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Jiro Sato (actor)
is a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He grew up in Tōgō, Aichi District. He is represented with From First Production. He graduated from Shinshu University , abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As the only university in Japan bearing the name of a former Japanese province, it bears the name "Shinshu" (alternative name for Shinano Pr ... Faculty of Economics. Filmography TV drama NHK Nippon TV Tokyo Broadcasting System Fuji Television TV Asahi TV Tokyo Wowow To-Mei-Han Net 6 LaLa TV Internet drama Films Animated films Video games Japanese dub Variety series Advertisements Screenplays TV series Films Bibliography Awards References External links * Official profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Jiro Japanese male actors Japanese screenwriters 1969 births Shinshu University alumni Living people Actors from Aichi Prefecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Shizuoka Prefecture to the east. Overview Nagoya is the capital and largest city of Aichi Prefecture, and the fourth-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Toyota, Okazaki, and Ichinomiya. Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya form the core of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, the third-largest metropolitan area in Japan and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Aichi Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and forms part of the Tōkai region, a subregion of the Chūbu region and Kansai region. Aichi Prefecture is home to the Toyota Motor Corporation. Aichi Prefecture had many locations with the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, The Chubu Centrair Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Game (TV Series)
''Love Game'' is a 2009 Japanese TV series by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. The 13 episodes take the premise of a game organized by the lead character Himuro Sae (played by Yumiko Shaku), with the supporting role of the "mystery woman" (played by Japanese actress Yuki) in a different persona in each episode. Cast Main * Yumiko Shaku as Sae Himuro * Yuki as Yumi Wakasugi(Mystery Woman) Guest * Shun Shioya (episode 1) * Waka Inoue (episode 2) * Ami Suzuki (episode 3) * Ryosei Konishi (episode 3) * Tamao Satō (episode 4) * Yui Ichikawa (episode 5) * Mirei Kiritani (episode 9) * Tetsurō Degawa (episode 10) * Mariko Shinoda is a Japanese singer, actress, fashion model, and former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48, in which she was the captain of Team A. Career In October 2005, she auditioned for AKB48's first generation roster but failed the audition. Short ... (episode 11) References External links * * 2009 in Japanese television 2009 Japanese television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proof Of The Man
is a Japanese film from 1977 directed by Junya Satō, starring George Kennedy and Yūsaku Matsuda. It was produced by Haruki Kadokawa. Plot A young black man from New York named Johnny Hayward (Joe Yamanaka) receives a sum of money. He buys new clothes and takes a flight to Japan. After he arrives, he is found fatally stabbed in a lift in a Tokyo hotel at the same time as a fashion show by designer Kyōko Yasugi (Mariko Okada) is being held. The police department, including Munesue (Yūsaku Matsuda) and his partner (Hajime Hana), come to investigate. The only clue is the dying man's last words "straw hat". At the same time, a woman having an extramarital affair, Naomi (Bunjaku Han), is accidentally run over by Yasugi's son (Kōichi Iwaki). He and his girlfriend dump her body in the sea, but drops his watch at the scene. He is haunted by his actions and confesses to his mother, Kyōko, who suggests he flee to New York with his girlfriend. Munesue starts to suspect that Ky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer Session!
is a Japanese manga series written by Yamato Koganemaru (chapters #1–31) and Hiroyuki Yatsu (onwards) and illustrated by Namoshiro Tanahashi. It started in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' on November 15, 2006, and finished on January 8, 2009. Kodansha compiled the manga into eleven ''tankōbon'' volumes released between. A sequel titled ''Hammer Session! In High School'' started in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' on May 26, 2010, and finished on November 2 of the same year. It was adapted as an 11-episode drama series broadcast in 2010. Cast Main cast *Mokomichi Hayami as Goro Hachisuka *Mirai Shida as Kaede Tachibana *Manami Higa as Ryoko Mizuki *Fumiyo Kohinata as Kenichi Mizuki *Emiri Miyasaka as Reina Satonaka *Naomasa Musaka as Shohei Imamura *Kenji Murakami as Roku *Keisuke Horibe as Kouichi Tachibana *Mari Hamada as Kiyoko Oota *Tatsuya Hino as Yuichiro Hattori *Akira Nagata as Tetsuya Tsukamoto Class 3-B * Hideo Ishiguro as Yuusei Shiba * Jingi Irie as Tamots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Chronicles
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga series written and illustrated by Hinako Ashihara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Betsucomi'' magazine from the May 2003 issue (released in April) to the July 2006 issue (released in June). Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into 10 bound volumes from August 2003 to August 2006. The series won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the ''shōjo'' manga category in 2005. Viz Media licensed the manga for an English-language release in North America, first serialized in their ''Shojo Beat'' magazine in 2007 and later published in ten print volumes from January 2008 to January 2011. The manga is also licensed by Kana in France and by Planet Manga in Germany. In 2007, ''Sand Chronicles'' inspired a live-action Japanese television drama series which aired during the half-hour Love Theatre time-slot on TBS. In 2008, the manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese feature film directed by Shinsuke Sato, starring Kaho and Nao Matsushi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengoshi No Kuzu
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Iura. It is the story about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who Takeda is teamed up with, and how they deal with different court cases. It was serialized in ''Big Comic Original'' from 2003 to 2009. Shogakukan compiled it into ten ''tankōbon'' volumes released between July 30, 2004, and January 29, 2010. A second series, , was published from 2010 to 2014; its first volume was released on December 25, 2010. In 2007, ''Bengoshi no Kuzu'' won the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category. The manga was adapted into a 12-episode TV drama, which was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System between April 13, 2006, and June 29, 2006. Cast *Etsushi Toyokawa as Kuzu Motohito *Hideaki Itō as Takeda Masami *Aki Hoshino as Omata Yuka *Fuyuki Moto as Kunimitsu Yuujiro * Soichiro Kitamura as Shiraishi Makoto *Reiko Takashima as Kato Tetsuko Awards *49th Television Drama Academy Awards Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be-Bop High School
is a manga series by Kazuhiro Kiuchi that was published in sequential parts in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Young Magazine'' from 1983 to 2003. It has been adapted into seven live-action films, a video game, and an OVA anime series. Story The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends, Hiroshi Kato (加藤 浩志 ''Katō Hiroshi'', ヒロシ ''Hiroshi'') and Toru Nakama (中間 徹 ''Nakama Tōru'', トオル ''Tooru''), who frequently cause trouble and start fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi style their hair in punch perms and also adopt exaggerated swaggering gaits. The manga also features an assortment of outlandish characters who also sport unusual fashions and hairdos. Media Live action films There are seven live-action films based on the manga. #Be-Bop High School (1985-12-14) #Be-Bop High School: Yotaro Lamentation (1986-08-09) #Be-Bop High School: Yotaro March (1987-03-21) #Be-Bop Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotman
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Kitagawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from 1997 to 2000, with its chapters collected in 15 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It was adapted into a two-season television drama broadcast on TBS; the first one was broadcast from April to June 2003, and the second one from October to December 2004. Plot The series follows (portrayed by Takashi Sorimachi), an ex-delinquent and currently a school art teacher who takes care of his 5-year-old daughter, (portrayed by Nana Yamauchi), of whom he has no idea who her mother is. He also lives with his four siblings whose fathers are all different. Enzo's daughter suffers from severe atopic dermatitis, so he throws himself into managing her diet to alleviate her condition. Enzo pursues life passionately for his little girl and his family. This is a story about how desperately Enzo tries to hold his family together in spite of all the har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Of Sand
is a 1974 Japanese police procedural film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel '' Suna no Utsuwa'' by Seicho Matsumoto. Plot Yoshitaro Nomura's 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto's immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this" and "Kameda doesn't change." This sets off a wide-ranging investigation that covers vast swaths of geography, changing social mores, and time. The investigation ends with an emotional and heartbreaking conclusion, all the more shattering because the reason for the crime need no longer exists in the world. Cast * Tetsuro Tamba – Detectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stand Up! (Japanese TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of News (band), NEWS, centers on the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high school summer vacation. A 6-DVD box set featuring all eleven episodes, as well as six individual volumes, were released in Japan on December 18, 2003. Plot Four schoolboys find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, moves back to the neighborhood. Despite their childhood attraction to her, they realize she is a mere shadow of the "princess" they all thought they knew. This story of summer—love, friendship, school, family, the hypocrisy of adults, complications of life, experience and failure—is set in an everyday shopping district and shows the clumsiness of children who have developed a little later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
