Kento, you little thing, you got me wrapped around your finger again!
I watched this movie with a skeptical attitude. Not a big fan of plots which one of the main characters suffer from an incurable illness, but this has actually some good points.
The plot is a little bit different from any other shojo mangas, that's maybe the reason why I loved the manga so much.
An adorable kid met this bubbly girl who's a violinist. The girl wants the boy to play the piano again so she starts to encourage him to not turns his back to the real love of his little life; classical music.
What I love about this story is the huge love for music shown by the characters.
Kento played an amazing Arima here. He's cute, nerdy, a ball of fluffiness. His cry scenes gave me goosebumps.
The cinematography is colorful, making every single actor look like an anime character.
There isn't a real love story, at least in the manga version, so I was a little bit confused when I saw how the movie ended.
Kaori's illness isn't explained at all, leaving the audience thinking "What the actual hell is this girl daying of?"
Expect for Suzu Hirose's voice tone that actually sounded like the one of an anime voice actress, everything was well directed. Sometimes the peace of the movie was a little bit slow, making me look at my phone, but it wasn't actually a big deal.
Hands up for Kento's acting here. Comparing this character to Naruse's one, I think he has done a better job in here.
At least, Arima made me feel something.

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I was afraid I would be too biased while watching this special.
I love Tori so I thought :" It’s ok, even if this special turn out to be a shitty one I won’t care because Tori is too cute to be ignored.”
I was COMPLETELY wrong.
Tori might be famous for being a ikemen and let’s be honest, when you are known for being an ikemen people don’t take your acting too seriously ( Just like idol actors in Korea.)
But in this case Tori was amazing and really a cutie.
Let’s start with the plot, a really simple one but actually really interesting.
Tabito lost all his 5 senses after an incident ( or shock, if I might say it.)
He can only use his sight , really peculiar eyes that allow him to see emotions, words, smell, sound and so on.
Basically it’s like he’s suffering of Synesthesia . He’s a detective and with his ability he resolves simple cases. He than met a nursing teacher and the story begins.
There’s nothing much to say about this special but it’s really well written and the story is cute.
The ending leaves you with the feeling of wanting more, in fact I really HOPE this is going to be turned into a drama because I’ll definitely watch it.
The cast had a cute chemistry ( why am I using the word cute this much on this review???) and Tabito’s friend and “daughter” were amazing.
I recommended this special if you want to watch something cute ( here we go with cute again) and with a really handsome dad played by Tori.
I will finish this review by saying that I want now Tori’s kids.

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“If you will die tomorrow, what would you erase from this world just to live a day longer?”
The devil asks a pretty good question to the main character here.
I was reluctant to watch this movie. Plots about illness aren’t my piece of cake but this time I gave it a try.
Unexpectedly  , this movie doesn’t even talk about illness so seriously.
The plot is simple but its has lots of good life lessons tangled up in its story.

THE PLOT:

A young boy finds out that he has just a day to live due to a terminal illness. He meets the devil who gives him the opportunity to extend his life for just one day each time he decides to erase something from this world.
It might sounds like the typical sad movie in which the main character struggles to survive and die miserable because of the pain of his incurable illness. Maybe with a love story who makes you cry during the movie.
Thanks God, it isn’t.
The Devil isn’t just tempting the main character. He’s teaching him a lesson. Would you erase everything from this world, basically your own valuable memories and things, just to run away from your death? During the movie the main character is tested by the devil. Erasing things, like cellphones or movies, means to erase all the good memories connected to them. He wasn’t just erasing things, he was erasing his own life from this world.

CHARACTERS:

Different types of characters faced each other in this movie.
The best friend with his touching sentences about friendship and his huge obsession for movies.
The ex girlfriend met thanks to a wrong call.
The parents and their pretty common family.
The Devil, with his long fingers and his sarcastic giggle.
The Devil was supposed to play the bad guy here. But in the end he was actually helping out the main lead.
Amazing acting skills, Takeru’s crying scenes are so stunning that almost makes you cry along with him.

I’ll give this movie a 9.5 out of 10. The cinematography is stunning, even though some scenes were badly filmed.

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Paradox.
My feelings for this drama are a big and bouncy paradox.
I'm not lying, this is one of my favorite korean drama but, at the same time, it's the one I hated the most!
See? That's a paradox. The cruel irony behind the love and hate for this story.
You can actually describe this story as “The most pain in the back love story of the latest centuries.”
It breaks my heart calling this drama like this but it's the sad truth.
The drama started so well and got me hooked by the very first seconds.
Two kids with both sad stories. Fell in love, a tender love, but some complications and tragics plot twists break them apart.
Ok, let's say it clearly.
When they were kids they were two adorable cupcakes.
But right after 5 episodes, they grow up and that's when troubles starts for me.
The main actress can make you fall from your chair while trying to drink some Belladonna and kill yourself because of her awful and exaggerated acting skills.
That's probably the reason why I don't like to watch a lot of korean dramas.
The huge amount of tragic and sad scenes meant to break your heart but,in the end, just make you ask for mercy because you just can't handle those pathetic scenes anymore.
I can't write spoilers, so I'll just try to let you know what “pathetic” scenes are.
Crying, crying every single time even when it's not needed.
Why do koreans cry so much in drama? That's a mistery to me.
Trying to take revange on a man for what he did ( or not did) when they were kids.
Kids get scared, it's not a fairytale so why being such a bitch with him for something ( something really terrible) that has happenend to you when both of you were SCARED KIDS?
But that's not the most stupid point here.
If you have watched this drama or at least you might had step on some spoilers you know that both Lee Sooyeon or Hwang JungWoo kept thinking about each other for the past 10 or 15 years.
When it comes to write down a character's personality I think that korean screenwriters shouldn't put tragic past on a character's life just to make you sympathize with her or him.
I'm not saying that tragic pasts are not allow but at least try to follow the string that connect the present and the past of a person without completely change it just because she's interacting with his “prince charming” ( let's call it like this.)
The female character is those kind of girls that had to handle with a terrible sequence of goings-on that traumatized her life. When she was a kid ( she was actually a 15 years old but to me you still a kid at that age), she had a really bad mother and she was living in a really bad and cruel surrounding. But, here it comes the prince charming.
The male character is a rich boy who might be living in a golden castle but has a rotten family.
A father, that is the real bad guy here but screenwriters just made you think that Harry Borrison is the cruel boy here, who loves is son just because he's the next head of the family. A stepmother who just think about her own child.
Both characters are alone somehow so they just became friends.
But korean drama's world have to be a really tragic and sad world, so something really terrible happened and they split.
So, why am I talking about their pasts? Because their past is the only thing that I liked about the plot.
When SooYeon grew up she tries to, just for two episodes though, take revenge on Jungwoo.
And ,let me say it again, it's a stupid and childish revenge. He was a kid, a kids get scared, as I said before.
But that's not the main plot.
Let's focus on the real thing.
The plot is actually complicated and intriguing but because of those two main characters I couldn't enjoying it so much.
People call it a love story, but to me this drama just make you see how “good characters” can be ignorant about some kind of mental diseases and be portrayed as “heroes” of the story.
I think that SooYeon's mother should have been punished too.
But, it's a korean drama, so this little thing just get lost in the middle of the drama.
But now, let's talk about the main star of this story.
Harry Borisson is, in my opinion, one of the best villains on the kdrama history.
Seungho had a baby faced beauty on that time. He was just a 19 years boy but he had to play a 27 or something man.
His character was the only one who was well portrayed here.
He's evil, mean, a psychopathic killer and a kind of stalker, obsessed with the female character.
Like all characters here , he sicks revenge for what they have done to him and his mother.
He's SooYeon's saviour but, even though she thanked him in the end, I still think that all this drama characters didn't really try to understand him and his actions.
There are three main victims here : Soohyun, Jungwoo and Harry.
BUT, screenwriters are as dumb as a donkey so they just made you sympathize with those two characters.
Harry is the bad guy but , God, he's a freaking victim too and 'till the end no ne tried to understand it.
It's a drama so everything is fictional but I still think that dramas have to stuck to reality as much as they can.
Here, you just spit fire for Harry sad story and sad ending.
All victims should have a happy ending, here not all of them had one.

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BROMANCE
Just one word to describe this drama.
A huge, shining, sparkling, lovely BROMANCE.
Just like Warrior Baek DongSoo , also know as “A drama that’s basically yaoi but it just fools you with a story of friendship that smells of YAOI), this drama is full of romantic scenes between the two main characters.
I’m not complain on this point but let’s talk about this drama.
The plot can be summarize like this.
A school where bullying is written on students uniforms, right next their name tag.
Different stories, different characters all mixed together like a milkshake to create the perfect and pretty common School drama plot.
BUT, even though it might sounds like a boring school drama, School 2013 is not the case.
Let’s talk about the “”””villain.”””””
You might hate him at first, but after some episodes you just want to pinch his cheeks and bring him home like a lost puppy.
School nowadays is cruel, it ignores student’s problems , thinking that its only job is to bring them safely to their graduation day.
His character’s story was the most touching one. The screenwriter might had think that NamSoon and Heung Soo stories were the best ones , but in my opinion, they just make up too quickly.
But it’s a drama, so everything is allowed.
Supporting characters and Teachers were well portrayed.
BUT, in my opinion, the main star was Jung Ho.
His character was real, with a background story that everyone can actually find even in real life.
If you like bromance, you should watch this.
If you like an open ending, you should watch this.
If you are a person that can cry easily, YOU SHOULDN’T WATCH THIS.

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Get yourself a man who can both be a sassy bitch and a baker.
"Peach girl" is a cute and sweet movie. The plot is a little bit confusing, there aren't any cliffhangers at all but you can't expect much from a shojo manga of this kind.
Mackenyu is a sweetie but his character is a pain in the ass, plain and without guts.
Keii's one is adorable and for the first time, I actually saw a boy who is more concern about his crush's happiness than his own one.
"You have to fight, even play dirty, if you want to get the girl." This clique didn't happen here.
True, this cute movie is FULL of cliques, misunderstandings and predictable scenes, but at least the two males wanted the girl to be truly happy and didn't pressure her to make a decision.
I'll mark it 6 out of 10, not a fan of this "sweet" shojo manga, but it was kind of good and not that terrible.

 

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If you already know Nomura Shuhei you are totally aware of the fact that he's still growing as an actor.
He became pretty famous thank to Koinaka, you all know it.
He has a great potential, sometimes He actually act better than pretty known actor as Kento Yamazaki or Sota Fukushi, but his best character has yet to come.
Now let's focus on this movie.
Violence.
Just violence .
This director is know for being one of the most active challenger for Takashi Miike's throne.
His Litchi Hikari Club is a proof.
This time, he just made up a story and asked you a question : what revenge means and when is violence allowed?
Here, when it comes to pay someone back with the same violence they showed you it's allowed, according to the director's view.
This movie is disturbing, all scenes have a really disturbing music.
Blood, rape, disgusting human beings, this movie have it all.
So when a psychopathic with a cute face who loves to eat chips and drink cola takes revenge for a Sempai he barely knows, is violence allowed?
I'm still trying to figure it out.
Police can't do its job so should human beings get justice on their own?
That's what this movie talk about, with a lot of bloody scenes though.
Watch this movie and try to answer this question.

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I never portrait myself as a fan of shojo live actions but damn, this movie was epic.
I’m a big fan of the manga and when I heard that it was going to get a live action adaptation I was a little bit confused.
I wanted Kento Yamazaki as the main actor here and when I read that Masahiro Higashide got the main role I was like “Oh, hell no.”
But I was totally wrong and Higashide didn’t Disappoint me.
Let’s start with the plot, a pretty common one when it comes to shojo manga.
Futaba felt in love with Kou during middle school. After a while, Kou moved to another city and Futaba is left alone. She tried her best to not get hated by her classmates so she acts a little bit like a tomboy to not get noticed by boys. She has fake friends too.
But one day she noticed that Kou came back and he has changed, becoming a cold teenage boy.
The plot is actually well written and Kou personality really makes girls heart melt down like ice creams.
Talking about the characters, they are all perfect. Maybe there are some little differences between the manga and this live action but to be honest, I didn’t dislike them so much.
Honda Tsubasa wasn’t the best choice as the main character, according to my opinion. I don’t really like her acting skills but in Enoshima Prism she was quite good so I thought she would do a good job with Futuba.
Sad truth, she didn’t.
Higashide was the main star here. His acting skills are always on point with the character he is playing. It’s like he isn’t acting at all and when it comes to him it’s a good thing. I still think that Kou character was meant for Kento Yamazaki but Higashide did an amazing job. Some fans said that he was too old to play an high school boy but who cares, I saw 26 years boys playing high school boys perfectly even if they age didn’t match with the character.
In the end, I might say that this live action was well done.
The only thing I didn’t like about the plot is how they left Toma behind. He was a sweetheart , he didn’t deserved to be treat like shit by Futaba ( yes, I’m a big fan of Toma and a big fan of Chiba Yudai).

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I've procrastinated the willing to watch this movie for so many days.
There isn't a real reason to not watching it as soon as the subbed version has come out.
Death note is a milestone of the live action adaptations in Japan. It looks like everyone wants to rewrite its story, trying to make it better or maybe just trying to come up with a good plot for a sequel.
This movie had a great potential for its plot, with a well-known director and with a pretty high budget.
But its plot has some really bad holes that I tried so hard to not get influenced by them while writing down this review.
First thing first, let's write a little list of good reasons to watch this movie:
- Masaki's great performance.
- The chemistry between Ryuk and Shien.
- Good cinematography
-Arma's relationship with Ryuuzaki.

PLOT

Full of cliques from any kind of American thriller and action movie.
Set in the Death Note's universe, the world has to face another Kira's menace. 6 death notes were dropped by the Death King to the world and now all common human beings are using them to achieve something for their own good. But the police now is well prepared to fight a new kira's madness. A special police unit was created and now they are trying to get the death notes in their hands to bring back a peaceful world.
But what's a peaceful world? The distinct trait of Death notes plot is its willing to make you ask yourself what's good and what's evil. If we punish criminals for their actions by killing them, are we criminals too? Or are we some kind of good fellows that are just trying to make the world better? Isn't the death note a useful tool for the Law? Isn't the death note itself the real form of Justice?
In this movie they tried to give us a reasonable answer.
The death note drives you crazy because it drives you insane while thinking that maybe you are above all the human beings, making yourself look like a real God.
This time Kira isn't a person, but a status. Just like L's name.
We have two Kira and, at the same time, we haven't got either one.
There's Shien, the cyber terrorist who's Kira's devotee just like Misa Amane was back then.
Shien was a pretty interesting character. Young, clever, he didn't actually want to be a follower of a new Kira. Light was Kira, so nobody better than him couldn't be the perfect Kira's successor.
I Liked him so much, it was well written, His actions were always well planned.
He had an interesting chemistry with Ryuuk, making them look like partners in crime rather than a death note's keeper and his Shinigami.
Talking about Shinigamis, I wanted to see more of them in action. Six death notes were dropped on earth but we barely saw just three Shinigamis.
Beppo, who appeared right on the first minutes of the movie, was quite interesting and I was expecting to see them more during the movie but he got cut off right away after explaining to the police unit some new rules that we didn't actually know.
Arma was an upgraded version of Rem. Classy and well mannered (can I use this adjective to describe her? Idk) female Shinigami, he looks more like a mother to Ryuuzaki. In fact, when she protected Ryuuzaki I saw her sacrifice more like a mother's one than a lover's one.
Souseke Ikematsu did a great job. We have already get used to a different version of L's personality with the Drama's adaptation so I wasn't surprised to watch a Ryuuzaki which personality was written to be hugely different from L's real character.
He's a bitchy, hyperactive and sarcastic man that doesn't want to follow L's steps and modus operandi.
He doesn't trust and won't ever trust anyone around him, making him look like a lone wolf. In fact, he doesn't even have a "sidekick" or someone who looks after him as Watari did for L.
I loved his character. He isn't L so people shouldn't compare him to L. I saw a little bit of Mello's influence in him but it was just a slight sparkle.
I wasn't impressed nor amazed by Higashide's character and Higashide's performance.
Mishima is introduced to us as a "death note" nerd, a skillful cop who want's to stop Kira's legacy.
He was a bore. His plan was nothing new, the screenwriter made him look like a Kira's copycat.
He did EXACTLY what Kira would have done, so there weren't any kind of unexpected plot twists.
There were some contradictions with Misa's death but she wasn't a real big character here so I didn't mind it.
In the end, I might say that this movie looked like a plot for a pretty interesting fanfic.
Because that's what Death Note: Light Up the new world is... Good material for a fanfic, not a Death Note Sequel.
Anyway, I've decided to give this movie 6.5 out of 10 because it wasn't a really bad movie to watch.
It was a spin-off, so basically the plot hasn't nothing to do with the real story and the original characters.
I know that lot of people didn't like it but I assumed they have watched this movie thinking that it was a sequel to the original plot, which it isn't.
It's set in the Death Note's universe, so you shouldn't watch it thinking that it's related to the original plot.
Mates, give this movie a try just for MASAKI SUDA amazing acting skills.

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