Tag: fantasy drama
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Friday Drama Review: “The Master’s Sun”
The Hong Sisters strike again with a quirky fantasy-style romantic comedy. Storyline/Synopsis: My Rating 7/10 The Master’s Sun was one of the new ‘Ghost Dramas’ of the season. Tae Gong-sil suffers an accident and is left with the unwanted ability to see ghosts. Alone, and suffering from insomnia (those pesky specters…
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Friday Drama Review: “Who Are You?” (후아유)
Crime, romance, fantasy and action combine to create an absorbing drama with appealing characters. So what if some of them are not quite alive?… Storyline/Synopsis: My Rating 7/10 Detective Yang Shi-on awakens from a six-year coma to find her memory gone and the ability to see ghosts as an unusual replacement. Her coma…
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Sunday Drama Review – I Hear Your Voice
(너의 목소리가 들려) I Hear Your Voice The mouth can lie, but the mind can’t. Summary: Park Soo-ha is a high school boy who has the unusual ability to read people’s thoughts by looking into their eyes. He develops this ability after getting into a car accident with his father at ten years old, the same accident…
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Friday Drama Review: “I Hear Your Voice”
(Even the one in your head!) I had to remind myself a number of times that this was, in fact, a fantasy drama (as a genre, I mean!) I think that as an audience we are so used to ‘reading the character’s mind’ that Soo-ha’s ability did not always appear very…
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Friday Drama Review: “Gu Family Book” a.k.a. “Kang Chi – The Beginning”
“If I had to choose between living 100 years alone or 100 days with someone I loved, I’d choose the 100 days.” The strikingly beautiful cinematography first thing you sense: a dark, dreamy mountain-scape colored in violet and cobalt blue juxtaposed with scenes of delicately, but brightly lit traditional drummers against backdrop of amber…
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Friday Drama Review – “Nine: Nine Time Travels”
It’s a Fantasy. It’s a Melodrama. It’s Science Fiction. It’s Romance. Director Kim Byung Soo and Screenwriters Song Jae Jung and Kim Yoon Joo, the time-travel dream team that created “Queen Inhyun’s Man” teamed up again to create another stunning drama. It’s like “The Monkey’s Paw” in drama form – a tale in which…
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Friday Drama Review – “Vampire Prosecutor”
Suffering serious culture shock, the Soju DramaQueen segued from Classic Historical Drama last week to edgy Crime Sci-Fi Fantasy this week. How exactly does one adequately transition from Dae Jang Geum to Vampire Prosecutor? It’s a valid question. The two dramas could not possibly be more different. Honestly, I was really expecting to not like…
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Friday Drama Review: Rooftop Prince – A Winner in any Time Period
Garnering a respectable share of the booty at the 2012 Korean Drama Awards, “Rooftop Prince” is a worthy prizewinner. With a remarkable capacity to successfully combine quirky comedy with gut-wrenching dramatic scenes, this drama is definitely worth watching. Released early in 2012, I’ve already watched it three (yup, three!) times through and will undoubtedly watch…
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