Hot Road (film)
''Hot Road'' (''ホットロード'',''Hotto rôdo'') is a 2014 Japanese romance film directed by Takahiro Miki from a screenplay by Tomoko Yoshida, based on Taku Tsumugi's shōjo manga of the same title, which was serialized from 1986 to 1987. It stars Rena Nōnen and Hiroomi Tosaka, with Ryōhei Suzuki, Rina Ōta, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, and Yoshino Kimura in supporting roles. The story is of a romance between a troubled girl played by Rena Nōnen, who received no love from her remarrying mother, and a Bōsōzoku's future leader played by Hiroomi Tosaka. The theme song of the film is Yutaka Ozaki's "Oh My Little Girl". Released on August 16, 2014, ''Hot Road'' received a lot of attention as the first film since Rena Nōnen earned her fame through ''Amachan'' in 2013 and Sandaime J Soul Brothers, the dance and vocal group in which Hiroomi Tosaka served as one of the vocalists, released 2014's hit single "R.Y.U.S.E.I." that soared the group to success. It was well received by the publ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takahiro Miki
is a Japanese film, television and music video director. Works Films TV series *''Dragon Seinendan'' (2012) *''Irodorihimura'' (2012, episode 4) Music videos *"Tomorrow's Way" *"Life" *"Tokyo" *"Rolling Star" *" Cherry" *" LOVE & TRUTH (Movie Ver.)" *"Namidairo "Namidairo" is the eleventh single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Yui. The single was released on February 27, 2008. The title song is a tie-up for the TV drama, ''4 Shimai Tantei Dan''. Background and writing Yui began writing the lyrics so ..." *" Hana no Uta" Other *''Happy! School Days!'' (web, 2010, episode 2 ''Hello Goodbye'') References External links * Japanese film directors Japanese television directors Living people Japanese music video directors Waseda University alumni 1974 births People from Tokushima Prefecture {{Japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruising, sport (including racing), and off-road riding. Motorcycling is riding a motorcycle and being involved in other related social activity such as joining a motorcycle club and attending motorcycle rallies. The 1885 Daimler Reitwagen made by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Germany was the first internal combustion, petroleum-fueled motorcycle. In 1894, Hildebrand & Wolfmüller became the first series production motorcycle. Globally, motorcycles are comparably popular to cars as a method of transport. In 2021, approximately 58.6 million new motorcycles were sold around the world, fewer than the 66.7 million cars sold over the same period. In 2014, the three top motorcycle producers globally by volume were Honda (28%), Yamaha (17 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Screenplay
''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ''ScreenPlay''. Various writers and directors were utilized on the series. Writer Jimmy McGovern was hired by producer George Faber to pen a series five episode based upon the Merseyside needle exchange programme of the 1980s. The episode, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was entitled ''Needle'' and featured Sean McKee, Emma Bird, and Pete Postlethwaite''.'' The last episode of the series was titled "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" and featured Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson, who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie. Some scenes were shot a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takahiro (singer)
Takahiro Tasaki (田﨑敬浩; born 8 December 1984), better known by his stage name EXILE TAKAHIRO, is a Japanese singer and actor. He is the vocalist of Exile and Ace of Spades. Takahiro grew up in Nagasaki Prefecture. Biography Takahiro Tasaki was born on 8 December 1984, and was raised up in Nagasaki Prefecture. He has a younger sister. He became a big fan of Exile when he and his friends attended one of their concerts in 2005. He decided to join the "''EXILE Vocal Battle Audition 2006 ~ASIAN DREAM~''" and became the final winner of the audition, held at Nippon Budokan on 22 September 2006. After he won, he eventually became the new vocalist of Exile alongside original member Atsushi. The addition of Takahiro to the group was considered Exile's second era. After he joined, he was given the stage name TAKAHIRO and the group went on to release 3 singles and an album to allow fans, new and old, to adapt to the "new" Exile. They held their tour ''EXILE LIVE TOUR 2007 EXIL ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Singing
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music, Japanese music, and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal, and popular music styles such as pop, rock, and electronic dance music. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged, or improvised. It may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual as part of music education or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karasu No Oyayubi
is a 2012 Japanese film directed by Tadafumi Itō and based on a novel by Shusuke Michio. Plot Take (Abe Hiroshi) is a middle aged man, who after losing his wife and daughter, decides to become a swindler. He convinces his colleague Tetsu to become one as well, and they both incorporate their 3 housemates, who are lower level/amateur swindlers, into the plan.Shilling, Mark "karasu no oyayubi / crows thumb" The Japan Times October 2017 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/30/films/film-reviews/karasu-no-oyayubi-crows-thumb/#.W4jK_WdlKUk Cast * Hiroshi Abe as Take * Shoji Murakami as Tetsu * Satomi Ishihara as Yahiro * Rena Nōnen as Mahiro * Yu Koyanagi * Bengal as Pawn Shop Owner * Yūsuke Santamaria * Daimaou Kosaka as Nogami * Takeshi Nadagi as Tontonei restaurant Employee * Shingo Tsurumi as Higuchi * Shigeyuki Totsugi is a Japanese actor, TV personality, voice actor, screenwriter, theatre director, and singer. His real name and former stage name is . He was bo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Live Action
Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, live action " nvolvesreal people or animals, not models, or images that are drawn, or produced by computer." Overview As the normal process of making visual media involves live-action, the term itself is usually superfluous. However, it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, such as when the work is adapted from a video game, or from an animated cartoon, such as ''Scooby-Doo'', ''The Flintstones'', '' 101 Dalmatians'' films, or ''The Tick'' television program. The phrase "live-action" also occurs within an animation context to refer to non-animated characters: in a live-action/animated film such as ''Space Jam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miyuki Matsuda
is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai. At the age of 17 she appeared in a television series, ''Tantei Monogatari'', starring Yūsaku Matsuda, who was then married. They started a relationship and, after Masuda divorced his first wife, Michiko, they married in 1983. Their son Ryuhei Matsuda was born that year. They had two more children: a second son, Shota Matsuda, born in 1985, and a daughter, Yūki Matsuda, born in 1988. She appeared as Ryo Ishibashi's dead wife in the movie ''Audition'' (1999). In 2009 she was the executive producer for the documentary ''Soul Red: Yusaku Matsuda'' about her husband's life and death. In 2008, she published a book of photographs of the model Hitomi Katayama, ''Watakushi no suki na kodoku''. Filmography Film *''Kindaichi Kosuke no Boken'' (1979) (as Miyuki Kumagai) *''Elephant Song'' (1994) *''Genki no Kamisama '' (1997) *''Nodo Jiman'' (1998) *''Rebirth of Mothra III'' (1998) *''Yomigaeru yusaku ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Machiko Washio
is a Japanese actress who works in both live action as well as voice over work for anime. She is known as the voice of Sakura in ''Urusei Yatsura''. Filmography Live action films *''The Red Spectacles'' (1987) (Midori Washio) *'' The Black House'' (1999) (Dr. Hatano) *''All About Lily Chou-Chou'' (2001) *''Oh! Oku'' (2006) (Kuzuoka) *''Hot Road'' (2014) *''Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone'' (2020) *''Shikake-nin Fujieda Baian'' (2023) (Odai) Animated films *'' Urusei Yatsura: Only You'' (1983) (Sakura) *'' Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984) (Sakura) *''Castle in the Sky'' (1986) (Okami) *''My Neighbor Totoro'' (1988) (Elementary school teacher) *'' MAROKO'' (1990) (Tamiko Yomota) TV drama *'' Hissastu Hashikakenin'' (1985) *''Dokuganryū Masamune'' (1987) (Ochako) *''Aoi Tokugawa Sandai'' (2000) (Kakubei) *''Ōoku'' (2003–05) (Kuzuoka) *''Hana Moyu'' (2015) (Ushio) *''Come Come Everybody'' (2021) (Hisa Tachibana) Anime television series and OVA *''Urusei Yatsura'' (1981 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yuya Endo
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Ryoma Echizen in ''The Prince of Tennis'' musical series (commonly known as ''Tenimyu''). He was also part of a young men's stage acting troupe, D-BOYS, which perform in various skit-like performances. Career Endo's first major onscreen debut was for the 2000 film, ''Juvenile''. He also was a part of the Watanabe net drama, ''Hice Cool'' (2005), appearing alongside fellow D-Boy members, Kotaro Yanagi, Yuu Shirota, and Osamu Adachi. On November 16, 2005, Endo released an Idol DVD called ''Ao no Kiseki''. Endo also appeared, as a member of The Tigers in the TV drama, ''The Hit Parade'', which aired May 26, 2006 on Fuji TV and co-starred fellow D-BOYS members Masato Wada, Yuu Shirota, Masaki Kaji, Hirofumi Araki, Hiroki Suzuki and Kōji Seto. In September, 2006, he, along with fellow D-BOYS member, Yuu Shirota, appeared in the music video for RAG FAIR's "Kimi no Tame ni Boku ga Tate ni Naro", playing a DJ in love ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |