Category: Ninomiya Kazunari

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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Ninomiya, Fukuda, Ichimura and others to have guest roles in Matsumoto’s drama

by Fiona

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.

From Momoedgewood

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.

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If Ohoku were a reality, Nino would sing to survive

by Fiona

Arashi’s Kazunari Ninomiya (27) and actress Ko Shibasaki (28) talked at a preview event today about what they would do if Ohoku were real, and how they found working with one another, reports Mainichi Shinbum Digital and Cinema Cafe.

The film is an adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s manga series set in medieval Japan, where a mysterious disease has killed more than 80 per cent of the male population. Three-thousand of the most handsome men are now part of harem to a woman shogun, and the story follows their ambitions, jealousy, likes and dislikes for one another.

The first day of filming involved shooting the scene where Shogun Yoshimune entered a room 40 metres long, where all of the men were waiting for her.

“If I hadn’t had been fully prepared for my role, I would’ve run away (from there).

“I did it for acting’s sake, but sometimes I wondered what I would have done in the same situation. I think picking one person out of a line of people would be extremely difficult,” she said.

The press then asked the actors what they would do to get up in the ranks of a harem if Ohoku were reality.

Ninomiya said he would do what he has been for the past 11 years.

“I would start by singing every Arashi song from our debut single to our latest one,” he said.

His co-star, also said she would make use of her profession.

“I would sit by his side and do anything he wanted or I’d make a play that would show off myself (laughs),” she said.

The movie was the first time Ninomiya and Shibasaki had worked together, and the popstar could not help but praise his co-star.

“She smelled really good. Obviously, she shows amazing emotions and is an amazing actress, but on top of that she smells human, and smells like a girl.

“I didn’t have many scenes with the shogun (Shibasaki), but when I did she had cool outfits.

“I was impressed while working with her and watching her in the movie,” he said.

Shibasaki had said she thought Ninomiya had looked cool in his kamishimo outfit.

“大奥 (Ohoku)” begins in Japan cinemas on October 1. The movie also stars Tadayoshi Okura from Kanjani8, Maki Horikita, Aoi Nakamura, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

From Momoedgewood

Ah, I love Nino’s random comments and how he tries to incorporate Arashi whenever an opportunity opens. He can be so cute at time. Wouldn’t it be a sight if Nino tries to impressed the shogun with his songs/guitar? If that fails, magic can be his plan B. LOL

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