Get out your hankies or your tissues. This one is a real weeper. This TV Drama, entitled Love & Forgiveness, produced by NTV, recently concluded its run. The broadcast period was mid April 2009, to mid-June 2009. It has an alternate title as well, Aishiteru.
Though the series had three attractive ladies, Izumi Inamura, Yuka Itaya, in the lead roles, and Misako Tanaka, in the supporting role who connects them, each of these actresses have all graduated from their youthful days. They don’t do winsome ingenues any more. So this series is about a story and acting rather than eye-candy. Read more…
Source: Tokyograph.com
“The female lead of Yuichi Fukuda’s upcoming film “Oarai ni mo Hoshi wa Furu Nari” has finally been revealed. The movie was first mentioned in April, though only the main male cast was revealed at the time.
The comical story revolves around seven quirky men competing for the affection of one “madonna.” The madonna is now known to be actress Erika Toda (20), who said that this was her first time filming where she was the only female.
As previously revealed, the seven men in the story will include Takayuka Yamada as a misunderstood stalker. The other characters are a shark maniac (Yusuke Yamamoto), a seeker of infidelity (Tsuyoshi Muro), a high-strung idiot (Yu Koyanagi), a wimp who never succeeds (Shunya Shiraishi), a “choiwaru oyaji” (Jiro Sato), and a divorced lawyer (Ken Yasuda).
The movie is scheduled to open in November. Meloride is providing the theme song, titled “Koko ni Aru.”
Link: Erika Toda (Photos)
Source: Japantoday.com
“TOKYO — Popular comedy duo Taka and Toshi, and pop idol Chinatsu Wakatsuki are promoting the U.S. animated film ‘‘Bolt,’’ which was released in Japan recently. ‘‘Next time ‘Bolt,’ please,’’ Taka and Toshi said while handing out fliers to people who had just finished watching other movies at a Tokyo cinema complex.
The duo are encouraging people to go to see the Disney film after engaging in similar promotional activity for ‘‘Wall-E,’’ another Disney movie. Wakatsuki, for her part, spoke of her fondness for the film about a dog star in Hollywood, saying she has already seen it three times. Wakatsuki said she hoped to see the film again with a man she is interested in. ‘‘I think I would invite such a man…No, maybe he should invite me,’’ she said.”
Link: Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Chinatsu Wakatsuki (Photos)
