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New BEGIN single, “Ichariba Ohana,” gets a release date!
The J-blues trio known as BEGIN have been pretty busy this year with TV appearances (even making an appearance on the popular music show HEY!³ last month), their nationwide “BEGIN no Ichigo Ichie Concert 2008” tour, and they already have a new single set to be released on 10/22/08. The single, called “Ichariba Ohana,” will…
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New Kazumi Tamaki CD to be released on 9/25/08!
Have you heard of the Okinawan word churakaagii? Well, the very handy Okinawan-English Wordbook (Amazon.com link) defines the word as “a beauty; a belle; a pretty girl; a good-looking woman.” All of these describe utasaa Kazumi Tamaki and to top it off, she’s super nice in person too. Anyway, before I go on about Kazumi,…
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Onward to 80,000
Currently at 79,499 hits, I think we’ll hit the 80,000 mark in a couple of days. Yay! Thank you for visiting Karakui.com and I promise that we’ll do our best to keep new (and hopefully interesting) content coming.
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SPEED’s Imai has new movie role – Tokyograph
Eriko Imai, of the recently reunited group SPEED, has been given her first film appearance since five years ago. The movie is ‘Yuzuriha ~Kimi mo Mata Tsugi no Kimi e~,’ directed by Kentaro Hayase. The picture is a 60th-anniversary project of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf. Imai recently revealed that her 3-year-old son Raimu…
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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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Documentary featuring Cocco to hit theaters in December
“Daijoubu de Aru you ni -Cocco Owaranai Tabi-” is a documentary based on popular (and a Karakui.com favorite) singer Cocco that will be released in theaters this December. The inspiration for the documentary is Cocco’s performance of her single “Jugon no Mieru Oka” at the Live Earth concert last July. The documentary will be helmed…
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RYUKYUDISKO’s new single “Top of the Island” set for release on 10/29/08
Having released a single back in July (“OK Sampler”) RYUKYUDISKO will be releasing their second single for 2008 titled “Top of the Island” which is the current theme song to the NHK show “Top Runner.” The single from the techno band also features a remix of the awesome song “Yume no FUTURE feat. KOTOMI” (featured…
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17 entries for 9/1/08!
First of all, I want to say mahalo to all of you who stopped by to say hello to me at this year’s Okinawan Festival. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it there on Saturday and I performed all-day on Sunday but meeting you all really made my day. So, thanks!!! 😀 So you may’ve…
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Toru Yonaha getting back to his Roots
This upcoming release from Toru Yonaha is the perfect companion to his 2007 album “Utage ~party~” which was heavily influenced by J-pop. The 11 track album titled “Roots ~Ryukyu Iwaiuta~ (Best of Okinawan Traditional Songs)” will be released on 9/24/08 in Okinawa. Dude, I am so buying this. (Via 沖縄三線日和.)
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Star Bulletin features Hui O Laulima’s 2nd cookbook, Chimugukuru
To embrace Okinawan cooking is to embrace its holy trinity: pork, bittermelon and the purple sweet potato. The first and the last, not so hard, but when it comes to goya — that bumpy, bitter staple veggie of Okinawan cuisine — well, you love it or you hate it. (Link: Everything Okinawan on starbulletin.com by…
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