New year is
for new beginnings! A professional villain teams up with a girl his polar
opposite in May I blackmail you?. A player who doesn’t believe in love gets
to relive the final week of his life over and over in Kiss that Kills. Finally,
two people broken by their experiences get a second chance at building a real
family in anone.
May I blackmail you?
Senkawa Kanji (Dean Fujioka) is a
“professional villain” who takes on cases that the police or private
investigators cannot handle. He solves cases by blackmailing people to get the
answers or clues that he needs. In one of such cases, he meets Mio (Emi Takei),
a wealthy university student who has a heart of gold. How will this highly
unusual pair work together to solve the cases?
May I blackmail you? premieres January 2,
Mondays and Tuesdays at 9PM.
Kiss that Kills
Dojima Otaro (Kento Yamazaki) is the
most sought-after host at a club. He is the ultimate player who is quick to
move on to his next target as soon as he sees no value in in a woman. One day,
a pale-looking woman with bright red lips appears before Otaro and gives him
the "Kiss of Death." This kiss causes Otaro experience breathing
difficulties and heart palpitations, before sending him into a seizure — and
finally, he dies. Yet he wakes up to seven days before the event and relives the
events over and over again! Can Otaro unravel the mystery behind the
"kiss" and the "death loops"?
Kiss that Kills premieres January 7, Sundays at 9PM, with subsequent episodes
on Sundays at 9.30PM, same time as
Japan!
anone
Harika (Suzu Hirose), a girl who lost
her family and became separated from society can no longer figure out a way to
live. One fateful day, Harika meets an elderly woman, Anone (Yuko Tanaka). Both
of them were deceived, betrayed and have lost faith in other people, but somehow,
they gravitate towards each other and so the older woman gives shelter to
Harika. Can they become a real family and eventually find true humanity?
anone premieres January 13, Saturdays at 7.30PM, same week as Japan!
GEM
is available on SKYCable Channel 116 in Metro Manila and on Channel 222 in
Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Iloilo, and Baguio.
About GEM
GEM is the glittering jewel
of Asian general entertainment. A joint venture between Sony Pictures
Television (SPT) Networks and Nippon Television Network Corporation, GEM enjoys
access to more than 500 hours of Japanese content per year exclusively from Nippon
TV. The channel features first-run and exclusive dramas, comedies and variety
entertainment shows from Japan as well as other Asian territories including
China, Hong Kong and Korea. This includes selected prime time dramas on the
same day and within the same week of their broadcast in Japan. GEM continues to
delight its viewers with the live broadcast of Nippon TV’s music festival ‘THE
MUSIC DAY Summer Wishes Come True’ with performances by DEAN FUJIOKA in
Singapore beamed live, and with the simulcast of the Japanese drama series ‘Kiss
that Kills’ at the same time as Japan. In addition, GEM takes its shows beyond
the screen and into the lives of viewers with artiste meet-and-greet events
with Japanese stars Hayami Mocomichi and Kento Yamazaki.
GEM Vietnam, which is also
part of the Asian channels portfolio, is wholly-owned and operated by SPT
Networks.
See www.GEMtvasia.com and www.facebook.com/GEMtvasia for more.
About Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia
Sony
Pictures Television Networks, Asia was established in 1997 with Singapore as
the Asian headquarters of Sony Pictures Television’s networks business. It
operates five ad-supported 24/7 channels which are wholly-owned by Sony
Pictures Entertainment.
AXN
is Asia’s home of thrilling entertainment; Sony Channel is the premier
destination for female-skewing Hollywood entertainment; Animax offers anime for
all; ONE is powered by prime and current South Korean entertainment content;
and GEM serves up star-studded and popular general entertainment programming
from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. The company also operates
joint-venture Indonesian telenovela channel FMN and children’s content channel
BabyTV.
About Nippon Television Network Corporation
(Nippon TV)
Nippon
TV is recognized as Japan’s viewer ratings champion having topped all timeslot
categories for three consecutive years and garnering the largest profits in the
country’s broadcasting industry. One of the biggest successes for the nation’s
finest producer of all genres of programming is “Dragons’ Den,” a globally
successful business show format that has sold into more than 30 territories
including the UK, Canada, Australia, Russia, Germany, India, Italy and Nigeria.
The Emmy award winning version, “Shark Tank”, airs in the US. Following closely
is the success of “Mother,” a scripted format that has become a big hit in
Turkey and has sold into many territories around the world. With
well-established companies that deal in a broad range of businesses from
animation, movies, events, to fitness clubs, Nippon TV is leveraging its
coveted platform to revolutionize digital media in an ever-changing industry.
Launching a channel in Southeast Asia named GEM through a joint venture with
Sony Pictures Television Networks, and leading the digital content market
through Hulu Japan- a subsidiary that boasts the largest SVOD subscriber base
in the country, Nippon TV is steadily solidifying its presence and brand as a
global media powerhouse.
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