Will he find 'that woman'? ("Kasha" - TV Asahi)
Will he find 'that woman'? ("Kasha" – TV Asahi)
Here is the Friday and weekend edition of the the Drama Prime Time Report, highlighted by a Saturday full of mysteries and monsters.
Friday was a fairly normal day in terms of ratings. As expected, “Sengyou Shufu Tantei” (TBS) was able to recover from last week’s blow and at least gained …
tokyohive previously reported that Eikura Nana and Okada Masaki’s newest movie, ‘Antoki no Inochi‘, would be exhibited at the 35th Montreal World Film Festival. On August 19th, they made an appearance at the prestigious film festival where they held a stage greeting.
Eikura and Okada both greeted everyone in French by saying, “We are very pleased to be at the …
Center: Tsumabuki Satoshi
Center: Tsumabuki Satoshi
Starting on the 12th, the “2011 Shanghai – Japan Movie Week” took place in Shanghai, China to introduce 11 of Japan’s hit movies to the nation. The following 11 movies will be shown throughout the week: Byakuyako (Into the White Night), Akunin, Kaabee (KABEI – Our Mother), Saigo no Chushingura (THE LAST RONIN), Runway Beat, Okan no …
Today it was the time to hand out Japan’s biggest movie awards at the “34th Japan Academy Awards” (aka “Japan Academy Prize”), and two well-known movies continued to dominate their competition. Nakashima Tetsuya’s “Kokuhaku” (Confession) and Lee Sang-il’s “Akunin” (Villain) have both won a lot of awards already and their streak continued at the Academy Awards.
“Kokuhaku” took a …
The “2011 Elan D’or Award” is an award given to the most active and most promising new actors in the industry.
As usual there have been 6 winners in the main category, “Rookie of the Year“, including the actors Mukai Osamu, Kiritani Kenta and Sato Takeru as well as the actresses Matsushita Nao, Kichise Michiko and Mitsushima Hikari.
Especially happy were Mukai …
The Motion Pictures Production Association of Japan (MPPAJ) has announced the list of the highest grossing films of 2010.
Every year in January, the list is announced, and this year, the announcement took place on January 27th at the Courtyard Marriott Ginza Toushiki Hotel.
The list separates domestic releases and foreign films into different categories.
Check out the figures below:
<Japanese Films>
Karigurashi no …
Today the winners have been announced for the “53rd Blue Ribbon Awards” where reporters from the 7 major newspapers in Tokyo come together to elect their favorite movies and actors of the year.
Both “Akunin” and “Kokuhaku” dominated the nominations this year. In the end Nakashima Tetsuya’s “Kokuhaku” (Confession), that has just been announced as one of the 5 nominees for …
The Mainichi Shinbun has announced their award winners for the 65th Mainichi Film Awards.
Lee Sang-il’s Japanese movie, “Akunin“, which recently won Best Picture at the Kinema Junpo Awards, has got its second big national award with the Grand Prize at the Mainichi Film Awards. The Best Film went to Kobayashi Masahiro’s “Haru tono tabi“.
Tsutsumi Shinichi won Best Actor for …
On December 28th, the awarding ceremony for the “23rd Nikkan Sports Film Awards • Ishihara Yujiro Awards” was held at Hotel New Otani, and the winners of the awards attended the ceremony.
For the “Fan Award“, “BANDAGE“, which Akanishi Jin stared in, was chosen as the victor. The winner of the “Fan Award” is chosen by fan votes, so at the …
The winners of the 34th Japanese Academy Awards have just been announced on December 17th at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The awards for excellence and best newcomers were announced in 15 categories.
Best film prizes were awarded to “Akunin“, “Otôto“, “Kokuhaku“, “Kokô no mesu“, and “13-nin no shikaku“. The most awards …
It was revealed today that the movie ‘Akunin’, which stars award-winning actress Fukatsu Eri and actor Tsumabuki Satoshi, might have a Hollywood remake.
Distributor Toho said that they did receive an offer last week and that the story can be done in a setting outside Japan. It was further mentioned that they were to discuss details with the Western agency, such …
Actress Fukatsu Eri (37) successfully bagged the Best Actress award at the 34th Montreal World Film Festival for her role in Sang-il Lee’s, “Akunin”.
Fukatsu Eri is the second Japanese actress to win the said award because in 1983, Tanaka Yuko (55) was also awarded the Best Actress award for her role in “Amagigoe”. Furthermore, a number of …
Upcoming movie “Akunin“, in which Tsumabuki Satoshi and Fukatsu Eri star, will enter the world competition of the Montreal World Film Festival.
The premier showing of the movie will be held on September 5th in Canada, and cast members are planning to be in attendance.
The movie is scheduled for release in Japan on September 11th.
Source: Oricon Style
Popular actor, Tsumabuki Satoshi, held a press conference for his new movie “Akunin(villain)” on the 24th.
Satoshi plays a murderer in Akunin and he said, “This is the first role that I really wanted to play and asked for.”
Satoshi also said, “I worked as a civil engineer for 3 days to play this role, and visited Nagasaki where Yuichi(Tsumabuki Satoshi) grew …
