Proposal Daisakusen (Operation Love)

Cast:

Yamashita Tomohisa as Iwase Ken
Nagasawa Masami as Yoshida Rei
Fujiki Naohito as Tada Tetsuya
Eikura Nana as Oku Eri
Hiraoka Yuta as Enokido Mikio
Hamada Gaku as Tsurumi Hisashi
Mikami Hiroshi as the Yosei/Fairy

At first, I was decided not to do a review for this dorama because I might have the tendency to be overtly biased due to the fact that watching this killed my present and the next thing I know, I'm stuck singing Mongol800's 'Chiisana Koi no Uta' over and over again.

Then I realized... I just can't.


Ken-zou and Rei


I was sent down memory lane while watching the 11 episodes of the drama. It focused on taking a second look on the things/events and people that have been part of one's past. And I couldn't resist to do mind-browsing of all that had happened during my elementary, high school and university days as I became involved in the friendship of Ken, Rei, Eri, Mikio and Hisashi.

This drama is not simply reliving the past or correcting it. The character of Iwase Ken showed a lot of regret because of what he did that troubled his present but he was also very prudent when he had the opportunity to change his past. It was not a selfish act of doing what he was supposed to do: tell Rei his feelings. It was more of learning from what people have said that he probably just ignored before, listening to what he had heard, feeling what he had touched, realizing what he had known. I could so much relate to the drama in the sense that I have probably asked myself gazillion times, 'What could've happened if I were like this in high school?', or, 'What would it be like to say this or do this to a particular person?'. Growing up entails having a slice of regret for what had happened or what you've done. And sometimes, only through moments such as this, we get to notice that there is something wonderful in the most trivial time of our life.

My favorite scene in the drama is also the scene wherein I cried... a lot. It was when Ken was given the second 'chance' to solve why Rei wasn't smiling in the picture during his birthday. It was all because of a CD: Mongol800's Message. It was a bittersweet panorama of youth.



I couldn't say anything more about the drama because I would be too cruel to spill everything here. All I can say is it's very very nostalgia-driven, youth-laden, past-centered drama.

Oh, and I might add, I felt like I was back in high school again, thinking about crushes and what I could've done.


First Hallelujah Chance: His first attempt to correct the past





How cruel life is: Ken was asked to deliver a speech for the newly weds (his teacher in the university, Tada-san and the woman of his dreams, Yoshida Rei)