Sakurai Sho plays lead role in Kobe earthquake documentary

by Fiona

Arashi’s Sho Sakurai (27) will play the lead role in a documentary drama special about the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. The program is tentatively titled “Hanshin-Awaji Daishinsai Kara 15 Nen: Kobe Shimbun no Nanokakan ~Hisaichi ni Ikita Kishatachi no Tatakai~” and will air on Fuji TV next year.

Also known as the “Kobe earthquake,” the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on January 17, 1995 and resulted in more than 6,400 casualties. The drama will focus on the reporters working for the Kobe Shimbun, who were determined to keep the newspaper running without interruption, despite the damage suffered during the earthquake.

The characters in the drama will all be based on real people, using their real names. Sakurai stars as the photo reporter Tomohiko Mitsuyama, who had joined Kobe Shimbun four years before the earthquake. The show will also have documentary segments such as interviews, including an appearance by Mitsuyama himself.

Fuji TV will broadcast the show in January 2010, which will be the 15th anniversary of the earthquake.

From Tokyography

I’m looking forward to this docudrama, it’s always interesting to learn more about actual events that had occurred. From my readings, the Kobe earthquake was quite a intense one with a magnitude of 7.2. I recall reading somewhere that Sho-kun clearly recalls this, it was the same year that he had joined Johnny’s.

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Nino’s Cell Phone Wallpaper Is Jun-kun

by Fiona

Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari is leading a successful career as an actor as well as an artist. For today let’s take a look at a rather strange side he showed during a recently broadcast radio program! It all started when a question sent by a fan was read out. “In [the magazine] POPOLO, [Matsumoto] Jun-kun said that Nino [Ninomiya] was using a picture of Jun-kun as his cell phone wallpaper. Is that true? What sort of photo is it?” Ninomiya pulled out his cell phone and showed the wallpaper to the other members inside the radio booth. “When I asked [Matsumoto] ‘Was this taken when you were 17 or something?’ he got mad and said ‘That’s when I was learning how to walk!’” He really was using a photo of a very young Matsumoto as his wallpaper. “(In the picture) His facial features are pronounced.” “He has long legs. He looks like Donald Duck. Why are all babies like that? How old was he?” Though nobody knew exactly why he was so interested, Ninomiya has been obsessed with baby Matsumoto ever since.

Ninomiya had used photos of people close to him as wallpapers, like his mother, sister and a young Ohno. Last year he even used a photo of Kansai Johnny’s Jr. member Kiriyama Akito. On a side note Aiba apparently is using a photo of a child actor who he is costarring with as his wallpaper. Matsumoto is using a black and white picture of Ohno Satoshi for a peculiar reason. “Because it looks like a photo of a deceased person.” Lots of different kinds of pictures are being used among the members as wallpapers. But from people outside the group it might all look a bit strange!

From: Music Japan Plus

Aww, Matsumiya is just too darn cute, brought such a big smile on my face. This is why I love Arashi sooo much, they genuinely care for one another with no shame!

Because it looks like a photo of a deceased person. LOL I laughed so hard when I read that! Poor Riida, Jun-kun is such a DoS, no really. LOL XDDD

Now I’m wondering what the other member’s wallies are — Riida: maybe his most prized catch(fish) or Chinen-kun; Aiba: probably Koharu-chan (read somewhere that he was, she is so kawaii) and Sho-kun: Yattaman??

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