Pureness of the Symphony: April 2012

On April 28th, actor Abe Hiroshi (47) and actress Ueto Aya (26) attended an opening event for their movie ‘Thermae Romae‘ at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.

This film featured many “strong faced” actors such as Abe, Ichimura Masachika (63), Kitamura Kazuki (42), and Shishido Kai (45) and in commemoration, they held an event titled, ‘Japan’s Most Strong Faced Actor Deciding Match’ at this event.

Among these four actors, Kitamura was chosen for this title and commented, “It’s a weird feeling [to win this title]. It may be true that my face is strong, but Abe’s strong face gives a ‘pressure’ and it’s amazing that I actually feel the pain from the [pressure of his face].”

In response, Abe stated, “For 20 years, I have been called a ‘sauce face [strong face]’ but now I feel refreshed [for not winning this award],” and expressed his relief. Ueto, who made the decisive judgment for this competition, said, “I think it would be great if everyone in Japan can watch this movie and get some energy out of it,” and concluded this event.

Check out photos from this event below!

Source & Image: Sanspo , Tokyohive

Thermae Romae Movie Image Gallery

On April 26th, actress Ueto Aya attended the ‘Japan Bathhouse Summit’ held at the Ikaho hot springs in Shibukawa, Gunma in order to celebrate the upcoming release of her new movie ‘Thermae Romae’.

The theme of the summit was “Bathhouses are making Japan a healthier country!”, and was attended by around 250 female managers (okami) and other women working at traditional Japanese hotels (ryokan), hot springs (onsen) and other bathhouse establishments all over the country.

Ueto attended the event wearing a beautiful kimino with a hydrangea pattern. She stated about okami who were in kimonos, “Don’t they look good?! They are really getting used to wearing kimonos, I respect them.” Moreover, she revealed that she loves hot springs. “Although longer vacations are very rare, my mother and I often take the romancecar* and travel to Gora. We always pick a hot spring when we want to travel domestically.”

Tsukagoshi Hiroko, the okami from the local Ikaho Onsen Tsukagoshiya, already saw the movie and praised it, “It’s been a long time since a movie made me laugh that much.” Upon hearing Ueto’s love for hot springs, Tsukagoshi replied, “She should become an okami. She’s just so adorable that I want her to become my son’s wife immediately. I want to see her all the time.” She added, “Bathing at Ikaho is said to bless you with a lot of children. It has produced many twins already.”

Ueto replied amazed, “Really? Twins are nice. I want to have three pairs of them!”

Some parts of the movie were also filmed at the Ikaho hot springs, and Ueto revealed that she often went on “dates” with co-star Abe Hiroshi during their free time. “We enjoyed a foot bath together at a place called Ishidan and went to a shooting gallery. It was a lot of fun,” she explained. “This movie made me fall in love with hot springs even more. I think it would be nice if it could spread the tradition of Japanese bathhouses to many other countries.”

‘Thermae Romae’ is going to open in cinemas nationwide on April 28th.

*A “romancecar” is a certain deluxe train operated by Odakyu Electric Railway. In this case, Ueto was referring to the ‘Hakone’ service between Shinjuku, Tokyo and Hakone, Kanagawa on the Hakone Tozan Line. The Gora station she mentioned is the terminus of that service/line.

Sources: eiga.com, Sanspo, Tokyohive

YUI appeared at NHK R no Housoku (26.4.2012)

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Alternative title: バトン (Japanese)

Genres: action, science fiction

Themes: cyberpunk, robots

Objectionable content: Mild

Running time: 65 minutes

Vintage: 2009-04-28 to 2009-09-27

Release dates: 2009-10-27 (Japan DVD)

Ending Theme: "Tsutaete ~ pass it on" by Tomoko Tane

Plot Summary:

It all started with a stowaway... when Apollo, a robot that looks like a human found a Cipher chip. Shortly after that Apollo started to acted strange and Mikaru, his human friend that looks like a robot, took him to the doctors. But nothing is the same as before and soon they're on their run while the truth about the Cipher chip and what had happened to Apollo reveals itself.

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Baton is broken into three roughly episode-length segments.

Baton showing exclusively for the 150th anniversary of Yokohama.

Cast :

Aya Ueto as Mikaru

Hayato Ichihara as Apollo

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Cipher

Takashi Naito as Tomboy

Hiroyuki Watanabe as Robot Guard

IZAM as Mysterious Man

Kane Kosugi as Saturn

Kazushi Sakuraba as Robot Guard