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.

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".

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Friday, August 21, 2020

Minami Hamabe: A slightly massive 'a little bit of this and that'....



 Bit too early for Christmas but bet Minami may make for a fine elf(ette?)! There's three faves who I post about often who won't be eligible for this year's faves list. Two are because they've been previous winners which makes them ineligible for any more yearly lists. The third is Minami and her reason is because she won't be 21 when the list is done during December. Would like to include her but once you start making exceptions then they don't stop. But to me Minami is a bigger fave than many who will make the list and she's been around for so long seems she should be 25+. She's also one of the top actresses these days and one of the busiest too as I'll explain as we go along.


 Busy as Minami has a drama starting in October along with a film coming out that month and also had one released today, she was already in one series earlier this year. But she had another one begin two days ago titled "Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteiru" aka Cursed in Love. No clue if the drama will be subbed but really am hoping so, one reason for that mini vacation starting in a week is to get through my huge backlog of dramas and there's been many lately which have been quite good. Off the track for a sentence but the next two dramas to be recapped will be 'Where Stars Land" from 2018 but first it'll probably be "Furo Girl" which is currently airing.
 In this series Minami plays the character of Nao Hanaoka and doubt if she's honoring me! Nao is a pastry chef who gets hooked up with a wealthy family and befriends their daughter who is about to be married. But Nao has a dark past as it seems her father was murdered when she was five and the killer may have been Nao's mother. There was also a young lad at the time who was her friend and after all of these years they've reconnected as he too is a chef. Would have helped if there were subs and hope it happens as this could be a decent series, she does much better in darker roles.





















 Minami also played a pastry chef in the 2018 drama 'Gakeppuchi Hotel". Lot of the things for this post will be for her film "Love Me, Love Me Not" that had it's premiere today. There's actually so many things am holding some pics back for another post but there's still well over eighty pics for today. She's been making the rounds doing many interviews, this batch here are from Mantan Web.









 This set of interview pics are from the Walker Plus site.









 What's a bit refreshing about Minami is that she's not too active on social media but would like to have seen her with a blog, these are some recent Instagram pics and it's rare she has so many(five!).






 Minami has been a part-time host for the radio show 'Girls Locks' and a few of my other faves have been full time hosts for the show. She appeared on Tuesdays's show to promote the new drama and will also be making an appearance on August 20th for the new film.












 Never enough mag spreads featuring her, four pics each from the June and July Voce magazine.









 More from Voce, Minami was the cover girl for their August issue so why only three pages?!





 The "Kakeguiri" movie was a fun watch but keep forgetting to do a review for it, may do those posts during the mini break. "Love Me, Love Me Not" had it's premiere today at the TOHO Cinemas in Roppingi, there wasn't an audience but was streamed to 111 other cinemas. As you can see Minami became a bit emotional during the event but she also looked better than ever, I truly prefer her conservative style over most skimpy clad gravure models or Idols. Plenty of pics here from the event which is followed by a video of it.


























1 comment:

  1. Minami is definitely one of J-dramas rising stars!!!!
    Loving the new drama Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteru as well!!!

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