Japanese Drama: I Watched Them Before

Before Korean Drama spread their wings to the world and conquer my interest with their trademark and sweet love story plus beautiful love songs OST, I used to watched Japanese Drama. Japanese Drama has their own characteristic... well... love still part of the story, but in my view, the dialogs and conversations is the most interesting part because sometimes it is quite philosophical, deep meanings, and surprising. I envy the sound of  maturity of those conversations and I learn a lot from it.

In term of story line, the Japanese Drama that I watched, was quite different to Korean Drama. While Korean Drama most of the time exploited to much on the fate, destiny, complex past life affairs, cinderella-like love story, and complicated love web, Japanese Drama seems not exploit those kind of story line, it shows more on the personal relationship issues, personal characteristic, change of heart, change the way of thinking, and sometimes even try to step into unfamiliar and controversial zone. So, even though the love is not the central of story, they still interested to be watched.

I watched Great Teacher Onizuka, Forbidden Love, Love Generation, and Hero. The first two have Nanako Matsushima as lead actress, while the last two have Takako Matsu as lead actress. Both are pretty.... but I like Takako Matsu more, she has great chemistry with Takuya Kimura in those drama. Nowadays, once and a while I still love to watch those drama and probably would like to watch some other more once I feel boring of Korean Drama.