SMAP comes to Japan’s aid

(This post is dedicated to @ailamarie) SMAP, the grandfather of Japan’s boy bands (particularly those from Johnny’s), has released a compilation album on August 17. The album, SMAP Aid, consists of singles from various albums including the Mandarin version of Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (The Only Flower in the World), which they sang…

selling the drama: catfight!

(This is part of an ongoing series on ploys that production companies use to “sell the drama”.) CATFIGHT! This week, it was reported that Zhou Xun and Vicky Zhao fought on the set of The Painted Skin 2 over… are you sitting down? Well, unless one of them has kicked that chair you are sitting…