Tag: Kento Yamazaki

Kiss That Kills (Japanese Drama Review & Recap)

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Todome no Kisu poster

YES!!!

A new Kento Yamazaki drama.

This boy is certainly a busy boy and growing into a very fine actor with a varied theme of work.Kiss

That Kills (Japanese Drama Review & Recap)

Cast:

  • Kento Yamazaki as Otaro Dojima
  • Mugi Kadowaki as kissing woman
  • Mackenyu as Takauji Namiki
  • Yuko Araki as Mikoto Namiki
  • Hayato Sano as Hiroyuki Hasebe
  • Jun Shison as Kazuma Osanai
  • Masaki Suda as Kazunori Harumi
  • Hio Miyazawa as Michinari Hotei
  • Akane Hotta as Nao Mori
  •  Erika Karata as Marin Aota
  • Ai Yamamoto as Nanako Koyanagi
  • Yoshinori Okada as Koichi Nezu
  • Ken Mitsuishi as Akira Dojima
  • Kaoru Okunuki as Mitsuyo Dojima
  • Tomohisa Yuge as Tsuji
  • Meikyo Yamada as Takeru Namiki
  • Hitomi Takahashi as Kyoko Namiki
  • Mantaro Koichi as Gunji Arai

Todome no Kiso, roughly translated in English as Kiss of Death or Kiss that Kills is a drama, which is more mature in nature for Kento.  He plays the role of a Otaro Dojima, who works as a host in a club, which provide companionship (including sex) to women, who are prepared to pay for it.

He is fairly satisfied with his lot until he met a mysterious woman with red lips over a very pale face.  This woman is the kiss of death.

Every time she kisses Dojima who is also known as Eight, he dies and then promptly come alive again and travel back a few days in time. Apparently this is called a time slip where only the consciousness travels back in time in the form of a deja vu!

Episode 2

The sinister kissing girl is actually there to save Eight who is being targeted by a love obsessed cross-dresser Kazuma.

Episode 3

(Dojima’s back story is that he was an elder brother.  He was in a ship that sunk, which was captained (?) by his father.  During this time, he was with his younger brother.  When the water started getting inside the ship, he tried to get his young brother to safety but along the way they saw a little girl collapsed on the floor.

Dojima half carried the girl and let go of his brother’s hand.  The young brother stopped to pick his shoes but the cabin door burst open and the water sweeping his young brother away.

Dojima grew up very handsome and uses his looks to make money with whatever means, to pay for his dead father’s  debts and penalty for the sinking of ship.  Added to this, his mother is half demented with worry and continued to look for her younger son she believed did not die.  She hired successions of private investigator and expected her older son to always foot the bill.

No wonder Dojima is always thinking of making money.)

Anyway in this episode, Dojima found out that the kissing woman is not his enemy, in fact it was the opposite.  She was always trying to save him.

The reason was that, she was the girl found collapsed in the ship.

For some reason, during her middle school, she get to find out that any boy who kisses her collapses and foamed in the mouth.  She became a bit of a pariah, which is not good when you are young and in high school.

Yuko, the billion dollar girl, is Dojima’s target.  He thought that with her money, she can solve all of his problem.

 

Orange (Japanese Film Review & Summary)

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Orange (Japanese Film Review & Summary)

Orange poster

  • Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Psychological, School, Youth, Parallel World
  • Release Date: 12 December 2015
  • Origin: Japan
  • JFilm: 2hrs 19min

Cast

  • Tao Tsuchiya as Naho Takamiya
  • Kento Yamazaki as Kakeru Naruse
  • Ryo Ryusei as Hiroto Suwa
  • Hirona Yamazaki as Takako Chino
  • Dori Sakurada as Saku Hagita
  • Kurumi Shimizu as Azusa Murasaka
  • Erina Mano as Rio Ueda

This is a beautiful film starring two of my favourite Japanese actors:  Kento Yamazaki and Tsuchiya Tao.

I actually previously watched this film and loved it.  But somehow I remembered it as a sad suicide film.

I am glad I watched it again because it is not really about taking one’s life.  It is about growing up and taking responsibility for one’s self and grabbing happiness where you can.

This is another parallel world story.

The central character to the story is Kakeru, who is a transfer student from Tokyo.  He became friends immediately with a close-knit group made up of Naho, Suwa, Chino, Hagita and Azu.  He’s tall and a handsome boy though at times was rather melancholic.

The kind-hearted Naho took him under her wing.  This was where it got supernatural.  The 16 years old Naho was happy to be back for the second year in high school.  She was full of hope and joy under the full blooms of cherry blossom trees.  She then noticed a letter tucked in into the front pocket of her school bag.

With much curiosity, she noticed that the letter was addressed to her and the sender was herself.

As soon as she got to class, she opened the letter which claimed that the letter was sent to her 16-year old from herself 10 years into the future.

She was becoming more confused as the letter goes on.  Her 26-year-old- self was telling her to right all the regrets in her past.  There was going to be a boy, a transferee from Tokyo by name of Kakeru Naruse.  At that moment, their new homeroom teacher was introducing a transfer student by the name of  Kakeru Naruse.

Naho was absolutely flabbergasted.  The letter continues on to state not to invite Kakeru into the introduction outing.  Naho can’t really do anything about this as Suwa, Chino, Hagita and Azu all insisted that Kakeru try the new bread at a bakery with them.  They had fun and Kakeru was laughing.  Naho thought that was ok.

After that Kakeru did not appear at the school for two weeks. Naho was perturbed.  But just like that Kakeru was back at school again.

Kakeru was really a very personable young man (He is Kento Yamazaki 🙂  ).  Naho fell for his charm and so was another Tokyo transferee called Rio Ueda.

It was really unfortunate that Ueda confessed to Kakeru first about liking him.  They started going out together but Kakeru really liked Naho and Naho liked him.

He dumped Ueda, who became rather vengeful and made Naho’s school life miserable but only briefly as Naho had her posse of friends.

She later found out from Kakeru the reason why he was off from school for two weeks.  His mother died, she committed suicide.  She was bipolar and depressive.  She had her illness since Kakeru was a young boy.  His life with his mother coloured his own outlook on life and built such a huge guilt complex.  He blamed himself for not being with his mother on her time of need, he thought he could have stopped her.  Poor Kakeru was a damaged boy.  Then he suddenly died at the age of 17 by accident.

10 years into the future, Sawa was now married to Naho and they had a little baby.  They met up with the rest of the group and visited Kakeru’s grandmother for the 10th year anniversary of his death.  They found out that his death was not an accident but a suicide.  He left a note regarding it.

The friends where inconsolable with grief.  Mourning Kakeru all over again.  Naho was particularly upset.

To assuage her sadness, Sawa encouraged her to write herself a letter regarding how she feels and her regret.

Sawa wrote himself a letter too and they then buried the letters in a little tin container under the cherry blossom tree.

The letter got to their doppelgangers in a parallel world.  The friends were able to save or rather changed the suicidal tendencies of Kakeru and he lived.  He might get together with Naho in this parallel world whilst Naho is married to Sawa in another world.

Lucky Naho!!!  Both Sawa and Kakeru are eye-candies!  🙂

 

Kento Yamazaki (Japanese Actor)

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Japanese Actor

Kento Yamazaki (Japanese Actor)

Yamazaki Kento

BioData

 

  • First Name: Kento
  • Surname: Yamazaki
  • Nickname: Kento
  • DoB: 7 September 1994(31)
  • PoB: Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
  • Height: 1.78 m (5’10”)
  • Civil Status; Single
  • Education:
  • Occupation: Model, Musician, Actor
  • Work Period: 2010 – Present

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Films and Dramas:

 

Facts & Factoids:

  • Motto:  Be Yourself
  • Dark brown eyes
  • Black hair
  • He was in third-year high school when he started modeling.
  • Ex-Gf: Nikaido Fumi (?)
  • Has a large collection of manga.
  • Plays the guitar
  • Kento stars opposite Tao Tsuchiya in Alice in Borderland 1 & 2.