Category: tv reviews

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Toshi Densetsu no Onna

Literally translated to Urban Legend Woman, Toshi Densetsu no Onna is a Japanese drama following detective Tsukiko Otonashi, an avid fan of Japanese urban legends. She encounters one murder case after another to then discover what logically really happened.

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Time of Eve

Eve no Jikan tells the story of the fictional future of Japan, in which human-looking robots with top-notch artificial intelligence will be common place. Thus, an Ethics Committee has been established to make the distinctions between humans and robots more noticeable.

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Tiger Mom Hu Ma Mao Ba – Ep01-12

A working mother realizes her spoiled rotten 5-year-old daughter is way behind in (modern) basic kinder skills like Chinese character reading, simple math, English and music playing.

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Tiger & Dragon

A tongue-swinging rough young yakuza discovers his love for rakugo storytelling when his boss sends him to collec the debt from his rakugo master friend, who has lost his rakugo heir to a bad fashion business idea.

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Teen Beach Movie

As messy and flawed as it is, Teen Beach Movie’s love for musicals, smart choreography, and genuinely enjoyable nature help make it something that isn’t nearly as bad as one might think.

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Sunset Limited, The (HBO Films)

The Sunset Limited is a television film based on the play written by Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country For Old Men), starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, who also serves as the film’s director.

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Sungkyunkwan Scandal

Sungkyunkwan Scandal tells the story of a smart and gifted young woman who is forced to dress as a man to be able to work during Korea’s Joseon era. Her path is crossed with a very stick-in-the-mud yet righteous young man that sees her potential and forces her to join Sungkyunkwan — a school for men.

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Sunao ni Narenakute

Otherwise known as Hard to Say I Love You, SuNare tells the story of the blossoming friendship between five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to find honesty with each other and with themselves.