Beautiful Life PV

I know there's too much "Beautiful Life" posts but I can't help it since I just saw the PV.

The PV is not something that I went "wow!" or anything too surprising when I saw it. But it is something that I have never seen from w-inds. and I kind of like it as the PV really suits the song "Beautiful Life", yes the PV is beautifully filmed.

The way this PV is filmed is like an eye of someone and right until the end you will know who's eye is that.
I like how they add little symbols in during the PV such as in the start we see "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" PV playing on the LCD TV. Then when w-inds. going into the super market, on glass it has "Beautiful Life" which I think the super market is called "Beautiful Life" as it has a shopping cart on it as well. The last symbol I spotted was when w-inds. at the counter paying the guy's apron has the "W" symbol.
These symbols aren't hard to spot, I spotted them on the first time I watch the PV.

To know who's that eye we've been looking through, it will show us right at the end when w-inds. is taking a group photo and the last shot is the outcome of the group photo.

Overall the PV is nothing too special but I like it and how it's different from their previous PVs.

Yukan Club Ep01

"Yukan Club" is the first jdrama that I watched in the 2007 Autumn Season. Just then I finished episode 1.

~WARNING: Watch out for spoilers~

First of all I'm not a KAT-TUN fan at all but since I love detective dramas and "Yukan Club" is about students who solve mystery cases which is close to detective dramas, that is probably the season why I'm watching this.

Couple of comments after watching the first episode.
It feels like to me that the manga into drama series are following the Taiwanese foot steps in exaggerating acting just like Hana Kimi.
Why is that they have to exaggerate so much in the beginning for each characters? It feels like they love doing that in school dramas (for example: Hana Kimi and Yamada Tarou).
These six different personalties characters as a group gives me a weird feeling which makes me think why they could be good friends.
It's really hard to not notice Junnosuke with his bright blond hair and blue contacts. His blond just stands out so much from the others as all the others are black/brown. This is the first time I see Jin's acting, to me think he's okay.

Getting down to the plot. To say the truth while I was watching it I had the urge to skip parts of it but I stopped myself from doing that. Which mean I got a bit bored of it but it wasn't that bad to completely shut it down. Maybe I missed some lines, but why are they solving crimes? To me they are just a group of popular students who feels bored, maybe that's the reason why.
Got kind of a mix feeling whether I like it or not, but I am still continuing to watching "Yukan Club".

Otoko no Kosodate theme song

Japanese new drama "Otoko no Kosodate" will be broadcasting on the 26th October 2007 this season. It's not really a drama that I'm interested in but as for the theme song for "Otoko no Kosodate" will be w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life" song.

w-inds. first song appearing as a theme song for a t.v drama which means more promotion for "Beautiful Life" and I hope by having this song as a theme song for a drama boost up the sales.

The song "Beautiful Life" is already been broadcast on the radio and the radio version of the mp3 has been flowing through the net. My comment of the the radio version of "Beautiful Life" is that it's a fast pace and relaxing song.
The first listen didn't really hit into me, but it's catchy once it's been repeated. I also hope the PV would be something new that w-inds. never have done before just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING".

Download Link of the song: http://www.zshare.net/audio/4433921a91f1b9/

Nishijima Takahiro star in new film

Nissy from AAA is starring in Sion Sono's new film "Ai no Mukidashi". Nissy has acted on stage and in a television drama and this would be his first time acting in a movie.

The story is an original script by Sono. Nissy plays Yu, a young man with a penchant for peeping. He lives with his father, a Catholic priest Atsuro Watabe). By chance, he meets a woman named Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima) and falls in love with her, but she and her family have become involved in a new religious cult. As a result, Yu ends up in a conflict against that cult.

It is said that this role is difficult but Nissy commented that he is looking forward to it in learning experience.

The filming will start this month and said to be release in early summer 2008. Sono is aiming to take "Ai no Mukidashi" to festivals next year, including Cannes and Venice.

I'll be looking forward to Nissy's first movie.

LIFE is awesome!

I was finally continuing watching LIFE the other night. Continued watching from episode 4 onwards. I can't believe I started crying when I saw how badly Ayumu was bullied by Manami's gang. I really hated to see how Ayumu acted so weak that she couldn't do anything back to Manami and all she could do is take it in.
When Ayumu finally has 2 friends by her side I was so happy because at least there's someone which will stick up for her.
I really hate that guy Katsumi, he's two faced. Actually him and Manami is two faced.

When I was watching LIFE I was thinking "What does these students think they're doing?" Isn't Manami scared that she might kill Ayumu while bullying her? Well... Obviously she's doesn't even care as her father is rich and think she could do anything.
The part where she order Akira to capture Ayumu and Hatori was like seriously wanting to kill them two.
I was like "YEAH!" when Ayumu starts to fight back.

LIFE is really good, can't believe I cried while watching it.

w-inds.+Keita new releases

Finally w-inds. is releasing another single, this time their single is called "Beautiful Life". It seem like a mid tempo song something similar to "Shiki" or "Hanamuke". The single will release on the 7th November.

Not only w-inds. will release another single but Keita Tachibana will also release his 3rd single, name title is not confirmed yet but the release date is on the 5th December.

As usual I'll be looking forward to these 2 releases.

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More details of w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life"



w-inds.2007年11月7日発売 NEW SINGLE
｢Beautiful Life｣ABC・テレビ朝日系列 10/26スタート　毎週金曜日21:00～
「オトコの子育て」主題歌テーマソング (主演:高橋克典 、 国仲涼子、小泉孝太郎 他)

M1: Beautiful Life
作詞:shungo./作曲:Samuel Waermo/Mimmi Waermo/Pontus Soderqvist/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M2:Space Drifter
作詞:shungo./作曲:Philippe-Marc Anquetil/Christopher Lee-Joe/Paul"Charlie"Brown/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M3:I'm a Man
作詞:shungo./作曲:Hiten Bharadia/Aisling Stephenson/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M4: Beautiful Life(Instrumental)

CD+DVD盤：PCCA.02553卅￥1,575(税抜価格￥1,500)
※DVD内容(約14分)･･･Jacket Shooting、Making & Interview
通常盤：PCCA.02598卅￥1,260(税抜価格￥1,200)
※PCCA.02598の初回封入特典：ポケットカレンダー１種類

Finishing up Summer Jdramas

Since it's the holiday for me I've been finishing up the summer jdramas that I left off because of homework. I'll talk about it one by one.

First off Tantei Gakuin Q, the ending was good and Kyuu manage to trust Ryu all the way till the even if the other Q class members have doubts about him. What I thought about Pluto death was kind of like "he died so quick" sort of thought. It's like he couldn't affect Ryu in being to his side and then he meet Dan-san and then he died. Sort went too quick on how he died. But I wouldn't want them to make it long cause I don't want to watch him. So it was all cool. I also like the ending how there's kind of a love triangle going on between Kyuu, Megu and Ryu.

Hotaru no Hikari, there isn't a lot of plot in this drama but it's very enjoying and funny to watch. But I got bored towards the end and skipped the 2nd last episode and went straight to the last episode. So I didn't get why Makoto and Hotaru ended up living together after Makoto saw her "dry fish" look. The ending was ok, I didn't expect Makoto and Hotaru to end up together. I rather enjoy watching Hotaru and Buchou together and the kiddy fights they have.
Although at the end they both confessed they liked each other, but it would be hard to imagine a sweet scene between them. So it ended with a kiddy argue which I thought it was cute.

That's the only two I finished up, now I'm in the middle of finishing Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. Many people might say the Japanese version is better than the Taiwanese version, but for me I like the Taiwanese version more. I'm finding in the Japanese version there's a lot of unnecessary scenes which I find it stupid. Such as the treasure hunting, the school is about to close, and the beach challenge. I don't find it a lot of the part are funny, I'm just not enjoying this as much as I enjoyed the Taiwanese version.

I want to talk about LIFE since I've watched 3 episodes. It's so intense and getting way interesting. In episode 3 the girls started to bully Ayumu, gosh! Those bitches thinks they can rule the world. I just want to slap them when they think they can just gang up on anyone they want. I feel so sorry for Ayumu who tried really hard to cope with everyone but ended up being bullied by those girls. And I hate Ayumu's mother for not caring her daughter's feeling and just look at her marks.

I still got LIFE, Jotei and First Kiss to watch. But need to finish downloading the episodes. I guess LIFE will be my next one to finish after Hanazakari no Kimitachi e then coming next is Jotei and First Kiss. If there aren't much coming up season jdramas I want to watch then I might watch Yama Onna Kabe Onna since I've the first episode and I really enjoyed it.