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Amachan
is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 1, 2013, and was broadcast until September 28, 2013. It was scripted by Kankurō Kudō and starred Rena Nōnen as Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo who moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake. It is the 88th NHK Asadora. ''Amachan'' was not only a ratings success, but brought economic benefits to the Tohoku region and was considered a social phenomenon. It also won the Galaxy Award for best television program of 2013. Synopsis Hometown chapter (Episode 1 - Episode 72) Haruko Amano left the small northern seaside town of Sodegahama 24 years ago and has not returned since. When her childhood friend Daikichi emails her with news that her mother has collapsed, she rushes back with her 16-year-old daughter Aki in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Nōnen
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actress, fashion model and singer from Kamikawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. She is best known for her lead roles on the NHK drama series ''Amachan'' (2013). In July 2016, it was announced that she changed her stage name to "のん, Non." She started releasing her own music in 2017 with her debut single "Ohirome Pack" and released her debut album called "Superhero's" in 2018. Career Nōnen debuted as a fashion model in 2006 and was selected as the eleventh image character for Calpis in 2012. In 2012 she was chosen in an audition of 1953 women to play the heroine in the 2013 NHK Asadora ''Amachan'', in which she plays a high school girl who decides to become an '' ama'', or female shell diver, as well as an idol. ''Amachan'' was a ratings success, earning an average 20.6% rating over the span of the series, second amongst Asadora only to ''Umechan Sensei'' (at 20.7%) in the last decade. Nōnen served as the "PR Ambassador" for the 2013 ''Kohaku Uta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otomo Yoshihide
is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise music, noise, jazz, avant-garde and contemporary classical music, contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the Electroacoustic improvisation, EAI-scene, and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records. He has composed music for many films, television dramas, and commercials. In 2017, Otomo became the 2nd Guest Artistic Director of The Sapporo International Art Festival 2017. Biography Early years Otomo was born in Yokohama in 1959, but due to his father's job, moved to Fukushima, Fukushima, Fukushima when he was nine years old. In high school, he frequented Jazz kissa, jazz cafés and started his own band. After entering university, he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasumi Arimura
is a Japanese actress. Her television roles have included the young Haruko Amano in the 2013 NHK asadora ''Amachan'' and the lead role in the 2017 asadora ''Hiyokko''. She has also appeared in several films, including '' Flying Colors'', for which she won a 39th Japan Academy Film Prize for Newcomer of the Year, and ''We Made A Beautiful Bouquet'', for which she won the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actress. Early life Arimura was born on February 13, 1993 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. She has an older sister, Airi Arimura, who also became an actress and a model. Career In December 2009, while attending Hyogo Prefectural Itami Nishi High School, Arimura auditioned for FLaMme and passed. In May 2010, she made her first series appearance in ''Hagane no Onna''. Arimura gained popularity by appearing in the Morning drama ''Amachan'' in 2013. Arimura then appeared as the lead actress in the critically acclaimed film '' Flying Colors'' where she was cast as a troubled teen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Koizumi
(born February 4, 1966) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is signed to Victor Entertainment. Career In 1981, Kyoko Koizumi participated and won the Star Tanjo! programme and released her 1st single in March 1982. She gained her first number one hit in 1984 and thereafter established herself as one of Japan's most popular pop idols, alongside rivals Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori. Her biggest hit (あなたに会えてよかった) came in 1991, which sold more than a million copies in Japan alone. Koizumi went on to release another single (優しい雨) which is also over a million copies in total sale in 1993. Koizumi had singles reach the Top Ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro. In the 1990s, she released a few dance remixes on vinyl only under the Koizumix Production moniker. She has worked with Yoko Kanno who composed the music for Koizumi's 1996 album, '' Otoko no Ko Onna no Ko''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol industries, such as K-pop. Sub-categories of idols include gravure idols ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kankurō Kudō
is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company ''Otona Keikaku''. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for '' Go'', which explores problems faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in ''Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World'', and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashii. Selected filmography Director *''Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san'' (2005) *'' Shonen Merikensack'' (2008) Writer (Movie Screenplays) *'' Go'' (2001) *''Ping Pong'' (2002) *''Drugstore Girl'' (2003) *'' Iden & Tity'' (2003) *'' Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Japan Series'' (2003) *'' 69'' (2004) *''Zebraman'' (2004) *''Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san'' (2005) *'' Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series'' (2006) *''Maiko Haaaan!!!'' (2007) *'' Shonen Merikensack'' (2008) *'' Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City'' (2010) *'' Too Young To Die! (2016) Writer (Television) * ''Ikebukuro West Gate Park'' (2000) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Award (Japan)
is a Japanese production award for television, radio and commercials. It is given out annually by members of the Japan Council for Better Radio and Television. Awards are given out in four categories: television programs, radio programs, television commercials, and news programming. In each category are awarded one Galaxy Grand Prix for best program (Gyarakushī Taishō), two or three Galaxy Awards for outstanding programs (Gyarakushī Yūshūshō), and several Galaxy Awards for highly recommended programs (Gyarakushī Suisenshō). Individual and special awards are also given out. The Galaxy Award was established in 1963 and is one of the most important awards in the Japanese television industry. Grand Prix winners This is a partial list of winners: Television *2000 Drama D-mode トトの世界～最後の野生児 (NHK, NHK Enterprises 21) *2001 TOYD ( WOWOW, ProgPic Pictures, Fuji Creative Corporation) *2002 ETV 2003 アウシュヴィッツ証言者はなぜ自殺したか ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Takeshi Kitazawa which aired in Japan Monday through Friday mornings—it was also the only of such series to be aired for 20 minutes per episode. From 1975 onward, series aired in the first half of the year are produced by the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting station and series in the latter half of the year are produced by the NHK Osaka Broadcasting station; the Osaka branch's first ''asadora'' production was in 1964. Due to the practice of wiping commonly in practice around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, not all episodes of all pre-1980 ''asadora'' series survive, as the 2-inch Quad videotapes were often wiped and reused; 16 of the produced ''asadora'' series in total are incomplete in the NHK archives, with several series having no surviving e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ama (diving)
are Japanese divers famous for collecting pearls, though traditionally their main catch is seafood. The vast majority of are women. Terminology There are several sea occupations that are pronounced "ama" and several words that refer to sea occupation. * – a female sea-diving fisherperson * – a male sea-diving fisherperson * , – a sea-diving fisherperson of either gender * ''uminchu'' () – a sea fisherperson of either gender in Okinawan While one definition of ama specifically refers to divers, another definition refers to fisherpersons in general. History Japanese tradition holds that the practice of may be 2,000 years old. Records of female pearl divers, or , date back as early as AD 927 in Japan's Heian period. Early were known to dive for seafood and were honored with the task of retrieving abalone for shrines and imperial emperors. traditionally wear white, as the colour represents purity and also to possibly ward off sharks. Traditionally and even as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teppei Koike
is Japanese actor and singer associated with Burning Productions. After appearing in the television drama ''Tentai Kansoku'' in 2002, Koike began appearing in several other films and dramas, notably as Atsushi Otani in ''Love Com''. At the same time, Koike was also in the music duo WaT with Eiji Wentz from 2002 to 2016. Career 2002 * Moved to Tokyo in the spring. Changed schools to Horikoshi High (also attended at the same time as NEWS' Tomohisa Yamashita & Yuya Tegoshi, D-BOYS' Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer Toma Ikuta and KAT-TUN's Koki Tanaka) * Met Eiji Wentz while working and formed WaT. Started doing street lives. * Debuted as an actor in the drama ''Tentai Kansoku''. 2004 * WaT released debut indies C.D. ''Sotsugyō Time'' in June. 2005 * Acted in the drama ''Gokusen 2'' (January 15 – March 19), which was part of the reason for his increasing popularity. * Appeared as Hideki Ogata, a major, regular character in the TBS television drama "Dragon Zakura" (Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuko Miyamoto
is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films. She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in '' A Taxing Woman''. Selected filmography Film *''Lost Sex'' (1966) *'' The Funeral'' (1984) *''Tampopo'' (1985) *'' A Taxing Woman'' (1987) *''A Taxing Woman's Return'' (1988) *''Sweet Home'' (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa *'' A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha'' (1990) *''Minbo'' (1992) *''Daibyonin'' (1993) *'' Supermarket Woman'' (1996) *''Woman in Witness Protection'' (1997) *''Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald'' (1997) *'' Hankyu Railways: A 15-Minute Miracle'' (2011) as Tokie Hagiwara *''Strawberry Song'' (2019) *''Stand by Me Doraemon 2'' (2020) *''It's a Flickering Life'' (2021) as Yoshiko *''BL Metamorphosis'' (2022) as Yuki Ichinoi *''Haw'' (2022) Television *'' Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte...'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keizō Kanie
was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'' and '' Jūkyūsai no Chizu'' and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Ware ni utsu yoi ari'' and ''Boku to, bokura no natsu''. He died on March 30, 2014, of stomach cancer at the age of 69. Filmography Film * ''Āa dōki no sakura'' (1967) - Second Sublieutenant Fawa * ''Yasashii Nippon jin'' (1971) * ''Kaoyaku'' (1971) - Sakamoto * ''Asobi'' (1971) * ''Arakajime ushinawareta koibitotchiyo'' (1971) * '' Zatōichi goyō-tabi'' (1972) * '' Goyōkiba'' (1972) * ''Saihate no joji'' (1937) - Jirō * ''Goyōkiba: Kamisori Hanzō jigoku zeme'' (1973) * ''Goyōkiba: Oni no Hanzō yawahada koban'' (1974) - Mamushi * ''Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu'' (1974) - Shiwa * ''Mutsugorō no kekkonki'' (1974) * ''Okasu!'' (1976) - Truck Driver * ''Utareru mae-ni ute!'' (1976) - Sone Genzo * ''Kashin no irezumi: Ureta tsubo'' (1976) - Tattoo artist Tatsu * ''And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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