The live-action film adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi’s action comedy manga “Gintama” has achieved success at the Japanese box office, far exceeding analyst expectations.
It has been revealed that the film has sold more than 1.3 million tickets and earned 1.78 billion yen in the 11 days since its release on July 14, becoming the most successful Japanese live-action film this year so far.
The Shun Oguri (“Lupin The Third“, “Nobunaga Concerto“)-starring film was released to 335 screens across Japan on July 14, crossing the one million mark in admissions in only eight days.
Rock band The Brilliant Green are scheduled to appear at the “38th Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival 2017” next month to jump-start their 20th anniversary promotions for September.
Currently, the band consists of husband-wife duo Tomoko Kawase and Shunsaku Okuda after the third original member Ryo Matsui left the group in 2010.
In an interview with PR Times, Kawase stated that it was the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake that had her thinking about the meaning of life. Before that, she worked around the clock and didn’t think much of it. Over time, she started to think about herself and slowed down…eventually becoming accustomed to living her life away from the spotlight “like a summer vacation.”
A best album is planned and an original album is currently in the works.
Singer Yun*chi has revealed the beach-side music video for the song “HIMAWARI*” from her upcoming mini album “Canvas*“.
In “HIMAWARI*“, the Asterisk Queen delivers a mid-tempo ballad, feeling the warmth of the sun as she recalls the impending sunflower season and an unforgettable love. The song acts as the ending theme for the NHK-FM radio show “Music Line” from July 26 to August 9.
Oricon has published a ranking based on how many times a celebrities name appeared in a headline. They chose to conduct the survey using “Yahoo! topics” and “LINE NEWS”, two of Japan’s top online news websites. The articles had to be published from January 1st, 2017 – June 30th 2017.
Some restrictions were implemented by Oricon while doing the count. First, any news related to criminal cases were not counted, as well as deceased celebrities. Athletes were not permitted in this count due to the much higher volume of sports articles in general, reporting real-time results and such. If a celebrity is apart of a group or band that was included in a headline, but not mentioned in the article itself then those do not count either. Lastly, if a celebrities name was mentioned due to them appearing on a TV program, but the actual article itself wasn’t about the celebrity then those did not count either.
With those stipulations out of the way lets get to the ranking! Who do you think made the top 10? Find out below
There are officially 3 years until Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and idol group Momoiro Clover Z are seizing the opportunity with athletic-themed single “BLAST!“.
The music video for “BLAST!” was filmed as a fictitious sports festival “Fukaya 2020” and has the group members participating in various activities, featuring athletes and coaches who are known mononofu—superfans of Momoclo!
For Judo Open Weight, leader Kanako Momota faces Judo World Champion Kanae Yamabe. Ayaka Sasaki is coached by weightlifting Olympian Hiromi Miyake for her Women’s Weightlifting Match. Shiori Tamai is faced against Olympian Karin Miyawaki in Women’s Foil Gold Medal Match for fencing. Reni Takagi and Momoka Ariyasu, coached by professional figure skater Nobunari Oda, team up for a women’s Doubles Gold Medal Match in Ping Pong.
Check out the video below!
Soutaiseiriron, one of the most interesting and excellent alternative bands in Japan, has always been mysterious.
Ever since Soutaiseiriron released their debut EP “Chiffon Shugi“, there has been little to no online presence of the band’s members; they have used one press photo for all their promo cycles, no one is allowed to take photos of their live performances & it’s impossible to find any live footage of them, and their eccentric videos have never shown any of the members until 2016 when the band’s lead singer Etsuko Yakushimaru appeared in the bands 4th album’s “Tensei Jingle” album digest video & the “FLASHBACK” MV.
It was impossible to know who left and joined the band unless you regularly checked their Japanese Wikipedia article, but now former members Shuuichi Mabe & Kensuke Nishiura have decided to enter the spotlight with new band “Shudan Kojo“.
British songstress Charli XCX has employed a bunch of men in her new music video for “Boys,” including an appearance from ONE OK ROCK frontman Taka!
In the video, Taka is blowing bubbles and sways a bit. Admittedly not much beyond his two, seconds-long shots…but he’s there! Edit: EXILE SHOKICHI is pictured too, sipping from a solo cup for a fraction of a second.
Taka joins a long list of notable men, from US labelmate Panic! at the Disco’s Brendie Urie to Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Jay Park (formerly of K-Pop boy band 2PM) to Joe Jonas and Dan Smith to Frank Carter and Jack Antonoff—even YouTube stars Caspar Lee and Connor Franta. (And literally so many more)
The official trailer for “Mix” starring Eita & Yui Aragaki has been released.
Yui plays the main character Tamako Tomita. As a child she enrolled to take part in strict table tennis lessons by her mother, she soon became known as a table tennis prodigy within the table tennis community. After the death of her mother Tamako decided to stop playing and live a normal life. Now 28 years old she works as a office lady. Her boyfriend Akihiko Ejima (Koji Seto) also works at the same company, and just so happens to be a member of a company table tennis club.
