Asian Beauty Appreciation

Recently a comment was posted about Oppai Volleyball. The reader agreed that Haruka Ayase is indeed nice to look at and suggested that she is now appearing (and looking good) in an ongoing and most worthwhile Japanese TV drama series called JIN. The series has a wonderful 9:00 PM on Sunday night prime time slot. Its broadcast can be seen on the TBS channel in Japan.

That was enough of cue for me. In the simplest of terms, a modern day brain surgeon, Dr. Jin Minakata played by Takao Osawa, is transported back in time. He takes a tumble down some steps in a Tokyo hospital and when he awakens, he finds that he is in Edo (now called Tokyo) in 1862.  He will meet Haruka Ayase who plays the daughter, Saki Tachibana, of a noble household. This story could be described best as  Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court meets the US TV Series House in the Japan of almost 150 years ago.

In the first Episode, Jin struggles to get his bearings. He’s not sure what has happened to him. He had come through the time warp with a small utilitarian medical kit, and for dramatic purposes and to move the story along, he had to perform a couple of emergency surgeries to locals who had suffered head traumas.

In the second episode, the Doctor is now assisted, at least initially against her families wishes, by Saki. In this episode, they have to deal with an outbreak of the highly contagious cholera disease.

Like all the time travelers we’ve seen in the movies and TV before, Dr. Jin is faced with the dilemma of whether or not he should alter history by doing something or allowing history to remain as it was by not doing something.

Whether we are discussing A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a novel written by Mark Twain 1n 1898 which became a movie starring Bing Crosby in 1949, or the The Time Machine, a 1960 film starring Rod Taylor adopted from the 1895 novel by H.G.Wells, or The Terminator, the 1984 film directed by James Cameron – each of the time traveler heroes faced this same question.

But in the series JIN, we can also look at the marvels of modern technology which displays the long range CGI images Edo of 1862. Or the smaller scale homes and villages which become the sets.

Also take note of the on location settings in which Mother Nature’s handiwork must be mentioned and praised.

Finally, there are a good number of some very fine Japanese actors and actresses in the various roles. All in period costumes.

From the two episodes that I’ve watched, it is obvious that this production was quite costly to mount and produce.

As you can see from the images, Haruka Ayase is still gorgeous and very much of a worthy leading lady.

You can read about this TV series and watch a trailer on the Asiawmediaiki here. Click this link: http://asianmediawiki.com/Jin_(2009-Japan-TBS)

Or you can get more details at the D-Addicts Wiki here:
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/JIN

And finally, even if you can’t read or speak Japanese you can still look over this wonderful TV series with many image galleries at the Official site here:
http://www.tbs.co.jp/jin2009/