Fukuyama Masaharu の Heart

Extract from NHK Ryomaden Site - Interview with Director Ootomo Keiji

Here is the “Fukuyama Masaharu” that no-one has ever seen before.
■ You said “Fukuyama-san is a perfect match for the ‘Ryoma’ this time”, could you be a bit more specific?
O: In Fukuyama-san, there is a part of him that is very [...]

Extract from NHK Ryomaden Site - Interview with Fukuda Yasushi

■ What was your first impression of Fukuyama Masaharu-san?
FY: We met in the actors’ meeting for “Galileo”. From the start, I felt he was very straightforward and friendly, the type who’d let you feel there were no barriers around him. Even though it [...]

There is a pliability about Sakamoto Ryoma ….. he’s very charismatic, I’d like to learn that from him too.

■ When NHK approached Fukuyama-san for the role of Ryoma, his initial feelings were not of joy, but of “query”
F: When I received the invitation from NHK, to be honest, my first thought was: “Why [...]

I have been terribly confused on which progammes Masha is going to appear in this coming month. So I’ve tried to put everything together here and will be updating this as we go along.
Overseas fans can access Japan TV with online streaming programmes or through subscription to NHK World Premium Channel.
Dec 2009
12   14:45~14:55     [...]

(Part 1 of this article is here.)

We didn’t have too much hesitation on the set list (that means the songs) for the tour this time. Besides the ones people were looking forward to, where should we add in the new songs from the album “Zankyo”? I wanted a performance that would give the highest level [...]

~Scripted from an extract of ANN Tamashii no Radio 2009.11.21 ~

This is a CM song, so we already had a theme - Memory. When I was thinking about what to write into the lyrics, I remembered something that I had heard from a woman before – “A woman will never marry the one she [...]