Kitagawa turned 23

Posted by HPriest on August - 24 - 2009

Kitagawa Keiko, rising actress and heroine of the current Fuji TV dorama "Buzzer Beat" had her 23rd birthday on Sunday.   Co-actresses Aibu Saki (24) and Kanjiya Shihori (23) prepared a little surprise event for their colleague. "Both of them personally gave me a present each on the 23rd," Kitagawa said delighted.  [ Read More ]

“Parade” coming to life with wonderful cast

Posted by HPriest on August - 9 - 2009

"Parade" is one of the most popular novels of the award-winning novelist Yoshida Shuuichi and it’s now being turned into a movie with a wonderful cast. They just released the first footage of the cast together at the set and an interview-ish teaser trailer this weekend. It’s also the first  [ Read More ]

"Buzzer Beat" details and the Kitagawa-Yamapi couple

Posted by HPriest on June - 12 - 2009

On Friday was the official PR/Interview-Event for Fuji TV’s summer getsu9 dorama “Buzzer Beat” with Yamashita Tomohisa and Kitagawa Keiko (photo, right) in the starring roles. The special thing about the two is that they both graduated from the same university (The Meiji-Couple) and so the reporters would like to  [ Read More ]

Isao Yukisada goes on "Parade"

Posted by HPriest on May - 26 - 2009

Director Isao Yukisada is working on a screen adaptation of author Shuichi Yoshida’s first full-length novel, “Parade,” which won the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize in 2002. Yukisada has apparently been hoping to make a movie out of the book ever since it was published in 2002. The story revolves around an  [ Read More ]

Yamapi and Kitagawa to pair up for next getsu9 dorama

Posted by HPriest on May - 21 - 2009

Yamashita Tomohisa (24) of NEWS, short “Yamapi” and actress Kitagawa Keiko (22) are going to have the starring roles in the next getsu9 dorama of the summer season that’s starting in July. The dorama will be called “Buzzer Beat – Hero on the Edge -”. Yamapi is going to be  [ Read More ]

New trailer for "Boat" ("No Boys, No Cry")

Posted by HPriest on May - 4 - 2009

Last week various Korean sites posted the full Korean trailer for Young-nam Kim’s “Boat” in anticipation of its domestic release on May 28th. Meanwhile an alternative Japanese teaser was posted on its official Japanese site. In Japan the movie will be called “No Boys, No Cry”, but the Japanese release  [ Read More ]

Movies in May – Trailer Show

Posted by HPriest on April - 27 - 2009

Like last month, here now all the plots and trailers/teaser for the Japanese movies (with at least 1 actress in one of the main roles) that get releases in Japanese cinemas in May.May 01stGoemon Over 35,000 people already attended the preview screenings all across the nation. 3 years of production,  [ Read More ]