Since the dorama SP Kokuchisezu is just around the corner, I decided to roam around the auction sites to check out the newspaper clippings for it, and I saw the pamphlets and postcards with the official poster of the dorama. Then, I thought, hey maybe I'll go check out the official website too, and yes, apparently they've updated the site with the official poster for the dorama too!


Hmmm. Notice anything odd there? (MORE...)

I've been wondering why Takki seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth lately in terms of his own activities. Aside the dorama we haven't heard much of plans but the bomb kinda dropped in my face today.

Takki will be the principal actor in the New Year stageplay 「新春滝沢革命」 (Shinshuu Takizawa Kakumei), which will start staging at the Teikoku (Tokyo Imperial Theater) starting 02 Jan 2009. Apparently this will be the first time ever in the theatrical industry that a stageplay will open its shows so close to New Year's Day. So in a way, it's "revolutionary" or some sort. Pun intended, because the word "kakumei" itself means revolution :)

The stageplay is planned to be 2.5 hours long (approximately) and consists of 2 acts. Act 1 will be like its predecessors of Takki's stageplays, the traditional part of the play. The story will be a combination of two Ancient Japanese lores, "Urashima Taro" and "Princess Kaguya". In the story, Urashima Taro ends up opening a box that he was told not to open, and end up transforming into an old man. So we'll get yet another dose of Old Jiji Takizawa in this musical (LOL). The second act will take the theater audience into the futuristic world of year 2060 (WTF), this is where the "showtime" comes in. All the dancing, singing, flying, etc.

The stageplay will run its course for a total of 38 shows all the way through 27 Jan 2009. Apparently all the songs that will be featured in this production will also be released in a SOLO CD sometime next year too. Release date is still unknown currently. The news articles keep mentioning that it's solo CD though, but I'm just wondering if it's going to be more of a SOUNDTRACK of the stageplay (kinda like Shock you know?) or really a Takizawa Hideaki solo CD?

Comments? Thoughts?

To read up a bit on the two legends, check it out here:
> Urashima Taro
> Princess Kaguya

Source:
> Yomiuri
> Sponichi
> Chuunichi Sports

The date for Takki's new TV dorama special, Kokuchisezu, airing on TV Asahi had been set for 15 November 2008 at 9 PM Japan time. So set your reminders, Takki fans! He's coming back to grace the TV screens! (Well... our computer screens, I guess, for all of us living overseas XD)

Check out the official website here

Look at those EARS! Any Takki fan can spot those elf ears from a thousand miles away! Too funny!


New Nissin CM titled "Nicchin tanjou" (Nicchin is born, I guess?) aired on Japanese television starting 09/27/2008.

Click here to see the streaming CM

an an magazine has yet again published their popular and highly anticipated 「好きな男」 (suki na otoko) rank this year. The magazine issue number is #1628 and its official publish date is tomorrow on 09/24/2008 but seems like it's already on newsstands across Japan today.

Not sure if Takki is in the magazine, but he definitely made the list.


So sad... his rank dropped quite a bit from last year's #12 But at least he's still on the list! I am, however, shocked that Akanishi Jin managed to kick Nakai and Okada below him! XD

Is this information new or was it just announced? I've been living under a rock for quite sometime but seriously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that that Takki's current TV show, 大御所ジャパン!, isn't going to last very long. I watched one episode and sorry dude, I know I'm a Takki fan and all, but I just can't watch that show. Ratings were so low and changing formats of the show didn't really help so the network has decided to axe it. I guess ratings still speak louder than words in TV business everywhere.

Last episode is next week, folks. 19 Aug 2008.

[hopeful]So this frees Takki up to do that unit show we've been signing petitions for earlier this year?[/hopeful]

I'm truly sorry for the lack of updates, but there really hasn't been much going on with Takki (that are visible to non-stalkers I guess), but it has just came to light that Takki had been shooting for yet another special dorama, this time for TV Asahi, titled 「告知せず」 (Kokuchisezu).

Takki will be reunited once again with his Yoshitsune co-star, Watari Tetsuya, a senior actor who played Taira Kiyomori in the 2005 NHK Taiga dorama. Watari-san will be the lead in this upcoming TV Asahi Special Dorama, though. Not Takki.

If I'm not wrong, I think the title means something like... "without notice". The dorama is yet another family drama (most probably also a tearjerker) that was suddenly shaken by an unexpected cancer diagnosis. Watari-san plays a renowned surgeon, and Takki plays his only son Ryou, who is also a doctor in training (Ooh, Doctor Takizawa---how INTERESTING!) And it was the mother who was suddenly diagnosed with cancer.

Shooting had already begun end of July, and will continue until end of August. Apparently there will be some overseas location shoots too but it hasn't been disclosed where. The airdate for this dorama is still undetermined at this time. But it's set to air sometime this year :)

Doctor Takizawa... I like the sound of that XD