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Sakurai Sho, Oshima Yuko to co-star in television drama, Blackboard

Fiona — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:35:00 +0000

Arashi’s Sakurai Sho (30) and AKB48’s Oshima Yuko (23) will appear together in a television drama for the first time. In April, TBS plans to air a 3-episode miniseries, and Sakurai and Oshima have been cast in the first episode.

The miniseries, titled “Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~,” revolves around teachers in different time periods having to deal with the problems of that era. For example, the first episode stars Sakurai as Shirahama, a junior high school teacher who taught his students about “dying for your country” during wartime. After later losing his right arm in the war, he returns to teaching but is burdened and conflicted by what he taught his students in the past.

Oshima will play one of Shirahama’s colleagues, an English teacher. She becomes an eventual love interest for him, though it seems to develop into a love triangle with his older brother’s wife (Miyazawa Rie).

This is the first time that an AKB48 member has appeared in a drama starring an Arashi member. Filming will take place between February and March, but it is said that initially their schedules were so busy there was only one day when they were both available. However, their schedules were later adjusted, and the production team gave up on filming on location (due to the time required just to travel) and instead constructed a nearly 2,000-square-meter set in Yokohama that reportedly cost 100 million yen.

The second episode of “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” will star Sato Koichi (51) as a teacher during the 1980s having to deal with school violence. Shida Mirai (18) will play a delinquent student, and Kanjiya Shihori (26) will play another teacher at the school.

The cast for the third episode has not yet been finalized.

TBS plans to broadcast “Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~” over three consecutive nights in April.

From Tokyography

Sakurai-sensei! This is so fitting for his image, so proper with a suit and tie, ne?! The plot sounds quite interesting enough, hopefully they do not compact excessively into one episode.

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Happy 30th Birthday, Sho-kun!

Fiona — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:50:18 +0000

May your special day be blessed with many fun and wonderful thing, hopefully celebrated with your loved ones and the other Arashi members!

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Sakurai Sho & Matsumoto Jun to make guest appearance on Ohno Satoshi’s special drama

Fiona — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:31:04 +0000

It’s been announced that Arashi members Sakurai Sho and Matsumoto Jun will make guest appearance on fellow member Ohno Satoshi’s upcoming special drama “Mou Yuukai nante Shinai“.

This special drama is a comical mystery about a freeter (Ohno) who receives the odd request to fake the kidnapping of racketeer boss daughter, (Aragaki Yui).

Sakurai will appear in the special drama as the butler “Kageyama” which is from Sakurai’s ongoing drama “Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de“, while Matsumoto will make an appearance as “Tokita Shuntaro” which is from Matsumoto’s upcoming “Getsu9″ drama “Lucky Seven.”

The announcement for Sakurai and Matsumoto’s guest appearance on Ohno’s drama was made during the press conference for “Fuku Arashi” campaign which is to promote the special TV programs on Fuji TV in which Arashi appears at the end of the year and New Year season. There will be a special CM for the campaign starring Arashi during December 17th ~ January 3rd for a limited term, and on Fuji TV’s official site, there will also be an original game “Fuku Arashi Warai.”

At the press conference, Sakurai who received the script for the drama a few days ago, commented, “I saw Ohno’s name on the first page, and my name and Matsumoto’s name on the following pages on the script. I’m happy to see it, so I am carrying it around with me everyday.” Matsumoto also commented, “He (Ohno) has different atmosphere at the shoot for drama which is not Arashi-like. So I’m looking forward to see it at the shoot.”

On the other hand, other members Ninomiya Kazunari and Aiba Masaki seem to be little dissatisfied, as Aiba said to Ohno at the press conference, “Ohno-kun, what about us? Though we don’t have any role we have with us right now, it’s not too late if you guys are still shooting. Where are you guys filming at?“, and Ninomiya also said, “I haven’t been offered yet. I don’t mind if I have to meet you at the filming location.” Unfortunately, Ohno refused them saying, “Not this time.” Therefore the two said while consoling each other, “Shall we do our best on ‘VS Arashi‘ then?”

“Mou Yuukai nante Shinai” is scheduled to be aired on January 3rd on Fuji TV.

From Tokyograph

This is exciting, definitely looking forward to this! I love their reactions especially Sho’s which was cute.

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Happy Sho Day!

Fiona — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:07:28 +0000

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Sakurai Sho’s new Able CM

Fiona — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:22:25 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fECrU781A

Sho-kun is incredibly cute, as well as, very kakkoii here. ♥ I was curious to what kind of Able does. It is a real estate broker which specialties in housing and apartment rentals.

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Kaibutsu-kun becomes 2010′s best-selling drama DVD

Fiona — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:19:40 +0000

Arashi’s Satoshi Ohno (29) drama “怪物くん (Kaibutsu-kun)” DVD box set has beaten US drama “24″ to be the best-selling drama DVD of 2010, figures released from Oricon today have revealed, reports Mainichi Shinbum Digital.

DVD: Kaibutsu-kun drama DVD box set (18,060 yen)

In its first week, the Arashi leader’s drama has sold more than 22,000 copies, 300 more than the “24 season seven” box set, making it the current No.1 in Japan.

”怪物くん(Kaibutsu-kun)” is a story about 怪物ランド(Monster Land) prince 怪物くん(Kaibutsu-kun), played by Ohno, who gets sent to the human world by his father along with his monster companions Dracula, Wolfman, and Franken for training. It is based on the manga series of the same name, created by Fujiko Fujio in the 1960s, and has already been transformed into an anime series in 1968 and 1980.

From Momoedgewood

I bet Oh-chan was mecha surprised about this, we can see how much Kaibutsu-kun is loved. Congratulations to him, the cast and the drama staff!

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Nobel prize winner praises Arashi’s Sho Sakurai

Fiona — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:31:28 +0000

Arashi’s Sho Sakurai (28) traveled to Moscow to meet a former head of state and to the Berlin wall as part of his special report for Nippon TV’s 24Hr TV, reports Sports Hochi.

Sakurai’s special, titled “嵐・櫻井翔が緊急リポート！　世界の貧困と格差社会の現実～マンホールで暮らす人々とは～ (Arashi – Sho Sakurai’s Breaking News! The reality of global poverty and social disparity ~people who live in manholes~ )” sent him to Moscow to interview Nobel Peace Prize winning former head of state Mikhail Gorbachev (79).

Mr Gorbachev is widely known as the man whose actions lead to the end of the Cold War around the late 1980s, early 1990s. After Mr Gorbachev heard Sakurai had been interviewing a wide range of people in different places for his “NEWS ZERO” series “世界平和への祈り (Sekai Heiwa heno Inori, A Prayer for World Peace)” over the past year, the nobel prize winner applauded Sakurai for his efforts.

“I am very happy to meet a responsible person like you.

“I hope more and more people will be able to think not only about themselves, but also about the suffering the people around them are going through, and want to help them,” he said.

After Sakurai had introduced himself in Russian, Mr Gorbachev pushed aside Sakurai’s prepared notes.

“I want to hear about your opinions,” he told a confused Sakurai.

The interview went on for more than 30 minutes, during which the two talked about poverty, economic instability, and peace operations.

It has been reported Sakurai was still shaking after his interview.

“It was an incredible priviledge to have met a person I watched on the news as a young boy,” he said.

His latest adventure had sent him reporting from Moscow to the Berlin wall, and to Romania.

“It’s been 20 years since the Cold War ended. How has the world changed. I hope I can make people in Japan think about how one person’s situation can affect others,” he said.

“嵐・櫻井翔が緊急リポート！　世界の貧困と格差社会の現実～マンホールで暮らす人々とは～ (Arashi – Sho Sakurai’s Breaking News! The reality of global poverty and social disparity ~people who live in manholes~ )” will air on “24時間テレビ33「愛は地球を救う」(24Hr TV 33 ‘Love Saves the Earth’)” on August 29 in Japan.

From MomoEdgewood

I love how Mr. Gorbachev pushed away our Caster-san’s notes, very nice tactic! However, Sho-kun must have been shocked and nervous as he was still shaking afterwards. He just keeps doing amazing things and we expect nothing than perfect from him! I have a feeling that he is going to be in charge of JE one day. LOL

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Sakurai Sho’s upcoming movie, Kamisama no Karute

Fiona — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:24:56 +0000

Today it has been announced that Arashi’s Sakurai Sho (28) is going to be starring in his first doctor role in the movie “Kamisama no Karte” that will open sometime next year.

Production is being handled by the team that already brought us “Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World”. Sakurai was already overwhelmed by the script, “It was such a tear-jerker!” He will play an internist dealing with medical care in Matsumoto, Nagano. Actress Miyazaki Aoi (24) is going to play the woman at his side. It’s the first time the two of them are working together.

Kurihara Ichito (Sakurai) is a young doctor who is going to experience a lot of different patients in Matsumoto, e.g. a woman with terminal cancer. All patients and their tragedies somehow influence his own life. However, “Kamisama no Karte” won’t just be a completely depressing and sad drama. There will be eccentric characters and friends of Kurihara that are going to loosen the serious atmosphere whenever it seems appropriate. The production team knows what they are doing, so there should be no concern on that end.

“Working in the field of community medicine (chiiki iryou), you always have to deal with >life< itself. Through Ichito and all his troubles, you are going to see how difficult it actually is for many people to just >live< . It's going to show you how important it is to have some kind of light in your life." He earnestly explained the message of the story.

In the movie you are not only going to see Sakurai as a doctor, you will also witness him as a devoted husband. Miyazaki will play his wife Haruna, a professional mountain photographer. As mentioned above, it's their first time working together. Sakurai about Miyazaki, "With Miyazaki it will be no problem playing a married couple overflowing with love, because there is such a soft atmosphere surrounding her." Miyazaki is looking forward to the filming that will start in September as well. "By getting into the role of the strong and kind Haru I'd like the filming to be just as relaxed as her character." She said.

The story is based on a novel by writer and actual doctor in Nagano, Natsukawa Sousuke (31). It went on sale in August 2009 and already sold over 300,000 copies. So far the signs are looking good for this movie. Let's see whether the production team will be able to repeat the success of their previous works.

From Kawaii Joyuu

News coverage from Zoomin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7tnpzzxVK0

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Oricon Ranking – People with the most beautiful lips

Fiona — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:38:53 +0000

On May 23rd, 1946 Japanese were able to witness the first ever kiss scene in a Japanese movie called “Hatachi no Seishun”, making May 23rd a date to be remembered as the “Day of the Kiss”. Since then there have been more and more movies and doramas with kiss scenes. Viewers become bewitched by such still rare scenes and the actors’ beautiful lips.

It is now Oricon’s third time they are releasing the results of the “Beautiful Lips” ranking on May 23rd and this time the male voters finally voted Ueto Aya on the first place after having been on the second place for two consecutive years. For the first time they’ve also asked women about their favorite male celebrities with beautiful lips and Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun was able to take the first – first place. On second place this time, Kitagawa Keiko who made a big jump from her seventh place last year. Inoue Waka dropped from the first place to the third place.

Some comments from the voters (only including the Arashi ones):

Matsumoto Jun –
“His thick lips are so sexy and attractive.”

Sakurai Sho –
“He has full lips, but they aren’t too plump. I can imagine him being a very good kisser.”

Top 5:
Men
01 – Matsumoto Jun
02 – Fukuyama Masaharu
03 – Sakurai Sho
04 – Tamaki Hiroshi
05 – Kimura Takuya

Women
01 (02) – Ueto Aya
02 (07) – Kitagawa Keiko
03 (01) – Inoue Waka
04 (09) – Ayase Haruka
05 (03) – Ishihara Satomi

From Kawaii-Joyuu

I’m certainly not surprised that Jun-kun has been ranked #1, he definitely has sexy and seductive lips! Though, I find Sho-kun’s kind of cute. We should all go watch the boys eat ramen ne. ♥ No complaints of the rest of the male rankings, all of them have beautiful lips.

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Sakurai to Become a Pastry Chef in the New CM

Fiona — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:07:30 +0000

Sho Sakurai, the member of Arashi, has played the role of a patisserie in the CM of ice-cream brand “Pino”.

It’s his first time to wear pastry chef’s uniform, but his chose the chef hat very carefully. In order to show the image of “an orthodox school”, he selected a tall one among others. In the CM, when Sakurai was eating “Pino” he realized that “What? Pino has been changed!” And in all of a sudden, he transformed into a pastry chef and started to mix chocolate, dip ice-cream into the chocolate and make a piece of “Pino”. “Oh that’s it. Chocolate has become more delicious!” he found the answer.

To give a challenge on pouring chocolate, Sakurai was instructed by the profession pastry chef. And it is said that he learned very fast, and handled the job done perfectly. He was very happy that the clothes “look good on him”. The new CM of “Pino” will be air from May 21st.

From Music Japan

CM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFMhN7bu7OA

They look so delicious, both Sho-kun and the chocolate. He sure is beautiful, definitely perfection at its finest! I wouldn’t mind going to his pastry shop everyday and purchasing his handmade delicates.

Making of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKp5QxKK6II

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