Akinomaki 34,817 Posted August 30, 2017 Next year's taiga drama is about Saigo Takamori, who loved to do sumo and whom Musashimaru was said to look like. There are sumo scenes for him, thus leading actor Ryohei Suzuki (2nd from the left) trained with university students and ate a lot. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2096447/full/ 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 34,817 Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) On 8/30/2017 at 17:35, Akinomaki said: Next year's taiga drama is about Saigo Takamori, who loved to do sumo and whom Musashimaru was said to look like. There are sumo scenes for him Today's Segodon episode was "Sumo, sumo, yeah!" 相撲じゃ!相撲じゃ! http://mantan-web.jp/article/20180204dog00m200020000c.html the dohyo set (at a world heritage site) 360deg. http://www.nhk.or.jp/segodon/gallery/360/set02/ Edited February 4, 2018 by Akinomaki 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 34,817 Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) On 2/4/2018 at 18:18, Akinomaki said: Today's Segodon episode was "Sumo, sumo, yeah!" 相撲じゃ!相撲じゃ! And this 5th episode had the best TV ratings of the series so far with 15.5% (1. & 2 15.4%, 3. 14.2%, 4. 14.8%) - in 2017, 2015 and 2013 the first episode of the taiga drama of the year was the one with the best ratings (and the not very interesting ones keep going down then), so this is a good sign (for the not very promising one this year) http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2018/02/05/kiji/20180204s00041000226000c.html the whole episode on 9tsu: http://video.9tsu.com/videos/view?vid=120267 (the other episodes were posted there as well) - the interest in sumo may even have increased with all the scandals recently - certainly the awareness of it, but certainly not the love for it Edited February 5, 2018 by Akinomaki 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orandashoho 719 Posted February 5, 2018 That young actor is a Homasho lookalike. Or has Homasho found a new career? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 34,817 Posted July 17, 2018 On 2/5/2018 at 19:49, Akinomaki said: this 5th episode had the best TV ratings of the series so far with 15.5% (1. & 2 15.4%, 3. 14.2%, 4. 14.8%) - in 2017, 2015 and 2013 the first episode of the taiga drama of the year was the one with the best ratings (and the not very interesting ones keep going down then), so this is a good sign (for the not very promising one this year) And the ratings kept going down after that, now at about 12% http://news.mynavi.jp/article/20180717-665459/ - sumo was the only thing interesting in that series 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
