[Beauty4123]

movie info:

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3546439/

Stephanie will be starring as the leading role in the movie Pride (プライド), based around the shoujo manga of the same name written by Ichijo Yukari (一条ゆかり). The manga was one of four winners of the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards' Prize for Excellence in Manga.

The story centres around two girls: Asami Shio (麻見史緒) and Midorikawa Moe (緑川萌). Shio is the daughter of a famous dead opera singer, blessed with beauty and talent who attends an elite music university. After graduating, she plans to take a study trip to Vienna. Moe is a poor fatherless girl who dreams of being an opera singer. The pair meet, and Moe is jealous of Shio. However, Shio's father goes bankrupt and the trip is cancelled, and the story is about the battle between these two girls.

The movie is planned to be released in late January, 2009. Stephanie's character is Asami Shio.

Originally Posted by Martzb @ JPM

http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/cinema/news/p-et-tp1-20080310-333529.html



More info:

-Will be directed by Kaneko Shuusuke (金子修介), director of the Death Note movie.
-Stephanie is currently training extra hard for the performance. She says that she was first surprised at how different the world of acting is to singing, but she said that she eventually realised that the way to express yourself in both acting and singing is the same.
-She grew up listening to Japanese artists such as Amuro Namie.
-Pride also stars Mitsushika Hikari (満島ひかり) as Moe, and also features acting by Watanabe Dai (渡辺大) and Oikawa Mitsuhiro (及川光博).


aand here's a picture of Asami Shio just for the hell of it: