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Issei Takahashi
is a Japanese actor and singer. Biography Takahashi was born as the eldest son in Akasaka, Minato Ward, Tokyo. He has four half-brothers, including the musician, Yuma Abe. He cared for his younger siblings when they were infants, and is more like their father than brother. Takahashi had been estranged from his mother, who had married three times, for about 10 years. He finally reconciled with her a week before her passing in 2015. In childhood, Takahashi’s grandmother convinced him to take various lessons to bring him out of his shell, but he did not last long with any of them. He joined a children's theatre and was moved by his grandmother's delight in seeing him perform in the company's regular shows. Takahashi enjoys and is good at skateboarding, basketball, guitar, and harmonica. His favorite comedians include FUJIWARA and Takayuki Haranishi. On March 7, 2017, he opened his Instagram account. On May 10, 2017, he closed his Instagram account. Filmography TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunshi Kanbei
is a 2014 Japanese historical drama television series and the 53rd NHK ''taiga'' drama. The series was broadcast from January 5 to December 21, 2014, and ran a total of 50 episodes. The drama depicts the life of Kuroda Kanbei (played by Junichi Okada), a retainer of daimyō Kodera Masamoto of Harima Province, and a strategist for daimyō Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Plot The drama tells the story of Kuroda Kanbei, a son of Kuroda Mototaka, chief retainer of Kodera Masamoto who ruled Harima Province (currently Hyōgo Prefecture) in the 16th century. In troubled times, Kanbei persuades Kodera to join forces with the all-powerful Oda Nobunaga. Though imprisoned by Araki Murashige and lamed for life, Kanbei endures hardships and later becomes a strategist for Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His son Kuroda Nagamasa serves Tokugawa Ieyasu after the death of Toyotomi. Production *Screenwriter – Yoichi Maekawa *Music – Yugo Kanno *Titling – Shoshu *Narrator – Shiho Fujimura→Shuko Hirose *Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Lily Chou-Chou
All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All album), 1999 * ''All'' (Descendents album) or the title song, 1987 * ''All'' (Horace Silver album) or the title song, 1972 * ''All'' (Yann Tiersen album), 2019 * "All" (song), by Patricia Bredin, representing the UK at Eurovision 1957 * "All (I Ever Want)", a song by Alexander Klaws, 2005 * "All", a song by Collective Soul from ''Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid'', 1994 Science and mathematics * ALL (complexity), the class of all decision problems in computability and complexity theory * Acute lymphoblastic leukemia * Anterolateral ligament Sports * American Lacrosse League * Arena Lacrosse League, Canada * Australian Lacrosse League Other uses * All, Missouri, a community in the United States * All, a brand of Sun Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiteout (2000 Film)
is a 2000 Japanese film about a one-man fight against a terrorist attack at a dam in Japan, starring Yūji Oda (織田裕二) and Nanako Matsushima (松嶋菜々子). It is a ''Die Hard''-style movie made in Japan. Plot It was an ordinary rescue mission for dam controller Togashi Teruo (Yūji Oda) and his colleague Yoshioka Kazushi as they set out to assist a few climbers who met an unexpected blizzard near the Okutowa Dam. Unfortunately, Yoshioka was injured while helping the others and Togashi had no choice but to seek help alone. Things got worse when WHITEOUT - a meteorological phenomenon – appeared and Togashi lost his best friend forever. Meanwhile, with the most advanced technology, Utsuki Hirotaka (Koichi Sato) and his group of terrorists blow up the only main road to Okutowa Dam, the largest dam in Japan. They take over the dam along with the workers as hostages. They demanded JPY 5 billion from the government with a 24-hour deadline. To let the government know that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koisenu Futari
is a 2022 Japanese television drama series starring Yukino Kishii and Issey Takahashi. The series revolves around the relationship of two aromantic asexual people. Cast *Yukino Kishii as Sakuko Kodama *Issey Takahashi as Satoru Takahashi *Shogo Hama as Matsuoka Hajime *Fujiko Kojima as Chizuru Kadowaki *Akiko Kikuchi as Haruka Inozuka *Kana Kita as Minori Ishikawa *Hidenobu Abera as Daisuke Ishikawa *Naomi Nishida as Sakura Kodama *Mantaro Koichi as Hiromi Kodama Production ''Koisenu Futari'' was produced under NHK and had three directors; Yudai Noguchi (episodes 2, 5, and 8), Yuta Oshida (episodes 1, 4, and 7), and Shohei Doi (episodes 3 and 6). Development Co-director Yuta Oshida came up with the idea for the story of ''Koisenu Futari'' after coming to the realization that Japanese television dramas often include romantic relationships and elements. This led to him learning about asexuality, with his research including interviewing asexual people. NHK staffers initially expre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
''Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe'', known in Japan as , is a series of manga one-shot (comics), one-shots created by Hirohiko Araki. It is a spin-off from ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', the fourth part of Araki's ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series, and features the character Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist who travels around the world to get inspiration from people's lives. The English title of the series is a reference to the book ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' by Friedrich Nietzsche. The series is published by Shueisha, starting with the one-shot "Episode 16: At a Confessional" in 1997 in their ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''; new episodes have since appeared in their ''Jump Square'', ''Shōnen Jump+'', ''Bessatsu Margaret'', ''JoJo Magazine'' and ''Ultra Jump'' magazines. The series was originally meant to be completely original, but it was changed as Araki found it too tempting to use Rohan. A collected volume was released in 2013, and a second volume was released in 2018. The first volume was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife Of A Spy
is a 2020 Japanese spy drama film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Yū Aoi and Issey Takahashi, the film is set in Japan during World War II, and centers on a wife who starts suspecting that her husband may be a spy for the United States. A theatrical version of ''Wife of a Spy'' was selected in the main competition section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion. Plot Members of the Japanese military police seize and arrest a British silk merchant on charges of espionage. In 1940, Yūsaku Fukuhara (Takahashi) runs an international import-export business in Kobe. After the arrest, and subsequent release, of the British merchant, a unit of the military police arrive at his office. Taiji (Higashide), the recently-promoted leader of the unit and a childhood friend of Yūsaku's wife, warns Yūsaku that relevant authorities are keeping an eye on him under the National Mobilization Law, in part because of his preference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warotenka
is a Japanese historical drama television series and the 97th ''asadora'' series, following ''Hiyokko''. It premiered on October 2, 2017 and ended on March 31, 2018. The main character is based on Sei Yoshimoto, the co-founder of Yoshimoto Kogyo, one of Japan's largest entertainment companies that especially focuses on comedy. Plot Ten Fujioka is a young girl who lives in Kyoto in the late Meiji era and who loves to laugh. The daughter of a prominent pharmacist, one day she runs into a young entertainer, Tōkichi Kitamura, who leaves a strong impression on her. Nearly a decade later, she runs into Tokichi again, and finds out that, while never succeeding as an entertainer, he is the eldest son of a prominent rice merchant in Osaka. Against her parents wishes, who expects her to marry a man who will take over the family business, Ten decides to elope with Tōkichi. Her troubles have only started, however, as Tōkichi's mother Tsueko initially rejects Ten as a potential bride, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quartet (TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama, broadcast from January 2017 to March 2017 on the TBS television network. It stars Takako Matsu, Hikari Mitsushima, Issei Takahashi, and Ryuhei Matsuda. Cast *Takako Matsu as Maki Maki *Hikari Mitsushima as Suzume Sebuki *Issey Takahashi as Yutaka Iemori *Ryuhei Matsuda as Tsukasa Beppu *Riho Yoshioka as Alice Kisugi *Takeshi Tomizawa as Daijiro Tanimura * Akiko Yagi as Takami Tanimura * Mummy-D as Atsushi Handa * Masako Motai Masako (written: , , or in hiragana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * *, (1888–1940), 6th daughter of Emperor Meiji *, Japanese long-distance runner * Masako Ebisu (born 1945), Japanese voice actress * ... as Kyoko Maki Awards References External links * Japanese romance television series Thriller television series 2017 Japanese television series debuts 2017 Japanese television series endings Works about music and musicians Television shows written by Yûji S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ono Michiyoshi
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He served in the Imagawa clan and Ii clan. He was the son of Ono Masanao. Life Michiyoshi was born in Tōtōmi. His father (Masanao) was Ii's vassal. He had secret communications with Imagawa Yoshimoto. When Ii Naomitsu planned to rebel against Imagawa, Masanao secretly informed Imagawa and Naomitsu was killed. About ten years later, Masanao got sick and died. After that, a son of Naomitsu (Ii Naochika) returned from Shinano to Iinoya and inherited Ii clan. Michiyoshi had to serve Naochika, although they were on bad terms. When Ii Naochika planned a rebellion against Imagawa Ujizane, Michiyoshi secretly passed information to Imagawa, so Naochika was killed by Asahina clan (lords of Kakegawa castle and servants of the Imagawa clan). After that, he occupied Iinoya and tried to kill Naochika's son (Ii Naomasa). He fought against Ii Naotora (Naomasa's adopted mother ) and Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady Warlord
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshina Masayuki
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period, who was the founder of what became the Matsudaira house of Aizu. He was an important figure in the politics and philosophy of the early Tokugawa shogunate. Biography Hoshina Masayuki was born in Edo, the illegitimate 4th son of the 2nd shōgun, Tokugawa Hidetada. As Masayuki's mother, Oshizu no Kata (1584–1635, later called Jōkō-in) was a servant, Hidetada chose to hide the newborn, then named Komatsu (幸松). This was to protect him from potential infanticide at the hands of Oeyo, Hidetada's wife. Komatsu was later secretly given in adoption to Hoshina Masamitsu, a former Takeda retainer and ''daimyō'' of Takatō Domain. In 1629, Komatsu first met his elder brother, the third Shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, father, the retired-Shōgun (Tokugawa Hidetada) and another older brother, Tokugawa Tadanaga, and was given some mementos of his grandfather, Tokugawa Ieyasu as recognition of his status as a member of the Tokugawa lineag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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