The month of August will soon roll in and with it comes a host of new and exciting programmes on HELLO! JAPAN, channel 149 on Starhub Cable Vision.
NEW SPECIAL
Weekly Yamasaki-Kun
Premieres August 14, 7pm.
Synopsis:
In this special episode of Weekly Yamasaki-Kun, we head all the way to Kyushu to bring you the latest Ramen Restaurants and their special ramen from the Kumamoto prefecture.
In recent years, more and more ramen restaurants are opening up in Kumamoto and in the battlefield of Ramen last year (2013), competition is at its peak! Feast your senses on not only the traditional Kumamoto Ramen but also new inventions and specialty ramen from other areas from within Kyushu! See how each restaurant competes with their individual trump cards ranging from cooking broth using special methods, to having unique hairstyle of the shop staff as a trademark!
Join us in this special episode of Ramen special and satisfy the gourmand in you!
Weekly Yamasaki-Kun
Cast:
MC: Koichi Ohtaguro, Ayano Kakinoki
Reporter: Kaname Yamauchi, Akira Fukuda
FIRST & EXCLUSIVE
Dreaming Journey Season 2
New season every Thursday, 9pm
Synopsis:
Bringing you the best selection of famous travel spots from all over Japan! Local delicacies unique to that area will also be featured.
Cast:
Narrator: Oowada Shinya
SEASON FINALE
Gochi Dinner Is On You Tonight!
Season finale, August 5 – 19, 8pm
Catch the season finale to Gochi Dinner Is On You Tonight! Find out who the ultimate winner is in this 3 hour variety special spread over 3 weeks.
Gochi Dinner Is On You Tonight!
Synopsis:
Watch celebrities compete in the show as they place orders off the menu at fancy restaurants without knowing the price. Whoever’s bill come up to be the most off the target will have to pay for everyone’s meal! The one who has paid the most in the year will be kicked out of the show!
Cast:
Special Guests: Professional Golfer Ai Miyazato and Sumo Wrestler Kazuhiro Kotoshigiku
DRAMA EXCLUSIVE on HELLO! JAPAN
My Mommy is a Ghost!
Starts August 24, 7:55pm – 9:10 pm
Subsequent episodes from 8 -9pm.
Synopsis:
How do you hug someone if you can’t hold them or feel them? How do you protect your child from danger or harm… when you are simply out of this world… or when you have become…a ghost?
Choko (YukieNakama) is a police officer and a loving mother who is abruptly curtailed of her life in a fire. Choko becomes trapped between two worlds as a ghost when one day, her mourning six- year old son, Tombo (Yuuma Kimino) discovers that he can see and talk to his dead mother whenever he puts her eyeglasses on! In an all new and peculiar mother and child relationship, Choko and Tombo team up as the ultimate neighbourhood crime watch duo to crack local cases that arise in their town…But Choko soon learns the truth about her death and that her time on earth in her ghostly form is not forever—Will Tombo lose his mother all again when Choko is summoned by heavens for the final time?
The staff of the hit drama series, Gokusen and acclaimed actress, Yukie Nakama tag up again in a heart-warming fantasy of a mother’s unconditional love for her child in her quirky afterlife. With his star-making debut, young co-star Yuuma Kimino plays the son, Tombo, who stunningly outran 100 children in the audition. Be amazed at Yuuma’s extraordinary talent and a cuteness that steals the show away.
Cast:
Yukie Nakama, Ikki Sawamura, Mirai Shida, Yuuma Kimino, Serina, Yuma Sanada, Muga Tsukaji, Katsuhisa Namase
MOVIE PICK OF THE MONTH
MOVIE THEATRE: A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
August 31, 9pm
Synopsis:
A human lie-detector, one with an extremely accurate biological clock, a young light-fingered pickpocket and a speech expert, the four happen to be at a scene of a bank robbery.
By using their special abilities, they manage to catch the dopey robber, and through this, an unprecedented yet great gang is formed. Their aim is not money but to plan magnificent heists! One day, as the four continue their bank heists a rival gang appears and steals the money while ruining their perfect plan.
What is their grandiose plan to get the money back? What will happen with the love story of the two defiant people, a man who is scared to fall in love because of his ability to see through people’s lies and a woman who calculates everything with time?
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Cast:
Takao Osawa, Kyoka Suzuki, Shota Matsuda, Koichi Sato
