Toma playing Danny in "Grease" PlayFriday, June 27, 2008
The HIT musical "Grease" is going to be performed in Tokyo later this year. It was announced on 6th June 2008 that rising actor Toma Ikuta is playing the lead part of Danny Zuko.
His supporting cast includes Sayaka Kanda as his girlfriend Sandy, former Morning Musume member Miki Fujimoto as the Pink Ladies leader Rizzo, and Musical Academy member Tomoyuki Yara as Kenickie.
The production opens at the Aoyama Theatre on 20th October 2008 and will finish up in Osaka during November. Tokyo peeps can look forward to this!
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The band Mr.Children will be singing the theme song for Fuji TV medical drama "Code Blue," which was publicly announced last month in May.
"Code Blue," starring Tomohisa Yamashita, Yui Aragaki, and Erika Toda, starts its run on July 3, Thursday. It is highly anticipated by many as these rising stars come together for such a serious medical drama.
It is also used to be compared with Yamapi's best friend, Toma Ikuta's new drama "Maou" will be airing on Friday nights. So the ratings will be compared definitely.
I am sure it does not ruin their long years of friendship. LOL
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Friday, May 2, 2008
NEWSKusano Hironori who used to be with NEWS has left for New York to study for half a year. Nishikido Ryo has said, "Within the year, when Kusano has returned from his studies, he will rejoin NEWS." Maybe it will be soon? SA NA~
The bag stolen from Yamapi during Korea Airport Invasion is now being sold at a high price on the Korean black market. Disgusting Korean Fans.
Yamapi's rumoured girlfriend Abiru Yuu was caught with her ex-boyfriend from
DA PUMP previously. It was said the magazine who featured this news seems to have support from the Johnny's. Hence, this new was out to discourage Yamapi from falling deeper for Yuu. Pretty mean huh. The reliability of it is then unknown again.
Loyal Ueto Aya fan, Kato Shigeaki declared that he will make her his within 3 months. If I am Aya chin, I would have feel so disgusted.
Ryo is unhappy filming the
Last Friends. It was said he was excited to be able to cast as a "viliant" (abusive guy) but it turned out that his role in it is not as important as he thought it is. So he is unhappy with the scripts and feel it is not necessary for a Johnny to play such a minor role if it does not reflects his acting skills well. His past roles from
Attention Please! to
1 litres of Tears are all just part of the running for the female leads, Aya and Erika. Well, Ryo just has not enough luck, I guess.
KAT-TUNAkanishi Jin was spotted doing some late night shopping at a convenience store in Azabu with a pretty, model-type girl. Ah Huh, who is the lucky one.
Tanaka Koki was spotted at the home of ex-girlfriend Tamaki Nami, it seems they may be back together.
Other JohnnyOhkura Tadayoshi's girlfriend (no one famous, just an ordinary girl) had a secret rendezvous with Ikuta Toma. How lucky is that girl !!!
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Previously I mentioned about Maki being voted for the Best Actress award for the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix. The results are based on votes by Japanese during late March this year (2008). One award is revealed each day. Now we finally get the whole list of the important winners.
Best Actor: Jin Akashi (Yuukan Club)
Best Actress: Maki Horikita (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e)
Best Supporting Actor: Toma Ikuta (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e)
Best Supporting Actress: Yuu Kashii (Yuukan Club)
It is pretty obvious these two drama were able to capture so many people's hearts that the best actors/actresses and supporting all came out of them.
For Jin, Yuukan was his first role after his short departure from KAT-TUN. Maki's acting skills is confirmed and seen well in the eyes of public already.
Toma did a great job for his role in Hana Kimi and gained much more popularity in his recent act for Honey and Clover. Yuu won this award, this 21-year-old made major headlines when she and actor Joe Odagiri announced their engagement in late December and got married on February 16, which happens to be the birthday for the both of them. Is it a shotgun? Who knows. HAHA.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Survey conducted by Oricon on the artists whom look best in sneakers.
Results as follows:
Male Category1) Takuya Kimura
2) Teppei Koike
3) Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
4) George Tokoro
5) Shun Oguri
6) Toma Ikuta
Female Category1) Aiko
2) Becky
3) Aya Ueto
4) Kaela Kimura
5) Ai Otsuka
6) Yui Aragaki
7) Maki Horikita
8) Aya Hirayama, Koda Kumi, YUI
It is not surprising to see Kimura topping the charts here as he is the Best Male Jeanist. Surprised to see Uncle George in the charts winning Shun and Toma.
Aiko is known for her casual dressing, sneakers are definitely her style. Becky's popularity is rising after being a constant guest on certain variety shows and her exaggerating drama -
Anna No . Surprisingly she won Aya in this chart. Aya Ueto remains as one of the most bubbly character that sneakers just matched her naturally.
Young stars like Ai and Maki definitely look cute in sneakers. Yui seems to be more feminine on her dressing with all the long dresses but perhaps her schoolgirl style makes everyone thinks she look good sneakers.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Toma does not take chicken, does that sounds shocking to u. It did surprise us for a while.
The interesting part is, the later was hired to film a commercial for KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). Imagine him having to munch the chicken on-screen. Initially he was reluctant but for work, he agreed.
When the filming comes, he was asked to take a bite. Once he did so, TEARS rolled out. No no, not that it is awful. He admitted it was
awfully delicious so tears came out. LOL
The commercial was aired since last month in Japan. I believe Toma should have start hitting the KFC outlets in Japan by now.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
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Hana Kimi", the manga series that was shown last year summer (2007) and was very popular in Japan, is now having a SP confirmed.
This SP will take place half a year after the series' end. With Osaka Gakuen getting ready for an upcoming Valentine's Day event, Sano (Oguri) and Nakatsu (Ikuta) reflect on the final week of their last summer vacation, which falls into the timeline of the original series between episodes 7 and 8. The special also includes a graduation scene and addresses the relationship between Mizuki (Horikita) and Sano.
Filming begins on 19 March 2008, but no broadcast date has been announced yet.
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