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Enrai
or ''Distant Thunder'' is a 1981 Japanese film adaptation of Wahei Tatematsu's novel of the same name, directed by Kichitaro Negishi. Synopsis ''Enrai'' is a low-key study of a farmer, Mitsuo Wada, in 1980s Japan when modernization and urbanization were threatening rural areas. After his father leaves his wife to run off with his mistress, Mitsuo struggles to preserve his livelihood with the help of his mother, grandmother, and his arranged marriage bride, Ayako. Cast * Toshiyuki Nagashima as Mitsuo Wada * as Hirotsugu Nakamori * Eri Ishida as Ayako Hanamori * as Kaede * as Mitsuo's father * as Mitsuo's mother * as Mitsuo's grandmother * Yumiko Fujita as Chii * Keizō Kanie as Kaede's husband Background ''Enrai'' is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Wahei Tatematsu. The film, financed by ATG, Nikkatsu, and the smaller Nikkatsu-related company New Century Producers, marked director Negishi's breakthrough into mainstream film after several ''Roman porno'' features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kichitaro Negishi
is a Japanese film director. Although his films are admired by critics in Japan for their intelligence, Negishi has received little international recognition for his work. He has not been credited with a distinctive style but he has been called a subtle director who often elicits strong performances from his actors. He won the award for Best Director at the 3rd Yokohama Film Festival for ''Enrai'' and '' Crazy Fruit''. Life and career Early career - Nikkatsu Negishi graduated from Waseda University in the Faculty of Theatre and Film Arts, and as with several other filmmakers of his generation, began his career directing ''Roman porno'' films for the Nikkatsu studio. He worked as Assistant Director on Toshiya Fujita's March 1978 , based on the French novel ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'', but his debut as a director for Nikkatsu was with the June 1978 erotic thriller ''From Orion's Testimony: Formula For Murder''. The young Negishi's success with this film was a factor in Nikkatsu's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. Reports 19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst The Hochi Shimbu ...''. Categories *Best Picture *Best International Picture *Best Animated Picture (since 2017) *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best New Artist *Special Award *Best Director Winner External links Hochi Film Awards official site List of awards on IMDB {{Cinema of Japan 1976 establishments in Japan Awards established in 1976 Japanese film awards Recurring events established in 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahei Tatematsu
was a Japanese novelist. He wrote several novels including ''Enrai'' and ''Dogen-Zenji'', about the devout Buddhist who founded the Soto Sect of Zen Buddhism in 1227. He was also known for his environmental work. In 1995 he founded the Ashio Green Growing Association, a non-profit organization that helps plant trees at the abandoned Ashio Copper Mine The was a copper mine located in the town of Ashio, Tochigi (now part of the city of Nikkō, Tochigi), in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It was the site of Japan's first major pollution disaster in the 1880s and the scene of the 1907 min .... Selected works in English * ''Distant Thunder'' (''Enrai'', 遠雷), Charles E. Tuttle (1999). Translated by Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto * ''Frozen Dreams: Based on a True Story'' (''Hidaka'', 日高), Peter Owen (2012). Translated by Philip Gabriel. References External links Synopsis of ''Frozen Dreams'' (''Hidaka'')at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiyuki Nagashima
is a Japanese actor. He won the award for Best Newcomer at the 3rd Hochi Film Awards for ''Kaerazaru hibi'' and for Best Actor at the 6th Hochi Film Awards for ''Enrai''. Selected filmography Film *''Kaerazaru hibi'' (1978) *''Third Base'' (1978) *'' The Incident'' (1978) *''The Battle of Port Arthur'' (1980) as Yasusuke Nogi *''Nichiren'' (1979) as Nikkō Shōnin *''Enrai or ''Distant Thunder'' is a 1981 Japanese film adaptation of Wahei Tatematsu's novel of the same name, directed by Kichitaro Negishi. Synopsis ''Enrai'' is a low-key study of a farmer, Mitsuo Wada, in 1980s Japan when modernization and urbaniza ...'' (1981) *''Kofuku (film), Kofuku'' (1981) *''Imperial Navy (film), Imperial Navy'' (1981) *''Theater of Life'' (1983) *''Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) *''Tokei – Adieu l'hiver'' (1986) *''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' (1989) *''Manatsu no Chikyū'' (1991) *''Yearning (1993 film), Yearning'' (1993) *''Nastasja'' (1994) *''A Last Note'' (1995) *''Gamera 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keizō Kanie
was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'' and '' Jūkyūsai no Chizu'' and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Ware ni utsu yoi ari'' and ''Boku to, bokura no natsu''. He died on March 30, 2014, of stomach cancer at the age of 69. Filmography Film * ''Āa dōki no sakura'' (1967) - Second Sublieutenant Fawa * ''Yasashii Nippon jin'' (1971) * ''Kaoyaku'' (1971) - Sakamoto * ''Asobi'' (1971) * ''Arakajime ushinawareta koibitotchiyo'' (1971) * '' Zatōichi goyō-tabi'' (1972) * '' Goyōkiba'' (1972) * ''Saihate no joji'' (1937) - Jirō * ''Goyōkiba: Kamisori Hanzō jigoku zeme'' (1973) * ''Goyōkiba: Oni no Hanzō yawahada koban'' (1974) - Mamushi * ''Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu'' (1974) - Shiwa * ''Mutsugorō no kekkonki'' (1974) * ''Okasu!'' (1976) - Truck Driver * ''Utareru mae-ni ute!'' (1976) - Sone Genzo * ''Kashin no irezumi: Ureta tsubo'' (1976) - Tattoo artist Tatsu * ''And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruhiko Arai
is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film ''W's Tragedy'' in 1984. He wrote the screenplay for Junji Sakamoto's '' KT'' (2001), and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films '' Vibrator'' (2003) and ''It's Only Talk'' (2005). In 2013, he wrote the scripts for Junichi Inoue's ''A Woman and War'' and Shinji Aoyama's ''The Backwater''. His published but unfilmed scenario, , has been called lesescenario by figures such as the director Shinichiro Sawai. Filmography As screenwriter * ''Woman with Red Hair'' (1979) * ''Enrai'' (1981) * ''W's Tragedy'' (1984) * '' The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark'' (1993) * ''Body and Soul'' (1997) * '' KT'' (2002) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''It's Only Talk'' (2005) * '' Someday'' (2011) * ''A Woman and War'' (2013) * ''The Backwater'' (2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Kichitaro Negishi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten films released in 1981 by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 16 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie '' Heaven's Gate'', a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it. * March 30 - The 53rd Academy Awards are postponed due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan earlier that day. They are held the following day with a message from the President recorded for the ceremony prior to the assassination attempt. * June 8 - Marvin Davis acquires 20th Century Fox for $720 million. * June 12 – '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is released by Paramount Pictures. It became Paramount's highest-grossing film of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day. See also * IMDb References External links * Internet properties established in 1997 Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... Online film databases {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, France announced plans to help sponsor the festival with grants from the National Cinema Center. Ceremonies Categories *Best Film *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best Director *Best New Director *Best Screenplay *Best Cinematographer *Best Newcomer *Special Jury Prize *Best New Actor *Best New Actress References External links * Yokohama Film Festival - Overviewon IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{Authority control Awards established in 1980 Film festivals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Film
in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equivalent of pink films would essentially be erotic thrillers, e.g. ''Fatal Attraction'', ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''9½ Weeks '', as well as the works of directors Russ Meyer and Andy Sidaris. Some writers use the term 'pink film' for Japanese sex movies produced and distributed by smaller independent studios such as OP Eiga, Shintōhō Eiga, Kokuei and Xces. In this narrower sense, Nikkatsu's ''Roman Porno'' series, Toei Company's ''Pinky Violence'' series and the Tokatsu films distributed by Shochiku would not be included as these studios have much larger distribution networks. Until the early 2000s, they were almost exclusively shot on 35 mm movie film, 35mm film. Recently, filmmakers have increasingly used video (wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rie Yokoyama
Rie is a Japanese ( ja, 利恵, りえ, リエ) and Dutch feminine given name. It is also an uncommon masculine short form of Henri and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Japanese given name Rie can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *理恵, "logic, blessing " *利恵, "value, blessing" *梨絵, "pear, picture" *理江, "logic, inlet" *理絵, "logic, picture" *里枝, "village, branch" *梨恵, "pear, blessing" *里依, "village, reliable" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with this name include: *Rie, a Japanese fashion model *Rie Arikawa (梨絵), a Japanese retired ice dancer *Rie Eto (利恵), a Japanese music artist * Rie Fu (リエ), a Japanese singer-songwriter *Rie Ishizuka (理恵), a Japanese voice actress *Rie Isogai (利恵), a Japanese murder victim *Rie Kitahara (北原里英), member of Japanese idol group sensation AKB48 *Rie Kanda (理江), a Japanese voice actress *, Japanese women's footballer *Rie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
