[J-DRAMA] *LIFE* the dark side of Japan schools!

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DETAILS
* Title: ライフ
* Title (English): LIFE
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: School drama
* Episodes: 11
* Broadcast network: Fuji TV
* Broadcast period: 2007-Jun-30 to 2007-Sept-15 (ep5 Aug-4)
* Air time: Saturday 23:00
* Theme song: LIFE by Nakashima Mika

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CAST
* Kitano Kii as Shiiba Ayumu
* Fukuda Saki as Anzai Manami
* Hosoda Yoshihiko as Sako Katsumi
* Seki Megumi as Hatori Miki
* Sakai Miki as Hiraoka Masako
* Seto Asaka as Toda Wakae
* Maya Miki as Shiiba Fumiko
* Hoshii Nanase as Hirose Nodoka
* Osawa Akane as Shinozuka Yuko
* Katsumura Masanobu as Sako Toshikatsu
* Nakamura Tomoya as Kano Akira
* Suenaga Haruka as Iwamoto Midori
* Ono Takehiko as Anzai Daijiro
* Hojo Takahiro as Sonoda Yuuki
* Yajima Kenichi

I´ve watched the first episode! It´s a really good drama I think! I like School-dramas

YEAAAHHHH! I really love the actors! Who has the same age as the characters they play, that's a good point!
Also the music is very good.

yeah the music is really cool!
and it reminds me a bit at my time in school...

Well, I hope you didn't suffer what Ayumu did
(But you've only seen the 1st episode, I don't wanna tell more and spoil the plot )

Well... I had to suffer a lot... but I think not the same as Ayumu...!

I´ll watch the next epi tomorrow!

YAY!
Schools sometimes suck when people take their fellows into bullying

yes! My last school (the last two so nearly 8 years) were really bad...

hmmm seems interesting, i'll check it out

What did you think of it?

Today I watched the second episode!
It´s hard to introduce that such things are "normal" in some schools... But I think in the most schools are different incidences which scares the most people!
I know lot stuff of my old school like blackmail, drugs, lies and bullying... It doesn´t happend all to me but I know many...
............
one day in school, I was sick... so I wasn´t there... but some people put aperient (I hope it´s the right word) in the tea of a classmate
............
Does anything happend in your school too? I could tell a lot my last two schools got a very bad reputation...

Hum...I don't think it happenned in my school. Perhaps "minor" things like students taking drug, but not real bullying etc...
I was in a school rather calm.

I asked my Japanese friends if bullying is that frequent in Japanese schools, and actually it is in junior high schools.
But LIFE is a stresses a bit on that. I mean the most of the school won't go so far, even if there's often suicides due to bullying in Japan.

OH WOW I LOVE IT! it's such an awsome show it's realy serious.
i love how the actreses do a good job at looking devistated and also looking mischivious

i'm on ep4 right now btw, it seems so terrible how things changed in the story from good and then all of a sudden bad

Manami reminds me of Miyabi (she kinda looks like her no?)
and i like how she smiles then slowly put on a serious face

i also felt bad for Hiro, but then she turned mean (but i still feel bad for her)

Ayumu should just get pissed off and start kicking some ass!


the grade schools i went to were not that bad i guess
but in the high school i went too, one time a student braught a gun (it think)
i'm not sure i was absent that day, but i think i saw something about it on the news, no one was hurt i think

i thought it was strange that someone was able to get something like that in there, because the school had metal detectors

i dunno i don't know much about it

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OH WOW I LOVE IT! it's such an awsome show it's realy serious.
i love how the actreses do a good job at looking devistated and also looking mischivious

Yeah, the actors are real good one! Moreover They're like the same age as me, so I'm really surprised!

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i'm on ep4 right now btw, it seems so terrible how things changed in the story from good and then all of a sudden bad

Yeah, it's a bit fast how things turned on

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Manami reminds me of Miyabi (she kinda looks like her no?)
and i like how she smiles then slowly put on a serious face

that's also the 1st thing I thought about her.
But the way, the actress, Fukuda Saki is also a singer, her stuff is pretty good too

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i also felt bad for Hiro, but then she turned mean (but i still feel bad for her)

It's a bit strange like she's reacting only on Ayumu while Manami and her fellows were much more mean against her.

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Ayumu should just get pissed off and start kicking some ass!

What strikes me the most is the fact that nobody helps her

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the grade schools i went to were not that bad i guess
but in the high school i went too, one time a student braught a gun (it think)
i'm not sure i was absent that day, but i think i saw something about it on the news, no one was hurt i think

Wow! There was some stories about people killing his fellows in universities like Columbia
This kind of thing has never happen in France I think

Well I´m done with epi 6! I watch the other today I hope I´ll find time! It´s so exciting at the moment

Yeah Manami reminds me of Miyabi, too... o.o

your schools sounds very safe... I´m a bit jealous... There were everytime bad storys about my school...
I remeber in the 8th class... there was an bomb alert... but actually nothing happens... but I had no school for two days

I just finished watching all of it, wow alot of the charactor are crazy
nut i was fun to watch the backround music sounds intersting i wonder what the soundtrack to this dramas like

the story unfolded strangely, but i don't wanna talk about it yet cuz i don't want to spoil anything for anyone

but i realy liked it it was awsome

I´m nearly done with it! I´m watching the last two epis right know!

Wow so fast
It seems that you love this drama as I do too

Ready! This was the first drama I watched!
It was really cool!

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I just finished watching all of it, wow alot of the charactor are crazy

What did you think of the classmates reaction toward bullying?

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the backround music sounds intersting i wonder what the soundtrack to this dramas like

I'm not that fan of the theme song sung by Mika Nakashima, but I absolutely love the backgrounding song, it relly stresses the dramatic aspect.
(I love the one that is used during the commercial part when there's shots on Ayumu being bullied and Manami standing in the class )

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the story unfolded strangely, but i don't wanna talk about it yet cuz i don't want to spoil anything for anyone

I think everybody has seen it entirely here no?

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(I love the one that is used during the commercial part when there's shots on Ayumu being bullied and Manami standing in the class )

yeah i love that too, i love the song and the scenes

hehe i found it strange how they make that guy have a "tik" and they but that creepy sound
and that one time Manami did it was funny

that guy licked the teacher's picture in the prison right? thats crazy

and the part that i didn't understand was did Manami show remorse?

and Ayumu's first friend from middle school didn't realy kill herself??
what did she do to herself then?

also i'm glad she wasn't mad at her anymore in the end of the show, it would of been terrible if she never would of forgiven her

i liked that part where that girl asked her if she knew her and she said "Yeah, she's my friend" soo nice

but why did she still have her cellphone number

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hehe i found it strange how they make that guy have a "tik" and they but that creepy sound
and that one time Manami did it was funny

I don't not understand what you're talking about?
Are you talking about Katsumi and what he does with her mouth?

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that guy licked the teacher's picture in the prison right? thats crazy

He must obviously have ruined the photo as photo paper don't like humidity
But indeed that's crazy. But I think he went mad because of his father's harsh education.
But actually during the scene when he is alone with Ayumu, I was so stressed for her It was really a climax in the tensity (?) of the drala for me.
But actually I don't understand why he didn't raped her as he had the chance to. Just taking photo (not even naked) in this situation was strange I think.
But some parts of the drama are really soften.
(Like when Manami has sex with Akira Karino, that's just not credible (like they don't even kiss each other, or striking; or when Hiro throws herself, she just could have survive to a fall that high, but anyways )

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and the part that i didn't understand was did Manami show remorse?

Nope, it would be bad if she would have done I think. She's so bitchy I'd've found this strange that she feels remorse after all what she done.

But she says to Ayumu "don't try to lecture me when you don't know what all I've been through". Also Hiraoka asks her if she's like this to share her own loneliness so we can think of some pain from her, even if she finally says that it's just "for fun".

Btw, I think she look likes Kathryn Merteuil (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Cruel Intetions (if by any chance anyone had seen it). I kinda like that type of bitchy and manipulative charachter

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and Ayumu's first friend from middle school didn't realy kill herself??
what did she do to herself then?

Like I said I think some parts are soften, and that's a pity, cause at first she really looks died, but eventually she's not. It'd be more striking if she actually was I think.

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also i'm glad she wasn't mad at her anymore in the end of the show, it would of been terrible if she never would of forgiven her

She would be like Hiro But actually If I was in her shooes I'd've been so angry at everyone. Because it's not only Manami which is guilty, but everyone who let Ayumu get bullied.

But in the very end, bullying problems haven't been really solved.
And we don't see what happen to manami, we just hear the teacher saying that she admitted being the amiral brat, and that she will be expelled from school. I wish the end was a bit more devellopped.

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but why did she still have her cellphone number

That's strange she absolutely don't wanna see her and then acts as if nothing had happenned.

PS : sorry for the big post, but i've got so much things to say on this drama
Must have a million of english mistakes in it sorry

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also i'm glad she wasn't mad at her anymore in the end of the show, it would of been terrible if she never would of forgiven her

oh no for this part i was talking about Ayumu's middel school friend who tried to kill herself

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oh no for this part i was talking about Ayumu's middel school friend who tried to kill herself

Oh
I kinda understand what *don't remember her name* feels.
But ayumu came very often to visit her, I think she wanted to forget her she should've done that in this spot, not so many time after.

Anyways, Ayumu had found 2 friend that wouldn't have been so mad at her in the same case, so *don't remember her name* is perhaps no that a good friend, don't you think?

yeah i argee, but they seemed like such nice friends and in the end she started talking to her again so now Ayumu has 3 friends