Actress Kie Kitano and actor Kento Hayashi are co-starring in a romance film titled "Love Fight," directed by Izuru Narushima ("Midnight Eagle").

The story is themed around boxing, and centers on the love story between a good-for-nothing guy (Hayashi) and his childhood friend (Kitano), who has become strong at fighting. Actor Takao Osawa is serving as the film's producer, a first for him.

Filming is already underway in Osaka. The movie hits theaters this fall.

In Oricon chart news, EXILE's compilation album "EXILE CATCHY BEST" took the no. 1 ranking in the albums chart. The sales for the first week totaled 680,000 copies and beat out this year's previous high of 480,000 copies by Hikaru Utada's "HEART STATION." It also currently has the highest total sales of albums released this year ("HEART STATION" is at 616,000).

Thelma Aoyama ranked #3 with "DIARY" (116,000 copies), while Ayumi Hamasaki's "ayu-mi-x 6 -GOLD-" and "-SILVER-" charted at #6 and #8, respectively. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's "Perfect Future" came in at #9, ahead of the compilation "39 Anime x Music Collaboration '02-'07" and LUNA SEA's "COMPLETE BEST."

On the singles chart, 20th Century's single "Ore Janakya, Kimi Janakya" sold 39,000 copies in its first week and took the no. 1 spot. It has been 7 years since the group's last single, and this is their first #1 release under this name. The group is actually composed of V6's three older members - Masayuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagano, and Yoshihiko Inohara.

Tourbillon's "Break the Chain" entered the charts at #3. Other new releases in the top 10 were the "Kamen Rider Den-O" song "Double-Action Wing form" (#5), alice nine.'s "MIRROR BALL" (#6), and FUNKY MONKEY BABYS' "Tabidachi" (#10).

As a promotional campaign for Arashi's first prime time variety show, "Himitsu no Arashi-chan!," several fans are being selected to appear in a television commercial for the program.

TBS is working with major newspapers to include "tickets" in their issues, and the lucky winners will be chosen from those who mail in a ticket. Those selected will appear in a 15-second ad, in which the members of Arashi pass on a secret to them.

The television program starts on April 10th.

34-year-old actress Rie Miyazawa has a new boyfriend, it was reported on Tuesday. The new issue of Shukan Josei spotted Miyazawa frequenting a sports gym with a man that resembles pro golfer Kiyoshi Miyazato. According to the magazine, Miyazawa simply stated that she has been training at the gym during her free time.

It has been rumored before that Miyazawa broke up with jewelry designer Takuji Mikita last fall, but nothing has been confirmed. Miyazawa's agency said that they could not comment on the Shukan Josei article due to the absence of her manager.

Stardust Promotion's idol unit Power Age is taking the plunge into the music market, and the company has placed the fate of the group directly in the hands of consumers.

Power Age consists of 9 high school girls who have all had some experience in acting or as magazine models. Now, 4 of them have been chosen to release a debut single, titled "Yakusoku," which was made available for free as a chaku-uta (ringtone) starting on Tuesday. According to Stardust, if the song doesn't reach 10,000 downloads, the foursome will immediately disband.

The sub-unit's members are Misaki Ikeda, Maika Miyashita, Erena Abe, and Maaya Hasuda. The other members of Power Age can be seen at the project's website.

In February, three members of the popular band GReeeeN took the national dental exams. On Tuesday, member navi revealed on his blog that both HIDE and 92 ("Kuni") passed the test, though he himself did not.

The other member of the group, SOH, is still enrolled in university. Together, the four members have chosen to keep their faces hidden from the public until they have all obtained their dentistry license.

Talento Waka Inoue and musician Takanori Nishikawa have been given their first lead movie roles together in Makoto Tanaka's love story, "Corazon de Melon."

According to the summary on the movie's website, Inoue plays an OL named Izumi who lives with her boyfriend Hiromi (Nishikawa), who is unable to work due to illness. One day she gets laid off, but unable to tell Hiromi, she starts looking for a new job to no avail. Unaware of her hardship, Hiromi expresses his desire to eat some high-grade melons, and she begins a desperate search to fulfill his wish.

The movie is scheduled to open in theaters in early summer.

ORANGE RANGE will release its new single "O2 ~Oo Tsuu~" on May 28. This will mark the first time ORANGE RANGE member YAMATO takes the lead vocal for a song.

"O2" will be the opening theme to the TBS anime series "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2" that starts on April 6. In addition, the show's ending theme is also done by ORANGE RANGE, titled "Shiawase Neiro." However, it will not be released with the "O2" single.

ORANGE RANGE is starting their "ORANGE RANGE devil pop showcase tour 008" on April 3rd at Niigata LOTS.

Hip-hop unit ET-KING and vocal group JULEPS will be handling the new theme songs for the currently airing "Yatterman" anime series. This is the first time for either group to have an anime tie-in.

ET-KING is doing a cover of Masayuki Yamamoto's "Yatterman no Uta." Yamamoto himself was present at the song's recording. No release date has been set yet.

Meanwhile, JULEPS is doing the ending theme "Kaiki Nisshoku," with lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto. The single goes on sale May 14.

Both songs will debut on the April 14 episode of "Yatterman."

Staff writer sigelx has translated a recent Oricon interview with Leah Dizon. Read the interview here, along with some additional questions from fans!