Author: Fiona

Arashi VS Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz

by Fiona

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz who visited Japan to promote their movie, “Knight and Day”, will make an appearance on Arashi’s popular variety show “VS Arashi.” The corner they will make an appearance on is “Rolling coin tower”, in which the guests and Arashi members confront each other to see how many coins they can pile on the rotating table.

Since this is the first time to welcome Hollywood stars as guests on “VS Arashi”, all members were extremely excited, especially, Sakurai Sho who is a big fan of Cameron.

The episode will be broad-casted on October 14th as a two hour special!

From Tokyohive

News coverage
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTjbMZYT0Y

LOL at Cameron Diaz when she said, who doesn’t know who Arashi is?! The boys had answered in such a humble yet hilarious way. Sho-kun was probably was grinning non-stop, we can definitely picture that. I wonder if Tom Cruise knows who Nino is, both of them have worked with Watanabe Ken. CHO excited for this episode, the 14th seem so far away though.

I thought that the Hollywood celebrity was just for one time (like the interview with Jun-kun and Angelina Jolie), but this appears to be ongoing. I bet it was only a distance dream when the boys had mentioned having a foreign star guest on their show…so proud of them, they have come so far.

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Ohoku off to a fighting start

by Fiona

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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Arashi – Dear Snow PV and my thoughts on the song

by Fiona

Dear Snow PV – making of photo version
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWoG2UmoSc

Kyaa~~ at the historical setting, I absolutely adore the integration, being a history freak. I wonder if this is the same one used in the movie. Though, I enjoyed the MS performance better, the boys are still handsome here. Jun-kun’s jacket adds a lovely touch of color to the PV. For some reason, Ohno reminds of a monk LOL…it’s probably the beads, but still nice.

Overall, this ballad is beautiful, quite bittersweet and emotional. I love the ending:

Eien ni kanawanai
We can’t wish for eternity

Sore demo itoshii hito yo
But even so, you are the person dearest to me

You can tell that I’m a sucker for angst love. Everyone has been complaining about the title of the song — where is the snow or it’s too early for Christmas? I do not believe this is for white fluff, but holds a deeper meaning, a metaphor. Snow probably symbolizes purity, innocence and virtue. The Ooku certainly is a place without these characteristics. No matter if it houses men or women, the place is tainted with greedy, hatred, and lust. I haven’t gone a chance to read the manga yet, but am positive that Mizuno Yunoshin (portrayed by Nino) and the shogun (played by Shibasaki Kou) do not have clean slates — hidden secrets, dark past, etc. It is possible that their encounter is life changing and invigorating.

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