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28th Yokohama Film Festival
The was held on 4 February 2007 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: '' Yureru'' * Best Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa – '' Yureru'' * Best Actress: Yū Aoi – ''Hula Girls'', ''Honey and Clover'' * Best Supporting Actor: Takashi Sasano – ''Metro ni Notte'', ''Nezu no Ban'', ''Tsuribaka Nisshi 17: Ato wa Noto nare Hama to nare!'', ''Adan'' * Best Supporting Actress: **Yūko Nakamura – ''Strawberry Shortcakes'' **Kazue Fukiishi – ''What the Snow Brings'', ''Tegami'', ''Memories of Tomorrow'' * Best Director: Miwa Nishikawa – '' Yureru'' * Best New Director: Takayuki Nakamura – ''Yokohama Mary'' * Best Screenplay: Miwa Nishikawa – '' Yureru'' * Best Cinematography: Isao Ishii – ''Strawberry Shortcakes'' * Best New Talent: **Kenichi Matsuyama – '' Death Note'', ''Otoko-tachi no Yamato'', ''Oyayubi Sagashi'' **Yuriko Yoshitaka – ''Noriko's Dinner Table'' * Special Jury Prize: Takayuki Nakamura – ''Yokohama Mary'' Best 10 # '' Yureru'' # ''Hula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, France announced plans to help sponsor the festival with grants from the National Cinema Center. Ceremonies Categories *Best Film *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best Director *Best New Director *Best Screenplay *Best Cinematographer *Best Newcomer *Special Jury Prize *Best New Actor *Best New Actress References External links * Yokohama Film Festival - Overviewon IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{Authority control Awards established in 1980 Film festivals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Matsuyama
is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films ''Death Note'', '' Death Note 2: The Last Name'' and '' L: Change the World'' in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the ''Death Note'' animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel '' Norwegian Wood'', which was released in December 2010. Personal life On April 1, 2011, he married Koyuki Katō, who co-starred with him in ''Kamui Gaiden''. The couple's first child was born in January 2012, and their second child was born in January 2013 in South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed .... In July 2015, the couple had their third child. Filmograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Festivals In Asia
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Film Festivals
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blossoming Of Kamiya Etsuko
is a drama written by Masataka Matsuda. Later, a movie version, directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Tomoyo Harada and Masatoshi Nagase, was released in Japan on August 12, 2006. Kuroki died several months before it was released. Plot In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi. Cast * Tomoyo Harada - Etsuko Kamiya * Masatoshi Nagase - Ensign Nagayo * Shunsuke Matsuoka - Ensign Akashi * Manami Honjo - Fusa Kamiya * Kaoru Kobayashi - Yasutada Kamiya Awards * 31st Hochi Movie Award - Special Prize * 61st Mainichi Film Award - Cinematographic Award ( Koichi Kawakami) * 21st Takasaki Film Festival - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Manami Honjo) * Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 Film)
is a 2006 Japanese-animated science fiction romance film produced by Madhouse, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. Released by Kadokawa Herald Pictures, the film is a loose sequel to the 1967 novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui and shares the basic premise of a young girl who gains the power of time travel and repeatedly relives the same day in a time loop, but with a different story and characters than the novel. Riisa Naka voices teenager Makoto Konno, who learns from Kazuko Yoshiyama, Makoto's aunt and the protagonist to the original story, that Makoto has the power to travel through time. Makoto begins using the time-leaps frivolously to fix problems. ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'' was released on July 15, 2006, and received positive reviews. The film won numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year. The English version was licensed and produced by Kadokawa Pictures U.S., with dubbing supplied by Ocean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Professor's Beloved Equation (film)
is a Japanese film released January 21, 2006 and directed by Takashi Koizumi. It is based on the novel '' The Housekeeper and the Professor''. Background In contrast to the original work, which is told from the perspective of ''the narrator'', the film is shown from the perspective of a 29-year-old ''Root'' as he recounts his memories of the professor to a group of new pupils. Though there are a few differences between the film and the original work (for example, the movie touches on the relationship between the professor and the widow while the book does not give much detail), the film is generally faithful to the original. Cast *Akira Terao as Professor *Eri Fukatsu as Kyoko * Takanari Saito as Root *Hidetaka Yoshioka as Teacher (Root after age 19) *Ruriko Asaoka as the widow Staff *Original story by: Yōko Ogawa (Published by Shinchosha) *Directed by: Takashi Koizumi *Written by: Takashi Koizumi *Produced by: Miyako Araki, Tsutomu Sakurai *Cinematography: Hiroyuki Kit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamome Shokudo
is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Japanese director Naoko Ogigami, based on a novel by Yōko Mure. The film is set in the Finnish capital Helsinki, and follows a Japanese woman who sets up a diner serving Japanese food in the city, and the friends she makes in the process. Cast members include: Hairi Katagiri (Midori), Satomi Kobayashi (Sachie, the shopkeeper), Masako Motai (Masako), Markku Peltola, Tarja Markus (Liisa), and Jarkko Niemi (Tommi). Plot Sachie is a Japanese woman living alone in Helsinki, who is trying single-handedly to establish a new cafe serving Japanese-style food. However, it has no customers. Eventually a young Finnish anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ... enthusiast comes for coffee and becomes the cafe's first regular, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories Of Matsuko
is a 2006 Japanese musical film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. It is based on a Japanese novel by Muneki Yamada. It has not yet received North American distribution, though in its North American premiere at the 2007 New York Asian Film Festival, the film received the Audience Award with an average rating of 9.2 Summary Following a breakup with his girlfriend, Sho Kawajiri sleeps at home, before his father, Norio, pays him a surprise visit. Sho is surprised to see an urn with the ashes of his aunt Matsuko, who he has never met. Sho is asked to help clean her old room, and while doing so, he gradually learns more about the life of his estranged aunt. During Matsuko's early life, she struggled to gain the attention of her father, who was mostly concerned with her chronically ill sister, Kumi. This created an imbalance where Matsuko's needs were less likely to be met. From 1970 to 1971, Matsuko was a very popular junior high school music teacher in Ōkawa, Fukuoka. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriko's Dinner Table
is a 2005 Japanese psychological horror film, and a sequel to the independent horror film '' Suicide Club'' (2002), written and directed by Sion Sono. ''Suicide Club'' concerns the mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law to a shadowy cult. ''Noriko's Dinner Table'' takes place before, during, and after the previous installment's timeline as an attempt to resolve several questions left unanswered. ''Noriko's Dinner Table'' explores various issues including the generation gap in modern families, the malleability of personal identity, social alienation, suicide, and the use of the Internet. The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006. It received special mention at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Plot The film is divided into 5 chapters, the first four of which are named after characters in the film: Noriko, Yuka, Kumiko and Tetsuzo, in that order. The plot is told non-linearly and shifts between the perspectives of Noriko, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriko Yoshitaka
is a Japanese actress. She has played numerous roles in film and television, including lead roles in ''Snakes and Earrings'', ''Yurigokoro'', and the NHK asadora ''Hanako to Anne''. Career At age 16, her first year of high school, Yoshitaka joined the entertainment industry when she was scouted by an agency while shopping at Harajuku. Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel ''Snakes and Earrings'' in 2007. Portraying Lui, a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forked-tongued and tattooed Ama, the role was Yoshitaka's breakthrough role. The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by Oricon, Yoshitaka was the fifth promising young actress of 2009 and 2009's freshest female celebrity. In 2010, Oricon again conducted a poll on the most promising actress and she managed climb up to top the poll. Yoshitaka began to receive more wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamato (film)
is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi. With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship ''Yamato'', concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation Ten-Go. Plot The film begins with footage from ''Asahi Shimbuns special expedition to the ''Yamato'' wreckage in 1999. The narrative then shifts to the present on 6 April 2005, where a woman, Makiko Uchida, is visiting the Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima. She is looking for a boat to take her to the site where the ''Yamato'' sank, to honor the crew on the 60th anniversary of the ship's last battle. Katsumi Kamio, a survivor who is now a fisherman, agrees to take her after he discovers she was an adopted daughter of Petty Officer First Class Mamoru Uchida, a fellow crewman and close friend who he thought went down with the ship. As Uchida, Kamio, and his teenage apprentice, Atsushi, travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
