GET BETTER, RICHARD

Japanese hard rocker, Imawano Kiyoshiro, was admitted to the hospital over the weekend with cancer of the larynx.

Kiyoshiro is best known as "Richard" the all-singing, all-dancing black sheep from the House of Windsor in Takashi Miike's HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS, and he also appeared last year in Miike's GREAT YOKAI WAR.

His distinctive croak has the ability to peel itself off a soundtrack and attach itself to your ears and once you've heard it you'll never forget it and can spot it within two seconds flat.

Here's hoping he'll be up and singing again in no time.