ohayoooo wrote:

After watching "Aishiteiru to Ittekure" I wan to watch other dramas with disable characters (preferly main characters), so I hope someone can recommend doramas for m

Beautiful Life (wheelchair bound, same writer and lead actress)
Kimi no Te ga Sasayaite Iru (hearing)
Hoshi no Kinka (hearing) compelling but miserable/depressing too
Kimi ga oshietekureta koto (autism)
Summer snow (hearing, supporting character)
Algernon ni Hanataba o (intelligence, Japanese version of Flowers for Algernon)
Boku no Aruku Michi (autism)
Pure (autism)
Hikari to Tomo ni (raising a child with autism)
One litre of tears (mobility)
Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu (blindness) not as good as the ones above

Satorare (you can say he's disabled in a way)

Also, "Daisuki" (Mentally handicapped single mother raising child)

ohayoooo wrote:

hello there I had just finished watching "Aishiteiru to Ittekure" and I really loved it. After watching "Aishiteiru to Ittekure" I wan to watch other dramas with disable characters (preferly main characters), so I hope someone can recommend doramas for m p.s: I watched "orange days" long time ago

Beautiful Life was mentioned, hard to get any better than that, that's my #1 drama. Another good one is Heaven's Coins #1, Noriko Sakai plays a deaf women who chases her love from Hokkaido to Tokyo, that's a really interesting one to view.
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xploring wrote:

Satorare (you can say he's disabled in a way)

agreed! highly recommended and Odagiri Jo is soooo adorkable there
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thank you for the recommendations

now I have a LOT of downloading to do

Hello everyone

i have been watching alot of korean dramas lately and want to have a switch

are you guys able to help me by giving me recommendations on what to watch?

i viewed the previous topics and hence have already watched the following

-triangle
-code blue 1 & 2
-my boss my hero (enjoyed this paticularly because of the humour)
-buzzer beater

are you guys able to reccommend any drama that is of comedy,romance,sports genre? thanks.
comedy would be best!

Right off the top of my head, Kisarazu Cat's Eye: http://jdorama.com/drama_645.htm

kaede11 wrote:

are you guys able to reccommend any drama that is of comedy,romance,sports genre? thanks. comedy would be best!

H2, and Waterboys?

Pride is really good, it's about Hockey, H2 is also a good baseball one, plus Golden Bowl, drama about bowling with romance thrown in, that drama is really good.
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kaede11..

for comedy drama i sugest Nobuta Wo Produce..
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Been watching too much fluff/romance as of late, would like to watch a hard hitting, intense show like Unfair, Triangle or Love 2000, any good recommendations?
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hitomi #1 wrote:

would like to watch a hard hitting, intense show like Unfair, Triangle or Love 2000, any good recommendations?

They don't get much more intense than Sora Kara Furu :http://jdorama.com/drama_657.htm

gaijinmark wrote:

They don't get much more intense than Sora Kara Furu :http://jdorama.com/drama_657.htm

Thanks for the tip, looks interesting, off to DA now to start downloading. Hopefully it'll be quicker than Ptousan, almost a week to download 2 episodes.

EDIT- DA didn't have it, but luckily LJ has it, noticed DA doesn't have a lot of older ones, though 2002 isn't really old.
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any jdorama that similar to nodame cantabile,my boss my hero and hana kimi????romance + comedy + comical effect + crazily hilarious ?...i've searched averywhere but cannot find one.....currently i'm watching kimi wa petto....but not so interesting compare to those 3...

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Didn't watch a lot of Japanese drama but 'Last friends' held my attention like no others. The last few episodes were quite a let down but overall, it was amazing!

thank you xploring, ghosthacker89 and hitomi#1

Just finished watching Atsu-hime and Musashi liked them both any suggestions on other Taigas that were good?

http://jkdrama.blog.com

lrs808 wrote:

Just finished watching Atsu-hime and Musashi liked them both any suggestions on other Taigas that were good?

The best written, best acted Taiga I've seen is Aoi--Tokugawa Sandai. It starts with the Battle of Sekigahara when Tokugawa Ieyasu established himself as de facto ruler of Japan. If you're not familiar with Japanese history, the plethora of names, places, and events in the first few episodes may overwhelm you, but then the series starts to settle down and focus on the principal Tokugawa members. The clever prologues help clarify things as well; they're presented as very informative (and often humorous) mini-history lessons.
Another excellent Taiga is Genroku Ryoran. It's the famous Chushingura story and boasts two superior performances by Nakamura Kanzaburo as Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the loyal 47 ronin, and Hagiwara Kenichi as Shogun Tokugawa Tsuyanoshi.
Toshiie and Matsu is another good one, not quite as excellent as the first two I mentioned, but still well written and well acted. The principal characters are Maeda Toshiie, an important figure in the latter part of the Sengoku era, and his wife. However, much of the series is devoted to the Big 3--Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. Among many good performances in this series, Kagawa Teruyuki steals the show with his depiction of Hideyoshi.
Shinsengumi generated quite a bit of controversy when it aired. Taiga purists generally hated it. They viewed it (correctly imo) as a very inaccurate view of the Shinsengumi with a different tone than previous Taiga. For me, it had too many fanboy and fangirl actors, a trend which has unfortunately continued with succeeding Taiga; casting Shingo Katori, for example, as Kondo Isamu, head of the Shinsengumi, was horrible. But despite all the negatives, I thought it was entertaining, primarily because it was written and directed by the immensely talented Mitani Koki.
Takeda Shingen (with Nakai Kiichi in the titular role), Dokuganryu Masamune (starring Watanabe Ken as Date Masamune) and Sanada Taiheiki (about the Sanada clan) were three, more traditional Taiga that I thought were very good.