junny wrote:

Shibasaki Kou to star in 2017 Taiga drama The script will be written by Morishita Yoshiko, who also wrote the script for 'Gouchisousan'.

It looks like NHK is keeping with their boy/girl/boy/girl policy when it comes to the lead in a Taiga that started with "Ryomaden" followed by "Gou"and carried on ever since. I hope the writer realizes she's not writing an asadora.

gaijinmark wrote:

It looks like NHK is keeping with their boy/girl/boy/girl policy when it comes to the lead in a Taiga that started with "Ryomaden" followed by "Gou"and carried on ever since. I hope the writer realizes she's not writing an asadora.

I hope it won't be as boring as Hana Moyu, when even the synopsis put me to sleep.
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Kou Shibasaki's new single produced by Sheena Ringo

Shibasaki Kou's new single "Yasei no Doumei" will be released on November 25.

"Yasei no Doumei" is written, composed, arranged and produced by Sheena Ringo. It will be used as the theme song for the new series of TV Asahi's drama "Kasouken no Onna" (starts October 15). Back when Sheena was in charge of the theme song for Shibasaki's starring drama "Marumaru Tsuma", the two expressed their wishes of working together on a song someday, and it was materialized this time.

Source: natalie

Details announced for Kou Shibasaki's new single

Here are the details for Kou Shibasaki's new single "Yasei no Doumei".

The title track was written, composed, arranged, and produced by Sheena Ringo. Besides this, the single includes "Ai to Smile Ai to Smile", which is the theme song for TV Saitama & Sun TV's "AI to TOZ no LOVE Hataraku Taisou", and "Memento Diary", which is Shibasaki and Uchisawa Takahito's (androp) collaboration song.

Directed by Yamada Tomokazu, the PV was created with the theme of an imaginary world where singing and dancing are prohibited. The Limited Edition DVD will contain the PV, its lyric video, and footage explaining the production of the PV.

"Yasei no Doumei" will be released on November 25.


CD

01. Yasei no Doumei
02. Memento Diary
03. Ai to Smile Ai to Smile
04. Yasei no Doumei Instrumental
05. Memento Diary Instrumental
06. Ai to Smile Ai to Smile Instrumental


Limited Edition DVD

�E"Yasei no Doumei" MV
�E"Yasei no Doumei" Lyric Video
�EThe Professional�`The world of "Yasei no Doumei" MV


Source: natalie

Kou Shibasaki to star in TV Asahi drama Special

Shibasaki Kou will be starring in the TV Asahi drama SP "Koori no Wadachi" (The Ice Rut) which will be broadcast as the its Osaka affiliate ABC's 65th anniversary drama SP on 5 November at 9pm.

The drama SP which was written specially by Naoki Award-winner Sakuragi Shino, features Shibasaki as a newbie police detective Daimon Mayu whose only family is her father who is about to die and doesn't know her mother's face nor name. In the snowy winter at Kushiro City in Hokkaido, she investigates a series of murder cases with her senior played by Sawamura Ikki. During the process, Mayu also meets an elderly lady (Miyamoto Nobuko) at the skating rink she frequents and a female president of a seafood processing company.

The cast and crew spent a total of 20 days in February this year at Kushiro where the temperatures were below freezing point. In order to play her role convincingly and experience the loneliness which Mayu feels, Shibasaki went to the extent of not bringing her manager along for the filming. This was also the longest time she had spent in a single location for filming to date and she found that it was unusually stimulating since she could keep to a routine of waking up, doing stretches and going for filming every day while at Kushiro. Sawamura also echoed her view that the continuous filming allowed them to concentrate fully but the bitter cold made him feel like his ears were about to fall off after walking for just 10 minutes in the middle of the day when the temperature was below freezing.

Source: Sanspo

The taiga may be finished, but Kou still has to pay the rent: http://www.tokyohive.com/article/2017/10/shibasaki-kou-to-release-2-all-time-best-albums

Is it just me, or has Kou gotten better looking as time has gone by? (Notice I didn't say "gotten older" )

I remember seeing her in stuff like "Battle Royale" and "Sora Kara" and she scared the crap out of me. Now she seems really nice.

yeah Kou always look pretty

Kou Shibasaki to start activities under new artist name

Kou Shibasaki has released a new all English song "Blessing" on Spotify and Apple Music under the artist name "MuseK".

This is her first release since her two best-of albums last year. From now on, she will release English songs as MuseK and Japanese songs as Kou Shibasaki. "Blessing" will also be released in Japanese.

On May 30th Shibasaki appeared at an event at Barney's New York in Roppongi where she performed "Blessing" for the first time. She said she decided to start her activities as MuseK after starring the NHK Taiga drama "Onna Joushu Naotora" and it received a lot of response from overseas.

Source: natalie

Kou Shibasaki to star in WOWOW Spring 2019 drama

Kou Shibasaki will star in the Spring 2019 WOWOW drama "The House On the Slope". The drama is based on the novel "Saka no Tochu no le" by Mitsuyo Kakuta.

Kou will play housewife and mother Risako Yamazaki. She is selected to take part in a murder trial involving a mother who killed her own infant daughter.

Source: natalie

Kou has started her own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbNhVIbcVw

^ And in addition to that, Kou's turning to directing.

Kou Shibasaki to become a director

Kou Shibasaki will be participating in the movie project 'MIRRORLIAR FILMS' and will be making her debut as a movie director through this project.

'MIRRORLIAR FILMS' is a project that was launched by mirroRliar, a service that started in 2017 to support actors. The objective is to create a film by gathering a variety of actors both young and veteran, major and independent. A total of 36 creators will work to create a 4-season anthology film. Season one is scheduled to open in 50 theaters nationwide next summer with seasons two, three, and four following every 3 months afterward.

Source: natalie

Kou beating the heat and Covid of Tokyo, spending the summer at her Dad's house in Hokkaido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDbTVaCWfU