Halu, Halu, Halu…

Pride, the Japanese drama starring my iichiban idol Takuya Kimura will be shown on Channel U soon! Yesh! :grin: Those who haven’t watched this MUST watch. Takuya is cho kakoii here as an ice hockey captain. I want this man!!! And his female co-star Takeuchi Yuko is so loveable as Aki… Both are really compatible in this dorama. Halu’s other team mates are pretty good looking too.

Watch out for the goalkeeper Hotta Yamato acted by the good looking Sakaguchi Kenji. He’s the one Halu calls “chimpanzee” in the drama. Even though I’ve like seen the drama a few times on VCD, I’m gonna watch it again. Just can’t resist Halu. I was also hooked on the theme song “I was born to love you” by Queen.

Okay here are some illustrations and screen shots of TK in the drama. The illustration on the left is so cool… I stumbled upon it here and saw a few more on the drama here. Whoo hoo! And an excerpt from Daily Yomiuri, Wm. Penn dated January 22, 2004:

With Pride, Takuya Kimura has done it again. This time around he’s Haru, an ice hockey star, and he sent the ratings puck zipping skyward in week one with the assistance of a sharply honed Shinji Nojima script. It’s an entertaining romance with some serious undertones and lots of ice hockey action. Haru (spelled Halu on his uniform to provide a more exotic touch) idolizes his first coach, Anzai, played by Saburo Tokito, who, like Yukari, is also killed off in the very first episode. But he hovers over the story and Haru’s life as he tries to cope with the new irritating coach played by Koichi Sato. One of the things Anzai has instilled in him is that he can’t fall in love. Romance has to be a game during his serious playing career. He has no trouble following those rules until he meets Aki. It starts out as a game as his friends pick up her friends and he observes that she may be one of those rare, old-type Japanese girls who is not so quickly picked up or toyed with. This makes the game more enticing because that is the kind of woman he really wants. When Haru finds she is waiting for a long-gone boyfriend to return, he suggests they should just hang out together until then. Since neither wants to get serious, it will be safe for both of them. She sees through this line but agrees.

And you know what? My TK got his own Takuya Kimura Wiki here neh! This is so awesome!

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