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2LDK
''2LDK'' is a 2003 Japanese film, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi as part of the Duel Project, starring Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike. Two ambitious actresses, who share an apartment, learn they have been short-listed for the same part and that they have to wait for one more night to see who wins the part. As they bicker throughout the night, their competitiveness and hidden grudges turn their apartment into a battlefield. Synopsis Although aspiring actresses Nozomi (Koike) and Lana (Nonami) share a Tokyo apartment that's owned by their talent management agency, they're a world apart. Nozomi is a soft-spoken country girl from Sado Island who prides herself on being demure. City girl Lana, who grew up in a rough area of Tokyo, is more worldly, experienced and jaded. Whilst in apartment, they learn they have auditioned for the same part in a highly anticipated film called ''Yakuza Wives'' and that there will be a phone call in the morning that will reveal who wins the role. They decide t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maho Nonami
Maho Nonami (野波麻帆 ''Nonami Maho'' born 13 May 1980 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, best known for her role in the critically acclaimed ''2LDK''. Filmography Film * 1997 ''Rebirth of Mothra II'', Yuna * 1998 ''Begging for Love'' (aka Ai o kou hito), Migusa Yamaoka * 2001 ''Kakashi'' (案山子) (aka Scarecrow), Kaoru Yoshikawa * 2001 ''Puratonikku sekusu'' (aka Platonic Sex), Akemi Yamaguchi * 2002 ''2LDK'', Lana * 2003 ''Summer Nude'' * 2003 ''Keep on Rocking'' * 2004 ''Mondai no nai watashitachi'', Akane Kato * 2005 ''Su-ki-da'' * 2018 ''The Lies She Loved'' * 2020 ''The Asadas'' * 2022 ''Even If This Love Disappears From the World Tonight'' * 2022 ''Roleless'', Riho Television * 1999 ''Second Chance'', (Episode 3) * 2002 ''Tobo'' (aka Escape) * 2003 ''Dollhouse'', Ayumi * 2004 ''Kaseifu ha mita! 22'', Eri Itonaga * 2008 ''4 Shimai Tantei Dan'', Horie Ryoko (ep4) * 2011 ''Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. A family grieving their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, ''Office Crescendo'', from which he works independently. His first television drama on Nihon Television was called ''Kora! Tonneruzu'' and ran from 1985 to 1989. He directed ''Taitei no Ken'', an original work by Baku Yumemakura, in 2007. Selected films *''Kindaichi Case Files'' (1997) - starring Domoto Tsuyoshi, Tomosaka Rie *''Shinsei Toilet no Hanako-san'' (1998) *''Pikanchi'' (2002) *'' 2LDK'' (2002) *''Jam Films'' - ''HIJIKI'' segment (2002) *''Collage of Our Life'' (2003) *''Forbidden Siren'' (2006) *'' Ashita no Kioku'' (2006) *'' The Sword of Alexander'' (2007) *'' Happily Ever After'' (''Jigyaku no Uta'') (2007) *'' Hōtai Club'' (2007) *''20th Century Boys'' (2008 - 2009) *''BECK'' (2010) *''Eito Ranger'' (2012) *'' SPEC: Ten'' (2012) *'' SPEC: Close'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Royal
Bert V. Royal Jr. (born October 14, 1977) is an American screenwriter, playwright, and former casting director. He is best known as the writer of the play '' Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead'', which premiered Off-Broadway in 2005, and the 2010 teen film ''Easy A''. Early life Royal grew up in Green Cove Springs, Florida. He did not attend high school, and instead was homeschooled. He later attended St. Johns River State College's Florida School of the Arts, where he majored in acting, but quit after two years because he felt he could not act. Career Royal moved from Florida to New York City at the age of 21 after receiving an internship at the Public Theater. He first worked in casting, where he was involved in the casting of ''Third Watch'' and ''Chappelle's Show'', but quit after five years to become a writer. His first successful script was for '' Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead'', a play centering on the ''Peanuts'' comic strip character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiko Koike
is a Japanese actress. Biography Koike starred in Kunitoshi Manda's film '' The Kiss''. She appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2012 television drama ''Penance,'' and co-starred in Junji Sakamoto's ''A Chorus of Angels'' with Sayuri Yoshinaga. She also co-starred in Masanori Tominaga's ''Vengeance Can Wait'' with Takayuki Yamada. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at Japan Academy Prize for her outstanding performance in the film ''Rebirth''. Filmography Film * ''Kamikaze Girls'' (2004) * ''2LDK'' (2004) * '' Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' (2005) * '' The Kiss'' (2007) * ''Paco and the Magical Book'' (2008) * ''20th Century Boys'' (2009) * ''Vengeance Can Wait'' (2010) * ''No Longer Human'' (2010) * ''Rebirth'' (2011) * ''Railways'' (2011) * '' Liar Game: Reborn'' (2012) * ''A Chorus of Angels'' (2012) * ''Unforgiven'' (2013), Okaji * ''April Fools'' (2015) * '' A Living Promise'' (2016) * '' Terraformars'' (2016) * '' To Each His Own'' (2017) * '' Close-Knit'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TLA Releasing
TLA Releasing is a US film distribution and production company owned by TLA Entertainment Group. In March 2011, a new LLC was formed for the operation. Its primary output is LGBT-related films from all over the world under the "TLA Releasing" label, as well as horror films under the label "Danger After Dark". Since 2000, they have released over 200 films on DVD and various VOD platforms. In 2005, they opened a branch in the UK. In June 2011, they announced "TLA Select", a line of Blu-rays of TLA Releasing's the most popular films, including ''Latter Days'', ''Another Gay Movie'' and ''Another Gay Sequel'', ''Make the Yuletide Gay'', and ''Boy Culture''. In July 2011, the UK division lost its entire inventory of DVDs when rioters in London burnt down a Sony warehouse. Sony rapidly worked to replenish the lost stock. Select films released through TLA Releasing * ''29th and Gay'' * '' 800 Balas'' * '' Absolut Warhola'' * ''Adam & Steve'' * '' A Little Lust'' (Italy, "Né Romeo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duel Project
Duel Project was a challenge issued to Ryuhei Kitamura and Yukihiko Tsutsumi by producer Shinya Kawai during a night of drinking. The challenge was for the two directors to see who could make the best feature film with two principal actors/actresses battling in one principal location in the time span of one week. Kitamura's half was the film '' Aragami'' with Tsutsumi's being ''2LDK ''2LDK'' is a 2003 Japanese film, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi as part of the Duel Project, starring Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike. Two ambitious actresses, who share an apartment, learn they have been short-listed for the same part and that they ...''. External linksThe Duel Project: When drunken wagering leads to great filmmaking by Brian Mckay 2000s action films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aragami (film)
is a 2003 Japanese action film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. It was Kitamura's contribution to the Duel Project, a challenge issued by producer Shinya Kawai to him and fellow director Yukihiko Tsutsumi to film a feature-length movie with only two actors, battling in one setting, in only the time frame of one week. Plot Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi , also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship a ..., who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Films
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2003 by worldwide gross are as follows: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' grossed more than $1.14 billion, making it the highest-grossing film in 2003 worldwide and in North America and the second-highest-grossing film up to that time. It was also the second film to surpass the billion-dollar milestone after ''Titanic'' in 1997. '' Finding Nemo'' was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until being overtaken by ''Shrek 2'' in 2004. Events * February 24: '' The Pianist'', directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. * June 12: Gregory Peck dies of bronchopneumonia. * June 29: Katharine Hepburn dies of cardiac arrest. * November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California. * December 22: Both of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Japanese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Psychological Thriller Films
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Yukihiko Tsutsumi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day. See also * IMDb References External links * Internet properties established in 1997 Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... Online film databases {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
