site update | 108 · blog extra | Room Service

Home and Drama & Films Credits pages have been updated with the new drama, News sokuho wa nagareta, starting on 18 November on Fuji TV’s pay channel NEXT.  The channel is fairly new and this is their first original drama.  Episodes will be airing every other Wednesday night, repeating in between new episodes.

Yet another press event for Hikidashi no naka no love letter (Listen to My Heart) on 24 September – added to the news section of the home page.  Film opens on 10 October.

“Room Service” has started on BeeTV (26 September).  The official site now has the promotional video and information up.  The site can be extremely slow to load.  Click on the thumbnail below to bring up the full size of the collage that scrolls across the information page.

With all of the press events Toyohara has been attending this summer, the news archive is finally beginning to fill with articles and images.

There are still issues with access to files on the image hosting site, but as far as I can tell, the images are loading on the fansite.

best wishes

Happy 44th, Toyohara-san!

(still lookin’ good)

site update | 107

Toyohara changed agencies in early July and is now managed by après.  His artist page has some interesting photos and information — he completed an English course in Sydney this year and he holds scuba certification.   The agency’s home page keeps up-to-date with news, currently announcing a lot of magazines that have been released.  They seem to be a small agency representing many different kinds of artists and with something of a new age philosophy combining artistry & craftsmanship with personal growth, from artists to staff — check out their info page.  They even have a “team blog,” where staff members tell about things they’re doing… two days ago, one of them commented about buying grapes and strawberries to deliver to a shoot Toyohara was at.  It’s all very immediate & personal & exciting, making me wish even more I could read Japanese.

There has been a lot of promotion of Nankyoku ryorinin with Toyohara joining director Okita Shuichi at events in Osaka and Nagoya — many media sources in those areas have been reporting on it.  Added a couple of small images from events in those cities.

This blog and the news archive blog have both undergone refreshing.  All links on this blog pointing to pages on the site should be correct now.  In the next days, I’ll be continuing to add information and articles to the news blog, most of it involving the press surrounding Nankyoku ryorinin.  I’ll also be posting old news items I’ve had & hadn’t gotten on the blog.  I still need to correct links on the image index.

There are still issues with image hosting, most of it now being with access to files.  The images are showing up on the site, but I cannot access the file folders to upload new images.

site update | 106

THE SITE HAS MOVED!

Due to the upcoming closure of Geocities, the site has been moved to a new home, which may mean new glitches.  As I use an ad blocker, I don’t know if and/or how ads may be placed on the pages… it’s a free account, it’s at the host’s discretion.

New url – http://toyoharafanintheus.webs.com/

It may take me a while to get links changed to open to the pages on the new site. All links in blog posts that point to the site should be correct now.

The home page has been slightly redesigned and updated.

The hosting site for the images is also currently going through changes and having problems.  There are times when some or all images on the site are slow to load or don’t load at all.  Refreshing the page seems to help if there are broken image links.

I haven’t had much chance to use it yet, but I hope to be making more informal updates on twitter… toyoharafan on Twitter

raw information | trailer 2: nankyoku ryorinin

A full trailer has been released and can be viewed over at Nippon Cinema

Release date has been set for 22 August