live action

A sort of adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic. Big improvement in acting by Sung Yuri, but more romantic scenes with Hyun Bin could have given this a much higher rank in my list.

An adaptation of Daniel Keyes classic "Flowers for Algernon". The main guy who portrays Charlie (Yoo Gun), the mentally challenged 27 years old man who becomes a genius because of an experiment, is so cute and innocent you just want to hug him.

Hotaru (Ayase Haruka), who works for a famous interior design company, lives a lazy life at home wearing her pajamas and drinking beer. One day, her landowner’s son separates from his wife and comes back to live with his parents who trusted Hotaru the place. As it turns out, the son is Hotaru’s boss (Fujiki Naohito) and now the two have to cope on living under the same roof.

Oguri Shun as Sano, Horikita Maki as Ashiya Mizuki, Ikuta Toma as Nakatsu Shuichi and all the hotboys of the ’Ikemen Paradise’. Based on a manga where Mizuki pretends to be a boy in order to get close to her idol Sano.

Megumi Noda (Ueno Juri), a lazy slob, but an extremely talented pianist who wants to be a kindergarten teacher, prefers to listen by ear instead of reading notes. Shinichi Chiaki (Tamaki Hiroshi), a perfectionist and full of arrogance, is talented in piano and violin and has a secret ambition to become a conductor. These two unlikely pair meet by accident and their relationship grows more ways than one.