Hello, I've just come back to London.

Where do you think am I come back from? (a Hint: this picture)

easy peazy.... Yes, Paris!! Arc de Triomphe 凱旋門が見えまーーす！

very well lit-up Champs Elysees 　♪　オー、シャンゼリゼー　♪

There are a lot of cutie stuff of the Christmas.

and also yummy stuff...

Do you wanna one??

a lot of colourful biscuits...

Christmas tree chocolates...

They are selling them outside!

and also selling them outside...

I went to the Ameli restaurant! Do you remember the famous cafe??

Oh, gosh!! very very crowded. It's difficult to find a seat to sit down!!

it reminds me of the film...

a big Ameli watching you there...

This is the outside of the restaurant. You can visit when you go to Paris!!

Bear in mind, very very popular and touristic!

I found an interesting art in the street of Paris.

Do you know where exactly in Paris?

Maybe even Parisians don't know where it is... I found it!!

The answer is Bonne Nouvelle. Can you see the blue stuff in the middle?

How is the Christmas decoration in your city??

How are you, everyone? It's a very cold day in London....

I joined the filming of the London-based director's short film "Toshi"  last week.

We were filming inside the taxi, a bit crowded inside...

My London actor friend Akira and I teamed up as an instant comedy duo in front of the camera. We were improvising funny lines all the time!

We have worked together 3 times, it was much funnier this time.

He is the leading man, who is playing Toshi.

He is my cutie runner Mr. Bruce Lee...

We are fed very well all the time. This is one of the greatest thing for me being an actor in London unlike filming in China :-(

a crazy business man 1.

another crazy business man 2

a crazy trio... we are almost done, it's the end of the shooting anyway...

This actor got scars on his face from a rugby match yesterday and turned up for the shooting....

but our professional make-up artist did a quick make-over for him...

Look, there is no longer any scar visible on his face!

Well, I'll wrap up for the day now.... :-)

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......

Hello from a gloomy rainy dark wintry London.

It's already very dark at 4pm here and even snowed at the end of October for the first time this winter (It's been 74 years since we last had snow in London in October actually).

some squirrels are usually coming to my garden to play around on the roof, but I've never seen since the snow day. maybe it's time for them to hibernate now....

I've had several occasions to meet my friends in London recently since I'm still in London waiting for the next new Chinese film to start shooting....

I visited Shihoko, one of my friend in London, the other day. She lives in a boat in South London.

A lovely small boat with a cute roof!

and we had a lunch on her landloards boat, a bigger boat than hers.

a local fish from the sea and Japanese yakisoba noodle!

She is cooking downstairs of the boat...

Have you ever tried to live in a boat??

Hello! How are you doing there?

I have become the official artist on AnD now.  yeah!!!

and Thank you for becoming my fan and friends. I'm really appreciated. I love Hong Kong, I hope I have more oppotunities to work there. maybe in the future....

It's getting colder in London and on my usual walking route to town there is a park called "Russell Square". There are already a lot of autumn fallen leaves on the ground, um... real autumn now,

but it's much warmer in the last couple of weekends here somehow. so called "Indian Summer". It's good to dry off all the lanudry at the same time outside though.

Well, I've been busy recently like going to my friend's birthday party (a lot of food, it was awesome!!), attending first ever Actor's Expo in London, coffee with old friends etc.....

and I went to the studio to do ADR for the new film called "Shanghai" directed by Mikael Håfström today.

I was very excited to see some of the scenes earlier than its general release date. Gong Li and Chow Yun Fat are always brilliant on screen. I did various Chinese voices today, but I wish I acted in the film myself....I was thinking that sort of things while I'm in studio....Apparently there was the Japanese voice recoding for this film the other day, but I was ended up called for the Chinese voice recoding.... Umm...why??

Well, it was nice to know new Chinese actors there and glad to be part of this production. Looking forward to see this film on screen and spot my voice...hahaha... Good night. おやすみー、晚安!!