post-it to one Kanon Akiyama

And that's why, sweetheart, you don't fall in love with a guy with a comatose girlfriend.


IL: It giveth me Maki's pretty pretty face (and Cute Guy staring at said face), but it taketh away all vestiges of sanity and anything resembling reason. Ah, now you know it's a Asano Taeko drama.

At least there's going to be a Hollywood movie where she gets to have fake amesia and make out exchange slow smoldering stares with Matsuyama Kenichi to look forward to.

official news

from tokyograph.com

Horikita, Matsuyama team up with American director
Tue, November 25, 2008 (12:50am EST)
Maki Horikita and Kenichi Matsuyama have been cast as co-stars in a new movie directed by American filmmaker Hans Canosa ("Conversations with Other Women"). Although the movie is being made primarily for the Japanese market, there are plans to have the film screened in the U.S., and some of the dialogue will be in English.

The movie's working Japanese title is "Nakushita Kioku." It is based on the novel "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac" by American author Gabrielle Zevin, which tells the story of a girl named Naomi who loses the last four years of her memory after falling down a staircase. While Naomi tries to re-establish her identity, she also has to deal with romance in the form of Yuji (Matsuyama), an older schoolmate.

Filming begins this Wednesday. The movie's Japanese premiere is planned for fall 2009, and a U.S. release will hopefully follow in 2010.