Saturday, April 19, 2014

352. First Kiss


Title: 真愛配方 (真爱配方) / Zhen Ai Pei Fang
English Title: First Kiss
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16

Summary: Lies and betrayals turned friends to foes. Can forgiveness and unconditional love quench a vengeful heart?

351. In A Good Way

Title: 我的自由年代 / Wo Men Zi You Nian Dai
English Title: In A Good Way
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 26

Summary: In the summer of 1995, childhood friends Zheng Ren Wei and Lin Jia En took their college entrance exam. Zheng got into a college in Taipei and was ready to start an exciting life in the big city. Lin, unfortunately, failed the test and was stuck in the countryside. Bored out of her mind, Lin decided to go find Zheng and spend her 4th year of high school in Taipei as well.

350. Machi Action

Title: 变身
English Title: Machi Action
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2013

Summary: 《宇宙超人FLY》was once a smash hit television program. In recent years, due to declining ratings, Tie Nan who played Superman for nearly 10 years and his monster partner were replaced by a whole new generation of Superman FACE as actor without any warning by the new chairman Su Yingying.

349. A Hint of You


Title: 美味的想念 / Mei Wei De Xiang Nian
English Title: A Hint of You
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 68

Summary: Xia Qing You works as a cook at her small family owned seafood restaurant that was started by her late father. She is unaware that the dishes she creates are subpar, until Fu Zai Yu dines at her restaurant one evening and harshly criticizes her cooking. Not taking his comments well, she, her family and regular patrons at the restaurant out number Zai Yu in his argument. One day a VIP customer who was a regular patron of her father reserves the entire restaurant and pays top dollars to taste a lobster dish he had eaten when her dad was running the restaurant. After tasting Qing You's dishes he is not happy and starts comparing her father's cooking to hers, he also tells her that her level of cooking will eventually put the restaurant out of business. After finding out that her father was once a chef at the high end Hana Japanese Restaurant, she decides to dine there to have a taste of their food. At Hana she runs into Zai Yu, who is the head chef at the restaurant. He cooks her his signature egg friend rice dish to show her how good food should taste like. Upon her first bite it brings her back to the taste of her father's fried rice dish. After many failed attempts at duplicating the taste of Zai Yu's dish, she begs and stalks Zai Yu to accept her as his student in order to learn how to make his fried rice dish.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

348. Shiawase Ni Narou Yo

Title: 幸せになろうよ / Shiawase ni Narou yo
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Romantic, Comedy
Episodes: 11


Summary: The story involves Katori playing a successful advisor at a marriage consultation agency that aims to bring together people looking for partners. Kuroki plays one of the agency's clients, who is “so beautiful” that the manual he uses doesn't apply to her, while Fujiki plays a rich and handsome lawyer who is also a client. Katori starts to fall for Kuroki, but as a professional, he pairs the two together.

347. Rock 'N' Road

Title: A咖的路 / A Ka De Lu
English Title: Rock N' Road
Genre: Musical, Romance
Episodes: 16

Summary: When they first met, Lin Wei Zhen was a former child star who tried to get back her old glory and failed. Zhou Shu Yu, on the hand, was a legendary music producer who produced hit after hit. They were not even on the same league. But when a friend's betrayal caused Zhou to lose everything, trouble maker Lin was the only one who stood by his side. Now they partnered up to maneuver the difficult road of getting back on top.

346. Tai Chi

Title: 太極之零開始 / 太極:從零開始 / 太極2 英雄崛起
English Title: Tai Chi Zero/ Tai Chi Hero
Genre: Action, Adventure
Year: 2012

Summary:
Tai Chi Zero: Yang travels to Chen Village to learn a powerful form of Tai Chi. Though villagers are forbidden from teaching outsiders, Yang becomes their best hope for survival when a man arrives with a plan to build a railroad through the village. 

Tai Chi Hero: The continuing adventure of Yang Lu Chan as he bumbles his way through learning Chen-style kung fu. Which is later named by the Prince as "Tai Chi", henceforth no longer known as just Chen style. Yang Lu Chan evolves from the Bumbling Idiot into the first stage of being the most formidable Tai Chi Master and wins the heart of Chen Yu Niang, daughter of the Chen Grandmaster.


345. Love Happens

Title: Love Happens
Genre: Drama Romance
Year: 2009

Summary: Burke Ryan, is a successful Ph.D. and author of a self-help book that gives advice about dealing with the loss of a loved one. He writes the book after his wife dies in a car accident as a way to deal with the grief. While giving a workshop in Seattle, where his wife was from, he meets Eloise, a creative floral designer who owns her own flower-shop. She spurns his initial advance as her past relationships with men have not gone well, but after a heated exchange in the men's restroom, she meets him for dinner. Even though the dinner is awkward, they begin spending time together although she insists to her mother and her employee Marty (Judy Greer) that they are not "dating". It seems, however, that Burke has not been following his own advice, and in fact has not been dealing with the loss of his wife. In the end, he confesses to an audience that he was driving the car, and not his wife, as he previously maintained. Due to this, he blames himself for her death. Eloise, along with his wife's father, help Burke move past his wife's death. Burke goes to Eloise, telling her that she had spent the last few days getting to know the part of him that was not available and wondered was she interested in getting to know the part of him that was available.