On February 22nd, a premiere for upcoming movie “Thermae Romae” was held at Cinema The Space in Rome, Italy. The main cast members Abe Hiroshi, Ueto Aya, and the director of the movie Takeuchi Hideki attended this overseas stage greeting.
“Thermae Romae” is a live-action adaptation of Yamazaki Mari’s popular manga. It’s a story of Lucius (played by Abe), …
It’s been revealed that pop duo moumoon’s new song, “Love is Everywhere“, was chosen as the CM tune for Canon’s ‘IXY‘. This song will be released as their new single on March 14th.
Canon’s new CM will broadcast starting early March, and will star actress Yoshitaka Yuriko. In the CM, Yoshitaka will capture scenes of the beach, mountains, cities, and skylines with …
On March 7th, NTV will live broadcast a special music program titled “Nittere-kei Ongaku no Saiten Ongaku no Chikara 2012” to help support recovery efforts for the Tohoku earthquake.
In addition to relay broadcasting from the disaster area, many gorgeous artists will perform “cheering up songs” at the studio in Tokyo. The main host of the program will be Arashi’s Sakurai …
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" / "In Time" / "Always: Sunset on Third Street 3"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" / "In Time" / "Always: Sunset on Third Street 3"
“In Time” opened on top of the box office, while the only new Japanese movie “Afro Tanaka” opened in at number ten.
The action thriller “In Time” experienced a very successful opening weekend in Japan and attracted 203,049 people (427 screens) over the weekend (261,161 …
It’s been revealed that Ikimonogakari will be singing the theme song for Detective Conan’s 16th animated film, “Meitantei Conan 11-ninme no Striker“.
In this new film, ‘Edogawa Conan’ tackles a case that takes place within the J-League (Japan Professional Football League).
Five well-known J-League players, Endo Yasuhito (Gamba Osaka), Konno Yasuyuki (Gamba Osaka), Nakamura Kengo (Kawasaki Frontale), Narazaki Seigo …
TBS’ weekly music program ‘Coming Soon!!’ live broadcasted their episode of February 20th. Check out the performances of the week after the cut!
Drama Prime Time Report – February 17th~19th
Drama Prime Time Report – February 17th~19th
This season the dramas have a hard time getting viewers excited, thus resulting in gradually declining ratings throughout the whole lineup of winter dramas. In the middle of all this, TBS‘ Sunday drama even had to admit defeat against Fuji TV’s Sunday drama for the first time ever since the latter decided to …
As mentioned in the previous article, two networks announced new dramas starring a member from Arashi. The other network is NTV, who announced a new drama called ‘Mikeneko Holmes no Suiri‘, starring Aiba Masaki as the protagonist.
‘Mikeneko Holmes no Suiri’ is based on a popular ‘Mikeneko Holmes‘ mystery novel series by Akagawa Jiro. It tells the story of ‘Katayama …
Two networks have just announced a new drama for the upcoming season and they both will be starring a member from the popular group Arashi. One of the networks is Fuji TV, who finally lifted the secret about their next Monday drama. It’s title is going to be ‘Kagi no Kakatta Heya‘ and will star Ohno Satoshi as the protagonist.
‘Kagi …
It’s been announced that singer Nishino Kana will be providing the theme song for Karina’s upcoming movie, ‘GIRL‘.
The movie is based on Okuda Hideo’s novel of the same title, which has sold over 30,000 copies. Actresses Aso Kumiko, Kichise Michiko, and Itaya Yuka will also star in the movie.
Producer Kubota Osamu explained that he chose Nishino to sing the …
AKB48’s Oshima Yuko has been cast as the heroine for upcoming movie, “Yamikin Ushijima-kun“!
Oshima will play the role of ‘Suzuki Miko’, a freeter (permanent part-timer) who works at a ‘dating cafe’ in order to pay off her mother’s debt. “I felt uneasy about the character, but I was able to pull through by being surrounded …
After hosting some fantastic performances this week, popular music program Music Japan has now unveiled their stellar lineup for next week’s episode!
The show has announced that for their February 26th episode, fans can expect performances from AKB48’s Watanabe Mayu, Ikimonogakari, Porno Graffitti, TOKIO, and Yamashita Tomohisa.
Check out full details below!
Dream Morning Musume delivered an epic throwback medley on the latest episode of ‘Music Lovers‘!
On February 19th, the girl group came on to perform a medley of Morning Musume’s much-beloved hits, as well as their own song, “Shining Butterfly“. The medley consisted of “LOVE Machine” (1999), “Koi no Dance Site” (2000), and “Renai Revolution 21” (2001).
The energy in …
It’s been announced that EXILE’s KEIJI and TETSUYA will be starring in BeeTV’s new mobile drama, “Kimi to Boku to no Yakusoku“. This will be their first time playing lead roles in a drama.
“Kimi to Boku no Yakusoku” is a love story that revolves around three childhood friends. KEIJI will play the role of Shuji, a clumsy yet passionate man …
On February 19th, the premiere of “Bokutachi Kyuko A-Ressha de Ikou” was held at Shinagawa Prince Cinema in Tokyo both starring actors Matsuyama Kenichi (26) and Eita (29) attended this event.
This film was directed by Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away last December. Regarding this fact, Matsuyama stated, “This movie contains the director’s important message,” explaining the importance …
