On December 2nd, actress Mizukawa Asami held a handshake event for her new photo book, '29', at Fukuya Bookstore in Shinjuku Subnade. This is Mizukawa's first photo book in 10 years. She decided to release it because she wanted to leave something behind to remember during her 20's as she turns 30. The photo shoot took place in 3 locations - her birthplace Kyoto, where she grew up in Osaka, and her current residence of Tokyo. She commented,

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On November 20, it was announced that actress Mizukawa Asami is going to star in the upcoming NTV drama 'Share House no Koibito'. 'Share House no Koibito' tells the story of 'Shio' (Mizukawa), a single female office employee around the age of thirty who decides to move into a shared house in order to escape her loneliness. In the shared house, she lives together with two other men, and soon, their cohabitation develops into a full-fledged

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On April 11th, Kora Kengo and Mizukawa Asami attended the press conference for the upcoming WOWOW drama 'Tsumi to Batsu A Falsified Romance'. The drama is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Ochiai Naoyuki, which successfully managed to transfer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" (1866) into modern-day Japan. It's a great fusion of a historic masterpiece with modern society and cleverly touches various topics such as 'hikikomor

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On April 8th, a new CM for the Doraemon CM series of  TOYOTA's campaign 'ReBORN', was released. As we reported before, a french actor, Jean Reno, plays Doraemon and Tsumabuki Satoshi plays Nobita. This 5th CM version is titled "Suneo's nice driving", and Yamashita Tomohisa, who plays Suneo, invites Nobita and Doraemon to his palatial residence to show off his car collection. As Doraemon(Jean Reno) mutters that all his cars are TOYOTA, Sune

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[caption id="attachment_206811" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Asano Tadanobu in "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari 2011 Fall SP" (Fuji TV)"][/caption] Here is the Friday and weekend edition of the the Drama Prime Time Report, highlighted by a tough Saturday for the monsters of "Yokai Ningen Bem", the grand finale of "Gou – Himetachi no Sengoku", and yet another nose dive of "Nankyoku Tairiku". Friday was a rather ordinary day

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French actor Jean Reno has picked up the role to play  'Doraemon' for Toyota's new CM! Last week, Toyota released the first-ever live action adaptation of the popular anime, "Doraemon", through their CM, which also stars Tsumabuki Satoshi as 'Nobita' and Ogawa Naoya as 'Gian'. Joining Jean Reno, Yamashita Tomohisa will play 'Suneo' and Mizukawa Asami will play 'Shizuka-chan'. The CM, titled "Nobita no Barbecue", begins with Nobita and S

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Popular NHK Taiga drama, "Gou", wrapped up filming for the series on September 30th, and to celebrate, the cast held a crank up ceremony at a studio in Shibuya. "Gou" started filming from August 19th of last year and wrapped up more than a year later in Nagano. Lead actress Ueno Juri (who played the role of 'Gou'), as well as Mukai Osamu ('Tokugawa Hidetaka') and Mizukawa Asami ('Hatsu') expressed their joy as the customary ornament ball d

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On August 14th, Mizukawa Asami participated in her first runway show for "Katsura Yumi's Talk & Fashion Show"! Famed bridal fashion designer Katsura Yumi saw Mizukawa's performance on NHK's taiga drama, "Gou", and immediately wanted her to wear her dresses. The actress wore a total of three different dresses and couldn't stop smiling. She commented, "It's my dream (to get married someday). Since I'm a woman, it makes me happy to wea

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It's been reported that a sequel to the popular drama series, "Aishiteru~ Kaiyo~", will air this fall as a special! Actress Inamori Izumi will reprise her lead role, with Mukai Osamu, Okada Masaki, and Mizukawa Asami as her co-stars. "Aishiteru ~Kaiyo~" is a drama about two kids in grade school who are involved in a shocking murder case. Titled "Aishiteru ~Kizuna~", this special drama will be based on Ito Minoru's 2010 manga. The story

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[caption id="attachment_160597" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption=" Suzuki Fuku (l.) and Ashida Mana from "Marumo no Okite" hot on the trail of "JIN""][/caption] On Friday, the drama "Umareru" dropped down to a new season low while competing against a strong live-action adaption of Higashino Keigo's novel "11 Moji no Satsujin" and a very strong "Hodo Station". Meanwhile "Inu wo Kau to Iu Koto" reached its final episod

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