Category: Sakurai Sho

Nobel prize winner praises Arashi’s Sho Sakurai

by Fiona

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

by Fiona

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:

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

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Oricon Ranking – People with the most beautiful lips

by Fiona

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! XO 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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