Nikkan Sports is reporting that Kenichi Matsuyama has been chosen to star in NHK’s 2012 taiga drama, “Taira no Kiyomori.” No official announcement has been made yet, but if the report is true, it will be Matsuyama’s first time appearing in one of the taiga dramas. NHK revealed in August that the 2012 series would...

Eita (27) and Kenichi Matsuyama (25) will co-star as a pair of railroad otaku in a new movie titled “Bokutachi Kyuukou ~A Ressha de Ikou~,” directed by Yoshimitsu Morita (“Kazoku Game,” “Shitsurakuen”). Morita, who has liked trains since he was a child, has apparently been brewing the script for decades. The story depicts the bond...

Directed by Sato Shinsuke and starring Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari and actor Matsuyama Kenichi , the cast of the movie GANTZ attended a press conference on the 5th to announce the post-production progress of the film. The press conference was held at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo’s Uchisaiwaichou. Fellow cast members including Yoshitaka Yuriko and Yamada...