Actress Ueno Juri (23) is going to play 5 different roles in the WOWOW short dorama "Ueno Juri to Itsutsu no Kaban" ("Ueno Juri and the bags of five" or rather "..and the 5 bags"). Known names like the scriptwriter of "Densha Otoko" Kaneko Arisa or the "Tennen Kokekko" director Yamashita Nobuhiro  [ Read More ]

Nikkan Sports has finished announcing the winners of its 12th annual reader-chosen Drama Grand Prix. The awards cover the period from April 2008 to March 2009, with the final nominees consisting of the top five from each season. The TBS thriller “Maou” was voted Best Drama. Arashi leader Ohno Satoshi  [ Read More ]

As every year, Oricon asked about 600 women (10′s~40′s) between about which female celebrity’s spring make-up they’d like to try out on themselves. Let’s not bother with the details and get straight to the results of “The female celebrity whose make-up I’d like to copy for spring 2009″. 01 –  [ Read More ]

Readers of TVnavi magazine have cast their votes for 2008′s Drama of the Year, and on Saturday it was announced that the winner is the TBS suspense series “Maou” that starred Ohno Satoshi and Ikuta Toma. Ohno also was named Best Actor for his role in that series. Miyazaki Aoi  [ Read More ]

The 32nd Japan Academy Awards have just been held in Japan today and a few days before Oricon took the opportunity to make a survey about what movies people would like to see again and which actors/actresses are favored on the big screen. The popularity of Japanese movies really reached  [ Read More ]