Singer/actress ICONIQ will be shutting down her Facebook account due to slanders and threats that she has been receiving.
ICONIQ comments: "This is really sad. I did not start Facebook for this purpose." She wrote on Facebook that: "I know that people hold varying opinions of me, and I am grateful and well aware that it is natural that I will also be receiving scolding and harsh words. But it really pains my heart to receive all these hurtful comments and threats, and even involving totally unrelated people in this". "It will be impossible for me to keep using FB."
She will be closing her account on the last night of her stage play Merrily we roll along on December 8.
ICONIQ comments: "I am truly grateful to the people who have supported me until this day. I hope you all understand this selfish decision that I have made. I am truly sorry".
The movie adaptation of the novel Eien no Zero will be shown on December 21.
Actors Junichi Okada, Haruma Miura, Mao Inoue, director Takashi Yamazaki, and novelist Naoki Hyakuta attended the completion press-con on July 22. Okada shaved his head for the role of Miyabe, a Zero fighter plane pilot.
When Okada was asked about going bald: "I already knew that I had to go bald the moment they let me play the role of Miyabe, so there's really nothing much to say about it... But since everyone's been asking me about it, maybe you guys can say that this is how I express my spirit."