Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Actor Lee Sun Kyun passes away at 48
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Kou Kou Kyoushi
Been watching this 90s Japanese drama. First thing that stood out is that the lead actor is Hiroyuki Sanada, you know the guy that is in every Hollywood movie about Japan or samurais, and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. This is the first time I've ever seen him playing a normal character in a non-action role, and I have to say that this is easily my favorite role he's ever done. It's a complicated study about a high school teacher who falls in love with one of his students but can't do anything about it. The story really gets pretty dark as the series goes along and has lots of memorable scenes. This is definitely one of the better J-dramas I've seen.
Watching Happiness at the moment. It’s a K-drama about an outbreak of a zombie-like disease which leads to the military sealing-off an infected high rise apartment building from the rest of the city. Good so far, Han Hyo-joo is particularly good in this.
Yes, it is quite a high school teacher-student relationship, but the student is in the final few months of her third and last year of high school. She is already over 18 years old by the time she met her teacher for the first time. Not much different from a college teacher x college student couple.
The ending was very bittersweet and memorable. Especially the drawing made by a hand with moisture on the winter-cold train window at the end is memorable. Before that the couple tied a red string around both their fingers to symbolize a string of fate. Spoiler alert. The way the teacher slumped his head on the student's shoulder and her hand dropped from the seat suggests that they may have committed suicide. That is so sad and bittersweet scene, given that they are not allowed to be together in life.
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The show is quite a heartbreak. I have seen Hiroyuki Sanada in some films such as Avengers: Endgame, Wolverine, The Last Samurai and Speed Racer. But it was cool to see a younger Hiroyuki Sanada acting in a TV series.
Like I said, the girl is 18 and is about to graduate in the next two months. The show premiered in January. If I remember correctly, the Japanese school graduation ceremony takes place in March.
Hiroyuki Sanada is 32 years old and the actress who played the student role is over 20 years old when the show started airing in 1993. The age of consent in Tokyo prefecture is 18, but the policy in Japanese high schools forbids teachers from dating students.
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I've been watching Gyeongseong Creature on Netflix. It's set during WWII when Japan was occupying Korea, and involves a woman looking for her mother, who was taken by the Japanese as a subject for their human experiments to create a supernatural weapon. It's good, but it's pretty grim and I'm struggling to build up the enthusiasm to continue watching it through to the end. The leads are great, but unusually for K-drama they have failed to create enough chemistry between the two to keep me invested.
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