Come Back Mister

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Title: 돌아와요 아저씨 /Come Back, Mister

Genre: Melodrama, Comedy

Episodes: 16 (To Be Confirmed)

Broadcast network: SBS

Synopsis

A man is worked to death, but he comes back to the living world in the attractive body of another man for a limited amount of time.

Lee Hae Joon (Rain) is a perfect man with good looking appearance. He works as a section chief in the women’s apparel section at a department store. His body is actually possessed by the spirit of Kim Young Soo (Kim In Kwon) who was worked to death. Meanwhile, Hong Nan (Oh Yeon Seo) is a beautiful woman, but her spirit is possessed by a tough guy, Han Ki Tak (Kim Soo Ro). At the same time, Shin Da Hye (Lee Min Jung) is a beautiful housewife, but her husband suddenly dies. She falls into a love triangle with Lee Hae Joon and a promising store employee Jung Ji Hoon (Yoon Park).

I know about this k-drama from my friend's post on Path. She was just posting it's poster with not much on caption, she only said that this k-drama is hilarious. Seeing on the picture she posted, I don't really get it, and there you go, the Curious George in me saying that I have to search for this, online! I tap on my smartphone's browser, I google it! DING DONG! Once I found it, I read it carefully, not really understand what's it all about, some article only mention that it's about someone who work his ass off to die, and come back to life, that's it. Duh! I mean, really? There're some k-drama with the same plot, coming back to life after you die, and given a little amount of time to finish the unfinished business, right?

At that time (while googling), which interest me was Rain, yes, Rain is one of it's main actor here! You know, he's hot and etc :P. This is another poster I saw online, yet I still don't understand what it means LOL, who care, right, it's just a poster. 

My curiosity grows larger and I can't help it, I need to watch it's 1st episode to decide whether I'll watch it's whole episode or I wont.

Watching episode 1, with a hope to get the hilarious side of this drama, but ended up disappointed, why? because there was none. I get upset watching the first episode, I know it's only one episode and mostly talks about their characters, their goals, right? First episode, flash back to two days before our main characters die, their family, their work, why they die, how they die, and those who involve on their death. 

I'm not saying that it was boring, no, it's just really upset me, the manager's an asshole, the bosses boss's a jerk, gangster's, lying model, messed up ex girlfriend.. what?? yeah, I know, just mentioning those made me tired...

The interesting part was right after our two main character die and headed to a train station which they have to get on the train to go to their afterlife whether it's heaven or hell :D.

Train station scene is my most favorite where our main guys get to met Maya-ssi, she's a ticketing lady, she stamp all spirits tickets with their last destination which are Heaven or Hell. She's funny, just the way she talks, I know that she'll be something more than that.

Our two main character, one is Kim Young So, the workaholic, work his ass off to death to make a living for his family and the other is Han Gi Tak, the chef (actually he's an ex gangster), who did bad things in the past and left by the woman he loved, so you'd know which stamp goes to whom, right?? Interesting isn't it?

Yes, Young So gets a ticket to Hell and Gi Tak gets one to heaven! Confused? Don't be. Here, both of them get confused and they headed back to Maya-ssi to make sure. But all she said was, she didn't give them the wrong ticket, funny right? So there he is, Young So talks to the train station's head and ask for explanation. The answer was clear, he goes to hell because he suicide, Young So think about his family knowing he's death because of he kills himself, he regret it and in no time, he's ticket turn into a ticket heaven. Yay! 

NO YAY for me, he deserve hell for neglecting his family for work, for his asshole manager, damn it's never gonna happen!!

Right after they got their ticket to heaven, they sit side by side on the train and halfway to heaven, Young so thinks a lot about his family, about his promise to his wife, so he made a commotion by yelling that he want to get off the train. Later on, a big guy (an officer) come and ask for him to stop but Young So won't stop, Han Gi Tak act heroic here, he's truing to help Young So, but fail. They ended up running away because the officer has call backups to help him. The two reached the end of the train where their only option was to jump off of the train, so they jump thinking they can't die twice. 

They jump and land by sitting on two chair side by side in an office, in front of Maya-ssi (she's really something, I like her :D). They insist that they want to come back to life, so, Maya-ssi hand them some kind of form for them to fill in and she told them everything about going back to life. Right after she stamp those form, the two ahjussi woke up in a room, and talk to themselves. 

I enjoy this drama from the train station scene up until now, it reached its 4th episode already, You may not like the bad guy in this drama, because they have leverage which a troublesome. The funny thing is Rain's playing two characters here, one was the one who possessed by Young So's spirit and the other was him as the son of Sujin Mall's owner, both are funny guy. Han Gi Tak, return to his life inside a woman's body, he lost his ability to fight which is funny, s/he walks like a guy, one thing he didn't lost is his loyalty to his beloved family and messed up ex girlfriend. I want to see more episode where Maya-ssi has to keep the real Lee Hae Joon from the possessed one, it's going to be hilarious. :D

  

Spirited Away

Spirited Away, "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away" is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film stars Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Takehiko Ono and Bunta Sugawara, and tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the spirit world.

Ten-year-old Chohiro Ogino and her parents are traveling to their new home when her father takes a wrong turn. The movie opens with Chihiro moving to a new place. She's not happy, not looking forward to the new home and she doesn't feel appreciated or loved. She's also extremely timid, shy, and just want to hide away from the world.

All of that is about to change. Her parents are trying to find a new place to live, which sits atop a hill. After her father misses the turn to their house on top of the hill, he tries to take a shortcut and ends up at the entrance to an abandoned theme park where things go horribly wrong. Chihiro's parents end up at a restaurant and indulge themselves in a buffet which they have not been given permission to eat, against Chihiro's warning. They gorge themselves on this otherworldly food, saying they'll use their credit cards and cash to cover it. The're not worried about the price, they'll pay for it later, so they say, and they end up paying for it in the end. Their indulgent and self-pleasing behavior turns them into pigs (literally). Meanwhile, Chihiro is learning the lay of the land. While exploring, she runs into Haku, a servant to the cruel and heavy handed Yubaba. Chihiro tries to escape, shocked, horrified, and confused after she found that her parents turned into pigs. 

In a flight of panic, she finds that it's impossible for her to escape because the return parh has been flooded and replaced with an endless ocean. Not only that, unless she eats something from that world, she will disappear.

This other world that Chihiro is trapped in, is one of bourgeois decadence. It's a place where the spirits come to clean themselves and to feel rejuvenated. The only thing she can do to survive is to make herself a part of it. If she didn't partake of the world, she would have simply vanished, presumably dying.

Haku works his magic and makes it do that she won't disappear, but then tells her that the only way she can stay, is to get a job in Yubaba's bathhouse. To this ends, Chihiro is sent to the lowest floor of the bathhouse, the boiler room, to see a man and demand to see Yubaba for a job. She doesn't just stroll down the very long, very steep, and very dangerous path, she ends up involuntarily running and screaming down the stairs and descending into the lowest and harshest place of all after faltering on a briken step. Her fall into forced subservience is swift, fast, and terrifying. 

Kamaji, the man who works the boiler, put in a good word for her and helps her find assistance to visit Yubaba.

Yubaba is the kindly looking old lady who runs the bathhouse. A part of the condition that she runs the bathhouse is that she gives a jobto anyone who ask. Naturally, Yubaba's office and living space is at the highest point of the bathhouse. Her economic and social power is literally over and above everyone. The first thing that happens after Chihiro signs a contract to work is she will lose her name and her identity to Yubaba's magic.

Chihiro's new life as a servant in the bathhouse is tough. She learns how to apply herself to do well at the bathhouse that she's rewarded with a gift (some kind of medicine) from one of the spirits she cleaned. She managed to do all of that while being separated from her parents. 

One day, while working, Chihiro unknowingly invites a silent masked creature, No-Face, to the bathhouse, believing him to be a customer. A very dirty and stink spirit subsequently arrives, and Chihiro is quickly assigned to tend to the guest by her nauseated superiors. She discovers, he is actually the powerful guardian spirit of a polluted river. In gratitude for cleaning him, he gives Chihiro a magic dumpling. Chihiro is congratulated by her gleeful coworkers, who had shunned her as an outsider. Later, while most of the staff sleep, No-Face tempts a worker with gold. The greedy employee takes the bait, only to be swallowed. No-Face begins demanding food, producing gold to tempt the naive staff. As the workers swarm him, hoping to be tipped, he devours two of them and grows bigger. 

Chihiro discovers a shikigami's attacking a dragon and recognize the dragon as Haku's transformation. When a grievously-injured Haku crashes into Yubaba's penthouse, Chihiro follows him upstairs. When she reaches Haku, a shikigami that stowed away on her back transforms into Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister. She transforms Yubaba's baby, Boh, into a mouse, creates a decoy baby, and turns Yubaba's bird creature into tiny bird. Zeniba tells Chihiro that it carries a deadly curse. After Haku dives to the boiler room with Chihiro and Boh on his back, she feeds him part of the dumpling, causing him to vomit both the seal and a black slug, which Chihiro crushed with her foot.

With Haku unconscious, Chihiro resolves to return the seal and apologize for Haku. Before she leaves the bathhouse, Chihiro confronts the now-massive No-Face and feeds him the rest of the dumpling. No-Face chases Chihiro out of the bathhouse, steadily vomiting out those he has eaten and thus gradually returning to his former self. Chihiro, No-Face, and Boh, travel to see Zeniba. Enraged at the damage caused by No-Face, Yubaba blames Chihiro for inviting him in and orders that her parents to be slaughtered. After Haku reveals that Boh is mising, he promises to retrieve Boh in exchange for Yubaba freing Chihiro and her parents.

Chihiro, No-Face, and Boh, arrive at Zeniba's house, where Zeniba, now the benevolent "Granny", reveals that Chihiro's love for Haku broke her curse and that Yubaba had used the black slug to control him. Haku appears in his dragon form and flies both Chihiro and Boh back to the bathhouse. No-face unexpectedly shows itself as a very good spinner for Zeniba and accepts her proposal to stay as a helper.

On the way back, Chihiro recalls a memory from her youth in which she had fallen into Kohaku River while trying ti retrieve her fallen shoe but was swept safely ashore. After correctly guessing that Haku is the spirit of Kohaku River (and thus revealing his real name), Haku is completely freed from Yubaba's control. When the arrive at the bathhouse, Yubaba tells Chihiro, to break the curse on her parents, she must identify them form among a group of pigs. Chihiro correctly states that none of the pigs are her parents, releasing her parents from the curse and herself from her contract with Yubaba. Haku takes her to the entrance of the spirit world and promises to see her again in the future.

Chihiro reunites with her restored parents, who don't remember what happened. They walk back to their car, which covered in fallen leaves and dust due to many days passing in their absence, and drive away.

Master's Sun

DAEBAK!!!

One of my favorite k-drama ^^. Suka banget sama Gong Hyo Jin. Disini perannya sebagai seorang wanita yang mungkin bisa dibilang "stress", karena penampilannya yang emang begitu deh.. hehe :P. Gong Hyo Jin berperan sebagai Tae Gong Sil, dia bisa liat hantu! Yass.. HANTU! Kenapa bisa liat hantu?
Dia bisa liat hantu karna pada suatu hari di jaman dahulu kala (... lebay dikit) dia mengalami koma selama 3 tahun, trus pas sadar, dia bisa liat hantu dan dia sendiri ngga tau alasannya kenapa :P. Tapi tenang, begitu kalian mengikuti k-drama ini dari awal, pasti tau ko ^^. Tae Gong Sil atau Tae-yang (Nona Tae/Matahari Besar)ini bisa liat hantu, tapi dia sangat takut sama yang namanya hantu. Di awal episode pertama saja, kita bisa liat seberapa takutnya Tae Gong Sil dengan hantu. 

Pada suatu hari, Tae Gong Sil muncul entah dari mana, butuh tumpangan untuk pulang tapi tidak ada satu mobil pun yang mau memberinya tumpangan, hingga beberapa saat kemudian, disitu lah, ditengah hujan, sebuah mobil dihentikan oleh (hmm.. asap hantu?). Mobil ini adalah milik Joo Joong Won (So Ji Sub), seorang presdir mall Kingdom, mall besar di Korea. Penampilan Te Gong Sil yang seperti hantu, membuat Joong Won tidak nyaman, terlihat dari tingkahnya yang tida mau berdekatan dengan Gong Sil. Kemudian, sesuatu terjadi ketika Gong Sil secara tidak sengaja menyentuh Joong Won. Hal ini juga yang bikin Gong Sil pengen nempel terus sama presdir ^^. Apa yaaaa????

Silahkan cek sendiri deh kalo penasaran. K-drama ini sangat menghibur, seru, kocak banget, sedihnya ada juga sih, penjahat? Oh tenang, di setiap k-drama pasti ada penjahat.. hehehe. Pokoknya ini k-drama bagus (menurut ane ^^).

Bisa dibilang ini sepeti Ghost Whisperer gitu, hantu-hantu biasanya minta tolong sama Gong Sil, permintaannya ada yang normal, ada juga yang aneh-aneh :P. Overall, I like this k-drama very much, meskipun disini, Gong Sil kadang-kadang diperlakukan secara tidak manusiawi. Total ada 17 episode, bisa ditonton disini (Sub Indo ko ><).

Terimakasih sudah membaca, post komentar boleh lah kalo suka juga ^^.