Posts Tagged ‘celeb’

Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz vs. Japanese Boy Band

Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz come to Japan to promote “Knight & Day,” appearing on a TV show and having a battle against boy band Arashi:

The game they play is rather simple: try to keep stacking chips. The team that accidentally knocks down the tower is the loser.

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Justin Bieber in Osaka

Justin Bieber was in Osaka last week. Here he is appearing on “Mezamashi TV” and “rapping” about how he likes the city so much:

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Michael Moore visits a maid cafe in Akihabara

Shinichi Karube of “Mezamashi TV” takes American director Michael Moore on a tour of Akihabara:

Part 1

Michael Moore is amused with the crowd of onlookers taking photos of himself and Karube. He borrows a camera from one onlooker so he can take the onlooker’s photo. He then asks to call the guy’s dad, who is a reporter for the Sankei Shimbun (FTV is part of the same media group). The father cannot speak English, but Moore attempts a conversation anyway.

Upon seeing a man wearing a mask, Moore decides to give a lecture on why it is good for us as humans to breath in germs and get a stronger immune system. The lecture doesn’t seem to have much effect.

They move on to a figure shop. Moore ignores the figures and buys some wire instead.

Next, they interview a Japanese gyaru. She had never heard of Michael Moore, which gives the show an opportunity to air some clips further introducing Moore’s achievements to the audience at home. The gyaru and her friend had just come from a maid cafe….

Part 2 (The maid cafe)

Moore and Karube go to Akihabara’s famous @home maid cafe. Moore does not seem to enjoy the servility of the maids and fears that it is some sort of pedo business that will soon be raided by the police.

Before leaving, Moore apparently comments on his opposition to Obama’s Afghanistan policy. He then reminds Karube that masks are bad and germs are good. Teenage girls are to be avoided.

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Hugh Jackman eats sushi (again)

A day after NTV aired its show about taking Hugh Jackman to Tsukiji so he could enjoy sushi, FTV’s “Mezamashi TV” morning show aired its own Hugh Jackman interview segment. They had also heard about Hugh’s love of sushi, so they also took him to Tsukiji:

Incorrectly assuming that Australia and the United States lack conveyor belt sushi restaurants, they took him to a kaiten sushi place. It wasn’t as impressive as his experience with NTV, but he was still acted excited and was very nice and polite to everyone.

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Hugh Jackman visits Japan, eats sushi

Hugh Jackman was in Japan this week to promote the upcoming theatrical release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine*. As part of his promotional activities, he went on NTV’s “Sukkiri” morning news show and visited Tsukiji with Mari Sekine:

It lacks much of the awkwardness one usually finds when foreign celebrities appear on Japanese TV. He was friendly and polite towards everyone and really seemed to enjoy himself. The narrator keeps mentioning how Hugh is such a nice guy, and I’m inclined to agree.

In the segment, Hugh is taken to a tamagoyaki store owned and operated by TV producer Terry Ito’s brother. The day after they filmed there, Hugh and his family had some free private time to explore Tokyo. Apparently Hugh loved the tamagoyaki so much that he brought his wife and kids back to Tsukiji and visited the store so they could try the food prepared by his new friend!

*Note: Yes, that’s correct. X-Men Origins: Wolverine won’t hit Japanese theaters until September 11, 2009. According to IMDB, the film was released in the states back in May and Japan is dead last on the release date calendar. While Japanese fans will be seeing the film for the first time in theaters, Americans will already be buying it on DVD.

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Tommy Lee Jones marries a Japanese woman

In the newest commercial of Boss Coffee’s “Alien Jones” series, Tommy Lee Jones experiences marriage with a human:

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