Drama Prime Time Report – April 28th~May 1st

Gouriki Ayame in "Asuko March!"

Gouriki Ayame in "Asuko March!"

The ratings for the “Golden Week” weekend are finally out, but let’s start with the Thursday ratings that didn’t get released until yesterday due to the holidays.

The eight season of “Omiya-san” started off with a nice first episode and a rating of 11.8%, nicely pushing up the average of TV Asahi before dropping down to …


Drama Prime Time Report – April 18th~21st

A new week, many new starts and a new Monday drama.

It looks like Fuji TV found a great mix of a charming cast and interesting premise, because the first episode of “Shiawase ni Narou yo“, starring SMAP’s Katori Shingo and Kuroki Meisa, already was more successful than the Monday dramas of the last three seasons. So far it is …


Amami Yuki attends press conference for screening of “BOSS”

On April 9th, Amami Yuki attended a press conference at movie theater Shinjuku Ward 9 in Tokyo for the new season of “BOSS”, a popular detective drama in which she stars.

The actress opened by saying, “Although it is a tough time right now, I hope that we can pull through  together with cheerful spirits. We put our hearts …


Which actress possesses a healthy beauty?

True beauty comes from within, or so they say. Sometimes it’s just not enough to make yourself appear more beautiful from the outside, if you have a really unhealthy lifestyle and nutrition.

Often you can simply feel that somebody possesses a healthy beauty, just like Kichise Michiko in her new commercial for “Hitokuchi Bizen” (Calbee) that helps you with your nutrition.

The …


2011 Elan D’or Award Results

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 …


“Hagane no Onna” to air second season in April

Kichise Michiko as Haga "Hagane" Ineko

Kichise Michiko as Haga "Hagane" Ineko

Actress Kichise Michiko landed her first starring role in the drama, “Hagane no Onna”, which began broadcasting in May of 2010, and it looks like Kichise will get to reprise her role for a second season!

It was revealed on January 30th that the producers have decided to answer the fans’ overwhelming response …


Kichise Michiko gets married!

On December 27th, it’s been reported that popular actress, Kichise Michiko got married.  

According to Sanspo, her partner is a business man who is 10 years older than her, and owns several companies.  He’s the same person in which some gossip magazines reported as Kichise’s boyfriend back in March of 2009.  

It’s been reported that they’ve already been together for 5 years, …


Cast members of “Shikeidai no Elevator” greet audience at film premier

Akira Ogata’s “Shikeidai no Elevator” (Elevator to the Gallows) premiered on October 9th and cast members, Kichise Michiko, Abe Hiroshi, Tamayama Tetsuji, and Kitagawa Keiko appeared at Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku to greet the audience.

The movie tells the tale of an adulterous affair between a handsome doctor and the wife of a medical corporation president, who decide to murder the husband together …


Arashi vs. Kichise Michiko: a fishing battle on Wii

Arashi’s varity show “Himitsu no Arshi-chan” was broadcasted on September 9th with Kichise Michiko as a guest.  Since Michiko loves fishing, they held a fishing battle via a Nintendo Wii game.  The contestants were separated into 3 groups: Aiba and Ohno, Matsumoto and Ninomiya, Kichise and Matsushima. (Sakurai Sho could not join the battle, because one of the MCs, Matsushima …


Kanno Miho to star in upcoming drama

It has been announced that Kanno Miho will star in a drama during the fall of 2010 (title has not been decided yet).  Recently, Miho’s roles were all of the positive and cheerful variety, but for the new drama, she will play an evil girl who makes guys’ lives miserable.

Do you want to see Miho in her new role as …


Kichise Michiko & Abe Hiroshi hold press conference for new movie

Kichise Michiko and Abe Hiroshi held a press conference for their new movie “Shikeidai no elevator“, which will be released on October 9th.

Shikeidai no elevator is a remake of French movie, “Ascenseur pour I’Echafaud” (Elevator to the Gallows) from 1958.

Michiko said, “I play an evil character often, so I enjoyed playing an evil woman this time too.”

Source: Nikkan sports + …


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