Sakurai Sho casted in another 2010 drama

by Fiona

TokujoKabachiMasako Ohara of the Kuwabata Ohara comedy duo has revealed in her official blog on Monday that Takashi Tajima and Takahiro Kochi’s Tokujō Kabachi!! Kabachitare! 2 workplace manga will be adapted into a live-action drama series next January. The story centers around the employees of a legal document firm.

Ohara herself will appear in the first episode, while the main cast consists of Sho Sakurai (Honey and Clover, Yatterman) of the Arashi musical group and Maki Horikita (Always: Sunset on Third Street, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva).

Tokujō Kabachi!! Kabachitare! 2 has been running in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magazine since 1999, and there are now 18 compiled book volumes published. Both the Tokujō Kabachi!! Kabachitare! 2 manga and the original Kabachitare! manga are the creations of Naniwa Kin’yudo creator Yuuji Aoki. The original Kabachitare! manga has already been adapted into a live-action television drama series in 2001 with a different cast and an average 19.3% rating. Naniwa Kin’yudo was adapted into two live-action television drama series in 1996 and 2007.

The Tokujō Kabachi!! Kabachitare! 2 television series will premiere in January on Japan’s TBS network.

From ANN and Narinari

Definitely wonderful news, the story appears to be interesting. I wonder if there will be any romance between Sho-kun’s and Horikita Maki’s characters. My gut feelings says no, but all is good. I had seen Nobuta wo Produce and really like Maki-san’s acting. Definitely looking forward to this and Sho-kun in lawyer-mode…maybe a few smexy suits too!

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Arashi – My Girl PV

by Fiona

Yay, the full PV is out!!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHK27Wy_UAo

Simply beautiful and sweet, the colors used are gorgeous – earth tones with tads of red and purple. Very autumn-like, ne? The story associated with the PV was so heartwarming, I got a bit teary when Aiba-chan’s read the letter left behind from their mother. One can tell from the interactions between the brothers that they are close, much like Arashi in real life. Purely adorable!

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Arashi – All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009 #1 on the charts

by Fiona

The latest KinKi Kids single, “Swan Song,” ranked #1 on the charts this past week with more than 160,000 in sales. This is their 29th consecutive number-one single, starting with their debut in 1997.

UVERworld’s newest song was #2 on the charts, followed by Nana Mizuki and Morning Musume. BoA also made the top ten with her new single at #8.

On the albums chart, Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” was #1, selling close to 74,000 copies. Also in the top ten were The Gospellers (#2), The Cro-Magnons (#5), JAY’ED (#6), Junichi Inagaki (#9), and Chihiro Onitsuka (#10).

Meanwhile, Arashi’s new DVD “5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009” took the top spot on the overall DVD charts. At 428,000 copies sold, it set the record for highest first-week sales of a music DVD, surpassing the 374,000 of KAT-TUN’s “Real Face Film” in 2006.

From Tokyograph

Congratulations, 428,000 copies sold is truly unbelievable and this is only for a PV DVD!! Simply astonishing since they were able to break their own sales record, previously #1 was the AAA 2008 DVD. Arashi is going to dominate all three Oricion charts which year, this would be for the single, album and DVD categories.

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