Da Capo Shimasenka asks: "Do You Want To Play A Game?"

 Part Liar Game, part Squid Game, DA CAPO Shimasenka? tells the story of a mysterious servant named Ninomiya (Takeda Tetsuya) whom, at the behest of his Master, has found a series of despairing individuals pushed to the edge and about to commit suicide due to crushing debt.

Stopping them at the very last second of their demise, Ninomiya invites all of them to the home of his benefactor, where they learn that they have been invited to participate in a macabre and deadly game of chance.

Called DA CAPO, each individual is told to sign a life insurance policy to the host of the game, an unseen individual named only MR.X. The “contestants" will them participate in a series of dangerous games where each round is ended by the death of a member.

Once that person dies, his life insurance will kick in and there will be a payout. And after a fee has been paid to Mr.X, the rest of the money go to the PARTICIPANTS! The more people that die, the more insurance will pay out and the LESS people there will be to split the money with! That means that the more people that DIE, the more you GET!

Normally no one would even think about playing such a deadly game, but these are people whom debt has destroyed their lives, and for even the chance of paying it off and starting again clean, most won’t hesitate for a second to join! And in the end, ALL EIGHT of them take pen in hand and sign the contracts!

Once the legal papers have all been signed, the first of the "games" is introduced: Champagne glasses filled with water for the contestants to drink. But ONE of them is laced with POISON,  a deadly agent that will KILL the drinker soon thereafter!

...Are the guests brave enough to go ahead with such MADNESS???

The Contestants: Otawara (Makita Sports)

Shimon (Takaya Sakoda)

Sakuragi (Momoka Hasegawa)

Masumi (Kei Inoo)

Maeyama (Atsuko Hirata)

Mihashi (Ryoko Kobayashi)

Inaba (Tetta Sugimoto)

and Nagumo (Arisa Mizuki)

Each of them has their own dark reasons for being in debt, (which we will learn over time) and by hook or crook, each one has a determination to become the one holding the prize at the end!

So RAISE your glasses and make a toast, for the games are about to begin...and one is about to DIE!

CHEERS!

Let the Games Begin...

A truly BIZARRE show, kept loose and FUN by Takeda Tetsuya who plays Ninomiya with a particular ZEST!

The 8-Year Engagement

Just finished watching the Takeru Sato/ Tao Tsuchiya movie “8-Nengoshi no Hanayome~The 8 Year Engagement”, the true story of a newly engaged couple named Hisashi and Mai whose plans get thrown into despair when Mai gets a brain seizure which puts her in a coma for months, and when she does miraculously awaken, finds that though she remembers her parents, she doesn’t remember a thing about her engagement or even Hisashi himself!

Takeru Sato is great as the faithful Hisashi, who was always by her side while she was hospitalized and never stopped believing she would wake up and heal, and Tao proves yet again why I like her so much as the sweet and vulnerable Mai.
Also good are Hiroko Yakushimaru and Tetta Sugimoto as Mai's parents who do their best to absolve him of any sense of obligation to stay by Mai's side when she is hospitalized and possibly never to regain conciousness (but shed tears of gratitude when they realize his love for Mai is true and he is here for the long haul)...

This movie reminded me not just a little of the Yutaka Takenouchi/Emi Wakui drama “Mou Ichido Kimi ni, Propose” where Husband has to win the love of his wife all over again when she loses her memory and forgets who he is. But The 8 year Engagement is a bit more compelling in that the couple has not yet married and the fiance does his best on pure love and faith towards the girl he dreamed of marrying one day.

Yeah, this movie was another heart tugger for sure and of COURSE I was wiping away the tears by the show’s end, but sometimes ya gotta just go with the flow and let yourself be a weepy girlyman...LOL!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com