SMAP - Other Projects and Activities

Other Projects and Activities

Their variety program SMAP×SMAP shows several types of entertainments ranging from cooking, comedy, and games to singing and dancing, often with celebrity guests such as Tohoshinki, Mariah Carey, Ayumi Hamasaki, Michael Jackson, Will Smith, Hikaru Utada, David Beckham, Tom Cruise, Backstreet Boys, Paris Hilton, Matt Damon, Madonna, Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sheryl Crow, Richard Gere, Avril Lavigne, Kwon Sang Woo, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino, though most guests are Japanese tarento.

Besides singing and acting, the group also manages to be active in numerous other forms of media fields as well. In August 1991 a Saint Seiya musical sponsored by Bandai, was shown in the Aoyama theater in Tokyo, Japan. The story recalls the Sanctuary and Poseidon chapter, starring the members of SMAP as the five bronze saints and Poseidon. In 2002, the group released a soft drink called "Drink! SMAP" in order to promote a CD of the same name. They did this once again in 2010 to promote the album "We are SMAP!".

SMAP was also chosen to be official spokespersons for Square-Enix's popular Dragon Quest series of role-playing video games. This actually is not the first time SMAP was associated with the series. SMAP starred in a musical based on the Dragon Quest games.

It was announced on June 10, 2010 that SMAP will appear in their first drama special in almost six years. Titled Doku Tomato Satsujin Jiken (毒トマト殺人事件?), it is said to be the industry's first "candid-camera drama", in which much of the filming for the drama special went on without SMAP's knowledge.