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Katsuya Kobayashi
is a Japanese actor from Shimonoseki. Even though he and fellow Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love-exclusive Rider actor Mitsuki Koga/Kamen Rider Ketaros were only Kamen Riders within the movie, they did make a guest appearance during the final episode of the series as two people affected by the necklaces that transform people into Natives. Selected filmography * '' Boutaoshi!'' (2003) * ''Rockers'' (2003) * '' School Wars: HERO'' (2004) * ''Bubu Again'' (2004) * ''Concrete'' a.k.a. ''Konkurîto'' (2004) * ''Kamachi'' (2004) * ''Sukûru deizu'' a.k.a. ''School Daze'' (2005) * ''Pray'' (2005) * '' Linda Linda Linda'' (2005) * ''Saigo no bansan'' a.k.a. ''The Last Supper'' (2005) * ''Yumeno'' (2005) * '' Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love'' (2005) * ''Hōkyō Monogatari'' (2006) * ''The Cottage'' (2006) * '' Cat Girl Kiki'' (2006) * ''Stay'' (2007) * ''Watch Me (Kansatsu: Eien ni Kimi wo Mitsumete)'' (2007) * ''SAI-REN'' (2007) * ''Little DJ'' (2007) * ''Makiguri no Ana (Peep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region. It is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu facing the Tsushima Strait at the entrance to the Kanmon Straits (also known as the Straits of Shimonoseki) across from the city of Kitakyushu and the island of Kyushu. It is nicknamed the "Fugu Capital" for the locally caught pufferfish, and is the largest harvester of the pufferfish in Japan. History The geographical position of Shimonoseki has given it historical importance. The Heike and Genji fought at Dan-no-ura near the present Kanmon Bridge. In February 1691, German explorer Engelbert Kaempfer visited the town as part of his two-year stay in Japan, and described it as having around 400 to 500 houses, and as a major port in the region for supplying ship provisions. The Bombardment of Shimonoseki occurred in 1864, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Path
is a 2013 Japanese crime drama film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, starring Takayuki Yamada, Lily Franky, and Pierre Taki. This Film was inspired by serial murder case which involved the Ryoji Goto and Shizuo Mikami. Cast * Takayuki Yamada as Shuichi Fujii * Lily Franky as Takao Kimura * Pierre Taki as Junji Sudo * Chizuru Ikewaki as Yoko Fujii * Kazuko Shirakawa as Yurie Ushiba * Katsuya Kobayashi as Kuniyuki Igarashi * Ryotaro Yonemura as Kenichi Sasaki * Izumi Matsuoka as Shizue Tono * Yu Saito as Yoshimasa Hino * Jitsuko Yoshimura as Kazuko Fujii * Boo Jiji as Satoru Ushiba * Nozomi Muraoka as Rie Shibakawa Reception Film Business Asia's Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 7 out of 10. Kwenton Bellette of ''Twitch Film'' criticized the film. The film has been nominated for several awards at the 37th Japan Academy Prize The is the 37th edition of the ''Japan Academy Film Prize'', an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day. * January 25 – In South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tag and location, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor Snapchat—which allowed users to post their content to a sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ' retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". , Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Ultraman
is a 2022 Japanese superhero ''kaiju'' film directed by Shinji Higuchi and written, co-produced, and co-edited by Hideaki Anno. A reimagining of ''Ultraman'', the film is a co-production between Toho Studios and Cine Bazar, and presented by Tsuburaya Productions, Toho Co., Ltd., and Khara, Inc. It is the 37th film in the ''Ultraman'' franchise, and the second reboot of a ''tokusatsu'' series to be adapted by Anno and Higuchi, after ''Shin Godzilla'', with '' Shin Kamen Rider'' to follow in 2023. The film stars Takumi Saitoh, Masami Nagasawa, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami, Tetsushi Tanaka, and Hidetoshi Nishijima, with Anno and Bin Furuya as Ultraman. In the film, an extraterrestrial accidentally kills a man while battling a ''kaiju'' and takes on his appearance and place at the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol to protect Earth from further threats. In the summer of 2017, Anno was tasked with writing a proposal for a trilogy of ''Ultraman'' productions by Takayuki Ts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Winter, We Parted (film)
''Last Winter, We Parted'' (Japanese: 去年の冬、きみと別れ, Hepburn: Kyonen no fuyu Kimi to wakare)is a 2018 Crime film directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Fuminori Nakamura. The film stars Takanori Iwata, Mizuki Yamamoto and Takumi Saitoh. The film is distributed by WARNER BROS. PICTURES JAPAN and was released in Japan on March 10, 2018, and was released in Hong Kong on June 28 of the same year. Plot Kyosuke Yakumo, a young reporter looking for a scoop, is preparing the wedding to his beloved Yuriko while continuing his chase to talented photographer Yudai Kiharazaka. Kiharazaka is the prime suspect of a still riddle-laden incident involving the death of a beautiful blind woman in a fire, and Yakumo manages to interview him so that he can writes a book about the case. The closer Yakumo gets to the truth, the deeper he plunges into Kiharazaka's devilry. Meanwhile, his fiancée Yuriko is falling slowly to a trap... Cast * Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Build
is a Japanese tokusatsu drama and the 28th entry of Toei Company's '' Kamen Rider'' metaseries. It is the nineteenth series to debut during the Heisei era. The show premiered on September 3, 2017, following the finale of ''Kamen Rider Ex-Aid'', joining ''Uchu Sentai Kyuranger'' and later, ''Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger'' in the Super Hero Time line-up. Summary A cataclysmic event involving an artifact of an ancient Martian civilization has created a supernatural barrier called the ''Skywall'' which separates Japan into three territories, Touto, Hokuto, and Seito. Along with creating a complex power dynamic between the three regions, the event brings waves of monsters called ''Smash'' down on the country, who terrorize and attack the citizens. The protagonist, Sento Kiryu, is an amnesiac taken in by a mysterious cafe owner named Soichi Isurugi who provides him with a belt called the ''Build Driver'' that allows him to turn into Kamen Rider Build, which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Emperor In August
is a 2015 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masato Harada. It was released on August 8, 2015. A remake of ''Japan's Longest Day'' (1967), the film depicts the chain of command of Imperial Japan's government, military, and War Council under Hirohito in the immediate period before the surrender of Japan in World War II between April 1945 to August 15, 1945, chronicling Kantarō Suzuki's term as the Prime Minister and the final months of War Minister Korechika Anami, the Allied firebombing of Tokyo on May 25, preparations for Operation Ketsugō, the leadership's response to the Potsdam Declaration and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the failed military coup intended to foil Japan's declaration of surrender. Plot The film recreates the chain of historical events from April to August 15, 1945, which determined the further fate of Japan: the last months of the command of the armed forces of Imperial Japan and the military council under the leadershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maestro! (2015 Film)
is a Japanese film released in 2015, directed by Kobayashi Shotaro. ''Maestro!'' stars Toshiyuki Nishida as Tendō and Tori Matsuzaka as Kōsaka and Miwa with Nobuyuki Tsujii and Yutaka Sado. The film featured as part of the LA Eiga Festival Plot An orchestra is reformed, after initially having been disbanded because of money. The group is reformed by a mysterious benefactor, whose management style annoys many of the players. The film is adopted from the popular manga of the same name. The story centres around the young violinist, Kosaka, who is offered a position in the re-formed prestigious orchestra. However, he is surprised to discover that the rehearsal place is a disused factory and performances of the members is somewhat erratic, as the majority of the best players have found positions elsewhere. Amid the chaos, conductor Tendo Tetsusaburo (played by Toshiyuki Nishida ) arrives. The movie explores the relationships between the individual players, friction heightened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kizumomo
is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Toru Yamamoto. The film stars Toru Baba and Yūta Furukawa. Cast * Toru Baba as Aki Tomita * Yūta Furukawa as Masaya Saito / Yuto Yasui * Kaoru Mizuki as Yoshiko Yumiya * Junkichi Orimoto as Miki Yumiya * Ryunosuke Kawai as Ryo Satomi * Masahiro Kômoto as Store Manager * Katsuya Kobayashi is a Japanese actor from Shimonoseki. Even though he and fellow Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love-exclusive Rider actor Mitsuki Koga/Kamen Rider Ketaros were only Kamen Riders within the movie, they did make a guest appearance during the fi ... as Yosuke Sasaki References External links * 2008 films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
