Young actress Mitsushima Hikari (24) is getting married to movie director Ishii Yuuya (27). They have already formally entered their marriage into their family registers, her agency announced today.

Ishii directed the movie “Kawa no Soko Kara Konnichiwa” starring Mitsushima that opened in May this year. They got closer throughout the filming and have been in a relationship for over one year now. Her agency already made it clear that she is not pregnant and that she is going to continue to work as an actress from now on. A date for the official wedding ceremony and reception has not yet been fixed. [...]

Mirai Moriyama (25) will star in a live-action drama series based on Mitsuro Kubo's manga "Moteki." This is his first drama role since getting married earlier this year.   Moriyama plays a temp worker who has never had any luck with women. One day, he suddenly starts getting invitations from  [ Read More ]

Today the 19th Japan Movie Critics Awards were held in Tokyo. Mitsushima Hikari, EXILE's Akira and Okada Masaki became the award for "Rookie of the Year".   Mitsushima received a lot of positive criticism for her acting in "Love Exposure". "The movie is around 4 hours long and the filming  [ Read More ]

Updated! With some comments from the cast and the air date. It's getting a bit "Tsuki no Koibito"-centric, but I just wanted to translate additional infos regarding the rest of the supporting roles and their filming in Shanghai.   First of all about the filming. They've just finished their 2nd  [ Read More ]

Watanabe Natsuna —Born: 1989/05/23 (20) —Most recent dorama: "Ando Natsu" & "Miracle Voice" —Upcoming movie: "GANTZ" (Spring 2011) – Shukan Young Jump Magazine 2010 No.10   Kawashima Umika —Born: 1994/03/03 (15) —Current dorama: "Bloody Monday 2"  —Most recent dorama: "Tenchijin" & "Aishiteru" —Upcoming movie: "Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai" (2010) —Most recent movie: "Keitai Kareshi"  —Note: Pictures from her shooting for her 3rd photo book  [ Read More ]

The 34th Hochi Film Awards were announced on Thursday. This year, the title of Best Picture went to Setsuro Wakamatsu’s "Shizumanu Taiyo," based on Toyoko Yamasaki’s JAL-inspired novel about an airline employee pitted against company executives while he deals with the aftermath of a major plane crash.   The same  [ Read More ]

The Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film (June 30 – July 12) in New York is approaching and so Japan Society NYC is starting to release English-Subtitled trailers for some of the movies that are going to have their international (or at least New York) premiere. Two of those  [ Read More ]