[Drama] The Quiz Show II

Spring 2009

Episodes:

Starring: Sakurai Sho, Yokoyama Yu, Maya Miki, Matsuura Aya, Izumiya Shigeru, Oohashi Nozomi...

The drama revolves around a mysterious quiz show which offers the contestants a chance to make their dreams come true. But going through the quiz proves no easy feat for the contestants as the host and the director, who seem to know everything about the contestants, asked the contestants questions about their darkest, most secretive pasts.

Although the producer, Saejima Ryoko, objects to such a method of attracting high viewership ratings, everyone else seemed to agree to follow the lead of Honma Toshio, the suspicious director who has a strange, commanding presence over the host, Kamiyama Satoru.

Kamiyama lives in a dark, guarded room and appears to have lost his memory prior to hosting the quiz show abd suffers constant headaches with snapshots of his past appearing in his head occasionally.

Honma appears to bear a grudge but was able to work with Kamiyama to create a successful quiz show along with other crew of the show such as the diligent and driven Takasuji Reina.

*****

The theme song, I LOVE. I LOVE. So glad it is for this drama and not that other one with another member of Arashi in it.

It is only after really exciting dramas that I go by an episode-by-episode description of my thoughts because... uh... I am that psyched!

Episode 2

I have the first season, I guess watching it would clear some of my doubts about the show and I would know the path on which this drama will take on sooner. But I am so busy with my assignments and everything that I cannot really focus on it. Besides, it seems fun to wait a bit anyways. Just watch as the drama unfolds.

It appears that the amnesiac Kamiyama also has a multiple personality disorder and is controlled by the sneaky Honma for reasons that have yet to be revealed. I have a major presentation tomorrow and I am blogging about dramas. I rock.

Who the hell is this Misaki? Let me see, she drowned and Kamiyama was probably banging her before she died. Why does Honma appear to hate Kamiyama so? Perhaps Honma and Misaki are related? By blood? By love? I am going to make a daring prediction. I love predictions. I made one for Maou and I got it correct. This one proves a bit more twisted. Let me see... definitely not siblings, since their family names are different. Or Honma can be a fake name. Honma was banging Misaki when Kamiyama and all his Sakurai-hotness came along and snatched Misaki away. Something happened, like the boat Kamiyama and herself rode on went kaboom and then she drowned. Honma, pissed, decided to lock the amnesiac up and torture him. He is sadistic, that was why Misaki left him in the first place.

Someone hire me, I would be a good novelist.

The cast and the guests for this season appears to be much more famous as compared to the previous season. What a great cast, like Sho, Yoko, Maya Miki and Ayaya weren't enough, they had Aikawa Sho for the first episode, Minami for the second and then Narimiya Hiroki will appear for the next. Amazing.

I know Sho is like the star and all. He's the one people are tuning in to watch, but my goodness, Yoko turns me on like never before. What? I am only a girl. Kamiyama's constant headaches is getting old. Saejima's constant worries is getting annoying. YokoxAyaya seems to be a weekly thing. We like. Takasugi will be an important character before the drama ends. That, I think will happen since the cast kept suggesting it in the preview episode.

I didn't skip one minute and still the drama seems to just fly on by. It just fills my head with questions. I hate not knowing. Gah! I am putting my money on Honma being the mastermind psychic and Kamiyama is the puppet, chosen to torture. Evil!Yoko. Nothing more I can ask for. We look forward to next week's episode, with two presentations, 2 reports and one test in my head.

Reitings:

[Talk] Sadists Are Sexy

I am HOOKED on "The Quiz Show". And frankly, I haven't thought about watching "Smile".

The "Smile" storyline just doesn't attract me at all and I was watching Jun on Hanamaru Cafe and the preview showed Jun crying in a telephone booth or something. Well, that alone could have turned me off.

"The Quiz Show" one the other hand.

I would pretend that Yoko is reading this blog and then ask him to do unmentionable things with myself in presence, but then, I am trying to not sound so freaky. So, I am just going to say... he's hot in a creepy way.

The double-personality thing Sho's Kamiyama has going on is... okay, so, if you are an amnesiac, you don't just transform from a confident, cocky host into a crazy, panicky mental patient just like that.

The whole drama has a wtf thing going on. It is wtf that attracts the audience. I cannot help but wonder wth is going on with the storyline.

Both Yoko and Sho are GREAT in there. Not being biased, seriously. But Yoko has an evil Seishiro going on, that was all. But that alone was enough to prove that he can act, have you seen Yoko as Yoko? Sho... so very believable as a quiz show host, the type that makes you want to smack him or turn the TV off, but you don't because you are curious.

I didn't like Ayaya a few years ago, until I watched "Ao no Honoo", the girl is famous/popular for a reason. Maya Miki, always great.

[Movie] Ao no Hono

Starring: Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsuura Aya, Suzuki Ann.

2003

Nino stars as Kushinari Shuichi, a high school boy who is brainstorming ways to get rid of his ex-stepfather who was divorced from his mother ten years ago. The drunkard stepfather of his just showed up one day and moved back into his house. Strangely, his mother did nothing to stop him from doing so.


This movie chronicles Shuichi's umm... decision making process as he masterminds the perfect method to remove the drunkard from his house.


Ayaya plays Noriko, the quiet, mysterious girl from school. There seems to be... um... mutual feelings of... puppy love between the two. Such feelings, I am not comfortable describing, so I will leave it at that. Because high school lovey dovey shit sickens me. (O.o) But as he warms up to her, he realizes that she is not as proud as he initially thought she was. And... it ends there, my description.


Suzuki plays the sister - Haruka. The drunkard pervert of a stepfather occasionally tries to get it on with her. That sickening old man would then get into a fight with Shuichi who would race to rescue his baby sister with a baseball bat. Haruka would then try to stop Shuichi from beating the crap out of the old freak. Hell, if I were her, I would grab another baseball bat and beat the old freak to a pulp myself. Freaking old pervert. But then that's me... Oh wait... I was trying to write a synopsis...

Nevermind.


Nino can act. Oh, I am amazed. No wonder the guy got so many roles in movies and dramas. =O JE boys surprise me day after day. To add oil to the fire, there are so many of them. I wonder when can I get out of this phase.

Being 20 when this movie was filmed, he could easily convince me that he is in high school. Being 25 today, he can still easily convince me so. Did you know Nino shaved his head for a movie? Not this movie, another movie. Shows how dedicated he is...

This movie has so many twists and turns that I don't know where is the climax. It is such a good movie. I seriously am in awe with the way the story goes, the way the story ends, the choices Shuichi made. I wonder if he was caught up in the situation or just plain rash. Is he thoughtful or impulsive. Plenty of things that I wonder and wonder.

This is a movie worthy of my two hours.

Rating:
4.5/5