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Dankan
is a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 30 films since 1990. Selected filmography Film Television References External links * {{Authority control 1959 births Living people People from Saitama (city) Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shichinin No Tomurai
is a 2005 Japanese film written and directed by Dankan. It tells the story of seven families at a summer camp where the parents are involved in a very dark organ trafficking Organ trade (also known as Red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation.(Carney, Scott. 2011. "The Red Market." Wired 19, no. 2: 112–1. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts.) Accor ... deal. The official English site states it to be based on true events. External links * * 2005 films 2000s Japanese-language films Films about dysfunctional families Films about organized crime in Japan Films about summer camps 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getting Any?
is a 1995 Japanese film, written, directed, edited, and starring Takeshi Kitano. ''Yatteru'' (やってる) is the colloquial form for ''yatteiru'' (やっている), ''yatteru'' coming from the Japanese verb ''yaru'', which is an informal word meaning 'to do', and has become slang for sexual intercourse. The film is a sex comedy. It showed Beat Takeshi, originally a very popular manzai performer, returning to his comedic roots. The movie features an ''Airplane!''-like assemblage of comedic scenes centering on a Walter Mitty-type character whose obsession is to have sex. The film met with little acclaim in Japan where its release was barely noticed. Kitano said in 2003 (while in production for ''Zatoichi''), that ''Getting Any?'' was one of his three favourite movies among the ten he had directed by that time. According to him, this work was the basis for many of the movies that followed, including the acclaimed ''Hana-bi'', as it features all his recurrent themes plus its shares ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiling Point (1990 Film)
''Boiling Point'', known in Japan as , is a 1990 Japanese crime film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano, who also co-stars under his stage name Beat Takeshi. It was Kitano's second film as a director and first film as a screenwriter. ''Boiling Point'' is seen as an important first step in his development as an editor and as a director. by Mike Bracken at CultureCartel.com Plot outline Masaki is a shiftless, inattentive young man who is a member of a losing local team, whose coach is threatened and attacked by a local . He teams up with a friend t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspect X
is a 2008 Japanese mystery-thriller film based on the novel, ''The Devotion of Suspect X'', directed by Hiroshi Nishitani. The film was a continuation of the popular Japanese serial drama '' Galileo'' and included the same cast. It topped Japan's box office for four consecutive weeks and was the third-highest-grossing Japanese movie in 2008. The soundtrack was released on October 1, 2008. ''Suspect X'' was the first of several film adaptations of ''The Devotion of Suspect X'', followed by film adaptations such as ''Perfect Number'' (2012) from South Korea and ''Kolaigaran'' (2019) from India. Plot A murder has occurred and the police are unable to find loopholes in the alibi of the main suspect, thus creating obstacles in the investigation. Yasuko Hanaoka (Yasuko Matsuyuki) is a divorced, single mother who owns a restaurant. Tetsuya Ishigami (Shinichi Tsutsumi) is a reclusive, but brilliant mathematics teacher, who lives next door of Yasuko and Misato (Yasuko's daughter). Ishigam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow White Murder Case
is a 2014 Japanese mystery thriller film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. Plot Yuji Akahoshi (Gou Ayano) receives a phone call from an old high school friend, Risako Kano (Misako Renbutsu). She tells him that her co-worker at a cosmetics company was stabbed to death and then doused in flames. Yuji Akahoshi decides to interview workers at the company and others that knew the victim, Noriko Miki (Nanao), for his television show. Yuji Akahoshi soon discovers that another co-worker, Miki Shirono (Mao Inoue) disappeared the same night of the murder. She was last seen running to the train station shortly after Noriko Miki's death. Yuji attempts to unravel the mystery of Miki Shirono. Cast *Mao Inoue as Miki Shirono *Gō Ayano as Yuji Akahoshi * Nanao as Noriko Miki *Nobuaki Kaneko as Satoshi Shinoyama *Erena Ono as Eimi Mitsushima * Mitsuki Tanimura as Minori Maetani (Miki's friend from university) *Shihori Kanjiya as Yuko Tanimura (Miki's childhood friend) *Shunsuke Daito as Shingo E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Ghoul (film)
is a 2017 Japanese dark fantasy action film based on the manga series ''Tokyo Ghoul'' by Sui Ishida. The film is directed by Kentarō Hagiwara and stars Masataka Kubota as Ken Kaneki and Fumika Shimizu as Tōka Kirishima. It was released in Japan by Shochiku on July 29, 2017. Plot ''Tokyo Ghoul'' is set in an alternate reality where ghouls, individuals who can only survive by eating human flesh, live among the normal humans in secret, hiding their true nature to evade pursuit from the authorities. Ken Kaneki, a normal college student who, after being taken to a hospital, discovers that he underwent a surgery that transformed him into a half-ghoul after being attacked by his date, Rize Kamishiro who reveals herself to be a ghoul. This was accomplished by transferring Rize's organs into his body, and now, like normal ghouls, he must consume human flesh to survive. Struggling with his new life as a half-ghoul, he must now adapt into the ghoul society, as well as keeping his identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver And Gold (TV Series)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It was serialized in Futabasha's ''Action Pizazz'' from 1992 to 1996, and compiled in 11 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The series portrays the machinations of men living in the underworld, including speculative stock wars and backroom deals with politicians, deadly struggles for life against vengeful and crazed murderers, and Fukumoto's signature gambling games. After running for 108 chapters, the serialization ended abruptly and discontinued. ''Gin to Kin'' has also been adapted into seven direct-to-video movies and a 12-episode television drama. Characters Ginji's Group ; :Portrayed by: Kiyoshi Nakajō (Direct-to-video movies), Lily Franky (TV drama) :He works as a fixer in the underground society under the alias "Silver King". His nickname is "Gin". He has outstanding capabilities in every respect and a unique philosophy of life. He draws Morita into the underworld as a man who fits the "conditions" and ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saitama, Saitama
is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance. Being in the Greater Tokyo Area and lying 15 to 30 kilometres north of central Tokyo, many of its residents commute into Tokyo. , the city had an estimated population of 1,324,854, and a population density of 6,093 people per km² (15,781 people per mi²). Its total area is . Etymology The name "Saitama" originally comes from the of what is now the city of Gyōda in the northern part of what is now known as Saitama Prefecture. "Sakitama" has an ancient history and is mentioned in the famous 8th century poetry anthology '' Man'yōshū''. The pronunciation has changed from Sakitama to Saitama over the years. With the merger of Urawa, Ōmiya, and Yono it was decided that a new name, one fitting for this newly created prefectural capital, was needed. The prefectural name was chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Moyu
is a 2015 Japanese historical drama television series, the 54th NHK ''taiga'' drama. The series stars Mao Inoue as Sugi Fumi, a sister of Meiji Restoration scholar Yoshida Shōin. It premiered on January 4, 2015, and ended on December 13, 2015. Plot The series depict the Meiji Restoration, occurring during the last years of the Bakufu Shogunate and the early years of the Meiji Era, through the point of view of Sugi Fumi ( ja), the younger sister of Yoshida Shōin. Cast Sugi family *Mao Inoue as Sugi Fumi (later Katori Miwako) **Momoka Yamada as young Fumi *Yusuke Iseya as Yoshida Shōin, Shishi of Bakumatsu era, Fumi's second eldest brother **Rihito Itagaki as young Shōin *Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Sugi Yurinosuke, Fumi's father *Fumi Dan as Sugi Taki, Fumi's mother *Eiji Okuda as Tamaki Bun'noshin, Fumi's uncle *Taizo Harada as Sugi Umetarō, Fumi's eldest brother * Yūka as Odamura Hisa, Fumi's second eldest sister, Odamura's first wife **Kanon as young Hisa * Yūki Morinag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Saitama (city)
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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