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Hitomi Satō (actress)
is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in more than forty films since 1996. On October 10, 2019, she married actor Kei Hosogai. Selected filmography Film TV Video games References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Hitomi 1979 births Living people People from Nagoya Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses Horikoshi High School alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most populous city of Aichi Prefecture, and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, and Chiba. It is the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11million in 2020. In 1610, the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, moved the capital of Owari Province from Kiyosu to Nagoya. This period saw the renovation of Nagoya Castle. The arrival of the 20th century brought a convergence of economic factors that fueled rapid growth in Nagoya, during the Meiji Restoration, and became a major industrial hub for Japan. The traditional manufactures of timepieces, bicycles, and sewing machines were followed by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R-17 (TV Series)
''R-17'' is a 2001 Japanese TV series broadcast on TV Asahi with Chiaki Kuriyama as Saori Maruyama, Miki Nakatani and Yuma Ishigaki. It is based on the manga ''Confidential Confessions'' by Reiko Momochi. Cast *Miki Nakatani as Megumi Moriyama *Kaori Momoi *Seiichi Tanabe *Yū Kurosawa (Akira Kurosawa's granddaughter) *Masahiko Nishimura ;episodes 1 and 2 *Chiaki Kuriyama as Saori Maruyama *Yutaka Matsushige *Mariko Tsutsui ;episodes 3 and 4 *Asami Mizukawa as Keiko Miyauchi ;episodes 5 and 6 *Aoi Miyazaki as Yukari Nomura ;episodes 7, 8 and 9 *Mika Mifune (Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as ''Rashomon'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''The Hidden Fortress'', ''Throne of Blood'', and '' ...'s daughter) as Kyoko Nishimoto External links R-17 on IMDb 2001 Japanese television series debuts Japanese drama television series Japanese-language films TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Film Actresses
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Nagoya
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Births
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder On The Eurasia Express
''Murder on the Eurasia Express'' is an interactive movie and adventure video game developed by System Sacom and published by Enix for the PlayStation in 1998. It was released exclusively in Japan and is the first game in the "Cinema Active" series, followed later by '' Love Story'' (2000) on the PlayStation 2. The game is presented entirely in live-action full motion video and stars several Japanese idols. Synopsis ''Murder on the Eurasia Express'' is an interactive movie and adventure game presented entirely with live-action full motion video. The player takes on the role of a private detective invited by an all-girls private school to join their trip on the Eurasia Express train line. As soon as the train departs from Shanghai, a man on the train is murdered. The player is tasked with investigating and solving the murder across 2 real-time hours. The player must use the D-pad to direct the character through the main hallway and into the various rooms. In each room, the player ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaseifu No Mita
is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. A family grieving their mother's recent death hires Akari Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, who is played by actress Nanako Matsushima, will do anything that her employer orders her to do, except smiling or revealing her past. This television series was broadcast from October 12 to December 21, 2011, as part of Nippon Television's ''Tears Wednesday'' time slot, which airs every Wednesday from 10:00 to 10:54 pm. ''I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper.'' garnered an average viewership rating of 25.2%. Its last episode garnered a viewership rating of over 40% when it was aired, making it the highest watched show of 2011 in Japan. ''I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper.'' won several awards, including "Best Drama" at the 71st Television Drama Academy Awards. Despite the popularity of ''I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper.'', its writer revealed that there will not be any sequels to the series. Plot The Asuda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiri No Hi
is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The production won a TV Drama Award at the 2008 Festival of the Arts of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (). Plot The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945. The TV drama is based on this incident and is partially fictional (names of the characters, etc.). Cast * Etsuko Ichihara as Nakamura Mizue (age 82) ** Mayuko Fukuda as Mizue (age 15-19) * Karina Nose as Inoue Aiko * Miho Shiraishi as Misa Yamazaki * Yui Ichikawa as Nakajima Sakura * Risa Kudō as Yoshiko Inoue * Osamu Mukai * Nakamura Shidō * Hitomi Satō * Ay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey Under The Midnight Sun
(also published in English as ''Under the Midnight Sun'')English edition: ''Journey Under the Midnight Sun'' (London: Little, Brown, October 2015), ISBN (print) 978-1-4087-0411-0, (e-book) 978-1-4055-1680-8; American edition: ''Under the Midnight Sun'' (New York: Minotaur Books, November 2016), ISBN (print) 978-1-250-10579-0, (e-book) 978-1-250-10580-6. is a mystery novel written by Keigo Higashino, first serialized in the monthly novel magazine ''Subaru'' from Shueisha from January 1997 to January 1999. The entire volume was published in August 1999 and became a bestseller. During the serialization, the novel was at first written as a series of short stories representing chronological snapshots of the overall plot line. Higashino modified its structure to make it a single coherent story before publishing it as a single volume. As of November 2005 the book had sold 550,000 copies. However, its sales quickly picked up after the first episode of the adapted TV series was aired. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun Never Sets (TV Series)
is a 2000 Japanese television series. Starring Hideaki Takizawa, Yasuko Matsuyuki and Yūka, it aired from 13 April to 22 June 2000 on Fuji TV. Plot Nao Masaki (Hideaki Takizawa) is a 17-year-old high school student whose family runs an Okonomiyaki shop. Suspecting medical malpractice, he decides to find out the truth of her death. With the help of a neighbourhood lawyer Setsu Kirino (Yasuko Matsuyuki), will he succeed in finding the truth of her death when the hospital is determined to hide it until the end? Cast * Hideaki Takizawa as Nao Masaki * Yasuko Matsuyuki as Setsu Kirino * Yūka as Ami Isetani * Keiko Takeshita as Teruko Masaki * Ran Ito as Akiko Isetani * Isao Bito as Shiro Masaki * Ren Osugi as Keizo Isetani * Hitomi Satō as Yuko Masaki * Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer song writer, and guitarist. He is famous for playing the role of Ryu on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu series. He has appeared in films and television series including ''Legen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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