Hirayama Aya
Horikita Maki
Nagasawa Masami
Ishihara Satomi
"Tokyo Daikushu" New Movie From Horikita Maki
Here`s a New Movie from Maki-chan!the title is "Tokyo Daikushu" /東京大空襲/Tokyo Air Raid ,this movie have an historical and romantic genre and broadcast on Japanese television on march 2008...NTV is producing a two-night drama special titled "Tokyo Daikushu," which is a phrase referring to the bombings on Tokyo during World War II. The story will focus on two young pairs and their painful love.
The main couple will be a woman (Maki Horikita) whose father's factory is bombed and a man (Tatsuya Fujiwara) who stops her when she tries to rescue her father from the fire. They meet again a few years later when the woman is working as a nurse and the man is brought in as a patient with a heart condition. The second couple is a Korean man (Eita) and another nurse (Yuki Shibamoto).
The drama has been in planning for two years. Involved in the project are art director Takeo Kimura, who was fortunate enough to escape the bombings, and essayist Kayoko Ebina, who lost her family in the bombings.
NTV will broadcast the drama on March 17-18.
DETAILS
* Title: 東京大空襲
* Title (romaji): Tokyo Daikushu
* Also known as: Tokyo Air Raid
* Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
* Genre: Historical, romance
* Episode ratings: 14.4 (1st); 16.3 (2nd)
* Broadcast network: NTV
* Broadcast period: 2008-Mar-17 and 2008-Mar-18
* Air time: Monday and Tuesday 21:00
* Theme song: by Yoshiki of X Japan
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Bandai Visual Bites the Dust
After writing so many articles about the folly of Bandai Visual's pricing and release policy, I don't really have much to say about this news (this being a holiday weekend).From ANN:
Bandai Namco Holdings has announced on Friday that it will combine its two video/audio content subsidiaries in America — Bandai Entertainment and Bandai Visual USA — on July 1 and liquidate Bandai Visual USA. The company's announcement still lists Tatsunori Konno as the head of Bandai Visual USA, even though he moved back to Japan this month. As of the end of April, there were officially only two employees of Bandai Visual USA. The liquidation of Bandai Visual USA is expect to be completed by the end of September.
Bandai Visual USA was established on January 5, 2005 with an emphasis on collectors' editions of Bandai Visual titles from Japan. It met with heavy resistance to its prices which were similar to those in Japan, but far above those in the rest of the North American anime market. It has US$4 million in capital and, as of last December 31 (the end of its last accounting period), US$2.983 million in total assets. During the accounting period that ended last December, it sold US$1.151 million worth of goods, but lost US$595,000 before taxes.
And from ICv2:
Bandai Visual to Shut Down, Assets Transferred to Bandai Entertainment
Bandai Namco has announced that it will fold its Bandai Visual subsidiary in the U.S. into Bandai Entertainment on July 1st, eliminating Bandai Visual as a separate operation by the end of September.
Bandai Visual had been established in the U.S. to release material originally released by Bandai Visual in Japan in Criterion-style, high quality, high priced formats (see “ICv2 Interviews Tatsunori Konno, Part 1”). Its U.S. releases never caught on and the operation was losing money, leading to the liquidation.
The shutdown comes amid generally poor conditions for U.S. anime companies with illegal downloads generally seen as the primary contributing factor.
It's not like we didn't see that coming. Remember what Macarthur said?
" Poorly Run Anime companies never die, they just fade away...."
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