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37th Yokohama Film Festival
The was held in 2016 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: - ''Our Little Sister'' * Best Director: ** Hirokazu Koreeda - ''Our Little Sister'' ** Ryōsuke Hashiguchi - '' Koibitotachi'' * Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director: Daishi Matsunaga - '' Toilet no Pieta'' * Best Screenplay: Shin Adachi - '' 100 Yen Love'' and '' Obon no Otōto'' * Best Cinematographer: Mikiya Takemoto - ''Our Little Sister'' * Best Actor: ** Masatoshi Nagase - ''Sweet Bean'' ** Kiyohiko Shibukawa - ''Obon no Otōto'' and ''Areno'' * Best Actress: Haruka Ayase - ''Our Little Sister'' * Best Supporting Actor: Ken Mitsuishi - ''Obon no Otōto'' and ''Koibitotachi'' * Best Supporting Actress: Aoba Kawai - ''Obon no Otōto'' and '' Sayonara Kabukichō'' * Best Newcomer: ** Suzu Hirose - ''Our Little Sister'' ** Hana Sugisaki - ''Toilet no Pieta'' and ''The Pearls of the Stone Man'' ** Ryōko Fujino - ''Solomon's Perjury'' * Examiner Special Award ''Bakuman'' staff and casts * Special G ... [...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] |
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
is a Japanese fashion model actor. He debuted as a model under the name Kee, but changed his name to "Kiyohiko Shibukawa" in 2006. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1998. Selected filmography Film Television Awards See also *Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ... - He appeared on her work 'Tokyo Love'. References External links * 1974 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male models Japanese male television actors Actors from Gunma Prefecture People from Shibukawa, Gunma 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fires On The Plain (2014 Film)
is a 2014 Japanese war film written, produced, directed, and starring Shinya Tsukamoto. The film is based on the 1951 anti-war novel '' Fires on the Plain'', which was a semi-autobiographical work loosely based on author Shōhei Ōoka's experience in World War II. The novel was previously adapted in the 1959 film ''Fires on the Plain'' by Kon Ichikawa. The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, and was released to the wider Japanese box office on 25 July 2015. ''Fires on the Plain'' takes place during the final days of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines on the island of Leyte, after the American army had returned. The Japanese army remnants have taken to the jungle after being driven out of the main cities. The Filipinos, after suffering a brutal Japanese occupation, are in little mood to show mercy on their former tormentors, and light the titular bonfires for communication. Japanese soldiers are reduced to little more than bandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakuman
is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for '' Death Note''. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 2008 to April 2012, with its 176 chapters collected into 20 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story follows talented artist Moritaka Mashiro and aspiring writer Akito Takagi, two ninth grade boys who wish to become manga artists, with Mashiro as the illustrator and Takagi as the writer. Some characters resemble real authors and editors of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', and many manga titles mentioned in ''Bakuman'' have actually been published in the magazine. It is the first manga released online by Shueisha in multiple languages before becoming available in print outside Japan. In 2009, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release in North America. Besides releasing the series in collected volumes, they also released it in their online manga ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirin Kiki
(15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress for Japanese cinema and television. Biography Kiki was born on January 15, 1943, in Kanda, Tokyo. Her father was a master of the ''biwa'' lute and a former police officer. Her mother owned a cafe in Jinbōchō, Tokyo and a restaurant in Noge, Yokohama, the latter being Kiki's maternal parents' home. Her mother was seven years senior to her father and had a child from both her two previous marriages. After graduating from high school, she started her acting career in the early 1960s as a member of the Bungakuza theater troupe using the stage name Chiho Yūki (悠木千帆). She eventually gained fame for performing uniquely comedic and eccentric roles on such television shows as ''Jikan desu yo'' and ''Terauchi Kantarō ikka'' and in television commercials. She changed her name to "Kirin Kiki" when, after being asked on a television show to auction off something of hers, she ended up selling her first stage name, cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakuman (film)
is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Hitoshi Ōne, based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. It tells the story of two Japanese high school students who attempt to break into the competitive world of manga. ''Bakuman'' was produced by Minami Ichikawa, with music by the band Sakanaction, and distributed by Toho. The film stars Takeru Satoh, Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Shota Sometani, Nana Komatsu, Kenta Kiritani, and Hirofumi Arai. ''Bakuman'' opened at number one at the Japanese box office on October 3, 2015, and has grossed over $13 million. It was nominated for several awards, winning Best Picture at the 25th Japanese Professional Movie Awards. It also earned Ōne Best Director at the 35th Japanese Movie Critics Awards and Yasuyuki Ōzeki the Japan Academy Prize for Best Film Editing. Plot High school classmates Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi, one an illustrator, the other a writer, decide to team up to create a successful manga series. Morita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon's Perjury
is a 2-part 2015 Japanese suspense mystery film directed by Izuru Narushima, based on the novel of the same title by Miyuki Miyabe. The first, , was released on March 7 and the second, , was released on April 11, 2015. Cast * Ryōko Fujino as Ryōko Fujino *Mizuki Itagaki *Anna Ishii * Hiroya Shimizu * Miu Tomita * Kōki Maeda (Maeda Maeda's older brother) *Haru Kuroki *Machiko Ono *Hiromi Nagasaku *Kuranosuke Sasaki *Yui Natsukawa *Fumiyo Kohinata Reception Part 1 earned on its opening weekend in Japan. Derek Elley of ''Film Business Asia'' gave both films an 8 out of 10, saying that the first "fans out in involving ways" and that the second "wraps in a challenging and satisfying way." The films won the 2015 Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ... f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryōko Fujino
is a Japanese actress. She is known for her starring roles in the film ''Solomon's Perjury'' and the television drama '' Fujoshi, Ukkari Gay ni Kokuru'', as well as supporting roles in the ''asadora'' ''Hiyokko'' and the ''taiga'' drama ''Reach Beyond the Blue Sky''. Career Fujino joined an entertainment agency in October 2011. In 2014, she was cast as the main character in Izuru Narushima's film ''Solomon's Perjury'', an adaptation of Miyuki Miyabe's novel of the same name. She was selected out of approximately 10,000 people in an audition process that took an unprecedent six months. At the time of her debut, Fujino had only acted as an extra. She used her character's name as her stage name because she "doesn't want to forget the feelings" of receiving the role. Fujino received the Newcomer of the Year award at the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in the film. Later in 2016, she transferred agencies from Theatre Academy to K-Factory. In May 2017, she appeared in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pearls Of The Stone Man
is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by . It was released on June 20, 2015. The film is an adaptation based on a novel by the same name written by Edward Mooney, Jr., and published by Sourcebooks (Naperville, Illinois). The Japanese translation is entitled ''Ishi o Tsumu Hito'' (), from Shogakukan. Atsushi (Koichi Sato) and Ryoko (Kanako Higuchi) are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him to build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko (Keiko Kitagawa). Atsushi continues building the stone wall. Plot Cast *Kōichi Satō (actor), Kōichi Satō *Kanako Higuchi *Keiko Kitagawa *Shūhei Nomura *Hana Sugisaki * *Kenta Satoi *Yoshinori Okada *Yō Yoshida *Akira Emoto Reception Hana Sugisaki won the award for Best Newcomer at the 37th Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Pearls of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Sugisaki
is a Japanese actress who was previously signed to Stardust Promotion. Her former stage name was Hana Kajiura. Biography Sugisaki debuted as a child actress with Stardust Promotion under the stage name . She withdrew from the industry for a period of time, but subsequently decided that she wanted to become an actress. She chose it to sign with the Ken-On group, because Mirai Shida is a Japanese actress. She became recognized after her breakthrough role as Kazumi Kanda in "''Joō no Kyōshitsu''" (" The Queen's Classroom") leading her to more prominent roles, such as Miki Ichinose in '' 14-year-old Mother''. Biography Sh ..., whom Hana is a fan of, belongs to the talent agency. She re-debuted with Ken-On in April 2011. Filmography Film Television drama Other television Radio Awards References External links * * * 1997 births Living people Asadora lead actors Japanese child actresses Japanese film actresses Japanese radio personalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzu Hirose
is a Japanese actress and model. Despite her young age, she is widely regarded as one of the most promising Japanese actresses of her generation. Biography Hirose debuted as a model for Japanese fashion magazine ''Seventeen'', alongside her sister Alice. She gained fame when she starred with a group of actresses for the award-winning film ''Our Little Sister''. The film won the ''Picture of the Year'' award at the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize. Her role for the film garnered her the Newcomer of the Year award in the same ceremony. The film was also selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Hirose appeared in the film '' The Third Murder'' which was a massive success. She won the Best Supporting Actress award in the 41st Japan Academy Film Prize for her role and the film was also awarded the Picture of the Year award in the same ceremony. The film was also screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayonara Kabukichō
is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, starring Shota Sometani and Atsuko Maeda. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Having lost his job at a five-star hotel, Toru (Shota Sometani) is now a manager of a love hotel in the titular district of Kabukicho in Tokyo. Toru's girlfriend, Saya (Atsuko Maeda) is an aspiring singer. Saya doesn't know that Toru manages a love hotel. She ends up being a client there one night, where Toru discovers that she has agreed to sleep with a music executive so she can get a record deal. Cast * Shota Sometani as Toru Takahashi * Atsuko Maeda as Saya Iijima * Lee Na-ra as Hena * Roy (Son Il-kwon) as Chong-su * Kaho Minami as Satomi Suzuki * Yutaka Matsushige as Yasuo Ikezawa * Nao Ōmori as Kazuki Takenaka * Jun Murakami as Kagehisa Amemiya * Tomorowo Taguchi as Masashi Kubota * Shugo Oshinari as Masaya Hayase * Miwako Wagatsuma as Hinako Fuku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
