Friday, January 27, 2012

My Guilty Pleasure....a little Japanese drama

I have been sucked into watching a Japanese drama.  It is called Hana Yori Dango which means Boys over Flowers.  Sounds like a show you want to watch, right?!  This was a very popular show while Zack served his mission in Japan and was able to finally see it when he got home.  I was able to see the first two episodes of this show probably 10 times before I was able to see the entire show. 
So here's what it is about- The main girl is named Makino Tsukushi (or is it Tsukushi Makino?).  She comes from a poor family but goes to a very rich and ritzy high school.  The school is ruled by a group of four senior boys who call themselves the F4.  You don't want to mess with the F4.  Each boy in the F4 comes from a very wealthy and powerful family.  Through a series of events the leader of F4 begins to like Makino and the story begins to unfold with the following: love triangles, unapproving mothers, memory loss, and lots and lots of non-verbal communication which ruins everything. 

It has been a lot of fun to watch these with Zack and hear all the Japanese and see how they interact.  The Japanese people are always overly kind and seem to always skirt around the issues.  They also rarely have much physical contact at all.  Another thing they do is run the same songs over and over and over again.  Every episode- same four songs.  You can check out a few of them down below.  Some are pretty catchy I must say! 

5 comments:

Shantel said...

Haha. This made me laugh. What a sweet show!

erinmalia said...

awesome. remind my parents to watch it when they get home from their mission, will ya? :)

Niederfam said...

seriously. i mean SERIOUSLY. okay, not judgement, really, but WOW. Good for you!!!!

Nicole said...

oh emily. ha ha. too funny.

jjmejia said...

You sld watch the Korean version... it is really good.. i might see the Japanese one after i finish this one. :)