Yoshiki, Akikawa team up for drama theme song

Rock star Yoshiki and popular tenor Masafumi Akikawa have formed an unlikely combination to create the theme song for a two-part television drama set to air next week.

The drama is NTV’s “Tokyo Daikushu,” whose cast is led by Maki Horikita and Tatsuya Fujiwara. The drama, which airs on March 17-18, reportedly had a budget of 100 million yen.

The theme song is a currently untitled ballad written and composed by Yoshiki and sung by Akikawa. The two actually never met, as Yoshiki created the song while in Los Angeles. It was brought back to Japan, and Akikawa completed the recording in Tokyo on Monday.

Source: Tokyograph.com

Tatsuya to be in ‘Earth Crisis 2008′ (地球危機2008)

Tatsuya’s latest project ‘Earth Crisis 2008′ is set to be shown on 4th January 2008 (TV Asahi). Tatsuya will feature in this TV program as a reporter, showing to what extent mankind’s 20th century has destroyed Earth. Tatsuya’s segment is about the effect environmental disruption has had on the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan to make it shrink in size.

Tatsuya’s will be the first of 4 episodes covering crisis’ of the Earth. Other stories feature The Borneo lowland Rain Forests, the Galapagos Islands and the Himalayan glaciers.

Official site: http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/chikyu-kiki/index.html

Archived: August 2007 – Batch News

Some translated Tatsuya news from his official site:

MAGAZINE NEWS:

18 July
An interview with Tatsuya will appear in the new issue of 「LOOK at STAR!（ﾙｯｸｱｯﾄｽﾀｰ）」. I’m not sure but I *think* it’s issue 23 released 27th July.

25 July
Two more magazines that Tatsuya is featured in:

02 AUG – ｼｱﾀｰｶﾞｲﾄﾞ (Theatre Guide) LINK
12 AUG – Vingtaine（ｳﾞｧﾝﾃｰﾇ）LINK

I think there was also some news of Tatsuya’s interview being in Weekly ぴあ, but I think it may have been delayed for the next edition? I’m not sure (^_^;)

If anyone knows anywhere else you can buy these magazines online, please let us know!

STAGE PRODUCTION NEWS:

21 July
Tatsuya’s first Stage Performance of ‘Shintokumaru’ (originally in 1997) will be touring Japan again in 2008! Tatsuya will star again as the boy of the title (^_^) Here is the schedule:

NAGOYA
20～24 Feb, 2008 – 愛知厚生年金会館

OSAKA
27 Feb～4 March, 2008 – シアタードラマシティ

SAITAMA (Tatsuya’s birth place)
7 March~10 April, 2008 – 彩の国さいたま芸術劇場

30 July
The schedule for Tatsuya’s play The Merchant of Venice has been released:

You can view it: here

TELEVISION NEWS:

30 July
Tatsuya appeared on the NHK Television show ﾄｯﾌﾟﾗﾝﾅｰ (TOP RUNNER) for the 10th anniversary special on the 28th July. This show will be repeated on 12th August at 26.30 (?) if anyone can record it for us that would be awesome (^_^)

Here are some photos: