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Mirai Shida to star in Tokai TV/FujiTV 2017 Summer drama

Shida Mirai will be starring in the new Tokai TV / FujiTV Summer 2017 drama "Utsubokazura no Yume" (The dream of the nepenthes) w ...

Arisa Mizuki to star in NHK/BS Premium channel drama

Mizuki Arisa will be starring in the NHK / BS Premium drama "Kakuregiku" which will begin its run from 4 September in the Sundays 10p ...

Yasuko Matsuyuki to play twin sisters in movie "Koto"

Matsuyuki Yasuko will be playing twin sisters for the first time in the new movie "Koto" (Ancient Capital) which is based ...

Kotaro Koizumi to star in NHK drama

Koizumi Kotaro will be starring in his first leading role in a NHK drama when he appears in the upcoming "Juken no Cinderella" starting from 10 July i ...

Nanase Aikawa tribute album and live DVD to be released in December

Aikawa Nanase's tribute album "A-Rock Nation -NANASE AIKAWA TRIBUTE-" will be released on December 3.

Various artis ...

Maki Horikita to star in TV Asahi Special

Horikita Maki will be playing an evil woman in the TV Asahi SP "Matsumoto Seicho ~ Kiri no Hata" which will be shown this winter. She plays the ...

Maki Goto to appear on TV Tokyo special music program

Goto Maki, who just announced her return from 2 and a half years of hiatus, will be appearing on TV Tokyo's special music program "Teleto ...

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Kawabe Chieko (Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon) --- married to --- Ochi Masato (he's a TV producer)

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Ogura Ichiro (Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku, Ienaki ko 1) --- married to --- Tani Chieko (she's a former idol singer)

Abe Hiroshi, Horikita Maki, Hamada Gaku in drama remake of �gThe Yellow Handkerchief�h

Posted on July 25, 2011

NTV plans to air a modern-day remake of Yamada Yoji�fs classic 1977 film �gShiaw ...

Yakuza movie lines without honor or humanity

By MARK SCHILLING
Special to The Japan Times

January 26, 2011

Japanese movies, like their Hollywood counterparts, have produced plenty of ��䎌 ...

If being a prolific accomplished filmmaker were not enough, at aged 79 Yamada Yoji can add novelist to his resume:

Film director Yamada writes 1st novel on childhood of Tora-san
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My last few attempts at watching recently made Japanese movies have proved unsatisfying: mediocre products all. So I changed tack and ended up watching three jidaigeki movies, all from the early 60' ...

Noriyuki Higashiyama stars as samurai in "Ogawa no Hotori" film
Wed, September 1, 2010 (8:40pm EDT)
Shonentai's Noriyuki Higashiyama will star in a new movie called "Ogawa no Hotori.& ...

Here's a review by Mark Schilling of the Japan Times of the latest version of the Zatoichi story, this one with Katori Shingo bleh

as the iconic blind masseur:

Turning a blind eye in the revival ...

Just finished Shokojo seira as well. I really loved shida mirai's acting and loved the chemistry between Saito Yuki as Mimura Emiko
and Higuchi Kanako as Mimura Chieko but i thought i thought the e ...

Okay, it doesn't start for another two weeks, but I picked up a copy of the publication NHK puts out every year for their taiga, so might as well start a thread:

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A few nights ago I watched another terrific Yoji Yamada film--Haruka Naru Yama no Yobigoe (A Distant Cry from Spring). This 1980 film starred movie icon Ken Takakura and Yamada's favorite lead actres ...

Baisho Chieko, one of my all-time favorite actresses and a Yamada Yoji favorite, is great in this movie..

Isn't she that actress that played that woman who single-handedly takes care of this farm.. ...

Just saw a trailer of Yamada Yoji's new film Ototo which will be coming out the end of January 2010. Some famous and familiar faces, including Yoshinaga Sayuri, Shofukutei Tsurube, Aoi Yu, Kobayashi ...