Yukan Club (有閑倶楽部 --2007)

Starring:
Akanishi Jin as Shochikubai Miroku
Yokoyama Yu as Kikumasamune Seishiro
Taguchi Junnosuke as Bido Granmarie
Minami as Kenbishi Yuri
Kashii Yu as Hakushika Noriko
Suzuki Emi as Kizakura Karen
Kaga Takeshi as Shochikubai Tokimune
Kataoka Tsurutaro as Kenbishi Mansaku
Kato Kazuko as Kenbishi Yuriko
Shirakawa Yumi as the School Director
Hasegawa Hatsunori as Principal Kurata
Hankai Kazuaki as Head Teacher Murakami
Okayama Hajime as Officer Soma
Sumita Takashi (住田隆) as Officer Katori
Kubo Akira as Godai
Yamada Shintaro (schoolmate)

Guests
Iwata Sayuri as Shiina Saki (ep1)
Hagiwara Nagare as Daka Shimizu (ep1)
Matsuzawa Ren (ep1)
Chinen Yuri as Ryota (ep2)
Fuse Hiroshi as Tasuke (ep2)
Iriyama Noriko as Yoshinagawa Ayumi (ep3)
Oshinari Shugo as Tamatsukasa Seiji (ep3)
Kurosawa Toshio as Shirafuji Goro (ep3)
Anan Kenji as Shirafuji's underling (ep3)
Masana Bokuzo as Shinkame Keisuke (ep3)
Takasugi Ko as Shinkame's underling (ep3)
Yoshiyuki Kazuko as Sakuragawa Kinu (ep4)
Matsuda Nanase as the child from the magazine (ep5)
Nakada Aki (中田有紀) as Seishiro's older sister (ep5)
Izumiya Shigeru as Master Unkai (ep5)
Koyama Keiichiro as Kariho Yuya (ep6)
Hashimoto Satoshi as Kongo (ep6)
Waki Tomohiro as Saburo (ep6)
Sasai Eisuke as Noriko's father (ep6)
Mike He as Prince Cassar Garcia (ep7)
Akiyoshi Kumiko as Shochikubai Chiaki (ep8)
Tsurumi Shingo as Keiko (ep8)
Hosoyama Takane (細山貴嶺) as Hiraizumi Ryuichiro (ep9)
Yamazaki Hajime as Midorikawa (ep9)
Maeda Gin as Dewazakura Kinzo (ep10)
Nakamaru Shinsho as Takachiho (ep10)
David Ito as the Samejima gangleader (ep10)


Shochikubai Miroku (Akanishi Jin) is the son of a police commissioner (father) and also a traveller (mother). Miroku has lots of connections and is a very good fighter. His interest is his motorcycle.

Kikumasamune Seishiro (Yokoyuma Yu) is the rich son of a large hospital. He also fights as well as Miroku. He is a good fighter with smarts.

Bido Granmarie (Taguchi Junnosuke) is the son of a Swedish ambassador. He's also a playboy, dating many girls at once. Granmarie can't see himself going steady because he thinks the world can't handle it.

Kenbishi Yuri (Minami) is the rich daughter of a world-renowned president of the Kenbishi Business. She loves to indulge on eating. She's also a good fighter, but can never beat Seishiro.

Hakushika Noriko (Kashii Yu) is the daughter of a famous japanese painter (father) and her mother is from a tradition tea ceremony family. Her only hate is men and can get very violent when they touch her.

Kizakura Karen (Suzuki Emi) lives with her mother, a rich jewel dealer. Her dream is to marry into a rich family using her attractive body and style.

Together, they formed the Yukan Club, solving mysteries to pass time.

Okay, this is my second time to post this. Eeergh. Blogger didn't save. Damn them!

This is a teen drama. It was cute. It was adoring. It was simple. But it was just a little bit tooooooo cheeeeeeesy for me. The first episode was like chewing rawhide. I can chew and chew and chew but not get anywhere. But after the first episode and every episode afterwards it got better. Not the best but definitely better than the first episode. I'm assuming this drama is based off a manga because of its cheesy goodness. The girl who played Yuri annoyed me to no end. I want to stuff a bloody cow in her mouth because of her inability to be hunger satisfied. Aaaaagh! Just thinking about her makes me want to stab myself. The other cast mates were humorous and sometimes endearing. I'm sorry but Junnosuke-kun had me laughing so much. I know some people who are just like him....narcissistic. LOL! Jin-kun was just as handsome as well but yet his character just wasn't as tough as I was led to believe. He easily let the tears come loose but yet in a way that was endearing. I love a man who cries.

I don't recommend this for most people because the quality isn't what would be expected of a comedic drama of that genre but it had enough eye-candy to keep us females glued to the tube..........hehehe!

Akanishi Jin


Koyama Keiichiro


Taguchi Junnosuke

P.P.O.I (っぽい-1999)

Starring:
Yamashita Tomohisa as Amano Taira (Hei)
Aiba Masaki as Kusaka Banri
Fukiishi Kazue as Sagami Makoto
Maeda Aki as Ichinose Hinaki
Furuya Yoichi (古屋暢一) as Hanashimada Eitatsu
Takahashi Yuzuru (高橋譲) as Takaoka Torao
Hasegawa Jun as Mishima
Uesato Ryota (上里亮太) as Baba
Nakamaru Yuichi as Kasuga
Akanishi Jin as Kimura Hisashi

Amano Hei (Yamashita Tomohisa) is a third grade boy in junior high who is short and looks like a girl at first glance. Ongoing with the story, he is involed in a love triangle with Sagami Makoto (Fukiishi Kazue) and Ichinose Hinaki (Maeda Aki). With his best friend Kusaka Banri (Aiba Masaki), a popular guy in school, they go through worries of love and adventures together.


Akanishi Jin? Kawaii!!!


Yamashita Tomohisa in a dress????? LOL!


Babe....you got bigger and boy did you ever get more manly! Whew!

I have to say I giggled and "ooooh'ed and ahhhh'ed" throughout the entire show. They were so cute when they were younger. I'm trying to guess how old they are. My son is 13 and looks older than them but they portrayed like they were in early high school or maybe junior high.

This was a sweet show. There isn't one person who wouldn't have liked this show. It was sweet and innocent love, coming of age romance and friendship. Totally watch worthy.

Akanishi Jin


Nakamaru Yuichi

Umm, I don't know about you but I think he is the best lookin' out of KAT-TUN!! I don't know why. I just like him the best. Yes, I still love Kame.....it's his personality that makes me love HIM the most. Yuichi-kun, you are so "kawaii!"

Aiba Masaki


Yamashita Tomohisa

Cover him in vanilla ice cream and I'll call him Yama-pie a al mode! I could just eat him up! Kami-sama, I'm hungry!

I Hate Christmas (Xmasなんて大嫌い, Kurisumasu Nainte Daikirai-2004)

Starring:
Fukada Kyoko as Kurihara Fuyumi
Akanishi Jin as Kitagawa Sho
Yamada Yu as Murakami Rena
Kimura Ryo as Okura Masaya
Kabira Jay as DJ Sugisaki
Yue Takeyuki as Ueda Tomohiro
Monsieur Kamayatsu (ムッシュかまやつ) as Okura Hiroshi
Kaneko Ken as Kihara Kensuke
Nakayama Megumi



I have to say I don't hate Christmas but this mini dram sucked something terrible. There wasn't enough time in the alloted episodes to make this show. Fuyumi was annoying as hell. I wanted to beat her up and throw her out the window. How could Shou like a girl like that? She slept all day and did jack! No motivation. There was no drive or will to make someone like her. So it was completely incapable for Shou to have liked her. So unbelievable. An hour and a half wasted. Thankfully it was only that. The only...and I mean ONLY good thing about this show was that Akanishi Jin and Kimura Ryo were in this show. That was it. And that is the only reason anyone would have watched this crappy show!

Akanishi Jin

Gokusen 3

YANKUMI IS BACK!

I can never get tired of this show. I've only seen the first episode so far. There are only 2 episodes shown so far that I know of. It's only been out less than a month, so we Americans and other countries have to wait patiently for private fansubs to get those things taken care of for us Asian drama junkies, ya know?

I will have to say so far, from just the first episode, the first episode starts out with the same recipe as the two other seasons. First you start out with class 3-D of rebels, mix in uncaring teachers, add one head teacher, add one teacher who was raised by a yakuza, and then bake for an hour of laughs and sentiment.

This years class this time has two leaders of one class. So what does that mean? You have two gangs of hormonal male teens vying for attention and head honcho.

On a personal note, the actor playing Ogata Yamato looks almost exactly like Akanishi Jin of KAT-TUN!!!!! For those don't know, Akanishi Jin was in the second season, Gokusen 2! "Kawaii!!"

Class 3D
Miura Haruma as Kazama Ren
Takaki Yuya as Ogata Yamato
Ishiguro Hideo as Honjo Kengo
Kiriyama Akito as Kuraki Satoru
Nakama Junta as Ichimura Rikiya
Miura Shohei as Kamiya Shunsuke

Blast to the Past...Gokusen 2...
Kamenashi Kazuya as Odagiri Ryu
Akanishi Jin as Yabuki Hayato
Hayami Mokomichi as Tsuchiya Hikaru
Koike Teppei as Takeda Keita
Koide Keisuke as Hyuuga Kosuke

...Gokusen...
Matsumoto Jun as Sawada Shin
Oguri Shun as "Uchi" / Uchiyama Haruhiko
Matsuyama Kenichi as Mori Kenichi
Ishigaki Yuma as Minami Youichi

Miura Haruma


Takaki Yuya