Buzzer Beat
is a Fuji TV Japanese television drama starring Tomohisa Yamashita, Keiko Kitagawa, and Saki Aibu. The series primarily focuses on two characters, Naoki Kamiya (Tomohisa Yamashita), a professional basketball player, and Riko Shirakawa (Keiko Kitagawa), an aspiring violinist. Over the course of the series Naoki faces difficulties trying to succeed in the world of basketball, and Riko struggles to become a successful violinist. Eventually the two meet and the series chronicles their relationship and struggles, as well as those of their friends. Cast *Tomohisa Yamashita as Kamiya Naoki *Keiko Kitagawa as Shirakawa Riko *Saki Aibu as Nanami Natsuki *Shihori Kanjiya as Ebina Mai *Hideaki Itō as Coach Kawasaki Tomoya *Nobuaki Kaneko as Yoyogi Ren *Junpei Mizobata as Hatano Shuji *Munetaka Aoki as Moriguchi Shuto *Satoshi Kanada as Kasukabe Yoshio * Akiyoshi Kawashima as Matsuyama Ryosuke *Masaru Nagai as Utsunomiya Toru *Miki Maya as Kamiya Makiko *Aya Ōmasa as Kamiya Yuri *Ayaka Kom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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NTSC
The first American standard for analog television broadcast was developed by National Television System Committee (NTSC)National Television System Committee (1951–1953), Report and Reports of Panel No. 11, 11-A, 12–19, with Some supplementary references cited in the Reports, and the Petition for adoption of transmission standards for color television before the Federal Communications Commission, n.p., 1953], 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables. 28 cm. LC Control No.:5402138Library of Congress Online Catalog/ref> in 1941. In 1961, it was assigned the designation CCIR System M, System M. In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color television broadcast compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers. It is one of three major color formats for analog television, the others being PAL and SECAM. NTSC color is usually associated with the System M. The only other broadcast television system to use NTSC color was the System J. Since the introdu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masaru Nagai
is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Masaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *勝, "excel" *優, "excel" *大, "large" *将 or 將, "commander" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name *Masaru Akiba (勝), a Japanese football player *Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author * Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion *, Japanese equestrian * Gagamaru Masaru (勝), a Georgian sumo wrestler *Masaru Hamaguchi (優), Japanese comedian *Masaru Hayami (優), the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan * Masaru Ibuka (大), a Japanese electronics industrialist * Masaru Ikeda (勝), a Japanese actor and voice actor * Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert *Masaru Inada (勝), a Japanese skeleton racer *Inoue Masaru (勝), a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways" *, Japanese field hockey player *Masaru Katori (まさる), a female Japanese ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009 Japanese Television Series Endings
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009 Japanese Television Series Debuts
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tokyo Dogs
, sometimes styled as ''Tôkyô Dogs'', is a Fuji TV Japanese television drama, which stars Shun Oguri, Hiro Mizushima and Yuriko Yoshitaka. Synopsis So Takakura (Oguri) witnessed his father's murder at a young age. Pledging to catch the killer, he grows up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cool-headed and disciplined, yet adapts well. Because of major drug dealings, he gets sent to Tokyo to conduct a joint investigation with the Japanese police. There, he gets teamed up with Maruo Kudo (Mizushima), a detective from a special investigative division. Kudo is a hot-blooded fighting expert due to his earlier days as a delinquent, but he makes a strong impressionReviewAsianSeries - Laur"A complete review of Tokyo Dogs" with his stylish appearance and is always interested in going on group dates. His personality, interests, and investigation methods are completely mismatched with Takakura's, but the two somehow work together to crack the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Getsuku
is a Japanese abbreviation for {{nihongo, ''Getsuyō kuji'', 月曜9時, , Monday at 9 pm. This is traditionally the time when the most popular TV dramas air in Japan. History Fuji TV, one of the major broadcasting companies in Japan, started the pattern of airing the dramas it predicted would be most popular on Monday nights. Mondays are the only night in which generally no baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ... games are played, meaning that throughout the year, there would be no delays in broadcasting (due to the popularity of baseball, some stations continue to broadcast games that extend beyond their expected finish time, thus delaying the start of subsequent programs). While all of the stations often aired dramas on Monday nights, it was the p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yasuyuki Maekawa
Please don't delete this article because this actor or actress is new and will play/is playing a lead, supporting or breakthrough role in the tokusatsu series "Kamen Rider Build" and will continue their career and make more roles, either lead or supporting, after the end of the programme. is a Japanese actor and former model. He was born in Adachi, Tokyo, and grew up in Saitama Prefecture. He is represented with the agency Oscar Promotion. He graduated from Meiji Gakuin Senior High School and Aoyama Gakuin University Law school. His wife is former Fuji Television announcer Maya Masai. Biography For eleven years since 1993, he was a model in fashion magazines, etc. He acted as a fashion model at New York City, Paris, Tokyo, and Milan fashion shows. On 13 April 2005, he declared his acting debut at the "2005 Debut Declaration Announcement Interview" affiliation by Oscar Promotion and turned into an actor. Play the role of a president of an IT company in the Tokyo Broadcasting Syste ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yumi Sugimoto
is a Japanese model, actress, and singer. She is currently under contract with the talent agency IS Field. Career Modeling career Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine ''Ribon''. Acting career In July 2007 she received her first lead role in TV Tokyo's late TV drama series ''Boys Esté''. Her latest role is Miu Sutō/Go-on Silver in the 2008 TV Asahi's tokusatsu series ''Engine Sentai Go-onger''. She stars also in Mutant Girls Squad under the direction from Tak Sakaguchi, Noburu Iguchi and Yoshihiro Nishimura. Music career Aside from singing character portrayal songs in ''Engine Sentai Go-onger is Toei Company's thirty-second installment in the Super Sentai metaseries of Japanese tokusatsu television series. It premiered on February 17, 2008, a week following the finale of '' Juken Sentai Gekiranger'', and ended on February 8, 2009. It ...'', Sugimoto has expressed an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takaki Ishida
is a Japanese basketball coach who is head coach of the Tokyo Excellence in the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for Keio University. He was selected by the Chiba Jets with the 4th overall pick in the 2011 bj League draft. Head coaching record , - , style="text-align:left;", Tokyo Excellence Yokohama Excellence is a Japanese professional basketball club that will compete in the third division of Japan's B.League. Prior to the B.League's establishment, the club played in the National Basketball Development League, winning the champion ... , style="text-align:left;", 2017-18 , 42, , 28, , 14, , , , style="text-align:center;", 3rd in B3, , , 20, , 12, , 8, , , style="text-align:center;", 3rd in Final stage , - References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishida, Takaki 1982 births Living people Alvark Tokyo players Chiba Jets Funabashi players Japanese basketball coaches Tokyo Excellence coaches Yokohama Excellence players ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Keisuke Kato
Keisuke (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese general *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *Keisuke Hoashi (born 1967), American actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese physician and biologist *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese actor *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese film director *, Japanese actor *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese-Korean racing driver *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter *Keisuke Makino (born 1969), Japanese ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ayaka Komatsu
Ayaka Komatsu ( ja, 小松 彩夏 ''Komatsu Ayaka''; born 23 July 1986) is a Japanese model, gravure idol and actress. She was born in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture. Biography Modeling career Her modeling agency is Amuse inc. She was a regular model of the now defunct ''Candy'' magazine. She also appeared in the Winter 2002-2003 "Angel Blue" fashion catalog and was on the cover of the manga ''Young Sunday'' dated April 7, 2005. She was a member of the 2004 edition of the Japanese modeling quartet named Nittelligenic, an idol group sponsored by Nippon TV. Acting career She has acted in the following movies: ''Odoru Daisosasen The Movie 2'' (her role in this film was relatively minor; she gets attacked by a vampire), ''Koibumi'', ''Master of Thunder'', ''A Perfect Day for Love Letters'', ''Drift'' and ''Drift 2'' (later released as ''Drift Deluxe Edition''), and ''Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru'' (which opened in Japan on January 20, 2007, and later in Europe under the English tit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aya Ōmasa
is a Japanese model and actress. Career Omasa co-starred with Shōta Sometani in Natsuki Seta's 2010 film ''A Liar and a Broken Girl''. She appeared in the 2011 film ''Paradise Kiss''. Filmography Films TV dramas * '' Tokyo Girl'' Episode 6 "Tokyo Kashimashi Girls" (BS-i, 2006), Chiharu * ''Isshō Wasurenai Monogatari'' Episode 2 "Million Films" (TV Asahi, 2006) * ''Otona no Megane 11-gatsu "Mirai"'' (Chiba TV, 2006), Yūka Saionji * ''Koi Suru Nichiyōbi: New Type'' (BS-TBS, 2006), Yuri Tsukino ** Episode 10 "Hitori Bocchi no Majo" ** Episode 12 "Majo no Christmas" * '' Hana Yori Dango 2: Returns'' ( TBS, 2007), Yuduki Morishita * ''Koi Suru Nichiyōbi Season 3'' (BS-TBS, 2007) ** Episode 21 "Chikakute Tōi Koi", Rena Terasaki ** Episode 26 "Shōwa Anime Daikōshin: Kimi ha Koi o Shinjireruka", Aya * ''Keitai Deka Zenigatakai'' (BS-TBS, 2007), Kai Zenigata * ''Sensei Dō'' (BS-TBS, 2007), Eri * ''NEW TYPE: Tada, Ai no Tameni'' Episode 1 (TBS, 2008), Yuri Tsukino * ''Sakura no ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |