Revenge in The Color of Black

Now onto another "revenge" drama in the style of JOKER~Yurusarezaru Sousakan, Alice No Toge, and even recent dramas like Final Cut, where the relative of wronged and deceased person goes out and systematically destroys each person involved in the crime.

The drama is BLACK REVENGE, and this time the main character is Saori Imamiya, played by Tae Kimura. Once upon a time she was the happy wife of a politician with a baby on the way, but when he is framed for taking bribes and cheating on his wife, he takes his life. The shock of it sends Saori into a miscarriage and thus she loses her baby and her husband in one swoop.

She ends up in a psychological institution where she spends her days staring into space...until the day a thumb drive arrives with a recording of her husband laying out just how he was framed...and naming the guilty people who executed it!

This gets her out of her funk and now, with revenge in mind, she rejuvenates herself, joins a scandal rag magazine, and with her savvy and connections aims to take down all the individuals involved in her husband's frame-up and death!

Well, like I mentioned before, this drama's set-up certainly isn't anything new and we've seen it over and over again, but Tae Kimura is charismatic as the calculating news reporter Imamiya, and WOW, I just LOVE her assistant Sakura Ashihara!!

Played by Maya Okano (whom we last saw as Midori in the Kazuya Kamenashi drama Boku, Unmei No Hito Desu), this is one BUBBLY, chatty, super-GENKI character, and since Imamiya spends most of the show brooding in silence, it's up to Sakura to fill the empty space, and BOY, does she!  

  She is so much fun that I fell in love with her from the moment she's paired up with Imamiya and groans, LOLOL. She steals every scene she's in!

Pretty interesting show so far, and we'll see where this drama takes us!
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Super Heroine Shiori Kutsuna

Huh, I had JUST written about pretty Shiori Kutsuna in an earlier post, and lo and behold today I find that she's appearing in the new DEADPOOL movie as a super-powered heroine named Yukio who also just happens to be one-half of a gay couple with Negasonic Teenage Warhead. HUH!

Haven't seen Deadpool yet, but have plans to check it out soon. And with this news of Shiori Kutsuna appearing in it, that makes it only that much more exciting!
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Another Women Prison Story

Finally got the Ayame Gouriki driven Women's Prison comedy "Joshu Seven". The first time it aired on NGN here, my friend didn't know I wanted to see it until it had long since gone, but when they aired it a second time, he recorded the series for me and now I've finally gotten around to checking it out!

 

I have to say though, after already having seen the excellent "Kangoku No Ohimesama" with Kyoko Koizumi, I'm having a hard time getting into this VERY similar drama. I'd already seen this "Woman goes to Prison where she meets a gang of Zany Inmates" done before, and much better, too.

 

I'll probably have to give it some time to absorb, but so far I can only think of Kangoku No Ohimesama when i'm watching this.We'll see how it goes....
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A Wild Aya Oomasa Appearance!

Was pleasantly surprised to see pretty Aya Oomasa make a guest appearance in the Anne Nakamura drama "Love Rerun" as a catty super-model who makes poor Sayaka's project a hell when it is discovered she is Shohei's ex-girlfriend!

 

The bonuses of Aya playing a super-model is of course the fact that I get to see her all done up in fabulous outfits, and oooh did she look good here!

 

 

 

 

 Aya is one of the many attractive girls who came out of the star-studded "Mei-Chan No Shitsuki" (among them such starlets as Shiori Kutsuna, Mayuko Iwasa, Mitsuki Tanimura, Aoi Nakabeppu and others) and it's always a thrill when I see any of them make appearances in dramas. So good to see her here!!!

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BG Finale

 Meh, can't say I was overly thrilled by the conclusion of BG~ Personal Bodyguard. In fact, I can't say that I was too invested in the entire series. I mean, each episode was interesting enough to watch, but somehow it seemed like such a slow drama.

 

 

 Oh well, onto the next Kimutaku drama....

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Signal~Chouki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sousahan

As a child, Kento Saegusa  (Kentaro Sakaguchi) was a shy and introverted boy without any friends except for a friendly classmate named Ayaka who takes a liking to him.

On a rainy afternoon after school, Ayaka is waiting for the shower to let up so she can go home, and Kento thinks about offering her his umbrella. Sadly, his shyness takes over and he ends up leaving without saying anything. On his way out, he sees a pretty, rich looking woman come to pick her up and, relieved, forgets all about it.

 

That night, however, the news comes out that Ayaka is missing and hasn’t come home. Days later, her body is found dead, and a man has been listed as a probable suspect.

Only Kenta knows that it wasn’t a man at all, and tries to tell the grownups around him. He even goes down to the police station to tell them what he saw, but no one pays attention to him and it’s all he can do to leave them a note saying  “the kidnapper is a woman”. From then on he carries a burden of guilt, thinking, “If only I’d let her my umbrella, Ayaka would still be alive.”

Fast forward to the present and we see Kenta has grown into a police investigator with an extraordinary sense of observation. With his eye, he can figure out exactly what a person is thinking  just by their clothing, behavior, etc. His haunted past, however, has turned into a callous young man who doesn’t care about morals and only uses his abilities to get scoops and make money. This causes him to clash with other investigators, including the sombre and serious detective Misaki Sakurai (Michiko Kichise) who feel Kenta’s disrespectful behavior an insult towards the profession.

While leaving the station, Kenta happens to hear a walkie talkie crackling in a bag of trash.

Taking it out, he hears the sound of a detective named Takeshi Oyama (Kazuki Kitamura) saying he is at the site of an old hospital and has found the remains of the suspect kidnapper in an old grating in the yard.

 The signal abruptly cuts and Saesuga frustratedly slaps the walkie talkie trying to make it turn back on…and that’s when he realizes the device doesn’t even have BATTERIES in it!!

Kenta doesn’t know what to make of it, but his curiosity compels him to go to the old hospital and look in the grating himself. What he finds there shocks his senses…for indeed, there is an old skeleton laying inside the drainage!

The authorities are called and the bones are identified as the missing suspect. But his remains tell them that he was tied up there and killed…leaving them to conclude that he wasn’t the killer and was only set up as the fall guy.

Kenta ’s mind is still reeling over the discovery of the bones. Somehow, the voice on the walkie talkie is contacting him through TIME! The voice is speaking to him from 15 yers in the past, and with the statute of limitations for the murder about to expire, it’s up to Kenta to team up with Sakurai and find the culprit!

I didn’t see the original Korean drama SIGNAL that this show is based on, but this is a  interesting premise for a time-traveling story and I’m excited to see where it goes! Reading the dramawiki synopsis, it seems that Kenta and Oyama will continue to communicate through the walkie talkie to solve more cold case files after this initial storyline. Sounds Good!
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