Dear Members of the Media,
TV Asahi Video Co., Ltd.
TV Asahi video production, YouTube channel “THE ROLAND SHOW” nominated for the 27th Busan International Film Festival Asian Contents Award (Documentary Category)
The official YouTube channel “THE ROLAND SHOW” of Roland, the emperor of the modern host world, operated by the video label “αrCH” (https://arch.tv-asahipro.co.jp/) of TV Asahi Video Co., Ltd. has been nominated for the Best Documentary category at the Busan International Film Festival (Asian Content Awards), the largest film festival in Asia.
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“The 4th Asia Contents Awards / Asia Contents Awards 2022 (hereinafter referred to as “ACA”)”, which will be held on October 8th at the Hall of Fame Outdoor Theater of the Busan Film Festival in South Korea, will feature excellent TV and OTT ( Video distribution service) and online content, this is the 4th award ceremony, and it will be held offline for the first time in 3 years since the corona disaster. At the awards ceremony on October 8th, 12 categories including Best Content Award, Best Asian Anime Award, Actor Award, New Face Award, and Writer Award will be announced, along with the newly established Best Asian Documentary Award, Best Supporting Actor Award, and Best Creator Award. . This time, the popular host series “One day of Japanese Host Club” on this channel was nominated for the final selection of 4 works from the submissions from each country. https://asiacontentsawards.com/eng/addon/10000001/page.asp?page_num=4821 In addition, as artists who will appear in the celebratory
performances that add color to the award ceremony, NiziU, whose performances at Tokyo Dome and Kyocera Dome were announced in November, Golden Child, who made his long-awaited debut in Japan in January 2022, and saxophonist Denny Chung has decided.
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What is Roland’s official YouTube channel “THE ROLAND SHOW”? In the two and a half years since the channel was opened in March 2020, it has recorded 1.29 million channel subscribers and a cumulative total of 390 million views (33.68 million hours played). Among them, South Korea and Greater China (Hong Kong and Taiwan) are also supported, and the number of viewers from Asia accounts for about 7% of the total.
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Roland is treated as charismatic, especially in Taiwan, and is regularly featured in net news. His self-published book “Me or others. Roland’s way of life” ranked 10th in annual sales in Taiwan in 2020 and entered the bestseller list. It has become a huge hit with 400,000 copies sold both in Japan and overseas. In addition, the “host culture” that does not exist in Korea has created some enthusiastic fans, and the self-introduction video on China’s SNS “Weibo” has recorded over 1 million views, attracting attention not only in Japan but also in Asia. is rising.
We will post the latest information about the award on the following site and YouTube channel, so please look forward to it!
YouTube channel URL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSxjUZznZGt-ynhmtsCxjXA
TV Asahi video “αrCH” site
https://arch.tv-asahipro.co.jp/
Nominated video
[Video 2: https://prtimes.jp/api/movieim.php?url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cVCk12Z0is&t=3s]
Details about this release:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000054311.html