Online Fans’ Birthday Gifts Make It To Sanada-san!

Just like for Hiro’s birthday in 2007, birthday messages were collected from online fans from all over the world.  Below is a quote of what Misty of http://hiroyukisanada.com said about how the messages and gifts were organized:

“Reiko made our messages and stories into booklets, and she also made a separate booklet for the “story of Speed Racer Tokyo Premiere” taken from this blog.  If you have missed them, go ahead and read my report on this blog - all are in “Speed Racer” category.

She also added the beautiful orchid arrangement.  We don’t know what was HIS reaction to the gift package, but at least she was successful in making people at his agent’s office “OOHING” AND “AAHING” when it was delivered to his office!”

Then he DID SEND A RESPONSE after receiving his package!!! 

“Thank you for the wonderful gifts, the beautiful flowers and especially the
heartfelt messages.  I read all of the messages and I received a lot of love
and energy from them.  I will keep running during my 48th year!”

-hiro-

For a full description of how the gift-giving transpired this year, I suggest that you start by checking out this link to Misty’s blog.  She also provides links to photos of the gifts and links to where people posted more birthday messages on the SHIN forum.

http://hogacentral.blogs.com/hiroyuki_sanada_news/

I am also providing links to various threads in the SHIN forum, provided by our dear Reiko:

hiro response thread
http://sanadahiroyuki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=513  

PICS of gifts at agency
http://sanadahiroyuki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=514  

gifts w/misc. picsn & MORE PICS of the booklets, etc.
http://sanadahiroyuki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=479&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45

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Just as in previous years, it has always been such fun to celebrate Hiro’s birthday.  He is blessed with such a wide range of international fans that adore and appreciate him greatly. Thanks to a fine team effort by truly dedicated fans, a lovely presentation of appreciation made it to him again this year! HUGE thanks go out to all fans that participated in this effort and even though this post was slow to make it here on SHIN, I wanted everyone to know what a BIG DEAL it is to actually be able to get a RESPONSE from him.  He has been in the entertainment business since he was 5 years old.  Japanese fans have always known that, perhaps due to his agency in Japan, responses were just NOT sent out to fans that sent in gifts, packages, letters, etc.  That agency may have made a point NOT to give him items from fans!  But now that he is living in L.A. we know that occassionally he really does RECEIVE special items on his birthday and is able to respond to them.  It’s SO lovely to think that he may really look forward to seeing these gifts for his birthday each year!!!!

Now get on out there Fans and check out those links!  Even though his birthday is over now, there is still no reason to feel the excitement of this year’s Birthday Bash!!!!!

Send Sanada-san Birthday Wishes - Deadline 8/31/2008

YES!  It IS that time again.  A team has formed to collect birthday messages for Sanada-san.  Akira has set up forms for the entry of these messages and Reiko and her sister will take these messages and compile them into another splendid book that will be delivered to Sanada-san!!! 

To post your messages, you can follow these links to the forms:

This form is for IE and Opera users.
http://hiroyuki-sanada.com/bd/message.html

If you are a Firefox user, use this form.
http://hiroyuki-sanada.com/bd2/message.html

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Below I am quoting Misty from her post on HSA about what happened last year and what the team is trying to achieve this year … 

Then, a few days later, we got an e-mail from his agent office forwarded us this BEAUTIFUL thank you note from HIRO!!

The Japanese writing on the left says “Arigato” - Thank you, and the on the right is his autograph in Kanji characters.

So this year, we are targeting at reaching to 100 messages!! Folks, PLEASE SEND IN YOUR MESSAGE!

It does not even have to be in English. The team has created the form to accommodate alphabets, Japanese and Chinese. (We know at least, Sanada-san can read these languages.)

This year, also, we have made the form so NO ONE in the production team actually read your message. It can be automatically gathered and made into a PDF file, to be delivered to the production company. So you don’t even have to worry about your privacy. Please go ahead and write your very personal message to Hiro!!

New SHIN VideoGallery Added

After toying with the idea of loading D-Zaka to YouTube, and then reviewing the movie segments that I’d created, I remembered that there is nudity and sexual content in the film.  I decided it might be inappropriate to upload this to YouTube, afterall and opted to create a video gallery for our SHIN site.  D-Zaka is currently available in our new video gallery.  I will upload other older, out of print, films there.  Download or view the new content here:

http://sanadahiroyuki.com/videogallery/main.php

New Video Page Added to SHIN Website!

After experimenting with YouTube features, I’ve decided to add a new page to our SHIN website.  Notice up at the top of the page, the various pages - Mission, Navigation, Biography, etc.  Now you will see that a Videos link has been added.  Go there to view all of the videos that I will be adding to my YouTube gallery from now on.  I didn’t want to post a new player on each post that I make here in the blog area, because it just looks rather odd, displayed in this way.

I will come here to announce new videos that are uploaded and will direct site visitors to go to our new Videos page. 

HAPPY VIEWING!!!!!!!!!!