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Jun'ya Satō
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His son is a fellow film director . Career Born in Tokyo, Satō graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 with a degree in French literature. He joined the Toei studio and worked as an assistant to such directors as Tadashi Imai and Miyoji Ieki. He debuted as a director in 1963 with Rikugun Zangyaku Monogatari, for which he won a best newcomer's award at the Blue Ribbon Awards. While starting in mostly yakuza film, Satō eventually became known for big budget spectaculars. ''The Go Masters'', a China-Japan co-production he co-directed with Duan Jishun, won the grand prize at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1983. He won the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year The of the Japan Academy Film Prize The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本ア ... i ... [...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] |
The Silk Road (film)
, also known as ''Dun-Huang'', is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel '' Tun-Huang'' by Yasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is the Mogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove in Dunhuang, Western China, located along the Silk Road during the Song dynasty in the 11th century. The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. It is one of the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time. Cast * Toshiyuki Nishida as Zhu Wangli, a commander of the Xi Xia empire * Kōichi Satō as Zhao Xingde, a student of Zhu Wangli * Anna Nakagawa as Tsurpia, a princess of a Uyghur kingdom * Tsunehiko Watase as Li Yuanhao, the Xi Xia emperor * Takahiro Tamura as Tsao Yanhui Reception ''The Silk Road'' was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1988, earning ¥4.5 billion in distribution income that year. It was the third highest-grossing Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoko-tachi No Yamato
is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi. With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship ''Yamato'', concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation Ten-Go. Plot The film begins with footage from ''Asahi Shimbuns special expedition to the ''Yamato'' wreckage in 1999. The narrative then shifts to the present on 6 April 2005, where a woman, Makiko Uchida, is visiting the Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima. She is looking for a boat to take her to the site where the ''Yamato'' sank, to honor the crew on the 60th anniversary of the ship's last battle. Katsumi Kamio, a survivor who is now a fisherman, agrees to take her after he discovers she was an adopted daughter of Petty Officer First Class Mamoru Uchida, a fellow crewman and close friend who he thought went down with the ship. As Uchida, Kamio, and his teenage apprentice, Atsushi, travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams Of Russia
Dreams of Russian ( ja, おろしや国酔夢譚, Oroshiyakoku Suimutan; russian: Сны о России, Sni o Rossii) is a 1992 Japanese-Russian period film directed and co-written by Jun'ya Satō. It is based on a book of the same name by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue. Plot The film tells about real historical events in the interstate relations of the Russian Empire during the time of Catherine II and Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate that occurred in the 1780s - 1790s . In 1782, the Japanese ship Shinsho-maru , captained by Daikokuya Kodai (Ogata), with a crew of 16 sailors, was caught in a storm. The sailors had to cut down the mast, and after a two hundred-day drift , the ship washed up on the Russian coast in the Aleutian Islands . Next, the Japanese were waiting for almost nine years of wandering around the Russian Empire in the hope of returning to their homeland. Together with Russian fur traders, they build a ship and successfully sail from the Aleutia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Of Life
is a 1983 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Sadao Nakajima and Junya Satō. Cast *Keiko Matsuzaka *Toshiyuki Nagashima *Kie Nakai *Hiroki Matsukata *Aiko Morishita *Hideo Murota *Morio Kazama *Kō Nishimura *Toshiro Mifune *Kantarō Suga *Yuriko Mishima *Takashi Noguchi * Kinji Nakamura * Jūkei Fujioka as Sugigen * Nenji Kobayashi as Terakane *Mitsuru Hirata *Tomisaburō Wakayama , born Masaru Okumura (奥村 勝),Leous, G. (''c.'' 2003)Tomisaburo WakayamaRetrieved on May 23, 2010. was a Japanese actor best known for playing Ogami Ittō, the scowling, 19th-century '' ronin'' warrior in the six ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' samura ... References External links * 1983 films 1980s Japanese-language films 1983 drama films Films directed by Sadao Nakajima Films directed by Junya Satō Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku Toei Company films Japanese drama films 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Give Up (1978 Film)
is a 1978 Japanese film. It was directed by Junya Sato and produced by Haruki Kadokawa. Plot A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village. Cast * Ken Takakura as Takeshi Ajisawa * Hiroko Yakushimaru as Yoriko Nagai * Ryoko Nakano as Tomoko Ochi * Rentarō Mikuni * Hiroshi Tachi as Naruaki Oba * Fumio Watanabe as Yoshida * Taiji Tonoyama * Takahiro Tamura as Takashi Urakawa, pressman * Kazuo Kitamura as Nagakawa * Hajime Hana as Muranaga * Katsumasa Uchida * Mizuho Suzuki as Kuga * Hideji Otaki as Nomura * Isao Natsuyagi as Kitano * Richard Anderson as Roberts * Shinsuke Ashida as Sakamoto * Nobuo Kaneko as Mizoguchi * Tatsuo Umemiya as Akio Izaki * Mikio Narita as Tasuke Nakao * Hiroki Matsukata , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of ''jidaigeki'' actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishina he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningen No Shōmei
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] |
Kimi Yo Fundo No Kawa O Watare
, known as ''Manhunt'', ''Hot Pursuit'' or ''Dangerous Chase'' in some translations, is a 1976 Japanese crime thriller film directed by Junya Satō. It is based on the novel of the same name by Juko Nishimura, and stars Ken Takakura in the leading role. Despite an initial lack of success in Japan, the film went on to become an overseas blockbuster, estimated to have sold at least tickets in China and the Soviet Union. This makes it the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time in box office ticket sales, as well as China's highest-grossing foreign film adjusted for inflation. It was remade by John Woo as ''Manhunt'' (2017). Plot Morioka, a prosecutor in Tokyo, is accused of theft by a woman and again by a man. The stolen items are found at his house, much to his bewilderment, and he flees out the bathroom window. Morioka's superior revokes his position as prosecutor and calls out a manhunt on him, assigning detective Yamura (from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bullet Train
(also known as ''Super Express 109'') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Satō and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb. Plot Tetsuo Okita is a former businessman who lost his manufacturing company to bankruptcy and separated from his wife and son a year earlier. Desperate to make ends meet and start over, he collaborates with activist Masaru Koga and his former employee Hiroshi Ōshiro in an elaborate plot to extort money from the government. ''Hikari 109'' is a high-speed 0 series bullet train carrying 1,500 passengers from Tokyo to Hakata. Shortly after the train's departure, railway security head Miyashita is notified by Okita that a bomb has been planted aboard and will explode if the train slows down below 80 km/h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golgo 13 (film)
''Golgo 13'' ( ja, ゴルゴ13, Gorugo Sātīn; fa, گلگو ۱۳) is a 1973 Japanese–Iranian action film directed by Junya Sato, starring Ken Takakura as the international assassin Golgo 13. It is the first live-action movie based on the Japanese manga series ''Golgo 13''. It was filmed almost entirely in the Imperial State of Iran, with an almost entirely Persian supporting cast. It was followed by the film '' Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon'' (1977), starring Sonny Chiba. Cast *Ken Takakura , born , was a Japanese actor and singer who appeared in over 200 films. Affectionately referred to as "Ken-san" by audiences, he was best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brought to his roles. He won the Japan Academy Prize ... as Duke Togo/Golgo 13 *Mohsen Sohrabi as Aman Jafari *Jaleh Sam as Sheila Jafari * Pouri Banayi as Catherine Morton *Ahmad Ghadakchian as Max Boa Production Box office It was the seventh highest-grossing Japanese film of 1974, earning a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
