Sat, November 8, 2008 (3:13pm EST)
Talento Miho Yoshioka has given birth to her second child. The baby girl was born on Friday afternoon at a Tokyo hospital.
Yoshioka, 28, is the wife of vocalist Izam, a member of the visual kei band SHAZNA that announced its breakup earlier this week. The pair have been married since November 2006. Their first child, a boy, was born in April 2007.
Yoshioka, 28, is the wife of vocalist Izam, a member of the visual kei band SHAZNA that announced its breakup earlier this week. The pair have been married since November 2006. Their first child, a boy, was born in April 2007.
Sat, November 8, 2008 (3:12pm EST)
Movie director and writer Kenta Hayashida recently passed away, it was learned on Friday. Hayashida was only 32 years old.
Hayashida's first theatrical film, "Brulee," began playing in movie houses last month. According to the film's distributor, There's Enterprise, Hayashida had gone out for a meal with friends from work on October 31, and afterward went alone to his film production office. However, it wasn't until the morning of November 5 that he was found dead at the office. A representative stated that Hayashida apparently had an illness, though the cause of death has not been revealed. An announcement on the film's official site states that he passed away on November 1.
Hayashida was a graduate of the Japan Academy of Moving Images. He began making a name for himself with successful entries in the Indie's Movie Festival, and in 2001 he picked up the Grand Prize. Before "Brulee," he was also involved with direct-to-video movies.
Hayashida's first theatrical film, "Brulee," began playing in movie houses last month. According to the film's distributor, There's Enterprise, Hayashida had gone out for a meal with friends from work on October 31, and afterward went alone to his film production office. However, it wasn't until the morning of November 5 that he was found dead at the office. A representative stated that Hayashida apparently had an illness, though the cause of death has not been revealed. An announcement on the film's official site states that he passed away on November 1.
Hayashida was a graduate of the Japan Academy of Moving Images. He began making a name for himself with successful entries in the Indie's Movie Festival, and in 2001 he picked up the Grand Prize. Before "Brulee," he was also involved with direct-to-video movies.
