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Hirofumi Arai
is a third-generation Zainichi Korean former actor. Career Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's '' Go'' in 2001 when he was 22 years old. His next film role was the emotionally disturbed senior high school student Aoki in Toshiaki Toyoda's '' Blue Spring'', which won him the Best New Actor award at the 17th Takasaki Film Festival. In 2011, Arai co-starred as Detective Kazuhiko Soga in a one-off TV crime thriller ''Douki'' with co-stars Ryuhei Matsuda as Detective Ryota Udagawa and Chiaki Kuriyama as Michiru Soga. The June 2012 issue of ''Switch'', a Japanese arts and media magazine, features a special segment on top ten manga that teaches love and passion, chosen by Japanese actors, artists and musicians including Arai, who chose ''Bakuman'' while explaining: "You should up your girl power by learning how to behave like a heroine." Arai was represented by Anore Inc., a talent agency founded in 1996 by actor Tadanobu Asano, Asano's father Yukihisa Sato and Asano's mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award *1985 - Péter Gothár, '' Time Stands S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo District Court
is a district court located at 1-1-4 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 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 n ....Supreme Court of Japan websit東京地方裁判所の紹介Retrieved on August 7, 2011 See also * Judicial system of Japan References Judiciary of Japan {{Japan-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
69 (novel)
is a roman à clef novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published first in 1987. It takes place in 1969, and tells the story of some high school students coming of age in an obscure Japanese city who try to mimic the counter-culture movements taking place in Tokyo and other parts of the world. Synopsis Thirty-two-year-old narrator Kensuke Yazaki takes a nostalgic look back at the year 1969, when he was an ambitious and enthusiastic seventeen-year-old, living in Sasebo, in Nagasaki, where he gets into antics with his equally ambitious and enthusiastic best friends, Iwase and Adama. Their priorities are girls, cinema, music, literature, pop culture, organizing a school festival to be called "The Morning Erection Festival", besting teachers and enemies, and finding a way to change the world somehow. Film, TV or theatrical adaptations The 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Novel
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel. These reimagined biographies are sometimes called semi-biographical novels, to distinguish the relative historicity of the work from other biographical novels The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s with best-selling works by authors such as Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, Irving Stone and Lion Feuchtwanger. These books became best-sellers, but the genre was dismissed by literary critics. In later years it became more accepted and has become both a popular and critically accepted genre. Some biographical novels bearing only superficial resemblance to the historical novels or introducing elements of other genres that supersede the retelling of the historical narrative, for example '' Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Sang-il (film Director)
Lee Sang-il (Korean: 이상일, born 6 January 1974 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter of Korean descent. His first film, '' Chong'', was a short film about the lives of third generation Koreans living in Japan. ''Hula Girls'' was declared best Japanese film of 2006 by , and Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for the film. His film ''Unforgiven'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Filmography *2000 '' Chong'' *2002 '' Border Line'' *2004 '' 69'' *2005 '' Scrap Heaven'' *2006 ''Hula Girls'' *2010 ''Kaidan - Horror Classics (Ayashiki Bungo Kaidan) in ep. 3 "The Nose"'' (TV series) *2010 ''Villain'' *2013 ''Unforgiven ''Unforgiven'' is a 1992 American Revisionist Western film starring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
69 (film)
''69'' is a 2004 film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's novel '' 69''. Plot Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, 1969: Inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken (Tsumabuki Satoshi) decide to shake up "the establishment," i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and company focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater. Complications ensue. Cast * Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kensuke "Ken" Yazaki * Masanobu Andō as Tadashi "Adama" Yamada * Yuta Kanai as Manabu Iwase * Asami Mizukawa as Mie Nagayama * Rina Ohta as Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui * Yoko Mitsuya as Yumi Sato * Hirofumi Arai as Bancho * Hideko Hara as Kenichi's mother * Ittoku Kishibe as Matsunaga sensei * Jun Kunimura as Sasaki * Kyohei Shibata as Ken's father * Kenny Scott Kenny i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuo Shinohara
is a Japanese film director. His film ''First Love'' was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography * ''Running High'' (1989) * ''Work on the Grass'' (1993) * ''One More Time, One More Chance'' (1996) * ''Aku no hana'' (1997) * ''Sentakuki wa ore ni makasero'' (1999) * ''Kimi no tame ni dekiru koto'' (1999) * ''First Love'' (2000) * ''Stake Out'' (2001) * ''Inochi'' (2002) * ''High School Girl's Friend'' (2002) * ''Mokuyo kumikyoku'' (2002) * '' Jam Films "Kendama"'' (2002) * '' Karaoke Terror'' (2004) * ''Heaven's Bookstore'' (2004) * '' Breathe In, Breathe Out'' (2004) * ''Female'' (2005) * '' Yokubō'' (2005) * ''Metro ni Notte'' (2006) * ''Clearless'' (2007) * ''Manatsu no Orion'' (2009) * ''Ogawa no Hotori'' (2011) * ''Sweet Heart Chocolate'' (2013) * ''Tanemaku tabibito: Kuni umi no sato'' (2015) * ''Kishūteneki Terminal'' (2015) * ''Flower and Sword is a 2017 Japanese film on ''kadō'' directed by Tetsuo Shinohara. Plot Cast * Mansai Nomura as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven's Bookstore
is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka. Plot Kenta (Tetsuji Tamayama), a classically trained pianist, is fired from his orchestra and gets drunk in a bar. He wakes up the following morning in what turns out to be a bookstore in heaven. The owner of the bookstore had brought him there, and explains that people live to be 100; people who die before this age go to heaven to live out the rest of their allotted time before they are reborn on earth. In heaven, he meets Shoko (Yūko Takeuchi), a pianist who he had admired on earth. Together, they start work on a special composition that she had started writing on earth. Meanwhile, on earth, Shoko's niece Natsuko (also played by Yūko Takeuchi) wants to organise a fireworks display that was discontinued twelve years ago. It turns out that Shoko had been engaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isshin Inudo
is a Japanese film director. Career Inudo began making films on his own in high school, with one of his works being selected for the 1979 Pia Film Festival. After attending Tokyo Zokei University, he found work at Asahi Promotions where he began directing television commercials, including some award winning ones. He made his feature-length film debut in 1995 with ''Futari ga Shabette iru'', which earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'' (2003) earned him the Minister of Education New Director Award for Fine Art. Filmography * ''Futari ga Shabette Iru'' (1995) * ''Across a Gold Prairie'' (1999) * ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'' (2003) * ''Blooming Again'' (2004) * ''All About My Dog'' (2005) * ''Touch'' (2005) * ''House of Himiko'' (2005) * ''Yellow Tears'' (2006) * ''Bizan'' (2007) * ''Zero Focus'' (2009) * ''The Floating Castle is a 2012 Japanese historical-drama film directed by Shinji Higuchi and Isshin Inudo, starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish
is a 1984 Japanese short story by author Seiko Tanabe. It was first published in the June 1984 issue of ''Monthly Kadokawa''. It was later included alongside various stories in the short story collection ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'', which was published on March 27, 1985, by Kadokawa Shoten. Yen Press licensed it for an English release published it in March 2022. Film adaptations * '' Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'', a 2003 Japanese live-action film * '' Josée'', a 2020 South Korean live-action film, based in part on the screenplay of the 2003 film * '' Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'', a 2020 Japanese animated film References External links ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish''at Kadokawa Official web pageat Yen Press Yen Press, LLC is an American manga and graphic novel publisher co-owned by Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group. It published '' Yen Plus'', a monthly comic anthology, between 2008 and 2013. In addition to translated material, Yen Press ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice (2002 Film)
''Justice'' ( 2002) is a short film by director Yukisada Isao. It stars Tsumabuki Satoshi as Tojo, Christian Storms as Mr. Robert, Ayase Haruka as Hoshi, and Arai Hirofumi as Itadaki. The movie was released by Sega/Amuse as part of the ''Jam Films'' collection. Plot summary ''Justice'' is set in a Japanese high school, where Mr. Robert's class is doing a running translation of the Potsdam Declaration. The action in the classroom is centered on: *Mr. Robert's lifeless, monotonous recitation of the document. *Itadaki's hurried efforts to write it all down in grammatically correct Japanese prose. *An unnamed student's creation of pornographic flipbook animation in the corner of one of his textbooks. *The initially drowsy Tojo. Tojo, who is not paying attention, wakes up when he realizes a girls' gym class is running the hurdles outside. He clears the books and blank notes off his desk and begins to watch. Using the five-stroke Chinese character "正", Tojo keeps a running tally of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (Kaneshiro Novel)
''GO'' is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. ''GO'' received a Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for t ..., an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan. An English translation by Takami Nieda was released by AmazonCrossing in 2018. The story's protagonist is Sugihara, who is a zainichi chosenjin (North Korean nationals in Japan), who falls in love with a Japanese girl. The story revolves around Korean/Chinese racism in Japan with Sugihara changing his Korean name from Lee and moving to a Japanese school from a Japanese Korean school. Summary Sugihara who was a zainichi chosenjin began studying at a Japanese high-school. Since his father was an ex-pro boxer, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
