According to multiple news reports, and many media outlets, actress Erica Sawajiri has lost the leading lady role in a 2010 blockbuster movie called Space Battleship Yamamoto. Sawajiri, 23, had originally beaten out Meisa Kuroki, 21, and other actresses for this role that would mark her comeback as an actress.
This film which was to have begun shooting next month, and was tentatively scheduled for release in December 2010, was rumored to be a very expensive production with an projected budget of around 1 billion JY. Read more…
The movie “Robo Geisha” had its world premiere “secret screening #1″ last friday at Fantastic Fest 2009. It opens October 3rd 2009.
The beautiful AV Idol Asami (亜紗美) graced the premiere with her presence, dressed in a tengu mask and bra outfit. Here’s a cute video of Asami practising some bad-ass english lines for the event.
And now, about the movie “Robo Geisha” itself. It is a film by Noboru Iguchi, of Machine Girl fame, staring gravure idol Aya Kiguchi (木口亞矢). Other than geishas and gore, Robo-Geisha also comes with japanese castles, robots, school girls, swords and even tempura. I can’t begin to find suitable words to describe the movie, so I guess it is best you watch the trailer and form your own opinion.
Geisha is Japanese Girl. Geisha is Beautiful. Geisha is Wild. Geisha is Robot!
Warning: watching of the Robo-Geisha trailer may lead to temporary brain malfunction
To mark the 7th anniversary of Pink Ribbon in China, Trend Health magazine will be featuring 3 top Chinese celebrities baring their bodies to endorse the Pink Ribbon campaign.
Singer Mao Amin, actresses Ning Jing and Hao Lei are doing nude photoshot for the magazine, following last year’s celebrity trio of Joan Chen, Ma Yili and Ke Lan.
Pink ribbons is an emblem for raising awareness of breast cancer. Read more…
Top chinese actress Li Bingbing will be starring in the upcoming Huayi Brothers’upcoming spy thriller, “The Message” (“Feng Sheng”), where she’ll be doing her first ever nude scene.
The movie was set during China’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45). It also stars another chinese top actress Zhou Xun.
The story follows the assassination of an official of the Japanese-controlled puppet government. Five suspects were imprisoned by the Japanese to flush out the planted agent. Read more…
If you been following to the news to Noriko Sakai from beginning up to now. Which now she has been released as the bail was at 5 million yen ($55,320.50 US) as requested by her lawyer. Also she apologizes for her mistake w/ stimulant possession and use and it was 200 reporters she spoken too. She will at the press conference later on to do a tearful apology to her fans after she was released.
According to Japantoday article: that Noriko does have her first court hearing in Oct. 26th.
Hong Kong film star and pop idol Charlene Choi has been named the September Cover Girl for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s HK edition according to a recent South China Morning Post video news feature.
Choi, long associated with Gillian Chung, as the super popular Canto-pop group known as Twins, has been making films since 2002. Of more than 30 films, the most popular releases were, My Wife is 18, Diva…Ah Hey, New Police Story with superstar Jackie Chan, Simply Actors, and Kung Fu Dunk.
She’s sold tons of music albums, appeared in TV series, and has even penned an autobiography. Read more…
Akina Minami was join w/ Taiwan actress Gui Runmei to hold a PR in Tokyo to talk about 2010 “Taipei International Flower Exhibition” which will held in January at Taipei, Taiwan. Akina also became a goodwill ambassador. A crown that was made of flowers given from the organizers as a way to spread the “Flower Expo” in Japan.
“Actress Yu Yamada, 25, will play a nurse for the first time in her acting career when she appears as Sayo Hamada in Fuji TV’s upcoming drama special, tentatively titled “Team Batista – Silence of the Nightingale.”
The drama special, to air on Fuji TV on Oct 9 at 9 p.m., follows on from the drama series “The Glorious Team Batista” which aired on Fuji TV last year. The series focused on a team of Japanese doctors and nurses who specialize in heart surgery known as the Batista procedure, an operation which carries a success rate of just 60%, and is no longer performed in the U.S. in lieu of a heart transplant.
“TOKYO — Pop idol Shoko Nakagawa, popularly known as ‘‘Shokotan,’’ attended the finale of a two-month event at Tokyo Dome City on Sunday, which was aimed at helping young people meet boyfriends and girlfriends. ‘‘I feel ‘giza’ happy,’’ Nakagawa said, using one of her enigmatic signature phrases that means ‘‘very’’ and referring to her role during the event as ‘‘a special cupid’’ to help potential young couples arrange dates.
Wearing a dress featuring pink hearts, Nakagawa said she paid her first visit to an amusement park nearby when she was just 3 years old. ‘‘I’ve also dreamed about having a kiss at the top of Sky Flower,’’ she said, referring to one of the rides at the park.
Some 12,500 couples attended Sunday’s finale, according to organizers.”
At the Extraordinary V Conference held last Friday at Zirca, local MediaCorp actress, Joanna Peh was seen to be in the company of rumoured boyfriend, Bobby Tonelli. The pair was visibly engrossed in the performance and occasionally exchanged smiles and glances, appearing relaxed and comfortable in each other’s company.
In an interview, Joanne expressed that she is unafraid of appearing alongside with Bobby at public places. “We meet up quite often.” The actress continued and explained that her curiosity was piqued after she read about the ‘Little Nyona’ segment. As all the tickets were sold out for last Friday’s show, Joanne approached Bobby, who is an artiste under Fly Entertainment and asked him if he had anymore free tickets. Read more…