Beach Boys is a 1997 Fuji TV’s production and one of the best Japanese drama in the 1990s.
The 12 episodes series starred Sorimachi Takashi, Takenouchi Yutaka, Hirosue Ryoko, Inamori Izumi and Mike Maki.
Long Vacation was Fuji-tv 1996 production, and one of the pioneer tv series that spakled the Japanese drama dominance in Asia entertainment during the late 1990s.
Long Vacation (悠長假期) starred Kimura Takuya, Yamaguchi Tomoko, Inamori Izumi, Matsu Takako, Takenouchi Yutaka, Ryou, Hirosue Ryoko and Morimoto Leo. Most of the cast at that time were newbies but was shot to stardom for the immense success of the tv drama series all across Asia.
“The Return of the Condor Heroes” produced by CCTV is scheduled to premiere in China by March 17, 2006. The TV drama was based on the popular same title novel by Jin Yong (aka Louis Cha).
It’s not the first time that Return of the Condor Heroes was made into movies and TV dramas, almost every 2 or 3 years we will see a new version of it, and the fans always seem to support the show.
It’s a martial art cum forbidden love story between Yang Guo (starred by Huang Xiao Ming) and his master Xiao Long Nu (starred by Crystal Liu Yi Fei), with a mystic condor and massive cast of roleplay and story plot around the final years of the China Song dynasty.
With the previously successful and popular production based on other Jin Yong’s novel like “The Legend of The Condor Heroes” and “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils,” the China production studio CCTV was putting great expectation for this multimillion production.
To create some buzz for the movie prelaunching, CCTV also selected China SuperGirl contestant Jane Zhang Liang Ying to sing the opening song.
UPDATE The TV drama is released in China and all across Asia, and is one of the most popular China TV production ever.
Theme song for ROCH added, another ROCH closing song added.
Densha Otoko means Train Man in Japanese. The word Densha Otoku was a phenomenom in Japan 2005, almost every Japanese knew about the Densha Otoko story that was edited into books, tv dramas and movie.
The real life story of train man was originated from a Japan discussion board where a young computer/anime/manga geek (nicknamed Densha Otoko aka Train Man) who falls in love with a beautiful office lady (nicknamed Hermes). They met on a train when a drunken man was trying to harass Hermes, and the Train Man saved her from the incident and started a ‘relationship’
Survivor Panama is the 12th production of the Survivor series, and is expected to premier on 2nd Febuary.
As normal, 8 males, 8 females contesting for the $1 million grand prize, but this time they are separated to 4 groups instead.. older men, younger men, older women and younger women.
“War and Beauty” is the top rated Hong Kong tv drama in 2004, and was superhit around some Asia region as well. In fact many rated this TVB series as the best Hong Kong tv drama for the past decade.
American Idol is back!! American Idol is marching into its 5th season in 2006, auditions across the countries are running across 7 cities, with thousands of people lining up for a chance of stardom.
Paula, Randy and the obnoxious-but-normally-right Simon are back again with the host Ryan Seacrest as well.
“Express Boy” was one of the highest rating tv series in Taiwan last year, starring Mike He Jun Xiang and Hsu Wei Lun.
Japan NHK’s annual new year eve music show, the “Red vs White Singing Contest” (Kohaku Utagassen) has received good viewer ratings this year.
This Japanese show which started in 1951 was once very popular in Japan and even in some other Asia area, I remember watching this show in my childhood. But recent years the viewer ratings are dropping sharply with competition from various other productions and new year eve events.
