@FlyboyM The Gintama and Rurouni Kenshin live action movies were good, but the one that really stands out to me until now is the Nodame Cantabile TV drama. Ueno Juri’s Nodame is so iconic that she’s going to reprise the role in a Nodame musical coming this October, but this time with a different Chiaki
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-03-21/juri-ueno-returns-as-nodame-for-nodame-cantabile-musical/.196231 The thing is, Tamaki Hiroshi’s Chiaki is equally iconic for me so it feels strange not having both of them back, but based on her birdsite account it seems like Ueno herself didn’t expect to play Nodame in 2023 😂 And Tamaki Hiroshi played Tacchan in the 2022 live action movie Way of the Househusband…