What do the most popular male celebrity in Japan and a star of Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima” have in common?
Aside from being handsome, 35-year-old SMAP heartthrob Takuya Kimura and actor Kazunari Ninomiya, the 25-year-old who played a young soldier in Eastwood’s film, belong to the same male talent agency, Johnny and Associates, named after founder Johnny Hiromu Kitagawa.
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