I've been experimenting with genealogy vidding I don't know how much others vid outside of fandom, but I've always done some. I have a set of Fine Art videos done to music that I wish I had been able to do in college when I was studying Art History.
But as a genealogy nut, I've recently tried making vids of my ancestry. My brother's children aren't much into reading, so this was an attempt to pass information in a less painful form for them. A failure, I fear, but it was still fun for me. Wondered if anyone else has been experimenting.
"Put Your Head on my Shoulder" is a Chinese romantic comedy, as well as a song by Paul Anka. A young man who studies physics falls for a young ad student. Pursuing her should be easy since their parents have pushed them into sharing an apartment, hoping to eventually unite the families. But, besides being an innocent college senior, the young man has the disadvantage of being tutored in romantic relationships by his physics professor, who agrees that comparing her to Schroedinger's cat is the perfect way to get the girl to fall.
The young ad student, Situ Mo, only met the physics student when her almost boyfriend from high school began using his college roommate to take care of Mo Mo when he preferred to do his own thing - usually basketball. Though Fu Pei had originally asked Mo Mo to date him in college, his weak personality backed out once one of his fans started crying. So their relationship continued ambiguously up to the time Mo Mo moved into Gu Weiyi's parents' apartment. And it ended with a crash when Fu Pei got drunk and imagined that Mo Mo's dorm roommate was Mo Mo and tried to kiss her. Total disaster and the Mo Mo ended the ambiguity for good. (for the Forgiveness video)
"What's Wrong with Secretary Kim" is one of the most popular Korean romantic comedies about how the terrors resulting from his childhood kidnapping have stayed with the Vice Chairman, as have his feelings toward the little girl who shared one day of his ordeal. When he finds her again, as an adult who has forgotten their shared trauma, he brings her into the company as his secretary and grows dependent on her care of him. When she decides she's worked enough to take care of other people and is ready to quit to take care of herself, the Vice Chairman realizes exactly HOW dependent he's become on his secretary. Dependent enough to allow her to marry him. What he never expected was rejection of his offer. The problem worsens when his much-hated brother enters the picture. It's a charming drama with handsome and beautiful leads and the much appreciated, obligatory male shower scene.
S.C.I. Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong. The two leads are Chief of SCI, Bai Yutong, and criminal psychologist, Dr. Zhan Yao. Chief Bai Yutong's sister, Bai Quintang, has just returned to police headquarters from the states, accompanied, as always, by twin monks. She is introduced to the medical examiner and immediately becomes obsessed with him. But her extreme personality comes from childhood trauma, when she was kidnapped and then shot, as the child of a VERY rich family.
SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong. The cases in the first season tie together the relationship of the fathers of the lead characters and the crazy psychologist they imprisoned for twenty years. This video shows the relationship between a magician, the nephew of the crazy psychologist, and his boyhood "friend" and genius novice policeman, the cousin of Chief Bai Yutong.
Bullied by the magician as a child, the bullying continues when they meet again when the magician claims to have stolen the boy's underwear during a magic show. Then the magician pickpockets the boy's housekeys, reads his diary and gets his comeuppance when the boy locks him in.
S.C.I. Mystery Cases - Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen Slash - Dr Zhan Yao/Chief Bai Yutong SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong starring Gao Han Yu as Chief Bai Yutong and Ji Xiao Bing as Dr Zhan Yao, the chief psychologist of the Special Crimes Investigation unit (S.C.I.). Friends since they were infants together, they compete while supporting one another. Chief Bai Yutong, usually wearing white, is skilled in martial arts and the skills needed for a policeman. Dr Zhan Yao is a bust at taking care of himself, but is brilliant at hypnosis.
SCI Mystery Cases - We Belong - Pat Benatar Slash - Dr Zhan Yao/Chief Bai Yutong SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong starring Gao Han Yu as Chief Bai Yutong and Ji Xiao Bing as Dr Zhan Yao, the chief psychologist of the Special Crimes Investigation unit. Friends since they were infants together, they compete while supporting one another. Chief Bai Yutong, usually wearing white, is skilled in martial arts and the skills needed for a policeman. Dr Zhan Yao is a bust at taking care of himself, but is brilliant at hypnosis. The first series ends before you discover the relationship between Dr Zhan Yao and the crazy psychologist, who is the chief villain.
Descendants of the Sun - Unsettled Ways - Gordon Lightfoot
Korean military drama (16 episodes) of the relationship and conflicts between a Special Forces Captain and a medical doctor. Even though as an emergency physician, the doctor has to put her medicine above her relationships, she doesn't want a relationship with a Special Forces soldier that she can't rely will always be there for her. Song Joong Ki was married for several years to his co-star in this movie, Song Hye Kyo.
Descendants of the Sun - I Will Think of You - Laura Browne Sorenson Descendants of the Sun - I Will Think of You - Laura Browne Sorenson Korean military drama of the relationship between a Special Forces Captain and a medical doctor. The stars of this drama were actually married in real life for several years.
https://www.viki.com/tv/23205c-descendants-of-the-sun Korean military drama (16 episodes) of the relationship and conflicts between a Special Forces Captain and a medical doctor. Patriotic and morally uplifting. And my VERY favorite actor, Song Joong Ki, who was married for several years to his co-star in this movie, Song Hye Kyo. He was also in Sungkyunkwan Scandal as one of the four main students, and made this movie right after completing his two years of military service.
YouTube is starting to block my Sungkyunkwan Scandal videos, including the one I did for that drama to this song. But you can find all the videos on my website from my Asian Drama page.
Bromance is a love story between a girl raised as a boy until she turns 26, and a Triad leader dealing with the loss of his father for the past 7 years. When his father returns instinctively to their amusement park, the father has no memory of his son or wife or daughter.
A childhood friend from a connected Triad family thinks he's taken out the current leader's father, as well as the father's blood brother. The return of the father, even with amnesia, almost triggers a gang war. This video shows off the relationship between the adopted Triad leader and his father.
Bromance is a Taiwanese drama about a girl whose parents have forced her to live as a boy until her 26th birthday. 100 days before that, she meets the boy she saved in childhood, and saves him again. He's now the leader of one of 3 Triad families. The two become blood brothers and their closeness grows into attraction. Unusual for this type of drama is that the girl willingly lives the life her parents have determined for her. As is common, the romantic lead is at first nervous about the attraction. What's not common is that the lead makes a choice to go for the relationship, not the simplest decision for a Triad leader. Also surprising is that when he discovers "he" is a "she", he doesn't let her secret out, even to her, but comes completely out in a same sex relationship. Truly a wonderful drama.
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Could anyone be more excited to reach her 26th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo (Megan Lai) had an inauspicious start to her life. When she was born 25 years ago, her parents and extended family – along with their fortuneteller – eagerly awaited her arrival in the delivery room so that they could bless the...
This video is blocked in the United States on YouTube. You can get the link for the YouTube video if you're outside the US from my Asian List on my website.
Asian Art and Dramas Literary Song Videos
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Boys Over Flowers - Big Man - Four Preps
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Koo Jun-Pyo, the heir of the Shinhwa company, is the leader of the high school pack, F4, which is a bunch of bullies. Jun-Pyo meets his match in Geum Jan-Di, a poor girl who stands up to bullies and wins him by her independence. One of the best Korean dramas.
Boys Over Flowers - Kathy's Song - Simon and Garfunkel
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model/Yun Ji-Hu/Geum Jan-Di
Yun Ji-Hu is the gentlest member of the F4 gang. A musician, he's the grandson of an ex president of Korea, who runs a medical clinic in the area. They've been estranged for 15 years, since both feel responsible for the death of Ji-Hu's parents in a car accident. Ji-Hu's first love was the model who brought him out of his childhood isolation and, when she leaves Korea again, he makes the decision to drop out of high school and follow her. It's his love for the model that makes him not give in to loving the heroine when she loves him.
Boys Over Flowers - Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon
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Second lead's love for the heroine. Sigh. Why are second leads always so great!
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“Boys Over Flowers” is one of the biggest Korean drama hits of our time, sweeping ratings and awards across Asia in 2009 and 2010.
This Korean take on the popular Japanese manga of the same name tackles complex issues involving outcasts, socio-economic disparity, family, love and friendship.
"Better to Be You" by Drew Ryan Scott for Meow, the Secret Boy
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Thru a tale of misunderstandings, Jae Seon, the boy Sol Ah loves, thinks that Sol Ah has abandoned a kitten and, abandoned often as a child, he pulls away from her. But when a new girlfriend returns the rescued cat 10 years later, Jae Seon reluctantly allows Sol Ah to keep it until he can find it a new home, allergies preventing him from keeping it himself. And that’s when the cat discovers that, when he’s with Sol Ah, he can become human. As misunderstandings resolve, a love triangle complicates the situation.
I've become so obsessed with Asian dramas that I stopped dead making music videos. Really hope that finishing this one means I can get back to work.
Meow, the Secret Boy, is essentially a 2020 Korean drama art film. I'm most reminded of Walter Farley's The Black Stallion. The cat is played by "L", a famous Korean boy-band star.
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Une graphiste d'une vingtaine d'années, Sol Ah (Shin Ye Eun), rêve de devenir auteur de bande dessinée en ligne et a toujours eu une relation ambivalente avec les chats.
Sa vie prend un tournant inattendu lorsqu'elle ramène chez elle un sympathique félin — il s'avère en fait que ce vieux chat n'en...
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Must admit that my favorite scene is where the ex-boyfriend discovers that the girl sleeps with the cat (not knowing it’s not JUST a cat). He suggests this might be a good time to take the cat in for neutering. In the music video scene, the ex is in the red sweater, the cat in his normal white. Great expressions!
