Posts Tagged ‘hollywood’

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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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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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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Akira: The Hollywood Movie

A live action version of the popular anime movie Akira is coming, and it will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio:

With its mature themes and cutting-edge animation, “Akira” was a milestone movie in anime and mainstream animation circles, leading the way for anime to make inroads into Western pop culture in the 1990s.

The new story, which DiCaprio will produce for Warner Bros., ideally would be a two-part epic, with the first movie coming out next summer. The action will move to “New Manhattan,” a city rebuilt by Japanese money.