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Chō
is a Japanese actor and narrator from Kōnosu, Saitama. His former stage name was . He is a graduate of the Nishogakusha University Department of Literature and received training at Bungakuza's research establishment and the Seinenza Theater Company before attaching himself to Production Baobab in 1986. He transferred to the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in 2007. On August 23, 2006, he changed his stage name to Chō after his character in ''Tanken Boku no Machi''. His hobbies include badminton and jogging, and he is a licensed teacher in calligraphy. Filmography Television animation ;1989 *''Time Travel Tondekeman'' (Pilot, Bronze Statue) ;1990 *''Kyatto Ninden Teyandee'' (Himawari #2, Yongō Sasanishiki, Piddo #9, Missile Yachōbee, Buffalo #10, Ishikari #2) *''Chibi Maruko-chan'' (Fujiki's Father) ;1992 *''Floral Magician Mary Bell'' (Noppo) *''Mikan Enikki'' (Momojirō) *'' Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman Blade'' (Sakuaari Staff Officer, Guerilla Soldier) ;1993 *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōfu No Kyō-chan
, also known as ''The Sylvian Experiments'', is a 2010 Japanese horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi who is known as a screenwriter of ''Ring''. It was released on 10 July 2010. Plot Two married neurosurgeons, Etsuko and Yukio Ōta, watch a 16mm documentary film concerning a secret experiment involving the electrification of the temporal lobes of several Japanese, Manchu, and Russian subjects, ending with said subjects projecting a blinding white light. Their children, Miyuki and Kaori, watch the film as well. Years later, Miyuki and three others conduct a mock mass suicide as part of their initiation into a similar experiment conducted by Etsuko. Miyuki wakes up inside a facility to one of Etsuko's assistants, Hisae, who insists that she has died and is currently astral projecting, even presenting her with her corpse as proof. Miyuki and another subject, Rieko, are later found to have escaped the facility unnoticed. After having lost contact with her sister for six month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seinenza Theater Company
The is a Japanese theatre company located in Shibuya, Tokyo. It was founded on December 17, 1954 and stages Shingeki plays. Many of its actors have gone on to become voice actors for anime productions. Notable members Male * Masuo Amada *Katsumi Chō *Nobuaki Fukuda *Takaya Hashi * Shūichirō Idemitsu * Akira Igarashi *Kenjirō Ishimaru * Shirō Ishimoda *Hiroshi Iwasaki * Ryō Kamon * Ippei Kanie * Kenichi Katō *Takuya Kirimoto * Masahiro Kobayashi * Kenji Kodama * Shōji Ōki * Masaru Shinodzuka *Hideaki Tezuka *Masane Tsukayama * Takumi Tsutsui * Kihachirō Uemura *Kazuhiro Yamaji * Ryūji Yamamoto *Fubito Yamano *Hiroshi Yanaka * Etsuo Yokobori *Makoto Yuasa Female *Emiko Azuma *Kayoko Fujii * Ryōko Gi *Narumi Hidaka * Miwa Ikezaki *Yoshimi Iwasaki *Akiko Izumi *Tomie Kataoka * Kazuko Katō *Sayaka Kobayashi * Yōko Koyanagi * Shizue Masuko * Kaori Matsunaga *Tomoko Miyadera * Yōko Motai * Non Nonomura *Yukari Nozawa *Atsuko Takahata * Futami Uesugi {{clear Former m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekkaman Blade
is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series was directed by Hiroshi Negishi and written by Mayori Sekijima and Satoru Akahori. The story follows an organization called the Space Knights and their war against aliens known as the Radam. The Space Knights are assisted by Takaya Aiba, who has the ability to transform into an armored warrior known as Tekkaman Blade. The first series, of 50 episodes (including episode 0), aired in Japan from February 18, 1992, to February 2, 1993, on TV Tokyo. This was followed by two specials. A sequel series called ''Tekkaman Blade II'', which is set ten years after the first series and follows the events of the second Radam invasion, was a series of six Japanese original video animation (OVA) releases from July 21, 1994, to April 21, 1995. A video game based on the series, titled ''Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade'', was released in Japan on July 30, 1993. The original series was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōnosu
is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 117,995 in 50,801 households and a population density of 1700 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Located in east-central Saitama Prefecture, Kōnosu is on the central reaches of the Arakawa River, which flows through the west of the city, whereas the Motoara River flows from the southeastern to central portion. Surrounding municipalities Saitama Prefecture * Kitamoto * Okegawa *Kumagaya *Gyōda *Yoshimi * Kazo * Kuki Climate Kōnosu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kōnosu is 14.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1335 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.6 °C. Demographics Per Japanese census data, the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floral Magician Mary Bell
, or known as ''Mary Bell'' in some countries, is a Japanese magical girl anime series by Ashi Productions, aired from 1992 until 1993. The series was adapted as a theatrical film and two educational films and the DVD version was released on March 20, 2004. Story Yuuri and Ken are two siblings living in the port town of Sunny Bell, where their parents have recently moved and set up a flower shop. They are given the Mary Bell Picture Book from their neighbor Rose, which is a story about two children who get lost in the forest and are helped by a magical girl named Mary Bell. The children wish together that Mary Bell was there to help their parents' struggling flower shop. Suddenly, Mary Bell appears in front of them, introducing herself and her Seelie Court partner Tambourine, and agreeing to help them with magic. Over the course of the series, Mary Bell, Ken, Yuuri, a dog named Ribbon, and the others go on adventures in both Sunny Bell and the Flower Magic World, Mary Bell's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagisa Ōshima
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within the Japanese New Wave, his films include ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan, and ''Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'' (1983), about World War II prisoners of war held by the Japanese. Early life After graduating from Kyoto University in 1954, where he studied political history, Ōshima was hired by film production company Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature ''A Town of Love and Hope'' in 1959. 1960s Ōshima's cinematic career and influence developed very swiftly, and such films as ''Cruel Story of Youth'', ''The Sun's Burial'' and ''Night and Fog in Japan'' followed in 1960. The last of these 1960 films explored Ōshima's disillusionment with the traditional political left, and his frustrations with the right, and Shochiku withdrew the film from circulation after less than a week, claiming that, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montana Jones
is a Japanese comedy adventure anime television series produced by Studio Junio and which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. ''Montana Jones'' has a similar atmosphere to ''Sherlock Hound'', a joint production of RAI and TMS Entertainment ten years earlier. The anthropomorphic characters in ''Montana Jones'' were big cats instead of the dogs used in ''Sherlock Hound''. It was subsequently broadcast in over 30 other countries. The series takes place in the 1930s and is about the adventures of Montana Jones, who goes treasure hunting with his cousin Alfred Jones and the beautiful reporter Melissa Thorn. They visit real locations and cities like the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Istanbul or Easter Island. Frequently they cross paths with Lord Zero - a rich, eccentric art lover and master thief. All characters in the series are anthropomorphized big cats. The anime was inspired by the Indiana Jones movies. Synopsis Boston, 1930: Montan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikan Enikki
is a manga series written and illustrated by Miwa Abiko. It was featured in Hakusensha's magazine ''LaLa'' from June 1988 to January 1995. A TV anime (stylized みかん絵日記) loosely based on the manga was produced by Nippon Animation and ran from October 16, 1992 to June 18, 1993 on TBS. Plot Tom, an orange cat, the protagonist of the story, had to leave his home after his owner had died due to illness. After wandering around for a while, he finally arrived at the Kusanagi family, where he was adopted and given a new name, Mikan, based on his orange fur (''mikan'' is the Japanese word for "orange fruit"). But the Kusanagis soon found out that Mikan was no ordinary cat: he could speak human, and could walk on his hind limbs like a human. Shocked at first, the family gradually adopted a more welcoming attitude, and finally accepted the fun-loving cat as one of them. From then on, Mikan got on numerous adventures in the human world as a talking cat, which was kept secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungakuza
is a Japanese theatre company. Along with the Mingei Theatre Company and the Haiyuza Theatre Company it is considered one of the "Big Three" among Shingeki theatre troupes. History The company was founded by Kunio Kishida, Mantarō Kubota and Bunroku Shishi on September 6, 1937. Its name means "Literature Theatre" On March 25, 1938, the company staged its first public performances with the plays "Magnificent Woman" (''Migoto na Onna''), "Peace at Home" (''Wagaya no Heiwa'') and "Knock" (''Kunokku''). After suffering repression at the hands of the state leading up to and during World War II, Bungakuza reemerged in the early postwar period. In the 1950s, many Shingeki theatre troupes were viewed as left-wing or even communist. However, Bungakuza was considered one of the least ideological troupes. Thus many people were surprised when Bungakuza's leaders agreed to stage a tour of Communist China in 1961. Even more controversial was the decision to modify the script of the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society
The , also known as , is a Sendagaya, Shibuya-based talent management agency and Cooperative, cooperative representing Japanese voice actors. Current members The members of ''Haikyō'', as of this date, are: Male *Wataru Abe *Chō (Yūichi Nagashima) *Issei Futamata *Yūichi Iguchi *Masaru Ikeda *Shūichi Ikeda *Kazuhiko Kishino *Dai Matsumoto *Akira Murayama *Tadashi Nakamura (voice actor), Tadashi Nakamura *Masatomo Nakazawa *Masanori Shinohara *Junichi Suwabe *Gakuto Kajiwara *Yasuaki Takumi *Kōichi Tōchika *Kentarō Kumagai Female *Miho Arakawa *Masako Ikeda *Sawa Ishige *Shizuka Ishikawa *Reiko Katsura *Juri Kimura *Hisako Kyōda *Junko Minagawa *Saki Miyashita *Chiaki Morita *Kaoru Morota *Kazusa Murai *Tomo Muranaka *Akiko Nakagawa *Saki Nakajima (voice actress), Saki Nakajima *Yūko Nakamura *Rio Natsuki *Sayaka Ohara *Sumie Sakai (voice actress), Sumie Sakai *Nozomi Sasaki (voice actress), Nozomi Sasaki *Yōko Sasaki *Rina Satō *Toshiko Sawada *Ai Shimizu *Yū ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping-Pong Club
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minoru Furuya. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1993 to 1996, with its chapters collected in 13 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It is about the dysfunctional members of a middle school ping-pong club. ''The Ping Pong Club'' was adapted by Grouper Productions into a 26-episode anime television series. It was licensed in North America by Central Park Media. As of September 2010, ''The Ping Pong Club'' had over 25 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 1996, the manga won the 20th Kodansha Manga Award for the general category. Plot The story follows the adventures of a somewhat unusual ping-pong club: the players are indeed more focused "on panties" and obscene jokes than on the game. The arrival of Iwashita, the new head of the club, makes it possible to change things, the latter somehow managing to interest his undisciplined player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Production Baobab
is a voice actor talent management firm in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Attached voice actors Male *Masashi Hirose *Takanori Hoshino *Hiroya Ishimaru *Masafumi Kimura *Ikuo Nishikawa * Jirō Saitō * Takayuki Sakazume *Hiroshi Shirokuma * Jun'ichi Sugawara * Takashi Taguchi *Katsumi Toriumi *Eiji Yanagisawa Female * Sayaka Aoki * Mioko Fujiwara *Natsumi Hioka *Mana Hirata *Junko Hori *Chizuko Hoshino *Hisako Kanemoto *Sanae Kobayashi *Satomi Kōrogi *Nami Kurokawa *Chihiro Kusaka *Mari Mashiba *Yuki Matsuoka * Atsuko Mine *Eri Miyajima *Emi Motoi *Manami Tanaka *Akiko Yajima Formerly attached voice actors Male *Kinryū Arimoto (affiliated with Heiya Kikaku, now deceased) *Eisuke Asakura (now affiliated with Arts Vision) * Kenichi Ogata (now affiliated with Umikaze) *Chō (Yūichi Nagashima) (now affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society) *Jun Fukuyama (now affiliated witAXLONE *Tōru Furusawa (now affiliated with Kenyū Office) *Jun Hazumi (now affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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