Hiroyuki Sanada News

Reply to our birthday gift from HIRO!

Today, we got the following message through reiko from HIRO himself!!

“Thank you for the wonderful gifts, the beautiful flowers and especially the
heartfelt messages.  I read all of the messages and I received a lot of love
and energy from them.  I will keep running during my 48th year!”

-hiro-

Yes, folks, he read all of our messages, and gave us the reply this year too!

Thank you, again, to Hiro and everyone who participated in the birthday project!

Misty

"The City" premiere in early 2009?

Reiko just sent me a piece of rumor.

A post appeared on IMDB bulletin board says that James Ivory's "The City of Your Final Destination", in which Sanada-san plays Pete (a gay partner of the main character played by Anthony Hopkins), will premiere in early 2009.

The following is the board post by everdene:

Merchant Ivory has finally straightened out their financing and legal
issues, the film has been bonded and filming is complete. Jorge Drexler
("The Motorcycle Diaries") is composing the score. The film will most likely
premiere at Sundance (January) or the Berlin Film Festival (February)

Reiko thinks that if that is true, the commercial showing will be maybe in summer of 2009 or so.

Let's keep our fingers crossed!!

Michi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIRO!!!

As the birthday gift was already delivered on Friday, it feels like it is already over, but actually, today is our Hiro's birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sanada-san!!

Many people are leaving messages in SHIN forum, so feel free to visit there and leave your message.

SHIN forum birthday thread

I am wondering how he is spending his birthday night, most likely in L.A....  And I hope he had some time to read our birthday books.

 
(Illustration borrowed from Jugoya site)

Misty

Some birthday gift photos have arrived

Reiko has sent me some photos of the gift that was sent to Sanada-san yesterday.  See the "photo album" category on the right pillar and click "Hiro Birthday 2008".

Reiko made our messages and stories into booklets, and she also made a separate booklet for the "story of Speed Racer Tokyo Premiere" taken from this blog.  If you have missed them, go ahead and read my report on this blog - all are in "Speed Racer" category.

She also added the beautiful orchid arrangement.  We don't know what was HIS reaction to the gift package, but at least she was successful in making people at his agent office "OOHING" AND "AAHING" when it was delivered to his office!

Enjoy the beautiful gift package and flower - and let's celebrate!  His real birthday is tomorrow!

Misty

The birthday gift was just delivered!

Although Oct. 12 is still 2 days away, our Los Angeles agent reiko decided to deliver our GIFT - the book of the birthday greetings from 100+ world-wide fans - today, so he can enjoy it over his birthday weekend.

And we just got info that the gift package was delivered to his home on or around 2:45 pm today by his agent in L.A.  The person at the agent made sure that he is at home at the delivery time, so we can be 99% sure that he received it IN PERSON BY NOW!!!

THANK YOU everyone who participated.  I am SO HAPPY that we exceeded last year's record for number of messages, and that we can celebrate his birthday all together with Hiro himself!!

Photo of the gift package will follow.  Please stay tuned!!

Misty