Comments on: Disabilities + Poor Acting = Another SMAP Success

By: Eggbert

Eggbert — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:35:13 +0000

what happened to the article about Obama and change ? dissapeared ?

By: Aceface

Aceface — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:05 +0000

Sanjuro-Remake,Huh?
Wait and see until Higuchi Shinji mess up “The Hidden Fortress” remake “The Last Princess” Starring Matsumoto Jun of Arashi!

BTW,NHK-BS is showing now series of Kurosawa film to commemorate the decade since he passed away.
And I saw “Rashomon” remake “The Outrage”.I thought it wasn’t bad especially the cinematography by James Wong-Howe.Paul Newman doing the role of Mifune as Mexican bandits was not so nice,though.

By: M-Bone

M-Bone — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:45:24 +0000

“The original Shimizu Hiroshi version is one of my favourite and look what they’ve done!”

I felt the same thing seeing Oda Yuji in Sanjuro. Oda Yuji is fine on the small screen but he has next to no screen presence (Odoru Daisosasen does not work at all without Yanagiba… or Patlabor to rip off). Mifune had such an amazing screen presence that the contrast is just laughable.

Meanwhile, in defense of SMAP, Kimutaku didn’t do bad in Bushi no Ichibun. He’s no Sanada Hiroyuki, but that was part of the point, I think….

By: Aceface

Aceface — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:28:17 +0000

Jesus,this is unbearable to watch…
The original Shimizu Hiroshi version is one of my favourite and look what they’ve done!

By: jasong

jasong — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:48:12 +0000

Luckily he’s got natural talent, because most of the smaller agencies here didn’t even have the option of sending out actors to audition for that film. Ninomiya was excellent in a pretty terrible 2003 movie called The Blue Light (Ao no honoo) directed by theatre legend Ninagawa Yukio.

By: W. David MARX

W. David MARX — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:27:11 +0000

You know, I thought that Ninomiya was pretty good in Letters from Iwojima. I kind of get depressed every time I see him on an Arashi poster.

By: jasong

jasong — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:04:41 +0000

There was an interesting article last month about Johnny’s crumbling (?) reign, with comments from outspoken director Izutsu Kazuyuki (“Pacchigi!”).

http://www.j-cast.com/2008/03/19018045.html

Johnny’s has “relaxed” usage of photos in the last year, but now also employ a bizarre photo-realistic art technique for print materials. Which explains why Inagaki’s face kind of looked “off” in the billboard advertising the pilot of “Sasaki Fusai No Jingi Naki Tatakai,” for example.

http://www.j-cast.com/2008/02/03016268.html

By: W. David MARX

W. David MARX — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:37:04 +0000

Indeed. I’ll fix that up.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:43:13 +0000

You’ve got the wrong link. The official site does have pics of its Johnny’s Jimusho star, for a change.

http://yamano-anata.jp/