Love 2000 (00 TV Series)

[kewpie-chan]

Tje, I looked over the SMAP billiard video. do you want me to just translate the part where Takeshi-san starts playing? The other stuff isn't interesting...the SMAP guys and announcer are just commenting on the shots each player takes. Lemme know!

[tJe]

wow kewpie ur really gonna do it! sweet! well... if u do, i'd repost it on the youtube, and people might want to know what everyone else is saying...but its upto you! you're the translator, so u do whatever u feel is best...

[kewpie-chan]

I'll give it my best shot tje.
The quality of that ep on youtube is so bad that you can't clearly hear some of the things being said. Plus, the chinese (?) subtitles sometimes get in the way of some of the pop up message boxes so you can't read it I watched the whole thing earlier today...man! that last punishment was soooooooooo funny! Did you see how hard Takeshi-san was laughing? ;D LOLOL....

[wrblee]

wow...it's look i'm only a few fan of TK who love this drama ^^

Coz the only reason is TK was very very handsome in this drama...(not comparing to other films)

I think though storyline not realistic but it keep me watching and I cried for Yuri sometimes :=(

I love this drama though it's not good as many complaint...but I do love it...

[kewpie-chan]

I love this drama too and couldn't agree with you more on how drop dead gorgeous Takeshi-san looks in this drama! Plus, I ask you all: didn't you all just cry at the last 15 to 30 minutes of the last episode?? O M G....I must've used at least 3 tissues!

[wrblee]

Good to know you love this drama too Kewpie-chan ^^ I cried since first episodes ha.ha.ha
Takeshi very gorgeous..i think most handsome of his J drama

[kewpie-chan]

I agree

[MissCarlos]

I saw a video on YouTube for this series.

It looks awesome but dangit!! It's so sad.

[kewpie-chan]

Oh yes, it most definitely is. I don't know anyone who didn't get at least misty eyed at the end! If you didn't, my goodness, check for a pulse cuz your heart may be dead. LOL

[MissCarlos]

Oh my goodness.

Him, being his sniper self? The bomb? Oh my..

[ognyana]

Many details do not hold water. For example, Yuri Maroev seems to sound vaguely Russian (though the cinematographers stick to choosing nonsense names, God knows why when there’s so much info and databases on Russia available), Yuri and his father speak a stretch in Russian, and the Urals is a mountain chain dividing Europe from Asia and situated in Russia. It beats me how those supposed Russians look like the Japanese and behave like the Japanese, and nobody recognizes them as aliens in Japan. By the way, the other terrorists also look like people of clearly Japanese, Chinese or maybe Korean origin. I also don’t understand why Yuri bears a Russian name, his brother Samile (Shamil?) a Chechen Moslem name, his mother Emily Rynn – an Anglophone name, and his younger brother and sister – Japanese-sounding names, e.g. Omoru. So we are dealing with a Eurasian country speaking Russian, but not possessing population of Russian origin? How did the Japanese get to the Urals in such quantities as to create a separate state there? Why did they take up Russian and forget their mother tongue? Not to mention the fact that Russians (even quasi-Russians) again pose as bad guys, backing terrorism throughout the world. A cliché, and I won’t even mention that for people of Russia it isn’t a very pleasant and even offensive stereotype which, like every stereotype, is rather a misconception. And not to mention the fact that the country run by Russians presumably MUST be totalitarian, cruel, poor and immoral. Then, why the Ural Republic? Are the Urals no longer Russian? What’s happened to my country, may I ask? Did it disintegrate (when? I’m unaware of the fact), was it taken over by somebody else? Does it still exist?
Only the fact that Yuri turns out to be strong-willed, persevering, but amiable and loving, torn and suffering, true and noble reconciles me with the plot to some extent.
There are some episodes with too slow timing, some episodes are obviously tear squeezers, but on the whole the production is not sickeningly maudlin.
What I liked – Miho’s tenacity in defending her love and her beloved, her resilience and strength of character. Yuri played by Takeshi Kaneshiro shows a varied emotional palette, and, as I said, is lovable. He alone saves the audience from branding all Russians as immoral scum and renegade spooks of the world. By the way, he honestly struggles through several sentences in Russian (and it’s a hard task for a person with the language background entirely different from Russian), and though it’s not his fault that these sentences are ‘dead’, sterile, ‘plastic’ (no one speaks in such artificial but grammatically correct sentences), and though the intonation is entirely wrong, he demonstrates a charming accent.
What I disliked – the things already mentioned, and the fact that there’s no ‘touch of nutmeg’ in TK’s acting. He’s emotionally rich, skillful in portraying the torment of his character, but there’s not a single ‘giveaway’ thing about him – nothing prompts that for Japan he is a foreigner, no gestures, facial expressions, tilts of head, mannerisms of Russians, no ‘devil-may-care’ fire in his eyes that appears in Russian eyes when we throw everything to the wind embarking on a desperate scheme – be it love or war. No abandon, no burst of fire, where there must have been at least one. Instead he’s as impenetrable and unreadable as a native Japanese when he faces a crisis. Not so with us, our faces are more tell-tale. On the whole, he certainly has the chemistry and the magic, he’s the main attraction of the film, an eye-candy as usual, but he can do much more.