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New Spirited Away live-action stage play performances scheduled for 2023, 2024

Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2023
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Adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki anime returns to two Japanese cities, first performances to be held this summer.

Japan
(anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • manga • spirited away • stage plays • Studio Ghibli)

Live-action Spirited Away stage play is finally available for on-demand streaming

Casey Baseel
Nov 17, 2022

Couldn’t make it to the theater to see the adaptation of the Studio Ghibli anime masterpiece? Now you can watch it from home.

Internet, Japan
(anime • COK • Hayao Miyazaki • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • spirited away • stage plays • streaming • Studio Ghibli)

Spirited Away live-action stage play opens in Tokyo, and the photos look amazing

Casey Baseel
Mar 4, 2022

Chihiro, Haku, and No Face all take the stage as Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece comes to life.

Japan
(anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • movies • plays • spirited away • stage plays • Studio Ghibli)

First look at Studio Ghibli’s new Spirited Away live-action stage play

Oona McGee
Nov 10, 2021

Cast appear on stage for the first time to give us a sneak peek at the upcoming production.

Japan
(actors • anime • films • Hayao Miyazaki • Imperial Theatre • Japanese actors • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • movies • spirited away • stage plays • Studio Ghibli • theatre • voice actors)

Main cast for Spirited Away live-action stage play finally revealed!

Oona McGee
Jul 8, 2021

Characters like No Face, Yubaba and Haku are set to be played by some very famous faces.

Japan
(actors • anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Imperial Theatre • Japanese actors • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • movies • spirited away • stage plays • Studio Ghibli • theatre • voice actors)

Kanna Hashimoto wins Guinness World Record for getting tissues really fast

Master Blaster
Jun 16, 2021

Hashimoto becomes the undisputed, certified Queen of Tissues.

Japan
(crazy • funny • Guinness world records • Idols • Kanna Hashimoto • tissues • TV • weird • world record • world records)

Spirited Away to be adapted to live-action stage play by English director John Caird

Casey Baseel
Feb 26, 2021

Hayao Miyazaki gives blessing after meeting with Caird to project that’s been in development for four years.

Japan
(anime • Hayao Miyazaki • Kanna Hashimoto • Live action • movies • spirited away • stage plays • Studio Ghibli)

Cup Noodle celebrates selling over 100 billion units with special “Japanese slang” packaging

Dale Roll
Aug 6, 2020

Test your knowledge of Japanese slang from the ’70s onwards with these limited-edition cup noodles!

Japan
(Cup Noodle • funny • instant noodles • internet slang • Japanese language • Kanna Hashimoto • Nissin • Nissin Cup Noodle • nostalgic • slang)

Now you can own the eyes of “once in a millennium” idol Kanna Hashimoto

Oona McGee
Mar 6, 2020

Taking idol worship to a whole other level.

Japan
(beauty • Contact lenses • idol singers • Idols • Instagram • Japanese idols • Kanna Hashimoto • Rhoto • weird)

Japanese idol’s manager fires back at impatient fans who keep pestering her to stream live video

Casey Baseel
Dec 13, 2018

Kanna Hashimoto is called the “once in a millennium” idol, but her manager is one in a million too.

Japan
(funny • idol manager • idol singers • Idols • Instagram • Kanna Hashimoto)

Idol draws such massive crowds at Tokyo college that police can’t guarantee safety【Video】

Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2018

When once-in-a-millennium idol Kanna Hashimoto is stopping by, crowd control in a must.

Japan
(beautiful women • coleges • crazy • Idols • Kanna Hashimoto • schools • universities • video)

Japanese schoolgirl feeds sweets to fans via 4-D VR headsets 【Video】

Oona McGee
Mar 6, 2018

The special headset delivers a Japanese sweet into your mouth in real-time as this “once-in-a-millenium beauty” feeds it to you.

Japan
(4-D • candy • Japanese candy • Japanese sweets • Kanna Hashimoto • marketing • Puccho • sweets • VR)

Two Japanese idol singers announced as candidates for international 100 Most Beautiful Faces list

Casey Baseel
Jul 28, 2017

Former members of AKB48 and Rev. from DVL saluted.

Global, Internet, Japan
(AKB48 • beautiful women • idol singers • Idols • Kanna Hashimoto)

Kanna Hashimoto to star alongside Shun Oguri in Gintama live-action movie

Joan Coello
Aug 18, 2016

If you haven’t heard, Gintama is getting a live-action movie adaptation in 2017!

Entertainment, Japan
(anime & manga • gintama • Kanna Hashimoto • live-action movie)

“Once-in-a-millenium beauty” dominates Tokyo Halloween event

Mike
Nov 1, 2015

The last couple of years have been benchmark ones for Halloween in Japan. What was once a holiday marked mostly by the infrequent sighting of a handful of mildly embarrassed-looking, costumed foreigners on the Yamanote Line train has grown into a massive industry.

In fact, Halloween has become just as much a holiday about 20 and 30-somethings dressing up as sexy nurses, sexy zombies, sexy superheroes, and other sexy-choose-a-nouns as its American counterpart. But while those costumes were no doubt getting plenty of attention on Shibuya Crossing last night, the Japanese Internet had already decided the undisputed Queen of Halloween was this far more conservatively dressed “once-in-millenium beauty”.

Internet, Japan
(beauty • halloween • Kanna Hashimoto • odaiba • parties • Tokyo)

“How many freakin’ CDs do I have to buy?” Fans displeased with idol group’s debut single

Master Blaster
Apr 20, 2014

On 16 April, idol group, Rev. from DVL, released their first major single through entertainment giant Yoshimoto Kogyo, thanks largely to the break-out success of member Kanna Hashimoto.

However, what was intended to be a celebration of the Fukuoka-based unit’s new-found fame ended up generating sad and bitter complaints from idol fans. At the center of the controversy was the inclusion of tickets to a “high-five party” bundled in with their single LOVE-arigatou-.

Japan
(Kanna Hashimoto • LOVE-arigatou- • Rev from DVL)

Kanna Hashimoto’s rise to fame continues with major commercial appearance

Master Blaster
Apr 5, 2014

About a half a year ago, the charming face of a local idol from Fukuoka was plastered all over the internet. Kanna Hashimoto’s genuine charm and cuteness had won over the country literally overnight. Shortly afterwards, we were able to meet the up and coming star and buy a pair of glasses. There we found Hashimoto’s charm wasn’t just a fluke of the original photo that shot her into the spotlight.

Now we’re happy to see that her rise to fame hasn’t slowed down one bit with a recent appearance in the hugely popular SoftBank commercial series featuring the Shirato family. Not only that, she has also thrown the ceremonial first pitch at Opening Day of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2014 season.

Japan
(baseball • commercial • Kanna Hashimoto • Softbank)

We buy a pair of glasses from up and coming idol Kanna Hashimoto

Master Blaster
Dec 8, 2013

Recently, computer glasses have become quite popular and are sold in shops everywhere in Japan. I never really bought into the concept even though my work requires painfully long hours in front of a computer screen. However, a couple of days ago we announced that up-and-coming idol Kanna Hashimoto would be appearing at two ALOOK glasses stores in Tokyo and Osaka.

After wrapping up that article I wiped the usual blood from my tired eyes and thought maybe it’s time to try out a pair. And what better way to do it than by meeting this future star while I’m at it!

We headed down to the grand opening of ALOOK in Shinsaibashi, Osaka to meet the starlet and see what all the fuss is about.

Japan
(ALOOK • idol • Kanna Hashimoto • Rev from DVL)

“Once-in-a-thousand-year” idol Kanna Hashimoto visiting ALOOK Tokyo and Osaka on the same day

Master Blaster
Dec 5, 2013

A month ago, Japanese people all over the country woke up to this photo of Fukuoka-based idol Kanna Hashimoto of the group Rev. From DVL all over the internet. And just like that, her modest level of local fame on stage has been skyrocketing. Some are calling her an idol that you’d find once in a thousand years.

We’re not sure who came up with that title or how it was calculated, but certainly no idol has caught the nation’s attention without any gimmicks or PR stunts like Hashimoto has from simply a photograph.

Thanks to this new-found fame Kanna Hashimoto will be making appearances all over Japan. In fact, tomorrow those living in Tokyo or Osaka will have a chance to buy some glasses from her at the grand opening of ALOOK stores in each city.