Japanese superstar magacian Cyril Takayama recently visited Macau for the first time to film his 14th 2-hour television special for Japanese network Fuji TV. Cyril, who has a Okinawan father and a French-Moroccan mother also found time to throw a private magic at MGM Macau, where it seems he charmed most of the female audience.

Although he performed some fancy tricks at the Ruins of St. Paul, Leal Senado Square and Á-Ma Temple, he stuck to the basics at the gathering.

He didn’t perform his levitation or hamburger trick but depite only using a few rubber bands, coins and cards, the handsome magician, certainly had the audience eating out of his hands.

We’re sure Cyril has an affinity for Macau, since it was in the original casino town of Vegas where he first caught the magic bug. He was 7 years old when he saw a guest magician leviate a woman and cut himself in half. It’s all in a day’s work for Cyril who is known for making magic cool in Japan, and achieving the type of heart-throb status usually reserved for pop stars in the process.

He’s certainly come a long way from a teenager who couldn’t afford a meal to someone who can turn a cup of coffee into coins and pull a real hamburger out of a menu and take a chomp from it, only to replace it in the menu, minus the bite.

We’re wondering if he had the chance to make it near the casino floor because he sure would have had the surveillance team in a tizzy. For a guy who can swallow a coin, only to slit his arm with a box cutter and pull the coin out of the wound, making certain cards disappear and reappear is child’s play.

We’re not sure whether it was the magic, his good looks, charm or a combination of all 3, but Cyril certainly looks like he made quite an impression on its Managing Director Pansy Ho.

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