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Atsuko Maeda
is a Japanese actress and singer. She is a former member of the idol girl group AKB48, and was one of the most prominent members in the group at the time, regarded as the group's "absolute ace", "immovable center", and the "Face of AKB." After graduating from AKB48 on August 27, 2012, Maeda has since then continued with a solo singing and acting career. Career AKB48 Maeda was born in Ichikawa, Chiba. At age 14, she became a member of AKB48's first group, Team A, which was composed of 24 girls and debuted on December 8, 2005. In 2009, Maeda won the first edition of AKB48's annual general elections, which are described as a popularity contest. As a result, she was the headlined performer for the group's 13th single, "Iiwake Maybe". The following year, she placed second overall, but still had a significant choreography position in the lineup for "Heavy Rotation". Later that year, AKB48 employed a rock-paper-scissors tournament to determine the top spot of AKB48's 19th major sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryo Katsuji
is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He graduated from the Horikoshi High School. Filmography Films *''Tales of the Unusual'' (2000), Ōishi Chikara *''All About Lily Chou-Chou'' (2001), Hitoshi Terawaki *''Yume Oikakete'' (2003), Junichi *''Battle Royale II'' (2003), Haruya Sakurai *''Hanging Garden (film), Hanging Garden'' (2005), Morisaki *''Aegis'' (2005), Kou Kisaragi *''A Heartful of Love'' (2005), Teruyoshi Fukawa *''Origin: Spirits of the Past'' (2006) (voice), Agito *''Hana yori mo naho'' (2006), Sōemon Aoki *''Kōfuku na Shokutaku'' (2007), Bengaku Ōura *''Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad'' (2007), Hiraguri *''Kisshō Tennyo'' (2007), Ryō Tōno *''Awa Dance'' (2007), Kōji Tachibana *''The Shōnen Merikensack]'' (2009), Masaru *''Waiting for Good News'' (2009), Wataru Niigaki *''The Shock Labyrinth'' (2009), Motoki *''Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: A wakening of the Trailblazer'' (2010) (voice), Descartes Shaman *''Surely Someday'' (2010), Kyōhei Manabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by the Japanese government. UTokyo has 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools and enrolls about 30,000 students, about 4,200 of whom are international students. In particular, the number of privately funded international students, who account for more than 80%, has increased 1.75 times in the 10 years since 2010, and the university is focusing on supporting international students. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most selective and prestigious university in Japan. As of 2021, University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include seventeen prime ministers, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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The Complex (film)
is a 2013 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. The film premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival on January 1, 2013, and was released in Japan on May 18 that same year. A 12 episode drama, titled ''Kuroyuri Danchi ~Josho~'' follows events leading up to those that take place in the film. It began airing in Japan on April 9, 2013. In May 2018, the series was released in the United States on Toku. Plot A young nursing student, Asuka Ninomiya (Atsuko Maeda) moves to a dilapidated apartment complex with her father, Isao; mother, Sachiko (Naomi Nishida); and younger brother, Satoshi. She tries to greet her elderly next door neighbor, Shinozaki, but with little success, and befriends a local boy named Minoru Kinoshita, whose only guardian is Shinozaki. Asuka begins to experience strange things, including scratching noises and the sound of a loud alarm clock, both of which come from Shinozaki's flat. She is also wary of her own family, who seem to be doing the same activity and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Nakata
is a Japanese filmmaker. Life and career Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as ''Ring'' (1998), ''Ring 2'' (1999) and ''Dark Water'' (2002). Several of these were remade in English as '' The Ring'' (2002), ''Dark Water'' (2005), and ''The Ring Two''. Nakata was scheduled to make his English-language debut with ''True Believers'', but later pulled out. He was later offered by DreamWorks to direct the movie ''The Ring Two'' (2005), which he accepted, making his English-language debut with a sequel to a remake of his own film. Nakata made his initial breakthrough into film with '' Ghost Actress'' a.k.a. ''Don't Look Up'' (1996). Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of ''Ring''. Other Nakata films include ''Sleeping Bride'' (2000); ''Curse, Death and Spirit''; and ''Chaos'' (2000). He directed the psychological thriller The Incite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kueki Ressha
is a 2012 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. It was released in Japan on July 14, 2012. Cast *Mirai Moriyama as Kanta Kitamachi *Kengo Kora as Shoji Kusakabe *Atsuko Maeda is a Japanese actress and singer. She is a former member of the idol girl group AKB48, and was one of the most prominent members in the group at the time, regarded as the group's "absolute ace", "immovable center", and the "Face of AKB." After ... as Yasuko Sakurai References External links * * 2012 films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita Films set in 1986 Films set in Japan 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuhiro Yamashita
is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Aichi Prefecture, Yamashita attended Osaka University of Arts where he worked on Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's ''Kichiku Dai Enkai''. His graduation film ''Hazy Life'', took the Off Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2000 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Director at the 32nd Hochi Film Award in 2007 for ''A Gentle Breeze in the Village'' and '' The Matsugane Potshot Affair''. He often works with the screenwriter Kōsuke Mukai. Filmography Film * (1999) * (2003) * (2003) * (2004) * '' Linda Linda Linda'' (2005) * (2006) ominbus * '' The Matsugane Potshot Affair'' (2006) * ''A Gentle Breeze in the Village'' (2007) * '' My Back Page'' (2011) * '' The Drudgery Train'' (2012) * '' Tamako in Moratorium'' (2013) * ''La La La at Rock Bottom'' (2015) * ''Over the Fence'' (2016) * (2016) * (2018) * '' Let's Go Karaoke!'' (2023) * ''My Missing Valentine'' (2023) TV *''Midnight Diner Midnight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshidora (film)
, or for short, is a 2011 Japanese live-action film directed by Makoto Tanaka which was released in Japanese cinemas on 4 June 2011. It is based on the bestselling book of the same name and followed a preceding anime series also of the same name. Story The movie is about Minami Kawashima (played by Atsuko Maeda), a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata (Haruna Kawaguchi). She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from the business book ''Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices'' by Peter Drucker, which she mistakenly bought. Cast * Atsuko Maeda as , the team assistant * Koji Seto as , the baseball team's ace pitcher * Minami Minegishi as , the team's scorekeeper * Sosuke Ikematsu as , the team's catcher * Haruna Kawaguchi as , Minami's childhood friend * Yo Oizumi as , the team's coach * Hiroshi Oizumi as the manager * Hiroki Suzuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Trek Beyond Japan Premiere Red Carpet- Maeda Atsuko (32011085602)
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated to stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye, all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Its total mass is the main factor determining its evolution and eventual fate. A star shines for most of its active life due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Hot 100
The ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 is a record chart in Japan for songs. It has been compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' and '' Hanshin Contents Link'' since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at Billboard-japan.com ( JST) and every Thursday at Billboard.com ( UTC). The first number-one song on the chart was " Stay Gold" by Hikaru Utada on the issue dated January 16, 2008. The current number-one on the chart as of the issue dated December 21, 2022, is "Subtitle" by Official Hige Dandism. Methodology From the chart's inception in 2008, to December 2010, the chart combined CD single sales data from SoundScan Japan, tracking sales at physical stores across Japan, and radio airplay figures from Japan's then 32 AM and FM radio stations sourced from the Japanese company Plantech. In December 2010, the chart expanded to include sales from online stores, as well as sales from iTunes Japan. From December 2013, ''Billboard'' incorporated more digital music stores (such aRecochoku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Machine Nante Iranai
is the third solo single by former AKB48 headliner Atsuko Maeda; it was released in Japan on September 18, 2013. It is the first single she has released since she formally left AKB48. She first performed the song at an AKB48 concert in Sapporo Dome where she made a special guest appearance. Promotion Maeda first performed the song at an AKB48 concert on July 31 at the Sapporo Dome where she made a special guest appearance. On August 15, Maeda released a promotional video for the single. * Maeda spent a week in New York City for the filming of the single's music video as well as posing for the jacket covers for the four different editions (Type-A to Type-D). The Type-A and Type-D jacket covers have Maeda at an old diner where she holds a tall shake or eyes a giant hamburger. The Type-B jacket was taken at Times Square. The Type-C jacket has her on a bicycle and was taken at Brooklyn Heights. * A promotion was held at Shibuya Tatsuya where over-the-counter purchasers of the singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapporo Dome
is a stadium located in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, and is primarily used for baseball and association football. It is the home field of the association football club Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo, and was also home to the baseball team Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters through the 2022 Nippon Professional Baseball season. It was a football venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics, was the venue for the opening ceremony of the 2017 Asian Winter Games, and was used for 2 matches of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The stadium was previously a venue of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The dome will be used as the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2030 Winter Olympics if Sapporo is successful in their bid. History Sapporo Dome opened in 2001 with 41,580 seats. The stadium hosted three games during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Germany vs Saudi Arabia, Argentina vs England and Italy vs Ecuador; all three matches were in the first round. The Dome hosted the opening ceremonies of the 2007 FIS Nord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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