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Eijirō Yanagi
(16 September 1895 – 24 April 1984) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 160 films from 1940 to 1975. Career Starting out in shingeki theater, Yanagi moved to shinpa (also rendered ''shimpa'') is a form of theater in Japan, usually featuring melodramatic stories, contrasted with the more traditional ''kabuki'' style. It later spread to cinema. Art form The roots of ''Shinpa'' can be traced to a form of agi ... and formed the Shinsei Shinpa theater troupe with Shōtaro Hanayagi in 1939. He also appeared as a supporting actor in many films. Selected filmography References External links * 1895 births 1984 deaths Japanese male film actors Actors from Hyōgo Prefecture Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzakumon (film)
, is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography ( Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours. Cast *Source: * Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya * Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman * Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei * Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother * Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father * Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa) * Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi * Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu * Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai * Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother * Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko * Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku * Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father * Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in * Seishirō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St James's The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itō Hirobumi
was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Japan. He was also a leading member of the ''genrō'', a group of senior statesmen that dictated Japanese policy during the Meiji era. A London-educated samurai of the Chōshū Domain and a central figure in the Meiji Restoration, Itō Hirobumi chaired the bureau which drafted the Constitution for the newly formed Empire of Japan. Looking to the West for inspiration, Itō rejected the United States Constitution as too liberal and the Spanish Restoration as too despotic. Instead, he drew on British and German models, particularly the Prussian Constitution of 1850. Dissatisfied with Christianity's pervasiveness in European legal precedent, he replaced such religious references with those rooted in the more traditionally Japanese concept of a ''kokutai'' or "national polity" which hence became the constitutional justification for imperial authority. During the 1880s, Itō emerged as the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Japan Sea (film)
is a 1969 Japanese war film directed by Seiji Maruyama, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Yūzō Kayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshio Kurosawa, Makoto Satō, Ryutaro Tatsumi, Chishū Ryū, and Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII. It focuses on Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. In the course of the battle, both the Japanese navy and army fail in their attempts to seize Port Arthur, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Japanese sea. Cast Production Special effects ''Battle of the Japan Sea'' was the last film for special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya before his death. A dedicated team of 60 artists worked on the 107 miniature ships created for the film. In addition, the miniature of the battleship ''Mikasa'' was made up to 13 meters long. Due to the weaker shell power during the Russo-Japanese War in the Pacific War, Freon gas was used to represent water column in the naval battle scene. Release ''Battle of the Japan Sea'' was distributed theatric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sands Of Kurobe
is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai. It was Japan's submission to the 41st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Produced by its stars Toshiro Mifune and Yujiro Ishihara, the film's first run in cinemas lasted for a month, significantly longer than the week or ten days that films at that time usually ran in Japan. Cast * Toshiro Mifune as Kitagawa * Yujiro Ishihara as Iwaoka * Osamu Takizawa as Otagaki * Takashi Shimura as Ashimura * Shūji Sano as Hirata * Jūkichi Uno as Mori * Ryūtarō Tatsumi as Genzō * Isao Tamagawa as Sayama * Takeshi Katō as Kunikida * Sumio Takatsu as Ōno * Tappie Shimokawa * Asao Sano * Mizuho Suzuki as Senda * Eijirō Yanagi as Fujimura * Akira Yamanouchi as Tsukamoto * Masao Shimizu as Tayama * Hideaki Nitani as Odagiri See also * List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film *List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushido, Samurai Saga
, also titled ''Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai'' and ''Cruel Tale of Bushido'', is a 1963 Japanese drama film, drama and jidaigeki film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear. Plot The story covers seven generations of a family, from the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate to the early 19 60s, and the extremes its members take out of devotion and unswerving loyalty to lord, country or company, at the cost of their lives and those of close relatives. Susumu, the last in line of male heirs, finally decides against this stance after his fiancée's suicide attempt. Cast * Kinnosuke Nakamura as Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu * Eijirō Tōno as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori * Kyōko Kishida as Lady Hagi * Masayuki Mori (actor), Masayuki Mori as Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori * Shinjirō Ehara as Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori * Takeshi Katō (actor), Takeshi Katō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Actor's Revenge
, also known as ''Revenge of a Kabuki Actor'', is a 1963 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa, based on a novel by Otokichi Mikami. Plot Japan in the late Edo period: Three men — Sansai Dobe, Kawaguchiya and Hiromiya — are responsible for the suicide of seven-year-old Yukitarō's mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura, the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles, taking the stage name Yukinojō. He wears women's clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on. Twenty years later, the troupe pays a visit to Edo, where the men responsible for his parents' deaths now live. Yukinojō brings about their deaths, then, having achieved his goal, and apparently overcome by the death of an innocent woman who was part of his schemes but whom he became fond of, retires from the stage and disappears. The events are coolly observed and sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destiny's Son
is a 1962 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi starring Raizo Ichikawa and written by Kaneto Shindo, released by Daiei Film. The film is based on one of the novels in the series of Nemuri Kyoshirō, written by Renzaburō Shibata. Plot The film opens with Shiho Fujimura as a female assassin, seeking to kill her lord's mistress for what she sees as the good of her clan. She succeeds, but is punished for her act, sentenced to death, but it is her husband (Shigeru Amachi) who executes her. Attempting to deal with the guilt of his action, he becomes a monk and sends his son to be fostered by another family. The rest of the film follows the young boy as he grows to become a skilled swordsman (Raizo Ichikawa). Not knowing much of his true past, he sets out on a three-year journey at the age of 20 as a means of self-discovery. At the end of his journey, he returns home with an incredibly defined and near unbeatable sword style and develops an intimidating presence. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Zatoichi Continues
is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and starring Shintaro Katsu as Zatōichi the blind swordsman, a character created by Kan Shimozawa. ''The Tale of Zatoichi Continues'' is the second entry in the popular, long-running ''Zatoichi'' series. Plot One year after the first film, Zatōichi travels back to the town near the Joshoji Temple, to pay respects at the grave of Hirate, the samurai he killed. Three brigands attack Zatōichi while he dries his clothes, and are despatched by a one-armed swordsman. Later that day, Zatōichi is hired to massage a powerful lord who, unbeknownst to all but the lord's highest retainers, is insane. Zatōichi observes the nobleman's unstable mental condition, and the retainers decide to kill him. Zatōichi defeats the first three attackers, and retires to a restaurant. The attack having failed, the lord's men hire local yakuza (gangsters) to finish the job. Learning of this, Zatoichi remarks to himself that he would have kept quiet if they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tale Of Zatoichi
is a 1962 Japanese '' chanbara'' film directed by Kenji Misumi and based on the 1948 essay of the same name by Kan Shimozawa. It is the first installment in a long-running '' jidaigeki'' film series starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman Zatoichi. Plot The blind masseur Zatoichi is hired as muscle for the '' yakuza'' Sukegoro (Eijiro Yanagi) as he thinks that war is inevitable with his rival Shigezo (Ryuzo Shimada). Zatoichi has a distinguished reputation as a swordsman and Sukegoro thinks that purchasing his services is money well spent. Shigezo responds by hiring a '' ronin'' of similar repute, Miki Hirate (Shigeru Amachi). Ichi presents himself as a meek, humble man and is commonly underestimated and looked upon suspiciously. His being a masseur, which was a position of low regard in feudal Japan, merely increases the hostility that is shown towards him. One notable scene has Ichi playing dice in a gambling den where the dealer attempts to con him with loaded p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mad Fox
''The Mad Fox'', (also titled '' Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow'' or ''Koiya koi nasuna koi'') is a 1962 film directed by Tomu Uchida. It is based upon a 1734 bunraku play. It is noted for its use of bunraku and kabuki aesthetics, including joshikimaku (a type of curtain), masks, costumes and highly saturated colours, a break from Uchida's previous work. Plot Sometime in the Heian period, the well renowned fortune teller Kamo no Yasunori is told by an oracle that he should adopt a girl who was born at a certain time. His two disciples, Abe no Yasuna and Absiya Doman, separately set out to find this girl. Yasunori finds identical twin girls born at the right time, daughters of the lord of Izumi and returns with the older one, Sakaki. Ten years later strange omens appear. Upon consulting his oracle book, ''The Golden Crow'', Yasunori reveals that the country is about to be thrown into turmoil with the crown prince, who lacks an heir, being cursed, but also something else he can tell o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
