

Along with the new single “Nexus 4/Shine,” it’s due out on August 27 and fans of the band’s live performance will have to make do with the DVD for some time. The name “L’7 Trans Asia via Paris” sums up the scope of the tour but it was a big enough project that it gets its own DVD. Popular rock band L’Arc En Ciel finished up their “world tour” at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka yesterday.Hitmaker Mitani and his star Sato Koji (47) have been backing up a massive advertising campaign with appearances on 96 TV shows, 15 radio shows, and 47 newspaper and magazine interviews. The timing is no doubt an attempt to keep the market lively during what is usually an off-peak time between Golden Week and the summer vacation.

The studios each release up to a couple of dozen movies a year, but it’s been a year and a half since they went competed directly against each other on an opening weekend. Toho released “The Magic Hour,” directed by Mitani Koki Shochiku countered with “Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime,” starring Osawa Takao and based on a popular manga while Toei’s money is on “Kamisama no Pazuru,” directed by the prolific Miike Takashi and produced by the flamboyant mogul Kadokawa Haruki.
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In a relatively rare occurrence, new live-action features from Japan’s three major movie studios opened on the same weekend.
