May 7th, 2010 
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Japanese actress Keiko Kitagawa and actor Masaki Okada attended a PR event for their upcoming film Matataki at the Nogi Shrine in Akasaka, Tokyo, a popular shrine for people to tie the knot. The movie is based on a novel by Ren Kawahara which tells the sad love story of a woman who lost her beloved in a traffic accident and now gets haunted by the memories of that… Read the rest
March 23rd, 2010 admin More details about Takuya Kimura ’s upcoming drama series were revealed on Tuesday. Titled “Tsuki no Koibito ~Moon Lovers~,” the drama will air in Fuji TV’s Monday 9:00pm time slot this spring, though the starting broadcast date has not yet been determined. As reported earlier this month, the drama has Kimura (37) playing the president of an interior design company. It is described as his first real romance series since… Read the rest
March 8th, 2010 admin 
Fuji TV announcer Nakano Minako (30, photo left) had a tearful wedding ceremony and reception yesterday at the Shangri-La hotel in central Tokyo. She and her groom, a 34-year-old doctor she met in the autumn of 2008, held a relatively simple and “at home” reception attended by about 180 people. In addition to her own father’s speech, Nakano was reduced to tears by the words of other father figures.… Read the rest
March 7th, 2010 admin It has now been confirmed that the classic boxing manga “Ashita no Joe” will be turned into a live-action film, starring NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita (24) as the protagonist Joe Yabuki. The movie is being directed by Fumihiko Sori (” Ping Pong ,” “ICHI”) and is scheduled for release in early 2011. The original manga, written by Asao Takamori and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba, was published between 1968 and 1973.… Read the rest
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No Comments » February 25th, 2010 admin Keiko Kitagawa (23) is starring in a new film directed by Itsumichi Isomura , titled “Matataki.” The movie is based on the first full-length novel by screenwriter Len Kawahara, who wrote the screenplay for the 2009 movie “Yomei.” In this heartrending love story, Kitagawa plays a young woman named Izumi, whose boyfriend Junichi (played by 20-year-old Masaki Okada ) dies in a motorcycle accident. As a result, the shocked… Read the rest
Posted in Japanese News Tags: eventually-able, from-the-time, heartrending, keiko-kitagawa, masaki-okada, memory, screenplay, spring, stress-disorder, supporting, the-screenplay, time No Comments » November 25th, 2009 admin Rising actress Keiko Kitagawa (23) will star in a drama special on TBS titled “Hitsudan Hostess.” The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf. “Hitsudan Hostess” was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became… Read the rest
Posted in Japanese News Tags: actress, hostess, keiko-kitagawa, life, popular-hostess, saito, special-on-tbs, strong-interest, the-bestselling, through-writing, tokyo No Comments » November 21st, 2009 admin Multiple rumors of celebrity relationships have surfaced in recent weeks, which have all been denied by the celebrities’ agencies: Two weeks ago, FRIDAY reported that actress Aya Hirayama (25) and Hey! Say! JUMP member Yuya Takaki (19) are dating. The two were seen last month having dinner in Shinjuku, then riding in a taxi together. Actress Yukie Nakama (30) and actor Tetsushi Tanaka (43) are also said to be dating.… Read the rest
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