Hello from gloomy rainy London!
Just a quick update from me,
中央电视台1套 - 36集连续剧《台湾1895》 现在黄金档播出!! 导演:韩刚 饰演:山县有朋
The TV series which I acted in and shot in China last summer called "Taiwan1895" 《台湾·1895》 is being broadcast in Prime time on CCTV1 中央电视台1 at the moment. Actually I didn't know about this until my actor friend told me yesterday. Apparently, the series has been on TV since 6th of November, but don't worry. If you can't receive CCTV1 you can see all the programmes on tudou.com 土豆网. I found that it is already there - very convenient! Thanks for modern technology!!

Video: http://www.tudou.com/playlist/playindex.do?lid=4577191&iid=23562227
I'm appearing on 3:57、26:35、33:09 (minutes/seconds) in the 1st episode. I'm currently involved in another project, so I haven't enough time to check the rest of the episodes. If you have any chance to watch them, please give me your review. I should be appearing in episodes 2、6、11、13、24、26、28 and 32.
Aritomo in his 40's
I play the former Japanese prime minister called Aritomo Yamagata 山县有朋 in this series. Fortunately or unfortunately, I'm not the leading role this time, so I just had a quick job and left, unlike the last TV series which took 3 whole months and I hadn't even finished filming my scenes by the end...Being a leading man is not an easy job in China, hahaha....but of course, you can learn quite a lot of things from it.
Aritomo in his 30's
Aritomo in his 50's
Here are some pictures from behind the camera...

Help!! My fake moustache is dropping by sweat!
soooo hot on set! sweating everywhere!!

I couldn't bear the heat and stripped off my costume between the shootings!

Everyone is sleeping on the floor....

Well, I'll do it too. Ohhhh, much cooler now. No one is looking at me, I'll have a nap....zzzzzzzzzz

After the nap, I had to work as a serious guy!!
Maybe more pictures are coming to next blog....
To be continued... Good night......