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Ken Mitsuishi
is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in films such as ''Chaos'' and '' Tokyo Playboy Club''. Filmography Film ;1980s *'' Tora's Tropical Fever'' (1980) *'' Foster Daddy, Tora!'' (1980) *'' Sailor Suit and Machine Gun'' (1981) *''Tora-san, the Expert'' (1982) *''Okinawan Boys'' (1983) *'' Tora-san's Island Encounter'' (1985) *''Final Take'' (1986) ;1990s *'' No Worries on the Recruit Front'' (1991) *'' Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?'' (1993) *''Love Letter'' (1995) *''Helpless'' (1996) *'' Swallowtail'' (1996) *''The Pillow Book'' (1996), The Husband *''Two Punks'' (1996) *'' The Eel'' (1997) *''April Story'' (1998) *'' Tokyo Eyes'' (1998) *'' The Thin Red Line'' (1998) *''Audition'' (1999) *''Shady Glove'' (1999) ;2000s *'' Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle'' (2000) *'' Whiteout'' (2000) *''Chaos'' (2000), Komiyama *''Eureka'' (2000) *'' Hush!'' (2001), Shoji Kurita *''2009 Lost Memories'' (2002), Hideyo *'' Border Line'' (2002) *'' KT'' (2002) *''Harmful Insec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Story
''April Story'' ( ja, 四月物語) is a Japanese film directed by Shunji Iwai starring Takako Matsu. Plot Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl from the countryside of northern Hokkaidō, leaves her family and gets on a train bound for Tokyo so she can attend the university of her choice; to be near the boy she fell in love with, who moved to Tokyo from her hometown. Cast *Takako Matsu as Uzuki Nireno *Seiichi Tanabe as Yamazaki * Kahori Fujii as Teruko Kitao *Kazuhiko Kato as The Man in the Art Gallery *Go Jibiki *Matsumoto Kōshirō IX as Uzuki's father * Ichikawa Somegorō VII as Uzuki's brother *Yōsuke Eguchi as Oda Nobunaga *Tatsuya Ishii as Akechi Mitsuhide Crew *Director/Writer: Shunji Iwai *Director of Photography: Noboru Shinoda *Lighting Director: Yuki Nakamura *Production Designer: Yuji Tsuzuki DVD Editions *Japanese R2 (No English Subtitles) *Korean R3 (English Subtitles) *Hong Kong R3 (Japanese dialogue, English / Full Chinese subtitles) Festivals *Toronto Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Joker
is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, based on a story by Kaoru Takamura. Cast * Tetsuya Watari as Seizo Monoi * Satoshi Tokushige as Yuichiro Gouda * Koji Kikkawa as Shuhei Handa * Jun Kunimura as Satoru Hirose * Ren Osugi as Junichi Nunokawa * Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Katsumi Ko * Haruhiko Kato as Yokichi Matsudo * Miho Kanno as Yoshiko Shiroyama * Ittoku Kishibe , born , is a Japanese actor and musician. Career He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands, The Tigers and Pyg, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor Japanese Ac ... as Seiichi Shirai * Kyozo Nagatsuka as Kyohei Shiroyama References External links * 2004 films 2000s crime films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama Japanese crime films 2000s Japanese films 2000s Japanese-language films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead End Run
''Dead End Run'' is a 2003 film directed by Japanese cult film director Gakuryū Ishii, notable for Ishii's trademark flashy visual style. The film has little plot to speak of, but is instead divided into three short episodes, each of which opens with a man desperately running away before being trapped in a dead end, where something out-of-the-ordinary occurs. The episodes include a musical number, a Mexican stand-off and a police pursuit. Plot The first episode begins with an extended scene showing a man desperately running through an urban landscape, before coming to a dead end in a dark backstreet ally. When he hears approaching footsteps, he attacks his presumed pursuer with a metal bar. He is shocked to find that he has instead killed a young woman. However, the woman comes back to life, and sings and dances with the man in the style of a musical film, telling him how they were fated to meet and how tragic it is that their love has to be so short. Once again she dies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmful Insect
is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Akihiko Shiota and starring Aoi Miyazaki. Cast * Aoi Miyazaki as Sachiko Kita * Seiichi Tanabe as Ogata * Tetsu Sawaki as Takao * Ryo Amamiya as Tokugawa * Koji Ishikawa as Kyuzo * Yū Aoi as Natsuko * Ryo (actress), Ryo as Toshiko Kita * Eihi Shiina as Mano * Yusuke Iseya * Susumu Terajima * Ken Mitsuishi * Masahiro Toda * Nao Omori * Alexandra Delvillar Awards 27th Hochi Film Award * Best Actor - Seiichi Tanabe 24th Yokohama Film Festival *9th Best Film References External links * * 2002 films Films directed by Akihiko Shiota Japanese drama films Films about dysfunctional families 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KT (film)
''KT'' is a 2002 Japanese-South Korean film directed by Junji Sakamoto with a screenplay by Haruhiko Arai. It is based on the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung by agents of Park Chung-hee in August 1973 while on a trip to Tokyo. He was released in Seoul after five days. The title KT means Killing the Target. Plot The story is centered on Masuo Tomita, a Japanese intelligence officer who helped arrange for South Korean agents to kidnap and try to kill Park Chung-hee's enemy Kim Dae-jung, who was in exile in Tokyo. Tomita went along with the plan to save a South Korean teacher Lee Jeong-mi, whom he loved. Cast * Kōichi Satō ... Masuo Tomita * Kim Kap-soo ... Kim Chang-won * Choi Il-hwa ... Kim Dae-jung * Yoshio Harada ... Akikazu Kamikawa * Michitaka Tsutsui ... Kim Kap-soo * Yang Eun-yong ... Lee Jeong-mi * Kim Byung-se ... Kim Jung-won * Teruyuki Kagawa ...Haruo Satake * Akira Emoto ... Hiroshi Uchiyama * Kyoko Enami ... Kab-Soos Mother * Noboru Hamada ... Minister * Masahiro Komo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Line (film)
''Border Line'' is a 2002 drama film, and the feature film debut of Korean-Japanese film director Sang-il Lee. It observes the lives of three un-related characters, a son, a father and a mother, each of whom has a troubled family background. The film is largely a character study, structured in a style of a Robert Altman movie, showing a number of different sub-plots unfold over the course of a few days. The shooting-style adopted is often similar to that of Yasujirō Ozu. The cast includes Tetsu Sawaki (Shuji Matsuda, the 17-year-old high school student), Yumi Asō (Aikawa, the convenience store clerk), Ken Mitsuishi (the middle-aged yakuza), and Jun Murakami (Kurosawa, the taxi driver). Plot The film opens with Matsuda being uncooperative at school. A radio broadcast reveals that he then murders his father and runs away on his bike. The next morning a drunken Kurosawa runs him over in his taxi. Feeling guilty about the accident, he is soon driving Matsuda to northern Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Lost Memories
''2009: Lost Memories'' ( ko, 2009 로스트메모리즈; ''2009 Loseutumemorijeu'') is a 2002 South Korean Science fiction film, science fiction action film directed by Lee Si-myung, adapted from the 1987 novel ''Looking for an Epitaph'' by Bok Geo-il. The film takes place in an alternate 2009, where the Korean Peninsula is still part of Empire of Japan, Imperial Japan due to a time-travel incident in 1909. It was distributed by CJ Entertainment and was released on February 1, 2002. Background The film's opening sequence shows the following timeline, which is an alternate history from the events that actually occurred: * 1909: An Jung-geun's assassination attempt against Itō Hirobumi is thwarted by a man named Inoue. * 1910: The Empire of Japan Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, annexes the Korean Peninsula. * 1919: The March 1st Movement protests are suppressed with violence. * 1921: Inoue, Itō's savior, becomes Choseon's (Korea's) second governor-general. * 1932: The assassination o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hush! (2001 Film)
''Hush!'' ( ja, ハッシュ!) is a Japanese film directed by Ryōsuke Hashiguchi, starring Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi and Reiko Kataoka, released in 2001. The theme song is "Hush Little Baby" from the album ''Hush'' performed by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma. Cast Awards * 2002 – Hochi Film Awards: Best Actor (Seiichi Tanabe) * 2002 – Kinema Junpo Awards: Best Actress (Reiko Kataoka) * 2003 – Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actress (Reiko Kataoka) * 2003 – Yokohama Film Festival: Best Film, Best Director ( Ryosuke Hashiguchi), Best Actor (Seiichi Tanabe is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Hush!'' and at the 27th Hochi Film Award for ''Hush!'' and ''Harmful Insect''. Filmography Film * ''Atashi wa juice'' (1996) * ''April Story'' (1998) ...) References External links * * 2001 films Films directed by Ryōsuke Hashiguchi 2000s Japanese-language films Japanese LGBT-related films Gay-related films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eureka (2000 Film)
''Eureka'' is a 2000 Japanese drama film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki. It won the FIPRESCI Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in Japan on 20 January 2001. Plot ''Eureka'' is a drama set mainly in rural Kyushu, Japan, and is almost entirely shot in sepia tone. It tells the story of the lasting effects of a violent experience on three people, a teenage brother and sister, Naoki and Kozue Tamura and a bus driver, Makoto Sawai. These three are the sole survivors after the bus is hijacked by a gunman. The actual violent events which traumatise them are not shown in detail. The extent to which the three have been affected slowly becomes apparent. Naoki and Kozue do not return to school, do not speak and become dissociated from their parents. Some time after the hijack, their mother abandons the family. Later their father is killed in a car crash. It is not clear wheth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiteout (2000 Film)
is a 2000 Japanese film about a one-man fight against a terrorist attack at a dam in Japan, starring Yūji Oda (織田裕二) and Nanako Matsushima (松嶋菜々子). It is a ''Die Hard''-style movie made in Japan. Plot It was an ordinary rescue mission for dam controller Togashi Teruo (Yūji Oda) and his colleague Yoshioka Kazushi as they set out to assist a few climbers who met an unexpected blizzard near the Okutowa Dam. Unfortunately, Yoshioka was injured while helping the others and Togashi had no choice but to seek help alone. Things got worse when WHITEOUT - a meteorological phenomenon – appeared and Togashi lost his best friend forever. Meanwhile, with the most advanced technology, Utsuki Hirotaka (Koichi Sato) and his group of terrorists blow up the only main road to Okutowa Dam, the largest dam in Japan. They take over the dam along with the workers as hostages. They demanded JPY 5 billion from the government with a 24-hour deadline. To let the government know that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit War Chronicle
Spirit or spirits may refer to: Liquor and other volatile liquids * Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks * Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol * Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, such as ** Ethanol, also known as drinking alcohol ** Gasoline (or petrol), a clear petroleum-derived flammable liquid that is used primarily as a fuel ** Petroleum ether, liquid hydrocarbon mixtures used chiefly as non-polar solvents ** White spirit or mineral spirits, a common organic solvent used in painting and decorating Spirituality and mood * Spirituality, pertaining to the soul or spirit *Spirit (vital essence), the non-corporeal essence of a being or entity **Vitalism, a belief in some fundamental, non-physical essence which differentiates organisms from inanimate, material objects **''Pneuma'', an ancient Greek word for 'breath' or 'wind', but also 'spirit' or 'soul' ** Soul, the spiritual part of a living being, often regarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
