Will it Snow for Christmas?

I am going  to be doing a synopsis on Will it  Snow for Christmas?This was a drama that really plays with your emotions on it. I liked it and hated it at the same time. It is the kind of drama that makes you frustrated, upset to the point of crying, and it also makes you adore it.

Synopsis:
It starts off with our two main characters who are still teenagers. The girl, Jiwan, adores her big brother and looks up to him as a role model. She was hanging a banner for her brother who was going off to medical school when she meets Kang Jin. They didn't have a good first meeting, especially since Jiwan was going berserk and yelling at the poor boy for removing the banners so that they can drive through the area. They attended the same school and she started to crush on Kang Jin and eventually he fell for her also. However, her brother that she admired so much died because he was helping her find Kang Jin's necklace that fell into the water. Her brother died finding it and it caused her to be devastated and her mother to be cold/harsh to her. She also begins to hate Kang Jin. She leaves home.
          Jiwan moves on in life.  Years later, the two people meet again. Kang Jin meets Jiwan at her wedding to his friend/work rival. He saw her get stood up at the wedding and had to postpone her big day. From then on, Kangjin tries to get back into Jiwan's life again. However, she constantly tries to keep moving on and forgetting about her past. They begin to form a relationship again and it was really cute. This was an interesting drama and it was a good watch if you plan on watching it. Also Kim Soohyun (the guy from Dream High) played the teenage Kang Jin.

Coffee Prince

This drama was actually pretty boring for me. This was also a drama that received a lot of hype and had a lot of fans. I just couldn't fall in love with the concept.

           Our main character is played by Yoon Eun Hye. Her name is Eun Chan. She has to work many jobs to pay off debts and she's kind of a tomboy with short hair and everything. She works as a Taekwondo instructor and also delivers food (which made a bunch of women mistaken her as a boy when she entered a bathing room). While making a delivery she meets, Han Gyul. Han Gyul is the heir to a big food company (Dongin Foods and it is a coffee business) and his grandmother wants him to settle down and made him go on many dates. However, due to Eun Chan's short hair, Han Gyul thought that she was a boy. When she needed to pay rent and buy a ring to replace the one she lost, she made a deal with Han Gyul and agreed to pose as his lover. Eun Chan goes to a blind date his grandmother set up and kissed Eun Chan who was wearing a men's suit, to get away from the blind date. Then afterwards, they meet again and Han Gyul said that he could hire her to work at the Coffee Prince cafe so that she can earn money.
          However, they slowly start building a relationship. Han Gyul still thought that Eun Chan was a boy and started questioning himself if he liked boys. He tried to avoid her at first but eventually accepted it. Eun Chan also reveals that she is a girl by wearing a dress to work and taking off the bandages she wore inside her shirt. She tries to tell him that she's actually a girl but at that moment, she wasn't given a chance to say it. It goes on as they have more conflicts and different things going in with the drama. The ending was also really sweet and was a really sweet drama.

Grave of the Fireflies Movie (Live Action)

This a Japanese movie and  it is a MUST WATCH. Just a reminder, I highly recommend the 2005 live-action version of this movie. This movie had first started off as an animated film and there are now two versions of  this in which people acted in it. One was produced in 2005 and one was produced in 2008. The 2005 version can be found online and it was beautiful. The girl from Hana Yori Dango, the one that acted as  Makino, was also in this movie. This brought a lot of tears but it was such a good movie that I strongly recommend it. It is a story about a brother and his little sister trying to survive during the war. It also talks about what they went through and how they became the way they are. This was a really sweet movie. I strongly recommend it, people.

You can probably find it online if you type in Grave of the Fireflies Live Action.

FULL synopsis:

      This movie starts in 2005 (which is kind of like modern day at that time). This was 60 years after the war and it starts off at a crematorium. It starts off with the aunt of our two main characters who had passed away at age 95. Her children had come to send her off. The two character's cousin, who is now also a grandmother, tells her granddaughter about what had happened during World War II. She finds a picture of when she was a teenager and with this, she begins to tell the story of this movie to her granddaughter.

    This story starts at the end of WWII. It shows a woman and her daughter running over to a station. They were here trying to find the boy, Seita, when they heard that he was still alive. She talks about the damages the war had done to them.The war had already ended and the city was pretty much in ruins. They look for the boy at the station but couldn't find him and quickly asks a janitor there if they had seen a boy who wears a military school uniform. That is when they find out that the boy had already died from starvation and it shows the scene where  the two janitors found a dead boy in a military school uniform. They then removed his body and went through his possessions. The found a candy tin box and they threw it into the nearby field. Then it comes back to the scene and the woman goes to the field and finds the tin box. Inside that candy box were cremated bones of the boy's younger sister who had already passed away of starvation also. The two people finding out about their relatives ending like this because of them, felt extremely guilty and sad. The aunt sees two fireflies fly away and she smiles as it recalls good memories. Then the movie begins when our two main characters were alive. 

      Setsuko is the little girl who is always cheerful and kind. Seita is the older brother who attends military school and is extremely proud of the fact that his father commands the naval army and is confident that Japan would win. The father is getting ready to go to war and tells Seita that he is in charge of the family until he comes back and Seita says that he will do whatever is in his power to be the man of the house for the time being. They also meet their aunt and her four children. The aunt had just sent her husband away also to war. The family had a happy time together and Setsuko received a candy tin box from their aunt. Setsuko cherished that little box of candy and carried it around all the time. However, at a time of war, tragedy was surely going to occur.
        One day there were bombings, because their mother's heart was poor, Seita sends his mother to the bomb shelter first as he and Setsuko grabbed needed belongings. When they reached outside, there were already bombings and it scared the two and they ran around frantically in the streets. However, they managed to stay alive through the bombings. Afterwards, they go to the hospital to find their mother because they found out that a bomb had fallen into the bomb shelter that their mother was staying out. Their mother had passed away and Seita took the ring off his mother's finger as a memory. He did not tell Setsuko that their mother died and just said that she had went away. Their aunt came and took them in.
           She took care of them well. However, their food was rationalized and she had to feed herself, her four children, Setsuko and Seita, and also her husband's brother who has a crippled leg. She constantly ate less and was hungry as she gave the food to the rest of her family. However, upon hearing the news of her husband passing away, she decided that she will only make sure that her family remains alive. She starts giving Setsuko and Seita less food and acts as if she had done nothing wrong. Setsuko was often crying at night because she was hungry. In the end, Seita had enough of it and decided that they will go away. He had found an abandoned house in the woods and he was going to live there with his sister.
         They were happy for a little while and even enjoyed the fireflies in that area. However, they slowly began to starve as they had little money. He even made an attempt to steal but failed. Setsuko began to get sick from malnutrition and they were both starving. Towards the end, as he goes to get Setsuko food because she was close to dying, he finds out that his father's naval fleet had long sunk. His father was also dead. He makes food for his sister but she died before she could eat it. He cremated her body and put her bones into the tin box and carried it with him and he later on died also (as it showed in the beginning). The war was over by now and the aunt came to find the two children to find out what had happened. This story was truly heartbreaking but it was such a good storyline. 

Hi my Sweetheart

This drama is one of those really cute and interesting dramas. The characters in this drama are really interesting and very different from other dramas. Like, in most dramas, you would see the girl getting her first kiss stolen by the guy. However, in this drama, the guy got his first kiss stolen by the girl. The girl is also really tough and always winds up saving the guy. Rainie Yang and Show Luo were in this drama and they did an amazing job acting their roles. 

                             

Synopsis:

              It first starts off with a dorky, childish boy. He is a rich, pampered boy with a friendly personality. He has been raised by his sister since he was a young child because their parents had died early. To prevent kidnapping cases (that is how overprotective his sister is) and to hide his real identity, they registered him in the University away from home as Da Lang. He was supposed to be a poor kid now. In that school, he meets the "Three Beauties" and also a girl named Bao Zhu that is always alone in the school and hated by others. She is very harsh to Da Lang when she first meets him. However, he managed to touch her as he said that he would worry about her if anything happened to her and tries to be friends with her. Bao Zhu, though she seems tough and has great fighting skills, she is actually soft-hearted inside and needs loving. They become friends even though Da Lang was constantly bullied by her. Then, as they spent time together, they began to like each other and started dating. It was Da Lang's first love.

              However, even though Da Lang is timid, he decided that he was going to propose to Bao Zhu. However, on the day he was going to surprise her with a proposal, she disappeared and left a note saying that she will only marry rich boys and can't like Da Lang because he is a poor (she still doesn't know his identity). Bao Zhu only did this because of her mother and it broke Bao Zhu's heart also. However,  Da Lang knew nothing about Bao Zhu's pain and as to why she did this. Thus, he became hurt and turned into a hunk afterwards. He made a decision that he will seek revenge upon Bao Zhu and do what she did to him to her. This story continues from there and it is really a interesting watch. The story was really humorous and their relationship together was complicated but nonetheless adorable. It was a very humorous watch. However, afterwards, when they met again they went through more events that only brought both of them together and it made them realize that they still loved each other and should still be each other. It was a very romantic watch and it is one of those dramas that you can just fall in love with.

Absolute Boyfriend

I watched the Japanese version of this and I really liked it, even shedding a few tears towards the end. Wouldn't it be great if all girls in this world could have a boyfriend that is exactly what you would like him to be? This is about a girl who gets a robot boyfriend that matches her ideal type in looks and personality and what he does for her. There is now a Taiwanese version of this too but I didn't really like it because Goo Hye Sun's (the girl from BOF) voice was dubbed since she's Korean. I actually wanted to hear her actual voice and hear her try speaking Chinese. I mean, they could've just made her a person who came to a different country for a job but it was dubbed and it sounded totally off...
I also didn't like how the robot acted at times in the Taiwanese version but it was still basically the same story.
Personally,  I preferred the Japanese version. So I'll be writing on the Japanese version:

Synopsis:
Our main character Riiko is not very lucky with love. Thus, when she receives a business card for a website that sells "love figures," she goes there and orders one without knowing the problems this may bring. She chooses her ideal look for her boyfriend and also what she wishes that he would do for her. This was then programmed into this robot and it was sent to the house for a 3-day free trial. Yet, when she couldn't return him before the deadline, she has to find a way to return a one million debt that she now owes.
        During this time, her robot boyfriend does whatever he can to please her and do what she wants. For example, she had said that she would like to see her boyfriend exercising. However, since robots can't sweat, he was spraying water on himself the entire time. Her boyfriend was also doing a lot of romantic things for her and was doing really cool things like using his extreme strength and speed. He did whatever he could to protect her from harm and even went working to help her return the debt. He loved her so much that he even said things like "Her smile is my happiness."
       However, the weird thing that took over the robot, was love. As a love robot, he was only supposed to do what was programmed with him. It was programmed for him to love her. However, he began to think and feel on his own and he began to truly fall in love with Riiko. In the end, for Riiko to have a happiness with a man that also likes her, he decides to end ties with her. He decides to let her go on with life without having a robot by her side. When she leaves, crying, he found himself also crying. This is also weird as a robot couldn't produce fluids. It showed that he was becoming more and more human-like. Then he closed down on his own. It was a really touching and sweet drama that will leave you falling in love with this silly, love-stricken robot and a girl who was freaked out by this absolute boyfriend that she had ordered.

This robot boyfriend truly makes you wish that you had one seeing how much he is willing to do for you and how far he'd go to make you smile and to protect you...even if it means sacrificing himself.

71 Into the Fire (Movie)

This is a Korean war movie. If you want to see a good movie or just a war film in particular, this may be the right pick for you. This really showed you how courageous young people could be at a time when they need to protect and serve their country as well as to survive themselves. This movie was based on a true story of a group of 71 student soldiers that were not trained and not well equipped who held back an attack for 11 hours at P'ohang-dong girls' middle school that ended up being a strategic point for safeguarding the Nakdong  River from the attack of North Korean forces. The end of this movie even had one or two people that are now a lot older, who were actually student soldiers at this battle and they spoke of how scary it was to see a large amount of people running at them. It was a really good movie that truly touched me and I will always remember this movie.
                                             
Synopsis: 
           Oh Jung Beom is played by Big Bang Top. He is a young teenage student who has already been in battle with other soldiers and witnessed the death of comrades and was with the leader at the hospital when the leader passed away. Traumatized, he walks out of the hospital, and sees many teenagers who had come to defend their country. These 71 teenagers were inexperienced and started off acting as if everything was just a game.  They had never shot a gun and were very cocky.
         Oh Jung Beom, still a student himself, was forced into the position of being a leader of this student-soldier unit since he has had combat experience at the war front. Not all of the student soldiers listened to him as there were three students that were cocky, knew how to fight, and were considered bad students. These students differed in personality. Some were strong and others were nerdy kids. They were taught how to fire a gun and most didn't even have the experience. The other soldiers that were more experienced left for the war front and these student-soldiers were left at this middle school to defend this point. However, after fighting a few battles together, getting to know each other, and live with one another, they became closer and they became more serious overtime.
        However, they were attacked by a large North Korean army. These students all became heroes in the end and they managed to hold out against the advancing North Korean army for 11 hours before help finally came for them. The students all died heroic deaths. The bad students actually left the middle school saying that they will all die if they stay. However, during the battle, they came back after stealing a tank from the North Korean army and they stood together during the battle. Everyone took part and they even made bombs with what they had. It was a touching story as it shows how much these students went through and how hard they fought to protect and defend their country and how they managed to actually secure their area which led to a turning point in the Korean War.

      This movie was a beautiful true story, portraying those brave and courageous student-soldiers.

Gokusen

This is a Japanese drama. This is about an awesome teacher taking care of her students. It was a pretty cool drama when the teacher protects her students with her awesome fighting skills and also gains respect from her bad students. This is Gokusen.
                                   

Synopsis:
         Our main character is the granddaughter of the leader of a clan that is kind of like a gang group. She knows her fighting skills well. She decides to become a teacher and try to make a difference in her students' lives. Her name is Yamaguchi Kumiko and when she goes to the school, she finds herself being the homeroom teacher of a difficult group of students. This group of students were labelled as the bad kids of the school and they were said to be ruining the school's reputation. She is determined and is ready to change her group of students however they don't make it easy for her and show no respect for her.
         The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts are useful. She also has a strong character considering that she lived with men that were part of the gang who were actually big softies. As she continues to resist the students bullying her, Sawada Shin (the leader of the students) notices that Yamaguchi is different from the other teachers. He noticed that she was trustworthy and willing to help her students even if they were said to be bad students.
          The students faced different problems like fights against other students at different schools and so forth and Yamaguchi was always there. Because of her devotion to her students, they gave her nickname of Yankumi. Yankumi always took care of her students and had a great sense of responsibility over her students. Her students began to respect her and afterwards even stood up for her in her defense when she faced problems.