Wonderful opening tune for equally wonderful drama Mada Koi wa Hajimaranai starring Kyoko Koizumi, Kyon Kyon's song "Beautiful Girls" is, in my opinion, one of the all-time GREATEST J-drama themes EVER!
Mada Koi wa Hajimaranai tells the tale of two lovers in Feudal Japan who, because of class and upbringing, are forbidden to be together. With nowhere else to go, they commit suicide, swearing that they will find each other again in the next life...Fast forward to present day Japan, where the two lovers have been reborn, and are just waiting for fate to bring them back together again...but it's not as easy as it seems! First off- neither of them know that they are past lovers, and it is only through chance that the two meet at all! Will destiny bring the two together at last?
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Coming out in 1995, Mada Koi featured early roles for some of who would become Jdrama royalty, including Nakai Kiichi and a very young Takenouchi Yutaka, Tokiwa Takako, Sakai Maki, and Kusanagi Tsuyoshi among others! ALL would go on to have illustrious careers!
They've even got Nishimura Masahiko in a hilarious role as the rascally unseen "narrator" of this modern day fairy-tale, who lets the viewer know at the beginning of the first episode that, even though the two fated lovers have finally been reunited after all these centuries apart..."Love STILL Hasn't Begun!" Cue music, and then we're swept away...
Mada Koi Wa Hajimaranai is firmly entrenched as one of the GREATS, and its theme song one of my absolute favorites!
