Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki has written on her fansite on Friday (Jan 4) that she would continue singing despite losing her hearing in her left ear.
Ayumi said that an ear examination last year has confirmed her hearing loss… she started to lose the hearing in her left ear in the summer of 2000 when momentary deafness forced her to cancel several concerts.
Ayumi will start her Asia concert tour in April to mark the 10th anniversary of her singing career.
Top hallyu actor Kwon Sang-woo has drawn contrasting responses in Korea and abroad recently for his role in a new TV drama after a two-year hiatus.
The drama, entitled Bad Love, recorded domestic viewer ratings of just 6.1 percent on Dec 3, when its pilot episode aired.
But its exports to Japan and Taiwan have been anything but sluggish, posting export revenues of three billion won in Japan alone. In fact, Bad Love and the epic drama The Four Guardian Gods of the King, starring actor Bae Yong-jun have been paving the way for a revival of the hallyu boom.
A person from the production crew of Bad Love said Asian fans have been looking forward to Kwon’s acting after his long hiatus and that some 100 foreign fans visit the drama’s filming sites every day.
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Korean pop star BoA will sing the original soundtrack for a Japanese movie.
The Japanese daily Sankei Sports has reported that BoA will sing the OST for a movie slated to open March 15. The singer has so far dubbed a U.S. anime film in Japanese and performed an OST for a Korean movie, but it’s the first time she will sing for a Japanese movie.
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Japanese star Takuya Kimura attended the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) on October 5 and talked about his latest film, Heroes with the press.
Japanese pop star Koda Kumi will work with Korean boyband TVXQ in her next single, Last Angel.
The idea of working together first emerged when both parties met in last year’s Asia Song Festival. Last Angel will be Koda Kumi’s 38th single, and will be used as Japanese theme song for movie “Resident Evil: Extinction”, which is set to premiere in November 2007.