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Review: Love shuffle

When you want to shake things up and see if the grass is greener on the other side: What do you do, you love shuffle the hell out of your shit. What do you do when your girlfriend refuses your marriage proposal? You love shuffle your shit? And what do you do when you've got a girl who is suicidal? Well...of course you love shuffle the bitch! Welcome to the world of love shuffling. A place where you can kiss and bang who you like, as long as it's in the name of trying to find true love. Damn, I need to find me a world like that! Until you or I find it, we'll voyeuristically enjoy the fantasy of it, which stars Hiroshi Tamaki. 4 strangers, all successful in their own respective fields have a chance encounter with one another in their complex elevator - only to find they all live on the same floor and also have one other thing in common: their relationships have gone a little stale and need livening up. They come up with the idea of love shuffling: switching partners in a bid ...

J-drama review: Maou

Maou is based on the 2007 Korean drama The Devil , which centres around a theme of death and revenge. I'm not sure why or how I've ended up latching onto these depressing drama's as of late. But after the wife beating fest that was Last friends , I jumped straight into Maou. Good times! People die in this drama...boy do they die. Naoto Serizawa is a hot headed police officer. Always going against the book to arrest low life's. Little do his peers realize that his relentlessness to rid the street of low life's is Naoto repenting for his past sin's of bullying and killing a classmate during his high school years. You than have Naruse, a lawyer who is known as 'The Angel attorney', due to him helping those whom many refuse to represent. Unknown to Officer Serizawa, this attorney is the brother of the boy who was killed years ago and he is hell bent on revenge. Naoto is played by Toma Ikuta, which is partly what attracted me to this drama - as he has a coo...