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Deer Friend
is a 1991 Japanese film directed by Yukihiro Sawada. It was released in Japan on April 20, 1991 where it was distributed by Toho. The film won Tomokazu Miura the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Mainichi Film Concours. Miura also won for his roles in '' Nowhere Man'' and '' The Great Shogunate Battle''. At the Japanese Academy Awards, Joe Hisaishi , known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. He is also known for his piano scores. Hisaishi's music has been known to explor ... won the award for best score, along with three other films he scored in 1991. See also * D.W.'s Deer Friend, a 1998 TV episode * List of Japanese films of 1991 Footnotes References * External links * Nikkatsu films Toho films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomokazu Miura
is a Japanese actor. Life and career Miura attended Hino high school in Tokyo. He was originally a member of rock group RC Succession, but was asked to leave the group by their management when they signed a record contract. However, impressed by his looks, the management company asked him to try out acting. In 1974 he appeared in an advertisement for Glico with young singer Momoe Yamaguchi. When casting the male lead for her film ''Izu no Odoriko'', they thought of Miura, and he was chosen as the male lead. The popularity of the Miura/Yamaguchi combination led to them starring together in a series of films and television series. They became known as the "Golden Combi". Although Yamaguchi had a separate career as a singer, this was Miura's main form of employment through the 1970s. In 1980 Miura and Yamaguchi married, and the 21-year-old Yamaguchi retired from show business. Initially Miura struggled with his acting career, which had consisted of playing Yamaguchi's romantic partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuzo Kawatani
was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains. Selected filmography Film * ''Zoku ô-oku maruhi monogatari'' (1967) * ''Eleven Samurai'' (1967) * ''Bakuchi-uchi: Nagurikomi'' (1968) - Umekichi * ''Kaettekita gokudô'' (1968) * ''Tosei-nin Retsuden'' (1969) * ''Gokuaku bôzu: nenbutsu hitokiri tabi'' (1969) * ''Hitokiri kannon-uta'' (1970) * ''Nihon jokyo-den: tekka geisha'' (1970) * ''Onna toseinin'' (1971) - Jihei * ''Gokuaku bozu - Nomu utsu kau'' (1971) * ''Gendai poruno-den: Sentensei inpu'' (1971) - Doi * ''Hibotan bakuto: Jingi tooshimasu'' (1972) * ''Kizu darake jinsei furui do de gonzansu'' (1972) * ''Onsen suppon geisha'' (1972) - Murata * ''Kogarashi Monjirô'' (1972) * ''Bakuchi-uchi Gaiden'' (1972) * ''Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (1973) - Ryoichi Enami * ''Poruno no joô: Nippon sex ryokô'' (1973) * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima'' (1973) - Iwashita Mitsuo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hisaishi
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. He is also known for his piano scores. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films. He is also recognized for his music for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including ''A Scene at the Sea'' (1991), '' Sonatine'' (1993), ''Kids Return'' (1996), '' Hana-bi'' (1997), ''Kikujiro'' (1999), ''Brother'' and ''Dolls'' (2002), and for the video game series '' Ni no Kuni''. He was a student of anime composer Takeo Watanabe. Life and career Early life Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan, as . He started learnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkatsu
is a Japanese entertainment company known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio, founded in 1912 during the silent film era. The name ''Nikkatsu'' amalgamates the words Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Motion Pictures". Shareholders are Nippon Television Holdings (35%) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (28.4%). History Founding in 1912 Nikkatsu was founded on September 10, 1912, when several production companies and theater chains, Yoshizawa Shōten, Yokota Shōkai, Fukuhōdō and M. Pathe, consolidated under the name Nippon Katsudō Shashin. The company enjoyed its share of success. It employed such notable film directors as Shozo Makino and his son Masahiro Makino. During World War II, the government ordered the ten film companies that had formed by 1941 to consolidate into two. Masaichi Nagata, founder of Daiei Film and a former Nikkatsu employee, counter-proposed that three companies be formed and the suggestion was appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho
is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer and distributor of many '' kaiju'' and ''tokusatsu'' films, the Chouseishin ''tokusatsu'' superhero television franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, CoMix Wave Films, TMS Entertainment and OLM, Inc. All nine of the highest-grossing Japanese films are released by Toho. Other famous directors, including Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, and Mikio Naruse, also directed films for Toho. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured in 32 of the company's films. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are described as Toho's Big Five because of the monsters' numerous appearances throughout the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Toho has also been involved in the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainichi Film Concours
The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946. It is the first film festival in Japan. History The origins of the contest date back to 1935, when the ''Mainichi Shinbun'' organized a festival then called ''Zen Nihon eiga konkūru'' (全日本映画コンク ー ル? ). It was interrupted during World War 2. The current form of the Mainichi Film Awards officially came into being in 1946. Awards * Mainichi Film Award for Best Film * Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film * Mainichi Film Award for Best Director * Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography * Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction * Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film * Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor * Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor * Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress * Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress * Mainichi Film Award for Best Film Score * Mainichi Film Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowhere Man (1991 Film)
Nowhere Man may refer to: Music * "Nowhere Man" (song), a 1965 song by The Beatles ** ''Nowhere Man'' (EP), a 1966 EP by The Beatles featuring the song "Nowhere Man" * "Nowhere Man", a song by Anti-Nowhere League from '' We Are...The League'' * "The Nowhere Man", a song by The Veils from ''The Runaway Found'' Film and television * ''Nowhere Man'' (Taiwanese TV series), 2019 crime thriller drama series by Netflix * ''Nowhere Man'' (American TV series), 1995 drama series * ''Nowhere Man'' (''Heroes''), webseries based on the TV series ''Heroes'' * "Nowhere Man" (''Law & Order''), 2004 episode of ''Law & Order'' * ''Nowhere Man'' (film), 1991 Japanese film directed by and starring Naoto Takenaka * "Nowhere Man", episode of TV series '' Haven'' * ''Nowhere Man'', 1961 Soviet film starring Anatoli Papanov * ''Nowhere Man'', 2005 film written and directed by Tim McCann * ''The Nowhere Man'', 2005 film starring Lorenzo Lamas * Jeremy Hillary Boob or the "Nowhere Man", a fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Shogunate Battle
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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