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hanabananalog · 13 days ago

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Slow Train (2025) special drama eng sub

I am excited to share this wonderfully kind and poignant story about three adult siblings who lost their parents in a car accident over twenty years ago and continue to live in their childhood home in Kamakura.

Youko the eldest sibling (played by the incredible Matsu Takako) is an outspoken literary editor and still unmarried in her forties, which seems to bother the people around her - particularly one of her authors, Momeki Ken (Hoshino Gen). Miyako the middle child (Tabe Mikako) is a restless soul and about to move to Busan, South Korea, with her Korean boyfriend (Joo Jong Hyuk) on what seems like a whim. Ushio the little brother (Matsuzaka Toori) works as a tracklayer for a local railway company and hides his gay relationship from Youko for a very particular reason.

I cannot recommend this drama enough! It's such a gentle study on loss, loneliness, time and the transience of living as well as on the importance of being honest with yourself.

Set in both Kamakura and Busan, the scenery is soothing to the eye. All the actors are fantastic (including appearances from Lily Franky, Iiura Arata and Uno Shouhei), the dry humour in Nogi Akiko's script is delightful.

I am very fond of this project and hope you will give it a chance!

The length of this drama is 1 hour and 51 minutes.

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Notes:

Kamakura is a seaside town and a popular tourist destination in Kanagawa Prefecture about an hour from Tokyo.

Hako-nee: Youko's nickname. The first kanji in her name (葉) can be read as ha, a leaf. Nee is older sister.

Shibuya and Meguro are special wards in Tokyo.

In Japanese, the word for enrichment is uruoi, moisture. This is why Youko touches her face when Momeki asks whether there's any enrichment in her enclosure.

Enoden that Ushio works for is short for Enoshima Electric Railway. It's a local railway line connecting Kamakura with Fujisawa.

Tatamu: The reason Nikaidou-sensei talks about folding stuff is because in Japanese this verb also means to bring something to an end.

Bonseki: Ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on trays using sand and pebbles. The artwork is temporary and will be swept clean once finished.

Wabi-sabi: aesthetic concepts that center on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

Sabishii: This story is a study on loneliness. However, in Japanese sabishii contains more meanings than just lonely; it's both lonely and sad. I've translated it both ways depending on the situation but please know that they are all related in the original text. Sabishii is the feeling of not having or lacking something. Youko also connects it to the aesthetic of sabi.

Hoshino Gen who plays Momeki Ken is one of my favourite artists (he's also a really great actor and an overall funny person), so I'll just plug a couple of his songs here haha.

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hanabananalog · 13 days ago

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Mikami Sensei (Winter 2025)

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hanabananalog · 2 months ago

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Lee Jin ah cover of Always With Me (Howl's Moving Castle OST )

#イ・ジナ #이진아 #leejinah #studio ghibli #howl moving castle #いつも何度でも #千と千尋の神隱し

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hanabananalog · 9 months ago

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give up | By Nevi Ayu E.

An illustrated poster based on Peppertones' Give Up, omg I love the songs in that album! And so embrace yourselves haha, I will explain each square from top to bottom, left to right:

Countdown to Sunrise board with N-3-V-3-R hours left from the lyrics 뜨지 않는 해처럼, 끝나지 않는 밤처럼 like the sun that doesn't rise, like the never ending night, and it continues with,

목을 조르는 지독한 절망의 순간 a moment of terrible despair strangling the-man-in-the story's neck.

An almost closed eye from the lyrics 조용히 지친 눈을 감으려 한다 the man was silently closing his tired eyes.

The "hey", a voice heard from somewhere, is a repeated verse in the song, but with different lyrics.

A pair of shoes standing in a lit spot with darkness surrounding it from the lyrics 해가 비춘 어느 날, 그가 마침내 멈춘 곳 one day, the sun was shining on the spot the man was standing (i guess, lol)

거기 남겨져있는 천 개의 우산 a thousand umbrellas left there. Ah I took the umbrella memo design from the fan event for Peppertones' 20th anniversary!

오오 절망이여 나를 포기하여라 o despair, give up on me, the real meaning of give up from the song.

A cursor on the play button of a realtime moving video of the earth from the lyrics 아주 오래전 멈춰버린 이 세상이 지금 아주 조금 움직인 것 같아 this world that stopped for a very long time had started to move a little.

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hanabananalog · 1 year ago

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Tiny Desk Korea

YunSeokcheol Trio