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Gō Rijū
is a Japanese film director and actor. Career Rijū started making 8mm films in high school, and his ''Kyōkun I'' earned a spot at the 1980 Pia Film Festival. In 1981, he made his acting debut with a starring role in the TBS drama ''Fubo no gosan''. The same year, he participated in the production of Kihachi Okamoto's ''At This Late Date, the Charleston,'' not only starring, but also co-authoring the script and serving as assistant director. As an actor, he has appeared in films directed by Juzo Itami, Yoichi Sai, Kaizo Hayashi, and Shinji Aoyama; as well as TV dramas such as ''Kinpachi-sensei'' and ''Hanzawa Naoki''. As a director, his film ''Elephant Song (1994 film), Elephant Song'' won the NETPAC Award at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival. His next work ''Berlin (1995 film), Berlin'' (1995) earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. His 2001 film ''Chloe (2001 film), Chloe'' was selected for the competition at the Berlin Film Festival''. Filmography As actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama, Kanagawa
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the West following the 1859 end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1872), and power plant (1882). Yokohama developed r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin (1995 Film)
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Winter, We Parted (film)
''Last Winter, We Parted'' (Japanese: 去年の冬、きみと別れ, Hepburn: Kyonen no fuyu Kimi to wakare)is a 2018 Crime film directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Fuminori Nakamura. The film stars Takanori Iwata, Mizuki Yamamoto and Takumi Saitoh. The film is distributed by WARNER BROS. PICTURES JAPAN and was released in Japan on March 10, 2018, and was released in Hong Kong on June 28 of the same year. Plot Kyosuke Yakumo, a young reporter looking for a scoop, is preparing the wedding to his beloved Yuriko while continuing his chase to talented photographer Yudai Kiharazaka. Kiharazaka is the prime suspect of a still riddle-laden incident involving the death of a beautiful blind woman in a fire, and Yakumo manages to interview him so that he can writes a book about the case. The closer Yakumo gets to the truth, the deeper he plunges into Kiharazaka's devilry. Meanwhile, his fiancée Yuriko is falling slowly to a trap... Cast * Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Cream And The Sound Of Raindrops
is a 2017 Japanese drama film directed by Daigo Matsui. The film featured as part of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and the Jeonju International Film Festival. Plot The story centres on a director, who is pushing the cast of actors in rehearsal of a small town production of the British play "Morning" by Simon Stephens Simon Stephens (born 6 February 1971) is an English playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic .... The director pushes the actors to put as much as they can into the role. As such, the lines between the characters real dramas and the actors is blurred. Cast * Kokoro Morita as Kokoro * Reiko Tanaka as Reiko * Yuzu Aoki as Yuzu References External links * * {{Daigo Matsui 2017 films 2010s Japanese-language films Films directed by Daigo Matsui Japanese drama films 2017 drama films 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KT (film)
''KT'' is a 2002 Japanese-South Korean film directed by Junji Sakamoto with a screenplay by Haruhiko Arai. It is based on the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung by agents of Park Chung-hee in August 1973 while on a trip to Tokyo. He was released in Seoul after five days. The title KT means Killing the Target. Plot The story is centered on Masuo Tomita, a Japanese intelligence officer who helped arrange for South Korean agents to kidnap and try to kill Park Chung-hee's enemy Kim Dae-jung, who was in exile in Tokyo. Tomita went along with the plan to save a South Korean teacher Lee Jeong-mi, whom he loved. Cast * Kōichi Satō ... Masuo Tomita * Kim Kap-soo ... Kim Chang-won * Choi Il-hwa ... Kim Dae-jung * Yoshio Harada ... Akikazu Kamikawa * Michitaka Tsutsui ... Kim Kap-soo * Yang Eun-yong ... Lee Jeong-mi * Kim Byung-se ... Kim Jung-won * Teruyuki Kagawa ...Haruo Satake * Akira Emoto ... Hiroshi Uchiyama * Kyoko Enami ... Kab-Soos Mother * Noboru Hamada ... Minister * Masahiro Komo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ataru (TV Series)
''Ataru'' is a Tokyo Broadcasting System, TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police solve criminal cases. It stars Masahiro Nakai in the title role and has received 19.9% TV viewership ratings. Plot Cast * Masahiro Nakai as Ataru / Chokozai * Kazuki Kitamura as Shunichi Sawa * Chiaki Kuriyama as Maiko Ebina * Yuta Tamamori as Sho Ebina * Go Riju as Tatsuo Ebina * Kaoru Okunuki as Mariko Ebina * Kyusaku Shimada as Youji Nakatsugawa * Tetsushi Tanaka as Reiji Atsumi * Seiji Chihara as Hasuo Nozaki * Yasuhi Nakamura as Koshiro Inukai * Ken Shounozaki as Kouki Matsushima * Kaoru Mitsumune as Yui Ishikawa * Masaya Nakamura (actor), Masaya Nakamura as Nagamasa Kuroki * Hiromichi Miyoshi as Takashi Tamakura * Masachika Ichimura as Chokozai’s father * Hiroaki Murakami as Larry Inoue * Yuta Hiraoka as Takuro Kimihara References External links * ataru-eiga.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ataru Japanese drama television series 2012 in Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariadne No Dangan
is a TV series broadcast in Japan by Fuji TV. It is the sequel to ''Team Batista no Eiko'' and ''General Rouge no Gaisen''. Cast * Atsushi Itō as Kōhei Taguchi * Tōru Nakamura as Keisuke Shiratori * Katsunori Takahashi as Yoshimasa Ikaruga * Manami Konishi as Sumire Sasai * Toshinori Omi as Joichiro Kitayama * Seiji Fukushi as Soichi Usami * Yasuhi Nakamura as Makoto Tamamura * Ken Yasuda as Goro Shimazu * Tomohiro Ichikawa as Shuusuke Suga * Go Riju as Daisuke Mifune * Yuko Natori as Makoto Fujiwara * Ryuzo Hayashi as Gonta Takashina * Jinta Nishizawa as Hiroki Kanda * Toshihiro Yashiba – Yuichi Tomono * Naomasa Musaka – Yukio Matsuzaki * Kenta Satoi – Yagami Guest appearances * Kazumasa Taguchi – Kiyohara Masao (ep1) * Hideo Ishiguro – Kiyohara Shinichi (ep1) * Michiko Ameku – Ichiko Taniguchi (ep2) * Yasuhito Hida – Katsuya Oda (ep2) * Yasuyuki Maekawa – Coroner (ep2) * Etsuko Seki – Shizue Taniguchi (ep2) * Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maki Yasuomi
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served as a retainer of the Arima clan of Kurume Domain, Kurume in northern Kyūshū. He was also a Shinto priest of the Kurume Suitengū, Suitengū shrine in Kurume. Maki, also known by his court title of or simply , was a student of the Mito school's ''sonnō-jōi'' ideology, and in particular, Aizawa Seishisai's philosophy. Maki took part in the Kinmon Incident of 1864 and committed suicide near Osaka with his men, after being chased and surrounded by Aizu Domain, Aizu and Shinsengumi troops. Early life Maki was born in Kurume Domain, Kurume in 1813, to Maki Toshiomi, the family head of the hereditary line of Shinto priests who cared for the Suitengū shrine. It was during Maki's childhood that his father was made a full-fledged samurai by Arima Yorinori, the lord of Kurume.Calman, p. 81. When Maki was eleven, his father died, leaving him in charge of the family as well as the shrine. Intellectual and political career Combin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryōmaden
is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010, spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Production Production Credits *Original – Yasushi Fukuda *Music – Naoki Satō *Titling – Shishū *Narrator – Teruyuki Kagawa *Historical research – Manabu Ōishi, Tatsuya Yamamura *Architectural research – Sei Hirai *Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi *Beauty and costume direction – Isao Tsuge *Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi *Production coordinator – Kei Suzuki, Kanako Iwatani *Casting – Keishi Ōtomo Cast *Masaharu Fukuyama as **Tatsuomi Hamada as young Ryōma Sakamoto family *Shinobu Terajima as – older sister of Ryōma - later **Tao Tsuchiya as young Otome *Kiyoshi Kodama as – father o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifting Net Cafe
is a Japanese seinen manga by Shūzō Oshimi that was serialized in the manga magazine, ''Manga Action''. ''Drifting Net Cafe'' is a science fiction mystery involving a group of patrons trapped in an internet café, which has become a strange universe of its own. The story focuses primarily on the relationship between Koichi Toki, a salaryman who leads a trouble-free but unexciting life, and Kaho Tono, his first love whom he never forgot. The manga was adapted into a TBS television series on April 15, 2009, and stars Atsushi Itō as Koichi Toki. Plot Koichi Toki is an office worker or salaryman with a wife. He works hard to bring food home and leads a rather simple and boring life. During a work trip, he decides to spend time in an internet cafe, where he meets an ex-schoolmate after not seeing each other for a while. In the same cafe, several clients begin to have problems with their computers and the cellular signal disappears. The group of clients together with the manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fūrin Kazan (TV Series)
is the 46th NHK Taiga drama television series that began on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007, with the last episode aired December 16, 2007. Its official English title is ''The Trusted Confidant''. The story, to a large extent, was an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel of the same title (published in English under the title ''The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan''). The four characters of the title, from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's ''The Art of War''. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain." Plot Set in the Sengoku period, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists. Production Production Credits *Director – Kazuhiko Shimizu *Screenwriter – Sumio Ōmori *Based on the novel by – Yasushi Inoue *Narrator – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyotomi Hideyori
was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga. Early life Born in 1593, he was Hideyoshi's second son. The birth of Hideyori created a potential succession problem. To avoid it, Hideyoshi exiled his nephew and heir Hidetsugu to Mount Kōya and then ordered him to commit suicide in August 1595. Hidetsugu's family members who did not follow his example were then murdered in Kyoto, including 31 women and several children and also Mogami Yoshiaki's daughter. Hideyoshi refused to spare the life of Yoshiaki's daughter, who had only just arrived in Kyoto to become Hidetsugu's concubine and had not yet even met her future husband. When Hideyoshi died in 1598, the five regents he had appointed to rule in Hideyori's place began jockeying amongst themselves for power. Tokugawa Ieyasu seized control in 1600, after his victory over the others at the Battle of Sekigahara. Hid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
