Actress Nakama Yukie (30) will be starring in a new original 2-hour suspense drama this December, Fuji TV revealed today.

The drama will be called “Mesen” and is based on an original story written by Amano Setsuko who just debuted 3 years ago at the age of 60. It features Nakama as wheelchair-bound handicapped woman who gets involved into a mysterious serial murder case. They promise a suspense-packed story and a fascinating performance of Nakama, very different to her trademark characters she portrayed in “Trick” and “Gokusen”. [...]

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The weekly pictorial magazine “FRIDAY” reports in their newest issue that actress Nakama Yukie (30) and actor Tanaka Tetsushi (44) seem to be in a relationship after all.

Last year in November it was first rumored that the two of them are an item, but back then both of their agencies denied it. Now the magazine was able to take a picture of Tanaka, when he was entering Nakama’s apartment with a mask and a cap to hide his face in mid-September. [...]

Actress Inoue Mao (23) has been chosen to star in a movie adaptation of Kakuta Mitsuyo’s popular novel “Youkame no Semi.” Narushima Izuru is directing the film, scheduled for release in 2011.

Inoue plays Erina, a young woman who was abducted as a baby by her father’s mistress Kiwako (Nagasaku Hiromi). Kiwako raises Erina as her own child up until her arrest four years later. Erina grows up but has no place to truly call home, and she ends up carrying on her own affair with a married man and becoming pregnant. [...]

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Today the actors Ishihara Satomi (23), Tanihara Shosuke (38), Oshima Yuuko (21) and mangaka Kaitani Shinobu (Liar Game) introduced the new comedy-mystery drama “Reinoryokusha Odagiri Kyoko no Uso” that is based on one of Kaitani’s manga.

The highlight of the little press conference was to see Ishihara wearing her unique “Arabian” kimono kind of dress for the first time in public. After looking at the dress, people immediately noticed that something seemed different when she was standing right next to the 183cm tall Tanihara. The 157cm short Ishihara must be wearing some impressive shoes under that dress, because at the event it looked like as if she was 180cm tall. [...]

Tomorrow the new commercial for “Daiwa House”, Japan’s largest homebuilder, starring actor Yakusho Koji (54) will finally go on air and continue exactly where the previous commercial left off.

In the previous commercial, “Heroine The 1st” the fictional staff of the commercial requested Yakusho to wear the costume of their new image character “Daiwa Woman”. Obviously he was dumbfounded by their unreasonable request to wear the costume of a female character and refused to try it one. The staff then asked him who else if not him is going to do it and he said, “Why not someone like Kuroki Meisa?” The staff responds, “You really love her, huh?” It ended after that, but in the new commercial, “Heroine The 2nd” we can see that Kuroki actually accepted the love call and puts on the costume, even though her manager (in the commercial) also refused the costume at first. [...]