Excellent!!!!!! Watched it twice already!

Was kind of surprised that Saburo wasn't the last singer (like he has been for every year). But then again, I'm not that surprised. He's getting old. But he's still the $h*t!

Ayu blowed goats. (Sorry Ayu fans)

Amuro was great!

Gotta love those two comedians.................... "Nandedarou? Nandedarou?" -that $h*t never gets old!

Super No. 1 wrote:

That's one thing that I didn't like about Kohaku this time--combining performances and this one in particular really bothered me. Yeah, she sang with BEGIN and another female whose name I don't remember. When they combine performances, everybody got to sing for about 1 minute and then the next performer got their turn. I really would have liked longer individual performances. Rimi has such a sweet voice and it's really too bad.

the other female singer happened to be moriyama ryoko.. and she wrote nada sou sou.. she's also moriyama naotaro's mother..

The Kouhaku has been posted on jpop.com's tracker. You'll have to register to be able to download though.

http://www.jpop.com/jpopbt/

its 1.9 GB and runs for 4hr 5mins.

Thanks so much!! *muackz* Man I love ppl like ya!

hatakekakashi081 wrote:

i like that song too! it's called "sora ni utaeba" and it's sung by 175R

Thanks for the info

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Gotta love those two comedians.................... "Nandedarou? Nandedarou?" -that $h*t never gets old!

haha!testu & tomo right?

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i like that song too! it's called "sora ni utaeba" and it's sung by 175R

if you liked it also try sakura and happy life

even though the red team didn't do well this year,i'm surprised they did lost by so many points

By the way...did anybody notice that BoA and Ayumi Hamasaki were sitting next to eachother?

When they announced the Artist of the Year Award (I think that's what it was called)....BoA didn't look all that thrilled when Ayumi won. They didn't hug or anything. BoA just started clapping unemotionally. I believe BoA was nominated for this award. Both seemed cold to eachother. Also...I heard Ayumi and Nami Amuro don't get along. Is this true?

Also...BoA is Korean right? Her Japanese is really good. I thought she could just sing in Japanese...I didn't know she understood and could speak Japanese.

I like all three

Yes BoA is Korean and she has been trained to speak and sing in Korean, Japanese, English and Mandarin at the age of 10. She's a well oiled shiny pop machine


Well I finally got to watch the whole Kouhaku and I gotta admit the guys did so much better than the gals this year. I even liked all the enka stuff which I usually don't.

I wished Rimi would of gotten a solo performance though, I much prefer to listen to her alone than with the group.

It still baffles me just how popular that SMAP seikai song is but great performances from the rest of white all round.

BoA! My fave!! I got so pissed when I missed the first 5 mins of the Live telecast and sat through the rest of the 4 hours thinking she would appear, only to know the next day that she was the first to perform......

well, SMAP's sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana is a very very meaningful song that touches lotsa people. i guess that is one of the very good reason why that is so popular

For those who are interested, I found a site that shows photos of all the participants who competed the 54th NHK Kouhaku Red & White competition.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/others/kohaku/2003/

A list of songs that were sung, sorted by the order they were played and what teams they were in, can be found here:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/others/kohaku/2003/20031231kohaku.htm

Both sites are in Japanese. To translate, go to this web site:

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/

Paste the URL into the text box, select the "�����p" option, then click the orange highlighted button.

Enjoy!

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This topic shall be the official JDorama.com thread for this event.

NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen link:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/event/prog/kouhaku.html
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/

Here's some official information:

Date: Friday, December 31
Meeting Place: NHK Hall
Performer list:
(The number next to the name indicates the number of years they've appeared in the NHK event (as of the 2004 event -- i.e. "1" means this coming event will be his/her/their debut)).

Code:

RED                     WHITE    Aiko 3                  Itsuki Hiroshi 34 Ishikawa Sayuri 27      w-inds 3 Lee Jung Hyun 1         EXILE 2 Kamito Irodori 1        ORANGE RANGE 1 Every Little Thing 8    Gackt 4 Otsuka Ai 1             Kawaguchi Kyougo 1 Kawanaka Miyuki 17      KISHIDAN 1 Kuraki Mai 2            Kitajima Saburo 41 Kobayashi Sachiko 26    Chemistry 4 Sakamoto Fuyumi   16    Gospellers 4 Shimakura Chiyoko 35    Sada Masashi 16 Shimatani Hitomi 3      John Ken Nuzzo 2 Tendo Yoshimi 9         TOKIO 11 DREAMS COME TRUE 9      Toba Ichiro 17 Nakashima Mika 3        nobodyknows+ 1 Nakamura Mitsuko 11     Hikawa Kiyoshi 5 Nagayama Youko 11       Hirai Ken 4 Natsukawa Rimi 3        Fuse Akira 20 Nochiura Natsumi 1      Hosokawa Takashi 30 Hamasaki Ayumi 6        Horiuchi Takao 16 Hitoto 2                Porno Graffiti 3 Hirahara Ayaka 1        Maekawa Kiyoshi 14 Fuji Ayako 13           Matsudaira Ken 1 BoA 3                   Mikawa Kenichi 21 Mizumori Kaori 2        Mori Shinichi 37 Morning Musume 7        Yamamoto Jouji 13 W 1                     Yuzu 2 Moriyama Ryoko 9        Ryu 1 Wada Akiko 28

For those of you who subscribe to TV Japan, either though DishNetwork, satellite feed, or NGN2, the 2004 Kouhaku Uta Gassen will air Friday 12/31 starting at 8:30am Eastern Standard Time, 5:30am Pacific, and 3:30am Hawaii. The show is scheduled for 4 hours, 10 minutes.

Re-broadcast is on 12/31 starting at 9:00pm EST, 6:00pm PST, and 4:00pm HST.

Any other source of receiving NHK, either via their analog feed or via the BS network, the times are the same.

As for other sources (KIKU-TV, and other local stations), the show will air on 1/1/2005. Check the schedule for local times.

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Really looking forward to this event, hopefully it'll be a bit more even this year rather than the landslide victory last year.

On a related note, does anybody else think that this year of jpop has been rather weak compared to last year?

I don't know about JPOP, but enka had a great 2004!!!! There were a hell of a lot more female enka CD releases this year than the males. I hope Ishihara Junko will be back this year... I really like her!!!!!

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Woo..I'm so looking forward to see this..Please post the list of the artistes when you get it Groink...

i think L'arc~en~Ciel will be there. i saw it from this site:

http://lovesichigo.150m.com/news.htm.

correct me if i'm wrong.

Meia-chan wrote:

http://lovesichigo.150m.com/news.htm.

One period at the end... Here's a working link:

http://lovesichigo.150m.com/news.htm

Here's someone's prediction list http://www1.plala.or.jp/nakaatsu/04kyokujunyosou.htm

Looks reasonable. The numbers in bracket is how many times they've appeared on the Kouhaku before or �� if its their first time.

sorry didn't see the period at the end... thanks

ruroshin wrote:

Really looking forward to this event, hopefully it'll be a bit more even this year rather than the landslide victory last year. On a related note, does anybody else think that this year of jpop has been rather weak compared to last year?

Personally I think 2004 is an upgrade to 2003. I've been finding much more songs I've liked this year compared to years past but it's still not where it once was.

Not sure if it'll be more even this year as the really big seller and by a landslide is Hirai Ken, followed by Mr. Children so if they both make appearances then the males could possibly just take it. Well here are the top 5 songs of this year thus far according to Studio Oto:

Hirai Ken - Hitomi wo tojite
Mr. Children - Sign
Hirahara Ayaka - Jupiter
Shibasaki Kou - Katachi Aru Mono
Orange Range - Locolotion