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Arata Iura
, previously known as Arata, is a Japanese actor, model and fashion designer. He is the Director of fashion brand Elnest Creative Activity. He holds the position of Director at the Artisan Culture Organisation Institute. Biography Iura co-starred in Yukio Ninagawa's ''Snakes and Earrings'' with Yuriko Yoshitaka and Kengo Kora. He appeared in Junji Sakamoto's '' Strangers in the City''. He portrayed Yukio Mishima in Koji Wakamatsu's '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate''. He also appeared in several of Hirokazu Koreeda's films, including '' After Life'', ''Distance'' and ''Air Doll''. Filmography Film * '' After Life'' (1998) * ''Shady Grove'' (1999) * ''Distance'' (2001) * ''Ping Pong'' (2002) * ''Aoi Kuruma'' (2004) * ''Gina K'' (2005) * '' Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' (2005) * ''The Prisoner'' (2007) * ''Purukogi'' (2007) * ''United Red Army'' (2007) * ''Snakes and Earrings'' (2008) * ''20th Century Boys'' (2008) * ''Air Doll'' (2009) * ''Ultra Miracle Love S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award *1985 - Péter Gothár, '' Time Stands St ... [...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] |
The Ravine Of Goodbye
is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Tatsushi Ōmori. The film is based on the Japanese 2008 novel ''Sayonara keikoku'' by Shuichi Yoshida, which intrigued Ōmori with its central mystery of a rape victim and her perpetrator choosing to live together. It won the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. The ending theme song "Saisakizaka" was written by musician Ringo Sheena, and performed by lead actress Yōko Maki. Cast * Yōko Maki * Anne Suzuki * Nao Ōmori as Watanabe * Arata Iura (as Arata) * Hirofumi Arai * Masaki Miura Masaki may refer to: Name * Masaki (given name), a unisex Japanese given name * Masaki (surname), a Japanese surname Places * Masaki, Ehime, a town located in Iyo District, Japan * Masaki Art Museum, a museum in Tadaoka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan th ... * Mayu Tsuruta * Mansaku Ikeuchi * Shima Ohnishi * Hana Kino * Izumi Minai References External links * 2013 films 2013 drama films Japanese drama films 2010s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Righting The Girl Ship
Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is rolled on its side or further by wave action, instability or wind force beyond the angle of positive static stability or it is upside down in the water. The act of recovering a vessel from a capsize is called righting. Capsize may result from broaching, , loss of stability due to cargo shifting or flooding, or in high speed boats, from turning too fast. If a capsized vessel has enough flotation to prevent sinking, it may recover on its own in changing conditions or through mechanical work if it is not stable inverted. Vessels of this design are called self-righting. Small vessels In dinghy sailing, a practical distinction can be made between being knocked down (to 90 degrees; on its beam-ends, figuratively) which is called a capsize, and being inverted, which is called being turtled. Small dinghies frequently capsize in the normal course of use and can usually be recovered by the crew. Some types of dinghy are occasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakugyaku Familia
is a Japanese manga series by Hiroshi Tanaka. It was adapted into a live action film in 2012. Cast * Yoshimi Tokui as Tetsu *Kento Hayashi as Shuhei * Sadao Abe *Tetsuji Tamayama * Nao Ōmori *Kazuki Kitamura *Arata Iura *Mitsuko Baisho * Kento Ayashi *Hirofumi Arai *Jun Murakami is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami. Career Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka. He has also a ... References External linksOfficial film website * 1999 manga Kodansha manga Live-action films based on manga Manga adapted into films Seinen manga Japanese drama films {{manga-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Homeland
is a 2012 Japanese drama film about a Korean man's visit to his family in Japan after a long exile in North Korea. This is the feature debut of Yang Yong-hi, a second-generation ethnic Korean living in Japan who based the film on her family history. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Plot From the late 1950s and into the 1970s, more than 90,000 of the Korean residents in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice and an end to discrimination. ''Our Homeland'' tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. Yoon Seong-ho (Arata Iura) was sent to North Korea as a teen by his fervently North-supporting father. Returning to Tokyo for medical treatment after 25 years, he finds it difficult to open up to his family, including his passionately anti-North sister Rie (Sakura Ando). Seong-ho and Rie are two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimi Ni Todoke (film)
, also known as ''From Me to You'', is a 2010 Japanese romantic drama film based on the manga of the same name. The film is directed by Naoto Kumazawa, who also co-wrote the film's script with Rika Nezu. The film stars actress Mikako Tabe, who plays the role of Sawako Kuronuma, also known as "Sadako", and Haruma Miura, who plays the role of Shota Kazehaya, an outgoing teenager who is popular with his classmates. ''Kimi ni Todoke'' was released in Japanese cinemas on 25 September 2010. It was subsequently screened at the 10th Asian Film Festival of Dallas on 17 July 2011. The film grossed a total of $18,027,475 in Japan. Plot Sawako Kuronuma has always been avoided by her classmates because her name, her appearance and her manner too strongly resembles that of "Sadako", the main character in the 1998 horror film ''Ring''. They believe that when one stared into Sawako's eyes for more than three seconds, bad luck will befall the person. They also believed that she could summon gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last
The Last may refer to: *The Last (band), Los Angeles power pop band active since 1976 * ''The Last'' (audio drama), a ''Doctor Who'' audio drama released in 2004 * ''The Last'' (album), 2009 album by Aventura *"The Last", a song by The Replacements from the 1990 album All Shook Down *'' The Last: Naruto the Movie'', 2014 Japanese animated film from the ''Naruto'' franchise * ''The Last'' (film), 2019 movie See also *Last (other) *The Last One (other) The Last One may refer to: Television * "The Last One", an episode of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' * " Last Last One Forever and Ever", an episode of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' * "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We ... Mean It)", ... * The Last Man (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Last, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterpillar (2010 Film)
is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Ranpo's banned short-story .Roberto Silvestri Sesso acrobatico contro la guerra'', '' il manifesto'' 16 February 2010, p.12 The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various issues, such as war crimes, handicapped veterans, and spousal abuse. The film also deals with themes of sexual perversion and features graphic sex scenes. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Shinobu Terajima received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her portrayal of Kurokawa's wife. Plot The film is set in the late 1930s, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the first scene, Lieutenant Kurokawa scourges, rapes and disembowels Chinese people during the war. Later, he returns home as a war hero, but with a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rabe (film)
''John Rabe'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''City of War: The Story of John Rabe'') is a 2009 biographical film directed by Florian Gallenberger, based upon John Rabe's published wartime diaries. An international co-production between Germany, China and France, the film focuses upon the experiences of Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), a German businessman who used his Nazi Party membership to create a protective International Safety Zone in Nanking, China, helping to save over 200,000 Chinese from the Nanking Massacre in late 1937 and early 1938. The massacre and its associated atrocities were committed subsequent to the Battle of Nanking by the invading Imperial Japanese Army after they defeated the Chinese Nationalist forces defending the city during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Filming commenced in 2007, and it premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival on 7 February 2009. Upon release, it did not receive theatrical distribution in Japan and was the subject of vocif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century Boys
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Spirits'' from 1999 to 2006, with the 249 chapters published into 22 ''tankōbon'' volumes. A sixteen chapter continuation, titled , ran in the same magazine from 2006 to 2007 and was gathered into two ''tankōbon''. It tells the story of Kenji Endo and his friends, who notice a cult-leader known only as "Friend" is out to destroy the world, and it has something to do with their childhood memories. The series makes many references to a number of manga and anime from the 1960s–1970s, as well as to classic rock music, its title being taken from T. Rex's song " 20th Century Boy". A trilogy of live-action film adaptations, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, were released in 2008 and 2009. The manga was licensed and released in English by Viz Media from 2009 to 2012, and distributed in Australasia by Madman Entertainment. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Red Army (film)
is a 2007 film written, directed and produced by Kōji Wakamatsu. It stars Akie Namiki as Hiroko Nagata and Go Jibiki as Tsuneo Mori, the leaders of Japan's leftist paramilitary group, the United Red Army. Akie Namiki was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Story The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident. Production In order to make the film Wakamatsu mortgaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
