The third and last installment of Real TV Shows From the East You Should Watch is here! We take a look at the Korean drama that made R&B singer, Rain (Bi) famous: Full House. Happy reading. And as a bonus, you can find out how to obtain these awesome dramas at the end of this post!

Series: Full House (풀하우스)
Station: KBS
Original Air Date: July 14th-September 2nd, 2004
Episodes: 16

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The second installment of Real TV Shows From the East You Should Watch is about the Taiwanese drama, It Started with a Kiss, that aired in 2006. This is also based on a popular Japanese manga, recently turned anime series.

Series: It Started with a Kiss (惡作劇之吻/恶作剧之吻)
Station: CTV
Original Air Date: September 25th, 2005 - Febuary 12th, 2006
Episodes: 20

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The Bebop Crew

The live action anime wave continues as Fox announced a live version of Cowboy Bebop is in the works. This is the second live action adaption of a popular anime series, as Fox is currently working on a Dragonball movie set for a March 2009 release. Erwin Stoff, producer of The Matrix will be working on the film.

Let’s see…Speed Racer, Dragonball, Astro Boy, Burst Angel, and now Cowboy Bebop are now real life counterparts. What’s next? I could be missing a few others, but those that are missing could eventually make the news.

[Source: Anime News Network]

The more I see photos of the upcoming live action Dragonball movie, the more expectations I have for it. This new movie poster shown above shows War of the Worlds’ Justin Chatwin, who plays Son Goku in the movie, equipped with the famous orange gi, with the Kanji “Kame” on the back. I must say that this is better than the fake Dragonball Z movie posters surfaced several years ago. Will you go see it when it comes out on March 13th, 2009?

[Source: Anime News Network]

Summer is here. There’s not much on TV. Boring, right? There’s always reruns, but what’s the point of watching something you’ve seen in the winter? Well, I have some suggestion of what everyone can watch–if they’re up for the challenge. What’s so special about these TV shows that I’m about to explain? The spoken language of these television shows are not in English. So, stop watching Lost reruns! I present the readers a three part series of Real TV Shows From the East You Need to Watch: TV melodrama series from Japan, Korea, and China.

The first drama in the series is the best Drama that everyone around here can relate to:

Series: Densha Otoko (電車男/Train Man)
Original Air Date: July 7-September 22, 2005
Episodes: 11; including 2 specials

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