Every Monday/Tuesday I’m going to bring you the newest box office charts from the past weekend. [Weekend of December 19 ~ December 20]     Rank Last Week   Movie Week 01 01  One Piece Film: Strong World (Anime) 2 new 02 –  Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score – Part I  [ Read More ]

Prime Time Report – Dorama Time Slots – #Week 51 Just ratings alone don’t say a lot. Here you can actually find out what shows your favorite dorama is competing with in its time slot. Some titles are shortened!   #Monday – December 14   — 08pm  Ratings Rank  Channel  Program  [ Read More ]

Today finally was the first opening day for the highly anticipated movie "Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score – Part I" starring Ueno Juri (23) Tamaki Hiroshi (29). It opened at a total of 409 theaters in Japan and it seems like that it had a very successful first day.    [ Read More ]

Oshii Mamoru’s action-CGI movie "Assault Girls" opened in Japan today and the cast attended a stage-greeting in Tokyo to celebrate the occasion.   The movie is all about female hunters that fight gigantic monsters in a vast desert. Kuroki Meisa (21) is one of those hunters and talked a bit about what  [ Read More ]

Actor Masaki Okada (20) and actress Yu Aoi (24) will co-star in the movie "Raiou," an adaptation of a popular novel by Mari Ueza. This will be their first time acting together, as well as their first roles in a jidaigeki work.   The story, set during the Edo period,  [ Read More ]

 Every Monday/Tuesday I’m going to bring you the newest box office charts from the past weekend. [Weekend of December 12 ~ December 13]   The new and 10th One Piece Movie "One Piece Film: Strong World" had a more than amazing first weekend earning a total of 1038 Million Yen (11.73  [ Read More ]

Funakoshi Eiichiro (49) and Fukada Kyoko (27) are both starring in the upcoming movie "A Tale of Ululu’s Wonderful Forest" and today they have worked as directors of the Sapporo Maruyama Zoo as part of their promotional "Life Bonds Campaign".   The movie is set in Hokkaido and focuses around and focuses  [ Read More ]

The official website for Takahiro Miki’s live-action adaptation of Inio Asano’s 18-30 manga “Solanin” has been updated with a 2-minute trailer.     Outline: Aoi Miyazaki plays an office worker named Meiko who, having become frustrated with the daily grind, quits her job of two years. The situation puts an  [ Read More ]