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Kazuhiko Hasegawa
is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Man Who Stole the Sun''. Life and career Hasegawa began his career in film at Nikkatsu in the early 1970s as a scriptwriter on such ''Roman porno'' projects as Chūsei Sone's ''Love Bandit Rat Man'' (1972), Yukihiro Sawada's '' Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland'' (1973) and Tatsumi Kumashiro's ''Evening Primrose'' (1974). He also served as Assistant Director on the 1972 ''Woman on the Night Train'' and several other ''Roman porno'' films for Nikkatsu. After leaving Nikkatsu, he made his debut as a director in the October 1976 ''The Youth Killer'', produced by ATG, a provocative study of alienation focusing on a young killer. In 1979, he directed his second film, the black comedy ''The Man Who Stole the Sun'', which won him the Best Director award at the 1979 Yokohama Film Festival. This was Hasegawa's last film and although he never returned to directing, he was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamo District, Hiroshima
was a Districts of Japan, district located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. On March 22, 2005, the town of Daiwa, Hiroshima, Daiwa, along with the Hongō, Hiroshima, town of Hongō (from Toyota District, Hiroshima, Toyota District), and the Kui, Hiroshima, town of Kui (from Mitsugi District, Hiroshima, Mitsugi District), was merged into the expanded city of Mihara, Hiroshima, Mihara. Kamo District was dissolved as a result of this merger. The district is now consisted of the areas of Aki-ku, Hiroshima, Aki-ku of the city of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Kure, Hiroshima, Kure, Takehara, Hiroshima, Takehara, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Higashihiroshima and Mihara. Municipalities as of 1889 Municipal Status enforcement) * Aga (阿賀村) * Itaki (板城村) * Uchinoumi (内海村) * Uchinoumiato (内海跡村) * Kanaga (賀永村) * Kamikurose (上黒瀬村) * Kawakami (川上村) * Kawajiri (川尻村) * Kumanoato, Hiroshima, Kumanoato (熊野跡村) * Gōda (郷田村) * Gōha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsumi Kumashiro
was a Japanese film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning ''Roman Porno'' films, such as ''Ichijo's Wet Lust'' (1972) and ''The Woman with Red Hair'' (1979). He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early Nikkatsu Roman Porno era, with many box-office successes, and films regularly appearing on the yearly Best Ten lists of the mainstream ''Kinema Junpo'' and '' Eiga Geijutsu'' film journals. Kumashiro has been called, "the most consistently successful director in Japan's cinematic history,"Weisser, p.204. and Allmovie calls him, "arguably the most important Japanese director to emerge during the 1970s." Life and career Early life Tatsumi Kumashiro was born on April 24, 1927 in Saga, on Kyūshū—the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. His father was a pharmaceuticals merchant and judo master descended from the ''samurai'' class. A strict disciplinarian, Kumashiro's father believed in the warrior philosophy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo as written in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Hibakusha
''Hibakusha'' ( or ; ja, 被爆者 or ; "person affected by a bomb" or "person affected by exposure o radioactivity) is a word of Japanese origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Definition The word ''hibakusha'' is Japanese, originally written in kanji. While the term Hibakusha (''hi'' "affected" + ''baku'' "bomb" + ''sha'' "person") has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratisation led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on the 6 and 9 August 1945. Anti-nuclear movements and associations, among others of ''hibakusha'', spread the term to designate any direct victim of nuclear disaster, including the ones of the nuclear plant in Fukushima. They therefore prefer the writing (substituting ''baku'' with the homophonous "exposition") or "person affected by the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister of Albania, prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumeji
is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō ''Roman Trilogy'', preceded by ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) and ''Kagero-za'' (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Kenji Sawada as Takehisa Yumeji * Tomoko Mariya as Tomoyo * Yoshio Harada as Sokichi Wakiya * Masumi Miyazaki as Hikono * Tamasaburo Bando as Gyoshu Inamura * Reona Hirota as O-Yo * Chikako Miyagi as Wet-nurse * Kazuhiko Hasegawa as Onimatsu * Michiyo Okusu as Landlady Other "Yumeji's Theme", written by Shigeru Umebayashi, features prominently in Wong Kar-Wai's 2000 film, In the Mood for Love. References External links * * * Yumeji' at the Japanese Movie Data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seijun Suzuki
, born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, ''Branded to Kill'' (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his ''Taishō'' trilogy, ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980), ''Kagero-za'' (1981) and ''Yumeji'' (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banmei Takahashi
(or Tomoaki Takahashi) is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with ''Escaped Rapist Criminal''. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years.Weisser, p. 234. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, ''Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution'' (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979. Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takahashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's ''Tattoo Ari'' (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival. With the success of this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Director's Company
was a Japanese film production company created in 1982 to provide a venue outside the major studio system for young proven filmmakers to grow artistically. The company's president, Susumu Miyasaka, came from an advertising and public relations background and he was joined by founding members Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Toshiharu Ikeda, Sōgo Ishii, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kichitaro Negishi, Kazuki Ōmori, Shinji Sōmai and Banmei Takahashi, none of them older than 36 years of age. For distribution of its works, the group maintained links with major companies such as Nikkatsu, Kadokawa Pictures and Art Theatre Guild, as well as the smaller firms New Century Producers and Kitty Films. The company dissolved due to bankruptcy in 1992, ten years after its foundation. The organization provided a means for several of its members to leave the fading prospects of the ''Roman porno'' genre of pink film at Nikkatsu and enter mainstream filmmaking. Major works * (1982, Banmei Takahashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Theatre Guild
Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave and arthouse films. History ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign films in Japan. With the decline of the major Japanese film studios in the 1960s, an "art house" cinema group formed around ATG and the company moved into distributing Japanese works rejected by the major studios. By 1967 ATG was assisting with production costs for a number of new Japanese films. Some of the early films released by ATG include Shōhei Imamura's ''A Man Vanishes'' (1967), Nagisa Oshima's ''Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief'' (1968) and ''Death by Hanging'' (1968), Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece ''Funeral Parade of Roses'' (1969), and Akio Jissoji's ''Mujo'' (1970). See also * Art Theatre Guild filmography The following is a list of films produced by the Art Theatre Guild Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Youth Killer
is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Man Who Stole the Sun''. Life and career Hasegawa began his career in film at Nikkatsu in the early 1970s as a scriptwriter on such ''Roman porno'' projects as Chūsei Sone's ''Love Bandit Rat Man'' (1972), Yukihiro Sawada's '' Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland'' (1973) and Tatsumi Kumashiro's ''Evening Primrose'' (1974). He also served as Assistant Director on the 1972 ''Woman on the Night Train'' and several other ''Roman porno'' films for Nikkatsu. After leaving Nikkatsu, he made his debut as a director in the October 1976 ''The Youth Killer'', produced by ATG, a provocative study of alienation focusing on a young killer. In 1979, he directed his second film, the black comedy ''The Man Who Stole the Sun'', which won him the Best Director award at the 1979 Yokohama Film Festival. This was Hasegawa's last film and although he never returned to directing, he was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman On The Night Train
''aka'' ''Night Train Woman'' is a 1972 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's ''Roman porno'' series, directed by Noboru Tanaka and starring Mari Tanaka. Synopsis Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters. He approaches their father about his dilemma. The father explains that the two are actually half-sisters, Saeko being the result of his affair with Tomoko, a family maid. After Arikawa explains this to the sisters, Saeko's obsession with Yumi seems to end. However, when Yumi and Arikawa leave for a vacation together, Saeko follows them on the night train. When she catches up to them, she kills her sister with a razor blade and then kills herself. Cast * Mari Tanaka () as Saeko Mizuki * Keiko Tsuzuki () as Yumi Mizuki * Tomoko Katsura () as Hiroko * Kibaji Tankoba () as Okajima * Akemi Yamaguchi () as Mika * Keisuke Yukiok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
