‘5- Entertainment’ Archives
Takeshi Kitano Biography
Takeshi Kitano's Biography is going to be published in France. Well, I sometimes talked about him here. So somewhat I think it's already enough about him here. Recently I saw his TV show, and I thought he really got old. When he was a comedy boy rather than a movie director, his talks on stage was like the thunder storm. That was really [...]
Susan Boyle to Japan in April
Susan Boyle came to Japan last year and she joined the national TV program on December 31st then. She was known to Japanese before that stage but probably that show made her more famous in Japan as it has usually about 50% rating every year. Her first concert tour in Japan seems to have been decided. Coming April she will sing in the Budokan, [...]
John Lennon Museum to be closed
There is John Lennon Museum in Saitama ( close to Tokyo ), Japan. This museum was built about 10 years ago under the licence from Yoko Ono. Recently this museum announced that they would close it soon. This was intended to close 5 years after the opening, but people liked it. It stayed more 5 years in Japan. All the exhibits in the [...]
Whitney Houston in Japan
It's the 7th Japan concert tour for Whitney Houston, and her last tour in Japan was 1997. 13 years have passed since then. During the last decade, her gossip was too much. Most of the news about her coming from the world was not good news. As far as I read the report of the concert, it seems not to be bad at all. Although Whitney looks [...]
WINGS TO FLY-Susan Boyle…Great !
SUSAN BOYLE came out to the world with her amazing voice. And again, she made it. Her Japanese debut CD, I dreamt a dream, has a bonus track called WINGS TO FLY. Please listen to it by clicking above YouTube Video. This is an old hit song in Japan, which was sung by also an old pop group called AKAI TORI or Red Birds in English [...]
HIKARU UTADA says Good bye to her new lover
HIKARU UTADA is, probably, the Japanese top musician who can work not only in Japan but in the world. She was born in the USA and her bilingual ability helps herself work in the world music market. Also her parents are also singer and producer respectively, so her destiny to become a musician might have been decided when she was born [...]
Namie Amuro’s CD ranked Top of the chart in 5 countries /areas
Namie Amuro has been a popular singer not only in Japan but in some Asian countries. She was recently reported that Atsushi of a comedian group, LONDON BOOTS, is her new lover and they went to Sedona, Las Vegas and LA in the USA together for secret tours. Namie Amuro is from Okinawa island of Japan, so she looks a little different from [...]
Vivian Hsu’s Beautiful Day
Vivian Hsu was a very popular girl from Taiwan 10 or more years ago. Actually recently we've not seen her since then, and some are expecting her to come back to Japan again. Today, I saw her picture. She became a little adult looking ( of course ) and she seems to be OK because her face looks happy. The news says that she started her blog [...]
AVATAR outsells TITANIC
In Japan, TITANIC has long had a record of biggest theater sales among foreign movies. Including domestic movies, the top3 biggest selling and highest grossing movies are all Hayao Miyazaki animation films, Spirited away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke. But the foreign movie's sales record seems to be replaced by AVATAR [...]
MANABU OSHIO to be prosecuted
MANABU OSHIO, a musician ( some may don't call him musician but just TV character or something), was arrested because of use of prohibited drugs at an apartment with a girl, who died at the time. Many suspected that Manabu Oshio first used the drug and gave her the same drug, but Manabu Oshio denied and said that he was given the drug by the [...]
