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NEWS: Crunchyroll Streams Live-Action Show I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper

The K-drama, The Suspicious Housekeeper (which you can watch on Dramafever or Hulu) was a remake of this J-drama.

mdo7 wrote:

The K-drama, The Suspicious Housekeeper (which you can watch on Dramafever or Hulu) was a remake of this J-drama.

Thanks for this info. After reading the ANN news article, I was wondering which one was the original (or if they were both derived from some other source material).

I watched The Suspicious Housekeeper on Hulu a couple of months ago and found it to be a highly entertaining show with a great cast (especially the youngest daughter). One would expect that the original version might be even better.

If anyone cares, a few other J-to-K drama remakes:

Boys Over Flowers is an inferior* remake of Hana Yori Dango (or more specifically it's another adaptation of the same source manga);
The Man Who Can't Get Married is a remake of Kekkon Dekinai Otoko; To the Beautiful You is a remake of Hana-Kimi (again, same source manga, and I should note that, inexplicably, there was even a Japanese remake in 2011, only 4 years after the original drama); and most recently they're about to attempt a remake on Nodame Cantabile (to which I say, good luck!).

*Controversial statement, I know.

P.S. I should add I'd rather punch myself in the face than watch a Korean attempt on Summer Nude, but it's just because I got so attached to those characters and that setting. Also I'm not sure what a K-drama would make of it-- no one is rich or famous or an heir to anything, their parents don't interfere in their lives (because they're, y'know, adults), and everyone runs around in jeans & t-shirts and flipflops.

Well Summer Nude is not going to get an overseas release due to Yamapi (aka Johnny's idols being a roadblock for overseas release, so forget it). So remaking it as a K-drama is the only option and I can take the remake over the original since that is my only option.

^No offense mdo7, but I think this is not so much making it "more interesting" as pretty much remove everything charming and subtle about the original, from the small town setting to the (thank god!) adult-age characters and the type of loss (bereavement/PTSD [!] is a very different situation to explore than the much more subtle "She left me but I don't understand why and I'm gonna stall out my life here where it's comfortable and unchallenging"). What you've outlined misses the point of the original story, in which case why bother with an adaptation-- just make another random Korean melodrama (my least favorite K-drama genre, unshockingly).

mdo7 wrote:

Well Summer Nude is not going to get an overseas release due to Yamapi (aka Johnny's idols being a roadblock for overseas release, so forget it). So remaking it as a K-drama is the only option and I can take the remake over the original since that is my only option.

The thing is though, does it matter if it gets an overseas release? The rights holders have no obligation to make this (or any other J-drama) available to any other country. It's nice that Korea and Taiwan do it, but that doesn't mean Japan has to follow suit, no matter how much it bothers you personally. A K-drama remake may be your only option but quite honestly that's a restriction you've put on yourself, for reasons which make sense for you. I've watched J-dramas for a long time now and I sleep just fine at night, if you know what I mean.

I guess this is rather off-topic for a thread about Kaseifu no Mita so if this conversation goes any further I'll take it to PM.