Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki was in Hong Kong for almost a week to film her latest music video, featuring Hong Kong artist Shawn Yue.
Some photos during their filming…
Japanese artist Megumi Okina has decided to retire from her entertainment career at the age of 27.
Megumi has been working in the entertainment world since she was 13; and according to some news report, she is tired with her entertainment career and wanted to live a simple life.
Megumi is not among the top stars all these years, but she has always been popular. International audience would probably know her as the leading actress in horror movie “Ju-on.”
Japan TV station FujiTV is filming TV drama Hana Kimi, based on popular manga “Hanazakari no Kimitachi e” by Hisaya Nakajo.
AZN Asian Excellence Awards aimed to honor Asian and Asian-Americans’ contributions to the world of arts and entertainment.
Below is the winning list for year 2007…
Outstanding Film: Letters From Iwo Jima
Outstanding Actor, Film: Kal Penn, The Namesake
Outstanding Actress, Film: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Outstanding Actor, TV: Masi Oka, Heroes
Outstanding Actress, TV: Parminder Nagra, ER
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Film: Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible III
Outstanding Supporting Actor, Film: Dustin Nguyen, Little Fish
Outstanding Supporting Actress, TV: Mindy Kaling, The Office
Outstanding Supporting Actor, TV: Rex Lee, Entourage
Outstanding Comedy Performance: Margaret Cho
Favorite Reality TV Star: Yul Kwon, Survivor: Cook Islands
Outstanding Independent Film: Journey From the Fall
Lifetime Achievement Award: Chow Yun-Fat
Pioneer Award: Nobuyuki “Nobu” Matsuhisa, restaurateur
Visionary Award: Vivienne Tam, fashion designer
Glad to see Masi Oka winning, he is good and funny in Heroes.
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Ito Misaki is voted as the Japanese actress with worst acting skills in a recent Japan’s poll.
I have been a fan of Misaki even before she became hugely popular with “Densha Otoko.” I think that she is cute, but just a decent actress… but the worst? I don’t think so.
Btw, Ito Misaki is currently in Hawaii filming for a new movie. I guess she couldn’t be bothered with some little polls.
Japanese actor Takuya Kimura and actress Takako Matsu is in Pusan, Korea to film their movie “Hero.”
Hero the movie is a special edition of 2001 popular same title TV drama, which star Takuya as an attorney and Takako his assistant. Takuya and Takako are arguably the most popular Japanese on-screen couple over the past decade; they starred in a few TV dramas and all of those dramas were great hits.
The making of the movie has gathered huge media attention in Japan, and now getting huge coverage in Korea as well, thanks to Korean star Lee Byung-hun (left of the pic), who is starring in the movie as Takuya’s nemesis if not mistaken.
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Twinkle, a song by Taiwanese artist Show Luo and Japanese pop diva Koda Kumi…
I am not a big fan for both of them, and I don’t like the music video (the song is decent though). Just felt that I should share this video; it’s not often seeing 2 big names from Taiwan and Japan singing together.
Taiwanese actress and model Megan Lai is appointed as Japan tourism ambassador to promote Japan tourism in Taiwan.
Megan was officially appointed by a Japanese minister in Tokyo; replacing supermodel Lin Zhi Ling who held the role for the past couple of years.
Lin Zhi Ling is currently involved in her debut movie, “The Battle of Red Cliff,” which is expected to finish filming no sooner than October 2007.
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A fan-made video featuring clips from popular Japanese drama “Densha Otoko” (starring Ito Misaki and Atsushi Ito). The song “You’re Beautiful” is from British singer James Blunt.
Good drama, lovely song… but what I really like about this video is how the author matched the lyric and the clips nicely, as if it’s a mini-drama of its own. Bravo.
Hong Kong actor/director Stephen Chow will be co-producing a Japanese movie, “Shaolin Girl.”
Stephen’s popularity in Japan is high rising after the success of “Shaolin Soccer” and “Kungfu Hustle.” His popularity has prompted Fuji-TV to invite him to co-produce the movie, with Shibasaki Kou (pic) the leading actress.
The movie is about an ice-hockey player (Shibasaki Kou) who went to China’s Shaolin Temple to learn Kungfu and blended martial arts with ice-hockey.
A few co-actors in Shaolin Soccer will be featuring in the movie as well.
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