Tatta hitocu no koi

Poor smoker, having to run like that... :-D Somehow I caught an allergy to Haruka Ayase when I first started watching it, but over time I got used to her. It's mostly because there was also the great Erika Toda (one of the most beautiful contemporary Japanese actresses in my opinion). Again, there were a lot of actors I've seen before, so I just sat back and watched to see which of them could still surprise me. Well, what I appreciated the most was that Kazuya knows how to smoke (it doesn't look as dreadful as, say, Kenta in Parade; I once had a smoker explain to me how to smoke, hold a cigarette, etc., so I've been keeping an eye out for that in movies ever since, it's become a perversion I guess :-D). The biggest surprise was Mr. Saito. I'm watching, I'm watching, I'm thinking damn, I've seen this guy before somewhere... oh, of course! That's him, that's him! Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, he played the delinquent of the year 1998 :-D But back to the series. Sometimes I really enjoyed it, sometimes I just fast-forwarded because things were happening that I didn't need to see, I got bored and missed nothing when I skipped approx. 5 (and >) minutes. The musical component was bland, nothing stuck in my mind. ~~~ It’s such an average drama, below average for a while, about a relationship between two people who love each other but are prevented from being together due to certain circumstances they were born into. Luckily we're not deeper in history, or it would have turned out to be a tragedy. (08.01.2011)