Nodame Cantabile
Phew, I finally finished watching all 11 episodes of the J-drama Nodame Cantabile. As the name of the serial suggests, it is about music. Cantabile. But I don't understand why it is named that way.
The show is hilarious la. Credits to Ann Gee who told me about it.
Anyway, it is not a very lovey-dovey show and forever romantic and you cry not because you pity the leads, but because you felt in awe and the jubilation that can be rather...nice. It's some kind of feeling that is a bit familiar in a way that I am a performer too.
NC is adapted from a manga and its anime version, to which the characters are quite alike to the real-life ones. The ending is sweet, those kind that you'll weep. Haha.
The setting is in a music university in Tokyo, so there was a lot of piano and orchestra. Violin solos, oboe concerto, etc. No tuba in sight. =( Never mind... And a lot of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky etc.
I must say that the cast really knows how to act, it was as if they were really the ones playing. Maybe for some la, haha, but I know there was a few substitute pianists.
Oh and the female lead, Juri Ueno as Noda Megumi, was the tenor saxophonist from the movie Swing Girls. And this other also prominent character in the drama was Strazemann, an eccentric conductor from Europe, and the actor also starred in SG as their math teacher-turned-conductor.
Won't be a spoiler so I won't go into the story. And Chiaki is damn handsome! =D
I'm waiting for the second season! If there is one.
The eccentric conductor
Nodame and Chiaki sharing a meal
Chiaki conducting
The show is hilarious la. Credits to Ann Gee who told me about it.
Anyway, it is not a very lovey-dovey show and forever romantic and you cry not because you pity the leads, but because you felt in awe and the jubilation that can be rather...nice. It's some kind of feeling that is a bit familiar in a way that I am a performer too.
NC is adapted from a manga and its anime version, to which the characters are quite alike to the real-life ones. The ending is sweet, those kind that you'll weep. Haha.
The setting is in a music university in Tokyo, so there was a lot of piano and orchestra. Violin solos, oboe concerto, etc. No tuba in sight. =( Never mind... And a lot of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky etc.
I must say that the cast really knows how to act, it was as if they were really the ones playing. Maybe for some la, haha, but I know there was a few substitute pianists.
Oh and the female lead, Juri Ueno as Noda Megumi, was the tenor saxophonist from the movie Swing Girls. And this other also prominent character in the drama was Strazemann, an eccentric conductor from Europe, and the actor also starred in SG as their math teacher-turned-conductor.
Won't be a spoiler so I won't go into the story. And Chiaki is damn handsome! =D
I'm waiting for the second season! If there is one.
The eccentric conductor
Nodame and Chiaki sharing a meal
Chiaki conducting
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