In The Shoe Fairy, Duo Duo’s (Vivian Hsu) love affair with shoes spells trouble for her marriage.

sunday ~~ hmm .. sitting at home watching my korean show .. (again ...) was watching this show i borrowed from a friend ... the cover didn't look appealing to catch my attention ... coz it has this 'another cheap production' kinda  feeling  ...  i think i will juz  flip to the next cd available in store .. keke

didn't really wanna watch it at first ... but, wat the heck since i'm free n got nothing plan for the day ... n guess wat happen .... i was hook to it .. till the very last bit ~~ hahaha ... i've learnt my lesson  ... never to "judge a book by it's cover" hahaha (i'll have the image of the cover attached ... so that u can judge .. keke)

the show have depicted 'FATE' in a very interesting manner ... the interchanging between scenes from past to present n vice versa & n the coincidences that sets in has made the show more interesting ...


i leave u with the sypnosis of the show ... enjoy ~~

Sypnosis : The Classic
(extracted from : http://www.mediacircus.net/classic.html)

The Classic" begins with college student Chi-hye (Son Yeh-jin of "Chihwaseon") cleaning house and stumbling across a box containing an old diary and some love letters belonging to her mother. Though some of the letters are from her late father, Chi-hye's interest is piqued when she sees some letters written by a man named Chun-ha. The story then jumps back about four decades to detail the love triangle that formed between Chi-hye's mother Chu-hui (also played by Son), her future father Tae-su (Lee Gi-wu), and Tae-su's best friend Chun-ha (Cho Seung-woo, seen recently in "H"). Though Chi-hye fell in love with Chun-ha after a chance meeting in the countryside, she was already betrothed to Tae-su in an arranged marriage.

Meanwhile, in the present, Chi-hye has some romantic entanglements of her own to work out. She is in love with Sang-min (Jo In-seong), the boyfriend of her narcissistic best friend Su-kyeong (Lee Sang-in), yet finds herself unable to express her true feelings. As the story moves from past to present and back again, parallels are drawn between the heartbreak, lessons learned, and travails of mother and daughter, whose destinies are inextricably intertwined.

really cool site which features the movie (muz see oh ) : http://www.classicromance.co.kr/

gotta go now .. got a show to catch Meeting with A Vampire 3 (a.k.a Date with a Vampire III) ... another 'must-not-miss' drama ... a very good show ....

do take care ya  ~~ have a good week ahead ... luv all

i so wanna watch this show .... but it's ages away from now ~~ will be shown only in end of October (to be exact ... it will be on 27 Oct.) in cinemas in malaysia ... gosh, so wanna watch this show ~~  

hope it's gonna be good!!

~APRIL SNOW~
(extracted from : http://www.cinemaonline.com.my/movie/movie.asp?search=aprilsnow)

Synopsis:
In-soo (played by Bae Yong-joon) rushes to Samcheok upon learning that his wife Su-jin (played by Lim Sang-hyo), who was on a business trip, has been in a car accident. There he finds Su-jin who is still unconscious in the hospital in an unfamiliar provincial town. In the process of dealing with the aftermath of the accident, he finds out that Su-jin was in the car with a man named Gyeong-ho (played by Ryu Seung-su), who is also unconscious and lingering between life and death. The injured man’s wife, Seo-young (played by Son Ye-jin), also rushed to Samcheok upon hearing the news. In-soo and Seo-young both feel angered and betrayed when they learn of the relationship between Su-jin and Gyeong-ho. As they nurse the spouses they had trusted, In-soo and Seo-young feel a chemistry developing between them. How will their tender, yet sad love unfold in the unfamiliar town of Samcheok?

A movie that was shown quite sometime back ... had this show even when i was studying in NZ ... got it off from the shops couple of days ago ... was pretty fascinated with its story plot n the awards fetched by the show tempt me even further to get the show ~

had a watched on it during the weekends ... i would say it's gonna be quite disturbing for some ... so those with really weak hearts shd not watch or it'll haunt u quite abit ~ the entire show was quite a good watch ... i did enjoy the show pretty much eventhough it has packaged itself wif few disturbing events ... worth the watch ~ so sit tight n remember to hug ur pillows ~~

 

Sypnosis :

A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong....

extracts from :  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/

 

Awards .. awards .. awards :

2001 Fantasporto
• International Fantasy Film Award - Special Mention (Takashi Miike)
2000 Rotterdam Film Festival
• FIPRESCI Award (for the film's narrative freedom, technical mastery of genre and the inventiveness of an important new and prolific director)(Takashi Miike)
Circle of Dutch Film Journalists
• KNF Award (Takashi Miike)

 

for those who dunno anything bout Initial D n gonna catch da movie ... here is da sypnosis ~~

"Initial D: First Stage," which first aired in Japan in 1998, is a consistently exciting and compelling anime series based on Shuichi Shigeno's popular manga (comic book) about downhill mountain road racing in Japan's Gunma Prefecture. The protagonist is high school boy Takumi who, unbeknownst to his classmates and buddies at the gas station where he works, has been honing his downhill driving skills for the past five years by speeding up and down Mt. Akina making early morning deliveries for his father's tofu shop. When Takumi just matter-of-factly beats an area road racing star on an impromptu downhill race, he finds himself thrust, somewhat reluctantly, into the world of "touge" (mountain) racing and the various teams from neighboring mountains. His close buddies, Iketani and Itsuki, who are tied to the local Akina Speed Stars, are stunned to learn of Takumi's secret skills and are somewhat infuriated by his nonchalant attitude. Takumi's single father, once a downhill champ himself, has made a point of nurturing this attitude by guiding his son, not by example or instruction, but by letting him find his own way.

Once the secret is out, as quick as you can say, "Draw!," Takumi finds himself challenged by an increasingly sophisticated group of rivals and also finds himself attracting the attentions of Natsuki, a girl at school who has secretly been involved in a bit of "subsidized dating" with an older man. Much attention in this series is paid to the characters, their development, and their sometimes turbulent interaction with each other. We care for these kids because, quite simply, they're believable human beings.

The look of the series draws closely on that of the manga with somewhat simple, almost cartoonish (but surprisingly effective) design for the characters, created in 2-D animation, contrasting noticeably with the technically detailed look of the cars and races, which are recreated with 3-D CGI for the anime. While the integration of 2-D and 3-D is somewhat awkward in the early episodes, it improves greatly as the series progresses. The character design gets better also, with more detailed, expressive facial features becoming quite evident by the fifth volume in the series (eps. 16-18).

abstracts from : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385426/ keke