Lost In Ube (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
He totally cut that puppy. If I write an opening, it will probably take longer than the preview so I'll just stop here. Shingo Katori: Actor~! SASUKE! Yamamoto! Takeda! Nagano! All of the All-Stars failed at the last SASUKE! But now it's time for SASUKE 2009秋! Oooh..a new obstacle. They take your laundry pole then make you slide across the water whilst holding on to someone else's dirty
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
Square Enix has once again recruited super-popular male idol J-Pop group SMAP ("Sports Music Assemble People") for its Dragon Quest promotions, this time for Dragon Quest IX , releasing in Japan for DS on July 11th. The boy band's youngest member Shingo Katori (32! They've been around for a while!) appears in the press event above, looking very goofy biting on the game's box. Towards the...
AnimeNation Anime News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Reportedly next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will officially announce the development of a live action television series adaptation of Osamu Akimoto’s long running police comedy manga “Kochikame” (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo). SMAP band member Shingo Katori will star as the hapless police officer Ryotsu Kankichi. The manga serial premiered...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
From Anime News Network comes word that Leonardo DiCaprio is considering casting Japan’s SMAP pop group as the main leads in the upcoming live-action adaptation of the 1993 anime film Ninja Scroll. Additional news comes from the Nikkan Sports newspaper that casting is in progress with DiCaprio expressing his intention to cast Japanese people. The SMAP [...]
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 04/05/2009
Shingo Katori has been playing the role of “Dole Man” in a series of banana commercials airing on Japan: For more Dole Man pictures and video, check out the official Dole Man homepage. —- Akihabara News - Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan (Subscribe) Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan (Subscribe)
Dragonball Legends (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
Dragonball Evolution was recently featured during a Japanese News Show, and guess who makes a guest appearance? Justin Chatwin (Goku) and Shingo Katori (Son Goku in the TV series, Saiyuki.). Justin suggests to Shingo (in a joking manner) that they should split the role of Goku in the sequal.
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