Bambino! – Episode 4

Bambino! バンビーノ! Episode 4 Ban’s back home with his Girlfriend but he dearly misses that place he went to with the food and stuff. So he decides he’s going to quit university, pack his bags and move to Tokyo permanently to pursue his career as a chef. But Eri, the girlfriend, doesn’t want to give up her whole life just for Ban. So she goes on a journey to that...

Bambino! – Episode 3

Bambino! バンビーノ! Episode 3 It’s a busy weekend. Ban starts to realise what he can do to be even better than he can be. And then, it’s comes to the end of Ban’s stay at the restaurant in Tokyo, and yet he still hasn’t done any real cooking. He begins to think about his future and what he wants to do… ...

Bambino! – Episode 2

Bambino! バンビーノ! Episode 2 In this episode Ban tries his hardest in the kitchen. Chopping veges and washing dishes, however, isn’t what he pictured he’d be doing. And then, he gets careless and chops off his finger… ...

Bambino – Episode 1

Bambino! バンビーノ! Bambino is the story of Ban Shogo, played by the one and only Matsumoto Jun, a coutry boy who comes to Tokyo with the desire to be a chef. In his home town of Fukuoka he was praised as being an excellent chef, but in Tokyo he realises that he has a lot to learn. Still, he has a determination to keep at it to be the best chef he can be. To sum up this episode, it was...

Gokusen

Gokusen, a quirky little drama, but nothing substantially original in it. This is the story of Yamaguchi Kumiko, 23 years old and single, who is the new maths teacher at Shirokin High School. Her home room is 3-D, the class full of all the misfits of the school. Kumiko also has a secret. She is a 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group – think of the Japanese Mafia. If the school finds out...