Dabbies

The easiest way to find out which dramas an actor or actress has been in is to look at the top of this page. See where it says Dramas: and Artistes: followed by the alphabet? For Nakatani you just click on the N in the Artistes column and it will bring you to:

http://jdorama.com/artiste.348.htm

Aside from the dramas listed there, Miki has stared in movies like Ringu, Ringu 2, Chaos, Hotel Venus, Beautiful Dreamer (which was the "Keizoku" movie made for theatrical release) When the Last Sword is Drawn, and a few others.
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Geezer wrote:

Dabbies The easiest way to find out which dramas an actor or actress has been in is to look at the top of this page. See where it says Dramas: and Artistes: followed by the alphabet? For Nakatani you just click on the N in the Artistes column and it will bring you to: http://jdorama.com/artiste.348.htm Aside from the dramas listed there, Miki has stared in movies like Ringu, Ringu 2, Chaos, Hotel Venus, Beautiful Dreamer (which was the "Keizoku" movie made for theatrical release) When the Last Sword is Drawn, and a few others.

Geezer...

is she the one acting in "otousan" as one of the sister among Iijima Naoko, Fukada Kyoko & Hirosue Ryoko?? if she is the one... then i know who is she... i like her acting in it... she is such a sensible girl of her "otousan"....

tata...(",)

She played the second oldest girl in Otousan, the one that originally took care of the restaurant. I loved her in that series!!

Dabbies wrote:

Geezer... is she the one acting in "otousan" as one of the sister among Iijima Naoko, Fukada Kyoko & Hirosue Ryoko?? if she is the one... then i know who is she... i like her acting in it... she is such a sensible girl of her "otousan".... tata...(",)

Miki has a couple of movie projects coming out this year, so I figured I'd list some of them.

"Hotel Venus". already came out on DVD, and has made it's way to ebay, so I'll comment on it after I get my copy.

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003539383/pname-The-Hotel-Venus/code-j/version-all/section-videos/did-160/

Next up, "Rikidozan", the story of the guy who is considered the Godfather of Pro Wrestling in Japan. According to the sites I've read, he was also very heavily connected to the Tokyo Mafia. Miki seems to be playing the dutiful Wife in this one.

Like "Hotel Venus" I think this is a Korean movie. The Official site:

http://www.rikidozan.co.kr/

And on the somewhat lighter side... "Thirty Lies Or So" The official site:

http://www.30uso.com/

It's a caper movie about 6 swindlers who reunite on a train to divy up their loot, and how they try to screw one another. Kippei Shiina co-stars.
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Okay, since I did in fact get a copy of Hotel Venus for Christmas, I figured I'd post something about the movie.

I already put this comment over in the Japanese Movie section, but for any of the Miki fans out there:

I just watched Hotel Venus, and I was floored.

I guess most know the back story on this film. A Japanese / Korean movie, the cast made up of actors from both countries, with everyone speaking Korean... all filmed in an unnamed city, which was actually Vladivostok.

This is a movie that just doesn't fit into any of the normal catagories that Japanese movies usually fit into these days. A stylish, melancholy, character study of a group of unrelated losers. They've each, for their own reasons, gathered at the Hotel Venus as sort of a safe refuge. A last chance to gather themselves, to see if they can regain their balance... to see if they can handle the weight of their lives.

Okay, it's a lot better than I just made it sound.

To be honest, I got this movie simply because Miki Nakatani was in it. But as with "When the Last Sword is Drawn" I got it to see Miki, and ended up really liking the whole movie.

The movie is in black and white... it's more than 2 hours long... and it felt like it shot by in about 15 minutes.

What a good movie!
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Rikidozan is slated to be released on Region 3 DVDs at the end of March so I figure it won't be too long before it appears on ebay and yahoo auctions.

From what I can gather, she plays the quiet, dutiful wife of a professional wrestler in 1950s and 60s Japan.

Like Hotel Venus, this is largely a Korean movie, with some Japanese actors and actresses in it.

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Miki will be in a new movie with Yamada Takayuki entitled
Densha Otoko

Filming should have started and will be in cinemas Early JUne

yt,

Densha Otoko?

Thanks for the update.

I looked up Densha Otoko and this is a piece I found on the original story:

"Trainman (Densha Otoko), a love-story original born on the popular 2 Channel message board, and later published by Shinchou, is going to receive four completely separate manga adaptations for serialization in four competing magazines.

Trainman, which captured the public attention on 2 Channel in March of 2004, tells the story of a 22-year old otaku who is interested in "Miss Hermes," an attractive young woman he saved from an annoying drunk on the train on his way home from Akihabara.

On 2 Channel, "Trainman" sought advice from fellow-otaku on how he should approach Miss Hermes and reported back on the progress of his relationship, while receiving encouragement from hundreds of online well-wishers.

A collection of these posts, spanning a period of 2 months, was published by Shinchou in autumn 2004 , and sold 260,000 copies in just 3 weeks and half a million copies in 2 months. In the process, the story garnered the attention of several manga anthologies, leading to a rather unique situation...

Not only is Trainman the first successful novel to be created from Internet message board postings (although there are some similarities with the situation in My Sassy Girl), but it is now also the first novel to be independently adapted into four different manga for serialization in four different manga anthologies at roughly the same time.

The piece refers to a "Miss Hermes"

Miki's web site says she'll be playing the part of "Erumesu".

I guess it sort of sounds like a Japanese version of Miss Hermes.
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Boy, you have to be patient.

I first mentioned Miki's movies: "Rikidozan" & "30 Lies or So" back in December.

Well, I finally got them. Just had to wait 7 months.

Fortunately for me, it was well worth the wait.

I wonder if it will take the full 7 months for "Train Man" to turn up over here.
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Densha Otoko would be showing in Taiwan late August, lucky them

here's a short interview:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=19OLXL4D

Don't forget Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Loft
A movie poster:
http://www.mirovision.com/english/movie/feature_poster.asp?movie_sno=77
Synopsis:
A prize-winning writer, Leiko(NAKATANI Miki), moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help from the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees a man in a storage room transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She soon finds out that he is a renowned archaeologist, Professor Yoshioka(TOYOKAWA Etsushi), researching ancient mummies, and that object was a recently discovered mummy. Working late on her book, Leiko witneses a ghost and finds out that her room once belonged to a woman who had been misssing for a while. This brings unexplainable fear to Leiko as she starts to uncover more stories from the past.

yt & bijin

Thanks for the heads-up. And yt, especially, thanks for that interview.

hmmm.

Quote:

Don't forget Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Loft

Drat. I am really not a fan of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies. He always makes great looking movies, and he always gets terrific actors and actresses to play in them. But the movies... I'm not a fan.

I guess I"ll just have to watch Loft with the subtitles turned off.

Jeez, I love that Miki is having so much success in the movies!
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Manga is to Literature
what Graffiti is to Art

In case folks weren't paying attention, there's a new subbed copy of the Keizoku TV Special: Phantom" up at D-Addicts.

It's listed as the Director's cut, the video quality is superb, and the English subs are very good.
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Geezer wrote:

In case folks weren't paying attention, there's a new subbed copy of the Keizoku TV Special: Phantom" up at D-Addicts. It's listed as the Director's cut, the video quality is superb, and the English subs are very good.

thxs, I'll grab it

Haven't seen the series yet though...

Miki Nakatani's Dead Run to be shown at AFI Film Festival 2005

Shuji reacts passively to everything: his brother�fs aggression, his parents�f indifference and the confession of a guilt-ridden priest. He feels powerless to act until Eri, an enigmatic girl obsessed with running, leaves their small town for Tokyo and Shuji is compelled to follow her.

DEAD RUN tells the story of Shuji, a disillusioned young Japanese boy whose family is falling apart. Desperate to find some meaning and purpose to his life, Shuji befriends a priest who has come to town to set up a church. Shuji finds comfort in the Bible and the rituals of Christianity, despite his older brother�fs insistence that the priest is a murderer. And it is in the church that Shuji meets Eri.

Shuji�fs search for Eri takes him into Tokyo�fs criminal underworld, unleashing an uncertain future that is void of morality and the love that Shuji is so desperate to secure.

Dead Run official website:
http://www.kadokawa-pictures.com/shissou

Loft trailer with English subtitles:
http://www.mirovision.com/images/e_trailler/00000011s.wmv

Loft clip on PIFF website.
http://www.piff.org/eng/html/program/prog_view.asp?sp_idx=&idx=10018&c_idx=12

The official site for Kiraware Matsuko No Isshou starring Miki Nakatani is now open.There is the first trailer of the film.
http://www.kiraware-matsuko.com

Cast:Miki Naktani,Eita,Yuusuke Iseya,Teruyuki Kagawa,Mikako Ichikawa,Asuka Kurosawa,
Akira Emoto.

Kaela Kimura,Sola Aoi,Kou Shibasaki,Nagisa Katahira,Hirotaro Honda,Kana OKunoya,Gori,Sakaki Hideo,Magii,Takanori Takeyama(Kaning),Shosuke Tanihara,Masahiro kohmoto,Midoriko Kimura,Kadono Takuzo,Risa Ai,Kankuro Kudo,Atsushi Yanaka(Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra),Gekidan Hitori,Kayoko Okubo(Oasiz),BONNIE PINK,Mari Hamada,Shinji Takeda,Hana Kino,Yoshiyoshi Arakawa,Tetsu Watanabe,Hiroshi Yamamoto,Anna Tsuchiya,AI,Hanako Yamada,Takejo Aki,Kyusaku Shimada,Hoka Kinoshita.

Direction and script by Tetsuya Nakajima(Kamikaze Girls)
Based on the novel by Muneki Yamada

It's schedule to be released in Japan next May.

sorry for my double post.

thxs for the info. Btw I saw some pics of her at some sort of Awards.

She looks like a princess and stole the limelight

gorgeous...thank you for the pictures!!

Her Rikidozan was a closing film at TIFF.
http://www.tiff-jp.net/report_71_sa_1030.html

bijin wrote:

The official site for Kiraware Matsuko No Isshou starring Miki Nakatani is now open.There is the first trailer of the film. http://www.kiraware-matsuko.com Cast:Miki Naktani,Eita,Yuusuke Iseya,Teruyuki Kagawa,Mikako Ichikawa,Asuka Kurosawa, Akira Emoto. Kaela Kimura,Sola Aoi,Kou Shibasaki,Nagisa Katahira,Hirotaro Honda,Kana OKunoya,Gori,Sakaki Hideo,Magii,Takanori Takeyama(Kaning),Shosuke Tanihara,Masahiro kohmoto,Midoriko Kimura,Kadono Takuzo,Risa Ai,Kankuro Kudo,Atsushi Yanaka(Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra),Gekidan Hitori,Kayoko Okubo(Oasiz),BONNIE PINK,Mari Hamada,Shinji Takeda,Hana Kino,Yoshiyoshi Arakawa,Tetsu Watanabe,Hiroshi Yamamoto,Anna Tsuchiya,AI,Hanako Yamada,Takejo Aki,Kyusaku Shimada,Hoka Kinoshita. Direction and script by Tetsuya Nakajima(Kamikaze Girls) Based on the novel by Muneki Yamada It's schedule to be released in Japan next May.

2nd trailer
http://www.kiraware-matsuko.com/asx/matsuko-t02.asx

shocking Nakatani Miki