Back in 2003, the drama adaptation of manga “Kimi wa Petto” (which starred Koyuki and Matsumoto Jun) became a huge hit not only in Japan, but overseas as well. In fact, it’s still much beloved to this day that Korea picked it up for a movie adaptation starring actor Jang Geun Suk, which will hit theatres sometime next January.

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Recently, the upcoming movie “Uchuu Kyoudai” has been receiving a lot of attention. In the movie, Oguri Shun plays the older brother and Okada Masaki plays the ‘ikemen’ younger brother. In light of this, internet portal “goo” asked its users who they would want as their younger brother.

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Previously, tokyohive reported the result of Oricon’s survey regarding who were the celebrity fashion role models to young girls(HERE), and now Oricon revealed the result for the same survey except relating to young boys.

They asked their male monitors, 200 teenagers and 200 young men in their 20s, which male celebrities were their fashion role ( Read more... )

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Actor Sato Takeru recently had a unique handshake event to celebrate the release of his photobook, as instead of shaking the hands of all the 4,000 fans that attended the event, he was rather cool and decided to give them a high five. A truly refreshing idea.

As a result, NTT DoCoMo/goo has done it again and asked their mobile users about which ( Read more... )

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A third season of Fuji TV's popular drama series "Iryu" has been confirmed. "Iryu Team Medical Dragon 3" will again star Kenji Sakaguchi (34) as a brilliant surgeon. Izumi Inamori (38), who only appeared in the first series, and WaT member Teppei Koike (24) have been confirmed as returning cast members, while Kenichi Endo (49) and Mitsuki Tanimura ( Read more... )