Japanese Boy Band Arashi Should Create Their Own TikTok Dance Group

When Brad Pitt signed on in August to star in director David Leitch's upcoming action thriller Bullet Train, it gave Yuma Terada and Ryosuke Saegusa, co-founders of startup Japanese rights management firm CTB Inc, a burst of high-profile visibility for their unconventional business model. Produced by Sony, Bullet Train will be a big-budget adaptation of Japanese author Kotaro Isaka's novel Maria Beetle.

Japanese actress Sei Ashina, star of the historical arthouse drama Silk and the cult television seriesKamen Rider Hibiki, has died. She was 36.

Variety reported. The official cause of death has not yet been announced, but Huang’s management team is expected to make a statement later today.The former member of the boy bands HC3 and Cosmo was wearing a top but no underwear at the time of his death, and blood stains were found on the floor, according to Apple Daily Taiwan.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentAshina Sei, an established actor in high demand for TV dramas and films, was discovered dead in her Tokyo apartment Monday. Both Tokyo police and her agency have confirmed that she died of suicide, age 36.Born in 1983 in Fukushima Prefecture as Igarashi Aya, she came to Tokyo while still a teenager and soon found work as a fashion model.

Toys For Bob has released a brand new live-action trailer for Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time that harkens back to the ’90s when zany ads were all the rage in Japan.The new trailer invokes players’ nostalgia by essentially recreating a bizarre Japanese commercial for the original game back in the ’90s that featured what would become Crash’s iconic dance animation from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.Check out the trailer below.The dance choreography isn’t the only thing to return.

The Singapore Grip will explore one of the "darkest" and least-known moments of the Second World War, according to its screenwriter.The new ITV drama focuses on a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion during the war and has been adapted from Booker Prize winner JG Farrell's novel by Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons screenwriter Sir Christopher Hampton.Hampton spoke exclusively to about the drama, explaining the importance of bringing such an "underexplored

If nothing else, 2020 has proved to be a fruitful time for the disciples of Studio Barnhus, with the Stockholm label consistently generating ample bozo whimsy through quarantine livestreams and releases such as Axel Boman’s “Eyes of My Mind,” Bella Boo’s Once Upon A Passion remix album, and the label’s most recent compilation Serenity Now, Insanity Later.

The Singapore Grip, a period series based on the 1978 novel by J.G. Farrell, is drawing flak before its premiere in the UK.The drama series is screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the British novelist’s 1978 satire.

Ed Meza @edmezavarJapanese filmmaker Tomoko Kana is revisiting the legacy of nuclear catastrophe in a new feature film project that brings together survivors of Fukushima and Chernobyl.Kana and producer Mari Mukai are looking for primarily German partners for the project, which they presented at this year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market and which will shoot to a large extent in Germany.“A Picture Book” is a very personal project for Kana that reflects her own experiences, according to Mukai,

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentIseya Yusuke, a veteran actor who has worked with Miike Takashi, Kore’eda Hirokazu and other leading Japanese directors in a career that has spanned two decades, was arrested Tuesday in Tokyo for possession of marijuana.According to local media, Tokyo Metropolitan Police found four bags of marijuana, some 20 grams, in a drawer in his Tokyo residence at around four in the afternoon on Tuesday.  Rolling papers were also discovered on a table.How he obtained the

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner and Crying’s Ryan Galloway have teamed up to drop a new EP entitled ‘Pop Songs 2020’ – listen to it below.Released under the name Bumper, the four-track project, which arrives tomorrow (September 4), was birthed from a previous collaboration that saw Zauner ask Galloway to write a guitar part for a song from Japanese Breakfast’s upcoming new album.The pair clicked and decided to work on their own EP.“I’ve always really liked Crying and I think Ryan as a

«Carpool Karaoke» segment, hopefuls and regular old seat belt singers: Meet the Carpool Karaoke the Mic.Singing Machine's buzzy portable microphone lets you host your own on-the-go karaoke session and recreate some of the iconic moments seen on from the comfort of your car.Intrigued by this mobile karaoke experience? Here's how it works: Tune in to any empty FM radio station with no signal, pair your mobile device via Bluetooth (or connect with an aux cord) and queue up your favorite songs from

“YYZ” is a big ask for any drummer, but 10-year-old prodigy Yoyoka does it justice.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentFilmination, an online marketplace for Japanese content, is expanding and relaunching. The object is to smooth and speed up the often-cumbersome process of dealing with Japanese rights holders.Pitched as the first of its kind in Japan, the revamped site allows rights holders to present their wares and rights buyers to select films and TV series.