Maeda confirmed her marriage to the Katsuji on July 30. Continue reading
Tag Archives: AKB48
The Most Entertaining AKB 2014 General Election Videos
With one week to go before the 6th Annual AKB General Election, it’s time to once again push aside the movie coverage and post up one for the idol otakus. Each year, each member gets 90 seconds to try and encourage fans to vote for them. With the number of members growing each year (there are … Continue reading
First Trailer for Atsuko Maeda’s ‘Seventh Code’
What originally started out as a music video has evolved into a feature length film. Seventh Code is not only the title of Japanese superstar Atsuko Maeda’s latest single but a collaboration with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira Kurosawa). His filmography includes hits like Tokyo Sonata, The Cure and Pulse. Today, we get … Continue reading
AKB48 Fourth General Election Predicitons
I’ll have a new edition of What I Watched coming up soon, but I’m going to switch gears a bit, since I closed down my Tumblr account, and post up a few AKB related posts. The fourth annual general election is coming up on Wednesday and I couldn’t resist weighing in on who will be … Continue reading
Why (I Think) Maeda Atsuko Graduated From AKB48
The past couple of weeks have been rough for the Japanese idol unit AKB48. The most popular idol group in Japan which annually re-news it’s spot in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest pop group in the world has had to deal with an illness to Matsui Jurina and a scandal involving … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 45 – Rear Window/Dial M For Murder (1954)
I’m exhausted. And this time it has nothing to do with this movie marathon. This time, it has to do with waking up at 5a.m. to beat the crowd down to Harbor UCLA hospital to check my dad in. And seeing as how the wait times there are often ridiculous (see yesterday’s post for more … Continue reading
