:: - 2003: KOREAN DRAMA @ NTV7 - ::

katt

*Remember Under One Roof, the Japanese series with a motley family of half-siblings? Happy Together might just be your Korean answer to that.

After the deaths of their real and step parents, Chan Zhu, the eldest daughter, is faced with the heavy responsibility of fathering not just her 2 younger real siblings, Zhi Suo and Wen Zhu as well as 2 other half siblings, Tai Fung and Lun Zhu from her mother's second marriage. But as Chan Zhu has always detested her late ruffian of a stepfather, she decides to have nothing to do with her half brother and sister.

Eight years have passed and Tai Fung now plays baseball professionally. The kind-hearted one has always wanted to reunite with his estranged siblings but when he finally finds them, he is taken aback by their coldness. To make matters worse, an 8-year-old boy suddenly appears and claims to be his son just when he's expelled from the baseball team due to his injuries. Faced with no choice, Tai Fung seeks his half sister, Chan Zhu's help...

Will the family have a fairy tale-like ending?

Also, look out for the unlikely couple, Jeon Ji Hyun and Cha Tae Hyun, from smash hit movie My Sassy Girl!

* Copyright

katt

As Tai Fung and Zhi Suo, this real-life best friends were acting against each other in Happy Together.
(Info & images from KoreanFilm.org)




Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-heon (b. July 12, 1970) majored in French at Hanyang University before making his television debut on KBS in 1991. A fixture in TV dramas throughout the decade, Lee has continued to work on television even after becoming a major film star. His movie debut came in 1995 as the lead in Who Drives Me Mad?, and he worked off and on in the film industry up until his breakthrough film in 2000, Joint Security Area.

For a long time thought of as just another pretty face, Lee in recent years has earned great praise for his acting, both for his turn in JSA and especially for his role in Bungee Jumping of Their Own. He also starred in the television drama Beautiful Days, which screened in spring 2002 on SBS.

In 2002, Lee starred with actress Lee Mi-yeon in Addicted, a melodrama about two brothers who fall into a coma on the same day. The following spring he also took the lead role in the highly popular TV drama All In, about a successful gambler.

Link: byunghunlee.pe.kr - a bilingual fan site

Complete filmography:
Addicted (2002) dir. Park Young-hoon
Bungee Jumping of Their Own (2001) dir. Kim Dae-seung
Joint Security Area (2000) dir. Park Chan-wook
Harmonium in My Memory (1999) dir. Lee Young-jae
Elegy of the Earth (1997) dir. Kim Hee-chul
Kill the Love (1996) dir. Lim Jong-jae
Armageddon (1996) (voice) dir. Lee Hyun-se
Runaway (1995) dir. Kim Sung-soo
Who Drives Me Mad? (1995) dir. Koo Im-seo




Song Seung-hun

After beginning his career as a model, Song Seung-hun (b. October 5, 1976) first became known to viewers in the popular sitcom Three Men, Three Women in 1996. The following year he started his extremely successful career in TV dramas, which made him well-known throughout Korea. His feature film debut came in 1999 in the film Calla together with star Kim Hee-sun.

True stardom only came to Song in late 2000, however, with the broadcast of the hugely popular TV drama Autumn Story (a.k.a. Endless Love). The series was exported all over Asia, making pan-Asian stars of both him and co-stars Song Hye-gyo and Won Bin. Since then he has been actively recuited for film roles and advertisements in Hong Kong and other Asian countries.

In 2002, Song starred in the comic-action film Make it Big by director Cho Ui-seok, and also in the Hong Kong film So Close with Hong Kong actresses: Karen Mok, Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. His latest projects are a mountaineering film shot in the Canadian Rockies -- which he stars in together with Lee Sung-jae and Kim Ha-neul-- and a comedy based on an internet novel with actress Jung Da-bin from TV drama Attic Cat.

Complete filmography:
Geu Nomeun Moshiseotta (2004) dir. Lee Hwan-kyung ** currently in production **
Ice Rain (2003) dir. Kim Eun-sook ** waiting for release **
So Close (2002) dir. Corey Yuen (HONG KONG)
Make it Big (2002) dir. Cho Ui-seok
Calla (1999) dir. Song Hae-sung

katt

Also in the drama were the unlikely couple of My Sassy Girl, Jeon Ji Hyun and Cha Tae Hyun.
(Info from KoreanFilm.org)




Cha Tae-hyun

Cha Tae-hyun (b. March 25, 1976) started his career as a silver medalist in a 1995 KBS Talent Contest. Over the next several years he would star in a large number of TV dramas such as Sunflower and Happy Together, while also working as a model and appearing in a huge number of TV commercials.

His film debut came with a bang, in the hugely successful 2001 comedy My Sassy Girl. This established him as a recognized star throughout Asia as well as Korea, and many of his subsequent films would do very well in other Asian countries. He starred opposite actress Son Ye-jin in the box-office hits Lovers Concerto and Crazy First Love, and will appear together with actress Kim Seon-ah in Happy Ero Christmas. His next feature Two Guys sees him team up with Nowhere to Hide star Park Joong-hoon.

Complete filmography:
Two Guys (2004) dir. Park Heon-su ** currently in pre-production **
Happy Ero Christmas (2003) dir. Lee Geon-dong ** currently in pre-production **
Crazy First Love (2003) dir. Oh Jong-rok
Lovers Concerto (2002) dir. Lee Han
My Sassy Girl (2001) dir. Kwak Jae-yong




Jeon Ji-hyun

Jeon Ji-hyun (b. October 30, 1981) first became well-known as a commercial model and as a TV actress. Although she made her film debut in the little-watched White Valentine in 1999, it was not until later in the year when she was featured in an advertisement for an audio system that she became a popular sensation. The dancing and attitude expressed in the ad made her into an icon for Koreans in their late teens and early twenties.

After continuing her TV and modelling career, Jeon made her first well-publicized film appearance in late 2000 with Il Mare. A handsomely-shot melodrama set on Kanghwa Island, the film did respectably well at the box office and solidified her status as a star.

Jeon's breakout film was comedy My Sassy Girl which became a huge hit both in Korea and throughout Asia with its tale of a gullible college student and his wacky girlfriend. Currently Jeon remains almost unrivalled in terms of popularity. In 2003 an "occult thriller" titled The Uninvited re-teamed her with actor Park Shin-yang from White Valentine. She is currently working on a new project by My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong.

Complete filmography:
I've Got You, Babe (2004) dir. Kwak Jae-yong ** currently in production **
The Uninvited (2003) dir. Lee Su-yeon
My Sassy Girl (2001) dir. Kwak Jae-yong
Il Mare (2000) dir. Lee Hyun-seung
White Valentine (1999) dir. Yang Yoon-ho

[ Last edited by katt on 4-12-2003 at 02:37 AM ]

whitedove

Hi, I'm back! lama rasanya tak posting...kite outstation ni, tapi usahakan jugak tengok HT...ni pun pinjam laptop kawan...anyway, HT memang agak slow, but I believe it will only get better especially bila Tai Fung dah jumpa dgn Wen Zhu & Lun Zhu yg paling sayangkannya...anyway, memang agak terkilan dengar suara dubbing...tak dapat nak dengar suara LBH yg macho, suara CTH yg cool & suara Kim Ha Neul yg pada pendapat kite, suara actress korea yg paling merdu pernah kite dengar, setakat nilah...

yellow belmont

terlupa pula nak cakap semalam (ngantuk giler semalam) .. actually aku nak minta siapa2 tolong ceritakan episod kelmarin .. aku termiss daa

katt

Originally posted by whitedove at 2003-12-4 10:23 AM:
Hi, I'm back! lama rasanya tak posting...kite outstation ni, tapi usahakan jugak tengok HT...ni pun pinjam laptop kawan...anyway, HT memang agak slow, but I believe it will only get better especially bila Tai Fung dah jumpa dgn Wen Zhu & Lun Zhu yg paling sayangkannya...anyway, memang agak terkilan dengar suara dubbing...tak dapat nak dengar suara LBH yg macho, suara CTH yg cool & suara Kim Ha Neul yg pada pendapat kite, suara actress korea yg paling merdu pernah kite dengar, setakat nilah...

Hi! Good to have you back. We were wondering about you .

Ingatkan server down lagi, rupanya outstation, lepas raya? Anyway, hope to see you more often here ;).

Yeah, the dubbing's kinda spoils it but what can we do. It's the best that we can hope for......

Btw, sesiapa tahu mana Takki? Lama tak nampak dia at the boards. Anyone? sara?

yellow belmont

Originally posted by goggle7724 at 2003-12-4 01:51 AM:
mmg kadang-kadang ada 'double standard' antara drama barat dan drama timur ni.dulu,ramai org pertikaikan pasal JDorama yg dikatakan memaparkan kehidupan yg bebas.tp,kalau drama Barat,hal ini blh pula dipandang sebelah mata

tu la pasal .. somehow ada unsur double standard dlm hal ni .. :cf: .. quite complex juga hal ni rasanya .. & oleh sbb buat masa sekarang ni aku agak busy .. jadi tak dpt komen panjang lebar

goggle lah .napa?tak percaya ekk?

kalau yellow nak tahu,itulah 'heroin' Takuya Kimura dlm Hero.tentu dah dpt agak gak.

laaaa .. Takako Matsu ker tuh!

katt

Originally posted by yellow belmont at 2003-12-4 03:35 PM:
terlupa pula nak cakap semalam (ngantuk giler semalam) .. actually aku nak minta siapa2 tolong ceritakan episod kelmarin .. aku termiss daa

Masa Zhi Suo (SSH) melawat ayah Siu He di hospital, Tai Fung (LBH) suddenly remembers his brother. This part I'm not sure, bagaimana dia cam adiknya tu (was it cara dia tak mahu bersalam dengan Tai Fung yang buat abangnya kenal?). Anyway, ZS walaupun terkejut, dia tak suka langsung dengan kehadiran TF. Berbeza dengan TF yang sangat-sangat gembira dan bangga dengan adiknya tu.

Zhi Suo balik ke rumah to see that kakaknya Chan Zhu dah berputus asa dengan perangai adik mereka, Wen Zhu. Wen Zhu dah bekerja di kelab malam dan mereka bergaduh bila Chan Zhu suruh dia balik. ZS pun beritahu kakaknya pasal TF. It clearly shows on their expression that they don't like him.

TF pula bila tahu yang ZS tu adiknya, terus keluar dari hospital dan pergi cari CZ. Nampak betul dia excited sebab akan jumpa kembali kakaknya tu. Siap beli susu (fav. CZ masa kecil) sebagai buah tangan. Tapi Kehadirannya tak dialu-alukan langsung oleh CZ. Katanya mereka tak pernah teringatkan TF langsung. She still blamed him for what his father did to their mother. Jadi TF terpaksa pergi dari situ, even bila dia tanya mana kubur parents mereka pun CZ tak mahu beritahu.

Kebetulan sebelum tu Siu He datang, dia dengar perbualan TF dan CZ jadi dia tolong TF, tunjukkan tempat parents mereka dikebumikan. Scene ni sedih, lepas tu funny. SH tunjukkan kubur bapa TF. Bila dah beria-ia menangis depan kubur tu barulah SH sedar yang dia tersilap tunjuk kubur.

katt

Sesuatu yang amat menyedihkan bila keluarganya sendiri tak menerima kehadiran Tai Fung. Memang betul dia bukan saudara kandung mereka. Dia hanya anak kepada bapa tiri yang berkahwin dengan ibu Chan Zhu, Zhi Suo dan Wen Zhu. Hanya dengan Lun Zhu, barulah mereka ada pertalian keluarga  bila the youngest girl lahir dari perkahwinan itu. Cuma Lun Zhu yang jadi "pengikat" antara mereka semua.

I can just imagine bagaimana Tai Fung masa kecilnya (yang sebelumnya tiada adik-beradik) merasa seronok dengan kehadiran 3 adik-beradik baru bila bapa & ibu mereka berkahwin. Kemudian ditambah pula dengan adik bongsu yang lahir kemudian.

Remember the photo masa ending drama ni? Gambar 5 orang kanak-kanak. Presumably, the boy in the middle tulah Tai Fung yang diapit oleh Wen Zhu dan Lun Zhu. The girls sangat suka dengan abang mereka yang baikhati ni. Di sebelah kanan Chan Zhu manakala di sebelah kiri pula Zhi Suo. And see how they distance themselves from TF? Bergambar pun jauh-jauh.....

Bila semuanya dah dewasa, hanya Tai Fung, Wen Zhu & Lun Zhu yang masih teringat dan mencari each other. Chan Zhu seolah-olah dah give-up dengan keluarganya manakala Zhi Suo pula terlalu sibuk dengan kerjayanya untuk memikirkan hal orang lain.

yellow belmont

thanks for the recap ;) .. tak sia2 aku buat post lewat tu

goggle7724

Originally posted by yellow belmont at 2003-12-4 04:05 PM:
laaaa .. Takako Matsu ker tuh!  

lain kan muka Takako masa ni.nampak dia makin lawa je.

yellow belmont

Originally posted by sara at 2003-12-2 10:17 PM:
Happy Together Soundtrack

thanks for the soundtrack .. tgh hari tadi baru d/load & layan semua lagu tu .. erm .. IMO .. best2 juga lagu2 tu semuanya ..
err .. ada 2 lagu tu actually lagu sama tapi bunyi beza .. berbeza versi kan?

yellow belmont

Originally posted by goggle7724 at 2003-12-4 11:01 PM:
lain kan muka Takako masa ni.nampak dia makin lawa je.

makin lawa? .. erm .. tak surelah nak cakap apa .. gambar tu kecik sgt ..
tapi apa yg aku tau .. muka dia mmg nampak beza drpd yg biasa ..

yellow belmont

Originally posted by katt at 2003-12-4 04:47 PM:
Remember the photo masa ending drama ni? Gambar 5 orang kanak-kanak. Presumably, the boy in the middle tulah Tai Fung yang diapit oleh Wen Zhu dan Lun Zhu. The girls sangat suka dengan abang mereka yang baikhati ni. Di sebelah kanan Chan Zhu manakala di sebelah kiri pula Zhi Suo.

hehe .. sama dgn apa yg ada dlm kepala aku since the 1st time tgk gambar tu

yellow belmont

Originally posted by whitedove at 2003-12-4 10:23 AM:
Hi, I'm back! lama rasanya tak posting...kite outstation ni, tapi usahakan jugak tengok HT...ni pun pinjam laptop kawan...anyway, HT memang agak slow, but I believe it will only get better especially bila Tai Fung dah jumpa dgn Wen Zhu & Lun Zhu yg paling sayangkannya...anyway, memang agak terkilan dengar suara dubbing...tak dapat nak dengar suara LBH yg macho,

okairinasai ;) .. ooh .. p outstation rupanya .. ingatkan kenapa ..

actually, aku pun hampa skit sbb tak dpt dgr suara ori LBH .. yalah sbb dah 2 kali dgr suara yg ori dlm BD & All In .. tiba2 dgr dia cakap mandarin pula .. tapi benda ni mmg dah agak jadi aku dah prepare .. masuk episod ke 3 tadi .. blhlah biasakan diri

sara

alamak tak follow sangatlah cerita ni sebab tengah tengok cerita Glass Shoes yang dah nak habis. Tapi tengok setengah jam yang awal. Thanks for the recap. Watak LBH memang keakar dalam cerita ni especially masa dia dapat tahu dia ada seorang anak. Kelakar tengok expression dia. Kesian dekat Lun Zhu dia terpaksa hidup seorang diri. CTH pun keakar juga dalam cerita ni.

Kalau tak silap ada satu lau dalam cerita ni pernah dinyanyikan oleh Jang Dong Gun dalam All About Eve. Kalau tak silap masa JDG main Piano kat London. Betul tak?

Pasal Takki tu tak pasti. Ni pun dah seminggu ke;as start tapi dia belum balik lagi.

sara

Originally posted by katt at 4-12-2003 12:32 AM:
Memang terasa agak terkilan juga sebab tak dapat dengar suara asal pelakon-pelakonnya especially LBH, JJH, SSH & JMS. Lee Byung Hun terutamanya, suaranya yang asal dengan suara dubbingnya, alahai.....macam langit dengan bumi. Bagi sesiapa yang familiar dengan suaranya dalam Beautiful Days atau All In, would know the the world of difference. Dan secara langsung the dubbing telah menjejaskan the emotional scenes in the drama, IMO.
Ha ...

thats right. memang sedikit terkilan sebab tak dapat dengar suara asal diaorang ni especially suara LBH. sebabnya tak pernah dengar lagi. kalau SSH, KHN, JJH tu dah pernah dengar. dan yang sedihnya cd dia pula tak ade yang korean version semua jual yang mandarin version. Apa nak buat.

katt

Originally posted by sara at 2003-12-5 08:40 AM:
alamak tak follow sangatlah cerita ni sebab tengah tengok cerita Glass Shoes yang dah nak habis. Tapi tengok setengah jam yang awal. Thanks for the recap.

Yeah, di ntv7 ada BH, err I mean Happy Together yang dinanti-nantikan, di Channel 9 ada Glass Shoes. Dah masuk 10 episod yang terakhir pulak tu. Ish, ish, ish....macamana ni!? Susah jugak ya, clash 30 minit antara satu sama lain. Hmm, dilema dibuatnya....actually, taklah dilema sangat. I'm the opposite of you sara, saya tengok HT sampai habis dulu, lepas tu baru tengok GS the last 30 minutes. Oklah jugak, asal jangan terlepas LBH sudah .

Watak LBH memang keakar dalam cerita ni especially masa dia dapat tahu dia ada seorang anak. Kelakar tengok expression dia. Kesian dekat Lun Zhu dia terpaksa hidup seorang diri. CTH pun keakar juga dalam cerita ni.

LBH as Tai Fung memang kelakar habis & selamba pulak tu. Dalam episod 3, ketawa besar tengok part masa nak buka pembalut simen di kaki tu. Penakutnya dia, mengalahkan budak-budak. Lagi satu yang kelakar part dia masak sambil pakai spek hitam. So cute....Memang versatile, sungguh-sungguh berbeza dengan penampilannya sebagai Min-chul yang cool & smart dalam Beautiful Days!

Kalau tak silap ada satu lau dalam cerita ni pernah dinyanyikan oleh Jang Dong Gun dalam All About Eve. Kalau tak silap masa JDG main Piano kat London. Betul tak?

Hmm, tak tahulah pulak. Belum keluar lagi kot, lagu tu. Maybe those yang dah tengok HT boleh confirm, kan.

Pasal Takki tu tak pasti. Ni pun dah seminggu ke;as start tapi dia belum balik lagi.

Ohhh, ye ke? Hope she's alright. Thanks sara for the update. Kalau ada apa-apa, please PM saya.

katt

Originally posted by sara at 2003-12-5 10:32 AM:
thats right. memang sedikit terkilan sebab tak dapat dengar suara asal diaorang ni especially suara LBH. sebabnya tak pernah dengar lagi. kalau SSH, KHN, JJH tu dah pernah dengar. dan yang sedihnya cd dia pula tak ade yang korean version semua jual yang mandarin version. Apa nak buat.

For those yang dah pernah dengar suara sebenar Lee Byung Hun, you'll know that the dubbing telah 'merosakkan' his emotional scenes. Tapi apa nak buat, we have to accept what we can get.....

Kalau sara or others nak dengar suara LBH especially, there's a short-clip di thread Beautiful Days & LBH (on page 17; please refer my message dated 2003-10-30) masa LBH terima award di Shanghai baru-baru ni. At the moment, the link is still ok, boleh download and hear his voice speaking in English.

And also on page 18 of the same thread, kalau download mv Promise dari Beautiful Days, pun ada scenes from BD diselitkan. Boleh dengar suara asal LBH in those scenes. :2cool:

katt

Rupa-rupanya mat motor yang suka aiskrim perisa ceri tu jugalah orang kanan Pengurus Zao. Kan?! Inilah my first time tengok Cha Tae Hyun berlakon, lambat buat connection between them. Kelakar betul dia ni, sukakan adik Tai Fung, Lun Zhu dalam diam-diam. Malu nak tunjuk muka, beli aiskrim pakai helmet .

Between Tai Fung & Zhi Suo ada perbezaan yang ketara. No wonderlah Wen Zhu & Lun Zhu lebih sukakan Tai Fung berbanding Zhi Suo. Walaupun Tai Fung hanya seorang pemain baseball yang tak terkenal pun tapi dia memang ambil berat pasal adik-beradiknya, even though ada di antara mereka yang melayannya dengan buruk. Zhi Suo pula, bukanlah jahat hanya dia terlalu mementingkan kerjayanya saja berbanding hal-ehwal adik-beradiknya, probably untuk melupakan kenangan masa kecil (?).

Bilik hostel tempat Tai Fung tinggal sebelum ni punyalah kecil. Hanya ada ruang untuk tidur saja. Even bilik air pun ada yang lebih besar dari bilik tu. Itulah, bila Lun Zhu & Wen Zhu datang melawatnya, mereka nampak sedih sangat kerana abang mereka tinggal di bilik hostel sahaja. And now Tai Fung & anaknya Tai Chi, terpaksa pula keluar dari bilik yang kecil tu. Btw, kenapa Tai Chi panggil Tai Fung "pakcik"? Betul ke dia anak Tai Fung? Oops, ini bukan spoiler, kan?

Bila tengok Tai Fung makan Dunkin Donuts dengan adiknya, terus teringatkan cf LBH sebagai spokeperson Dunkin Donuts 2 tahun lepas. Macam kebetulan pulak.



(credits: Images from PLAYEREntertainment & LBH.SG)