'Crows Zero II', 'Gokusen movie' & 'HYDF' box office earning reports!

Finally there's been some reports on the progress of the Crows Zero II movie earnings in the box office! We (well, at least I) haven't heard anything about the movie's progress ever since it came out in April! So it's good to finally see some news, and it's great news!

The movie is ranked #56 on the top 100 for the 'Most Grossed Movie in its Opening Weekend' of all-time in Japan list! It grossed about $5,793,542 (US dollars) just in its opening weekend alone! To date, the movie has earned $29,865,854!

While the Hana Yori Dango -Final- movie that was released last year, is in #24 earning $9,631,782 for its opening weekend alone, and so far has made $70,821,405!
And Gokusen: the movie which has just opened on the 11th this month, is in #75 place, earning $5,064,634 for its opening weekend, and $11,723,645 in total so far.

Go here for the complete list.

As for the top 100 'Yearly box office earnings', CZII is currently in #8 place, Gokusen: the movie is in #23. HYDF is not on the list, not surprised since it came out last year.
The complete list for the yearly ranks is here.

Omedatou CZII, HYDF & Gokusen movie!

source: boxofficemojo

13th Nikkan Sports Drama Awards results

Here's the results from the fan-based 13th Nikkan Sports Drama Awards Spring season (April - June in japan)

Best Drama:
1. Smile (2649 votes)
2. Mr Brain (1944 votes)
3. The Quiz Show (1805 votes)
4. Konkatsu (1370 votes)
5. Boss (1342 votes)

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Nakai Kiichi, Smile (1850 votes)
2. Yokoyama Yu, The Quiz Show (1462 votes)
3. Kagawa Teruyuki, Mr Brain (1167 votes)
4. Oguri Shun, Smile (896 votes)
5. Takenouchi Yutaka, Boss (799 votes)

unfortunately Shun didn't win 'best supporting actor'seems the fans weren't voting hard enough, hope for better luck next time!

Ratings update (July 29)

yet another quick ratings update as of July 29...

Tenchijin ep 30 aired on Sunday July 26th attracted average rating of 21.0%

ANN ep 118

here's ANN ep 118 aired on july 22...


yes, that's Shun holding up a poster of his new movie Tajomaru...just thought you'd need to know...of course, you'd probably know that by now!

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He49vAnbUyg
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgUPL4rwmc
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5F3bvmE8sw
part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YELCDtnIJyc
part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6mflohfuzc
part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjr4cgejLK4
part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6EZLvQ3qo
part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9WfHLUNh0

credits: syummy

Ratings update (July 21)

Just another quick little ratings update as of July 21st...

The average rating for Tenchijin ep 29 aired on Sunday the 19th, was 21.9%, great to see the ratings has risen again, just slightly this week.

Ganbatte!

Shun's new I-SEED / Plusmix CM

Shun's recent cms for I-SEED & Plusmix eyewear:


Plusmix official site
I-SEED official site

you can stream the making of the cms here:
Plusmix
I-SEED

Wallpapers download

please also credit anneliese-arisa @ Asianfanatics for sharing the link.

Shun's VTR message for Yankumi

As I have reported before, there was a special aired on July 11th 2009 to promote the Gokusen movie and to commemorate 7 years of the live action...unfortunately, Shun, along with most of the casts from season 1 & 2 did not attend...however, 4 of the 5 main 3-D students from both seasons all left VTR messages for Nakama Yukie aka "Yankumi". The casts who left messages included SHUN, Matsujun, Ishigaki Yuma & Narimiya Hiroki from season 1. And Hayami Mokomichi, Teppei Koike, Koide Keisuke & Akanishi Jin from season 2.

I've just uploaded the clip a moment ago...I wasn't able to sub it though, because I have so many videos to sub...but they were basically just expressing their gratitude towards Yankumi:



Shun's message appears at 2:09.

ANN ep 117

here's ANN ep 117 aired on July 15:



part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czNH0I6lwsA
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLlQrg94ilk
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvQ6jBd-pM
part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8p8Q25DK4
part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPmpfweJTe8
part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-A9umwYfII
part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyoZ5hziss
part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoiyfGTOxZw
part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24HqB-JEh3c
part 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raubvq-b2O8
part 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDiw9GdKBAY
part 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxSSBajeKc
part 13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9kmARsEojU

credits: syummy

[News] 'Gokusen' movie earns half a billion in opening weekend [July 13, 2009]:

[News] 'Gokusen' movie earns half a billion in opening weekend [July 13, 2009]:

The highly anticipated 'Gokusen: The Movie' opened on 409 screens in Japan this past weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, more than 402,000 fans saw the film in theaters, earning "Gokusen" close to 490 million yen.

According to a statement by distributor Toho on Monday, the movie is projected to gross more than 4 billion yen by the end of its run.

In comparison, the 'ROOKIES' movie opened several weeks ago on 428 screens, and it earned over 1.2 billion yen in its first two days.

credits: Oricon & Tokyograph

490 million in just the first 2 days of its release is still fairly good...hopefully it'll reach Toho's desired figure by the end of its run! Ganbatte!

Ratings update (July 12)

Just another quick ratings update...the average rating for Tenchijin ep 28 aired on sunday night was 21.8; that's 1.7% higher than last week!

Ganbatte!