Sentences you shouldn't trust

Sorry for the two months hiatus - from exams to work (I got the job I wanted) and personal problems, I was unable to update (I was also unable to watch dramas so we both were on the losing sides). I hope to get back on track from now on.

Some time ago while watching dramas, I noticed that there are some sentences that you should never ever trust. Whenever someone says it - I can say ~80% of times they are lying and some serious stuff is going to happen.

1) "I don't love you (anymore)!"
Seriously? How often have we heard that sentence slip from the lips of poor heroine or the rich and courgeous male lead? Too often I say. Whenever one needs to break up -mostly so he/she could save the other or so that innocent people wouldn't get hurt- there is no way of making a rational explanation of why breaking up would be a good idea - explanation? like what the heck is that? Just forget all those lovey-dovey words you said yesterday and yell at her/his face that suddenly you just don't love her/him anymore.

Lee Jae Ha is not only the king of South Korea -
he's also the king of saying things that are untrue
(seriously I've heard almost everything in this list slipping from his lips)

2) "This is the last drink."
Also comes in variations like "Let's have a drink for a goodbye" and "This will be the last time". This one is my personal favourite. Really, that's the last drink we share? Honey, you said that the last time too. Or are you out to poison me this time?

3) "I can hold my liquor"
If you're so good with alcohol, then why everybody else has to piggyback/ carry you back home? Darling, please be honest with yourself and others - - - unless you really want the hot guy piggyback you home. Hey! I should try this one!

Dear Naoki. You won't have any puking problems with me -
I'm the type who falls asleep when drunk. Sincerely, Yanne.

4) "I do not see you as a man/woman"
Maybe it is true in the start, but we can always be certain that right after telling that they will open their eyes and understand that actually the other person is the only man/woman they see. But for sure, at first let's make things really complicated and cause a lot of heartache to everyone, just because one is too blind to see.

5) "You're not sexy"
Also comes in variations like "You're uncute", "You're ugly" etc. Don't be too sad - being beautiful in the inside is much important than appearance - so just show them how sexy your soul is and in the end the person saying it will still love you and not his bitchy supermodel "friend".

a bag of sweet potatoes in your hand makes you especially attractive to Kang Joo

I know you can't trust my "every-monday-post promise" either but there is one sentence you can trust: "From this week on Cypsis Blog (and second blog) will run smoothly again as Cypsis is returning from Portugal."

Japanese MUST WATCH dramas 2006-2010

I actually wanted to do a post about anime related stuff as I was busy with Japanese Animation Film Festival, but while in need of a quick post to get the blog rolling again, I decided to go with that.

14-sai no haha (2006)

Proposal Daisakusen - some people may argue, but I'd say it's pretty MUST SEE
also it was my second drama I ever watched!

Attention Please (2006)
Byakuyako (2006)
Densha Otoko (2006)
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (2006)
My Boss, My Hero (2006)
Nodame Cantabile (2006)

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2007)
Hotaru no Hikari (2007, 2010)
LIAR GAME (2007)
Proposal Daisakusen (2007)

Binbo Danshi (2008)
Bloody Monday (2008)
CHANGE (2008)
Code Blue (2008, 2010)
Hachimitsu to clover (2008)
Koizora (2008)
Last Friends (2008)
ROOKIES (2008)
Ryusei no Kizuna (2008)
Zettai Kareshi (2008)

At the end of the street: a poster of Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku
I was in Japan when it was airing, so a lot of posters at streets and trains

Atashinchi no Danshi (2009)
BOSS (2009)
Buzzer Beat (2009)
JIN (2009)
Mei-chan no Shitsuji (2009)
MR.BRAIN (2009)
My Girl (2009)
Orthos no Inu (2009)
Smile (2009)
Tokyo DOGS (2009)

Freeter, Ie o Kau (2010)

Moteki (2010)
Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku (2010)
Sunao ni Narenakute (2010)
Tumbling (2010)

If I left something important out, feel free to correct me! Now I shall go back to my "Genji monogatari" that needs to be finished reading.

Actor profile: Yamashita Tomohisa

 

sweaty after concert

Name:  山下智久
Birth date: 09.04.1985
Agency: Johnny’s Entertainment
In Entertainment business since: 1996
Active as actor since:1996
Break through drama: 2005 Nobuta wo Produce

Rating: Quality 

• Shinrei Surfer no Shi (1996)
• Shounentachi (NHK, 1998) as Kakuda Shinya
• Nekketsu Renaido (NTV, 1999, ep7)
• P.P.O.I. (NTV, 1999) as Amano Taira
• Kowai Nichiyobi (NTV, 1999, ep13)
• Kiken na Kankei (Fuji TV, 1999, ep10-11) as Miyabe Satoshi
• Ikebukuro West Gate Park (TBS, 2000) as Mizuno Shun
• Shijo Saiaku no Date (2000, ep1) as Okamura Yuki
• All Star Chushingura Matsuri (2000) as Asano Takumi
• Kabachitare (Fuji TV, 2001) as Tamura Yuta
• Shounen wa Tori ni Natta (TBS, 2001) as Nagashima Ken
• Long Love Letter (Fuji TV, 2002) as Otomo Tadashi
• Lunch no Joou (Fuji TV, 2002) as Nabeshima Koshiro
• Stand Up!! (TBS, 2003) as Iwasaki Kengo
• Budo no Ki (Grapevine) (2003) as Shindo Yosuke
• Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni... (TBS, 2004) as Fukazawa Takuma
• Dragon Zakura (TBS, 2005) as Yajima Yusuke
• Nobuta wo Produce (NTV, 2005) as Kusano Akira
• Kurosagi (TBS, 2006) as Kurosaki
• Byakkotai (TV Asahi, 2007) as Sakai Shintaro & Sakai Mineji
• Proposal Daisakusen (Fuji TV, 2007) as Iwase Ken
• Proposal Daisakusen SP (Fuji TV, 2008) as Iwase Ken
• Kurosagi the movie (2008) as Kurosaki
• Code Blue (Fuji TV, 2008) as Aizawa Kousaku
• Code Blue SP (Fuji TV, 2009) as Aizawa Kousaku
• Buzzer Beat (Fuji TV, 2009) as Kamiya Naoki
• Code Blue 2 (Fuji TV, 2010) as Aizawa Kousaku
• Ashita no Joe (2011) as Yabuki Joe
• Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata~Ending Planner~ (TBS, 2012) as Ihara Masato aka Masapyon
• Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 2012 Akai Tsume (Fuji TV, 2012) as Ishida Akiyoshi
• MONSTERS (TBS, 2012) as Saionji Kousuke
• SUMMER NUDE (Fuji TV, 2013) as Mikuriya Asahi
• Dokushin Kizoku (Fuji TV, 2013, ep7 & 11) as himself  

Buzzer Beat

 

Average rating on Cypsis' blog: 4,1

Official highest average drama rating: 23.1 (Code Blue SP)
Most awarded drama: Proposal Daisakusen (53.rd Television Drama Academy Award and 11.th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix)

Best role: Kusano Akira (Nobuta wo Produce)
Worst role: Mikuriya Asahi (SUMMER NUDE)

Trade mark: his name/face, also dead-fish-eyes (kind of negative thing that people keep saying)
Best scene type: kiss scenes, crying scenes

 

This scene from Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata~Ending Planner~
is one of the most believable crying scenes I've ever seen

Counting:
Kiss-scenes: 9(+?) - Kitagawa Keiko, Karina, Nagasawa Masami, Aibu Saki, Ueno Natsuhi 
On-screen couple:11 - Kitagawa Keiko, Aragaki Yui, Karina, Nagasawa Masami (2x), Aibu Saki, Yanagihara Kanako, Miyaji Mao, Ueno Natsuhi, Eikura Nana, Honda Tsubasa,+ actress from IWGP
Fight-scenes: uncountable - Ashita no Joe, Kurosagi, Buzzer Beat, Dragon Zakura, Dokushin Kizoku
(Half)naked: uncountable - Ashita no Joe, SUMMER NUDE, Buzzer Beat, Kurosagi
Crying-scenes: 10 - Proposal Daisakusen, Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata~Ending Planner~, Code Blue, Kurosagi, Buzzer Beat 

Cross-dressing scenes: 1 - P.P.O.I - he said that he will never do that again - in 2012 he did crossdress with Katori Shingo

Happy 29th birthday! It's the 6.th time I spent it this day knowing who this fine man is. He is also the person whom both me and Cypsis need to thank -  Nobuta wo Produce was the first drama we watched, followed by Proposal Daisakusen  that made us totally hooked.Who knows where we'd be without Yamapi. Of course we haven't seen all of the titles mentioned above as some of them are out of reach for us, but we will do our best to track them down.

Japanese MUST WATCH dramas ...-2005

I am so sorry~!!! I had finals... and then I went home... and I just slept and watched movies/ dramas... and read mangas (damn you Gintoki! and Yanagi-kun... :3 ) and then the uni stuff started again and I got a part-time job and then somewhere in the middle I had a total mental breakdown and then Cypsis went away....... in summary: I suck at making it to the deadline -.-

Well I decided to post the ultimate list of MUST WATCH Japanese dramas. So here is the first part (90.s to the awesome year of 2005) in chronological and alphabetical order. (links to Cypsisblog or Dramawiki)

the beginning of Kimutaku's popularity

101st marriage proposal (1991)
Itazura na kiss (1996) 
Long Vacation (1996)
Love Generation (1997)
Virgin Road (1997)
GTO (1998)

Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000)
Love Complex (2000)
Summer Snow (2000)
Trick (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2010)
Yamato Nadeshiko (2000)
Beautiful Life (2000)

Hero (2001)
Antique (2001)
Love Revolution (2001)
Strawberry on the shortcake (2001)
Long Love Letter (2002)
Lunch Queen (2002)
Kisarazu Cat's Eye (2002)

Eita andYamada Takayuki half-naked most of the time? Yes, please!
Tanaka Kei, Nakao Akiyoshi and Koike Teppei in second season? Yes, please!
Water Boys

Good Luck!! (2003)
Gokusen (2003, 2005, 2008)
Kimi wa Petto (2003)
Manhattan Love Story (2003)
Stand Up!! (2003)
Water Boys (2003, 2004)
Last Christmas (2004)
Orange Days (2004)
Pride (2004)

1 litre of tears (2005)
Anego (2005)
Brother Beat (2005)
Densha Otoko (2005)
Dragon Zakura  (2005)
Jyoou no kyoshitsu (2005)
Hana yori Dango (2005, 2007)
Kiken na Aneki (2005)
Nobuta wo produce (2005)
Slow Dance (2005)
Tiger & Dragon (2005)

As you can see, me and Cypsis haven't watched even half of them! But one day we will - even if we're old and grey (hint to one of my favourite songs). Did I miss something that should be in this list? Well let me know then! :D

The beginning of our beloved jdramas - the black and white 50s

On Sunday night at 23.30 I still had no idea of what to write for the post due to Monday. Thank gyoza I'm a night-person and Inspiration-God hit me hard after eating little bit of magical Nutella. So today I will become a history teacher and tell you a little bit of the beginning of our beloved dramas (written at the time when I should have studied for my Japanese language test) :

 

Inabata Katsutaro - classmates with Auguste Lumiere,
he brought cinematographe to Japan
making it possible to make and show movies in Japan

1897 - first movie that is produced in Japan for cinema. Just to remind you the official date of "the birth of cinema/ movies" is 28.th of December 1895 (in Paris by Auguste and Louis Lumiére). So as you can see Japan picked up movie industry in its early days. Of course back then "movie" meant one moving picture that lasted some seconds and had no important characters or actual plot. In Japanese case the first movie showed sights in Tokyo.

13.th of May 1939 - NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai, Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, established in 1926) began its experiments in television. Before it NHK was a radio station. Television itself was invented in 1925/26 (in London by John Logie Baird). The world's oldest TV station is WRGB, founded on 13.th of January 1928 in New York. This time Japan had a slight delay as it took 11 years before experimenting in television.

1940 - the first television drama "Yuugemae" ("Before dinner")
Written by Ima Uhei, directed by Sakamoto Tomokazu & Kawaguchi Ryuuji,
Cast: Seki Shihoko, Nonomura Kiyoshi, Hara Izumiko
The story itself was about a family of three: mother, daughter and son. While the daughter Kimiko prepares dinner, the son, Atsushi, reads about a bus crash and starts to worry about their mothers safety. Eventually mother returns with a picture of a man. Children think that mother wants to remarry and the person in the picture is the possible groom. In the end it turns out that its the memorial picture of their father, presumed dead in the war in China.
Guess how long was the first jdrama? A whole 12 minutes. Even though it cannot be tagged as "series" the way jdramas now mean "Japanese series" without those 12 minutes there wouldn't have been the development of 11 episodes we're watching now.

Check the year again and think about the political and social situation. Japan was in the war with China and was preparing for World War II. The following years of occupation did not make it any easier. That's why the idea of television dramas was suspended for about 10 years. 

1952 - "Shinkon album" ("Newly wed album")
While the first drama was quite Japanese-like family drama, then "Shinkon album" was light comedy.
Fun fact it is that there were only 866 television sets that could retrieve NHK at that time, so obviously not many people saw it.

1953 - "Yamaji no fue" ("Flute on the mountain path")

Written by Sugi Kayoko, directed by Hatanaka Tsuneo
Cast: Shitamoto Tsutomu, Otsuka Michiko
It was based on a northern Japanese folktale about a sad love story between musician Tojiro and his wife/ guardian angel.
It was broadcasted live and we all know those awesome "mistakes of live broadcasts". The first blooper in Japanese television industry happened exactly in "Yamaji no fue". The cameraman forgot to turn the camera away from Otsuka Michiko changing her costume. Thank gyoza TV sets weren't that common at that time!

1950s - "Hanshichi"
Written by Nishikawa Kiyoyuki, directed by Nagayama Hiroshi
Adapted from old samurai detective story by former kabuki playwright Okamoto Kido.
This was Japanese first true period drama.
The lenght of the it was 40-minutes - basically the same as one episode nowadays!
Also as in the following years sequels were made - it can be titled as the first Japanese series.

1953 - "Wagaya no Nichiyou nikki" ("Sunday diary of my home")
Written by Yamashita Yoshikazu, directed by Ogata Tsutomu
Cast: Mayumida Kazuo, Horikoshi Setsuko

Murase Sachiko played in "Koufuku e no kifuku"

An upgrade on the series field. In total there were 25 episodes (~30minutes per episode).
It was also the first jdrama in the genre "home drama" or "kitchen-sink drama" as it focused on general differences and the contradictions of being a loving family in a confined space.
Shown on NTV (Nihon TV).

1953 - "Koufuku e no kifuku" ("Ups and downs towards happiness")
Written by Kyo Izumi
The story is about wealthy Kanou family who are rendered penniless after the World War II and are forced to struggle for existence. This drama brought depth and real life events into dramas.
This was the first time that 13 episode format was deliberately used. Even though after that they continued experimenting.

1955 - "Todoroki sensei" live-action
The first televisual adaption of manga! The manga its based on is "Todoroki sensei" by Akiypshi Hajime. Todoroki-san was played by comedian Furukawa Roppo.

The same year KRT (now known as  Tokyo Broadcasting Systems aka TBS) made its first broadcasts. KRT/TBS immediately specialized in "television novels" aka jdramas - guess they knew where the fortune lies! Their first hit was "Himanashi Tobidasu" ("Mr. Himanashi jumps out") - a mystery series about crime-solving adventures of a photographer Himana Shinsuke and his assistant Daisuke.

Gekko Kamen character chart

During those years television series were mainly imported from USA (let me remind you again that Japan was under occupation until 1952, so Japanese after-war life was greatly influenced by American lifestyle). Using this influence as inspiration Japan made its first superhero (and series about him),"Gekko Kamen" ("The Moonlight Mask"), that was one of the few fully Japanese made series that made it into the top ten ratings.

"Jiken Kisha" ("Crime journalist") is considered to be the first "career drama" or "work-place drama" - genre that now is the dominating one in the world Japanese dramas. Actually before that "Himanashi Tobidasu" and "Dial 110" (a slice of life drama about police officers) were made, but as they focused only on the crime solving, "Jiken Kisha" was the first to put emphasis also on the workplace itself.

1959 - two more networks started broadcasting. Guess what they were? Of course they were Fuji TV and Nihon Educational Television, now known as Tv Asahi. Of course as the Royal wedding of Crown Prince Akihito to Shota Michiko  (current emperor and empress) was shown in TV, so it made even more people purchase television sets. Some months later color TVs made it to Japan.

Watashi wa kai ni naritai (1959)
in 2008 it got a remake!

So as you can see the first decade of Jdramas were rather experimental both in the area of television technologies, series formats and plots. Yet the roots of current jdoramas are clearly noticeable in the earlier dramas: the family-focused home-dramas, the touch of reality,  the live actions and even career dramas began during that time! Also I must add that the royal wedding gave inspiration to Cinderella stories as Empress Michiko was a commoner.
From that time come titles as "Tenraku no shishuu" ("Poems from heaven"), "Watashi wa yakusoku wo mamotta" ("I kept my promise"), "Inu wa ikiteiru" ("The dog is alive"), "Tsuiseki" ("Pursuit"), "Watashi wa kai ni naritai" ("I want to become a shellfish"), "My wife is 18", "Mama is my rival", "Minami's sweetheart", "Steel angel Kurumi - Pure", "Bus Dori Ura" ("Off the bus route") , "Non-chan's dream", "Musume to watashi" ("My daughter and I") etc. I hope one day I am able too see some of them.

This time it was rather educative, wasn't it? Most of the information comes from a book titled "The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953" (Stone Bridge Pres, 2003) written by Jonathan Clements and Motoko Tamamuro. Dear Santa, I don't mind having my own copy of this fantastic book! I promise I will study hard to do something as awesome as that with my degree in the future!

The eternal battle: Jdrama vs Kdrama PART 2

Some birds told me that they want to read the next parts of this topic, so I decided to give you the second part. Again I must remind you that the point of this post is to show the typical differences between Korean and Japanese dramas and the things written here cannot be said about EVERY drama (there will always be the awesome unique ones). You can read the first part HERE.

3) EMOTIONS (hate, sadness and love)
 In a way I already wrote about it in the PLOT section in previous post, but I felt that I have more to say about this one. Especially as plot and emotions are really tightly related.

First of all Japanese dramas are more complex in the area of emotions. 

Director Bang from Marry me, Mary!
I've never met that self-centered person in real life.

While it is easy to hate the “evil character” in Korean drama because the b*tch really is a b*tch, then in Japanese drama you can’t hate her as she is portrayed like a normal human being who just is confused or tries to achieve happiness. Of course when you thoroughly analyze a character you can come to understand its actions, but in many cases in Korean dramas their stubbornness and "need of hurting others" is just too non-human like. The reason why I say "Japanese dramas are more complex" is that at many times I feel like I want to hate someone (I mean character), but as I understand her/him too much, then I am unable to do so - the complexity  forms inside the watcher. In Korean dramas what you see is what you get and so the watchers feel the emotions that they are told to feel.
In Korean dramas “the family problems” are made into huge mess like a bowl of ramen - it's not complex, but just messy and spicy – most usually the parents of two families are high school friends and one family’s father had an unrequited love towards other’s mother resulting in the main character being unable to be together– did I forget to mention that at least one character’s mother is dead or abandoned her child? A lot of melodrama I must say. 

1 litre of tears - the classic about family handling a problem

You want to know how things are in Japanese dramas? “The family problems” mean that the family is having hard time overcoming grief, the head of the family has been made redundant or one of the kids is having an incurable disease – that’s a family problem. In overview we get much more hate-emotions from Korean dramas and much more cry-emotions from Japanese dramas. Yet in a way hate-emotions are more about "other people" as they are visible only while the loathed person is involved in some activity/ talk. Cry-emotions are about "the person itself" as they are about what that certain character feels at the time (even though they are caused by other characters - "others" are not that important in showing the emotions). Remembering that K-dramas focuses on how people interact with each other and J-dramas on how a person interacts with society, then it becomes logical that the former has more exterior emotions and latter inferior emotions.
On the other hand Korean dramas have the upper hand in making viewer’s heart beat faster – all this handholding and hugging and kissing (even though most of them are fishes)  - and I cannot not mention the almost kisses and accidental kisses and accidental groping and 

even though "You're my pet" is a movie
it still carries the same pattern as dramas

– yeah Korean dramas do a lot more fanservice. In this area Japanese are more conservative - if you get more than 1 kiss scene then it’s already a success. Again I must remind you that the percent of love-related dramas is much higher in Korea than in Japan so it's logical to have more smooching in Korean dramas. As I wrote in PLOT section - Japanese dramas have more realistic love (if you ignore the skinship part - heck if I were married to some hot Japanese actor, I would take my advantages from it). Even while being in love the characters still do what they are supposed to (work, school etc.) - they have their own lives to take care of. I've seen a lot of Japanese dramas and I can name on my one hand the women who live for the man they love. I cannot say the same about Korean ones. Maybe I haven't been so deeply in love, maybe I'm too self-centered, but I feel like it's more natural to be concerned about my own life rather than thinking about someone else 24/7.
In summary: Korean dramas try to portray characters, their emotions and the emotions that watchers should feel in a black and white way. Those emotions usually involve "the one who feels" and "the one who is the reason of those emotions".  Japanese dramas are in the grey area - every watcher decides for herself/himself whether she/he likes or dislikes the character. The emotions usually involve only "the one who feels" as the cause is not that important. That makes the emotions we get from Japanese dramas more real.

4) VISUALS (celebrities, clothing and make-up)

In majority Korean actors are better looking (can't say the same about actresses). There I said it. Maybe it is because plastic surgery is more common in Korea, maybe because Japan is less hospitable towards “foreigners” (mixed blood has better qualities) – dunno the reasons, but Korean people shown on dramas are better-looking than Japanese ones. The easiest way to compare it is with remakes:  “You’re beautiful” and “Ikemen desu ne”, “Hana yori dango” and “Boys over flowers” ETC. (I'm sure to have hate comments about that one) But I cannot say that it's always a bad thing -  in a way for me that makes Japanese celebrities kind of more 

can you imagine your life without T.O.P?
well if he hadn't worked out for months to lose weight
you'd know only the life without him

human. I've lived in Japan for some time and  I've also met with a lot of Korean people - so in my opinion Japanese dramas are more similar to reality: not every guy you meet on the street looks like a underwear model - the same goes to South-Korea, but somehow we can't see that in Korean dramas. Korean entertainment industry is more about looks than Japanese one. If it weren't then there wouldn't be cases like "T.O.P from Big Bang was not accepted to the agency at first attempt, because his body shape was "too round""- yeah the talented man we all know and love was rejected by the entertainment industry because he was considered to be too fat. I can name a lot of Japanese actors who can never pull off being added to the list of world's sexiest men, but as they are enormously talented they get a lot of roles and are loved by the public.
Even if you disagreed with the whole “looks” thing, then you can’t disagree with the fact that Korean dramas have better stylists – while most of the characters (except the main poor girl) in Korean dramas walk around in clothes from fashion shops, 

I loved the clothes in Buzzer Beat
they were so common and natural for the characters

Japanese one’s wear whatever one can find from its closet. At times it feels like Japanese characters are so normal human beings that if they were to pass you by on the street you wouldn’t think much about them. Maybe it's because a lot of Korean dramas are involved with the world of "rich and fabulous" and Japanese more involved with "ordinary and casual".
The last most visible difference is make-up! Of course foundation is the almost a must in basically every film industry so no problem with that part. Also mascara and eyeliner are acceptable for female characters. Yet noticeable difference is that mostly in Japanese dramas make-up for females are mostly used as a narrative device - make up is done only when 1)there's an important date/ event for which make up is the most logical thing (for example Riko having an important recital in "Buzzer Beat") 2) when there is need for a "make-over" (usually done by males, for example "Hana yori dango", "Yamato nadeshiko shichi henge") 3) the characters that 

Dear, you are really beautiful in Heirs,

but that lipstick belongs in to the recycle bin

are considered to be cute and pretty. In Korean dramas we can see make up on different characters even when it makes no sense - the most known is the "purple lipstick" or as I like to say it "the lips of dead people". I can accept it when one female character per drama wears it, but when I see it even on MALE characters, then I really have to grin and bear it. I consider it to be a fashion crime especially when the lipstick is accompanied with toooooooo white powder. In East Asia (Japan and South Korea, Thai etc) white skin has been the beauty ideal since the olden times, but when it is done by powder that is too visible, then it is far from being beautiful. If you need that desperately having something on your lips (other than someone else's lips), then wear a simple lip gloss that makes them shiny and doesn't make you look like you died yesterday.
In summary: Korean dramas have better visuals, while Japanese dramas portray more of "the real life Japan". Also Korean dramas use much more make-up - sometimes it even looks like 16 hours of commercials for make-up, cars, cellphones, clothes etc.

I thought this post will be shorter, but once I started writing it I just couldn't stop. So again I had to cut some sections (meaning: in the future there will be PART 3). I hope you had fun reading it. If there is anything you disagree about or have an interesting idea, then feel free to share it!

Actor profile: Tegoshi Yuya

Name:  手越祐也

Birth date: 11.11.1987
Agency: Johnny’s Entertainment, singer in NEWS and Tegomasu
In Entertainment business since: 2002
Active as actor since: 2005

Rating: Improving

• Division 1: 15 Sai no Blues (Fuji TV, 2005) as Sanada Kohei
• Gekidan Engimono Ie ga Tooi (Fuji TV, 2005) as Tommy
• Shissou (2005) as Shuji
• Gachi Baka(TBS, 2006) as Utsugi Minoru
• My Boss My Hero (NTV, 2006) as Sakurakoji Jun
• Hyoten 2006 (TV Asahi, 2006) as Tsujiguchi Tooru
• Shabake (Fuji TV, 2007) as  Ichitaro
• Shabake 2nd seires ~Usouso~ (Fuji TV, 2008) as Ichitaro
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2009) as Hasegawa Mirai
• Dareka ga Uso wo Tsuiteiru (Fuji TV, 2009)  as Sato Takahiro
• Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (TBS, 2010) as Toyama Yukinojo
• Deka Wanko (NTV, 2011) as Kirishima Ryuta
• Hotaru no Hikari movie (2012) as Saeki Yu

He started with passive-depressive roles with few lines. Who would have guessed 

that a guy like that transforms into sexy cross-dressing devil

Average rating on Cypsis' blog: 2,8
Official highest average drama rating: 18.91 (My Boss, My Hero)
Most awarded drama: Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (13. Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix - Winter 2010 and Annual)
Best role: Kirishima Ryuta (Deka Wanko)
Worst role: Sanada Kohei (Division 1)
Trade mark: Empathy-face (kind of negative thing, but he is getting better at not doing it)

Best scene type: being surprised (it is really funny how good he is at surprised face)
Best onscreen chemistry: Gachi Baka with Masuda Takahisa - no seriously somehow
Best onscreen love interest: Deka Wanko with Tabe Mikako

Empathy face is something that still resembles his early acting pieces as you

can see at least 1 scene with this face in every drama/movie

Counting:
Kiss-scenes: 3 - Horikita Maki, Kanjiya Shihori, Sakai Ayana
On-screen couple: 4 – Horikita Maki, Kanjiya Shihori, Sakai Ayana, Motokariya Yuika
Slaps received: 1 – Gekidan Engimono by Misukawa Asami
Fight-scenes: 6 + Deka Wanko
(Half)naked: 3 – Shabake, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, Hotaru no hikari movie
Crying-scenes: 3 – Division 1, Gachi baka, Hyoten 2006
Cross-dressing scenes: 3 - Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge 2, Deka Wanko 1

Cypsis had the idea of doing that kind of post for a long time.The reason why Tegoshi Yuya was the first actor to recieve that kind of  notice from us was that he is the first one from whom we have seen all of his acting pieces (from the actors who have more than 5 dramas/movies) - that's all thanks to our lovely little dragonfly who's a great fan of his and made us watch all of them. Also today it's his 26th birthday, so Cypsis Blog wishes you the best, Tegoshi!!!