On February 18th, TBS announced that actor Matsuda Shota will be starring in their upcoming detective drama 'Sennyu Tantei Tokage'. This is Matsuda's second time to star as a detective after the 2009 drama Meitantei no Okite' (TV Asahi) and his first time to star in a TBS drama. This time, he will play a former elite police detective who possesses an overwhelming memory. 'Sennyu Tantei Tokage' is a mystery and suspense drama that follow

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On December 12, it was revealed that actress Hirota Reona (49) and actor Fukikoshi Mitsuru (47), who divorced in 2005, remarried. Their remarriage was reported in the December 13th issue of weekly magazine “Josei Seven”. The pair’s agency responded to Sanspo’s inquiry on their remarriage with, “It is the truth.” Hirota divorced her first husband and brought along her first son when she married Fukikoshi in December 1994; she then gave birt

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The full trailer for Miike Takashi's upcoming live-action adaptation of Kishi Yusuke’s mystery novel 'Aku no Kyoten' ('The Lesson of Evil') - starring Ito Hideaki - was recently released on its official website. 'Aku no Kyoten' is about an extremely popular high school teacher named 'Hasumi Seiji' (Ito), whose students often call him by his nickname ‘Hasumin’. It’s not just the students that adore him, all their parents and all the other t

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The first teaser for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Kishi Yusuke's mystery novel 'Aku no Kyoten', starring Ito Hideaki, was recently released on its official website. 'Aku no Kyoten' is about an extremely popular high school teacher named 'Hasumi Seiji' (Ito), whose students often call him by his nickname 'Hasumin'. It's not just the students that adore him, all their parents and all the other teachers see him as an ideal teacher.

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The live-action adaption of the popular manga 'Afro Tanaka', starring Matsuda Shota and Sasaki Nozomi, finally has its first trailer. The "Afro Tanaka" story revolves around Tanaka Hiroshi (Matsuda), a twenty-four year old high school drop-out who works as a tunnel digger in Tokyo.  His  trademark is a big fluffy afro. One day, a beautiful woman named Kato (Sasaki) moves into the apartment next door and he falls madly in love with her.

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