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Hanging Garden (film)
is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Toshiaki Toyoda. The film is a family drama concerning the Kyobashis, whose house rule is to not keep secrets from each other when asked a question directly. Cast * Kyōko Koizumi as Eriko Kyobashi * Anne Suzuki as Mana Kyobashi (as An Suzuki) * Itsuji Itao as Takashi Kyobashi * Masahiro Hirota as Ko Kyobashi * Jun Kunimura as Eriko's brother * Asami Imajuku as Sacchin * Eita as Tezuka * Sonim as Mina * Hiromi Nagasaku as Asako Iizuka * Michiyo Ōkusu as Satoko Kinosaki Awards *Kyōko Koizumi - Best Actress, 2006 - Blue Ribbon Awards *Kyōko Koizumi (born February 4, 1966) is a Japanese singer and actress. She is signed to Victor Entertainment. Career In 1981, Kyoko Koizumi participated and won the Star Tanjo! programme and released her 1st single in March 1982. She gained her first num ... - Best Actress, 2006 - Nikkan Sports Film Awards External links * 2005 films 2000s Japanese-language films Films directed by Toshiaki T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiaki Toyoda
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Osaka Prefecture, Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's Professional shogi player#Apprenticeship, apprenticeship (Shōreikai) from age 9 with the aim of becoming a professional player. But his interest turned to film and he quit when he was 17. Moving to Tokyo at age 21, he began working with producer Genjirō Arato and director Junji Sakamoto, assisting the latter on the shogi-related film ''Ōte'', for which he helped pen the script. He debuted as a director with the film ''Pornostar (film), Pornostar'' in 1999, a film that earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. His career continued to rise through films like ''Blue Spring (film), Blue Spring'' and ''9 Souls'', but he suffered a setback when he was arrested on drug charges just before ''Hanging Garden (film), Hanging Garden'' was released in 2005. He resumed directing with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eita
is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He has appeared in many Japanese television dramas and movies; most notable is the TV series '' Water Boys''. He also appeared in ''Summer Time Machine Blues'' and '' Tokyo Friends: The Movie''. Career In 2009, Eita was cast in his first theatrical role playing a human in a romantic relationship with a female ghost. Not long after in August 2009, it was announced that Eita had been cast as the lead in the play ''Tokyo Gekko Makyoku'', playing a mysterious character living in the early Shōwa era. It was his first time playing the lead in a theatrical production. Personal life On June 1, 2010, it was announced that Eita would marry singer Kaela Kimura is a Japanese pop rock singer, lyricist, fashion model and television presenter. Career Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine ''Seventeen (Jap ..., who was already five months pregnant, that sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Drama Films
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] |
Films Directed By Toshiaki Toyoda
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 sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Japanese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan. The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanese newspapers (Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shinbun) as well as the Japanese Associated Press withdrew their support for the Blue Ribbon Awards and established the , (which were held a mere six times). In 1967, the awards were cancelled following a series of demoralizing national political scandals that became known as "The Black Mist" and eventually enveloped Japan's baseball industry.Johnston, Michael. "Influence Markets", ''Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), , p. 79. In 1975, the awards were revived, and have continued until the present day. The annual award ceremony is held in a variety of places in Tokyo every F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiyo Ōkusu
is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in ''Zigeunerweisen''. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as '' A Fool's Love'' and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas. Selected filmography * ''Zatoichi's Pilgrimage'' (1966) *'' A Fool's Love'' (1967) * ''The Yoshiwara Story'' (1968) * ''Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword'' (1969) * ''Onna Gokuakuchō'' (1970) * '' Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons'' (1973) * ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) * ''Kagero-za'' (1981) * ''Location'' (1984) * '' Shinran: Path to Purity'' (1987) * ''Bedtime Eyes'' (1987) * ''Yumeji'' (1991) * ''Face'' (2000) * ''Zatōichi'' (2003) * ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) * ''Hanging Garden A hanging garden is a sustainable lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromi Nagasaku
is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a member of the J-pop group Ribbon. Mark Schilling of ''The Japan Times'' described her as "the best comic actress working in Japan today". Career Nagasaku appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 film '' Doppelganger''. She played a supporting role in the 2007 film ''Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!'', for which she won the awards for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Hochi Film Awards and the ''Kinema Junpo'' magazine. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for ''Rebirth'' at the 35th Japan Academy Prize in 2012. Filmography Film * '' Doppelganger'' (2003) * ''Hanging Garden'' (2005) * ''Su-ki-da'' (2005) * ''Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!'' (2007) * ''Dolphin Blue'' (2007) * ''Closed Note'' (2007) * ''Sex Is No Laughing Matter'' (2007) * ''Dosokai'' (2008) * ''R246 Story'' (2008) * ''The Clone Returns Home'' (2009) * ''Cast Me If You Can'' (2010), Aya * ''Rebirth'' (2011), Kiwako Nonomiya * ''Solomon's Perjury'' (2015) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonim
Seong Son-im (born March 10, 1983), known monomyously as , is a Japanese actress and singer associated with Amuse Inc. She debuted in 2000 as the lead singer of the pop duo EE Jump. In 2002, she debuted as a solo singer with "Curry Rice no Onna", which then led to the release of her debut album, ''Hana'', in 2004. In 2003, Sonim made her first acting appearance in the television drama ', where she won Best Newcomer at the 36th The Television Drama Academy Award. Eventually, she left her idol music career to pursue theater. Career 2000-2002: Debut with EE Jump Sonim was inspired by Speed to become a singer and applied to several auditions, one of which happened to be for Morning Musume's 3rd generation in 1999. Despite not making the group, Kaoru Wada, Morning Musume's manager at the time, scouted her to be part of an upcoming group that later became EE Jump. In January 2000, Sonim moved to Tokyo for EE Jump's activities. After training in New York, EE Jump debuted in Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asami Imajuku
is a Japanese fashion model, actress, and singer. Filmography * (2003) as Meiko Nakano * (2003) *''Nine Souls'' (2003) * (2005) as Reiko Matsuhara * (2005) as Sacchin *''FLOWERS'' (2005) *''Sleeping Flower'' (2005) *''Colors'' (2006) * ''Love My Life'' (2006) as Eri Joujima *''Life'' (2006) * (2006) *''Baumkuchen'' (2006) Discography A work of the IMAJUKU name ''Singles'' *Feel Like Makin'(1999) *Chedi EP(1999) *PARADISE(1999) ''Albums'' *ibiza(1999) *“cat's cradle”～imajuku remix(1999) *imajuku cafe(2001) A work of the Asami Imajuku name *Compilation album "Wild Flowers"(2001) External links etrenne official site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (, ''Kakuta Mitsuyo'', born 8 March 1967) is a Japanese author born in Yokohama.IFORetrieved 23 May 2016/ref> She has been engaged in translating into modern Japanese the 11th-century proto-novel '' The Tale of Genji'' by Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部). Prized works Mitsuyo Kakuta made her debut while still a student at Waseda University's Faculty of Literature, with ''Kōfuku na yūgi'' (A Blissful Pastime). It won her the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. After producing two well-received novels in 2002, ''Ekonomikaru paresu'' (Economical Palace) and ''Kūchū teien'' (Hanging Garden), she went on to win the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Naoki Prize for ''Woman on the Other Shore'' in 2004. ''The Eighth Day'', translated into English in 2010, received the 2007 Chūō Kōron Literary Prize and has been made into a television drama series and a film. Both her 2012 books – her novel ''Kami no tsuki'' and her short-story volume ''Kanata no ko'' (The Children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
