Jolin Tsai officially released her new album “PLAY” last November 15 and as previously reported, Namie Amuro collaborated with Jolin for one of the tracks in the album “I’m Not Yours”. While awaiting the release of the music video, which had both of them playing madams in a brothel, you can check out the full song below. “I’m Not Yours” is sung in Mandarin and English.
It was announced that Ueno Juri will be joining Oguri Shun and Ikuta Toma in the TBS drama series “Ouroboros”, starting January of next year.
“Ouroboros” will mark the first time in 8 years that Oguri and Ikuta will be working together. It is the first live adaptation of the popular manga of the same title by Kanzaki Yuya, and tells the story of two childhood friends, set to exact revenge for their foster parent. Ryuzaki Ikuo (Ikuta Toma) became a police detective with outstanding physical ability and Danno Tatsuya (Oguri Shun) became a leading member of a yakuza.
Ueno will play as Hibino Mizuki, Ikuta’s detective partner, an elite graduate of Tokyo University. She becomes suspicious of the nature of relationship between her partner Ryuzaki and Danno . It is the first time for Ikuta and Ueno to work together and there will be romantic relationship between their characters. However, Ikuta says “the love story will be a little sad”.
Actress and Model, Kiko Mizuhara (24) uploaded a new image of herself on her Instagram on the 9th of November showing off her new nose piercing. The image garnered very mixed responses, mostly of complete and utter surprise.
Mizuhara’s photo, so captioned “My first nose pieced experience” attracted comments of surprise, ranging from “Why???”, “Uh!” and “Wild!”. By the 10th, the image had garnered over 50,000 likes.
She’s certainly attracting attention….again.
Akiko Wada x E-girls – Waratte Yurushite
Nishino Kana x Mai Kuraki – Watashitachi / Stay by my side
E-girls – Mr.Snowman
Nishino Kana – Suki
Mai Kuraki – Muteki na Heart
Akiko Wada – Subarashiki Hito yo
As previously reported, Daichi Miura is set to release his new single “Furueau Dake de ~Always with you~ / IT’S THE RIGHT TIME” on December 3. This will be the singer’s 13th single. Daichi has now released a short music video for “Furueau Dake de ~Always with you~.” The song can currently be heard in the new Nivea commercials. Check it out after the jump!
It has been announced that hard rock band KISS and Momoiro Clover Z will come together as “Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS” early next year for a collaboration single. The CD jacket photo shoot and PV filming has already been completed in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is the first time KISS has collaborated with a Japanese group. The single will be sold in two types: a KISS version and Momoiro Clover Z version. The KISS version comes with only a CD consisting of three newly recorded songs and off-vocal versions, while the Momoclo versions comes with a CD consisting of the title track, a couple song and off-vocal version as well as a Blu-Ray disc.
Furthermore, Momoiro Clover Z is set to participate at KISS’s final performance of their 40th anniversary tour at the Tokyo Dome on March 3, 2015.
This forthcoming collaboration single is currently untitled but will be released January 28, 2015 on iTunes to about 120 countries worldwide. It will mark the first of a consecutive release of 3 singles in the first half of 2015 for Momoclo.
(via Natalie, Photo by Hiroshi Manaka)