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Front Row Life
''Fan Life'', ''Front Row'', ''A Thirsty Life'' and ''Life of a Striptease Love'' is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro. The ''Roman Porno'' director's first film, it was a box-office failure, and stalled his directing career until 1972. Synopsis Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tells the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother's profession. Cast * Hatsue Tonooka: 笑子 * Shizu Niwa (aka Shizu Tanba): 洋子 * Shuntaro Tamamura: 勝チン * Yoshihiro Nakadai: 坂本っちゃん * Hiroko Hanae: 秋子 * Yukimasa Natori: 恭やん * Masanori Nagase: 倉さん * Tatsuo Mizuki: ふとん屋 * Hiroshi Ichimura: 若いやくざ * Takeshi Yoshida: 錦ちゃん * Hisako Nitta * Bonji Masuda Background Tatsumi Kumashiro had been working at Nikkatsu as an assistant director and screenwriter when he was given his first chance to direct, at the age of 41. ''Front Row Life'' gained positive reviews from cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsumi Kumashiro
was a Japanese film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning ''Roman Porno'' films, such as ''Ichijo's Wet Lust'' (1972) and ''The Woman with Red Hair'' (1979). He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early Nikkatsu Roman Porno era, with many box-office successes, and films regularly appearing on the yearly Best Ten lists of the mainstream ''Kinema Junpo'' and '' Eiga Geijutsu'' film journals. Kumashiro has been called, "the most consistently successful director in Japan's cinematic history,"Weisser, p.204. and Allmovie calls him, "arguably the most important Japanese director to emerge during the 1970s." Life and career Early life Tatsumi Kumashiro was born on April 24, 1927 in Saga, on Kyūshū—the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. His father was a pharmaceuticals merchant and judo master descended from the ''samurai'' class. A strict disciplinarian, Kumashiro's father believed in the warrior philosophy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo as written 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] |
Nikkatsu Films
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 app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Japanese-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Tatsumi Kumashiro
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] |
1968 Films
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', as well as two highly successful musical films, '' Funny Girl'' and '' Oliver!'', the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in ''The Lion in Winter'') and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * November 1 – The MPAA's film rating system is introduced. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): canceled due to events of May 1968 Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): :'' Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos'' (''Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed''), directed by Alexander Kluge, West Germany Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''Ole dole doff'' (''Who Saw Him Die?''), directed by Jan Troell, Sweden Films released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete Index To World Film
The Complete Index to World Film (citwf or citwf.com) is an online database of information related to movies. Citwf, compiled online by Alan Goble and Valan Publishing since 2004, had a Guinness Record as the world's largest published film-related database, with over 756,000 title entries. In 1990, The Complete Index to World Film Since 1895 was published by Bowker Saur in two volumes. () and a CD version was published in 1995. Overview The Complete Index to World Film since 1895 contains information on over 518,639 films produced in over 175 countries of the world between 1888 and 2019 and is accessible by all. A subscription version is available to libraries and institutions and this version contains no advertising and the additional benefit of over 580,284 references to books and journals. See also *Allmovie *Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wet Lips
Wet may refer to: * Moisture, the condition of containing liquid or being covered or saturated in liquid * Wetting (or wetness), a measure of how well a liquid sticks to a solid rather than forming a sphere on the surface Wet or WET may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Games * ''Wet'' (video game), a 2009 video game * '' Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'', a 2003 video game * '' Lula: The Sexy Empire'', also titled ''Wet: The Sexy Empire'', a 1998 computer game Music * Wet (band), an American indie pop group * ''Wet'' (album), by Barbra Streisand * "Wet" (Nicole Scherzinger song), a song from the album ''Killer Love'' (2011) * "Wet" (Snoop Dogg song), the lead single from the album ''Doggumentary'' * "Wet" (YFN Lucci song), the lead single from the mixtape ''Wish Me Well 3'' Other media * ''Wet'' (magazine), a magazine about "gourmet bathing" in the late 1970s Businesses * WET (company), a water feature design firm * Wet Lubricants, a brand of personal lubricants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nikkatsu Roman Porno Films
The Nikkatsu ''Roman Porno'' films were a series of theatrical Japanese softcore pornographic films produced by the movie studio Nikkatsu from November, 1971, until May, 1988. The Japanese word 'roman' refers to novels, and derives from the Latin/French word, 'roman.' This is a list of the films in that series. 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 See also * Pink film Notes Sources * Allmovie * Internet Movie Database * 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. ... * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nikkatsu Roman Porno Films Pink films Japanese pornography Lists of films by studio * Pornographic film series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...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] |
Komimasa Tanaka
was a noted Japanese writer, essayist, and translator. Prizes * 1979 81st Naoki Prize (1979上) for ''Rōkyoku shiasahimaru no hanashi / Mimi no koto'' (浪曲師朝日丸の話 / ミミのこと) * 1979 15th Tanizaki Prize for ''Poroporo'' (ポロポロ) Selected works * ''Kaburitsuki jinsei'', 1964. * ''Ueno shōgitai'', 1968. * ''Jidōmakidokei no ichinichi'', 1971. * ''Omoshiro hambun taidan'', 1971. * ''Otomejima no otome'', 1974. * ''Ohōtsuku zuma'', 1975. * ''Cheri to no sampo'', 1976. * ''Betonamu ōjo'', 1979. * ''Biggu heddo'', 1979. * ''Gorinjū totokarucho'', 1979. * ''Ishagirai ni sasageru hon'', 1979. * ''Poroporo'' (ポロポロ), Tōkyō : Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. * ''Rōkyoku shiasahimaru no hanashi / Mimi no koto'' (浪曲師朝日丸の話 / ミミのこと), 1979. * ''Yashi no tabi'' (香具師 の 旅), Tōkyō : Tairyūsha, 1979. * ''Joruigaku nyūmon'', 1980. * ''Mata yokomichi ni soremasu ga'', 1981. * ''Chōjikan taidan'' (超時間 対談), Tōkyō : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
