American actress Kirsten Dunst shot a video in Tokyo’s Akihabara otaku district in a seriously-too-colourful-and-wicked sailor costume on August 27.
The video will be used for an exhibition later this year at Tate Modern in London.
[more images][via Japanprobe and 3yen]
Korean songs by Outsider and 4Minute; Japanese song by AKB48; and Cantonese song by Hong Kong singer Eason Chan…
Outsider – Alone
English subbed MV of “Alone” (외톨이) by Outsider, dubbed as Korea’s fastest rapper; song from “Vol.2 Maestro” album, released in June 2009…
Japanese folks are shocked by two high profile celebrity drug scandals last week.
Actor-singer Manabu Oshio, 31, was arrested on Monday for illegal drug use and is under investigation for the death of a woman.
Oshio admitted that he was taking drugs with the lady before her death, but was coerced to do so… the media are not buying the story though, considering how poor his image has been in the past few years.
The woman’s cause of death will be determined in a week or two, and it’s still remained to be seen if Oshio was further involved in the case.
His management agency Avex is swift to cut off his contract though; and his actress wife Akiko Yada, 30, is filing a divorce. It’s also revealed that the couple has been separated for about six months, with Oshio’s extra-marital affairs one of the major reasons.
Music video for “Tone of Everyday” (日々の音色; Hibi no Neiro) by Japanese band Sour from their first mini album “Water Flavor EP”.
The song is just ok, but the MV super cool. The cast were selected from actual Sour fan base around the world; and each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam and stitched together to make the awesome video…
Music video directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura and Masayoshi Nakamura [via Yellow-menace]
“Departures” (おくりびと, Okuribito) is a multiple award winning Japanese movie and winner of the best foreign language film at the 2009 Oscars.
Directed by Yojiro Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, the movie follows the story of a nokanshi whose job is to prepare the death for encoffinment. Other main leads include Ryoko Hirosue and Tsutomu Yamazaki etc.
Japanese actress Aya Ueto in áo dài, an iconic traditional Vietnamese dress for a photoshoot in Vietnam. I think the pics are released by Image.tv [Jp/NSFW] in April 2009 as part of her “Treasure of Asia” collection; looks great ain’t so?
A few Asian music videos; from Korean pop groups Super Junior, 2NE1, Japanese pop group Morning Musume and an English song from Chinese singer Khalil Fong.
Super Junior – It’s You
“It’s You” (너라고) by Korean pop group Super Junior from the “Sorry Sorry” album, released in March 2009…
Two Toyama based animation studios, P.A. Works and The Berich have created some short animes to promote Toyama tourism, based on the theme “Tear Bringing Toyama Prefecture”.
Sharing here are videos from P.A. Works; three short stories about love, friendship and family; with Mt Tateyama, Toyama Bay, and Gokayama as backdrop.
