Music Japan is back with its first show of 2015! Guests this week were Nana Mizuki, A.B.C-Z, Nogizaka46, SEKAI NO OWARI, KANA-BOON, Tokyo Karankoron, and back number.
SEKAI NO OWARI – Snow Magic Fantasy
Nogizaka46 – Boku ga Iru Basho
Nana Mizuki – Eden
A.B.C-Z – SPACE TRAVELERS
KANA-BOON – Full Drive
back number – Heroine
Tokyo Karankoron – Heel ni Negai wo
This week’s guest was B’z. They performed 2 songs and were also interviewed.
B’z – Ichibu to Zenbu / Uchouten
This week’s guests were w-inds. and back number. This week’s show also featured clips from past performances that have aired in January, by acts such as Mika Nakashima, SMAP, and Shiina Ringo. There are also clips of upcoming TBS drama themes by the likes of Arashi, Southern All Stars, and GENERATIONS.
back number – Heroine
w-inds. – FANTASY
FLOWER FLOWER’s first mini-album “Shiki” (Seasons) will include all four theme songs used as part of the four seasons theme for the movie “Little Forest” starring Hashimoto Ai. The album will drop February 18. The songs “Natsu” and “Aki” were already released. “Fuyu” and “Haru” will preceed the second chaper of the second chapter of the movie, which will open February 14.
Shiki will be released in a limited CD+DVD edition and a regular CD only edition. The limited edition will also contain interludes or “entr’acte” connecting each song, with the DVD tracklist containing the 4 music videos of theme songs.
The main poster for the new TV Asahi drama “Second Love” (start February 6, 11:15pm) starring Kamenashi Kazuya and Fukada Kyoko has been released. The main visual for the drama shows Kamenashi and Fukada huddled naked under white sheets, to express the adult love and painful world of “Second Love”.
“Second Love” is written by love story expert, Oishi Shizuka. Kamenashi stars together with Fukada in this scandalous new genre called “night melodrama”, described as an adult dangerous love more painful than a soap opera.
The poster tagline reads: “On Friday nights, you will be drowning in love”. The poster will be up from February 1- 14 at the 109MEN’S store in Shibuya and from February 5 at the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line system (Marunouchi Line, Hibya Line, Yurakucho Line, and Fukutoshin- Hanzomon Line). Check out the images below.
It was announced by the staff of the upcoming Dragon Ball Z: Revival of “F” film that Momoiro Clover Z will perform the film’s theme song. Details of the song will be announced at a later date.
A producer at Toei Animation said all the members of Momoiro Clover Z are big Dragon Ball fans. The group’s leader Momota Kanako said she hopes the song will bring energy to a lot of people like a “reverse genki dama (spirit bomb).”
The ‘F’ in the film’s title actually stands for “Frieza,” who will be revived in the film. Dragon Ball manga creator Toriyama Akira noted that he thought of the title while listening to Maximum The Hormone’s 2008 song “F”. The song itself features Frieza as a motif, and will be used as a “battle song” during one of the battle scenes in the film.
The film will premiere across Japan on April 18. Check out its trailer below.
EXILE ATSUSHI will be releasing a new single, Sakura no Kisetsu (Season of Cherry Blossoms) on February 4.
This song was previously included in his album “Love Ballade” and used as the set music for the junior high school division of “The 81st Nationwide Contest of Music sponsored by NHK”. Aside from the original and instrumental version, the single will also include a chorus version performed by the NHK Tokyo Children’s Choir .
The DVD will also contain a documentary aside from the music video. Check out his new PV for Sakura no Kisetsu and the children from the choir below.
Yuko Oshima will star in a brand new movie written and directed by Yuki Tanada. It has been about seven years since Tanada directed and wrote the script for her own film (“One Million Yen Girl”, 2008). Also, this is the first time Oshima will be playing the main character since the 2009 film “Teketeke”.