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Big Fish And Begonia
''Big Fish & Begonia'' () is a 2016 Chinese animated epic fantasy film written, produced and directed by Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun. The first animated feature film of B&T Studio collaborating with Studio Mir, it is a joint investment by B&T and Enlight Media. It was released in both 2D and 3D formats in China by Enlight Media on 8 July 2016. Shout! Studios acquired the North American distribution rights, with a wide release on 6 April 2018 in co-distribution with Funimation Films. Manga Entertainment released the film in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 18 April 2018. Plot In a mystical realm that exists beneath the human world, populated by magical-powered beings, a girl named Chun participates in a coming-of-age ritual where she is transported through a portal of water to experience the human world in the form of a red dolphin. There, she encounters a human boy who lives by the sea and reveres aquatic creatures. During a storm, Chun is tangled in a fishing net near the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malus Spectabilis
''Malus spectabilis'' () is a species of crabapple known by the common names Asiatic apple, Chinese crab, HaiTang and Chinese flowering apple. It is endemic to China and native to the provinces of Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang. Description ''Malus spectabilis'' has white or pink flowers, depending on the variety. The fruit is yellow and about 2 centimeters wide. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant, ornamental tree, especially popular in China. Cultural significance In 2009, the ''M. spectabilis'' flower was named the city flower of Baoji, China. References External links Malus, spectabilis Endemic flora of China Flora of Hebei Flora of Jiangsu Flora of Liaoning Flora of Qinghai Flora of Shaanxi Flora of Shandong Flora of Sichuan Flora of Yunnan Flora of Zhejiang Garden plants of Asia Ornamental trees {{malus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Lowenthal
Yuri Lowenthal (born March 5, 1971)Birthday references: * * * is an American voice actor, producer and screenwriter known chiefly for his work in cartoons, anime and video games. Some of his prominent roles in animations and anime include Sasuke Uchiha in ''Naruto'', teenage Ben Tennyson in ''Ben 10'', Jinnosuke in '' Afro Samurai'', Simon in ''Gurren Lagann'' and Suzaku Kururugi in ''Code Geass''. In video games, he voices The Prince in Ubisoft's '' Prince of Persia'', Hayate/Ein in '' Dead or Alive'', Matt Miller in '' Saints Row: The Third'' and ''Saints Row IV'', and Peter Parker / Spider-Man in various video games associated with the character, notably the incarnation featured in the '' Marvel's Spider-Man'' series by Insomniac Games. He has a production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions, with his wife, Tara Platt, where they have produced several feature films and a live-action web series called ''Shelf Life''. He co-authored the book ''Voice-Over Voice Actor''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leizu
Leizu (), also known as Xi Ling-shi (, Wade–Giles Hsi Ling-shih), was a legendary Chinese empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor. According to tradition, she discovered sericulture, and invented the silk loom, in the 27th century BC. Myths According to legend, Leizu discovered silkworms while having an afternoon tea, and a cocoon fell in her tea. It slowly unraveled and she was enchanted by it. According to one account, a silkworm cocoon fell into her tea, and the heat unwrapped the silk until it stretched across her entire garden. When the silk ran out, she saw a small cocoon and realized that this cocoon was the source of the silk. Another version says that she found silkworms eating the mulberry leaves and spinning cocoons. She collected some cocoons, then sat down to have some tea. While she was sipping a cup, she dropped a cocoon into the steaming water. A fine thread started to separate itself from the silkworm cocoon. Leizu found that she could unwind this soft and lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Jie (voice Actor)
Zhang Jie (又名阿杰, born November 27, 1978), also known as Jet and Ketsu, is a mainland Chinese voice actor. Because he and Bian Jiang, and two female voice actors, Qiao Shiyu and Ji Guanlin, have combined to be the voices of many popular TV dramas, the citizens have joked that Chinese TV dramas are all four of them falling in love. Dubbing Film and television work TV shows ;2007 * ''Love Law'' Kim Jong-ho (Jin Zhengxun) ;2008 * ''The Legend of Bruce Lee'' (character "Blair", originally Ted Durham) * 鸳鸯河 Wei Weiqing (Xie Junhao) * ''A Thousand Drops of Tears'' Lin Boya (Xu Yufeng) * ''Rose Martial World'' (Chen Jianfeng) ;2009 * ''Prelude of Lotus Lantern'' (Yu Jia) * ''The Peacock Flies to the Southeast'' Jiao Zhongqing (Pan Yueming) * ''The Firmament of The Pleiades'' Shun Gui (Zhou Chun, performer), Lan Qin (Li Yanming, performer), Chen Lianyuan * ''Golden Taipan'' Sheng Yueru (Zhou Yimin) * ''The Sharpshooter'' Director Liu (Jiang Changyi) ;2010 * ''Happy Mother-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Chun
Greg Chun is an American voice actor and musician who is known for his work in English-dubbed anime and video games. Personal life Chun is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Stanford University and has found himself in a dilemma in following different types of jobs. Chun is of Korean American, Korean descent. He resides in Burbank, California and splits his time between voice acting and music production. Music Chun has produced music on many Lonely Island projects including Saturday Night Live, 67th Annual Emmy Awards, and the Michael Bolton Sexy Valentine's Day Special. Recognition Based on his previous knowledge of the ''Yakuza (franchise), Yakuza'' video game series franchise, Chun was surprised and pleased to be selected to voice Takayuki Yagami in the English-language version of the 2018 spinoff ''Judgment (video game), Judgment''. Yagami's voice was meant to make him sound like a "bona fide badass" regardless of language, something the localization team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houtu
Hòutǔ () or Hòutǔshén (), also Hòutǔ Niángniáng (in Chinese either or ), otherwise called Dimǔ () or Dimǔ Niángniáng (), is the deity of deep earth and soil in Chinese religion and mythology. Houtu is the overlord of all the Tu Di Gong ("Lord of Local Land") world wide. Han Emperors Houtu was first worshipped by Emperor Wen of Han (in Fenyin County, modern-day Wanrong County, Shanxi). Houtu was worshiped by Emperor Wu of Han in 113 BC. Yellow River Map Houtu is featured in some versions of the myth of the Great Flood of China: Yu did not do such a great job of channeling the Yellow River into the sea, dredging the wrong way. Sacred Mother Houtu then made the Yellow River Map and sent one of her divine messenger birds to tell Yu what to do; specifically, that he should open a channel to the east, to allow the right drainage.Yang, 137 Gallery Notes Works cited *Yang, Lihui, ''et al.'' (2005). ''Handbook of Chinese Mythology''. New York: Oxford University Press. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Robinson
Cindy Robinson is an American voice actress who voices in animations and video games. Some of her major roles are Makoto Nanaya and Gii from the ''Blazblue'' series, Betty Boop in commercials, Queen Beryl in '' Sailor Moon'', Chitose Nanbu in ''Ah My Buddha'', Kukaku Shiba, Miyako Shiba, Jinta Hanakari (kid) and Kiyone Kotetsu in '' Bleach'', Zola in the ''Blue Dragon'' series, Madeline Hatter in "Ever After High" Minerva and Hinoka in ''Fire Emblem''. She also makes an uncredited appearance as the voice of the Purge Emergency Broadcast System in ''The Purge'' franchise. Robinson is best known for her role as Amy Rose in the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise since 2010. Personal life On April 29, 2022, Robinson married voice actor Christopher Corey Smith Christopher Corey Smith is an American voice actor who voices in animated shows and video games. He is best known for his voice role as Gagumber in the anime ''Sakugan''. Personal life On April 29, 2022, Smith marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JB Blanc
Jean-Benoît Blanc is a French-British actor and director of film and television who has worked on animations and video games in Los Angeles. Early life Blanc was born in Paris, the son of an English people, English mother and a French people, French father. He moved to England with his mother at the age of five, where he was educated at Bramcote School in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scarborough, North Yorkshire and Sedbergh School in Sedbergh, Cumbria. At the age of 16, he successfully auditioned for the National Youth Theatre. In 1987, he was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the youngest person to do so that year. He graduated in 1990 and, after a short sabbatical travelling, began his theatre career. Career At one time, Blanc helped run the Arts Threshold theatre company and was working with companies on the London scene, collaborating with directors, including Rufus Norris, Howard Davies (director), Howard Davies and Peter Hall (director), Peter Hall a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Haberkorn
Todd Haberkorn is an American voice actor and director, who has dubbed in anime, films, and video games. Career While Haberkorn was working in theater, he joined Funimation as a voice actor, with minor roles in ''One Piece'', ''Black Cat'', and ''Peach Girl''. Since then, he has voiced characters such as Natsu Dragneel in ''Fairy Tail'', Italy in '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'', Hikaru Hitachiin in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Allen Walker in '' D.Gray-man'', Death the Kid in '' Soul Eater'', Tsukune Aono in '' Rosario + Vampire'', Kimihiro Watanuki in '' xxxHolic'', and Yamato Akitsuki in '' Suzuka''. He has also worked in Los Angeles as an actor, director, producer and writer. He also played Aru Akise, one of the main set of characters in ''Future Diary'' and provided the English dub voice for Hiroki Hasegawa in ''Shin Godzilla'', as well as Razor for ''Genshin Impact''. Personal life Haberkorn is of partial Vietnamese descent on the maternal side of his family. Meanwhile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peng (mythology)
Peng () or Dapeng () is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun () giant fish in Chinese mythology. Names The Chinese logograms for ''peng'' and ''kun'' exemplify common radical-phonetic characters. ''Peng'' (鵬) combines the "bird radical" ( 鳥) with a ''peng'' ( 朋 "friend") phonetic, and ''kun'' combines the "fish radical" ( 魚) with a ''kun'' ( 昆 "progeny; insect") phonetic. Both the mythic Chinese ''Peng'' and ''Kun'' names involve word play. ''Peng'' ( 鵬) was anciently a variant Chinese character for ''feng'' ( 鳳) in ''fenghuang'' (鳳凰 "Chinese phoenix" ca. 100 CE ''Shuowen Jiezi''); ''Kun'' 鯤 originally meant "fish roe; fry; spawn" (ca. 200 BCE '' Erya''). Synonyms of Peng include Dapeng (大鵬 "Big Peng", "Great Peng") and Dapengniao (大鵬鳥 "Great Peng Bird"). Dapeng is also a place name for a few places in greater China, most notably in Shenzhen and Taiwan. After recent fossil discoveries in northeast China, Chinese paleontologists used Peng to na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor, musician, singer, and martial artist. His first major role was the portrayal of Adam Park, the second Black Power Ranger and later, the Green Zeo Ranger and first Green Turbo Ranger in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, which led to roles in some martial arts television and feature films. Bosch is located in Los Angeles and does most of his voice-over work at Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Animaze, New Generation Pictures, NYAV Post, Studiopolis and on some occasions travels to Dallas to record shows for Funimation. As a voice actor his most notable roles were as Vash the Stampede from ''Trigun'', Ichigo Kurosaki from '' Bleach'', Sabo from ''One Piece'' and Lelouch Vi Britannia from ''Code Geass''. Life and career Bosch was born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Garland, Texas, as John Jay Bosch. His father was a soldier in the Army and met his mother while stationed in South Korea. He was interested in martial arts at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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