Johnny's: Ninomiya's new credit card CM // Kusanagi, Katori (and Ishihara) on TV
Arashi's Ninomiya Made His Comedian Debut?
Kazunari Ninomiya, the member of Arashi, has played the role as a comedian in the new CM of the credit card brand "JCB". Making the debut as a comedian, Ninomiya said: "It's quite fresh to me to come on the stage with all audience clapping their hands."
In the CM, Ninomiya was about to buy a cap by using his credit card, but it was tore up as soon as he wanted to put it on his head, and he got laughed by passersby. And a talent scout happened to find him and helped him to make his comedian debut, after which Japanese economy showed signs of an upturn. In the end Ninomiya was watching TV at home and murmured: "Maybe the economy is getting better." here came the message of the CM "Shopping saves the world."
In addition, Ninomiya's partner in the CM was Masaya Handa, the member of the comic duo French Toasters, with whom Ninomiya finished the scene of comic dialogue skillfully and smoothly by saying: "Please push it hard!"
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source: MJP , af
Snapping with SMAP in Setagaya; swordplay with Shingo
"Pussuma" (TV Asahi, Tues., 11:15 p.m.) started way back in 1998, making it one of Japanese TV's longest running variety shows. Eternally hosted by aging idol Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and loud-mouthed actor-comedian Yusuke Santamaria, the nonsensical title is meant to cash in on Kusanagi's membership in SMAP.
This week fellow SMAP member Shingo Katori and idol Satomi Ishihara join Kusanagi and Santamaria for the first half of a two-part tour of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
The idea is to conduct a "one-day photography" excursion of the city's leafiest, most suburban ward. Each member takes pictures for a planned album. In a forest in the center of Setagaya they dig up bamboo shoots (with permission, we presume) and then impose on a nearby family to cook them up. They also explore the area's apiaries.
Shingo Katori is also the special guest on a special two-hour installment of the travel variety show, "Pittanko Kan-kan" (TBS, Fri., 7 p.m.). He and the host, TBS staff announcer Shinichiro Azumi, visit locations associated with Katori's new movie, "Zatoichi the Last" which opens in theaters the next day.
They take part in a sword training exercise session, which has become very popular lately among fitness-conscious young women. Katori also introduces Azumi to foods he discovered when he was shooting the movie on location in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Near the end of the show a "surprise guest" joins them and they all go to eat sirloin steak, which was the favorite food of Shintaro Katsu, the original Zatoichi.
source: JAPANTIMES