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Last Friends has the Thursday night slot, and yesterday’s episode scored a viewer’s rating of 20.7%, and is the first time the series has crossed the 20% mark since its start in April. In comparison, KimuTaku’s CHANGE scored a 19.7% on Monday, 9th June 2008.

I haven’t watched Last Friends yet (but Lisa has, and raves about Ryo + Ueno Juri) but CHANGE was quite boring, script-wise. You can’t really blame the actors!!

Also has anybody heard about Nagasawa Masami’s night-out-and-cuddle with Eita? I read it in the Chinese papers O_O but they’re more or less full of crap, because they carried on to report that after Eita left the club Nagasawa Masami continued partying with unknown guys at the club and they painted the portrait of a very loose girl. Well I’m quite HAPPY that she’s portrayed as such (don’t like her!) but even then, it’s strange that I saw them in Chinese papers and so far not in the Japanese ones. HAHA ^_^

Quite embarrassing when you’re a star displaced from your kingdom, and having to pose for the photographer whilst other people are giving you sideglances etc?? But not for professionals! Shun looks like he doesn’t give a damn, and he probably really doesn’t. Okay now back to the point.

The article is like the sequel to a previous article, probably printed during my vacation and I’m too slothful to go pick clicks + links back so I’ll just give you this one. Cirque Du Soleil will arrive in Japan’s Disney Resort on the October 1st this year, and I guess in an effort to drum up publicity for the show they have flown Oguri Shun to Las Vegas to experience it live.

They start off by describing the place; pyramids, a statue of liberty, themed hotels, huge attractions blahblah. Then comes Shun-kun’s comment – “I don’t really like it desu-nee. But since I came here for the gamble and the show, I think it’s a nice place. Especially since I came here to watch the show, of course it’s a good place.” What a strange flip-floppy statement! But the journalist continues to write that Shun-kun is a straight talking and frank character. But we all know that.

The next two paragraphs sorta talk about Cirque Du Soleil … (don’t feel like translating) so let’s go straight to Shun’s review of it! “It’s really the absolute definition of entertainment! I was dumbfounded by the dynamics and the performance, they have shown me quite vividly what it means to be in the show business. With the scale of the theatre and the number of audience, it probably boosted the morale of the performers and it felt like everything was progressing towards the right direction. I was wondering when I would, as an actor, be able to stand on such a stage as this… yes even though I thought about it, it’s probably only possible in this country. It would be difficult in Japan…”

As a fellow performer living in the same world of show business, Oguri unintentionally reflected upon his own situation, and at the end of night became a little bit blue. [literally, he became a blue Oguri]

Ended on quite a sombre note. Oh well, humans can rarely be satisfied. =)

HAHAHA don’t you think? In this particular photo of Ayase Haruka at least! ^_^ But even in her other photos there is SOME resemblance you think you think?

Comparisons were made to other celebrities like Kinoshita Yukina and halfie-looking model Suzanne, whose claim to fame are their air-headed and baka-antics,  but who are, when the cameras are not around, steady characters with self-awareness and not that stupid after all.

In contrast, Ayase Haruka reportedly can’t even read secondary school-level Kanji characters and “doesn’t think of consequences”. There are times when some fellow talents ask her for her number with secret intentions that are plain for all to see. At least, everybody else present at the set knows it, EXCEPT Ayase-san herself — that is , he wants to have sex with her but for some reason she is too dense to realise that. (either that, or she is a willing party, no idea!)

In a bid to prevent Ayase from getting pregnant, her company apparently issued an order to her to “preserve her chastity!”  

(Source: Entame) According to Entame according to Shuukan Josei, Koizumi Kyoko attended some launch and by the end of it became dead drunk, and who came to pick her up but Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari. I thought he was with Nagasawa Masami? But anyway I think I’d much prefer him dating Kyon-Kyon, just because.

The two reportedly had good relations ever since their days working on butais together, and Koizumi Kyoko has also mentioned openly on her online site that she had asked Nino to go drinking with her on several occasions. Just friends or another noona-dong-saeng relationship in the works? Pardon my korean, maybe somebody can enlighten me on the japanese equivalent. The article used 年の差カップル (Nen no Sa couple) but Noona-DS sounds nicer imho ^_^ So Kame+Kyoko or Nino+Kyoko? Can anybody imagine Johnny Kitagawa’s reaction if it were true? HAHA

Noona-DS relationships seem to be all the rage now, and what with Shinee’s debut single being about Noonas, such rships are being legitimized, sort of. Have yet to update on my Osaka trip. No, I’m not going to like, give you pages and pages of JOURNAL entries on my trip. I just took many photos of CMs featuring the idols we all know, that I’d never seen before. Oh well, tomorrow.

Chanced upon this in a random surf. The title only makes sense if you’ve read the two posts below (click on the screen captures to navigate your way back to the relevant MFGB posts)

Guess who’s back!! Watched Koizora (all the rage in Japan now) on the plane back to sg last night, and it was ooookay lah. However, Miura Haruma in action really reminded me of Singapore-based China-born actor, Qi Yu Wu!! (above right). BUT THEN, Miura Haruma i realised, has many faces. He looks quite different picture to picture, and I remember watching Gokusen 3 on TV last week, and I thought there was a guy who resembled Akanishi Jin a bit. It was only later I connected the Kanji names together and realised it was the same person!

But then he looks a bit different in action. In Gokusen 3 I seriously thought this guy looks more like Jin’s brother than Akanishi Reiho (or Fuuta) does. haha

Miura looks seriously different here. A bit more W-inds Keita-ish.

These two photos give me a Matsuyama Kenichi feel. DUNCHA THINK SO?!

Love him best with white hair, like Tidus from FFX!!!! HAHA.

Anyway ill update more later, tonight. Stay tuuuned.^_^

(source: Tokyograph)

Singer Mika Nakashima, 25, and actor Masatoshi Nagase, 41, have broken off their relationship, despite rumors last year that they were soon headed for marriage. Like many other celebrity couples, it seems that their busy careers have caused them to drift apart.

Rumors surfaced in early 2007 that marriage was near, fueled by speculation from members of Nakashima’s family. However, it appears that they gradually began seeing each other less frequently, and they finally broke up earlier this spring.

This piece of news was published on May 10th 2008, so I guess its like one month old. I went to dig deeper after that and found more info. After the cut!

The article from February last year :

It was recently discovered that Mika Nakashima (24) is in a serious relationship with actor Masatoshi Nagase (40). The two first met when they both appeared in the 2002 drama series “Shiritsu Tantei Hama Mike,” and they got together immediately after the divorce of Nagase and Kyoko Koizumi in 2004.

Some members of Nakashima’s family believe that marriage may be near. Nakashima’s agency confirmed the relationship, but denied that there have been talks of marriage.

I’m sorry i couldnt find a better picture of Nagase. There are like none. 0_0

Anyway I think its quite sad that they broke up, I didn’t know that she was in a relationship to start with. But I’m starting to feel like the Japanese celebrity couples are getting queerer and weirder… the age gap is also starting to widen.

More old news on Koizumi Kyoko(whom I dont really like, for various reasons like kame) which I read from uwasako.

Earlier in the later part of May, Koizumi went to a bar to drink and got drunk. So guess who showed up to pick her up? None other than Ninomiya Kazunari. (granny will froth at the teeth)
They say Nino and Koizumi had become friends while working together in a play (Shibuya Kara Tooku Hanarete) and that he mentioned in his j-web she has invited him out for drinks on several occasions. So I guess now we’re supposed to think they’re dating.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.

LOL. I <3 Uwasako hahaha. Of course, this is purely gossip, and isn’t hard fact.

Anyway, back to Mika Nakashima. She’s a really good artiste, so if you haven’t heard of her before, i suggest you give this a listen. It’s one of my favourite songs of hers.

Mika Nakashima was also the first Japanese person to grace the cover of Rolling Stone Japan. She is also the one who acted as Nana Osaki in Nana the movie, and her performance was pretty good. Well done. *beams*

the recently released PV for kuu and fergie’s collab! The song is called That ain’t cool and will be released on June 11th 2008.

I think its pretty good, although it is rather strange how Fergie sings more although it features her. But i think its a really cool collab :> Am lovin Kuu’s look as well.  I have a few gripes on how Kuu hardly sings though, and she spoke english instead of japanese. I think if she sang/rapped in proper Japanese it would have been better and more impressive. The Jap sounded really awkward.

Any thoughts?

below the cut is their interview

They seem like pretty good friends,which is really cute!!!  and fergie gave kuu SO MUCH STUFF 0_0 i want some too T_T

Overall, I like the song, pretty catchy!