t o k y o . w a n k e i

Happy Thanksgiving! Instead of stuffing myself with the various goodies awaiting me downstairs I am trying to get my TEN PAGE LONG term paper done...yeah. Obviously I am procrastinating. But I am here to get a monkey off my back. In the summer I was watching tons upon tons of dramas, or so it seemed. And I wanted to write stuff up on them. But I never had true drive. So I plan to just write up some issues and comments and try to make them brief.

Tokyo Wankei...I dug up the mysterious notes I wrote on the show:
"Koichi-bad hair, stiff posture, tall.
Druggie, writers on crack, hundreds of yards w/o anyone seeing him.
Park Yong Ha-hot!
Mother/daughter-blah"

I swear I wrote more. Okay I am done. Haha I lie. I did try watching Tokyo Wankei back in the day...boring. Not that it got any better with age. My tolerance level increased. I, for the record, did not finish the show. Nakama Yukie plays the second generation Korean woman, Mika, living in Japan. She also plays her character's mother. I was confused because I thought they were the same person. Just joking. I am bashing Nakama-san. She definitely did some funky acting. Pain upon pain.

Tokyo Wankei is about a young woman experiencing the same painful love as her mother had.

Nakama's character falls for a Japanese man, as her mother had done. But due to strict family values both women experienced resistance. Yawn. Where is the real drama and action?

Wada Soko plays Ryosuke, the creepy pale and skinny love interest. He is the sensitive artist type. Ahhh. Not that that makes him any less creepy. Oh, and I got flashed...mooned rather. No one wants to see his booty!

Nakamura Shunsuke plays Koichi, the stiff and freakishly tall weirdo other man. He wants to marry Mika because of a business deal...or something underhanded like that. So I am going to lay out a big SPOILER. He gets stabbed. BWAHAHAHAHHAHAH! Hilarious. He gets stabbed by some hobo trudging through an airport with a big bloody knife. Yeah. And no one noticed the weirdo. Like I said the writers are on crack. "Let's spice up the show. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense because no one is watching the show anyway."

Okay two actual highlights of the show. Park Yong Ha and Hayami Mokomichi. Park had a SMOKING HOT cameo. Being all cute. He was just eye candy. And I bet they were trying to boost ratings with a star from the popular Winter Sonata. Too bad he wasn't Yon-sama. Maybe it would have worked.

Hayami played a dimwitted character with a very tiny role. Can't say he did a good job with what he had. But I never admitted he was a good actor. More eye candy for moi!

Just because Koichi's hair is so bad I'll give this show a low rating. Haha.


My Rating: ★★☆☆☆