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Freeter wons Best Drama on 14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix

Nikkan Sports has revealed the winners for their “14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix” that covered the whole fall season.

Fuji TV dominated the grand prix by winning in 4 of the 5 categories. The most popular drama last season was “Freeter” which consequently led it to win “Best Drama” in the grand prix as well. Ninomiya Kazunari won “Best Starring Actor” for his performance in “Freeter” while Kanno Miho was awarded as the “Best Starring Actress” for her role in the mysterious drama “Guilty” (Fuji TV).

The five winners will be added as nominees to the annual Grand Prix that is going to take place in March.

You check out all the winners and nominees below!

Best Drama
01 – 1012 votes – Freeter
02 – 511 votes – Ryomaden
03 – 457 votes – Nagareboshi
04 – 280 votes – Aibou season 9
05 – 233 votes – Guilty

Best Starring Actor
01 – 1164 votes – Ninomiya Kazunari (Freeter)
02 – 825 votes – Fukuyama Masaharu (Ryomaden)
03 – 439 votes – Mizutani Yutaka (Aibou season 9)
04 – 423 votes – Takenouchi Yutaka (Nagareboshi)
05 – 270 votes – Oguri Shun (Juui Dolittle)

Best Starring Actress
01 – 881 votes – Kanno Miho (Guilty)
02 – 696 votes – Toda Erika (SPEC)
03 – 451 votes – Shinohara Ryoko (Ougon no Buta)
04 – 392 votes – Suzuki Kyoka (Second Virgin)
05 – 238 votes – Shida Mirai (Himitsu)

Best Supporting Actor
01 – 766 votes – Kagawa Teruyuki (Ryomaden)
02 – 629 votes – Inagaki Goro (Nagareboshi)
03 – 329 votes – Tamaki Hiroshi (Guilty)
04 – 222 votes – Oizumi You (Ougon no Buta)
05 – 221 votes – Oikawa Mitsuhiro (Aibou season 9)

Best Supporting Actress
01 – 711 votes – Ueto Aya (Nagareboshi)
02 – 626 votes – Karina (Freeter)
03 – 362 votes – Inoue Mao (Juui Dolittle)
04 – 327 votes – Maki Yoko (Ryomaden)
05 – 324 votes – Maeda Atsuko (Q10)

From Tokyohive

Congrats to Nino and the Freeter drama cast and staff, as well as, all others that make it to the top 5! :)

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Ninomiya and Matsuyama to attend GANTZ stage greetings on same day in U.S. and Japan

At a special event for the live-action “GANTZ” movie held on Monday, it was announced that co-stars Kenichi Matsuyama and Kazunari Ninomiya will do stage greetings for the movie in Japan and the United States on the same day, January 20. This will be a first for the industry.

On the morning of January 20, they will first attend a stage greeting at a theater in Roppongi. After that, they will take a plane to Los Angeles, where they will attend a stage greeting on the night of January 20 at the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. As previously announced, that event in Hollywood is for the official world premiere of the film, and Matsuyama and Ninomiya’s stage greeting will be relayed live to more than 330 other theaters across the United States that are also screening the movie.

The “GANTZ” movie officially opens in Japan more than a week later on January 29. The sequel is slated to premiere on April 23.

From Tokyograph

Oh, I really envy those lucky people in Los Angeles! If only they would come to New York too, I would definitely attend. :( There is going to be some intense flying, ganbatte to Nino and Kenichi-kun!

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1st Live-Action Gantz Film to Get Hollywood Premiere

Japanese pop culture theater owner and distributor New People has announced that it will host a special event in Hollywood for the January 20 world premiere of the first live-action film based on Hiroya Oku’s manga Gantz.

Otaku USA Editor-in-Chief Patrick Macias will interview several of the film’s cast members, who will be in attendance at the Hollywood premiere. New People will officially announce the guests before the premiere, although its distribution partner Fathom Events had listed “the two stars, Kazunari Ninomiya and Ken’ichi Matsuyama,” as the interview guests in November. Audience members will be able to submit questions for the interview in a process to be announced next week.

The event is limited to 400 seats at Mann’s Chinese 6 theater, and fans can enter an online random drawing for a chance to buy tickets. Tickets will cost US$15.00 and come with a special Gantz t-shirt.

In addition to the Hollywood event, Gantz will screen in over 300 theaters throughout the United States on January 20. The interviews at the Hollywood premiere will be simulcasted to the other theaters.

From ANN

Awesome ne! Those who are able to go to the premiere are sooo lucky!! Nino will be in Hollywood again….boy, I wish I could go too!! My chances will probably none to very little, but signing up for in cases. :D

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Ex-Johnny’s Jr. Kohara Yuki divulges on ‘A-Studio’ about Ninomiya Kazunari

Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari made an appearance on October 15th’s episode of “A-Studio“, a variety talk show hosted by MCs Shofukutei Tsurube and IMALU. Interestingly enough, Tsurube researches his guest throughly by watching their work, even going as far as interviewing people who are close to the guest. The interviewees could be the guest’s manager, old friend, or family member; the guest doesn’t get to know who received the interview until the show airs.

For this episode, Tsurube interviewed ex-Johnny’s Jr. member Kohara Yuki. Kohara Yuki was extremely popular back in the day, but retired in order to concentrate on his studies in 2000. Kohara is now an ordinary business man, but he’s still close to the JE boys, particularly Ninomiya and Sakurai Sho. Kohara revealed in the interview that Ninomiya grabbed his cellphone when he quit JE, and changed his name to “Best friend“. He confessed that it made him very happy when he saw the change on his phone.

From Tokyohive

This is such a nice little article about friendship, glad that Kohara-kun is well and living a good life. :)

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Ohoku off to a fighting start

Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya (27) made a personal appearance at a movie theatre in Tokyo on Saturday to thank his fans for the “大奥 (Ohoku)” movie’s success so far, reports Daily Sports.

The movie was played on more than 310 cinema screens across Japan on its opening day, attracting more than 170,000 people.

Ninomiya was accompanied by Ko Shibasaki (29), Maki Horikita (22), and Hiroshi Tamaki (30) as 1600 大入り袋 (Ohiri-bukuro)* with 5-yen coins** inside were given out to those who had come to see the movie on Saturday.

“Please use this money to come and see the movie again,” Ninomiya said.

The star and his co-star Tamaki continued to promote the movie by confessing their feelings for one another.

“My idea of the perfect man would be Tamaki-san. There’s no one as beautiful as him,” Ninomiya said.

“I took up this role because Nino was starring in the movie,” Tamaki said.

* 大入り袋 (Ohiri-bukuro) are specials bags with money inside that are given out as thank you gifts after big business successes.

** 5-yen coins are a type of lucky charm in Japanese culture, the way the word is said, “go-en”, is the same as the word for “fate” or “destiny”.

From Momoedgewood

Nino-Tamaki love! Its awesome that two of my favorite actors adore each other…they do have very good taste! LOL Interesting fact about the 5-yen coin, it’s similar in Chinese and considered a good luck charm to carry. :)

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