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Jūkyūsai No Chizu
(English: ''A 19-Year-Old's Map'') is a 1979 coming-of-age Japanese film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi. It is based on the Nakagami Kenji novel of the same name. Plot Yoshioka Masaru is a 19-year-old who comes from an unhappy, impoverished background. He has no real goals or aspirations, and does not attend school. To make ends meet, he works as a newspaper delivery boy. To alleviate his frustration, he carries around a notebook in which he makes notes on and assigns "marks" to all his customers on the route. If they irritate him in any way, he gives them a mark. When they accumulate three marks, he begins to cause trouble for them, starting with cruel anonymous phone calls from a payphone. He tortures the dog of an owner when the dog nips at him, calls in threats to bomb houses through their gas lines while pretending to be a right-wing activist, and phones just to berate people he deems unworthy. As he goes through his depressed life, he continues to assign grades arbitrarily ... [...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] |
Yūji Honma
Yūji, Yuji or Yuuji is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yūji can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples: *勇二, "courage, 2" *勇次, "courage, next" *裕二, "abundant, 2" *祐二, "help, 2" *祐次, "help, next" *雄治, "masculine, govern" *雄二, "masculine, 2" *悠児, "permanence, child" *悠二, "permanence, 2" *祐史, "to help, history" *祐司, "to help, rule" *裕司, "abundant, rule" The name can also be written in hiragana ゆうじ or katakana ユウジ. Yuji is a separate given name. *諭二, "to persuade, 2" *諭次, "to persuade, next" *愉二, "pleased, 2" *諭次, "pleased,next" *愈一, "more and more, 1" *愈次, "more and more,next" And can also be written in hiragana ゆじ or katakana ユジ. Notable people with the name *, Japanese television journalist and actor *, Japanese musician and songwriter *Yuji Aoki (青木 雄二, 1945–2003), Japanese manga artist *, Japanese Paralympic s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keizō Kanie
was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'' and '' Jūkyūsai no Chizu'' and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Ware ni utsu yoi ari'' and ''Boku to, bokura no natsu''. He died on March 30, 2014, of stomach cancer at the age of 69. Filmography Film * ''Āa dōki no sakura'' (1967) - Second Sublieutenant Fawa * ''Yasashii Nippon jin'' (1971) * ''Kaoyaku'' (1971) - Sakamoto * ''Asobi'' (1971) * ''Arakajime ushinawareta koibitotchiyo'' (1971) * '' Zatōichi goyō-tabi'' (1972) * '' Goyōkiba'' (1972) * ''Saihate no joji'' (1937) - Jirō * ''Goyōkiba: Kamisori Hanzō jigoku zeme'' (1973) * ''Goyōkiba: Oni no Hanzō yawahada koban'' (1974) - Mamushi * ''Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu'' (1974) - Shiwa * ''Mutsugorō no kekkonki'' (1974) * ''Okasu!'' (1976) - Truck Driver * ''Utareru mae-ni ute!'' (1976) - Sone Genzo * ''Kashin no irezumi: Ureta tsubo'' (1976) - Tattoo artist Tatsu * ''And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Film
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on ''The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – ''Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – ''The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 29 – '' Moonraker'', the 11th fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) ranked number three in ''Sight & Sound'' critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. ''Tokyo Story'' also topped the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning '' Citizen Kane'', while Akira Kurosawa's '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadoka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Nakagami
was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin is a name for a low-status social group in Japan. It is a term for ethnic Japanese people with occupations considered as being associated with , such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, or tanners. During Japan's ..., a member of one of Japan’s long-suffering outcaste groups. His works depict the intense life-experiences of men and women struggling to survive in a Burakumin community in western Japan. His most celebrated novels include ''Misaki'' (''The Cape''), which won the Akutagawa Prize in 1976, and ''Karekinada'' (''The Sea of Withered Trees''), "Chapter Three considers Nakagami's masterpiece, the Akiyuki trilogy. Rather than the better known 1976 and 1977 works, 'Misaki' (The Cape) and Kareki nada (The Sea of Withered Trees), close attention is given to Chi no hate shijo no toki (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuji Honma
Yuji or Yu Ji may refer to: * Yuji Naka, is a Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer * Yu Ji (painter), a Qing dynasty painter and calligrapher * Yūji, a common masculine Japanese given name * Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife) (虞姬; Yuji), the concubine of Xiang Yu, subject of the play ''Farewell My Concubine'' * Gan Ji, a Taoist who lived in the late Han Dynasty. His name was believed to be misspelled as "Yu Ji". * 47077 Yuji, a main-belt asteroid ;Towns * Yuji, Wuqiao County (于集镇), in Wuqiao County, Hebei * Yuji, Shangcheng County (余集镇), in Shangcheng County, Henan * Yuji, Linghai (余积镇), in Linghai City, Liaoning * Yuji, Liaocheng (于集镇), in Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng, Shandong ;Townships * Yuji Township, Funan County (于集乡), Anhui * Yuji Township, Lingbi County (虞姬乡), in Lingbi County, Anhui * Yuji Township, Ling County (于集乡), in Ling County, Shandong ;Characters * Yuji is the name of a character in Regular Show S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideko Okiyama
Hideko (written: , , or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese writer *, Japanese table tennis player *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese fencer *, Japanese cross-country skier *Hideko Takahashi, Japanese illustrator *, Japanese actress *Hideko Udagawa Hideko Udagawa is a Japanese violinist based in London, United Kingdom. Early years and education Hideko Udagawa is the great-granddaughter of former Japanese prime minister Lord Ii Naosuke. She was a student of Nathan Milstein while in London ..., Japanese classical violinist *, Japanese actress {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatsuo Yamaya
Hatsuo (written: or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese World War II flying ace *, Japanese karateka {{given name Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Yokohama Film Festival
The was held on 3 February 1980 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: ''Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko'' * Best New Actor: Yuji Honma – '' Jūkyūsai no Chizu'' * Best Actor: Ken Ogata – '' Vengeance Is Mine'' * Best Actress: Yūki Mizuhara – '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'' * Best New Actress: Miyuki Matsuda – '' Kindaichi Kosuke no Bōken'' * Best Supporting Actor: Keizō Kanie – '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'', '' Jukyusai no chizu'' * Best Supporting Actress: Ako – '' Akai kami no onna'', '' Nureta shumatsu'' * Best Director: ** Kazuhiko Hasegawa – ''Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko'' **Chūsei Sone – '' Angel Guts: Red Classroom'' * Best New Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi – '' Jūkyūsai no Chizu'' * Best Screenplay: Masaru Baba – '' Vengeance Is Mine'' * Best Cinematography: Seizō Sengen – '' Yomigaeru kinrō'', '' Hakuchū no Shikaku'' * Special Prize: **Junko Miyashita (Career) ** Shin'ya Yamamoto (director?) (Career) Best 10 # ''Taiyō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, France announced plans to help sponsor the festival with grants from the National Cinema Center. Ceremonies Categories *Best Film *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best Director *Best New Director *Best Screenplay *Best Cinematographer *Best Newcomer *Special Jury Prize *Best New Actor *Best New Actress References External links * Yokohama Film Festival - Overviewon IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{Authority control Awards established in 1980 Film festivals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Red Army
The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971 and was most active in the 1970s and 1980s. After the Lod Airport massacre, it sometimes called itself the Arab-JRA. The group was also known as the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB), the Holy War Brigade, and the Anti-War Democratic Front. The JRA's stated goals were to overthrow the Japanese government and the monarchy, as well as to start a world revolution. History Fusako Shigenobu had been a leading member in the in Japan, whose roots lay in the militant New Left Communist League. Advocating revolution through terrorism, they set up their own group, declaring war on the state in September 1969. The police quickly arrested many of them, including founder and intellectual leader Takaya Shiomi, who was in jail by 1970. The Red Army Faction lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
