Category: Ninomiya Kazunari

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

by Fiona

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

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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