January 11, 2011

Choi Ji Woo to Make Guest Appearance in Japanese Drama

http://english.kbs.co.kr/Entertain/EntertainmentNews/view.html?No=7647"]KBS

Hallyu star actress Choi Ji Woo will appear in a Japanese TV drama after a five-year break. Major entertainment newspapers including Nikkan Sports reported on January 9 that the star actress Choi Ji Woo would make a guest appearance in TBS’s new drama “Winter Cherry Blossoms,” in which a member of the star group SMAP, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, would appear as the protagonist. The two star actors had seen each other when they had appeared on the famous entertainment program “SMAP×SMAP” together, but it will be the first time that these two actors will work together in a drama.

Choi will appear in a Japanese TV drama after a five-year break since her appearance in TBS’s drama “Rondo” in 2006. Choi Ji Woo reportedly willingly decided to appear in the drama because the actor Kusanagi Tsuyoshi would play the protagonist, and she read the entire script in Japanese. She said, “I felt nervous because I had to act while speaking in Japanese in front the camera after a long break.” Actor Kusanagi Tsuyoshi said, “I was happy to act together with Choi Ji Woo. I will also willingly appear in her drama in Korea.”

The drama “Winter Cherry Blossoms,” which will begin airing from January 16 every Sunday night at 9:00 pm on TBS, is about a love story between a man named Inaba Yu (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi), who HAS NEVER BEEN in love before, and a woman named Ishikawa Monami (Imai Miki), who has lost her memory because of an accident. Choi Ji Woo will appear from the first to the third episode by playing a woman whom the actor Kusanagi Tsuyoshi meets by chance.