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a “GUNDAM guest room” at Hotel Grand Pacific LE DAIBA
A new luxurious guest room featuring Gundam’s world came into service on this June 29th at Hotel Grand Pacific LE DAIBA in Tokyo (http://www.grandpacific.jp/eng/). Gundam is a worldwide popular sci-fi big robot anime works series. This hotel service plan is the first case of collaboration of that anime work and an accommodation business.
The rooms are “PROJECT ROOM-G Special type” of 84㎡ consisting of a bed room and a living room and “PROJECT ROON-G Standard type” of 42㎡ of one room. The rooms are furnished with wall paper, carpets, beds and other parts and furniture having special Gundam-related designs or items.
The room fees are as follows; the Special type・・・52,000 yen or higher for two people, the Standard type・・・27,000 yen or higher for two people. The max population of a room is three and currently the hotel has one Special type and two Standard type rooms but as they are extremely popular and reserving them is quite difficult, the management resolved to prepare six more Standard type ones soon. The room guests are provided with special gifts of card room keys of Gundam design and other related 20 sorts of goods. In addition, the room charge includes the fee of admission tickets to Gundam Front Tokyo in Diver City where huge Gundam model stands at the moment. A guest can order special Gundam-related dishes on the special menu.
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Nintendo is going to release a new portable game hardware, “Nintendo 3DS LL” on Jul.28th.
Currently “Nintendo 3DS” is around as a game machine for playing game softwares of three dimensional visions on the screen without special glasses. The new ones will have the same functions as the current ones but they will have a screen of 1.9 times as big as the current ones, with the upper screen of 4.88 inches and lower touching screen of 4.18 inches . The total size of the new ones when folded is 93mm(D) ×156mm(w)×22mm(H) with 336g.
3DSLL will come in three color varietions of RED×BLACK, SILVER×BLACK,and WHITE. The price will be 18,900 yen(≒＄238, €189).
(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...“Sadako 3D” demonstration in Shibuya
Sadako is a fictitious popular Japanese evil ghost of J-horror “Ring” series whose movie editions were also remade in Hollywood.
Sadako’s movie “Sadako 3D”was made this year for the first time in 12 years and is going to be released on this May 12th. As a promotion event of the newest movie of the popular series, more than 50 women in “Sadako’s costume” made a “parade” in Shibuya station area in Tokyo ,where they all took a pose of jumping out of a TV monitor, on May 6th.
The parade was divided into three groups and they distributed “a letter from Sadako” to passers-by at Shibuya entrance, Shibuya MarkCity, and Moyai statue respectively. There were 12 kinds of contents in the letters. Some are written as, “This time I jump out of a screen, for I have got fed up with coming out of a well”, “See my new movie, or I will curse you, even you will see it , I will curse you anyway”, ” I have a surprisingly nice body. ” and others. Totally 10,000 letters were handed there, while promotion trucks of the movie were driving around the town.A lot of excited young people took photos of the parade, some being shouting , screaming in joy or fear…
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Live-action Kyo, Koi o Hajimemasu’s teaser streamed
Teaser trailer for the live-action film adaption of ” Kyo, Koi o Hajimemasu (今日、恋を始めます）” manga has been streaming.
” Kyo, Koi o Hajimemasu”film
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(4 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Thermae Romae manga, travel magazine team up on Japanese bath guide
Rurubu Thermae Romae, a collaboration between the Japanese travel magazine Rurubu (るるぶ）and Mari Yamazaki’s Thermae Romae (テルマエ・ロマエ）bathhouse manga, went on sale in Japan.
Travel magazine Rurubu
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Haruka Ayase’s live-action ‘Himitsu no Akko-chan’ teaser streamed
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of comedy manga Himitsu no Akko-chan (秘密のアッコちゃん）began streaming a 30-second teaser trailer.
In the manga, the title fifth-grader Akko-chan receives a magical compact from the mirror spirit. With the compact, Akko-chan can cast spells and transform herself into anything or anyone she wishes, and she uses the power to help others.
(C) 赤塚不二夫／2012「映画 ひみつのアッコちゃん」製作委員会
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(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Satoshi Tsumabuki& Emi Takei’s live-action ‘Ai to Makoto’ trailer posted
The Cinema Today website began streaming a 101-second full trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Ikki Kajiwara’s Ai to Makoto (愛と誠) romance manga. Prolific director Takashi Miike (三池崇史）.
(C)2012「愛と誠」製作委員会
Emi Takei (武井咲）plays an angelic high school girl named Ai Saotome, and Satoshi Tsumabuki (妻夫木聡） plays the “ultra” high school delinquent Makoto Taiga in the love story. Read the rest of this entry »
(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Live-action Rurouni Kenshin film’s teaser streamed in 4 subbed languages
(C)和月伸宏／集英社 (C)2012「るろうに剣心」製作委員会
Keishi Otomo is directing this samurai film with 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (佐藤健) as the titular character. 17-year-old actress Emi Takei （武井咲）plays the heroine Kaoru Kamiya. Yuu Aoi (蒼井優）plays Megumi Takani and Munetaka Aoki (青木崇高）plays Sanosuke Sagara.
(C)和月伸宏／集英社 (C)2012「るろうに剣心」製作委員会
The film will open in Japan on August 25. Warner Brothers Japan streamed a previous teaser trailer for the film last December. That earlier teaser received hits from 136 different countries on the film’s official site.
(1 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...The 35th Japan Academy Prize
The 35th Japan Academy Prize Awarding Ceremony was held at Grand Prince New Takanawa in Shinagawa Tokyo on March 2nd. http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/
“The Eighth Day Cicada”, directed by Izuru Narushima received the awards in 10 sections ,namely, the Best Film Prize, the Best Actress Prize, the Best Director Prize, the Best Supporting Actress Prize,the Best Editing Prize, the Best Music Prize,the Best Script Prize,the Best Cinematographer Prize,the Best Recording Prize, and the Best Lighting Prize. 
The story of the work is about a girl who was kidnapped by her father’s mistress when she was very young and becomes pregnant in an infidelity after having grown up. The originl novel was also popular and dramataized for TV as well.
Mao Inoue, who played the main part in “The Eighth Day Cicada”, received the Best Actress Prize, saying, “In th beginning I thought it was too early for me to receive such a great prize, but now I am so happy and have pride in this award. I shall keep making efforts to contribute to the film world as an actress, dignified with this award, ” , and as for the Best Film Prize, “The Best Film Prize is what I have really wanted to win, and though I felt like running away from our director Mr. Narushima many times, I am very happy now for not having done so !”
Atsuko Maeda, the ace member of AKB48, received the Popularity Prize with “What If a Famale Manager of a High School Baseball Team Reads Drucker’s”Management” ?”, the movie of her first leading role in. She says,”I still don’t know much about actresses’ job as I have just started my actor’s life, but I am very happy for this award for energy source and being able to work with wonderful directors,actors, and staff, for I love movies.” 
(2 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...“SHINOBIDO” being run at theaters
“SHINOBIDO”(/忍道), the special movie to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Edo Wonderland Nikko (http://www.edowonderland.net/) is being shown at theaters. http://www.shinobido-movie.com/
The story is about a tragic love between a shinobi(or Ninjya) girl and a samurai warrior of her enemy, depicting energetic and lively actions and battles of shiboi and warriors.The mainpart is played by a young and popular actor named Aimi Satsukawa(/佐津川愛美), and a young shinobi girl who longs for her is played by Ayaka Kikuchi(/菊地あやか), a member of AKB48.
The work is produced by Edo Wonderland which usually provides live action shows of ninjya performances of the ninjya actors there. Some important parts in the movie are played by famous actors, such as Toshio Kurosawa(/黒沢年雄), Naoko Ken(/研ナオコ), Ryouichi Eki(/エキリョウイチ), Mayuko Iwasa(/岩佐真悠子), Hatsunori Hasegawa(/長谷川初範),and others.
(5 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Japan Anime Festival in Shanghai
“Japan Anime Festival” was hosted jointly by the Japanese and Chinese governments Nov.23(Beijing) and 25(Shanghai)-29 in Beijing and Shanghai China.http://www.anifes.com.cn/anifes/index.jsp?lan=jp
The event was a part of a series of cross cultural collaboration events of Japan and China which started in this June with Japanese movies introduced to China and Chinese movies and anime introduced to Japan in this October.
(5 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Takeru Sato’s “Rurouni Kenshin’finished filming
The live-action movie for “Rurouni Kenshin“ finished filming on November 21, and fans of the manga series got a first look at ‘Kenshin’ himself, played by actor Takeru Sato (佐藤健）.
(C)和月伸宏／集英社 (C)2012「るろうに剣心」製作委員会
Filming for the movie began back in August, and the shoot was held in Kyoto, Shiga, Tottori, Okayama, Hyogo, and Osaka with a total of 1,200 extras.
“Rurouni Kenshin” is one of Japan’s more famous manga which comics (totaling to 28 volumes) have published over 50 million copies. Read the rest of this entry »
(5 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...DAIGO to star in “Ultraman Saga” movie with Takeshi Tsuruno and Taiyo Sugiura
Popular singer and talento DAIGO ,33, has been announced as the star of the next “Ultraman” film. This will be his first time starring in a movie, and also his first time playing a hero in special effects work.
DAIGO
(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...Coldplay Does “Uchu Kyodai” Film Theme
The British rock band Coldplay is contributing the song “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” as the theme song for the live-action film adaptation of Uchu Kyodai ((宇宙兄弟 Space Brothers) manga.
 Coldplay Uchu Kyodai is a Japanese manga series by Chuya Koyama (小山宙哉) which won the award for best general manga at the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards and the Kodansha Manga Award. br>  Uchu Kyodai manga |
(3 投票, 平均値/最大値: 5.00 / 5)Loading...The 24th TIFF TOKYO held
The 24th TIFF TOKYO (Tokyo International Film Festival)was held Oct.23-30 at TOHO CINEMAS and Cinemart Roppongi in Roppongi Tokyo.http://2011.tiff-jp.net/en/
Both foreign and Japanese movies and related staras and staffers were invited.”Untouchable” from France won the Sakura Grand Prix and Award for Best Actor.
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