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Japanese Movie Recommendations

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Dance with Me I usually not good with musicals as it feels it break the immersion once they started singing but "Dance with Me" is different as musical is huge part of its whole narrative and not just randomly inserted songs out of nowhere. The female lead grew up hating musicals as she had bad experience with it, then one day a magician hypnotize her and the result is she will sing and dance once she hear any music like a star in a musical movie. In short it ruined her life, she messed up one company presentation and wrecked a restaurant during her date as she swings a chandelier like a crazy person. The fun begins once she started her quest of gaining her sanity back, then follows are random but fun events which seems to be Shinobu Yaguchi's trademark, the director of Waterboys, Swing girls, Wood job, Survival family and more, so if you are familiar with those works then you should know this film has heart and not just simple musical comedy. Miyoshi Ayaka owns this

Tokyo Love Story 2020 - First Impressions

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Native Title: 東京ラブストーリー Also Known As: Tokyo Rabusutori Directors: Nagata Koto, Miki Koichiro, Yamamoto Toru Screenwriters: Kitagawa Ayako Original Network: Fuji TV, Amazon Prime Actors: Ito Kentaro, Ishibashi Shizuka, Kiyohara Sho, Ishii Anna Tokyo Love story is a remake of the classic Japanese drama in the 90's, I haven't watched the original but all I know is it is a classic and the ending is divisive. This remake made me want to check the original since the story and the characters are just excellent, and I only watched one episode. It also made me crave for grounded to reality romance stories with realistic characters because in these past years most romance Japanese dramas are just filled with over the top characters, like how many grounded romance dramas we get these past years, Koinaka? Love Story? Love that makes you cry? Chugakusei Nikki? Hirugao? What else I can't think of any. It's also interesting to see how this story is different from the or