13th Jul 2010
60th NHK Kouhaku Utagassen / 紅白歌合戦
2 days ago suddenly came into mind was the NHK Kouhaku. I was checking out the 2009 one and was *shocked* to realize that I haven’t watched it yet..! I’ve been following it since many years ago and for some reason I haven’t watched the latest one. I might have been too busy… Anyway I downloaded a HD version of it (32GB total!) and the quality was super good. Watched it on my LCD TV, so perfect.
This year’s show was awesome, and of course the CM would be Nakama Yukie and Nakai Masahiro - they are probably the best CM in Japan so far. Saw quite a few talents that I haven’t seen before and they were so good. First one came to mind is the 11 year old girl Sakura Mayu who sings enka like how a 60 year-old does. So shocking.. and then Susan Boyle, everyone knows about her and I’ve surely watched her video on youtube 100’s of times, but to see the performance again one can really see what true talent means - I was getting goosebumps every 5 seconds. And then this super old enka singer Akimoto Junko, looks like an average mom but when she sings her song “Ai no mama de” I was completely stoked. Such an awesome enka song! (and the violinist Emiri Miyamoto was good too, and young) Perfume put on a good show as well with their most popular song “Disco”. Saw them on youtube tons of times but never seen them in Kouhaku. Then it’s the every so popular Arashi (first timer). Of course I like Jun and Nino as they both do amazing in dramas, but what made me happy was the song they sang which was the theme song for Hanayori Dango, one of my favorite drama! I’m missing that drama now. Then it’s Ayaka’s usual super great performance, but it’s her last show since she’s gotten Grave’s disease and will be retiring from the scene…what a huge lose =( SMAP put on a Michael Jackson memorial dance show this year, and Kimura was very impressive with his dance move, lol.
Of course I have to mention Fukada Kyoko being one of the judges this year! Good to see her there I always love her dramas. In fact I just watched drama Massugu na Otoko that she starred. I was a boring drama though. I just downloaded another J-movie Kimikaze Girls starred by her and Anna Tsuchiya, looks interesting to watch.
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