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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Jpop News Updates

NEWS 01: Ayumi Hamasaki is the new Asia spokesperson for Rimmel London



Singer Hamasaki Ayumi (30) is top make-up brand Rimmel's first Asia "image character". She was promoted as spokesperson on the 27th of this month. For the popular brand that's expanding into 56 countries, Ayu will be shooting the advertisements with her strong eyes and sparkling eye-color.

In the beginning of August she will have an interview / stage debut in every country in Asia. The young women in Asia will be fascinated with the "utahime" (singing princess), who will display beauty with great force.

Ayu on being with an English brand: "I've never been to England, so I thought maybe this is an opportunity to try and go there," Ayu said about expanding into Europe pro-actively. The Singing Princess has turned to yet another big dream she'll be running towards.


NEWS 02: Nami Amuro stirs shanghai fans

Namie Amuro stirs Shanghai fans

Japanese pop queen Namie Amuro generated a fan fever upon her arrival at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai on July 9, 2009. Amuro was in Shanghai for two solo concerts scheduled for July 11 and 12 at the Shanghai Grand Stage. The shows are part of her "Best Fiction" tour.


NEWS 02: Kuroki Meisa battles for upcoming sci-fi movie 'Assault Girl'


Meisa Kuroki battles with sand beasts and English script in 'Assault Girls'

Tokyo - Actress Meisa Kuroki, 21, let the press in for a glimpse of her voice-recording work recently for the upcoming sci-fi movie “Assault Girls,” directed by Mamoru Oshii, 57. Kuroki plays a gun-toting hunter who along with her sexy sidekicks, Rinko Kikuchi, 28, and Hinako Saeki, 32, fight off a hoard of deadly sand beasts which have flourished in the aftermath of a nuclear war in the not too distant future.


Kuroki said she enjoyed the recording of her English lines, which make up about 90% of her script, after Oshii told her not to worry about pronouncing them like a native speaker.

On the filming of the desert battle scenes with the giant “sand whales” which will be digitally added in the coming months, she said: “I had to imagine the fight, and honestly, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing.”

“Assault Girls” opens in cinemas on Dec 19.



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