Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Kim Ji-Won: Her intro post #4....

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

Hope that's correct above but what I'm saying is welcome everyone. May 10, 2019 is the first day of this blog and many may know me from 'Nao Kanzaki and Friends'... aitoda.com. There I have such a mix of things and finally decided to branch out with just a blog devoted to Japanese and Korean dramas. Will also be having some film reviews but one thing you won't see are any J-Pop idols or gravure models except for their dramas, this blog is dedicated 100% to dramas and films.

Also actresses as will be having many, many posts for them. Such as them appearing at events, mag spreads, interview pics and whatever else. So you should be seeing a lot of my bigger long time faves such as Erika Toda, Park Min-Young, Lee Yeon-Hee, Tsubasa Honda and too many others to count. The first few weeks there many not be too many posts for new dramas as I'll be copying many recaps from the old blog along with some film reviews and actress posts.

Won't be going too far back, perhaps to 2015 with a few exceptions and will have an entire series in a row to make it easy to follow. Did find it a problem completing series at the Nao Kanzaki blog, won't be doing that here as all the series will have a post for every episode. Thanks for visiting, it'll will be a work in progress for a while here but hopefully not for too long. Comments are also appreciated, like to know your opinions on dramas and for any recommendations you may have.

News and upcoming projects

News and upcoming projects

Should have done this on my Aitoda blog which is to let viewers know what's going on. Seems like a good way to let everyone know if I'll be taking a break, what to look forward to and any other tidbits.

Updating update, May 19th:

Whew, have finally finished transferring over enough posts from the Aitoda blog. May be a few here and there in the future for some new that's being introduced but there shouldn't be too many. Have also included announcers for women that I'll be posting about as my top two current faves just happen to be in that profession.

The first five episodes of '3-Nen A Gumi' have now been posted. For series over five shows will be doing two batches of them as I figure ten posts are way too many to read through during one sitting so will have the second half of the drama coming up in 2-3 weeks, highly recommend the show.

June 4th.... Have written up the recaps for episodes 7 and 8 of the '3-Nen A Gumi' show and will have those long with episode eight by June 6th. Up next for Korean dramas is up in the air but leaning towards a pair of shorter series which will be either "Splish Splash Love" or "The Universe's Star".

Monday, May 13, 2019

Kim Ji-Won: Her intro post #4....

Ji-Won fans should be pleased as after over a two year absence have a pair of posts for her today. The posts for Korean actresses seem to be getting much more popular, not in the same league as Idol posts go but they do attract many more readers than posts for Japanese actresses. Actually was planning on doing a different post which was a review of her 2012 film "Horror Stories 1".
Thought it consisted of five short stories and that Ji-Won starred in the first segment followed by the other four. But that wasn't the case as her mini movie interwove with the other four and didn't feel like watching all 110 minutes today after I discovered that's how the film ran. So will have a pair of posts coming up soon for the movie, she also starred in it's sequel and though I haven't come close to finishing the film did take a few screenshots.

Ji-Won played a kidnapped student in the film, her kidnapper couldn't speak so that's why there are screenshots of the man's writing. He asked for her to tell him some scary stories which was what the other four parts consist of. Little bit of many things today but won't go overboard as I'd like to have a few more of these posts soon and it appears there's been plenty of activities from the past two years that I'll be getting to.
Ji-Won is now 25 and has become so much more popular than the last time there were posts for her. "Descendants of the Sun" really made her quite a big star, looks like an interesting drama but just don't know if I could sit through sixteen episodes. But after that series Ji-Won's next one had her finally in a starring role which was the "Fight for My Way" series that aired last Spring and Summer. On to a few mag spreads and there haven't been too many recent ones featuring Ji-Won but do have a pair of older ones. This first set is somewhat recent from the September issue of Marie Claire.

Lot of catching up to do for 2016/17, these next two spreads are from 2016 with this one being from the March edition of Singles.

Second spread from 2016 is from the July issue of Sure.

Not sure if these could be classified as a spread but these pics are from the December Star 1.

Those above pics were promoting J.Estina handbags and purses, Ji-Won has been working with the company for many years and these are from their Autumn collection.

Ji-Won also appears at so many events for J.Estina, she's probably been at four this past year. Pics here are from a fan signing session that took place on September 9th at the Lotte Store in Jung-gu, Seoul. Not sure if she was impressed with her cutout figure but sure many fans would love to own one of them. After the classy pics check out a short video of the event.