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Kazuya Nakayama
Kazuya Nakayama (中山一也) is a Japanese actor and producer known for films such as ''Izo'' and ''Agitator'' directed by Takashi Miike. Filmography * ''Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta'' (1983) * ''Renzoku satsujinki: Reiketsu'' (1984) * ''Agitator'' (2001) * ''Izo ''IZO'' is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The main character of the film is Izo Okada (1832–1865), the historical samurai and assassin in 19th-century Japan who was tortured and executed by beheading in Tosa. Izo appeared p ...'' (2004) * '' Waru: kanketsu-hen'' (2006) * ''Jitsuroku Shinsengumi: kanketsu-hen'' (2006) * ''Jitsuroku Shinsengumi'' (2006) * '' Waru'' (2006) * ''Detective Story'' (2007) * ''Johnen: Love of Sada'' (2008) References External links * Living people Japanese male actors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-actor-stub ...
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Japanese People
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は,旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来,現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島(南西諸島)に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japanese people constitute 97.9% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 122.5 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as , the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people). Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of multiracial people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people. History Theories of origins Archaeological evidence indi ...
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Agitator (film)
is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. Plot Mr. Kaito, head of the Kaito Group of over 2,000 soldiers under the umbrella of the Tenseikai Syndicate, seeks to absorb the 500 soldiers of the Shirane Group as well as the 400 soldiers of that group's rival, the Yokomizo Family, and become the largest group in the syndicate in order to ensure that he will be chosen as the successor to the hospitalized leader of the syndicate. Kaito enlists the aid of Mizushima and Muroi of the Shirane Group, promising that Mizushima will thereby take over as leader of the Shirane Group. Muroi hires Shinozake, who assaults hostesses on Yokomizo turf and is then killed by the Higuchi Gang. Higuchi is reprimanded by the Yokomizo Family but Mizushima and Muroi hire an outside assassin named Numata to kill the leader of the family, Yokomizo Takanori, and claim that the assassin was an overzealous Shirane soldier seeking revenge. Mr. Kaito mediates on behalf of the Tenseikai but Tsuchiya of the ...
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Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and surrealism, bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best known films are Audition (1999 film), ''Audition'', Ichi the Killer (film), ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Gozu'', One Missed Call (2003 film), ''One Missed Call'', the ''Dead or Alive (1999 film), Dead or Alive'' trilogy, and various remakes: Graveyard of Honor (2002 film), ''Graveyard of Honor'', ''Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Hara-kiri'' and 13 Assassins (2010 film), ''13 Assassins''. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Yao, Osaka Prefecture, to a ''Japanese diaspora#Asia, Nikkei'' family originally from th ...
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Waru (2006 Film)
''Waru'' is a 2006 Japanese action film directed by Takashi Miike. The sequel, '' Waru: kanketsu-hen'', followed later in the year. Cast *Show Aikawa as Yoji Himuro *Nagare Hagiwara as Luo * Yoshihiko Hakamada as Genji *Ryo Ishibashi as Sakuragi *Hisao Maki *Keiko Matsuzaka as Reiko Misugi * Johnny Okura *Hitoshi Ozawa * Atsuko Sakuraba * Hideki Sone *Kimika Yoshino *Akira Maeda *Satoru Sayama *Guts Ishimatsu , better known as is a Japanese actor, comedian, tarento and former professional boxer who competed in the Lightweight division from 1966 to 1978. He is a one-time former WBC Lightweight Champion and an OPBF Lightweight Champion. As a boxer ... External links * Films directed by Takashi Miike 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ...
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Living People
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Japanese Male Actors
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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