LMAO! I don’t know why, but this CM was hilarious. It is mostly likely that I kept picturing the boys taking a flight and begin singing on the plane, “Moving On.. Movin On baby…!” Nevertheless, this extremely cool and amazing.
Now, if only JE and JAL would release a special PV for movin’ on starring Arashi as the pilots, passengers etc. Wouldn’t that be just awesome ne?!
Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya (27) as a props technician and Kyoko Fukuda (27) as an assistant producer are the roles guest actors will be playing in the final of Jun Matsumoto’s summer drama next week, it was revealed yesterday, reports Sankei Sports.
The drama “夏の恋は虹色に輝く (Natsu no Koi wa Niji-iro ni Kagayaku)” follows the romance between a second-generation actor Taiga Kusunoki (Matsumoto) and single mother Shiori Kitamura (Yuko Takeuchi). The final focuses on the Taiga’s work in the stage play of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The guest actor list for the final has revealed a line up of many A-list Japanese actors, including Masachika Ichimura (61) who plays a stage actor who had gotten the role of Claudius in the play.
Ichimura had previously starred with Matsumoto in 2007′s drama series “Bambino!” and had said he had been extremely excited to be able to work with the popstar again.
It has been reported that Arashi’s Nino, who plays a props technician, also has a scene with Matsumoto, but how the two character’s will interact with one another has been left as a surprise for Monday.
Other guests include Kyoko Fukuda as an assistant producer role, Yukiya Kitamura (36) as an actor who plays Hamlet, and Mari Natsuki (58) as a singer role.
Matsumoto has been reported to have been working 100 per cent for the final.
“I want to make this Hamlet play the best it can be,” he said.
Kyaa~~Matsumiya, this is going to something amazing! Hopefully, it will be a bratty Neener. LOL I bet Nino is mecha happy to be guesting in a drama with Yoko-san even for a few seconds. I cannot wait to see this along with the appearances of the another A-List artists.
Daily Sports reported that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism receives more than 100 calls a day from fans who are asking about – and want to have a copy of – the “Nippon no Arashi”. The staff became overwhelmed and sent a press release about the background about the book.
The book titled “ニッポンの嵐 (Nippon no Arashi)” is a 200 colored-page textbook that will be distributed for free all over Japan’s primary, junior high, and secondary schools. The book was intended for public sale, however when Arashi were made ‘Tour Navigators’, it became a free school textbook. Starting September 1-2 books per school were donated in over 40,000 schools. The book features photos of Arashi in different locations in Japan, introducing each place’s unique tradition and culture.
Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi was glad about the popularity of the book and commented that it would be really great if everybody could read it in their libraries, and that the group had been motivated to donate the book. “Those books that you read as a child will leave an impression in you forever. We really hope that many children will read and enjoy this book”, Ohno said.
There will be no doubt that his book, once available in school libraries nationwide, will have an insanely long waiting list. And I’m sure that fans, regardless of age, would love to get their hands on this book. Too bad it’s not available for sale.
I truly love the fact that the textbook is not for sale and made it available to be shared…well in Japan for now. If only they would publish an English edition, this would certainly promote learning a new language and tourism on an international level. I would definitely get on hands on a copy.
We were thinking that if would be great if everyone could read this in their school library in the years to come, but now we have been motivated to donate the book.
Such awesome words from Oh-chan, Arashi at their finest!
