is a Japanese music
variety
Variety may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats
* Variety (radio)
* Variety show, in theater and television
Films
* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
* ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...
television show that was broadcast by
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...
from April 3, 2006, to March 26, 2007. It is the substantial remake of ''Heavymeta-san'' that was broadcast in 2005 in Japan. Despite the title, the key genre in the program is
heavy metal, just like ''Heavymeta-san''.
In June 2020, "Rock Fujiyama" official YouTube channel was established.
List of guests
* #01 -
Kohei Otomo
* #02 -
Hideki Saijo
was a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song " Y.M.C.A.," called " Young Man." In the 1970s, he was called with Goro Noguchi and Hiromi Go. Although the origina ...
* #03 -
Masaki Kyomoto
is a Japanese actor, singer song writer, and guitarist. He is famous for playing the role of Ryu on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu series.
He has appeared in films and television series including ''Legend of the Eight Samurai'', '' Sukeban ...
* #04 -
Kenji Ohtsuki
* #05 -
Yoshio Nomura is a Japanese guitarist, music producer, narrator, former idol and actor. In the 80's, he was part of the idol group Tanokin Trio. He released a single called "kimagure ONE-WAY BOY" in 1983 as lead vocalist and guitarist of THE GOOD-BYE.
Major ca ...
* #06 -
Nanase Aikawa
is a Japanese singer. She publishes her music under the Motorod label, a division of Avex Group.
Biography
Early life
Nanase Aikawa was born on February 16, 1975, in Osaka, Japan. Throughout her school years, Nanase had sung and participate ...
* #07 -
Takanori Takeyama
is a Japanese ''tarento'', comedian and actor.
Takeyama performed '' boke'' in the comedy duo Cunning and is known for his often "angry" persona while at the same time being an "easy to tease" character. His real name and former stage name in th ...
* #08 -
Shinya
* #09 -
Shirō Sano
is a Japanese actor.
Career
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Sano lived in Tokyo and Matsue, Shimane as a child, before returning to Tokyo to enter art school. He joined several theatrical troupes, including Jurō Kara's Jōkyō Gekijō. He had h ...
* #10 -
Noriko Aota
* #11 - MCU
* #12 - Takahiro Azuma
* #13 -
Kaela Kimura
is a Japanese pop rock singer, lyricist, fashion model and television presenter.
Career
Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine '' Seventeen''. ...
* #14 -
Andrew W.K.
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American conceptual performance artist, rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his m ...
* #15 - Takashi Utsunomiya,
Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976) is a Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso and composer known for his fast and complex finger work. His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. Shimabukuro has writt ...
* #16 -
Hiroshi "Mush" Kamayatsu,
DragonForce
DragonForce are a British power metal band from London, England. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman, and are known for their long and fast guitar solos, fantasy-themed lyrics and retro video game-influenced ...
* #17 -
Genki Sudo
is a Japanese MMA fighter, singer, actor and politician who has been serving as a political independent in the House of Councillors since 2019. Between 1998 and 2006, Sudo was a professional athlete and then was in the entertainment industry fro ...
* #18 -
Demon Kogure
, previously known as , is a Japanese musician, songwriter, entertainer, journalist, sumo commentator, actor and voice actor. He first gained fame in the 1980s as vocalist of the heavy metal band Seikima-II, before starting a solo career in ...
* #19 -
Masahiro Takashima
is a Japanese actor and singer.
Early life
Takashima comes from a family of actors, including his father Tadao Takashima, his mother Hanayo Sumi, and his younger brother Masanobu Takashima.
Career Acting
Takashima debuted in the 1987 film '' ...
,
Luke Takamura
is a Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as guitarist of the heavy metal band Seikima-II from 1987 to 1999, and for various temporary reunions since. From 2002 to 2020, he was the lead singer and guitarist of the rock ...
* #20 - Kone, Luke Takamura
* #21 -
Kankuro Kudo is an old-fashioned Japanese given name rarely used in modern Japan.
Real people
* Kankurō Kudō, actor-screenwriter.
*The kabuki actors known as Nakamura Kankurō, including:
**Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, actor who previously known as Nakamura Ka ...
* #22 - Kohei Otomo
* #23 -
Football Hour
is a Japanese comedy duo ( kombi) consisting of Terumoto Gotō (tsukkomi) and Nozomu Iwao (boke), both from Osaka. They are performers for the entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo. They graduated from the Yoshimoto NSC Osaka 14th generation c ...
* #24 -
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big, and was also a member of Racer X, with whom he released several albums. In 1996, Gilbert launched a solo career, for which h ...
* #25 -
Beni Arashiro
is a Japanese R&B singer, who debuted in 2004 under the Avex Trax label. In 2008, Arashiro left Avex Trax and transferred to Universal Music Japan where she started to perform as simply Beni (stylized as BENI).
She was initially best known fo ...
* #26 -
Takako Shirai, Hajime Anzai
* #27 -
Koji Yamamoto
* #28 -
Maki Oguro
* #29 - Haruo Chikada
* #30 - Jun Miura, Hajime Anzai
* #31 -
Kerry King
Kerry Ray King (born June 3, 1964) is an American musician, best known for being the co-lead guitarist and songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer. He co-founded the band with Jeff Hanneman in 1981 and remained a member for nearly four decades.
...
* #32 - Kenji Ohtsuki
* #33 - Nanase Aikawa, Shinya
* #34 - Masahiro Takashima
* #35 - Toru Hidaka, Taro Kato (
Beat Crusaders
were a Japanese rock band active from 1997 to 2010. During all promotional appearances, their faces are masked by drawings resembling themselves as printed by a dot-matrix printer.
History
Beat Crusaders, commonly abbreviated BECR, was founded ...
)
* #36 - Shiro Sano
* #37 - Yoshio Nomura,
Luke Takamura
is a Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as guitarist of the heavy metal band Seikima-II from 1987 to 1999, and for various temporary reunions since. From 2002 to 2020, he was the lead singer and guitarist of the rock ...
* #38 -
The Collectors
* #39 - George Takahashi
* #40 - Mika Mifune
* #41 - Makoto Ayukawa
* #42 -
Starless Takashima
* #43 - Ayako Nakanomori
* #44 -
Rize
Rize (Greek language, Greek: ρίζα, Laz language, Laz: რიზინი, Georgian language, Georgian: რიზე,
, Ottoman Turkish: ريزه)
is the capital city of Rize Province in the eastern part of the Black Sea Region of Turkey.
Rize ...
* #45 -
Polysics
is a Japanese Techno/Electronic Music band from Tokyo, who dubs its unique style as "technicolor pogo punk". It was named after a brand of synthesizer, the Korg Polysix. The band started in 1997, but got their big break in 1998 at a concert in ...
* #46 -
Triceratops
''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
* #47 -
Paul Gilbert
Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big, and was also a member of Racer X, with whom he released several albums. In 1996, Gilbert launched a solo career, for which h ...
, Eu Phoria
* #48 - B-Dash
* #49 - Dohatsuten
* #50 -
* #51 -
Triceratops
''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
, Luke Takamura
* #52 -
Herman Li & Sam Totman of DragonForce
External links
Rock Fujiyama official site
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Japanese music television series
2006 Japanese television series debuts
2007 Japanese television series endings
TV Tokyo original programming
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