Kazuya Kamenashi voted Best Jeanist for fifth straight year

KAT-TUN’s Kazuya Kamenashi (24) and Kumi Koda (27) celebrated their fifth consecutive win as “celebrities who suit jeans the most” at an event in Tokyo today, reports Oricon.

Winners at the 2010 Best Jeanist awards

The 27th “Best Jeanist 2010” awards had called on fans across Japan to vote in the general election division for a celebrity they thought suited jeans.  The final results revealed both Kamenashi and Koda had beaten off competition by reeling in more than twice as many votes than the number 2 celebrities.

In response to getting a place in the “Jeanist Hall of Fame”, the two stars could not contain their excitement.

“I feel like I’ve hit 200 hits (in baseball).  I have so much fun here year after year.  I’ve always wanted to be inducted into a Hall of Fame, but I never thought I would during my lifetime so I’m very grateful,” Kamenashi said.

“I look forward to seeing Kamenashi-kun here every year.  Five years sounds long but it also felt short.  This award means a lot to me and I am really happy,” Koda said.

The Best Jeanist awards were set up in 1984 in an attempt to boost the jeans image by helping to promote how fun they can be to wear.  Past Johnny’s talents who have won the award include Takuya Kimura and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.

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RESULTS:

2010 Mens results (public vote)

1. Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN), 29118 votes

2. Masaki Aiba (Arashi), 10696 votes

3. Kim Jaejoong (TVXQ), 3932 votes

4. Tomohisa Yamashita (NEWS), 1872 votes

5. Koji Iwasawa (Yuzu), 1696 votes

6. Kiyoshi Hikawa, 1458 votes

7. Jun Matsumoto (Arashi), 1186 votes

8. Satoshi Ohno (Arashi), 973 votes

9. Jin Akanishi, 908 votes

10. Hiroki Uchi, 672 votes

2010 Womens results (public vote)

1. Kumi Koda, 12961 votes

2. aiko, 5456 votes

3. Namie Amuro, 5219 votes

4. Meisa Kuroki, 4935 votes

5. Becky, 3850 votes

6. Keiko Kitagawa, 3056 votes

7. Karina, 2066 votes

8. Kaera Kimura, 1905 votes

9. Yukie Nakama, 1796 votes

10. Anna Tsuchiya, 1321 votes

Council elected winners

Kenta Kiritani (30) (actor)

Tomomi Itano (19) (AKB48)

Ai Haruna (talent)

Keisuke Honda (professional soccer player) – Special global bravery prize

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Source: http://beauty.oricon.co.jp/news/80726/full/

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Ikuta and Higashiyama play women in stage show

Johnny’s stars Noriyuki Higashiyama (44) and Toma Ikuta (25) will play side by side in the upcoming double stage show “Madame de Sade/わが友ヒットラー (Waga Tomo Hitler, My Friend Hitler)” in 2011, reports Sports Hochi.

The shows, which will run in Tokyo from February 2 to March 2, were written by Japanese playwright Yukio Mishima (three-time Nobel Prize for Literature nominee) in the 1960s and are considered some of his best.  The show itself will be directed by veteran theatre director Yukio Ninagawa (74).

“Madame de Sade” is a play set in 18th century Paris, where six women tell their story about the Marquis de Sade, an aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille for his sensational escapades and lurid behavior.  Higashiyama will play Marquis de Sade’s wife Renee, and Ikuta will play Renee’s younger sister Anne.  It will be the first time Ikuta plays a woman, and the second time Higashiyama dresses in drag, his first being during his 2008 stage show “さらば、わが愛　覇王別姫 (Saraba, Waga Ai/Haoubekki)”.

The second story, “My Friend Hitler”, is based on the historical Night of the Long Knives incident, where in 1934 the Nazi regime carried out a number of political executions.  Higashiyama will play Ernst Rohm, leader of the Sturmabteilung, who Hitler saw as a threat to his own power, while the Nazi leader himself will be played by Ikuta.

Both plays will be performed by the same cast, using the same sets, a challenge which is exciting its core members.

“We can finally fulfill what Mishima-san had wanted but was never able to do,” Ninagawa said.

“I’m about to climb up an immensely steep hill towards Yukio Mishima’s world,” Higashiyama said.

“Since it’s a double show, I want to start by practising how to react quickly to the doubled number of things that’ll be thrown at me,” Ikuta said.

Another cast member who has been confirmed for the show is Mikijiro Hira (76).

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Source: http://bit.ly/a4evWS

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