魔女の条件 (forbidden love)

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魔女の条件 is a Japanese drama in 11 episodes from 1999.

Michi is a teacher in high school. She always tries to keep the appearance and to be perfect either for her parents, her fiance she doesn't love, her colleagues or her students. Until Hikaru is transferred to her school and she falls in love with him. She first starts to resist her feeling before making their relationship the most important things she has. But a teacher being in love with her 17 years old student is not authorized by society's rules.

Casting :
松嶋菜々子 as Hirose Michi
滝沢秀明 as Kurosawa Hikaru
黒木瞳 as Kurosawa Kyoko (Hikaru's mother)
別所哲也 as Kitai Masaru (Michi's fiance)
西田尚美 as Uda Kiriko (Michi's best friend)
山田麻衣子 as Kinoshita Jun (Michi's student)
白川由美 as Hirose Motoko (Michi's mother)
辻萬長 as Hirose Kenichi (Michi's father)
山口祐一郎 as Godai Yu (Kyoko's lover)
田山涼成 as Okajima Sensei (Ryousei High School Director)
温水洋一 as Matsuoka Sensei (History Teacher)

I like how Michi learn to do things for herself when she meets Hikaru instead of always following the rules that other people have made for her. I like how she decide to rebel and to never give up. I also thing that a lot of characters have a really crazy behavior. Especially Masaru who can't seems to give up no matter what she does and Kyoko who seems in love with her son. One of my favorite character is Michi's mother, she always seems to know everything that other people feel, probably because she gave up a lot an regret it.
I also like the music in this drama, I also have the OST.

Other information and download can be find on cHinKys mOviE sPoiLer
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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 4 : temples and end

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At the end of the morning and during the all afternoon, we went to the temples again. The price to visit all of them is cheaper than to visit only the main one even if the main one is included in the ticket. So that was pretty cool. After few research I discover that the Rinnoji which is the most important temple in Nikko was founded in the 8th century by Shodo Shonin who built the first temple Shihonryuji near the Shinkyo Sacred Bridge in 766 introducing at the same time Buddhism in Nikko. One of the shrine 日光東照宮 is also the tomb of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu who founded the Tokugawa shogunate after the Battle of Sekihagara during the Edo period (1603 - 1868).

After the temple we took the train back to Tokyo.

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Sources : 日光東照宮,  Nikko tourist association, Japan guide 

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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 3 : park

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After the water fall, we went to the temples but it was not enough time to actually visit them so we decided to go back the next day. That night, we stayed at a youth hostel which was an old supermarket. One more weird place to add to the list of weird places I slept in. In the morning we went to the park nearby, there was a nice little river there and some of the trees were blooming, here are some pictures.

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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 2 water fall

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We got down to the mountain using the chair lift again, that was much fun actually and I was happy not to have to walk. We took the bus a stopped on the way to see the water fall. It was far away and hidden by trees but it still looked pretty nice.
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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 1 climbing

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On the week-end of the golden week, we decided to go on a trip to 日光市(Nikko). We had a very early start, hopefully, 5.10 am, lots of things to do, lots of things to see. That was pretty cool to meet in the morning, everybody with sleepy head. I didn't sleep at all as I was too excited. The group of Korean was up to send us of, they didn't sleep yet either. I should really spend more time with them, sometimes polyphasic's night can get a bit lonely. I'm still wondering why people need to sleep that much. Anyway, we took several trains to reach Nikko and then the bus which took us to the mountain. The sky was very clear and the weather a bit cold and getting colder as we went up with the chair lift. We took the chair lift three times to reach the top and then we still had a bit of climbing to do. That was kind of muddy and slippery, but we finally all reached the top alive.
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More about the Nikko trip

Yes, yes we had snow.

I so love that pics, I wish someone takes a pics of me like that some days.

I won Script Frenzy : Vienna's Ghost

So that's it I'm officially a script frenzy winner as you can see here. Writing a script was a lot different than writing a novel, I'm glad I started this new challenge at the beginning of the month. I didn't write every day like I usually do for the novels. Probably because when I started to see how fast the page count was going up I had a little bit of overconfidence like my friend is explaining here. I wasn't the only one suffering from it I guess. Writing a script is still easier than a novel. Just next time I won't let 45 pages for the last 2 days. I think that's a bit over doing it.

If you are already familiar with my writing you will encounter in this script characters you already know, Brownie, Sahel, Viorel and Gideon from "Demon soul" and Kallisto and Seti from "Demon and fairy". I know I promised more of "Demon and fairy" and that will come really soon now that I'm done with the challenges. I'm also intending to finish the edition of "Demon soul" for my free print. I'll show you pictures when I'll get it.

Tips about writing :
1) If you don't know what to write add a vampire. I'm just half kidding here but Viorel tend to make the story funny and interesting... heu, don't use him ok, get your own vampire.
2) Repeat the same song while writing. No that's not boring !! Repeating seriously help to concentrate, ok, I'm kind of sick of that song too, I used it for like 15 hours in 2 days. But I can sing it all too :D
3) A script is not like a novel. I never had problem to finish the challenge and to get the word count write for the novel. But I did for the script. I finished the story with 93 pages. I was a bit annoyed. So I started editing a bit and adding more part (especially about the side characters that I know well) And that worked pretty well, proof is that I win.
4) Take a shower, yeah in the middle of the afternoon too, that will reset your creativity.

I was also working on a group script, but we couldn't manage to finish (over-confidence again?) Anyway I hope to have it finish sometimes and to put it on here for you to read as long as my writing partner are happy with that of course.

So here is the script in question "Vienna's Ghost", it's only partially edited so forgive the mistakes in it.

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미안하다, 사랑한다 (I'm Sorry, I Love You)

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미안하다, 사랑한다 is a Korean drama in 16 episodes from 2004. That's the first drama in the revenge genre, the second of the series is 이 죽일놈의 사랑. 

Cha Moo Hyuk was adopted by an Australian family when he was a baby. In the interview at the beginning of the series he seems to be the only one who doesn't want to take revenge on his parents for abandoning him thinking that they must have had a really good reason for it.
When his girl-friend gets married to a rich guy and he gets shot in the head he flew to Korea. The bullet can't be remove from his head changing slowly his personality. He discovers that his birth mother is in fact a famous actress  Oh Deul Hee. Seeing that she didn't have a good reason for abandoning him he will try to take revenge on her and her son Choi Yune. But he falls in love with Choi Yune's coordinator Song Eun Chae.

 Casting :

소지섭 as Cha Moo Hyuk 

임수정 as Song Eun Chae  (I'm a Cyborg, but it's Ok,  A Tale of Two Sisters)

정경호 as Choi Yune  

서지영 as Kang Min Joo 

최여진 as Moon Ji Young   (Love In Magic)

이혜영 as Oh Deul Hee

이영하 as Song Dae Chun (Sang Doo, Let's Go To School)

김혜옥 as Jang Hye Sook (Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do, My Little Bride)  

신구 as Min Hyun Suk (Natural City) 

Park Gun Tae as Kim Kal Ji (Don't Believe Her)

I really like this drama especially because there are several things unexpected. Also because the people are changing their initial plans. I also really like the music.
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