Best Live-Actions
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1. Lovely Complex
Japanese Movie - 2006
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2. One Week Friends
Japanese Movie - 2017
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3. Itazura na Kiss
Japanese Drama - 1996, 9 episodes
Okay, so this one can be cheesy, but it's a Itazura na Kiss adaptation, so what else can you expect? If you watched just one, you know how the story goes, but don't think that you watched all of them just by watching that one.
Itazura na Kiss franchise can go back and forth in a long and wide range of quality from a very good one - so far haven't seen a A+ deserving one, but still... - to shitty things like the one I'm refusing to look at for the sake of my rightful state of mind.
The very first version of Itazura na Kiss is just what it supposed to be when compared to the others and even the Taiwanese version 'It Started With A Kiss' in which Ariel Lin stars alongside Joe Cheng loses for this one due the simplicity and easy-going approach of the drama.
However there is a issue here, towards the end, the viewer can notice how the ending becomes a little rushed, although it is well put-together for a drama at that time, still there's a lot we miss in it from the manga/original story.
The first version of Itazura na Kiss is, in my modest opinion, the best I've seen yet, Love in Tokyo is in my PTW list and I want to watch it soon because it seems like a good one, I wonder if it can be better than this one.
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4. Minami-kun no Koibito: My Little Lover
Japanese Drama - 2015, 10 episodes