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Aya Sugimoto x 3-D “Kamen Rider” movie

Aya Sugimoto will star in a 3-D version of the annual summer hero movie series, “Kamen Rider W Forever A-Z – Unmei no Gaia Memory” (Kamen Rider Double Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate).
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D-BOYS’ Araki co-stars with AKB48’s Kikuchi, Nakagawa in “X Game” film

D-BOYS member Hirofumi Araki (荒木宏文) will star in a new movie with AKB48 members Ayaka Kikuchi (菊地あやか) and Haruka Nakagawa (仲川遥香). The film is titled “X Game” (read as “Batsu Game”) and is based on the suspense novel of the same name by writer Yusuke Yamada（山田悠介）. Read the rest of this entry »

Rina Akiyama x Kamen Rider x Tokyo Metro

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy  THE MOVIE  is an upcoming movie part of the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, particularly its Cho-Den-O Series. Read the rest of this entry »

Maki Horikita x Byakuyako Movie

Actress Maki Horikita (堀北真希) will play a “wicked woman” in the movie adaption of “Byakuyako（白夜行）”.
Horikita,born October 6, 1988, had her acting debut in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in a number of dramas and films. Read the rest of this entry »

“Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score – Part2″ opens in theaters

“Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score – Part 2″ opened and the cast participated in a total of 18 stage greetings throughout the day.
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Ayase, Okada, Tsutsumi star in live-action film”Princess Toyotomi”

Haruka Ayase (綾瀬はるか), Masaki Okada (岡田将生), and Shinichi Tsutsumi (堤真一) have been cast in a film adaptation of Manabu Makime’ （万城目学）s novel “Princess Toyotomi”（プリンセス　トヨトミ）.
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Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower

Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower (劇場版ＮＡＲＵＴＯ－ナルト－ 疾風伝 ザ・ロストタワー ) is the seventh overall Naruto film and the fourth Naruto Shippūden film.

In this “dimension-crossing” adventure, the title ninja character Naruto will travel back in time and meet his father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze. Masahiko Murata is directing as he did for the last film (Naruto Shippūden: Hi no Ishi o Tsugumono).

Junki Takegami(武上純希), the television series script supervisor and the writer of the three previous films, wrote the screenplay.

Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower will be released on July 31, 2010, with advance ticket sale events scheduled for April 17 and June 19.

Live-action movie “Maria-sama ga Miteru” to star Miki Honoka and Haru

“Maria-sama ga Miteru (マリア様がみてる/ lit. Maria Watches Over Us)” , often shortened to Marimite (マリみて),is a successful series of light novels written by Oyuki Konno (今野緒雪). Started in 1998 and still ongoing, the novels have spawned a manga adaptation and multiple seasons of a television anime.

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Shun Oguri,Masami Nagasawa X Movie:Gaku

Manga “Gaku: (岳－ガク－ lit. “Peak)” is going to be turned into a live-action movie. Shun Oguri （小栗旬）and Masami Nagasawa（長澤まさみ） are going to star in this movie, 7 years after their last movie together.
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The 2nd “Okinawa International Movie Festival” being held

 The 2nd ” Okinawa International Movie Festival” is going to be held  Mar. 20th-28th. http://www.oimf.jp/en/

This time the event has a motto of ” laugh & Peace”, which represents the passionate participation of  a lot of  vaudevillians , comedians,and TV personalities of  Yoshimoto Kogyo Co;Ltd. , the most major and popular company of  vaudevillians and comedians in Japan.http://www.yoshimoto.co.jp/ 

Some personalities have become very popular also as movie actors or directors as well.  Therefore, some works of theirs have been  introduced or run at foreign movie festivals ,such as “Dai Nihon-jin”(/大日本人、a big or great Japanese) directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, a member of  “DownTown”, a popular comedy duo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_(owarai  which was run at  the Cannes Film festival in France.

 Being stimulated by such situations, some members took interest in participating in movie activities and hosting this kind of event in somewhere that is a popular resort like other venues of typical popular international film festivals . So, Okinawa, a quite popular  southernmost beach resort area in Japan has been chosen and this will be the 2nd festival. Some multi-show biz fields’  compound taste may create  brandnew  mixed attractions in the  movie industry.

”Shizumanu　Taiyo”（The　Never　Setting Sun）wins award of Best Picture at Japan Academy Award

The 33rd Japan Academy Award  ceremony was held at Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa  in Shinagawa Tokyo on Mar. 5th. 

http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/

The Best Picture Award went to “Shizumanu Taiyo”(/沈まぬ太陽,  The Never Setting Sun),and  Ken Watanabe who played the hero’s part in that film also won Best Actor Award as well.
http://www.shizumanu-taiyo.jp/

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Tomohisa Yamashita X Ashita no Joe

The live-action film adaptation of “Ashita no Joe” will open early 2011.

“Ashita no Joe”（あしたのジョー/lit.Tomorrow’s Joe) is a critically acclaimed boxing manga created by Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba in 1968-1973.The manga is among the most critically acclaimed stories in Japanese popular culture.
Joe Yabuki(矢吹丈）, the hero of the manga, is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxer Danpei Tange（丹下段平）. Read the rest of this entry »

Mao Inoue X Tokyo Girls Collection

Japan’s biggest fashion event The 10th Tokyo Girls Collection (東京ガールズコレクション) was held on March 6 at Yokohama Arena (横浜アリーナ）.

The fashion event showcases the seasons fashionable streetwear by domestic brands, and are modeled by popular models from various Japanese fashion magazines.

Jun Hasegawa (長谷川潤),Yu Yamada (山田優), Marie (マリエ), Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木希) and Karina (香里奈) were among many of the models and guests that took part in the event. Read the rest of this entry »

Keiko Kitagawa and Masaki Okada co-star in the movie “Matataki (瞬-またたき).

Keiko Kitagawa (北川景子) and Masaki Okada (岡田将生) are co-starring in  a romance film titled “Matataki (瞬-またたき).” In this heartrending love story, Kitagawa plays a young woman whose boyfriend played by Okada dies in a motorcycle accident.
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34. Behold the least impressive statue of a giant monster – Godzilla

Standing in the shadow of the film company that unleashed Godzilla on the world, this bronze effigy of the giant creature in Hibiya park　(*Hibiya chanter) towers a whopping… half-meter high.
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