Vampire Heaven ヴァンパイア・ヘヴン [series]

what am i watching...?

Oomasa aye (YNSH) - Sakurako
Honda Tsubasa - Komachi
Hiraoka Yuta - Hayato

also featuring Tomiura Satoshi and Eguchi Noriko

So its another late night cheapo stupid story line low budget boredom drama full of gay hints and piss poor character development. Just they way it should be. I am beginning to really love the late night series'. They are so easy to watch. I was never the same after Princess princess D.

So we are basically following two vampire girls on the run from some big cheesy cloak wearing count, and they escape into the human world only to be snared by the charms of none other than naked operations in space man  Teru  himself Hiraoka Yuta - well, Hayato. 

He is a bit useless, as Hiraoka plays best i guess, but Sakurako and eventually Komachi begin to form a fobidden human/vampire bond with the waste of space excuse for a surgeon - i mean musician - he's not a naked space surgeon in this. 

He is essentially the same character but without the nakedness and surgery and genius.

The girls are aided in their stay in the human world by a handful of people and  threatened by the would-be girlfriend of Hayato and the cloaky camp as chips count. I'm not really even sure why he's after them, I think Sakurako was betrothed to him or something? I wasn't really paying much attention at the beginning. I'm still not really.

I should add, Honda has such an overbite that she really cant talk with her fangs on. It's ridiculous.

As we wind up to close the drama all the secrets come out. But not before we have some near death moments for all of the scooby gang.

Its a pretty sh*t late night cheapo crappy drama, totally predictable and worth watching to stem the tides of boredom or washing up - whichever you are trying to avoid.

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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police ぼくたちと駐在さんの７００日戦争 [movie]

No poodle hair!! Oh my gok, Ichihara!

Set in the late 70’s (glorious clothes I tell ya) this movie is quite simply about some bored teenagers reeking havoc on a policeman. It is very funny (Ichihara at his most juttery – which isn’t even a word. I love his stupid laugh.) it is also really sweet and totally worth watching.

In my total Ichihara-obsession week this was session number two I believe. Watching this alongside trying to finally finish Yankii Bokou which I started two years ago and for some reason never finished.

So Yes, I found this movie to add to my week of Ichihara which so far has included happy chainsaw, 700 days, yankii bokou, saru lock, and box – im so looking forward to hearing him Osaka-ben all over the place (did I just make that a verb?) but I have no subs, so I may not be able to understand it very well – but then I managed to follow Quick and I don’t speak much Korean at all so I’m sure I will be ok with a bit of Osaka-ben. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this movie, what the hell am I doing.

700 days has some of my favourite people

Ichihara  Hayato (yankii bokou, saru lock, rookies)

Sasaki  Kuranosuke (zettai kareshi, orthros, warareu koi)

Tomiura Satoshi (being insanely camp as usual tumbling, hana yori dango)

Waki Tomohiro (gok,cameo in everything else ever)

Kaku Kento (tumbling, samurai highschool)

(and even a short appearance from Takenaka Naoto)

It also stars

Aso Kumiko

Ishino Mako

Toyoya Ellie

Ishida Takuya

Kaji Masaki

And Koyanagi Yu

Bored teenagers prank their local policeman (Sasaki) and things escalate when Mamachari (Ichihara) realises the beautiful woman from the coffee shop is his wife, and then also when Inoue the Great (Kaku) falls for her sister. Running past the speed camera with a brass band trying to trigger the speedometer, planting pornographic manga around the police station, and stealing fireworks, all pretty petty stupid stuff but it makes for a funny movie. And I can’t help but mention Ichihara’s ridiculous laugh again for I love it so. Plus I hadn’t yet seen Tomiura Satoshi in drag and this needed to happen to make everything right with the world.

There isn’t much to say about a movie like this. It really relies mostly on the chemistry between Sasaki and Ichihara, their comic expressions and other inexplicable stuff. It is just a very silly but sweet film with lots of great comedy moments and odd quirky fun. And really terrible clothes.

it is kind of weird to see ichihara not sporting his usual permed boof of a hair adventure though. his hair was surprisingly normal...

Sasaki as always was wonderfully evil and brilliant, i do love it when he has such characters. i always feel a show will be worth watching if i see he is in it. On watching this a second time round with friends and seeing everyone else collapsing with laughter i am assured that it is not merely my bias towards the few actors in the movie i have a soft spot for.



i cant help loving ichihara - he looks like my dog. it makes me want to marry him and cook him cakes and stuff. that didnt sound so weird before i actually said that... 

ok it appears to be time for an almighty tonikaku... just watch the movie its funny. and have tomiura in drag to brighten your day:

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