Tag: kenichi matsuyama

  • Yu Aoi Fans Being Generously Fed This Season

    Who ended up binge-watching Human Vapor (ガス人間)? Hai! Who’s watching Until the T-shirt Dries (Tシャツが乾くまで) weekly? HAI! Who’s currently obsessed with Southern All Stars’ version of Ellie My Love [1]? HAI.

    I still have a few Yu Aoi films to catch up with (I found a copy of 1980!?), but Yu Aoi fans have been fed generously this season with Yu-chan’s open broadcast TV lead since… Osen, perhaps. 2005-2008 seems to have been a Golden Era of Yu-chan workwise. And it feels like we might get a good lead in a slice of life movie soon.

    Open broadcast also usually means open promos, Japan is one or two episodes ahead of Netflix’s uploads, but Yu-chan and Kaho did a guest appearance on Bananaman no Sekkaku Gourmet!! (バナナマンのせっかくグルメ!!), where they visited Hokkaido to eat squid, sushi and shio ramen. I haven’t watched the episode yet, but I did find a way to watch it. I haven’t watched a Japanese variety episode, or Yu-chan appearance in one, in what feels like ages.

    As pop culture fans, Yu-chan fans and Kaho fans may know, Yu-chan and Kaho (alongside Yamada Yu) played sisters for Canon commercials back in the day. How time flies. Look at those baby faces.

    Yu-chan and Kenichi Matsuyama also played non-reciprocated love interests on Don’t Laugh at my Romance, around that same period. Now they get to play husband and wife, in a drama that is turning to be a mystery. Wholesome dorky 40-year-olds look like this. His children are probably in their teens now, but he looks like this. lol

    I hope I get to find some of the pictures featured during the credits of Until the T-shirt Dries.

  • Two Decades with Linda Linda!

    Like a rat/mouse, I want to be beautiful ♫ too, you guys. I love you so much.

    The last couple of weeks (?) [about a month and a half ago?], the Linda Linda Linda movie team has been hyping the twentieth anniversary of the movie, which includes a gorgeous 4K restoration which some lucky people might have gotten the chance to watch on a big screen. The re-release, of course, included a very much luckier event with the cast (ALL THE CAST) and director Nobuhiro Yamashita in Japan, where even Kenichi Matsuyama recreated his love confession to Doona.

    The class of Actors to Watch [2][2] from almost 15 years ago aged well.

    To celebrate even more, because this is a pan-East-Asia geek event, Marie Claire Korea included a photoshoot with the Linda Linda girls.

    Paranmaum desu.

  • The Show-Off Film Collection List~

    Oh, Happy Chinese New Year! Let’s start my (supposedly) bad-luck Goat Year with the now-mandatory Letterboxd list of my film collection~

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    I have a really weird history with films– born in the late 80s, you’d think I would’ve grown watching loads of 90s kids stuff, but I actually grew up with a lot of Silly Symphonies (which were released in the 30s) and loads of Disney 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s stuff, plus a lot of more grown up 80s movies. Poltergeist, The Thing, The Fly and The Stuff were particularly scary stuff (and I’m pretty sure I was scared of yogurt or white stuff at some point).

    I don’t ever remember buying any original VHS tape, except for the rare birthday gift of a Disney’s Sing-Along Songs chapter or that X-Men tape I have. My first DVDs buys were Coyote Ugly, She’s All That and Loser — you can’t blame me. I was a 15-year-old girl. The collection grew bigger, and possibly exploded during my years abroad. I’m nearing my 500th movie.

  • All My Male Biases Ranked

    Now it’s time for the boys~

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    Who made it and who didn’t? I was surprised myself. LOL Don’t forget to comment and share ;)

  • More Yu Aoi Short Takes in the Mountain on Fire!

    Super messy Yu Aoi post ahead~

    With the release of Haru wo Seotte [trailer] this Saturday, the release of Mozu Season 2 next, followed by Wakamono-tachi and Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Inferno, all promotions are meshing with one another.

    First, Kenichi Matsuyama and Yu together in this CinemaCafe interview.

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  • Yu Aoi for Haru wo Seotte in the Mountains

    New movie alert with Kenichi Matsuyama and Etsushi Toyokawa. Sakura Ando also supposedly appears in the film.

    This is what ‘being obsessed’ with someone for a few years means, right? Noticing and nitpicking the little details normal people don’t pick up. I’m always eager to hear of new Yu Aoi movies and projects, even if I’m not as enthusiastic as before. I do get a kick whenever I see her act and she does her best smile making my day.

    During my second watch, eager to watch that smile again, I noticed something…
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  • Current Flavors and Getting Your Type

    Has people ever ask you what’s your type? In terms of the people that you like, and you really have no idea because you’ve never really talked about.  I wondered if I could see a pattern in the people I like on-screen, so I made a list of women and men — 25 picks each — and placed generally okay photos of them to see if I could see any characteristics they shared.

    A few rules- it has to be people that you follow — not randoms that you just find hot. Sofia Vergara is hot but I haven’t seen her outside Modern Family or Chasing Papi. And it also isn’t about talent… completely. It’s people that you would somehow, if given the chance, do / be with / however you want to call it or do is.

    Also, photos should generally be color and looking to the front-ish. Natural looks favored, but since it’s a type thing, I suppose you can use any photos you find your subject attractive in.

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  • I’ve Been Thinking About Yu…

    I haven’t actively looked for Yu Aoi fan-made videos in a long time, but here we go~ I hope this one doesn’t get deleted, coz we’ve been suffering from that a lot lately. Regular Yu Aoi film footage applies, with nice additions of Tamatama, and Otouto… though, Raiou would have been nice to have.

  • Kenichi Matsuyama on Taira no Kiyomori

    Kenichi Matsuyama looks so grown-up now… promoting his upcoming NHK Taiga, Taira no Kiyomori — all I know about Kiyomori I learned in Yoshitsune [1] haha. Anyway, as you know I was pretty pumped [1][2][3] for Gou and I defended Juri through it all [1], but I knew Gou’s fault.

    Anyway, I’m pretty pumped for Taira no Kiyomori, and this promo for it with a manly Kenichi Matsuyama is kinda… really inspiring haha. I kinda really love that photo.

    are you going to be watching?

  • Juri Ueno as Gou on NHK’s 2011 Taiga Drama

    You know, I was watching the last episode of Ryomaden on Sunday’s afternoon before lunch. Sorry, Ryoma-san ~~~ I didn’t feel ya. But I did feel Teruyuki Kagawa’s Iwasaki — frienemy of Ryoma. Just like I enjoyed Kiyomori’s grey relationship with Yoshitsune.

    There’s something about not so good characters in history that’s just wayyyyy more interesting than the heroes. Heroes are boring. That’s why Atsuhime was so good! She was actually sent to manipulate the Shogun in favor of her clan… then she married the Shogun, and not-really turned on her family, but she didn’t do what she was sent to do.

    Looking forward to Gou… as well as Kenichi Matsuyama’s starring on the 2012 NHK Taiga drama about the life of Kiyomori. That’s all sorts of awesome considering he’s gonna battle it out with Hiroshi Tamaki playing Yoshitsune’s father, Minamoto.

    Yup, I just showed you all my samurai / taiga drama knowledge right there.

    It’s like I know history! I feel knowledgeable ~~~