For the first time in her acting career Aya Ueto will be playing as a detective in Absolute Zero Point ~ Unsolved Cases Special Investigation. The new drama will begin airing in Japan Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. starting April 13.

Ueto said, “I hope I can show a totally new face to everyone.”

I’m sure Ueto fans will agree with me that it’s great enough to see her on a weekly basis. Well, if you live in Japan. Probably better to see her in person more often. Better than nothing.

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Aya Ueto walked down the aisle at Elysion House in Aoyama this week, showing off two wedding dresses from the second round of her bridal range “U AYA UETO DRESSES.”

Ueto modeled two dresses she had a hand in designing – one a black and white tartan number complimented with a light pink floral motif, the other a more traditional white dress but with an interesting head piece and lapel design. The two dresses are part of the new collection of 10 designs marketed under the concept of “Adult Cute.”

Ueto said that she is wearing wedding dresses more and more in her acting work these days, and that she has started to want to wear one for real. She said she hopes her dream of getting married in her 20s comes to fruition, but that there was no special man in her life right now. She also said: “I want the kind of pure love you see in Korean dramas. The kind that set my heart racing when I was in junior high.”

The dresses will be available for rental from Sept 1.

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There’s been an announcement that Aya Ueto will be the lead voice actress in the Japanese dub version of the CG film Astro Boy. Imagi Animation Studios is producing the movie, which will open in Japan on October 10th and in the U.S. on October 23rd.

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Aya Ueto attended an event in Chiyoda Ward this week held by Sanyo Foods to announce their new products within the Sapporo Ichiban cup pasta range. She will be starring in the commercial for the product which will go on sale in Japan on August 3.

Ueto was appointed “honorary apron chief” surprised the media when she hopped off stage and fed a cameraman a spoon of the pasta she just prepared.

She later mentioned that she began cooking when she was 19 because she feared it would be embarrassing if she didn’t know how to cook by the time she reached 20. A reporter asked if she was cooking for a special someone. Ueto replied that she’s currently cooking for family but would like to cook as a good mother and wife.

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AOKI, a budget business fashion company, chose Aya Ueto to appear in a new commercial promoting their new line of wash-and-wear suits. In an event hosted in Omotesando, Ueto wore the same white dress she wore in the commercial. It was there that she admitted that white is her favorite color and to anyone can tell that if they were in her apartment.

At the event, Ueto demonstrated how to wash the “Premium Wash Suits”. Although she looked beautiful and confident, Ueto felt differently,

“It’s embarrassing to do commercials, because the character in them is definitely not me. In this commercial, I had to play a really clean-cut woman, but that really doesn’t suit me.”

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Aya Ueto recently attended an event in Shibuya to promote the drama show that she and SMAP’s Masahiro Nakai will co-star in, “Konkatsu!”

On Sunday, Ueto and models wearing wedding dresses that Ueto helped design handed out 5,000 small candies in the shape of bouquets to people gathered at the Seibu department store and passing by. Ueto told the crowd she hoped to help people lead fulfilling and happy married lives, and conveyed her hopes that the new drama would be well-received.

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