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Hideki Takahashi
is a Japanese actor. Born in Kisarazu, Chiba near Tokyo, he attended Ichikawa Gakuen and later Nihon University. Career Takahashi made his debut with Nikkatsu and acted in youth-oriented films. Takahashi made film debut with ''Kōgenji'' directed by Buichi Saitō in 1961. In 1963, he starred in the yakuza film ''The Symbol of a Man '' directed by Akinori Matsuo and won populality. Under exclusive contract with Nikkatsu, his notable films are ''Fighting Elegy'' and ''Tattooed Life''. In 1971, Takahashi left Nikkatsu and became a freelance actor. In 1974, he starred Kenji Misumi's last film ''The Last Samurai''. On television, he became a star in such ''jidaigeki'' television dramas as Kunitori Monogatari and Momotarō-zamurai. Modern roles are also in his repertoire. Among these is Detective Totsukawa in the ''Nishimura Kyōtarō Travel Mystery'' series. Takahashi is also active as a personality in quiz shows, exemplified by ''Quiz Nihonjin no Shitsumon'' (NHK, 1993–2003). He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the northwest, and Tokyo to the west. Chiba is the capital and largest city of Chiba Prefecture, with other major cities including Funabashi, Matsudo, Ichikawa and Kashiwa. Chiba Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast to the east of Tokyo, and is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Chiba Prefecture largely consists of the Bōsō Peninsula, which encloses the eastern side of Tokyo Bay and separates it from Kanagawa Prefecture. Chiba Prefecture is home to Narita International Airport, the Tokyo Disney Resort, and the Keiyō Industrial Zone. Etymology The name of Chiba Prefecture in Japanese is formed from two kanji characters. The first, , means "thousand" and the second, means " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Chef
is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Food Network in Canada, the Cooking Channel in the United States, and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. There are 5 spinoffs, the latest being Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled , starting on October 26, 2012. Features The host of the show was the flamboyant Takeshi Kaga, known on the show as the aristocrat . He began most episodes with his signature words, taken from Arthur Rimbaud, "If memory serves me right...「私の記憶が確かならば…」"(Jadis) ''si je me souviens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyamoto Musashi
, also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Musashi, as he was often simply known, is considered a ''Kensei'', a sword-saint of Japan. He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored and ''Dokkōdō'' (獨行道, ''The Path of Aloneness''). Both documents were given to Terao Magonojō, the most important of Musashi's students, seven days before Musashi's death. ''The Book of Five Rings'' deals primarily with the character of his Niten Ichi-ryū school in a concrete sense, i.e., his own practical martial art and its generic significance; ''The Path of Aloneness'', on the other hand, deals with the ideas that lie behind it, as well as his life's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Nomura
Takashi Nomura (野村孝) (February 18, 1927 – May 5, 2015) was a Japanese film director for studios including Nikkatsu. The Criterion Collection described him as a "prominent, stylistically daring director". In 1955, he joined Nikkatsu Film company and he made his director debut with ''Tokusōhan Gogō'' in 1960. Nomura directed such films as ''Itsudemo Yume wo'' and ''Quick Draw Joe'' (1961). He is perhaps best known for ''A Colt Is My Passport'' (1967), influenced by French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Melville, and by Sergio Leone-style Westerns The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred .... Nomura's use of still shots in the opening sequence has been compared to manga art techniques. Film Television * ''Sengoku Rock Hagurekiba'' (1973) (ep.1 and 6) * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyakuen Mitsusakazuki
is a 1971 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Nomura. Cast * Hideki Takahashi as Kikukawa Masayoshi * Masako Izumi as Sawada Kaoru * Mikio Narita as Mine Eikichi * Tatsuya Fuji as Nakai Seiji * Eiji Gō as Sada * Miyoko Akaza as Oshin * Hei Enoki as Otsuka * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Ushio Keizō * Yoshi Katō as Ushio Kōnosuke * Toru Abe was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1944 to 1985. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abe, Toru 1917 births 1993 deaths Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male ... as Tokuzawa Hideo References External links * Nikkatsu films Yakuza films Japanese crime films 1970s Japanese-language films 1970s Japanese films {{1970s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiichi Ozawa
is a Japanese film director. He joined Nikkatsu studio and worked as an assistant director under Toshio Masuda. He made his director debut in 1968 with " Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2". Including the ''Outlaw'' series, Tetsuya Watari appeared in most of the films he directed when he was a director of Nikkatsu company. Selected filmography Film * '' Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2'' (1968) * '' Outlaw: Heartless'' (1968) * '' Outlaw: Goro the Assassin'' (1968) * '' Outlaw: Black Dagger'' (1968) * ''Big Boss: Outlaw'' (1968) * '' Profile of a Boss' Son'' (1970) * '' Swirling Butterflies'' (1970) * ''Pay off Your Debt! '' (1970) * '' Earth Ninja Chronicles: Duel in the Wind or Doninki kazeno tengu'' (1970) * ''Kantō Exile'' (1971) * ''Tekkihei, Tonda'' (1980) Television *''Taiyō ni Hoero!'' (1972–78) *''Daitokai Series'' (1976–79) *''Daitsuiseki'' (1978) (ep.23 and 24) *''Tantei Monogatari'' series (1979–80) (ep.17, 18, 24 and 25) *''Seibu Keisatsu'' series (1979–84) *''Pro Hunter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Sea
is a 1969 Japanese Seafaring film directed by Tokujirō Yamazaki. Planning took five years, and it was filmed under Director Yamazaki over a one year and two month period. Plot Source: Yōji Kitami is a young man who stands at the crossroads of his life. One day, Yōji meets his childhood friend Katsuyuki Shinoda by chance and Yōji gets on a whaling boat at the recommendation of Katsuyuki. Cast *Source: * Tetsuya Watari as Yōji Kitami * Hideki Takahashi as Katsuyuki Shinoda * Masako Izumi as Mitsuko * Masakazu Tamura as Ken Shimamura * Tōru Yuri as Sugiyama * Michiko Araki as Kiyo Kitami * Noriko Honma as Tome Kitami * Shōbun Inoue as Takei * Akira Kubo as Kiyohara * Kō Nishimura as Munakata * Shoichi Kuwayama as Mankichi Toda * Masao Shimizu as Sakaki * Tomoo Nagai as Ogaki * Sachiko Hidari was a Japanese actress and film director. Life Hidari was born in Asahi, Toyama, as the eldest of 8 children. She graduated from Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daimon Otokode Shinitai
is a 1969 Japanese yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo. Plot The brothers of Tetsujirō and Tetsugorō, who lost their parents and home after the Great Kanto Earthquake, were picked up and grew up by a Yakuza Goi clan. One day, Tetsugorō fights the confronted yakuza Honma clan, and is expelled from Goi clan's Boss. Later, boss Goi is attacked by Honma clan's assassin and seriously injured. The assassin is Tetsutaōr, Tetsugorō's eldest brother, who had been missing after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Cast * Hideki Takahashi as Nonaka Tetsugorō * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Nonaka Tetsujirō * Yumiko Nogawa as Ochō * Yoshirō Aoki as Nonaka Tetsutarō * Ryōhei Uchida as Obuse Keita * Hei Enoki as Tamura Gunji * Shouki Fukae as Honma Ginzō * Tomiko Ishii as Shibata Chiyo * Yoko Machida as Nonaka Shima * Ichirō Sugai as Goi Kiichirō * Toru Abe was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1944 to 1985. Selected filmography References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seijun Suzuki
, born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, ''Branded to Kill'' (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his ''Taishō'' trilogy, ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980), ''Kagero-za'' (1981) and ''Yumeji'' (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Blood Will Not Forgive
is a 1964 Japanese film by the noted filmmaker Seijun Suzuki. It stars Akira Kobayashi and Hideki Takahashi as two brothers who seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father. Cast * Akira Kobayashi as Ryōta Asari * Hideki Takahashi as Shinji Asari * Kaku Takashina as Katagai * Shōbun Inoue as Ushigoro Tobita * Chieko Matsubara as Yasuko * Eitaro Ozawa as Nambada References External links Japan Foundation notesat Cinefiles * * * ' at the Japanese Movie Database The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. ... 1964 films 1964 crime films Films directed by Seijun Suzuki 1960s Japanese-language films Nikkatsu films Yakuza films Films produced by Masayuki Takagi 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoi Sanmyaku
is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. It is based on Yōjirō Ishizaka was an influential and popular novelist of post-World War II Japan. Education, early career, and family Born at Daikancho 82, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Ishizaka went to Hirosaki Middle School in 1913 and then to Keio University in 1920. Upon ...'s novel of the same name, which was first published in serialised form in 1947. Plot After defending Shinko, student at a rural girls' high school, for seeing a young man from the village, teacher Yukiko, who has just been transferred from Tokyo, finds herself in opposition to the conservative faculty and villagers. Cast Production and legacy ''Aoi sanmyaku'' was released in two parts, part one on July 19, 1949, part two one week later, and was highly successful both with the audience and the critics. The film's popular theme song theme was sung by Ichiro Fujiyama and Mitsue Nara. Ishizaka's novel was adapted again in 1957, 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsumi Nishikawa
(1 July 1918 – 6 April 2010) was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films (seishun eiga). Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkatsu in 1954 and, while working in a variety of genres, became most famous for his youth films starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yujiro Ishihara, and Hideki Takahashi. In the 1970s, he remade some of these films with the idol singer Momoe Yamaguchi and her future husband Tomokazu Miura. The Katsumi Nishikawa Memorial Film Museum was opened in his hometown of Chizu, Tottori, in 2001. Nishikawa published several books, including one about his war experience and another about filming Yasunari Kawabata's ''The Dancing Girl of Izu'' several times. He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2010. Selected filmography *''Izu no Odoriko'' (1963) *''Izu no Odoriko (1974 film), Izu no Odoriko'' (1974) *''Shunkinshō (film), Shunkinshō'' (1976) References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
