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31st Yokohama Film Festival
The was held in 2010 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: - ''Dear Doctor'' * Best Director: Akira Ogata - ''Nonchan Noriben'' * Best New Director: ** Sumio Ōmori - '' Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru'' **Takuji Suzuki - '' Watashi wa Neko Sutōkā'' * Best Screenplay: Miwa Nishikawa - ''Dear Doctor'' * Best Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima - ''Dear Doctor'' * Best Actor: Masato Sakai - ''Kuhio taisa'' and '' Nankyoku Ryōrinin'' * Best Actress: Manami Konishi - ''Nonchan Noriben'' * Best Supporting Actor: **Yoshinori Okada - ''Nonchan Noriben'', '' Jūryoku Piero'' and '' Oto na ri'' **Yutaka Matsushige - ''Dear Doctor'' * Best Supporting Actress: Sakura Ando - ''Love Exposure'', ''Kuhio taisa'' and ''Tsumitoka batsutoka'' * Best Newcomer: **Hikari Mitsushima - ''Love Exposure'', ''Kuhio taisa'' and ''Pride'' ** Machida Marie - '' Miyoko Asagaya Kibun'' * Examiner Special Award: '' Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru'' staff and casts * Special Grand Prize: Kaoru Yachigusa Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshinori Okada
(born 19 March 1977 in Ōno, Gifu) is a Japanese actor. He has starred several TV series such as '' Atsuhime'' (2008) and '' Nobuta. O Produce'' (2005) as well as movies such as ''Densha otoko'' (2005). He is a high school graduate and does not have a college degree. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for ''Nonchan Noriben''. Filmography Film * ''Like Grains of Sand'' (1996) * ''Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series'' (2003) as Ucchi * ''Kamikaze Girls'' (2004) * ''Densha Otoko'' (2005) * ''Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series'' (2006) as Ucchi * '' Fine, Totally Fine'' (2008) * ''Nonchan Noriben'' (2009) * '' I Am a Hero'' (2016) as Sango * ''The Confidence Man JP: The Movie'' (2019) * ''Three Nobunagas'' (2019) as Oda Nobunaga? * ''Thank you, My Highlight vol.04'' (2019) * '' Your Eyes Tell'' (2020) * ''Daughter of Lupin: The Movie'' (2021) * ''The Three Young-Men in Midnight: The Movie'' (2022) as Mattsun Television * '' Iguana Girl'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Doll
is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. It is based on the manga series ''Kuuki Ningyo'' by Yoshiie Gōda, which was serialized in the seinen manga magazine ''Big Comic Original''. It stars Bae Doona as an inflatable sex doll that develops consciousness and falls in love. ''Air Doll'' debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. It opened in Japanese cinemas on 26 September 2009. Kore-eda said the film is about the loneliness of urban life and the question of what it means to be human. Plot Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable sex doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion; he dresses her, talks to her over dinner, takes her for walks in a wheelchair, and has sex with her. While Hideo is at work, Nozomi comes to life. She dresses in her maid's outfit and explores the world outside their apartment with wonder. She takes a job in a video store and becomes romantically involved with one of the employees, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villon's Wife
is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Kichitaro Negishi. It is based on the 1947 short story of the same name by Osamu Dazai. Synopsis Sachi is the long-suffering wife of popular novelist Otani in post-World War II Japan. Brilliant but self-destructive, Otani spends his days drinking, running up debts, and looking for inspiration with other women. A visit from Miyo and Kichizo, the owners of the tavern which Otani frequents, informs Sachi that her husband has run up a fortune in debts and has stolen money from them. To pay off the debt, Sachi becomes a waitress at the bar, where her beauty and warmth bring in new customers. While working at the bar, she meets a young laborer, Okada, who falls in love with her. Also on hand are Sachi's old boyfriend, Tsuji, and her husband's mistress, Akiko. Though increasingly empowered by her new independence, Sachi retains her allegiance to her husband. Cast * Takako Matsu as Sachi * Tadanobu Asano as Otani * Shigeru Muroi as Miyo * Masatō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaoru Yachigusa
was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957 she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. After leaving the Revue, she was active in film, television, and narration. She famously quit part way through the filming of the television series ''Akai Giwaku'' outraged at being forced to work at times dictated by idol Momoe Yamaguchi's schedule. Her husband, director Senkichi Taniguchi, died on October 29, 2007, in Tokyo, Japan. The couple had been married since 1957. Yachigusa died on October 24, 2019, at a Tokyo hospital from pancreatic cancer, aged 88. Awards and honours * Medal with Purple Ribbon (1997) * Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2003) * Mainichi Film Awards: Tanaka Kinuyo Prize (2004) * Japanese Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for her role in ''Ashura no Gotoku'' (2004) * Honorary citizen of Tokyo (2015) Filmography Film (incomplete) * ''Madame Butterfly ''as Cio Cio San (1954), dubbed by an Italian soprano * ''Samura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyoko Asagaya Kibun
Miyoko (written: is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Miyoko Akaza, Japanese actress * Miyoko Asada, Japanese actress * Miyoko Asahina, retired female long-distance runner * Miyoko Asō, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese swimmer * Miyoko Hirose, former volleyball player *, Japanese hurdler * Miyoko Watai, Japanese women's chess champion * Miyoko Schinner, founder and CEO of Miyoko's Creamery * Miyoko Takishita (泷下美代子), survivor and robbery victim of a Singapore Oriental Hotel murder On 6 June 1994, two Japanese people, Japanese tourists were robbed and attacked by two men in their shared room in the Oriental Hotel in Singapore. One of them was brutally assaulted and died, while the other survived. The case, known as the Ori ... case in 1994 {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machida Marie
Machida may refer to *Machida (surname) * Machida, Tokyo, a city in Japan *Machida High School Machida may refer to * Machida (surname) *Machida, Tokyo is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 428,851, and a population density of 6,000 persons per km². The total are ..., high school in Machida * Machida Station (other), multiple train stations in Japan {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pride (manga)
is a manga series by Yukari Ichijo serialized in ''Chorus'' magazine. In 2007 it won the Excellence Prize for manga at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2009, it was adapted into a live-action film starring the American singer and actress Stephanie as the protagonist: the aspiring opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ... singer Shio Asami. Plot References Manga adapted into films Shueisha franchises Shueisha manga Josei manga Theatre in anime and manga Japanese musical drama films {{manga-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikari Mitsushima
is a Japanese actress, singer and model. In 2017 she was the vocalist and dancer in Mondo Grosso's videos for "Labyrinth", which has garnered over 32 million views on YouTube as of 2 February 2022, and "In this World". Career She began her music career in 1997 as a teenage 'idol singer' in the J-pop groups Folder and Folder 5. She made her acting debut in the same year, starring as Shiori Uchiura / Little Girl in the kaiju film ''Rebirth of Mothra II''. Her first television appearance came in 2005, when she played Elly in ''Ultraman Max''. Her film career recommenced as Sayu Yagami in 2006's manga-adaptation thriller film ''Death Note'', and in 2008 she starred as Yōko Ozawa in ''Love Exposure'', a comedy-dramaart film directed by Sion Sono. Her performance in ''Love Exposure'' brought her critical attention and won her and her team several awards. Since then Mitsushima has had starring roles in numerous films and television dramas including 2010's ''Sawako Decides'', written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsumitoka Batsutoka
is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Keralino Sandorovich. Awards 31st Yokohama Film Festival *Won: Best Supporting Actress - Sakura Ando References 2009 films Films directed by Keralino Sandorovich 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Exposure
is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the crime of upskirt photography. The first version was originally six hours long, but was trimmed at the request of the producers. Following its release, it won many awards and received acclaim from critics. At the Berlin International Film Festival, it won the Caligari Film Award and the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Yū Honda is a young teenager Catholic attempting to live his life faithfully. His father, Tetsu, has become a devout Catholic priest following the death of Yū's mother and operates his own church. Tetsu asks Yū to confess his sins, but Yū believes he is a good person who has little to confess. To appease his father, he makes up sins but his father sees right through him so Yū becomes obsessed with committing real sins. Yū befriends ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakura Ando
is a Japanese actress. Career Ando won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival 2010 for ''Love Exposure'', ''The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio'' and ''Tsumitoka batsutoka''. She was also nominated for the award for best supporting actress at 4th Asian Film Awards 2010 for ''A Crowd of Three''. She appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2012 television drama ''Penance''. She has also appeared in films such as ''The Samurai That Night'', ''Our Homeland'', and ''Petal Dance''. In 2015, Ando received the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film at JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York. In 2018, Ando received high praise for her performance as Nobuyo Shibata in director Hirokazu Kore-eda's ''Shoplifters Shoplifting Shoplifting is the theft of goods from an open retail establishment, typically by concealing a store item on one's person, in pockets, under clothes or in a bag, and leaving the store without paying. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
