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10:40 PM
Kanjani8 Ryuhei Maruyama's (30) father Takahiro Maruyama (49) got married to a 24-year-old non-celebrity with a cute 2-year-old son, leading to Ryuhei suddenly having a mother 6 years younger than him and a stepbrother that's young enough to be his son.
Ryuhei's father was previously crowned "Mr. Kyoto" as he won in a bodybuilding competition in 2012. He used to be an aspiring actor and had Ryuhei when he was 20. He divorced the mother soon after and made a living as a Japanese taiko drum craftsman. He's an ikemen who looks like Koshi Inaba of B'z.
The woman is from Kanagawa and has had experience working at the prefectural office. She's a beauty who looks like Perfume's Kashiyuka. The marriage was made public when the wife sent mails to her acquaintances announcing their marriage during the New Year break. How does Ryuhei feel about all this?
"(Ryuhei) Maruyama himself is really happy that his father got remarried, and he now has a new stepmom and a stepbrother. I think that is also why he put in more effort into his Kouhaku performance compared to the previous year." - (TV station representative)
A bodybuilding magazine also discussed the father's decision to come back into the world of bodybuilding and comments: "Now that his son is enjoying a lot of success in his own field, he wanted to show that he too is challenging and aiming for the best as the father and decided to participate in the competition once again".
Source: http://jisin.jp/serial/johnnys/johnnysinfo/8591
11:03 PM
Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN) is set to star in Yu Irie’s upcoming film Joker Game, playing a genius spy named Kato.
In addition, it’s been announced that Kamenashi Kyoko Fukada will play the American Ambassador’s lover, a mysterious woman named Rin, and Yusuke Iseya will play a man named Colonel Yuuki who takes command of the secret intelligence agency “D Kikan”.
Not to be confused with the 2012 teen survival thriller starring Rie Kitahara,
this Joker Game is actually based on the first in a spy story
compilation novel by Koji Yanagi with illustrations by Yoshinatsu Mori.
In 2009, the novel won the 30th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers and
the 62nd Mystery Writers of Japan Award. The novel’s two sequels, Double Joker and Paradise Lost, were also popular, having reached a total circulation of over 700,000 copies to date.
The film is set in a fictional international Asian city
on the eve of World War II as spies from countries such as Japan, the
UK, the Soviet Union, and Germany engage in a “spy game”, using every
trick and plot they can think of to gain the upper hand in the secret
intelligence battle.
Kamenashi’s character Kato is about to receive a severe punishment
for disobeying his superiors when he’s scouted by Yuuki to become a spy
for D Kikan. He endures rigorous training and is eventually given his first mission as a secret agent. Kato must infiltrate the multicultural city referred to “Devil’s Metropolis” in order to take a critical “black notebook” from U.S. Ambassador Graham.
The film depicts Kato’s attempts to find the notebook along with a
mysterious woman named Rin. Meanwhile, D Kikan gets caught up in a
fierce rivalry with a radical faction of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Due to the international nature of the films theme, it will be shot
in a wide array of locations including three separate areas of Japan, a
large open-air set on the island of Batam, Indonesia, and Singapore.
Filming of “Joker Game” began on January 4. A release is planned for sometime in 2015.
