Actress Itoh Misaki (26) is to play a Bond girl in a new video game. In “Everything or Nothing” she plays lab assistant Miss Nagai. The game will be available this month for PlayStation and GameBoy. Itoh is one of the TV commercial pitch girls (the others are Hasegawa Kyoko and Takeuchi Yuko) who hava taken over the scene in the last few months.
• Rock band Queen have another No.1 album in Japan, only 27 years after their last one. “A Day At the Races” reached the top of the Oricon charts back in 1977 and now the hits album “Queen Jewels” has repeated the feat. This breaks the 23-year 5-month record previously held by the Beatles. One big reason for the new album’s success is the use of the track “Born to Love You” as the title song for the Kimura Takuya drama “Pride,” currently in the Monday 9pm prime slot.