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
What begins as a Yakuza drama, changes direction rather quickly. You see, as we are told by Tsuyoshi Kusanagi who stars as Hikoichi Tsubasa, a Yakuza underboss, the heroic fighting, and feats of derring-do, are just in the movies. In real life, a Yakuza has a real struggle on his hands just to make a living. It seems that extortion and loansharking aren’t all that profitable. Instead of strong arming plain folks out of their money, nowadays the Yakuza must connive and scam – and it just isn’t that easy. Read more…
Alli is a Chinese beauty that I found out about a while back when I discovered her photostream on Flickr. While googling for pictures of herself, she came across our forum and decided to register. Just recently, she accepted the staff’s invitation to become a ScanLover Goddess. So today I have the pleasure of introducing our newest goddess.
If you haven’t acquainted yourself with Alli yet, you can do so by clicking here.
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…
It’s difficult to take hold of a dream, but a chance can come to anyone, at any time.
This was the closing line (translated to English) from the 2009 Japanese TV Series Chance. I’ve included it as the introduction for this article and it leads us to a question: Do all the best Japanese actresses in TV series come from Okinawa? Probably not. Make that definitely not, but for some inexplicable reason (the water? the climate? the local rice?) the list of well known and well received Okinawan actresses seems to be growing rapidly. I’ll give you a look at some of them, but I’ll limit myself to those who have appeared in a TV Series that I’ve seen.
Let’s lead with Yukie Nakama who is 29 and is from Urasoe, Okinawa. Her best know work is from the beloved series Gokusen which has been so popular that it since its first season was broadcast in 2002, it was renewed for another full season in 2005, and in 2008 a 3rd full season was aired. In 2009 a movie special was broadcast. But I first became aware of Yukie in the 2004 series called Tokyo Wankei aka Destiny of Love. 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…
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What begins as a Yakuza drama, changes direction rather quickly. You see, as we are told by Tsuyoshi Kusanagi who stars as Hikoichi Tsubasa, a Yakuza underboss, the heroic fighting, and feats of derring-do, are just in the movies. In real life, a Yakuza has a real struggle on his hands just to make a living. It seems that extortion and loansharking aren’t all that profitable. Instead of strong arming plain folks out of their money, nowadays the Yakuza must connive and scam – and it just isn’t that easy. 
Written by siewaun Reference: 
Let’s lead with Yukie Nakama who is 29 and is from Urasoe, Okinawa. Her best know work is from the beloved series Gokusen which has been so popular that it since its first season was broadcast in 2002, it was renewed for another full season in 2005, and in 2008 a 3rd full season was aired. In 2009 a movie special was broadcast. But I first became aware of Yukie in the 2004 series called Tokyo Wankei aka Destiny of Love. 
Written by siewaun Reference: 
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.