The five SMAP lads have saved their highest-profile guest of the year for last. This Monday, their weekly variety show "SMAP×SMAP" will feature not only Lady Gaga, but also her father, Joe Germanotta, who owns an Italian restaurant on Central Park in New York City. One of the regular segments of the show is Bistro SMAP, wherein the boys whip up culinary masterpieces for their guests. In this case they'll try their hand at a fusion of Italian and washoku (traditional Japanese cuisine). The publicity materials for the show promise a glimpse of the "real" Lady Gaga that the public has never seen before.
Also on the show is a segment called SMA-shin High School, which features 100 "Takarasienne," or members of the all-female Takarazuka musical theater company, who will be taking a "class" from Kaname Oki, one of the troupe's biggest stars specializing in leading-man roles.
Not to be confused with the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich movie starring Ryan O'Neal, "Kami no Tsuki" ("Paper Moon"; NHK-G, Tues., 10 p.m.) is a new TV drama based on a novel by Mitsuyo Kakuta, who wrote the bestseller "Yokame no Semi" ("Eight-day Cicada").