visual kei movie to be made
25
Oct, 2010
This might interest some of you. Seems like a movie based on an up and coming fictional band is in the works.
Actor Shunsuke Kazama (27) will make his big screen debut as the star of a new movie by actor/director Gitan Otsuru (42). Titled “Maebashi Visual-kei,” the film is a coming-of-age story about the young members of a visual-kei band in a small town.
Kazama is one of the few members of Johnny’s Jimusho who primarily works as an actor, rather than as a singer or musician. He has already appeared in many television dramas and theatrical productions, and he is well-known as the lead voice actor for the “Yu-Gi-Oh!” anime series, including two film versions in 2005 and 2010.
“Maebashi Visual-kei” is Otsuru’s fourth film as a director. Kazama plays the eldest child of a farm family in Maebashi, Gunma. While dealing with problems at home, he is also the aspiring vocalist of a four-member visual-kei band.
Filming has already begun in the Chiba prefecture, though the concert scenes have not yet been shot. Theatrical release is planned for February 2011.
Would you see a movie like this? How will the scene change after this movie comes out?
Source: Tokyo Graph
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kalvary’s mini-album “JOIN” details
10
Apr, 2010
There was an earlier post regarding カル・ヴァリ (Kalvary) new mini-album release, the details were announced today.
The album is entitled 「JOIN」 and will be released on June 9th, selling for 1,890 yen. The band mentioned the title “JOIN” stemmed from the word “JOY”, which will also be the overall mood of the songs! Tracklisting:
1. 君のための (Kimi no Tame no)
2. Queen’s chessman
3. ~be connected~(SE)
4. ShakexBeatxOur
5. ゆびきり (Yubikiri)
Source: Brand-X
Posted in Media, News, Release, Track ListingTags: Kalvary
KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND’s first full album second press
1
Feb, 2010
There was an earlier post of the band’s first full album release here.
Following the release of the the first edition CD, selling out at a rapid speed, it has been officially decided today to hurry and make more prints of the album, coming out with a normal edition of「勝手にしやがれ」 (Katte ni Shiyagare). Release date will be on February 24th, 2010. The CD will also cost 3,150 yen as the previous edition and be limited to 1000 more copies. The CD will come with a band comment CD, original band member autograph card, and a band member photo card as the original print. Normal edition comes with a case, new 24-page photo booklet, and a photo sticker.
Will contain the exact same songs as the original edition:
01. 放送禁止のブルース (Housou Kinshi no Blues; Relaxation Prohibition Blues)
02. 勝手にしやがれ (Katte ni Shiyagare; Be Selfish)
03. 完全犯罪 (Kanzen Hanzai; Complete Crime)
04. 罠 (Wana; Trap)
05. 夜光虫 (Yakouchuu; Noctiluca)
06. 拝啓、売国奴の皆様 靖國の空が哭いています（SYGR MIX）(Haikei, Baikokudo no Minasama Seikoku no Sora ga Naiteimasu; To all the traitors, The sky in Yasukuni is weeping）
07. サヨナラセカイ (Sayonara Sekai; Goodbye World)
08. 縄と拡声器とヒロイン (Nawa to Kakuseiki to Heroine; Rope & Loudspeaker & Heroine)
09. 闇を嗤え＿警告（instrumental）(Yami o Warae Keikoku; Light’s Mocking Warning)
10. 堕落論（SYGR MIX）(Daraku Ron; Fallen Ring)
11. 依存 (Izon; Dependent)
12. 樹海 (Jukai; Sea of Trees)
It hasn’t been posted yet, so I’ll show you the CD cover (for those of you that haven’t seen/bought the CD yet). Normal edition CD cover is the same as the first edition release.
Sources: Brand-x, OHP
Posted in Media, New release, News, Release, Track ListingTags: KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND
Vidoll signature models for sale
13
Jan, 2010
Thank you to ST reader Kairu for sending this in!
Schecter guitars now has Vidoll’s Giru, Rame, and Shun’s models featured in their photo gallery and for sale in their custom shop. My personal favorite is Rame’s design – it’d be nice to have that kind of money to spend, wouldn’t it?!
Source: ST reader Kairu, Schecter OHP
lynch. @ [POP CULTURE LIVE]
10
Sep, 2009
lynch. will be performing at the Japan Pop Culture Festival 2009 [POP CULTURE LIVE].
The event is basically to promote Japan’s pop-culture, things such as music, anime, games, fashion and the like.
The event will be held on September 26th at Kansai International Airport’s event square. The event will start at noon and feature other bands such as: Magical Honey *Cats/ momo*milky/ kirinsan/ crescendo/ Yumeiro Monster/ Zettai Ryouiki Shoujo./ FullMooN.13/ Denno:Oblaat/ Gurigula/ SpA
Best part is that the event is free! ;o
Source: BMA, JPP
Heath really leaving X Japan? No says X Japan
21
Apr, 2009
Ku sent an email pointing out some trouble Heath was having with his management.
Well it seems to be true, due to some issues with his management . HEATH will be leaving X Japan. The news was posted today on a local news site. Apparently these issues were one of the causes to the cancellation in Korea. After weeks of negotiation nothing was resolved and yet the tickets for Tokyo Dome still went on sale. Yoshiki has stated that the show will not be canceled and they will have a session bassist step in. Even though Yoshiki is at his home in USA, he will be returning to Japan to talk to HEATH in person.
{edit}Thanks to Shinta for showing this to me. Well now the news is that Heath proposed to leave the band, but the outcome seems that he will still stay with X Japan to finish up the reunion lives on May 2nd and 3rd. Yoshiki is also denying any talk of a session bassist/replacement. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
Source: Sponichi.co.jp, Sanspro, Metal Banzai, Ku
Posted in Media, ObservationTags: X Japan
Mao’s Special Guests for this Week
19
Jan, 2009
Thanks to essan for letting us know: Mao from SID (シド) has announced that this week on his show Mao’s room DX(2) ～Samushiko JAPAN～, musical guests Arimura Ryutaro and Hasegawa Tadashi from Plastic Tree will be on it. The show airs this Wednesday, January 21st from 20:00 until 20:45.
source: mao’s blog
Posted in Media, NewsTags: Plastic Tree, SID
Yoshiki tells all
1
Aug, 2008
Remember when I posted about about SAW IV director Darren Lynn Bousman and Yoshiki working together? Well he isn’t just a producer for the film, he is also singing the ending title for the movie. Well the movie has already had leaked songs on youtube and more trailers and previews all over the net! The film was supposed to be out by this spring but has been pushed back to November 7th. Here is an interview telling more about the movie and his involvement. Also I just found out that the official movie soundtrack – that Yoshiki produced – will be out in stores September 30th!
Source: Youtube, REPO! Site
VISUAL-KEI DVD Vol. 2 EARLY RELEASE
30
Jun, 2008
This might interest some of our readers. This was posted on a bulletin at MaruMusic’s myspace.
Featuring, Moi dix Mois, SaTaN, Chariots, Mix Speakers, Inc. SuG, Mana’s Not Dead, Himeichigo, Smile and Hosted by Miku from An’café and Biju the Cat.
Exclusive interviews, profiles and live clips from each band, as well as a brief history of Visual-kei.
See the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45I5GdY1RQYou can buy it now at http://marumusic.com/store/index.php
So convenient it hurts…
26
Mar, 2008
So I’m the type of person who doesn’t download PVs (unless it’s SCREW or neu, but even in that case I buy the CD the PV came with, but anyway..). I use youtube, megavideo, and imeem for all PV watching so I don’t have to download it and waste space that I could be using for more important things (like not porn). And lucky old me stumbled upon a Visual Kei PV directory type blog.
If you look on the left there’s tags with the name of the band, and the number in parentheses is the number of PVs of that band they have put up. Here’s the best part, they aren’t only youtube videos. It’s an accumilation of PVs from all sorts of video hosting sites, so you don’t have to go search through them all.
The only drawback is that it’s not in English. But I’m sure you can find the name of your favorite band if you try~! So you should bookmark this page, it’s super convenient.
—-> http://hacri.jugem.jp/ <—–
MySpace + More song samples
16
Mar, 2008
FUGA, who we wrote a brief little introduction for back in February and is a new band that started at the end of January, has their official MySpace up and running! Actually, they’ve had the MySpace for a little while, but now there are two song samples that I think a lot of fans would enjoy, so I just wanted to let everyone know and encourage you to go check them out!
⇒ http://www.myspace.com/fugakizuna
So, go give them a listen, come back here and let us know what you think.
They’ve also been posted up on Visunavi, which you can check out here.
So-net New Years messages.
30
Dec, 2007
The so-net website has updated with a bunch of new years videos from the following bands/artists:
アリス九號. (alice nine), 12012、LM.C、Kagrra，Girugamesh, ガイズファミリー (Guy’s Family)、河村隆一 (Kawamura Riuichi)、キリト (Kirito)、Kra、CELLT、SKULL, the studs、ダリ (dari)、chariots、Daizy Stripper、DEATHGAZE、バイオレット (Viored)、heidi.、lynch., Plastic Tree、Bergerac、松本和之 (Matsumoto Kazuaki?), 雅-miyavi-、ムック (MUCC)、meth.、Metis、メリー (Merry)、RENTRER EN SOI、lynch.、Ruvie、and others.
Click here to see them. When you see the collage, click on the band you want to see the message for and drag it to the center and then click “あけおめ♪メッセージ（動画）を見る” And it should take you to the page to view the movie.
Source: So-net
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