A first look at Sato Takeru as ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ in Live action film

The live action film for “Rurouni Kenshin“ finished filming on November 21st, and fans of the popular manga series got a first look at ‘Kenshin’ himself, played by actor Sato Takeru.

Filming for the movie began back in August, and the shoot was held in Kyoto, Shiga, Tottori, Okayama, Hyogo, and Osaka with a total of 1,200 extras.

Reportedly, William Ireton (who presided over the production of the movie) has already begun preparations to distribute it overseas. He stated, “We believe that ‘Kenshin’ will be loved by audiences all over the world.” Sato also commented, “I screamed ‘It’s over~!’ because I was relieved that we were able to finish filming it safely, and I felt a sense of freedom. I want many people to watch the movie, especially the fans of the original manga.”

“Rurouni Kenshin” is one of Japan’s more famous manga, originally serialized through “Weekly Shonen Jump” during 1994 ~ 1999. Its comics (totaling to 28 volumes) have published over 50 million copies.

The manga follows the story of ‘Himura Kenshin’ who was known and feared as the assassin “Hitokiri Battousai”; after experiencing a personal trauma, he starts a personal journey as a wanderer after the Meiji Restoration, pledging that he would do “no more killing.”

Sato plays ‘Kenshin’, and his female co-star is Takei Emi, who plays the heroine “Kamiya Kaoru“; Aoi Yu, Aoki Munetaka, Tanaka Taketo, and Eguchi Yosuke are also the part of the main cast.

The movie will be released on August 25th, 2012.

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Jung Woo Sung and Kim Bum flex for “Padam Padam”

Female fans are about to receive much eye candy when JTBC‘s new drama, “Padam Padam” begins airing with an “ab-fest” by male leads Jung Woo Sung and Kim Bum.

Stills of Jung Woo Sung and Kim Bum were revealed on December 5th ahead of the drama’s premiere where they showed off their beastly-like abs.

Although age has caught up with Jung Woo Sung, he showed that he still had it with his sculpted body and led to fans saying “Undoubtedly Jung Woo Sung“. Meanwhile, Kim Bum shows off his new masculine charm, which came as a result of him losing 11kgs after a strict weight loss regime.

‘Padam Padam’ is a story of a love line between cold and calculated ‘Ji Na‘ (played by Han Ji Min) who meets ‘Yang Kang Chul‘ (Jung Woo Sung), who had a rough life, and learns to give all of herself for her first love. Kim Bum will play a guardian angel type character, who has always been by Kang Chul’s side and whom Kang Chul trusts as an angel born in human form.

“Padam Padam” will begin airing from December 5th through JTBC cable channel.

It’s raining Hallyu in Malaysia!

One of the leading newspapers in Malaysia, The Star, has featured a story of the last Saturday’s concert in their Entertainment section, which was the Most Amazing (MO.A) 2011 Live in Malaysia. It is reported that despite the gloomy weather at the beginning of the show, the 7000-strong audience had came prepared by slipping into their ponchos – majority in sapphire blue (you know what that means!). Of course, their devotion were totally rewarded!

Miss A came first to take the stage – and thank God the drizzle stopped, – in their all-black attire and flaunted their saccharine vocals through their popular songs like Goodbye Baby, Breathe, Bad Girl, Good Girl and also Lady Gaga’s Pokerface. The girls also greeted the crowd in Korean, Mandarin, English and Bahasa Melayu in between the songs.

Then B1A4 were welcomed by the crowd by delivering five songs that won over the hearts of many fans with their youthful appeal and Sandeul’s strong vocals.

The third act then took off the stage, it’s none other than f(x)! These girls came off girlish and playful with their cute stage costume. Even without Krystal, the other girl mesmerized the audience with their doll-like faces and playful antics as they performed their debut single La chA TA. Amber was the crowd’s favourite as they turned into a frnzy whenever the camera zoomed in on her. The girls even exclaimed, “(It’s) so hot!” before singing into the next tune, Hot Summer.

Right after f(x)’s Pinnochio, it was at last the “highlight” of the night – Super Junior! Making their grand entrance with Superman, they also came up with their cool and awesome dance moves throughout their popular number such as Mr Simple. Lee Teuk, as the “special” leader of the handsome-looking group, even greeting the crowd with, “Assalamualaikum! (Peace be upon you)“. Yesung, one of the lead vocals with soothing sweet voice then went solo with It Has to be You, an OST of Cinderella’s Stepsister. Apart from that, those SuJu guys even made the crowd extra happy by handing out their autographed T-shirts when singing Marry U. “There’re so many beautiful girls in Malaysia,” teased Lee Teuk, before ended their performance with their famous hits Bonamanaand Sorry Sorry.

After Super Junior ended their performance, all the four acts came out for their last time to thank the impressive fans.Lee Teuk was especially appreciative, rushing to the front stage, bowing and thanking the crowd in different languages including Japanese. Lee Teuk will officially enlist and begin his two-year mandatory military next year.

Source: The Star, korea.com
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SM artists Rocked New York - SMTOWN IN NEW YORK

SM artists has again created a new history for K-pop, Madison Square Garden which had always been the kingdom of English artists is echoed with Korean songs and dominated by K-pop idols.

On October 23, SM Entertainment hold concert ‘SM Town Live in New York‘ at Madison Square Garden where famous K-pop idols viz Super Junior, Shinee, TVXQ, Girl’s Generation, Kangta, fx and BoA performed. These idols are already ruling on Asian people’s hearts and now marked their popularity in America also.

Renowned singer Kangta told media in press conference before concert, “We would like to have this opportunity, if there was any a wall between the West and East, to take this opportunity to squash this wall” On behalf of all artists Kangta further added, “Hopefully we could be much more famous in the United States, as well as all the other Western countries.” TVXQ leader YunHo also shared, “We’re simply very flattered to have so many fans around the world, not just us, but all the members of SM Town. They really appreciate all the fans.”

The most striking thing was singers sung song in Korean which was not the American language but still fans support them and chanted the lines with them. but yet there where some english songs too, Girl’s Generation and BoA, who have sung songs in English, performed their English songs BoA performed her famous song ‘I did it for Love‘ with Shinee’s Key, originally sung by BoA & Sean Garrett and Girl’s Generation there recent released song ‘The Boys‘.

There was a flood of K-pop fans at airport to welcome their Asian idols, fans from different cities, different provinces and even from different countries headed to New York. According to news paper the K-pop fans’ crowd at Madison was larger than Bieber‘s. MTV vice president Peter Griffin said after seeing the crowd outside the studio, “I haven’t seen this in years. It reminds me of when ‘N Sync was here and the fans lined up around the studio”

This is surly just a start of ‘Hallyu Wave‘ bordering America, and accordingly it will go so far by K-pop’s amazing talents.

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Rain leaving for his Military duties Today

On October 11th, singer/actor Rain bid farewell to his fans before leaving to begin his military life.

At 1:10 PM, the star arrived at his training camp in Gyeongido, and fans burst into tears when they realized that this would be their last moment together before his hiatus.

Bowing deeply, Rain greeted, “Hello everyone. I feel like I’m causing a commotion again because of my enlistment. I’m sorry. I’ll do my best to come back in one piece.” Rain then took off his hat and revealed his military-standard buzzcut. He waved goodbye to his fans cheerfully, before heading in for duty.

Rain’s enlistment attracted over 1,200 people to the training camp and television channels like tvN andMnet were present to live broadcast his leave. Aside from fellow actor Hyun Bin, Rain was the only other celebrity whose military departure was relayed live.

The world star gave his all before withdrawing from his celebrity career; he released a digital single, wrapped up his last concert ‘Last of the Best‘, and even participated in the ‘Gangnam Hallyu Festival‘. He will also appear in a special 90-minute pre-recorded episode at 6PM KST today throughMnet TV.

Rain will be undergoing an intensive 5-week training program before carrying out his official duties as a soldier. Let’s wish him the best of luck!