Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Park Shin-Hye: Her second historical 'Blast from the past' post....

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".

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Park Shin-Hye: Her second historical 'Blast from the past' post....

Korean actresses will never be extremely popular here but their posts get so many more views than they once did. Shame I haven't been able to do as many this year as way too many have done so little compared to previous years but will work harder on having a few more posts. Shin-Hye especially as she seems to have many fans here and the plan is to have a post every other week for the rest of the year. Hope that works out and still am a bit puzzled at why there hadn't been a Shin-Hye post for six years, do like her quite a bit but will confess not as much as some other actresses. The next post is a review of her 2020 film "The Call" and that's one of the best horror movies I've seen in a while.

So with that long gap between posts these 'Blast from the past' posts will be a mix of new and older things, there's so many activities from 2016-20 to get to. No order to these posts so will start off with some promo pics for Olivia Burton from 2020/21and she's mainly modeling watches. Shin-Hye has remained much busier than most actresses the past eighteen months, not many events but plenty of mag spreads and modeling pics.

Undecided what I'm going to do with the "Sisyphus: The Myth" drama that aired earlier this year, did just view the first episode. Have the whole series but do I want to recap it(?) as the shows are close to seventy minutes long and have enjoyed doing shorter recaps. Shin-Hye has the lead female role playing the character of Seo-Hae who has arrived from the future which is a very bleak one. What a fighter she is and glad to see Shin-Hye is doing many different kinds of roles. So will start on the drama full time in two weeks, whether recaps are done is up in the air and some pics from the show's site.

You can see what an action packed series that is, just wish the episodes weren't so long. Must have forty Shin-Hye mag spreads to post from the past five years and her spreads are usually larger then other actresses. First set for today is from the March 2018 issue of Marie Claire.

Another super duper set from 2018, Shin-Hye was the cover girl for the May edition of Elle.

Shin-Hye does quite a bit of modeling for Mojo S Phine so you'll be seeing many of their pics in these posts. On October 7th Shin-Hye visited the Lotte main store in Seoul to promote the brand and also her Autumn/Winter catalog, will have some of those pics in her next post. Know I said a post every other week but perhaps I should make it once a week for a while?

Final batch of pics will be these fabulous ones for the Mojo S Phine Summer collection. Following the pics is a video collection of Shin-Hye's Agatha jewelry videos.