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Fukuyado Honpo
Jun. 18th, 2018 01:17 pmFukuyoshi Hina, Arare, and Hana are three sisters whose family run Fukuya, a 450-year-old traditional Japanese confectionery shop in Kyoto. This is the story of their individual romances, love of family and sacrifices for the sake of protecting tradition. (mydramalist-2016)
Visually speaking, this drama is gorgeous. The setting (Kyoto), the old shop, the traditional sweets, the traditional houses, kimonos, etc. It was like a moving postcard, every scene was beautiful.
The story, however, was boring. At first it was good, I liked how Arare and Ken-chan loved to quarrel, and I felt identified with Arare since we are both the middle sister and the most rebellious one. Also, she works on a tourism information center (in Kyoto Station it seems) and I also work on tourism. I liked that she wasn't thin as her sisters.
But it went downhill around the middle, all melodramatic like a soap opera. Each sister with her own love problem. I didn't understan Hina (the oldest sister) at all. I though she was marrying the LDH guy to escape from the shop but it seemed like she cared for him? Why? They talked 2 words, she realizes he has soemthing with the geiko and even so, proceeds with the ceremony but doesn't register the marriage and doesn't want to sleep with him. What was the point? Her husband was a wimp -a robotic wimp-, not sure if it was because the guy couldn't act or what, but he was so unlikeable and I was bored to death with their dramatic "love" story.
Ken-chan was fine at first but then he plays hard to get and just brings more drama to the story.
Hana, the youngest sister, was ok but her love interest was a wimp who disappears without a word. He later comes back without an excuse and she just forgives him... why didn't he reply any of her letters? It didn't make any sense.
The whole drama was all looks and no heart. I couldn't feel their love for their shop, for their tradition, for their family... yes, plenty of love drama, but I don't care for romance in my dramas.. I prefer more heart, which this one didn't have.
***My rating: 4.5/10**
Visually speaking, this drama is gorgeous. The setting (Kyoto), the old shop, the traditional sweets, the traditional houses, kimonos, etc. It was like a moving postcard, every scene was beautiful.
The story, however, was boring. At first it was good, I liked how Arare and Ken-chan loved to quarrel, and I felt identified with Arare since we are both the middle sister and the most rebellious one. Also, she works on a tourism information center (in Kyoto Station it seems) and I also work on tourism. I liked that she wasn't thin as her sisters.
But it went downhill around the middle, all melodramatic like a soap opera. Each sister with her own love problem. I didn't understan Hina (the oldest sister) at all. I though she was marrying the LDH guy to escape from the shop but it seemed like she cared for him? Why? They talked 2 words, she realizes he has soemthing with the geiko and even so, proceeds with the ceremony but doesn't register the marriage and doesn't want to sleep with him. What was the point? Her husband was a wimp -a robotic wimp-, not sure if it was because the guy couldn't act or what, but he was so unlikeable and I was bored to death with their dramatic "love" story.
Ken-chan was fine at first but then he plays hard to get and just brings more drama to the story.
Hana, the youngest sister, was ok but her love interest was a wimp who disappears without a word. He later comes back without an excuse and she just forgives him... why didn't he reply any of her letters? It didn't make any sense.
The whole drama was all looks and no heart. I couldn't feel their love for their shop, for their tradition, for their family... yes, plenty of love drama, but I don't care for romance in my dramas.. I prefer more heart, which this one didn't have.
***My rating: 4.5/10**
