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Eiichirō Funakoshi
is a Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and presenter. He is represented with Horipro. He graduated from Nihon University Mishima High School and Nihon University College of Arts Film Department (in which he was classmates with Hiroyuki Sanada). His father was Eiji Funakoshi, who was also an actor, and his mother was Yumiko Hasegawa. His great uncle was Kazuo Hasegawa (his wife Shige Iijima was Eiichiro's grandmother and their daughter was Matsu Iijima). His uncle was Ken Mishima (real name: Eitaro Funakoshi). His former wife is actress Kazuyo Matsui. His mother's great-grandfather was Jiro Iijima, founder of the Iijima Association, who formed a temporary name in railway construction. His sister was Yoko Hirano. Filmography Serial dramas Two hour dramas ; Nippon TV ; TV Asahi ; Tokyo Broadcasting System ; TV Tokyo ; Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba today is a large arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugawara
is a town located in Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 23,267 and a population density of 570 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Geography Yugawara is located in the far southwestern corner of the prefecture. The center of the town is located in the lowlands between the southern foot of Mount Hakone and the Sagami Bay. Much of the terrain formed by an eroded Quaternary volcano. In the northeast, bordering Manazuru Town, are gentle foothills where residential areas and mandarin orange fields coexist. In the south, hot spring resorts and residential areas are clustered along the north side of the Chitose River. The coastline has a sandy beach with a length of about 700 meters, which is crowded with swimmers in the summer. Surrounding municipalities Kanagawa Prefecture * Odawara * Manazuru * Hakone Shizuoka Prefecture * Atami * Kannami Climate Yugawara has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saya Takagi
is a Japanese actress turned activist for the legalization of cannabis in Japan. Biography Saya Takagi started smoking cannabis when she was 17.Pioneer Japanese cannabis activist Saya Takagi on running for office, getting arrested & more ''Cannabislifenetwork.com'', 31 January 2018 In 1994, she became famous with her the role of ''Kashiwagi Reiko'' in the Japanese drama film ''Okane ga Nai''. In 2012, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Saya Takagi decided to abandon the world of entertainment to become more involved in environmental activism, and adopted a self-sufficient lifestyle.Masa Tanizawa [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goro Inagaki
is a Japanese musician and actor from Itabashi, Tokyo. Inagaki was a member of the Japanese pop group SMAP. A year after the group's dissolution, Inagaki, alongside his former bandmates Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Shingo Katori formed the group Atarashii Chizu. His international film debut was in the romantic comedy '' Private Lessons II'', playing the male lead role of a Japanese student who falls for his tutor. ''Private Lessons II'' also starred SMAP leader Masahiro Nakai. Filmography Drama * 1989: ''Seishun Kazoku'' (1989) as Daichi Agawa * 1991: ''Gakkō e ikō'' as Toru Fujii * 1992: ''Hatachi no Yakusoku'' as Akagi Junpei * 1993: ''Uso Demo li Kara'' as Nogami Fumiya * 1994: ''Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari'' as Naoki Murakami * 1995: ''Saikō no Koibito'' as Michio Yoshinaga * 1996: ''Subarashiki Kazokuryokō'' as Kikuchi Tadahiro * 1997: ''Kare'' as Okamoto Toshiya * 1997: ''Koi no Katamichikippu'' as Mori Shinichi * 1998: ''Sommelier'' as Joe Satake * 1998: ''A Strange Story ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansai Telecasting Corporation
JODX-DTV, virtual channel 8 ( UHF digital channel 17), branded as or , is the Kansai region key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS), operated by the . Kansai TV is a company affiliated in Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Group of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Offices *the headquarters – 1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan *Tokyo Branch Office – Jiji Press Building, 15-8, Ginza Gochome, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan *Nagoya Branch Station – Telepia, 14-25, Higashi-Sakura Itchome, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan Advertising slogan *April, 1975: Stay tune, Channel 8. (チャンネルそのまま8チャンネル, Because Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS) were exchanged; more details on the exchange in its own articles.) *1994: Dash *1995 – March, 1997: Peechiku-Park Station (ピーチクパークステーション, Hachiemon, the mascot character of Kansai TV, was born.) *April, 1997–March 29, 2015 : Kante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack No
Attack may refer to: Warfare and combat * Offensive (military) * Charge (warfare) * Attack (fencing) * Strike (attack) * Attack (computing) * Attack aircraft Books and publishing * ''The Attack'' (novel), a book * '' Attack No. 1'', comic and animation * Attack! Books, a publisher * ''Attack!'' (publication), a tabloid publication of the National Alliance established in 1969. The name was changed to '' National Vanguard'' in 1978 * ''Der Angriff'', a.k.a. ''The Attack'', a newspaper franchise * In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes " criticise" Films and television * Attack! The Battle of New Britain a 1944 American armed forces documentary film * ''Attack'' (1956 film), also known as ''Attack!'', a 1956 American war film * ''Attack'' (2016 film), a 2016 Telugu film * ''Attack'' (2022 film), a 2022 Hindi film * ''The Attack'' (1966 film), an Australian television play * ''The Attack'' (2012 film), a 2012 film directed by Ziad Doueiri * "The Attack" (''Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Matsuura
is a Japanese actress and pop singer, from Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. Career 2000–2009: Hello! Project Aya auditioned in 2000 for the fourth Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo Protegee Audition and was selected along with Sheki-Dol to become a part of what was later known as Hello! Project. After being chosen from that audition, Matsuura began her solo career. In time, she would become one of Hello! Project's biggest acts. Aside from a successful solo career, Matsuura (nicknamed Ayaya), also did numerous collaborations with other members of Hello! Project, including special, usually short lived groups Gomattou with Maki Goto and Miki Fujimoto; Nochiura Natsumi with Maki Goto and Natsumi Abe; and DEF.DIVA with Maki Goto, Natsumi Abe, and Rika Ishikawa. She also did the "Folk Song" series which feature Yuko Nakazawa and other Hello! Project artists, as well as Hello! Project's shuffle groups ( 3nin Matsuri in 2001, Odoru 11 in 2002, Salt5 in 2003, and the larger H.P. All Stars in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiro Matsuoka
is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is a member of Tokio, a Johnny Entertainment musical group. His nicknames are Mabo and Maa-kun. He starred as Shinichi Ozaki in '' Godzilla: Final Wars'', and comedy series ''Yasuko to Kenji''. Career As an artist Matsuoka joined the pop/rock band Tokio as a drummer in 1990, although the band did not debut until 1994. Along with other Tokio members, he was a background dancer for idol bands such as Hikaru Genji. As an actor Matsuoka has had parts in over 20 dramas. His first lead role was in ''Psychometrer Eiji'', a 1997 mystery science fiction drama. In 2008 he starred a comedy series ''Yasuko to Kenji'', based on a comical manga by artist Aruko. Endorsements Matsuoka has endorsed many various brands with the band Tokio and by himself. With Tokio, he has endorsed among others Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Eneos, a brand for Nippon Oil , formerly , or NOC or ''Shin-Nisseki'' (新日石) is a Japanese petroleum company. Its businesses incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hundred Tales Of Karma
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misa Yamamura
, née , was a Japanese novelist and a mystery writer favored as the queen of both mystery novels and tricks in Japan, often compared to Agatha Christie. Her spouse is Takashi Yamamura, a painter and a retired high school teacher. Her younger brother is Hiroshi Kimura, a professor of Political Science and her daughter is Momiji Yamamura, an actress. Biography Born in Kyoto, Misa Yamamura graduated from Kyoto Prefectural University Faculty of Letters, majored Japanese Literature in 1957 and was employed as a Japanese literature teacher at Fushimi Junior High School in Kyoto City until 1964 when she got married. Beginning writing since around 1967, Yamamura was nominated three times for in 1970, 1972 and 1973, and it was in 1974 when she made a major debut with "Disappeared into the Sea of Melaka" . Yamamura wrote two TV screen plays before her major debut for a very popular series of detective drama . Those were written for Episodes 474 (co-authored with Norimasa Ogawa) and 476, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Sakai
Miki Sakai (''Sakai Miki'', 酒井美紀), born 21 February 1978 in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Japan is an actress and J-pop Japanese idol, idol singer. As a teenager she made her feature film debut in the 1995 Shunji Iwai film ''Love Letter (1995 film), Love Letter'' playing the role of Itsuki Fujii as a young girl. The film was a huge box-office success and Miki picked up a number of awards for her role including a Japanese Academy Award for 'Newcomer of the Year'. She also starred in ''Hagusen nagashi'' (1996) on TV as well as in numerous other television series and movies. Miki's portrayal of the character Tomie in the 2001 horror movie ''Tomie: Re-birth'' was one of the more popular interpretations of the role. In January 2008, Miki Sakai appeared in the 10-hour long TV historical drama ''Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune''. Filmography Film * ''Love Letter (1995 film), Love Letter'' (1995) * ''Himeyuri no Tō'' (1995) * ''Nagareita shichinin'' (1997) * ''Abduction'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
