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Hana No Shōgai
is a 1963 Japanese television series. It is the 1st NHK taiga drama. Story Ten to Chi to deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Funahashi Seiichi's novels "Hana no Shōgai". The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke. Cast * Onoe Shoroku II as Ii Naosuke *Chikage Awashima as Murayama Taka *Kaoru Yachigusa as Masako no Kata *Keiji Sada as Nagano Shuzen *Nakamura Shikaku II *Kyōko Kagawa as Akiyama Shizu *Shinsuke Ashida as Takemoto *Masakazu Tamura as Tada Tatewaki *Ko Nishimura as Tada Ichiro *Asao Koike as Minegishi Ryunosuke *Isamu Nagato as Kanroku *Masami Shimojō as Miura Hokuan *Kazuo Kitamura as Utsuki Kageyoshi *Akira Kume as Townsend Harris *Koji Ishizaka * Takeshi Katō as Kaneko Magojiro *Hisano Yamaoka as Kurosawa Tokiko *Yukiji Asaoka as Okichi *Chikao Ohtsuka as Rokuzo *Hiroyuki Nagato as Tsurumatsu *Minoru Uchida as Kurosawa Chizaburo *Jun Tatara as Onoe Kotaro *Tomoko Naraoka as Osei *Masumi Okada as Henry Heusken *Isao Yamagata as Arimura Jizaemon *Kanjūr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ii Naosuke
was ''daimyō'' of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and extraterritoriality to American citizens. He was also an enthusiastic and accomplished practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony, in the Sekishūryū style, and his writings include at least two works on the tea ceremony. Under Ii Naosuke’s guidance, the Tokugawa shogunate navigated past a particularly difficult conflict over the succession to the ailing and childless Tokugawa Iesada. Ii Naosuke managed to coerce the Tokugawa shogunate to the last brief resurgence of its power and position in Japanese society before the start of the Meiji period. Ii was assassinated in the Sakuradamon incident by a group of 17 Mito and 1 Satsuma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Heusken
Hendrick Conrad Joannes Heusken (January 20, 1832 – January 15, 1861) was a Dutch-American interpreter for the first American consulate in Japan, established at Gyokusen-ji in Shimoda, Shizuoka in the late Bakumatsu period.Prominent People of Minato City: Henricus Conradus Joannes Heusken Minato City Local History Museum. He played an important role in the negotiations for the "Harris Treaty", which opened commercial relations between Japan and America, and his assassination caused a minor diplomatic crisis between Japan and the various Western powers. Lif ...
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Masumi Okada
was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen". Masumi Okada was the younger of two sons; his older brother, Taibi "Erick" Okada, was also an actor and presenter- known professionally as E. H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles' 1966 concert in Tokyo. Biography Masumi Okada spent the first four years of his life in France before relocating to Japan in 1939. He received his education under his Western name, Otto Sevaldsen, at Saint Joseph International School (SJIS) in the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa prefecture, graduating in 1955. In 1952, while still a student at SJIS, Okada debuted as an actor in a musical at the Nichigeki Music Hall. He signed with Nikkatsu Corporation in 1954, appearing in his first film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoko Naraoka
is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Tokyo, Komagome, Hongō, Tokyo, Hongō (present-day Bunkyō, Tokyo, Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film ''Chijin no Ai'', based on the novel ''Naomi (novel), Naomi''. In 1981 she appeared in ''Rengō Kantai'' (lit. "Combined Fleet", United States title: ''The Imperial Navy''). She also appeared in ''Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial'' (a 1988 movie in the long-running ''Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' series) as well as eight films in the ''Tsuribaka Nisshi'' series. Naraoka has appeared in several NHK Taiga dramas. Her first was the 1969 ''Ten to Chi to,'' in the role of the wife of Uesugi Sadazane. She portrayed Nene (person), Kita no Mandokoro (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in ''Haru no Sakamichi (TV series), Haru no Sakamichi'' (1971). Her next Taiga drama appearance was in 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minoru Uchida
(March 18, 1927 – April 2, 2018) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Okayama Prefecture. He was affiliated with Gekidan Subaru. He was married to fellow voice actress Reiko Niimura. Live-action roles Film * Nihon Chinbotsu (1973) (Research member) *Panic High School (1978) (Kobayashi) *The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) (Gengobee Toda) *Onimasa (1982) (Kankichi Umeda) Television drama *''Ōoku'' (1968) (Manabe Akifusa) *''Oretachi wa Tenshi da!'' (1979) episode #9 *''Haru no Sakamichi'' (1971) (Naoe Kanetsugu) *''Ōgon no Hibi'' (1978) (Ishida Masazumi) *''Ōoku'' (episode #13, 1983) (Michizō Enjuin) *''Sanga Moyu'' (1984) (Saburō Kurusu) Unknown date *''Key Hunter'' (episode #163) (Trade Director Kida) *''Mito Kōmon'' (Strange person (season 20, episode 33), Tsushimaya (season 21, episode 14), Tomezō (season 25, episode 6)) *''Sanbiki ga Kiru!'' (first series, episode 6) (Touan Yamazaki) *''Sanbiki ga Kiru!'' (fourth series, episode 8) (Kenmotsu Shimojima) *''Abarenb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikao Ohtsuka
was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He was most known for the roles of Captain Hook (''Peter Pan no Bōken & Disney's Peter Pan''), Dick Dastardly (''Wacky Races'' & ''Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines''), Goemon Ishikawa XIII (''Lupin III''), Nezumi Otoko ('' GeGeGe no Kitaro''), Denzō Yamada (''Nintama Rantarō''), Professor Moriarty (''Sherlock Hound''), Jagi (''Fist of the North Star''), Doctor Eggman ('' Sonic the Hedgehog'' series), Gol D. Roger (One Piece), Xehanort ('' Kingdom Hearts'' series), Dr. Weil (''Mega Man Zero''), Taopaipai ('' Dragon Ball''), Piedmon and Apocalymon ('' Digimon''), and Wario in his commercials. He was the official dubbing artist of Charles Bronson and Richard Widmark. At the time of his death, he was attached with Aoni Production. He was the father of Akio Ōtsuka. The two occasionally performed together, such as in ''Black Jack 21'', ''Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory'', the '' Kingdom Hearts'' series, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Katō (actor)
was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films. Career Graduating from Waseda University, Katō first became a middle school teacher, but then joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1952. Beyond appearing in and directing plays on stage, he also appeared in films by such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shohei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa, and Kiriro Urayama was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Urayama graduated from Nagoya University before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1954. After working as an assistant director to Yūzō Kawashima and Shohei I .... He died on 31 July 2015 after collapsing in a sauna. Selected filmography Films Television References External links * 1929 births 2015 deaths Japanese male film actors Japanese male stage actors Japanese theatre directors Male actors from Tokyo Waseda University alumni {{japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koji Ishizaka
Koji, Kōji, Kohji or Kouji may refer to: *Kōji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name *Kōji (Heian period) (康治), Japanese era, 1142–1144 *Kōji (Muromachi period) (弘治), Japanese era, 1555–1558 *Koji orange, a Japanese citrus cultivar *Andrew Koji Shiraki (born 1987), singer/songwriter known as ''Koji'' *Koji, the software that builds RPM packages for the Fedora project *''Koji'', the common name of the fungus '' Aspergillus oryzae'' *Koji, an interactive content creation tool from GoMeta See also *Kojii, music project by Kojii Helnwein *''Coji-Coji is a Japanese manga series by Momoko Sakura which was serialized in the magazine ''Kimi to Boku'' from December 1994 to May 1997. The manga was adapted into an anime television series titled which aired from October 4, 1997 until September ...'' (コジコジ), an anime series sometimes romanized ''Koji Koji'' *Kōji mold Aspergillus oryzae, a fungus used in East Asian fermentation {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the "Harris Treaty" between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period. He was portrayed by John Wayne in the 1958 historical adventure drama film ''The Barbarian and the Geisha.'' In New York Harris was born in the village of Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls), in Washington County in upstate New York. He moved early to New York City, where he became a successful merchant and importer from China. In 1846 Harris joined the New York City Board of Education, serving as its president until 1848. He was an avid and critical reader and also taught himself French, Italian and Spanish. He founded the Free Academy of the City of New York, which later became the City College of New York, to provide education to the city's workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kume
was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He died on 23 April 2020 from heart failure. Filmography Films *''The Insect Woman'' (1963) - Investigator *''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970) - First Secretary Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited) *'' Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon'' (1974) - Watabe *''Kinkanshoku'' (1975) - Prime Minister *''Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset'' (1976) - Mayor of Tatsuno *''Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari'' (1976) - Detective *''Fumō Chitai'' (1976) - Cabinet minister *''Female Teacher'' (1977) - Kamino / Schoolmaster *''Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta'' (1977) *''The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf'' (1979) - Hyōgo *''Dōran'' (1980) - Kinzo Mizoguchi *''Shag'' (1989) *'' Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan'' (1993) - Narrator *''Pipi to benai hotaru'' (1996) - Elder Stag Television dramas *'' Key Hunter'' (1968) - Killer Ueno *''Kunitori Monogatari'' (1973) - Akechi Mitsuyasu *''Taiyō ni Hoero!'' (1978–1979) - Soda *'' Oretachi wa Tenshi da!'' (1979) episode# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Kitamura
was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Yukiya Kitamura. Kitamura met Shōhei Imamura when he was a student of Waseda University and became a close friend so often worked with Imamura. Kitamura joined Bungakuza theatre company and started his acting career in 1950. In 1953, he made his film debut with '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' directed by Tadashi Imai. Filmography Film Television * ''Taikōki'' (1965) as Torii Suneemon * ''Ten to Chi to'' (1969) as Murakami Yoshikiyo * '' Haru no Sakamichi'' (1971) as Shima Sakon * '' Akō Rōshi'' (1979) as Ono Kurobei * ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' (1983) as Mizuno Tadamasa * ''Oshin'' (1983) as Tabokura Daigorō * '' Aoi'' (2000) as Maeda Toshiie Honours *Medal with Purple Ribbon are medals awarded by the Government of Japan. They are awarded to individuals who have done meritorious deeds and also to those who have achieved excellence in their field of work. The Medals of Honor were established on December 7, 1881, and we ... (1989) * Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
