Long Vacation (Japan Version) DVD Region 2

Kimura Takuya | Yamaguchi Tomoko | Matsu Takako | Takenouchi Yutaka

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June 16, 2006

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BEST Romantic Comedy Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

"Long Vacation" is a romantic comedy TV drama, starring Yamaguchi Tomoko(Minami) and Kimura Takuya (Sena). Minami is a 31-year old model, who is supposed to get married and retire from her modelling career. On her wedding day, the groom does not show up for the wedding ceremony. In her traditional Japanese wedding clothes, she runs to his apartment to look for him, only to find his roommate, Sena. Sena is a 24-year old pianist and part-time piano teacher. He is preparing for the next piano competition.

Minami asks Sena where her fiance is. She looks through her fiance's room and finds a letter. That is when she discovers that he does not want to marry her and left town. What is she to do? She doesn't have any money and she had given up her apartment. The next day, she comes over to Sena and forces herself into his apartment, asking him to let her stay.

Sena is a good pianist, but when he plays the piano, it is very technical, the music he plays does not display emotions. His former college professor tells him that he must have more life experiences in order to develop emotions in the music he plays. The more time he spends with Minami, he starts to have strong feelings for her. This is when he plays music that starts to have various deep emotions.

I love this show very much. It is about falling in love with someone whom you thought you wouldn't be able to fall in love with. It is about how one person can affect another person in a very deep and emotional way. Also it is about the miracle of love that helps a person to have courage to go for their dreams and turning them into reality.

Kimura Takuya's performance is superb. He starts off with this very innocent face, a very clean cut personality and afraid to show his feelings. Then towards the end, he turns into this man that is very brave and wanting the world to know what he thinks and feels. Yamaguchi Tomoko's performance is great. I love how she plays Minami with a very outgoing and cheerful personality. Sometimes she is very strong, but sometimes deep inside she is very fragile.

"Long Vacation" has a great soundtrack. 'Sena's Piano II' by Daisuke Hinata, this piece can be found on Cagnet's "Best of Cagnet World" CD. Also, the fantastic theme song "La La La Love Song" sang by Kubota Toshinobu, which can be found on his single 'La La La Love Song' and on his 'La La La Love Thang' CD and on his 'The Baddest III' CD. For those who want to have all the music from the show, then you might want to get the 'Long Vacation Original Soundtack Special Box' which contains 4 CDs.