MARS

Cast:

Vic Zhou Yu Min- Cheng Lin / Cheng Sheng

He is known as the bad boy in school and is very popular. He comes from a rich family. He is easy-going and friendly but sometimes he can be violent when he is angry. He loves to race motorcycles. He has a twin brother named Sei (Cheng Sheng). He also suffers from a multiple personality disorder.

Barbie Xu Xi Yuan – Han Qui Luo

She is a shy and quiet girl. She is very talented and exceeds in art. She has suffered much abuse in her life, which is the cause for her social phobia of other people.

 

Xiu Jie Kai - Da Ye(Cheng Lin's best friend)

He is Chen Ling's best friend. He has had a crush on Qi Luo since high school. However, when he learns that Chen Ling also likes Qi Luo, he holds asides his true feelings because he knows he can't compete with Chen Ling.

 

Megan Lai - Qing Mei

She is Chen Ling's ex girlfriend. She is very jealous of Qi Luo because Chen Ling treats Qi Luo very special. At first she is a bully towards Qi Luo but then comes to befriend Qi Luo.

 

Shone An Jun Can -Fan Tong Dao

He is a bit psychotic. He only sees the world as "black and white." He thinks that he and Chen Ling are the two cleanest people in the world. He has a soft spot for Chen Ling which causes him to do weird and unbelievable things in the drama. He is gay.

Summary:

An adaptation of popular Japanese manga MARS, the television series is directed by the acclaimed Cai Yue Xun. Vic plays two characters, a pair of identical twins with an exploding dark, tragic passion. Zero is reckless, brutal and passionate, losing himself in the speed thrill of motorcycles. Saint on the other hand is quiet and reserved, lives in satisfaction and peace, delivering his passion into drawing. They are a pair of loving brothers until the arrival of Saori, and when Saint cannot accept the fact that Saori loves Zero, he committed suicide. Zero is destroyed by the guilt of Saint's death, and ended up in a mental instituation for two years...until the arrival of Kira (Barbie Xu), who managed to find the deepest wound buried in Zero. Kira suffers from autism after a traumatic event from her childhood, can she discover the most beautiful thing in the world, love, again?

The production for the series is taken very seriously, and shots for the thrilling motorcycle racing is shot on location in Japan. Both Vic and Barbie received rave reviews for their performances, and with other young stars in support, MARS is undoubtedly one of the best Taiwanese television shows of 2004!

Mars Synopsis go here: Mars Synopsis

What I Think:

Out of all F4 series I have seen, I think this one tops my list! That's how beautiful this series is! Okay I know this review is a bit late, I have seen Mars early last year but I only got to do a review for it just now because I was just overwhelmed by the series after I finished watching it last year. I have lots of favorite scenes too.

The soundtrack of the series is very good too; the background music is fitting to the whole mood of the series. "Rang Wo Ai Ni," the closing credits theme song of the series, is so beautiful. It is a duet of Vic and Barbie, lordie they just click so well!

Some favorite scenes:

*** All the scenes in the first part of the series especially the scenes where Ling saves Qui-Lou.

*** Da Ye sitting out the school dance because he wants to be with Qui-Luo who doesn't want to join the dance. He likes her lot that he stayed out of the dance too. Sweet!

*** Cheng Lin gets back Qui-Luo's key chain after it fell into ditch.

*** When Ling knew Qui-Luo was raped by her step father. You just have to check out the scenes where he proved his hunches were right. Those are touching scenes, really.

*** Ling and Qui-Luo breaking up and getting back together.

*** Ling asking Qui-Luo to marry him.

*** Qui-Luo making love to Ling without her childhood fears of being raped. (My god it look like Vic and Barbie are so for real here already! They got the best love scenes! Hehehe!)

*** That Ling is the son of the CEO of O.A.K. group of companies! Year!

*** Ling, Qui-Luo and his father having dinner together and talking about their upcoming marriage.

*** Qui-Luo living in Ling's 'ridiculously big" house! They look like they are already a married couple; they look so sweet when they were talking in bed.

*** Qui-Luo discovering Sheng's hidden letter underneath his canvass.

*** The real story of Ling's mom's death.

*** Fan Tong Dao stabbing Ling! He looks like a total psycho, man he scared the wits out of me!

Stuff worth mentioning:

*** That Barbie and Vic are really together for real.

*** That they did all the scenes in Mars when Barbie was still dating Blue Lan. I never liked that guy anyway.

*** Da Ye is cute! Omg I think I am going to add him up in my other guy list. That list just goes on and on. There was a time in the series that I really wished Qui Luo would at least like him a bit… he looks kinda cute!

***Shone An (Fan Tong Dao) looks so gay in this series but by Buddha, I think he can look really cute too. But he really freaks me out in this series.

*** My favorite Machi member is in here too! Steven Lin plays a minor role here in Mars. Cool huh?

 

MARS OST:

Original Sound Track - OST

1. Ling (Zero) - Alan Ke You Lun
2. Rang Wo Ai Ni (Let Me Love You) - Vic Zhou Yu Min & Barbie Xu Xi Yuan
3. Bai Se Lian Qu (White Song) - RaRa
4. The Hardest Note - Lai Ya Yan (plays Qing Mei)
5. Shuo Ai Wo (Say You Love Me) - Liang Yi Zhen
6. Ming Tian (Tomorrow) - Da Di Le Tuan
7. Wo Ke Yi (I Can) - You Hong Ming
8. Ling (Ling's personality split song)
9. Wo Ke Yi (Da Ye's song)
10. Rang Wo Ai Ni (Qi Luo's suppressing feelings song)
11. Shuo Ai Wo (Qing Mei's desire for love version song)
12. Bai Se Lian Qu (Tong Dao's white song)

 Vic and Steven Lin

 with Megan Lai

 Japan Promo

 Thailand promo

 

       

credits: pictures from asianfantics,lastf4.com,ent.tom.com, krystalheart.com, vicpower.net

Rating: 9 Taiwanese Taicha out of 10

Music Playing in the Background: Barbie Xu & Vic Zhou – Rang Wo Ai Ni

PEOPLE!! I just got so excited when I read these stuffs!! Zaizai and Barbie looks so damn good together! For real!! Atche Cherry, I know you’ll kill me when I start posting these babies up but I cant help it they look so good! They are so engaged huh? The big engagement ring just pops my eyeball out of my eyes.... ehhehe

Barbie gets into zaizai's car...


in her new movie


barbie with allan luo... I can't remember Allan to be this cute.

Zaizai Thinking of Love, Bad Appetite

Vic Zhou, Zaizai and Da S in hot love, life short of one another, they'll become empty and un-interesting ! The night before, as Da S was promoting Ye Ban Ge Sheng in China, Zaizai's ways were a little abnormal. He drove his AudiA6 but did not speed, and only took a bowl of braised meat rice for his dinner. Not speeding, not thinking of his meals, his thought for love looks really deep !

When he finished fliming, he drove his A6 to TaoYuan to look for his friends. He was famous for speeding in the past, as his love wasn't around, his energy to speed seems to have gone missing. Reporter saw with their own eyes that even though the roads were huge with less cars, he drove with the limit. At dinner time, he had dinner with his friend at a roadside stall at Ci Wen Lu. He ate a braised meat rice.

Da S, who made Zaizai think of her have arrived back in Taipei the day before. She refused to comment on Da Zai Lian. As to rumours of her being pregnent, she minds alot.

Xu Mama yesterday scolded on behalf of her daughter, "I really feel like punching someone, Da S hates people to say she's fat, where is she fat ? And there's nothing going on (referring to her pregnency)! She'll let everyone know is there is. Stop following her!She's like a criminal!"

Thanks to Taiwan Appledaily.

 

 

 

 

Zaizai accompanys Da S to Hospital
Xu Mama : It's not to check pregnancy


Posted: November 21, 2005

Da S, who was once again being said as being pregnant, after spending a sweet night at Zaizai's MuShan's house the night before, the both of them suddenly went to Wan Hua Hospital yesterday afternoon. It made the reporter think they were going to do a check up of her prenancy. After the matter, they asked Xu mama about it. When she heard her daughter going to the hospital, she was very anxious, after asking, she realised her daughter actually went there to visit a lonely elderly.

Last week, before Da S went to China for work, she couldn't bear to part with her boyfriend, Zaizai. Zaizai even specially spend the night at Xu's place to accompany his girlfriend. After being in different places for a week, and Da S came back. The night before at around 9pm, good sisters of Da S like Fan Wei Qi, Ah Ya went to Xu's house to chat with Da S. When they left, at around 1030pm, Zaizai drove his car to Da S's house and Da S went up the car with a bag of stuffs.

At 11.20pm, both of them returned to Zaizai's MuShan's house. Only the next morning at 5.50pm, the lights went off in Zaizai's apartment, obvious that this couple had lots of things to talk about!

This little couple only went out the house at around 3.30pm yesterday with Zaizai's brother fetching them out. When they returned to Xu's house, this little couple, together with Da S's elder sister and the elder sister's boyfriend, they took a cab to Wan Hua Hospital. Reporters asked Xu mama if Da S went there to check her pregnancy, scaring her. After asking, she then knew that Da S and Zaizai actually went to visit a old elderly. That's because when her grandpa came from China with the government, he ever brought old soldiers. Now, many of them are lonely ones thus Da S and Zaizai took the time to visit them.

When Xiao S went back to her mom's house yesterday at around 6.22pm. Zaizai accompanied the 3 sisters out for a walk and he was even holding on to 2 dogs. All of them drove to Jiang Nan to visit friends and Zaizai mixed with the Xu's house people like a whole family. They talked and laugh as they went , a warm family scene.

Thanks to Zhi You Dian Zi Bao.
21st Nov 2005

Translated by Xiujuan @ OnlyF4

 

Credits: http://ent.tom.com/1306/1362/20051121-162022.html

How To Keep My Love

Cast:

Kim Jeong-Eun

Kim Sang-Gyeong

Oh Seung-Hyun

Summary:

In the film, Kim plays Hyun-ju, a kind-hearted subway worker who is rapidly approaching 30, a psychologically important age - or deadline - for Korean women who want to get married.

Although her job is modest and her friends are total losers, Hyun-ju seems happy since she has been with her faithful boyfriend, So-hun (Kim Sang-gyeong) for the past seven years. The only problem is that she doesn't know why her boyfriend has been hesitant to "pop the question."

It turns out that there's another drama unfolding for So-hun, a good-looking bug terminator. He works for a company specializing in spotting and eliminating insects, bugs or whatever else may be crawling inside offices or homes.

Enter Korea's Renee Zellweger of "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001), a character who makes all kinds of embarrassing mistakes in the course of nabbing her true love. Here Kim Jeong-eun looks foolishly naive, rushing to confront Da-young in person and purchasing 3 million won worth of clothes to compete with her.

Despite the silly role she's given, Kim manages to shine with her impressive acting and ad-libbing. Even when she goes on the lingerie fashion show runway, being mistaken for a model, Kim bats her eyes charmingly and asks the self-evident question like "Ain't I looking beautiful?"

Kim's personal charm, indeed, is the only thing that props up the flimsy storyline. And this is why the first type of people, those who avidly watch every episode of "Lovers in Paris" and get thrilled when Kim is wooed by two ideal men, are the major target of this tweaked Cinderella story.

The second type of people, meanwhile, will feel a sense of solidarity when Kim fights hard to get back her precious boyfriend from the wicked you-know-what.

The underlying idea is that a growing number of Korean men are getting more elusive when it comes to proposals and are quick to come up with all kinds of excuses to delay marriage when confronted by their girlfriends.

Of course, there are no hard facts or statistics to prove this peculiar phenomenon, but some female viewers who enjoyed this film said it's true that more men are dragging their feet.

Girls who are dealing with elusive boyfriends, however, may find it hard to accept what the movie presents as a conclusion: our bug-destroying Prince Charming holds the key - yes, the ultimate key to resolving the conflict, otherwise known as a "pretty personal choice" between the two girls.

Whatever Hyun-ju does in the film, they have nothing to do with So-hun. It is the man who decides which girl he wants to rescue in the end, which is a laughable presumption, whether the critic is feminist or not.

credits to dvdasian.com

What I Think:

Kim Jung Eun is her usual wacky self. I just think that Kim Sang Gyung is just to stiff in his acting.  I just wanted to watch this coz the movie posters and the dvd covers seem to be so enticing and so charming and all... Storyline is shallow, watch this movie if you're really a big fan of both lead actors. Such short review, oh well.

credits: hkflix, hanboks.com for the pictures

Rating:  6 Korean Kimchis out of 10 

Music Playing in the Background: TVXQ- Through the Forest

 

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