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Blue Ribbon Awards For Best Newcomer
The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer is a prize recognizing an outstanding performance by a newcomer in a Japanese film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan. The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanes .... List of winners References External linksBlue Ribbon Awards on IMDb {{Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer Awards established in 1950 Recurring events established in 1950 1950 establishments in Japan N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan. The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanese newspapers (Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shinbun) as well as the Japanese Associated Press withdrew their support for the Blue Ribbon Awards and established the , (which were held a mere six times). In 1967, the awards were cancelled following a series of demoralizing national political scandals that became known as "The Black Mist" and eventually enveloped Japan's baseball industry.Johnston, Michael. "Influence Markets", ''Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), , p. 79. In 1975, the awards were revived, and have continued until the present day. The annual award ceremony is held in a variety of places in Tokyo every F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundry Town
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Kirio Urayama. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and won the Blue Ribbon Awards in 1962. Cast * Sayuri Yoshinaga as Jun * Mitsuo Hamada as Tsukamoto, Katsumi * Eijirō Tōno as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father) * Shoichi Ozawa * Tokuko Sugiyama as Tomi (Jun's mother) * Takeshi Katō * Tanie Kitabayashi * Akiji Kobayashi as Heisan * Kin Sugai * Yoshio Ichikawa * Taiji Tonoyama * Kawai Okada is a Japanese former actress and businesswoman. Filmography Films * 1962 ''Foundry Town'' - Kaori * 1963 '' A Legend or Was It?'' * 1969 '' Red Lion'' * 1972 ''Gecko Kung Fu'' * 1973 ''A Man Called Tiger'' - Yoshida Ayako. * 1974 ''Karafut ... as Kaori References External links * 1962 films 1962 drama films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese drama films 1960s Japanese-language films Films directed by Kirio Urayama 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirio Urayama
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Urayama graduated from Nagoya University before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1954. After working as an assistant director to Yūzō Kawashima and Shohei Imamura, he debuted as a director with ''Foundry Town'' in 1962, a film that depicted the life of Zainichi Korean residents of Japan. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for that film. His 1963 film '' Bad Girl'' (''Each day I cry'') was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize. He directed a total of nine films before his untimely death in 1985. Selected filmography * '' Victory Is Mine'' (1956, writer) * ''Foundry Town'' (1962, director and writer) * '' Bad Girl'' (1963) * '' The Gate of Youth'' (1975, director and writer) * ''Taro the Dragon Boy is a 1979 film adaptation of a famous Japanese folk tale, and the novel ''Taro, the Dragon Boy'' by Miyoko Matsutani. In 1966, Taro, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waga Koi No Tabiji
Waga ( si, වග, ta, வாகா) is an area or a cluster of villages in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Administrated by Seethawaka Pradeshiya Sabha (Divisional Council). It is within the Seethawaka Divisional Secretariat Division. Waga is said to be an area in the Colombo District with a very good climate. Waga can be reached on road from Colombo via A4 (Colombo - Rathnapura) road, turning off at Kaluaggala junction near Hanwella. The main town and government offices of Waga including the Post Office are located at Kahahena which is 35 km from Colombo. The Waga station of the Kelani Valley Railway Line is also situated at the Kahahena junction. Karandana House, a beautiful and elegant mansion in the area, is situated closer to the Waga Railway Station. The Labugama and Kalatuwawa reservoirs, which supply water to the Colombo city and the forest reserves of Labugama and Udagama Udagama ( si, උඩගම, ta, உதகம) is a village in the Divisional Secretary's Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shima Iwashita
is a Japanese actress who has appeared in about 100 films and many TV productions. She is married to film director Masahiro Shinoda, in whose films she has frequently appeared. She won the award for best actress at the 2nd Hochi Film Award for her performance in Shinoda's ''Ballad of Orin''. Heritage Iwashita was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father was the actor and film producer Kiyoshi Nonomura （野々村潔）(1914-2003). Her maternal aunt Shizue Yamagishi （山岸しづ江）was married to the kabuki actor Kawarasaki Chōjūrō IV （四代目 河原崎長十郎）(1902-1981), who starred in Sadao Yamanaka's 1937 '' Humanity and Paper Balloons'', one of the most influential early Japanese talkies, and was one of the founders in 1931 of the Zenshinza Theatre Company （劇団前進座）. Education After attending No 3 Municipal Primary School and No 3 Municipal Middle School in Musashino City to the west of Tokyo, Iwashita proceeded first to Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruel Story Of Youth
is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Yusuke Kawazu and Miyuki Kuwano as teenage delinquents and lovers. It is Ōshima's second feature film and is known for its elements of Japanese '' nuberu bagu''. The film won the 1960 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer for Ōshima. Plot After Makoto Shinjo hitchhikes a ride, the driver tries to molest her, but is stopped by Kiyoshi Fuji. He takes her on a date, first to watch the Anpo Protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty, and then later to ride a motorboat on a river, where he rapes her. One day, after trying to wait for him at a bar he frequents, she is targeted by gangsters who prostitute women, but Kiyoshi fights them and they leave them alone in exchange for a payment. The two fall in love and Makoto spends more time with him, causing her to be rebuked by her older sister Yuki, resulting in her deciding to live with him. To make money, the two reconstruct how they met, with Makoto seducing a driver and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagisa Oshima
NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas or Natural Geography of In-Shore Areas) is an international collaborative effort aimed at inventorying, cataloguing, and monitoring biodiversity of the in-shore area. So named for the Japanese word "nagisa" ("where the land meets the sea"), it is an Apronym. NaGISA is the first project of the larger CoML effort (Census of Marine Life) to have global participation in actual field work. The actual procedures of this project involve inexpensive collection equipment (for easy universal participation). This equipment is used to photograph sampling sites, to actually take samples from the sites, and to process these samples. At each site throughout the world, samples are taken from the intertidal zone out to a depth of 10 meters (and optionally out to 20 meters depth). These samples are then processed (the organisms are isolated) and then analyzed and catalogued. The information (regarding the kind and number of organisms analyzed) is sent to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endless Desire
is a 1958 Japanese black comedy and crime film by Shōhei Imamura. Plot Ten years after the end of the war, a group of ex-soldiers meets to dig up a supply of morphine which had been hidden in an air-raid shelter: Onuma, pharmacist Nakata, professional criminal Yamamoto, and teacher Sawai. As the men had once been informed by their superior, Lieutenant Hashimoto, that only three men knew of the morphine, not four, they are at first suspicious of Sawai to be an intruder. They are joined by a woman, Shima, who declares that she is the younger sister of the Lieutenant who has died in the meantime. The area around the shelter has been turned into a shopping district, while the shelter itself now lies in the basement of a butcher shop. The group rents an empty store from corrupt local landlord Kinzō and starts digging a tunnel to the butcher shop. Shima announces that she will sleep with the man who digs up the most during their venture. Later, she seduces Kinzō's son Satoru, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Desire
is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura. It was Imamura's debut as a director. Cast * Osamu Takizawa as Taminosuke Yamamura * Shinichi Yanagisawa as Ezaburo Yamamura * Hiroyuki Nagato as Shinichi Kunida * Kō Nishimura as Kanji Takada * Toshio Takahara as Eisuke Katō * Shojiro Ogasawara as Tominachiro Kobayashi * Tomio Aoki ''aka'' was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy ''Tokkan kozo'' gave Aoki his nickname. '' I Was Bor ... * Nobuo Kawakami as Policeman * Hayao Takamura References External links * * * 1958 films Films directed by Shohei Imamura Nikkatsu films 1958 directorial debut films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shori-sha
''Shori-sha'' is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Umetsugu Inoue. Cast *Tatsuya Mihashi as Yamashiro Kikichi * Yujiro Ishihara as Buma Shuntarō *Yoko Minamida as Miyagawa Natsuko *Mie Kitahara as Shiraki Mari *Jo Shishido as Ishiyama *Taiji Tonoyama *Tour Abe *Akira Kobayashi is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is . Biography Kobayashi attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He became an actor at Nikkatsu and made his film debut with "Ueru Tamashii" directed by Yuzo Kawashima in 1956. He so ... References External links * 1957 films Films directed by Umetsugu Inoue Nikkatsu films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |