Synopsis:
Part I.
The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students’ lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamagu (more…)

Synopsis
The story revolves around a high school teacher and coach that tries to reform delinquents by having them join the baseball team.

Language : Japanese

Subtitle : Chinese / English

Video Format : NTSC

Region Code : ALL

Model : DVD9

Discs : 2

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Six acclaimed adaptations bring to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Shaw’s classic plays, highlighting the vitality of his work, as well as the ideas and critiques embedded in it. Titles included are: Arms and the Man, starring Helena Bonham Carter; The Devil’s Disciple, starring Patrick Stewart and Ian Richardson; Mrs. Warren’s Profession, starring Coral Browne; Pygmalion, starring Lynn Redgrave; Heartbreak House, starring Jo (more…)

Though Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess may rank among his lesser works, it is given a top-drawer staging in this 1972 BBC production. Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite) is priceless as Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga Fitzfassenden, a woman every bit as impossible as her name. Epifania, “a woman brought up on seven figures” is, as her amused lawyer observes, “a comic figure in her misery.” Her feckless husband has taken up with a more affectionate younger (more…)

Lush, dramatic, and beautifully acted, the BBC’s three-part miniseries Sense & Sensibility captures the languid urgency that resonates throughout the Jane Austen novel on which it is based. The miniseries begins with a seduction scene: As a young girl cautiously gives herself to a man, she asks, “But when will you come back?” He answers ominously, “Soon… very soon,” and gallops off into the night. We know what she does not–that he will not return for her. But viewers do not lear (more…)

This is a new Korean TV drama set on the Cambridge campus, received the highest viewer ratings in one of the weeks among all programs in the same time slot. It features a love story between two male Harvard law students and the object of their desire – a female doctor-to-be enrolled across the river at Harvard Medical School.

Kim Rae Won is a law student while Kim Tae Hee is a medical student. How they start dating in Harvard? What they think about their lives? This drama depicts (more…)

LANGUAGE(Audio) : Japanese

SUBTITLE : Chinese / English (On/Off)

REGION : 2 Disc/ALL REGION (NTSC)

The Story :
Yamashita Tomohisa and Nagasawa Masami play a young man and woman who have been friends since elementary school. Yamashita’s character? I was Ken is obstinate and unskilled in love? but he fell long ago for the lively and cheerful woman? Yoshida Rei? played by Nagasawa. But Rei is about to get married to another man. While Ken and other friends from high-school attend (more…)

“Great crime series” –NPR “Smartly crafted and acted” –San Francisco Chronicle Crime-to-court suspense from Lynda La Plante Created and written by Lynda La Plante–”the playwright laureate of women crime-stoppers” (NPR’s Weekend Edition)–this British series displays the same hard-bitten sensibility and emotional resonance that made Prime Suspect a television landmark. Each drama follows a single case from crime to conclusion. Every twist in the investigation and turn in the tri (more…)

George Eliot’s accomplished but underrated last novel is effectively, often stirringly, adapted for this 2002 BBC production, which was scripted by old pro Andrew Davies (Middlemarch) and directed with wit and subtlety by Tom Hooper (Cold Feet). Set in the 1870s, Eliot’s story concerns two strong-willed young people whose self-determination is under attack by legal constraints on their rights to an inheritance. The noble Daniel (Hugh Dancy) is of dubious birth; the fiery Gwendolen (more…)

Adam Bede is the very definition of a brash young man. George Eliot’s young English country hero is headstrong and arrogant, and sees the world in black and white–not unlike his 18th-century countrymen, living and (barely) breathing by the strict moral code of the day. In this excellent 1991 BBC adaptation, Adam is played by the appealing Iain Glen, who shows he’s as comfortable in a sweeping period drama as he is in popcorn fare like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider or the Resident Evil film (more…)