Okada Masaki Monogatari

Update 26 Sept 2017:  click here  to read my update of Okada Masaki's performance since 2012.  Okada Masaki on 'Life Back Then' Friday next week on RED! It's a bit difficult to find new Okada Masaki movies with English sub these days.According to Asian Wiki, Okada has at least three new movies/series that are already released for 2013, but I haven't been able to see them due to the lack of English sub. However! It's with real pleasure that I announce that the great subbers of Dramacrazy.net etc have uploaded the following movies for us: Space Brothers with Oguri Shun (already seen it on RED, but I love the movie so I will watch it again!) I'm watching the bits part of it now, and I think the RED translation of Space Brothers is better than this online version. Still, better than nothing! Himitsu no Akko-chan with Ayase Haruka (click this link to see it online) Pics from Akko-chan's Secret (from Jaewinter). It's really a good movi...

Nanba Hibito (Okada Masaki) in the cockpit of Artemis, courtesy of RED Fans of Okada Masaki and Oguri Shun, at long last, we can watch Uchuu Kyodai (Space Brothers) in English subtitle! RED (Screen Red Asia ) is airing the cool movie in Japanese with English sub starting this Friday (1 March 2013) at 9pm Jakarta time (GMT+7). Indonesian viewers can watch this show if they subscribe to Indovision. Click here for my past review of 'Space Brothers'. Under the cut is the complete airing time of 'Space Brothers' for March 2013. Thank you so much, RED! (anyone can tell me how to record this show from Indovision?) March showtime for Uchuu Kyodai (GMT+7): Fri, 1 Mar 9.00 PM Sat, 2 Mar 11.50 AM Mon, 4 Mar 6.30 PM Thu, 7 Mar 11.30 PM Fri, 8 Mar 11.00 AM What!! They only air it for a week?! I'm in Malaysia for a week from 3 March! Grumble, grumble! It means that I have to just watch the two Friday and Saturday shows next week to quench my thirst of seeing these...

Have you ever thought why you had to be born in this weird world? Have you ever thought of why you have to experience those horrible things? Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be born in a different family than your current one? If so, then perhaps  ‘Aishiteru: Kizuna’ is just the movie for you. I originally watched ‘Aishiteru: Kizuna’ because of Okada Masaki (duh!). However, when I realised how deep the meaning of the movie is, I have to recommend it to you for its deep lessons and beauty. The fact that Mukai Osamu plays as Masaki’s big brother is a big plus for me, for I love both actors, and seeing them together in a movie like this is such a treat for me! Fans of Mukai Osamu and Ikuta Toma will understand what I meant, particularly because Osamu and Toma were at the same movie – Hanamizuki   – but they only shared one very short scene together. In fact, in Aishiteru:Kizuna, Masaki and Osamu also only shared one scene. But it’s a long and very impor...

Nanba Mutta (Oguri Shun) and Nanba Hibito (Okada Masaki) in 2012 Space Brothers It is a natural inclination for a non-native English speaking person like myself  to hope that my Asian movie stars would speak English, so that I can either converse with them in the unlikelihood of me meeting them one day. Or at least, just the pleasure to know the possibility that my favourite stars can join English movie projects one day.  So I was hoping and hoping to hear a bit of Nicky Wu Qilong speaking English, but to date I only know that he understands English, but not speaking it fluently (hence my hope crashed). I’m quite pleased to learn that Osamu Mukai spoke English well in Hanamizuki (couldn’t tell if Ikuta Toma speaks English tho; he didn’t speak English in that movie). Watanabe Ken is out of the question; not because I’m not a fan of his, but because he already speaks English fluently enough to participate in The Last Samurai and Inception. Then, for several months, I was ...