Fuji TV has released the third trailer for their upcoming Monday drama, “Taisetsunakoto wa Subete Kimi ga Oshietekureta“, starring Toda Erika and Miura Haruma.

The 1-minute-long trailer features gives us a better grasp at understanding the atmosphere of this upcoming drama – Toda and Miura are an engaged teacher couple, and Takei Emi is the school girl who is going challenge their happy love life. AKB48’s Shinoda Mariko and Johnny’s Jr. Nakajima Kento are to appear as regulars as well.

Newcomer trio RAM WIRE will provide the theme song for Fukada Kyoko’s (27) upcoming movie “Renai Gikyoku” (more info here). The song is called “Himitsu” and the music video for the song will star Fukada as well.

It’s her first appearance in a music video for an artist other than herself and it’s going to be a very sad and painful clip about a love triangle. The story of the clip is basically a spin-off of the movie itself and Fukada is going to switch into the role of the protagonist, the scriptwriter Taniyama Mayumi again. She had to shed a lot of tears for the crying scenes, but the result is supposed to be very impressive and very realistic. [...]

A new trailer for "Space Battleship Yamato" starring Kimura Takuya has been released via Japanese TV and it looks like they are going into the right direction with the special effects for this sci-fi epic. Some rumor in the past said that Kimura himself had them redo the effects after  [ 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 ]

There’s a group of people who are called "2nd Generation Talents" . It can basically refer to people who capitalize on the fame of a parent without having any own talents, skills or achievements. On the other hand there are also such 2nd generation talents who make you think, "Just like  [ Read More ]

Actress Hirosue Ryoko attended a PR-Event for her new movie called "Zero Focus" (Zero no Shoten) that is going to open on November 14th.   "Zero Focus" is a mystery and suspense thriller set in the Kanazawa of 1957. It’s based on a whodunit mystery novel of Matsumoto Seicho and features  [ Read More ]

There’s finally a full trailer for "Bandage" starring Akanishi Jin in his first movie and Kitano Kie.   The movie is set in the early 1990s during Japan’s "band boom" eria. Akanishi plays Natsu, the eccentric leader and vocalist of a 4-member rock band called LANDS. Kitano plays a senior  [ Read More ]

There’s a new trailer for Mamoru Oshii’s CG/SciFi entertainment movie "Assault Girls" starring Kuroki Meisa, Kikuchi Rinko, Saeki Hinako and lots of Engrish…   Here the plot description, if that’s necessary for this movie: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful  [ Read More ]