My Boss, My Hero (マイ★ボス マイ★ヒーロー -2006)

Starring:
Nagase Tomoya as Sakaki Makio
Tegoshi Yuya as Sakurakoji Jun
Tanaka Koki as Manabe Kazuya
Aragaki Yui as Umemura Hikari
Murakawa Eri as Hagiwara Saki
Kikawada Masaya as Sakaki Mikio
Osugi Ren as Kuroi Teruyuki
Ichimura Masachika as Sakaki Kiichi

Class of 3A
Wakaba Ryuya as Hoshino Rikuo
Mori Ren as Yasuhara Tadashi
Adachi Osamu as Maki Shinichi
Sato Chiaki as Okumoto Yukino
Hirota Masahiro as Suwabe Yuki
Sato Takahiro as Ibuki Kazuma
Shibuya Asami as Mita Makoto
Horan Chiaki as Tendo Yukari
Iriyama Noriko as Tanaka Rumi
Ito Miki as Nishina Hiroko
Kakiuchi Ayami as Ozawa Kaori
Naka Riisa as Chiba Akane
Chen Qu as Fei Lin
Takeda Kouhei as Hiratsuka Ryusuke
Shibuya Momoko as Tsuboi Mio
Matsunaga Kanami (松永かなみ) as Yuki Akemi
Ito Kimitoshi (伊藤公俊) as Takarada Teruhisa
Honma Haruo (本間春男) as Yoshimura Hironobu
Nishino Shigeto (西野成人) as Hayasaka Masato
Nogami Saori (野上沙織) as Minowa Yuki
Shinohara Takafumi (篠原孝文) as Aoki Mamoru
Souma Yukimi (相馬有紀実) as Saotome Yui
Tanaka Yasuhiro (田中泰宏) as Sekawa Tamotsu

St. Agnes Academy Faculty
Iwaki Koichi as Minami Takayuki
Kashii Yu as Minami Yuriko
Motai Masako as Mizushima Tsubaki
Minemura Rie (峯村リエ) as Akutagawa Yoshimi
Morishita Tetsuo as Kajiyama Ryosuke
Tanaka Yoji as Kikushima Tetsuya
Nakamura Yasuhi as Ota Osamu
Ozaki Usoh (尾崎右宗) as Urushibara Hideki
Rob Anderson (ロブ・アンダーソン) as Paul

Kanto Eigekai
Murakami Fuyuki (村上冬樹) as Ji
Cho Minwa (趙珉和) as Ryu
Takashima Hiroyuki (高嶋宏行) as Tetsu
Kagami Takeomi (加賀美剛臣) as Toshi

Others
Maruyama Tomomi as Kumada Katsumi
Ishibashi Renji as Yazaki Tojuro
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Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend who happens to be the principal of a nearby school to admit Makio. If Makio doesn't graduate, the position of boss will be given to his younger brother, Mikio.

Furthermore, he must pose as a 17-year-old during school hours and in the presence of any classmates or teachers outside of school. If his cover is blown, it would be the end of his high school career as well as his hopes to become boss. Things start out rough and tough as Makio's violent temper is tested. As the lessons and days go by he learns there is much more to school than just tests and studying.

OMG! This is like the best drama ever! Well, comedic/drama ever! I've never laughed so damn hard in my life. Nagase Tomoya was made for the part of Sakaki Makio "Makki". I should have watched this first....way before I watched the Korean remake movies of the same name. The Korean movie version didn't do this show justice.

I laughed so hard, no lie, 'bout peed myself with tears coming out of my eyes. OMG! The pudding episodes.....a laughing masterpiece. What is so great about that damn pudding? (Actually it looked like flan to me...but I guess it's all the same.)

Yeah, this weeping willow had some moments at the end that had me boo-hooing into the back of my left hand as my right wiped tears off my face.

I'm now an official fan of the Nagase Tomoya fan club. Hear me ROAR!

Nagase Tomoya


Tegoshi Yuya


Tanaka Koki


Wakaba Ryuya

Kamen Rider The Next (仮面ライダー The Next-2007)

Starring:
Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider 1 - Masaya Kikawada (黄川田 将也, Kikawada Masaya)
Hayato Ichimonji/Kamen Rider 2 - Hassei Takano (高野 八誠, Takano Hassei)
Shiro Kazami/Kamen Rider V3 - Kazuki Kato (加藤 和樹, Katō Kazuki)
Kotomi Kikuma - Miku Ishida (石田 未来, Ishida Miku)
Chiharu Kazami - Erika Mori (森 絵梨佳, Mori Erika)

Actors Masaya Kikawada and Hassei Takano are returning from MASKED RIDER THE FIRST as Takeshi Hongo (Masked Rider 1) and Hayato Ichimonji (Masked Rider 2) respectively, while Kazuki Katou steps into the role of Shiro Kazami (Masked Rider V3). 22-year-old Katou previously appeared in the MASKED RIDER KABUTO (Kamen Raidaa Kabuto, 2006) TV series as Daisuke Kazama, the alter-ego of Masked Rider Drake, as well as the series’ accompanying theatrical film MASKED RIDER KABUTO: GOD SPEED LOVE (Kamen Raidaa Kabuto Goddo Supiido Rabu, 2006).

2 years after the events of MASKED RIDER THE FIRST, rumours are spreading of vicious murders, which are always accompanied by the song of a young pop idol named Chiharu. After Chiharu disappears, her older brother Shiro Kazami goes in search for her, and inevitably finds himself in the hands of the organization “Shocker”. It is here, where a new generation of Riders are being created, that Shiro Kazami is transformed into Masked Rider V3.



I really wanted to watch atleast one Kamen Rider episode or movie. I wish I hadn't. Or maybe this was just a bad movie and I shouldn't judge just this one over the rest of the series. All I know is that it might have appeased my children but it was just a long, Japanese version of Power Rangers. Ugh! I've done my share of Power Rangers in my lifetime (I have 2 boys who have watched a number of series). And after doing research have learned that the American version of Kamen Rider IS the Power Rangers. (Damn, I admit we own a few episodes. Argh!)

If the rest of the series' are over-dramatized, over-produced, over-acted stunts, movemements, and dialogue. I don't want to watch it. To each his own. I know I might get hate mail for this one since the series' are popular in the Asian market. I was expecting more out of this because OF the popularity. Ehh! And so many popular Japanese actors have at one time or another been in one of the million episodes out there.

Kikawada Masaya


Hassei Takano


Kazuki Kato