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Meisa Kuroki to star in a Fuji TV special in March
Young actress Maki Horikita will star in a two-part drama special on Fuji TV titled ‘Chance! Kanojo ga Seikou Shita Riyuu,’ described as a comical success story. The show will also feature Hitori Gekidan and Meisa Kuroki. Horikita plays a 22-year-old who struggles to find a job, finally landing one at a travel company. Kuroki…
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“Gokusen” gets another special episode – Tokyograph
NTV has announced another special episode for the ‘Gokusen’ drama franchise. The show’s third season aired this past spring, and the upcoming episode will be a ‘graduation special’ featuring the same characters. Yukie Nakama will of course star in the show, with Yuya Takaki, Haruma Miura, and Hideo Ishiguro among the returning cast. The two…
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HY’s “366日” used as the theme song to “Akai Ito”
If you should know the name of at least one indie label band from Okinawa along with all of the other things you’ve accumulated in your mind for 2008, know HY. The band, despite their continued popularity, remain unsigned to a major label (by choice) and have released a total of five albums in a…
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Sakaguchi stars in Okinawan police drama – Tokyograph
Kenji Sakaguchi will be playing the lead in a police drama series titled ‘Honjitsu mo Hare. Ijou Nashi,’ set to air on TBS this winter. Sakaguchi stars as a cop assigned to a fictional remote island in the Okinawa prefecture, modeled after the real island of Hateruma. Nao Matsushita appears as the heroine, the only…
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“Code Blue” SP to air on January 10 – Tokyograph
Fuji TV has announced a broadcast date for its ‘Code Blue’ drama special. The episode is scheduled to air on January 10 at 9:00pm. The special is a continuation of the ‘Code Blue’ drama series from this past summer, which starred Tomohisa Yamashita, Erika Toda, Yui Aragaki, and Yosuke Asari as four young doctors training…
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Nakama, Kase to star in Fuji TV series – Tokyograph
Yukie Nakama and Ryo Kase will co-star in a Fuji TV drama series this winter. Titled ‘Arifureta Kiseki,’ the show will be the first series written by Taichi Yamada in 11 years. Yamada’s last serial was TBS’s ‘Fuzoroi no Ringotachi 4’ in 1997, though he has written many tanpatsu dramas since then. He has reportedly…
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Yusuke Kamiji cast in “Scrap Teacher” – Tokyograph
Popular talento Yusuke Kamiji will be joining the Hey! Say! JUMP boys on NTV’s upcoming drama series ‘Scrap Teacher.’ He will play the role of a teacher for the first time. The series was first announced earlier this month. The show stars Yuto Nakajima, Ryosuke Yamada, Yuri Chinen, and Daiki Arioka as four junior high…
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SPEED to release first single in 5 years!
It was just last month that our beloved J-pop quartet SPEED got back together and now we have news of a release of a new single—their first in 5 years! (The group’s last single, released in 2003, was “Walking in the rain.”) The single, “Ashita no Sora,” will be released on November 5, 2008, in…
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Yukie Nakama to star in “Nene ~Onna Taikouki”
Maybe it’s because she just looks stunning in kimono but Yukie Nakama will be starring in another (Musashi, Komyo ga Tsuji) historical drama called “Nene ~Onna Taikouki.” The TV Tokyo drama will also star kabuki actor Kamejirou Ichikawa and is set to air on January 2, 2009. (Via goo.)
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Meisa Kuroki in “Kaze no Garden”
Announced back in April, the drama stars Kiichi Nakai as a doctor who lost his wife to suicide. After learning that he has terminal cancer, he returns home to Hokkaido to live with his aging father (Ken Ogata), bringing his two children with him (Meisa Kuroki, Ryunosuke Kamiki). Hirahara plays a young woman who meets…
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