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The official website for the upcoming live-action TV drama adaptation of Mikito Chinen's medical mystery novel series Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective has announced that actor Kanna Hashimoto is cast as the protagonist, Takao Ameku. And Shohei Miura plays Yu Takanashi, Ameku's assistant. The site also confirms that the drama is set to premiere on the TV Asahi Network stations in Japan on April 22. In addition to the key visual on the top of this article, a teaser trailer is now available on the drama's official X (formerly Twitter) . Hashimoto, now 26, has had many successful roles in live-action adaptations of popular manga and anime, such as Kagura in Gintama (2017-2018), He Kiao Diao in Kingdom (2019-2024), and Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019-2021). In 2022, she also made her stage debut as the protagonist, Chihiro, in the stage play adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's 2002 film Spirited Away . Her performance...

From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (君に届け) is a series directed by Takehiko Shinjo and Takeo Kikuchi. It is based on the manga by Karuho Shiina.

Today, we get to enjoy this Japanese series about teenage love, which is – curiously enough – about a girl called Sadako, like the girl from Ringu, and who is believed to be cursed. But not everything in life has to be a horror movie, and she meets the most popular boy in high school.

About the Series

It is a series that would be equivalent to Dawson’s Creek or something along those lines (just to give you an idea), it’s one of those initiation series that little by little show us what life is about and that, gradually – and at the protagonists’ sides – we grow up at the same time as we watch the characters grow up. It knows how to take its time,...

Confessions, Villain, 13 Assassins, and the other winners of the 2011 Japan Academy Prize have been announced. The 34th Annual Japan Academy Prize, “often called the Japan Academy Awards or the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Nippon Academy-sho Association for Excellence in Japanese Film. Award categories are similar to the Academy Awards.” The award ceremony was held on February 18, 2011 at the New Takanawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. The full listing of the 2011 Japan Academy Prize winners is below.

Picture of the Year

Kokuhaku (Confessions)

Animation of the Year

Kari-gurashi no Arietti (The Borrowers)

Director of the Year

Tetsuya Nakashima, Kokuhaku (Confessions)

Screenplay of the Year

Tetsuya Nakashima, Kokuhaku (Confessions)

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Satoshi Tsumabuki, Akunin (Villain)

Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Eri Fukatsu, Akunin (Villain)

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Akira Emoto,...