Fri, August 22, 2008 (2:57am EDT)
Yosuke Eguchi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, and Hideaki Ito are co-starring in a TV Asahi drama special. The show will be a big-budget production directed by Yasuo Tsuruhashi, who handled last year's television remake of Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low."
Titled "Keikan no Chi," the drama is adapted from a Jo Sasaki novel that placed 1st in this year's "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!" rankings and was nominated for the Naoki Prize. The story spans three generations of policemen, starting with Seiji (Eguchi), a Pacific War veteran who becomes a cop but dies in a fire near his home. His son Tamio (Yoshioka) follows in his footsteps as a police officer, but he is killed in the line of duty by a drug addict. Ito plays the third generation, a cop assigned to a secret investigation that leads him to the mysteries behind his father's and grandfather's deaths.
Filming started in mid-August and is expected to run for 3 months, with locations ranging from Kyushu to Hokkaido. TV Asahi will broadcast the special in 2009.
Titled "Keikan no Chi," the drama is adapted from a Jo Sasaki novel that placed 1st in this year's "Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!" rankings and was nominated for the Naoki Prize. The story spans three generations of policemen, starting with Seiji (Eguchi), a Pacific War veteran who becomes a cop but dies in a fire near his home. His son Tamio (Yoshioka) follows in his footsteps as a police officer, but he is killed in the line of duty by a drug addict. Ito plays the third generation, a cop assigned to a secret investigation that leads him to the mysteries behind his father's and grandfather's deaths.
Filming started in mid-August and is expected to run for 3 months, with locations ranging from Kyushu to Hokkaido. TV Asahi will broadcast the special in 2009.
Fri, August 22, 2008 (1:51am EDT)
Highly popular model Yuri Ebihara (better known as Ebi-chan) will be changing fashion magazines later this year. Ebihara is currently affiliated with Shogakukan's CanCam publication, which is aimed at women in their late teens to early twenties. She will be "graduating" to CanCam's sister magazine AneCan, targeting women in their mid to late twenties.
AneCan began publication in March 2007. One of the first models to switch over to AneCan was Moe Oshikiri, who was previously part of a well-known CanCam trio with Ebihara and Yu Yamada.
Ebihara's last appearance in CanCam will be the December issue, which goes on sale in late October.
AneCan began publication in March 2007. One of the first models to switch over to AneCan was Moe Oshikiri, who was previously part of a well-known CanCam trio with Ebihara and Yu Yamada.
Ebihara's last appearance in CanCam will be the December issue, which goes on sale in late October.
Fri, August 22, 2008 (1:34am EDT)
38-year-old talento Shoko Aida, once a member of the pop duo Wink, has tied the knot, it was learned on Thursday. They turned in their marriage registration on July 31, after first meeting almost two years ago.
Aida's husband is the doctor Hiromitsu Aizawa, somewhat of a celebrity due to being the third son of former Diet member Hideyuki Aizawa and actress Yoko Tsukasa. They were introduced through a friend back in 2006. News of a serious relationship was first officially confirmed in April last year.
Aida is not pregnant, and she plans to continue her career in show business.
Aida's husband is the doctor Hiromitsu Aizawa, somewhat of a celebrity due to being the third son of former Diet member Hideyuki Aizawa and actress Yoko Tsukasa. They were introduced through a friend back in 2006. News of a serious relationship was first officially confirmed in April last year.
Aida is not pregnant, and she plans to continue her career in show business.
Fri, August 22, 2008 (12:59am EDT)
Fans of the drama series "Galileo" have one more thing to look forward to. Anticipation is already high for the "Yougisha x no Kenshin" movie, opening in theaters on October 4. Now, Fuji TV is turning it into a double dose: a one-shot special titled "Galileo: Episode Zero" will be aired on the same day as the film's release.
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi (Kazuki Kitamura) is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama).
The special will also portray an incident from Yukawa's college days. Popular teen actor Haruma Miura plays the young Yukawa.
Other cast members include Masami Nagasawa as a student lab assistant and Karina as a mysterious woman tied to the murder case. Fuji TV will broadcast the drama at 9:00pm on October 4.
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. Detective Kusanagi (Kazuki Kitamura) is looking to solve a murder mystery, and he gets back in touch with his former badminton teammate, the brilliant professor Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama).
The special will also portray an incident from Yukawa's college days. Popular teen actor Haruma Miura plays the young Yukawa.
Other cast members include Masami Nagasawa as a student lab assistant and Karina as a mysterious woman tied to the murder case. Fuji TV will broadcast the drama at 9:00pm on October 4.
