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Thought it was time for some music videos :
T-ara – I go crazy because of you
Kara – Lupin
Kana Nishino – Best Friend
Miliyah Kato – Sensation feat. Kento Mori

Girls’ Generation dominated 2009 with their mega hits Gee and Genie and now they’re setting off a whole new K-pop craze with their second full-length album Oh!.

Below are a collection of recent news items related to Maria Ozawa’s upcoming movie shoot in Indonesia “Menculik Miyabi” (Kidnapping Miyabi) :

Gentlemen, brace yourself for an upcoming Indonesian film that might tempt you more than any other: It will feature famous Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa, better known as Miyabi.

Scheduled for release at the end of this year, Menculik Miyabi (Kidnapping Miyabi) is a movie that will probably attract a lot of hype this year.

Written by witty blogger Raditya Dika, the comedy tells the story of a man so obsessed with Miyabi that he plans to kidnap her.

Production house Maxima Pictures are still pulling the necessary strings to cast the 23-year-old Japanese star, movie producer Odi Mulya Hidayat said, as quoted by newsportal detikhot.com on Thursday.

“It’s not easy to invite her here and we have to pay her a lot to star in the movie,” Odi added.

But excited male audiences should calm down and rein in their imaginations: Miyabi won’t be doing any scenes of the type she is famous for.

It will purely be a comedy, just with an occasional shot of Miyabi’s face here and there.

As a woman of distinctive beauty created from the mix of genes from her Japanese mother and French-Canadian father, Miyabi has risen into global stardom since she started appearing in porn movies in 2005. – JP From the Jakarta Post

Muslim chief: Japan porn star should not be in Indonesia film
Asia-Pacific News from Monsters and Critics

Sep 18, 2009, 9:24 GMT

Jakarta – An Indonesian Muslim leader on Friday criticized an Indonesian production company for inviting a Japanese adult video star to appear in its new film, a report said.

Indonesian media reported Thursday that porn star Maria Ozawa, also known as Miyabi, was to visit Indonesia next month for the shooting of a film titled Menculik Miyabi, or Kidnapping Miyabi, to be produced by Jakarta-based Maxima Pictures.

‘I suggest they not use the porn star, even if the film is not pornographic,’ Amidhan, chairman of the Indonesian Council of Muslim Scholars, was quoted as saying by the Detik.com news portal.

‘It could give Indonesia a bad image for inviting a porn star,’ said Amidhan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. ‘It is as if there were no other stars at home.’

In the film, the character played by Ozawa is kidnapped while visiting Jakarta by three Indonesian university students who are infatuated with her, according to the Okezone.com news website.

Women activists welcome Miyabi’s arrival
Sun, 09/27/2009 10:30 AM | Headlines

INDONESIA: Women activists say that Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa, better known as Miyabi, should be allowed to come to the country as there are no legal problems that may hinder her arrival here.

“For me, if anyone has met all the legal requirements, then he or she should be allowed to enter the country,” Muslim scholar and woman activist Siti Musdah Mulia told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

“If she is actively involved in the porn film industry, then it is none of our business.”

Ozawa, who started her career in porn at the age of 18 in 2005, will star in an Indonesian comedy movie titled Menculik Miyabi (Abducting Miyabi).

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has opposed Ozawa’s trip to Indonesia. – JP from the Jakarta Post

Below is the video for the comeback performance by Brown Eyed Girls.

Asin Thottumkal is an Indian film actress from the state of Kerala, and was born October 26, 1985. She made her acting debut in Sathyan Anthikkad’s Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka (2001). Asin had her first commercial success with Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi in 2003, and won a Filmfare Award for the Best Telugu Actress for the film. After a number of films, she received her second South Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in her second Tamil film, Ghajini (2005). She played the lead female roles in hits, the thriller Ghajini (2005) and the action comedy Varalaru (2006). More recently, Asin made her début in Bollywood, with Ghajini, the remake of its Tamil namesake, subsequently winning the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award Award.

Asin has a very serious problem. She has impersonators on all the major social-networking websites. “I was ready to overlook these fake IDs using my name as long as they weren’t harmful. But now the problem is getting out of hand.” The other night a colleague had a whole long conversation with ‘Asin’ and called up the next day to share her excitement about what an intimate conversation they had.

“I nearly fell off my chair. I won’t name this actress. But she said we shared our most intimate secrets on Facebook. I nearly fell of my chair and asked her who she shared her secrets with. Because it was most certainly not me. Two days ago a journalist came to interview me and said she got all the information on me from what I had written on Twitter. For the record I’m not on any of the social-networking websites. Apart from my own website I am not on the internet for any other purpose. I started blogging even before Aamir did in August 2005,” Asin declares proudly.

38-year-old Japanese pop star Noriko Sakai has surrendered herself to Tokyo police. Noriko is known for her girl-next-door image, but was arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal stimulants. Tokyo police found a small quantity of drugs in her apartment.

Her missing 10-year-old son was found safe in Tokyo on Thursday night. Sakai’s husband, Yuichi Takaso, 41, was arrested last Monday for alleged drug possession and questions concerning the star’s whereabouts have dominated headlines in Asia ever since.

She rose to fame in 1987 after releasing a “Otoko no Ko ni Naritai”, a few days before her 16th birthday. Known as Nori-P during her early career, she began to use her real name after turning to acting in the 1990s. One of her most acclaimed roles came in “Hitotsu Yane no Shita”.

Name: Natsuko Tatsumi
Profession: Actress and Model
Birthdate: 1988-Jan-21
Birthplace: Tokyo
Height: 158cm
Star sign: Aquarius
Blood type: O
Talent agency: 18pro

This is the first post of my daily idol series. Today it is Minori Hatsune (?????).
* Birthdate: December 10, 1987
* Zodiac: Sagittarius
* Birthplace: Toyama Prefecture, Japan
* Blood type: A
* Height: 158 cm (5 ft 2 in)
* Measurements: 89-58-85 cm (35-23-33 in)
* Cup size: 65
* Hobby: Watching movie, shopping
* Special skill: Piano

Tony gives in to pressure from one of his office staff and travels to Korea. His condition? Nari (the assistant) must come with him and guide him through Korean cuisine, customs and culture.

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base’s general that Saya learns of her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection…