Nakamura Aoi announces his marriage to his girlfriend of 6 years

Nakamura Aoi announced via his blog on 21 January that he has married his girlfriend. In his entry titled "Announcement", he apologised for the sudden notice and revealed his marriage to his girlfriend who he has dated for the past six years and that she is not a celebrity. Although he did not give any details on his wife, he commented that she has been supporting him behind the scenes all this while and they decided to get married on their 6th anniversary since they started dating. Nakamura pledged to work harder in future as an actor and asked for everyone's support going forward.

According to insiders, Nakamura's wife is currently not pregnant and there are no plans yet for a wedding.

Nakamura entered showbiz in 2005 by winning the Grand Prix award in the 18th Junon Super Boy Contest and made his debut as a leading actor through the stage play "Teien ni Shisu" the following year. Since then, he has been seen in many movies and dramas such as "Hyakuhachi", "BECK", "Hanazakari no kimi tachi e ~ Ikemen Paradise ~ 2011" and "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru".

Sources: Nikkansports / Sanspo / Sponichi / Oricon

The 90th Drama Academy Awards (Summer 2016) - Best Supporting Actress

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Imoto Ayako - Ie uru onna
2) Yamamoto Mizuki - HOPE ~ Kitai zero no shinnyu shain ~
3) Kimura Tae - Toto Nee-chan

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) Yamamoto Mizuki - HOPE ~ Kitai zero no shinnyu shain ~
2) Nikaidou Fumi - Soshite, Dare mo inakunatta
3) Imoto Ayako - Ie uru onna
4) Nanao - Suki na hito ga iru koto
5) Kimura Tae - Toto Nee-chan

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Sagara Itsuki - Toto Nee-chan
2) Imoto Ayako - Ie uru onna
3) Kinami Haruka - Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru
4) Ishii Anna - Aogeba Totoshi
5) Sugisaki Hana - Toto Nee-chan

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Imoto Ayako - Ie uru onna
2) Mitsumune Kaoru - Yamikin Ushijima-kun Season 3
3) Kimura Tae - Toto Nee-chan
4) Kimura Fumino - Kami no shita wo motsu otoko
5) Tomita Yasuko - Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu

Source: The Televison

The 90th Drama Academy Awards (Summer 2016) - Best Supporting Actor

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Karasawa Toshiaki - Toto Nee-chan
2) Inoo Kei - Soshite, Dare mo inakunatta
3) Takizawa Hideaki - Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) Inoo Kei - Soshite, Dare mo inakunatta
2) Yokoyama Yu - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako
3) Endo Kenichi - HOPE ~ Kitai zero no shinnyu shain ~
4) Totsugi Shigeyuki - Shihei
5) Kato Shigeaki - Toki wo kakeru shoujo

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Karasawa Toshiaki - Toto Nee-chan
2) Takizawa Hideaki - Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru
3) Murakami Nijiro - Aogeba Totoshi / Nakamura Toru - Ie uru onna
5) Yamazaki Kento - Suki na hito ga iru koto

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Karasawa Toshiaki - Toto Nee-chan
2) Inoo Kei - Soshite, Dare mo inakunatta
3) Takizawa Hideaki - Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru / Nishijima Hidetoshi - Toto Nee-chan
5) Hayashi Kento - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako / Eguchi Yosuke - Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu

Source: The Televison

The 90th Drama Academy Awards (Summer 2016) - Best Leading Actress

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Kitagawa Keiko - Ie uru onna
2) Takahata Mitsuki - Toto Nee-chan
3) Haru - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) Kitagawa Keiko - Ie uru onna
2) Haru - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako
3) Takahata Mitsuki - Toto Nee-chan
4) Matsui Jurina - Shihei
5) Kiritani Mirei - Suki na hito ga iru koto

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Takahata Mitsuki - Toto Nee-chan
2) Kitagawa Keiko - Ie uru onna
3) Haru - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako
4) Ono Machiko - Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu
5) Keyakizaka46 - Tokuyama Daigorou wo dare ga koroshita ka?

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Kitagawa Keiko - Ie uru onna
2) Ono Machiko - Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu
3) Takahata Mitsuki - Toto Nee-chan
4) Haru - ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako
5) Kuroshima Yuina - Toki wo kakeru shoujo / Takei Emi - Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru / Matsushima Nanako - Eigyou Buchou Kira Natsuko

Source: The Televison

Winners of the 5th Confidence Award Drama Prize (Summer 2016)

Best Drama: Ie uru onna (NTV)

Best Leading Actor: Mikami Hiroshi (Isan Sozoku Bengoshi Kakizaki Shinichi)

Best Leading Actress: Haru (ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako)

Best Supporting Actor: Yamauchi Takaya (HOPE ~ Kitai Zero no Shinnyu Shain ~)

Best Supporting Actress: Kinami Haruka (Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru)

Best Script: Yukawa Kazuhiko (Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu)

Best Newcomer: Ishii Anna (Aogeba Totoshi)

Source: Confidence Award Drama Prize

Murakawa Eri to appear as guest in the 7th episode of TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru"

Murakawa Eri will be appearing in the 7th episode of TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" shown on 30 August as a guest star. This marks her first collaboration with the leads Takei Emi and Takizawa Hideaki.

The drama which is based on the same-titled manga by Kitagawa Miyuki, features Takei as the heroine Kurihara Mia who works in the PR department of Tiffany Japan and gets involved in a forbidden relationship with her married superior and the vice president of the company Miyoshi Kairi (Takizawa). With the transfer of Kairi, this marks the beginning of the Osaka arc. Murakawa plays the role of Fujieda Shiho, the former girlfriend of Miyazawa (Nakamura Aoi) who is the acting PR director of Jimmy Choo and gets into a love triangle with Mia and Kairi. When Mia and Miyazawa visit a wedding hall, Shiho appears suddenly and gives Mia a dressing down.

As Murakawa is from Osaka, she commented that her character is somewhat like a troublemaker who appears in the second half of the drama. In addition, she felt  it was fun to be able to use Kansai-ben in her slightly overboard lines. Murakawa hopes that viewers will still be able to see the sad side of her character despite her strong appearance.

Source: Sponichi

Kinami Haruka to play Takizawa Hideaki's wife in TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru"

Kinami Haruka will be appearing from the 3rd episode of TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" as the wife of Takizawa Hideaki's character Miyoshi Kairi. To date, the drama had given the impression that Hashimoto Manami's character Haruka is Kairi's wife but in actual fact, Yuka is the one who is married to Kairi. In contrast with the original manga, the Yuka in the drama will deviate from the goody-two-shoes image projected in the manga. Kinami admitted that she probably won't be able to play a good person this time but it is still early days to know what Yuka will do to Kairi and Mia (Takei Emi) so she is also eagerly awaiting to see how things will turn out.

Source: Oricon

Most anticipated Summer 2016 dramas ranking (Yahoo! Japan)

This is a survey done by Yahoo! Japan between 5 July and 16 July where respondents were respondents were asked to choose which drama they looked forward most before the season started. Note that 70% of the respondents were male so dramas of certain genres tend to be more favoured as compared to those targeted at female audiences. It might also be worth noting that the difference between the Top 4 is actually quite small and they collectively account for about 40% of the votes.

Numbers in brackets indicate the number of votes received while the percentage represents the vote share:

1) Yamikin Ushijima-kun Season 3 - TBS (1,363 / 10.2%)

2) ON Ijou Hanzai Sousakan Toudou Hinako - FujiTV (1,306 / 9.7%)

3) Soshite, Dare mo inakunatta - NTV (1,302 / 9.6%)

4) Ie uru onna - NTV (1,255 / 9.3%)

5) Keiji Shichinin 2 - TV Asahi (906 / 6.7%)

6) Aogeba Totoshi - TBS (847 / 6.3%)

7) Suki na hito ga iru koto - FujiTV (846 / 6.3%)

8) Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru - TBS (711 / 5.3%)

9) Toki wo kakeru shoujo - NTV (694 / 5.2%)

10) Kami no shita wo motsu otoko - TBS (564 / 4.2%)

11) Denshichi Torimonochou - NHK (519 / 3.9%)

12) Onnatachi no Tokusou Saizensen - TV Asahi (451 / 3.4%)

13) Eigyou Buchou Kira Natsuko - FujiTV (419 / 3.1%)

14) Hajimemashite, Aishiteimasu - TV Asahi (394 / 2.9%)

15) HOPE ~ Kitai Zero no Shinnyuu Shain ~ - FujiTV (339 / 2.5%)

16) Otokomeshi - TV Tokyo (293 / 2.2%)

17) Isan Sozoku Bengoshi Kakizaki Shinichi - NTV (291 / 2.2%)

18) Juken no Cinderella - NHK (262 / 2.0%)

19) Shihei - TBS (184 / 1.4%)

20) Gurame! ~ Souri no Ryoriban ~ - TV Asahi (141 / 1.1%)

21) Yassan ~ Tsukiji Hatsu! Oishii Jikenbo ~ - TV Tokyo (125 / 0.9%)

22) Tokuyama Daigoro wo dare ga koroshita ka? - TV Tokyo (103 / 0.8%)

23) Koekoi - TV Tokyo (70 / 0.5%)

24) Love Love Alien - FujiTV (42 / 0.3%)

Source: Yahoo! Japan

Matsuda Seiko to sing the theme song of "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" written by YOSHIKI

Matsuda Seiko will be singing the theme song for TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" which is due to begin its run from 12 July in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot. The song titled "Bara no you ni saite sakura no you ni chitte" (Bloom like a rose, fall like sakura), is written by X JAPAN's leader YOSHIKI and marks the first collaboration between both artistes. This is Matsuda's first drama theme song for TBS in 20 years since "Sayonara no Shunkan" which was the theme song for "Dear Woman".

According to the producer Iyoda Hidenori, Matsuda was picked specially to sing the theme song so as to convey the message of a delicate and daring romance. Matsuda thanked YOSHIKI for writing such a beautiful song and thinks that the drama will make women feel sad about the romance between the leads. She also expressed her joy about the collaboration and was glad to be able to participate in this. YOSHIKI who is busy with the production of a X JAPAN album, said that he is confident about this song and it's been a while since he wrote lyrics in Japanese. He also praised Matsuda for breathing life into his song and thinks that the end result will be very good.

Source: Oricon

Completion screening event of TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru"

The completion screening event of TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" was held on 3 July which was attended by cast members Takei Emi, Takizawa Hideaki, Nakamura Aoi, Matsudaira Ken, GENKING, Kanno Misuzu, Yokosawa Natsuko, Nakamura Hayato and Wada Akari. The drama which will begin its run from 12 July in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot, features Takei as the heroine who works in the PR department of Tiffany Japan and falls in love with the already-married vice president played by Takizawa. Tiffany will be providing full support to the production of the drama including filming at its shops. During the event, Takei was wearing 7 pieces of jewellery from Tiffany which were worth a total of JPY 160m.

Takizawa commented that the complicated relationship between Takei's and his character is a selling point in this drama. However, he finds it embarrassing to have to say some really cringe-worthy and romantic lines such as "let me catch your flu bug instead" or having to look at each other in slow-motion smilingly. As for Takei, she said that she also felt shy about having to listen to such sweet words every day during the filming and has to control herself from bursting into laughter due to the embarrassment. As the relationship between the characters is subjected to interpretation by the viewers and may be seen as pure love or an extramarital affair, she is hoping that they will still enjoy watching the drama.

Sources: Nikkansports / Sanspo / Sponichi

Preview of "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" - Summer 2016

Title: Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru せいせいするほど、愛してる (Loving you without reservations)
Official website: here
Official Facebook page: here
Official Twitter: here
O.A. Start Date: 12 July 2016
Timeslot: Tuesdays 10pm
Broadcast by: TBS
Original manga by: Kitagawa Miyuki
Brand collaboration with: Tiffany / JIMMY CHOO
Cast: Takei Emi, Takizawa Hideaki, Nakamura Aoi, Mizusawa Erena, Triendl Reina, Nakamura Hayato, Yokosawa Natsuko, Wada Akari, GENKING, Takigawa Eiji, Judai Satoshi, Hashimoto Manami, Takahashi Mitsuomi, Kanno Misuzu, Matsudaira Ken

Tiffany to work with TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo Aishiteru"

Tiffany will be working with TBS on their Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo Aishiteru" starring Takei Emi and Takizawa Hideaki which begins its run from 12 July in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot. This is the first time that the premium jewellery brand is involved in a collaboration with a Japanese drama.

In the drama, Takei will play an employee working in Tiffany Japan's PR department while Takizawa will play the vice president of the same company. As such, filming will be done in Tiffany's shops and during an actual Tiffany event where the cast and crew were surrounded by JPY 4.6bn worth of jewellery. The cast will also get to wear the brand's products during the filming.

In response to this, Takei commented that she was thrilled at being able to do filming inside Tiffany and wear their jewellery as she has been a fan of the brand all along. The producer Iyoda Yoshinori also revealed that he was excited about the filming and hoped to be able to show the sparkling and glamourous sides of the leads through the support of Tiffany.

Co-stars in this drama include Nakamura Aoi, Mizusawa Erena, Triendl Reina, Nakamura Hayato, Yokosawa Natsuko, GENKING and Matsudaira Ken.

Source: Modelpress

Takei Emi & Takizawa Hideaki to star in TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru"

Takei Emi and Takizawa Hideaki will be working together for the first time in the upcoming TBS Summer 2016 drama "Seiseisuru hodo, Aishiteru" (Loving you without reservations) which will begin its run from July in the Tuesdays 10pm timeslot. The drama which is based on the same-titled manga by Kitagawa Miyuki, features Takei as the heroine Kurihara Mia who works in the PR department of a company and meets the vice-president of her company Miyoshi Kairi unknowingly when he helps her during a business trip. Later, when Kairi is sent to Mia's department for training, she is assigned to be his mentor. Despite the fact that Kairi is already married, the two of them come to fall for each other as they work together. Co-stars include Nakamura Aoi who plays Miyazawa Ryo, Kairi's rival in love and a capable salesperson from a competitor, Mizusawa Erena who plays Mia's housemate Masaki Akari and an employee of a publisher, Triendl Reina who is also Mia's housemate and a model named Miyama Chiaki who has a possessive streak when it comes to love and Takahashi Mitsuomi who plays Mia's ex-boyfriend.

Sources: Sanspo / Yomiuri Hochi / Sponichi / Oricon