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Japanese Film Festival (Singapore)
The Japanese Film Festival is a film festival held in Singapore and dedicated to Japanese cinema. It was held annually from 1999 to 2016, and curated with Singapore audiences in mind, led by local programmers with a wide-ranging programme of film classics, Japanese independents and commercial releases. There was no festival in 2017. Under new direction from 2018 from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo, it has shifted its focus to screening mainly commercial releases from Japan. 2014 (26 June to 12 July) The Japanese Film Festival was held from 26 June to 12 July at the National Museum of Singapore. Film programme Currents * Leaving on the 15th Spring / 旅立ちの島唄～十五の春～ (2012) by Yoshida Yasuhiro / 吉田康弘 (PG) * Homeland (film), Homeland / 家路 (2014) by Kubota Nao / 久保田直 (M18) * Homesick / ホームシック (2012) by Hirohara Satoru / 廣原暁 (PG) * Maruyama, The Middle Schooler / 中学生円山 (2012) by Kudo Kankuro / 宮藤官九郎 (NC16) * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wanderers (1973 Film)
is a 1973 feature-length Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) and '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959), to the documentary ''Tokyo Olympiad'' (1965), which won t .... It is set during the early nineteenth century in rural Japan. Cast * Kenichi Hagiwara *Isao Bito *Ichiro Ogura References External links * * 1970s Japanese-language films 1973 films Japanese avant-garde and experimental films Films directed by Kon Ichikawa 1970s avant-garde and experimental films 1970s Japanese films {{1970s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikyu (film)
is Hiroshi Teshigahara's film about the 16th century master of the Japanese tea ceremony, Sen no Rikyū. The film was adapted from the novel of Yaeko Nogami. Synopsis The film focuses on the late stages of life of Rikyū, during the highly turbulent Sengoku period of feudal Japan. It starts near the end of Oda Nobunaga's reign, with Rikyū serving as tea master to Nobunaga, and continues into the Momoyama Period. Rikyū is portrayed as a man thoroughly dedicated to aesthetics and perfection, especially in relation to the art of tea. While serving as tea master to the new ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Rikyū finds himself in a uniquely privileged position, with constant access to the powerful feudal lord and the theoretical ability to influence policy, yet he studiously avoids deep involvement in politics while attempting to focus his full attention to the study and teachings of the way of tea. To the extent that he expresses himself, he does so diplomatically, in a way to avoid disr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitano Takeshi
is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, filmmaker, and author. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is commonly known by the stage name . Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo ''Two Beat'', before going solo and becoming one of the three biggest comedians in the country. After several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989's '' Violent Cop'' and garnered international acclaim for '' Sonatine'' (1993). He was not widely accepted as an accomplished director in Japan until '' Hana-bi'' won the Golden Lion in 1997. In October 2017, Kitano completed his ''Outrage'' crime trilogy with the release of ''Outrage Coda''. He is also known internationally for hosting the game show ''Takeshi's Castle'' (1986–1990) and starring in the film '' Battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violent Cop (1989 Film)
, also known as ''Warning: This Man is Wild'' and ''So No Otoko Kyobo Ni Tsuki'', is a 1989 Japanese neo-noir action thriller film directed, co-written by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It was Kitano's directorial debut, and marked the beginning of his career as a filmmaker. Plot Kitano plays Azuma, a police detective who lives with his intellectually disabled sister Akari (who he is extremely overprotective of), has a gambling problem that forces him to constantly borrow money, and has a reputation for using excessive violence when dealing with criminals, ignoring police rules and regulations when they become inconvenient, and for his strong sense of morality, which is shown when, after witnessing a gang of teenage boys beat up a homeless man for fun, he enters the home of the gang's leader and beats him before making him promise to turn himself and his friends in, which he does the next day. Azuma's superiors, who admire him for his ability to get results, overlook his constant vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
is a Japanese screenwriter and film director. Career Born in Namegata District, Ibaraki, Yanagimachi attended the Faculty of Law at Waseda University but began studying filmmaking. Working as a freelance assistant director after graduating, he started his own production company in 1974 and produced the documentary film ''God Speed You! Black Emperor'' (1976) about bōsōzoku. He made his fiction film debut in 1979 with ''Jūkyūsai no Chizu''. That and the later ''Fire Festival (film), Himatsuri'' were based on novels by Kenji Nakagami. His 1982 work ''Farewell to the Land, Saraba Itoshiki Daichi'' showed in the Competition at the Berlin Film Festival. His films have often focused on youth (''Who's Camus Anyway?''), on ethnic minorities in Japan (''Ai ni Tsuite, Tokyo''), as well as on Asia (''Shadow of China'' and the documentary ''Tabisuru Pao-jiang-hu''). Yanagimachi was awarded the Geijutsu Senshō Prize in 1985 by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Filmography as director # ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farewell To The Land
is a 1982 Japanese drama film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi. It was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Jinpachi Nezu as Yukio Yamazawa * Kumiko Akiyoshi as Junko * Jirō Yabuki as Akihiko Yamazawa (as Jirō Yabuki) * Miyako Yamaguchi as Fumie Yamazawa * Gō Awazu as Driver * Sumiko Hidaka as Ine Yamazawa * Yudai Ishiyama as Manager * Keizō Kanie as Daijin * Nenji Kobayashi as Farmer * Kōjirō Kusanagi as Takejirō Yamazawa * Seiji Matsuyama is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for drawing many works featuring women with extremely large breasts, and he himself refers to himself as a "boobie manga artist" in his ''doujinshi'' and other publications. He is mar ... as Fumie's brother * Yuichi Minato as Office worker * Aoi Nakajima as Fumiko * Rei Okamoto as Taiwanese woman * Kiminobu Okumura as Koichirō Yamazawa References External links * 1982 films 1982 drama films Japanese drama films 1980s Japanese-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenkōsei
, also known as ''Exchange Students'', is a 1982 Japanese fantasy film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Obayashi himself directed and co-wrote a second film based on the same novel, premiered in 2007 and titled . Cast * Toshinori Omi as Kazuo Saitō * Satomi Kobayashi as Kazumi Saitō * Makoto Satō as Akio Saitō (father of Kazuo) * Kirin Kiki as Naoko Saitō (mother of Kazuo) * Jō Shishido as Kouzou Saitō (father of Kazumi) * Wakaba Irie as Chie Saitō (Mother of Kazumi) * Masuno Takahashi as Masuno Saitō (Grandma) * Munenori Iwamoto as Masaaki Kaneko * Daisuke Ohyama as Kenji Sakui * Etsuko Shihomi as Mitsuko Ono Goodbye Me Cast * Misako Renbutsu as Kazumi Saito * Misa Shimizu as Naoko Saito * Tomorowo Taguchi as Kozo Saito * Joe Shishido as Yoshinojo Yoshida * Hiroshi Inuzuka as Konosuke Saito * Hiroyuki Nagato as Masao Imada Awards 4th Yokohama Film Festival *Won: Best Film *Won: Best Screenplay – Wataru Kenmochi *Won: Best Newcomer – Satomi Kobayashi is a Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Wada
(10 April 1936 – 7 October 2019) was a Japanese illustrator, essayist, and film director. Biography Wada was born in Osaka on 10 April 1936. He attended Tama Art University, where he won the Japan Advertising Art Award in 1957. As an illustrator, Wada drew many cartoons and caricatures for Shinichi Hoshi and Haruki Murakami. He designed more than 2,000 covers for the magazine ''Shūkan Bunshun'' from 1972 to 2017 and provided illustrations for the book review section of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' from 1992 to 2018. Being a passionate film fan, he started his career as a film director in 1984. He won the award for best director at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards for ''Kaitō Ruby''. Since 1972, Wada was married to Remi Hirano, the granddaughter of Henry Pike Bowie. They had two sons: Sho and Ritsu. Their eldest son Sho is the guitarist and vocalist of Triceratops and is married to actress Juri Ueno. Wada died on 7 October 2019 at the hospital in Tokyo. He was 83 years old. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahjong Hōrōki
is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Makoto Wada. The film is based on a autobiographical novel by Takehiro Irokawa. Awards and nominations 6th Yokohama Film Festival * Won: Best Film * Won: Best Actor - Takeshi Kaga * Won: Best Supporting Actor - Kaku Takashina was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 9th Hochi Film Award and at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Mahjong hōrōki''. Selected filmography *''Tekken no machi'' (1947) *''Arabiya monogatari'' (1951) *''Koi ... References 1984 films 1980s Japanese-language films 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ja:麻雀放浪記#映画 麻雀放浪記 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōhei Oguri
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University. He made his directorial debut in 1981 with '' Muddy River'', which earned him both a Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and a citation in the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ''Muddy River'' was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Silver Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1985 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. His film ''The Sting of Death'' won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. He has also authored several books. Filmography *'' Muddy River'' (泥の河 Doro no kawa) (1981) *''Kayako no tame ni'' (伽倻子のために) (1984) *''The Sting of Death'' (死の棘 Shi no toge) (1990) *'' Sleeping Man'' (眠る男) (1996) *''Umoregi'' (埋もれ木) (2005) *''Foujita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muddy River (film)
is a 1981 Japanese drama film directed by Kōhei Oguri. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. Plot In the summer of 1956, Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families' "businesses" are in fact dining and prostitution. When Nobuo, the restaurateur's son, loses his pocket money during the Tenjin Festival, Kiichi, the prostitute's boy, invites him home, and he learns the truth. Cast * Takahiro Tamura as Shinpei Itakura * Mariko Kaga as Shoko Matsumoto, Kiichi and Ginko's mother * Nobutaka Asahara as Nobuo Itakura * Makiko Shibata as Ginko Matsumoto * Minoru Sakurai as Kiichi Matsumoto * Yumiko Fujita as Sadako Itakura, Nobuo's mother * Gannosuke Ashiya as Shinoda, the horse cart man See also * List of submissions to the 54th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
