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Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Hottest Samurai in 2014? XD
We're just briefly passed the first quarter of 2014 (whoa, time is flying fast!) and we're being flooded with prettiness of taiga dramas. Well, I'm following 2 so far, BUT, they're beautiful (basically they're just beautifully in every aspects, setting, costumes, expressions, everything!), and most importantly... ikemen + taiga drama means only 1 thing, hotness! Off course, it must be accompanied by great acting too. The thing about taiga drama that I notice so far is that if you put ikemen in samurai role but that ikemen's acting skill say, questionable, it's more noticeable than on the regular modern drama setting. I guess probably it's due to the rest of the casting in taiga drama are veteran actors & actresses, the gap is more visible if the ikemen in question doesn't act properly or his acting skill just sucks.
First, Miyamoto Musashi (part 1) - I have yet to watch part 2, which is promised to have more fighting scenes (not that part 1 is lacking any), but part 2 is the climax, so I'm so looking forward to it. Kimutaku is great here... sugoku kakkoii and he's very different from his usual cool character here :)...
Kakkoii deshou???? <3
Yeah, he never smiles here, well hardly anything can be called the cheery smile in this drama :). Very different, right? hehee...
Off course, we have Matsuda Shota!!!! So in Taiga drama, ikemen with long hair = rebel, womanizer, great at sword fighting... ha!
Even not walking properly (laid back style), he looks kakkoii and off course, looks like an asshole player too LOL!
See, the smirk???and the swooned girls behind him, he'll sure score lots of points that night LOL...
Honorable mention! Didn't really notice Sawamura Ikki is that handsome until they put him in this getup LOL. Beautiful, right?
Next, we have Okada's Gunshi Kanbee. I'm following this very slowly because I only understand... well... 20%(?) without subs... the historical narration is hard to follow with my limited vocabulary. NHK Taiga drama is really traditional whereby the emphasis is more on the history (it's a 1 year series anyway). The screen cap is from epi 11, the long awaited episode for Toma to show up LOL...
Okada seems to enjoy his role a lot here. His acting is very passionate (not his other roles were not, but he just looks like putting more extra effort here), and you get to see the many various expression of Okada here XD.
See? Pretty to look at, and beautiful XD
And off course, Toma's first screen!
He looks very different here, ne! Almost didn't recognize him if not from the info that he shows up in this episode haha...
The last time I see him was as the burly detective with half naked shower scene on every episode or the psychopath teacher killing the whole class whole being a nudist at home... so it takes quite a bit to getting use to seeing him with grand layered taiga costume.
Well this is just 2 dramas that I follow. There'll be more of taiga SP (I think) this year... so it'll be more pretties...
Seeing all these prettiness makes me ponder that Japanese TV is actually distorting the image of samurai with the too many ikemen in the taiga drama (well, not that I object, it's beautiful to look at LOL) because when you actually google those names, you'll see their photos are no match to the TV portrayal on ikemen ratings. The most glaring example is Fukuyama Masaharu's Sakamoto Ryoma in Ryomaden. He's just way too pretty and charming there and when you google the real Sakamoto Ryoma, you'll wonder what Japanese's perception of ikemen in Edo era. XD
Beautiful, right? right? right? and this is just the MQ file XD...
First, Miyamoto Musashi (part 1) - I have yet to watch part 2, which is promised to have more fighting scenes (not that part 1 is lacking any), but part 2 is the climax, so I'm so looking forward to it. Kimutaku is great here... sugoku kakkoii and he's very different from his usual cool character here :)...
Kakkoii deshou???? <3
Yeah, he never smiles here, well hardly anything can be called the cheery smile in this drama :). Very different, right? hehee...
Off course, we have Matsuda Shota!!!! So in Taiga drama, ikemen with long hair = rebel, womanizer, great at sword fighting... ha!
Even not walking properly (laid back style), he looks kakkoii and off course, looks like an asshole player too LOL!
See, the smirk???
Honorable mention! Didn't really notice Sawamura Ikki is that handsome until they put him in this getup LOL. Beautiful, right?
Next, we have Okada's Gunshi Kanbee. I'm following this very slowly because I only understand... well... 20%(?) without subs... the historical narration is hard to follow with my limited vocabulary. NHK Taiga drama is really traditional whereby the emphasis is more on the history (it's a 1 year series anyway). The screen cap is from epi 11, the long awaited episode for Toma to show up LOL...
Okada seems to enjoy his role a lot here. His acting is very passionate (not his other roles were not, but he just looks like putting more extra effort here), and you get to see the many various expression of Okada here XD.
See? Pretty to look at, and beautiful XD
And off course, Toma's first screen!
He looks very different here, ne! Almost didn't recognize him if not from the info that he shows up in this episode haha...
The last time I see him was as the burly detective with half naked shower scene on every episode or the psychopath teacher killing the whole class whole being a nudist at home... so it takes quite a bit to getting use to seeing him with grand layered taiga costume.
Well this is just 2 dramas that I follow. There'll be more of taiga SP (I think) this year... so it'll be more pretties...
Seeing all these prettiness makes me ponder that Japanese TV is actually distorting the image of samurai with the too many ikemen in the taiga drama (well, not that I object, it's beautiful to look at LOL) because when you actually google those names, you'll see their photos are no match to the TV portrayal on ikemen ratings. The most glaring example is Fukuyama Masaharu's Sakamoto Ryoma in Ryomaden. He's just way too pretty and charming there and when you google the real Sakamoto Ryoma, you'll wonder what Japanese's perception of ikemen in Edo era. XD