he know, however, Yoshiki's feelings for him run a lot deeper. To add to the confusion, Tomokazu's stepsister Misao (Komatsu Airi) also secretly likes him and becomes jealous of his relationship with Yoshiki. What will Tomokazu do when he finds out their true feelings?


I was slightly disappointed in this small movie. I had gotten the impression that this was a yaoi movie but it sort of was but it wasn't. It was really one-sided. Tomo seemed to show no interest in Yoshi while Yoshi seemed to have true feelings for Tomo. Then we have the step-sister thing. She is terribly young but infatuated with her step-brother, Tomo. Okay, Tomo is hot and all but I don't think he had any clue of "loving" his sister in that way. I was routing for Yoshi in this one.

Anyway, in the end Yoshi and Misao (Tomo's stepsister) sort of bond as they each recognize their love for Tomo. It was a bit weird since the whole movie's basis was their jealousies towards each other. I was hoping for some kind of recognition on Tomo's part for one of them.

Ehh. This could have been better.

Saito Takumi

Takami-kun (Soshite, Harukaze ni Sasayaite/そして春風にささやいて -2007)

Starring:
Tomo Yanagishita - Takumi
Keisuke Kato - Gii
Hiroki Aiba -Saichi
Yasuka Saito - Izumi Takabayashi
Wataru Hatano - Michio Yoshizawa
Tetsuya Makita - Daisuke Nozaki
Yukihiro Takiguchi - Shozo Akaike
Ryo Sakaguchi - Toshihisa Katakura

The flames of love envelope the hapless tenants of an all-boys high school dorm.

Peer into the perplexing world of all-male school romance with a focus on Takumi and Gii as the two search to cure Takumi's love-thratening fear of meaningful relationships due to a trauma in his past!


OMG! This was a little low budget but it was so sweet. I think I'm beginning to become a big fan of yaoi movies. Something about two really, really, really cute guys kissing is an insane turn on! OMG! I can't believe I just admitted that to everyone and to myself. LOL!

It started off a lot like a manga/anime related movie. Is it? I'll have to search. It started off with lots of exaggerated movements and gestures to Matrix like scenes. Eventually once the story got heated the manga/anime related movements ended.

This was endearing and sweet. Takumi has a "human phobia" and doesn't like to be touched. As the story moves along we realize that there is a reason why. Gii is Takumi's roommate and is the first to admit his love for Takumi. We come to find out that Gii has loved Takumi for at least over 3 years as the story continues. Eventually Gii breaks through Takumi's touch barrier and slowly Takumi comes to realize he loves Gii too.

This is so romantic and loving. Homosexual or not, love should always be this way..................

And I'll admit when Takumi and Gii kissed.....my heart rate went through the roof!!!!

Kato Keisuke




Aiba Hiroki


Yanagishita Tomo


Makita Tetsuya