The All Nippon Producers Association presented the 2010 Elan d’or Awards on Thursday. As always, the media focused on the "newcomer awards," given to a crop of young stars. This year, the six winners were Masaki Okada (20), Nana Eikura (21), Ryuhei Matsuda (26), Mirai Shida (16), Hiro Mizushima (25),  [ Read More ]

Prime Time Report – Dorama Time Slots – #Week 06 Just ratings alone don’t say a lot. What shows air at the same time as your favorite dorama? Notes: – Detailed time-slot competition infos for weekly doramas only (no Dorama-SP’s!) – Though Dorama SP’s will still be listed with their respective  [ Read More ]

A short time ago actress Nagasawa Masami already announced during the radio show "MY OLYMPIC" that she would make some Valentine’s Chocolate for the Japanese athletes that are going to compete at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Together with fellow actress Eikura Nana she now fulfilled her promise.   The whole Valentine’s Chocolate project  [ Read More ]

[2010-01-16] – (10:19) Freezing Cold. It’s freezing cold. That’s how I look like with the strong winds blowing around the high buildings. At the set and it’s cold. But we finished with this set! Thank goodness!   A few days ago I got to participate in the talk derby at  [ Read More ]

Prime Time Report – Dorama Time Slots – #Week 05 Just ratings alone don’t say a lot. What shows air at the same time as your favorite dorama? Notes: – Detailed time-slot competition infos for weekly doramas only (no Dorama-SP’s!) – Though Dorama SP’s will still be listed with their respective  [ Read More ]

Today actress Eikura Nana (21) made an appearance at Aqua City in the Tokyo Harbor Ward to participate as a special guest in the traditional "New Year’s Lottery to Welcome the Year Heisei 22". Comedy duo NON STYLE consisting of Inoue Yusuke (29) and Ishida Akira (29) helped her doing the  [ Read More ]

Today was the press conference for Fuji TV’s new dorama "Naka nai to Kimeta Hi" starring actress Eikura Nana (21).   The story is about a young woman (Eikura) who enters a major trading company where people seem to be under a lot of stress. Soon that stress gets mixed with displeasure  [ Read More ]

Oricon conducted a survey to find out what is the most anticipated dorama of the currently starting winter season of 2010. The conclusion of the survey is that most people look forward to new seasons of already known doramas. There often have been news about 2010 being the year of  [ Read More ]