japanese people are really good at keeping busy. i say this as one of my japanese friends that i manage to keep in contact with came online for the first time in many, many months on monday (hi mao :p). he quit his job in preparation for yet another trip to add to his travel portfolio – this time to work at a hotel in china. pretty amazing stuff.
anyways, he was kind enough to inform me that i missed a drama this season that i should be watching. hell, when someone tells me something like this i can’t really hold back. i queued all 10 episodes of the series up and woke up that morning 9gb short of my already strained quota.
「14才の母」, translating simply to “(A) 14 year-old Mother” is a story about… well yeah, a very young mother. after just 30 minutes into the drama i realised this was not one i could let linger over the next week or two. i had to watch it through, ASAP!
what can i say? i watched 5 episodes for two days (only just managed this with work and stuffs) and realised on the second day there was an 11th episode. which got released only today! pretty good timing really.
while the progression of the story was quite predictable (yeah well), it really is one of those must-watch dramas, in a way that it makes you think about things may have never thought of before. the casting is really quite good too – lots of familiar faces acting in familiar roles, but if there’s one advantage to this -
they really know how to act their part. might help to have a box of tissues handy, though.
goddamn i feel so tired lately… really looking forward to a break from work.
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