Oda Yuji, Ito Hideaki, Kuroki Meisa & Toda Erika attend the stage greeting of “Andalucia”

On June 25th, actors Oda Yuji, Ito Hideaki, Kuroki Meisa, and Toda Erika attended the opening day stage greeting of their film “Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess“, along with director Nishitano Hiroshi.

“Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess” is the second film in the “Diplomat Kuroda Kousaku” series, after “Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess“. Taking place mostly in Spain, the story …


Oda Yuji, Kuroki Meisa, and Ito Hideaki attend “Diplomat Kuroda Kousaku” event

From left to right: Ito Hideaki, Oda Yuji, and Kuroki Meisa

From left to right: Ito Hideaki, Oda Yuji, and Kuroki Meisa

On June 8th, actors Oda Yuji, Ito Hideaki, and Kuroki Meisa attended a press event for the film “Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess“, along with director Nishitani Hiroshi and British vocal group Il Divo, who sang the theme song.

“Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess” is the second film in …


Fukuyama Masaharu will reprise his role alongside Oda Yuji in “Andalucia”

Previous announcements (here and here) regarding “Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess“, the second movie about diplomat Kuroda Kosaku, starring actor Oda Yuji, which follows “Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess“, already revealed the appearances of two new faces, an Interpol agent portrayed by Ito Hideaki and an elite banker portrayed by Kuroki Meisa.

Today, we also got the …


Drama Prime Time Report – March 14th~17th

"We've made it!"

"We've made it!"

The Drama Prime Time Report is back after we had to skip the report for March 11th~13th due to the emergency earthquake/tsunami broadcasts on all channels and the resulting cancellation of all dramas that aired during those days. Even NHK decided to cancel the broadcast of their taiga drama on Sunday, which had been unheard of for …


Ito Hideaki and Oda Yuji to team up for “Andalucia”

Actors Ito Hideaki (35) and Oda Yuji (43) are teaming up to star in a new summer blockbuster called “Andalucia“.

This collaboration between Ito and Oda is sure to be an exciting one, as they’re both starring actors from 2010’s most successful and second most successful Japanese live-action films (“THE LAST MESSAGE: Umizaru” and “Bayside Shakedown 3“, respectively).

“Andalucia” is the next …


Drama Prime Time Report – February 14th~17th

Wake up! No time for love, the ratings are here!!

Wake up! No time for love, the ratings are here!!

The recent progress of the story, “Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta” on Monday must have hooked a few more viewers than normal as the ratings continued to improve a little. The fifth episode achieved an average of 12.1% and therefore performed the best for the season …


Drama Prime Time Report – February 10th~13th

"Hand out your report or we have to arrest you!"

"Hand out your report or we have to arrest you!"

It was rather difficult to find the ratings of all the shows for the weekend, but at least the drama ratings should be complete.

Thursday was a holiday, but shows aired as usual due to Friday being a normal workday (unless you took a leave in order to gain a long …


Drama Prime Time Report – January 24th~27th

Horikita Maki on "Guru-Guru Ninety-Nine" (NTV)

Horikita Maki on "Guru-Guru Ninety-Nine" (NTV)

Not a lot of viewers turned into last week’s premiere of Fuji TV’s Monday drama “Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta“. This week it lost some viewers again, but at least it only was a minimal decrease in ratings. This could mean that almost everyone who saw the first episode got …


Drama Prime Time Report – January 17th~20th

"Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta" (Fuji TV)

"Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta" (Fuji TV)

In the third week of January, Fuji TV has finally started airing their Monday drama with the long title, “Taisetsu na Koto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshiete Kureta“, starring Toda Erika, Miura Haruma, and Takei Emi, even though the latter isn’t officially part of the starring cast. The first episode …


Drama Prime Time Report – January 10th~13th

"Misaki Number One!!" (NTV)

"Misaki Number One!!" (NTV)

We’ve got ourselves a total of 8 new dramas during the first 4 days of this season’s second week! That should be reason enough to celebrate like Karina in the picture above.

Saito Takumi and Higa Manami kicked things off on Monday with the TV Tokyo drama “Saijo no Meii” and it had a decent start, …


Trailer released for “Diplomat – Kuroda Kosaku” featuring Oda Yuji, Shibasaki Kou, and Lee Byung Hun

A while ago, Fuji TV released a trailer for the much-anticipated upcoming drama, “Diplomat – Kuroda Kosaku“, the drama adaption of the 2009 hit movie, “Amalfi Megami no Hoshu“.

Oda Yuji is back again in the role of Kuroda Kosaku, a diplomat of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs focusing on protecting fellow countrymen from terrorism. His new partner, …