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By Player
is a 2000 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of actor Taiji Tonoyama. The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo. Plot The first part of the film shows Tonoyama talking to a waitress, Kimie (Keiko Oginome), in a coffee shop. He then meets her father and asks him for permission to marry Kimie. The father asks him to first divorce his existing wife, Asako (Hideko Yoshida). In fact he is not married to Asako. To prevent him marrying Kimie, Asako then registers them as married. The film moves through various episodes of Tonoyama making films with director Kaneto Shindo. At the time of '' The Naked Island'', Tonoyama is close to death fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaneto Shindo
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', '' Kuroneko'' and ''A Last Note''. His screenplays were filmed by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki, and Tadashi Imai. His films of the first decade were often in a social realist vein, repeatedly depicting the fate of women, while since the seventies, portraits of artists became a speciality. Many of his films were autobiographical, beginning with his 1951 directorial debut '' Story of a Beloved Wife'', and, being born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he also made several films about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the effect of nuclear weapons. Shindo was one of the pioneers of independent film production in Japan, co-founding his own film company Kindai Eiga Kyōkai with directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningen (1962 Film)
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindo, and starring Taiji Tonoyama, Kei Satō, and Nobuko Otowa, produced by Shindo's company Kindai Eiga Kyokai. Plot A ship loses all means of navigation in a storm. The crew becomes increasingly desperate as food and water run out. The captain, Kamegoro ( Taiji Tonoyama), prays to the sailor's god Kompira to rescue them and rations their food and water. His grandson, Sankichi (Kei Yamamoto), follows his grandfather, but the other two crew members, Hachizo ( Kei Satō) and Gorosuke (Nobuko Otowa) rebel and insist on eating their rations of food all at once. In a vision, Kamegoro sees Kompira, who promises to deliver rain. Then the rain comes and the threat of dying of thirst is gone, but there is no food. Each member of the crew revisits pleasant times, which are recreated as flashbacks in the film. Kamegoro also has less pleasant memories of his war service, where he saw another soldier turn to cannibalism. After weeks of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character Actor
A character actor is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.28 April 2013, The New York Acting SchoolTen Best Character Actors of All Time Retrieved 7 August 2014, "..a breed of actor who has the ability to be almost unrecognizable from part to part, and yet play many, many roles convincingly and memorably. .." The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but the term more commonly refers to an actor who frequently plays a distinctive and important supporting role. Character actors are generally well-known and recognizable by the audience (by appearance if not by name), even if they play different types of roles in different movies. A character actor may play characters who are very different from the actor's off-screen real-life personality, while in another sense a character actor m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasei-eigo
are Japanese-language expressions based on English words, or parts of word combinations, that do not exist in standard English or whose meanings differ from the words from which they were derived. Linguistics classifies them as pseudo-loanwords or pseudo-anglicisms. ''Wasei-eigo'' words, compound words and portmanteaus are constructed by Japanese speakers on the basis of loanwords derived from English and embedded into the Japanese lexicon with refashioned, novel meanings diverging significantly from the originals.Miller, L. (1998). Wasei eigo: English “loanwords” coined in Japan. The life of language: Papers in linguistics in honor of William Bright. An example is , derived from "handle" with the meaning of "steering wheel", with the full phrase meaning designated driver. Some ''wasei-eigo'' terms are not recognizable as English words in English-speaking countries; one example is , which refers to physical contact between close friends or loved ones and appears to be a por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoto Takenaka
is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jackson in the dubbed version of the '' Avengers'', as Nicholas "Nick" Fury. Filmography Film ;Director *''Munō no Hito'' (1991) *''119'' (1994) *''Tōkyō Biyori'' (1997) *''Rendan'' (2001) *''Sayonara Color'' (2005) *''Yamagata Scream'' (2009) *'' Downfall'' (2023) ;Actor *'' Gonza the Spearman'' (1986) *''Fancy Dance'' (1989) *''Best Guy'' (1990) *''Chizuko's Younger Sister'' (1991) *'' Hiruko the Goblin'' (1991) *''Until the end of the World'' (1991) *''Sumo Do, Sumo Don't'' (1992) *'' Like a Rolling Stone'' (1994) *'' Rampo'' (1994) *'' Tokyo Fist'' (1995) *''Gonin'' (1995) *'' East Meets West'' (1995) *'' Shall We Dance?'' (1996) – Tomio Aoki *'' By Player'' (2000) – Taiji Tonoyama *'' Agitator'' (2001) *'' Waterboys'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Yamamoto
(born July 1, 1940 – March 31, 2022) was a Japanese actor. Filmography Film Television References External links * * 1940 births 2022 deaths Japanese male actors People from Ibaraki, Osaka {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Satō
was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as '' Onibaba'' and '' Kuroneko''. He won the best actor award from ''Kinema Junpo'' for the films '' The Ceremony'' and ''Nihon no akuryō''. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film. In his early days as an actor, before his success in ''The Human Condition'', he supported himself by producing ''gariban'' hand-written mimeographs, and he maintained his interest in hand-printing to the end of his life. In 1981 he appeared in the film ''Daydream Daydreaming is the stream of consciousness that detaches from current, external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. This phenomenon is common in people's daily life shown by a large-scale study in which partici ...'' performing an unsimulated sex scene with actress Kyoko Aizome. The involvement o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onibaba (film)
is a 1964 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. The film is set during a civil war in the fourteenth century. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill soldiers to steal their possessions, and Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them. Plot The film is set somewhere in Japan near Kyoto, in the mid-fourteenth century during a period of civil war. Two fleeing soldiers are ambushed in a large field of tall, thick reeds and murdered by an older woman and her young daughter-in-law. The two women loot the dead soldiers, strip them of their armour and weapons, and drop the bodies in a deep pit hidden in the field. The next day, they take the armor and weapons to a merchant named Ushi and trade them for food. The merchant tells them news of the war, which is driving people across the country to desperation. As they leave, Ushi makes a sexual proposition to the older woman, who rebuffs him. A neighbor named Hachi, who has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked Island
''The Naked Island'' ( ja, text=裸の島, translit=Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue. Plot The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea on the island of Sukune in Mihara, Hiroshima, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island. When the boys catch a large fish, the family travels to Onomichi by ferry, where they sell it to a fishmonger, then eat at a modern restaurant. While the parents are away from the island, the older son falls ill. The desperate father runs to find a doctor to come to treat his son, but when they arrive, the boy is already dead. After the boy's funeral, which is attended by his classmates from his school on the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Kindai may refer to: * Kindai, Tanzania, an administrative ward * Kindai High School, Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan * Kindai University, Osaka, Japan * Kanazawa University Kanazawa University ( ja, 金沢大学, Kanazawa Daigaku, abbreviated to ja, 金大, Kindai) is a Japanese national university in the city of Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. Founded in 1862, it was chartered as a university in 194 ..., called Kindai as an abbreviation, Kanazawa, Japan See also * Kinda (other) * Kindi (other) * {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideko Yoshida
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for ''Shaso''. Filmography * '' Neo Tokyo'' (1989) * ''Shaso'' (1989) * ''The Pillow Book'' (1996) * ''Will to Live'' (1999) * '' By Player'' (2000) * '' Cutie Honey'' (2004) * ''Heaven's Bookstore is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka. Plot Kenta (Tetsuji Tamayama), a ...'' (2004) * '' Southbound'' (2007) References 1944 births Living people Japanese actresses Actors from Ishikawa Prefecture People from Kanazawa, Ishikawa {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiko Oginome
is a Japanese actress. She is affiliated with Come True Co., Ltd. Biography At the age of 12, Keiko Oginome joined the theater company Himawari. She made her acting debut in the 1977 film ''Gokumontō''. In 1979, she played the role of Helen Keller in the Japanese-language production of the stage play '' The Miracle Worker''. She then became the host of the NHK variety show ''You'' and starred in the 1983 film ''Antarctica''. In 1992, Oginome starred in the film ''The Triple Cross'', which earned her the Best Supporting Actress award at the 14th Yokohama Film Festival (shared with Misa Shimizu). She also released the nude photo book ''Surrender'', which was photographed by film director Yoshitaka Kawai before his suicide in 1990. In 2019, Oginome transferred from From First Production to Come True Co., Ltd. Personal life Yōko Oginome is her younger sister. In 1985, Oginome had an affair with film director Yoshitaka Kawai, who was married at the time. Kawai was found dead i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
