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Kimiko Ikegami
is an American-born Japanese actress. She is best known for playing the lead role of Gorgeous in the 1977 film ''House''. Early life Born in Manhattan, New York City, United States to Japanese parents, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University. She is closely related to the Bandō Mitsugorō kabuki actors: her grandfather was the eighth, her uncle the ninth (later Bandō Minosuke VII), her cousin (Bandō Yasosuke V) the tenth to take that name. With the encouragement of that cousin, Kimiko turned to acting. Career She made her television debut in 1975 in the NHK show ''Maboroshi no Pen Friend,'' and in that year also appeared in ''Ai to Makoto'' on TV Tokyo. Her entry into film came in 1975, when she appeared in ''Hadashi no Seishun'' (Shochiku). In Taiga drama series, Kimiko portrayed Ōhime ''Kusa Moeru'' (1979) Chacha (later named Yodo-Dono) in the 1981 ''Onna Taikō-ki,'' Lady Tsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House (1977 Film)
is a 1977 Japanese experimental comedy horror film directed and produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi. It is about a schoolgirl traveling with her six friends to her ailing aunt's country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home. It stars mostly amateur actors, with only Kimiko Ikegami and Yōko Minamida having any notable previous acting experience. The musical score was performed by the rock band Godiego. Toho Studios approached Obayashi with the suggestion to make a film like ''Jaws''. Influenced by ideas from his daughter Chigumi, he developed ideas for a script by Chiho Katsura. After the project was green-lit, it was put on hold for two years as no one at Toho wanted to direct it. However, Obayashi kept promoting the film until the studio allowed him to direct it himself. ''House'' was filmed on one of Toho’s largest sets, where Obayashi shot the film without a storyboard over a period of about two months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—''Portrait of Hell'', for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. ''Jidaigeki'' show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. ''Jidaigeki'' films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of ''jidaigeki''. ''Jidaigeki'' rely on an established set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, catchphrases, and plotlines. Types Many ''jidaigeki'' take place in Edo, the military capital. Others show the adventures of people wandering from place to place. The long-running television series ''Zenigata Heiji'' and ''Abarenbō Shōgun'' typify the Edo ''jidaigeki''. ''Mito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edo Jō Tairan
''Edo Jō Tairan'' ( ja, 江戸城大乱) also known as "Edo castle rebellion is a 1991 Japanese jidaigeki film, directed by Toshio Masuda. The film depicts political conflict during the Tokugawa shogunate. Plot The 4th Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna has no children, so a power dispute occurs over his succession. Cast * Hiroki Matsukata : Sakai Tadakiyo * Yukiyo Toake : Keishōuinn * Tomokazu Miura : Hotta Masatoshi * Tokuma Nishioka : Shibozawa * Masaki Kanda : Tokugawa Tsunashige * Kenichi Kaneda : Tokugawa Ietsuna * Shinobu Sakagami is a Japanese ''tarento'', essayist, film director, television presenter, singer and actor. Sakagami entered the entertainment industry at the age of 3 as a child actor, marking him one of the longest tenured in the industry for his age. Life a ... : Tokugawa Tsunayoshi * Kimiko Ikegami : Oei * Mami Nomura : * Tappie Shimokawa : Wakabayashi * Shigeru Kōyama : Tokugawa Mitsusada * Takeshi Katō (actor), Takeshi Katō : Inaba Masanori * Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chaos Of Flowers
, also known as ''The Rage of Love'', is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film portrays the movements of society and art in the Taishō period from the viewpoint of Akiko Yosano. Plot One month after falling in love with the writer Hiroshi Yosano, Akiko leaves her parents to move to Tokyo to be with him. After they marry, Akiko faces gossip that she drove Hiroshi's wife away. Upset at her poetry, some Japanese citizens consider Akiko a traitor and set fire to her house. Hiroshi Yosano grows poor attempting to continue circulation of the magazine ''Bright Star''. After attending the opera, Akiko is knocked over by a motorcycle driven by the author Takeo Arishima. He sends her a Western outfit as an apology gift but she brings it back to his home to return it to him. The editor Akiko Hatano pressures Arishima to provide an essay about suicide for her publication but he is reluctant to do so. Hiroshi runs for election to the House of Representatives, funded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Geisha (1983 Film)
is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. Awards and nominations Gosha won the Japanese Best Director Award in 1983 for his efforts. The film also received a number of other awards in Japan. 8th Hochi Film Award * Won: Best Supporting Actress - Mitsuko Baisho , is a Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2010. Baisho has also appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa. She won awards for best actress at the 10 ... References External links * 1983 films Films directed by Hideo Gosha 1980s Japanese-language films Films about geisha 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyō O Nusunda Otoko
, also known as ''The Man Who Stole the Sun'', is a 1979 Japanese political satire spy film, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader. Plot Makoto Kido, a high school science and chemistry teacher, has decided to build his own atomic bomb. Before stealing plutonium isotopes from Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant, he is involved in the botched hijack of one of his school's buses during a field trip. Along with a police detective, Yamashita, he is able to overcome the hijacker and is publicly hailed as a hero. Meanwhile, Makoto is able to extract enough plutonium from his stolen isotopes to create two bombs—one genuine, the other containing only enough radioactive material to be detectable, but otherwise a fake. He plants the fake bomb in a public lavatory and phones the police and demands that Yamashita take the case. Since Makoto speaks to the police through a voice scrambler, Yamashita is unaware that Makoto is behind the whole thing. Makoto manages to extort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichiren (film)
is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. Produced by Masaichi Nagata Based on Matsutarō Kawaguchi's novel. The film chronicles the life of Japanese Buddhist monk of the Kamakura period, Nichiren. Nichiren is the final film Noboru Nakamura directed. Cast * Kinnosuke Yorozuya : Nichiren * Kyoko Kishida : Mother of Nichiren * Takahiro Tamura : Father of Nichiren * Katsuo Nakamura : Nisshō * Toshiyuki Nagashima : Nikkō Shōnin * Kō Nishimura : Abutsu * Harue Akagi : Wife of Abutsu * Shinsuke Mikimoto : Nanbu Sanenaga * Hideo Kanze : Hiki Yoshimoto * Kunie Tanaka : Gyōdō * Shinjirō Ehara : Kudo Yoshitaka * Keiko Matsuzaka : Wife of Kudo Yoshitaka * Tetsuro Tamba : Nichijō * Yoko Nogiwa : Wife of Nichijō * Goro Ibuki : Shijo Kingo * Asao Koike : Tōjō Kagenobu * Rinichi Yamamoto : Ichi Shigenao * Takeshi Kato : Yozaburō * Kimiko Ikegami : Daughter of Yozaburō * Kanjūrō Arashi : Shogaki * Hideji Ōtaki : Dōzen * Sakae Umezu : Ninshō * Asao Sano : Yad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Entertainment
, also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Entertainment operates the RCA Victor label. History *April 1972: is spun off as a subsidiary of JVC. *September 30, 1982: JVC Musical Industries, Inc. is founded in the U.S. *February 1984: The sales and marketing department of JVC is spun off as . *January 1990: JVC Musical Industries announces its first video game release will be ''Boulder Dash''. *October 30, 1991: JVC Musical Industries Europe, Ltd. is founded. *April 1993: Nihon AVC and Victor Musical Industries merge and the name is changed to *October 1, 1996: Victor Interactive Software takes over video game-related activities after Pack-In-Video is merged with Victor Entertainment. *May 1, 1997: JVC Musical Industries is renamed to JVC Music, Inc. *May 14, 1997: JVC Musical Indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-''shōgun'' and retired second ''daimyō'' of the Mito Domain. In the guise of Mitsuemon, a retired crepe merchant from Echigo, he roams Japan with two samurai retainers, fun-loving Sasaki Sukesaburō (Suke-san) and studious Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kaku-san). An episode typically starts with some injustice perpetrated by a corrupt official, a wealthy merchant or a gangster. The travelers arrive incognito, discover the injustice and quietly investigate it. The episode concludes with a brawl in which the unarmed, disguised protagonists defeat a crowd of samurai and gangsters, culminating in the presentation of the '' inrō'' that reveals the hero's identity. Afterwards, the hero passes judgement on the villains, sets things straight with comments and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Asahi
JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. The station serves as the flagship of the All-Nippon News Network and its studios are located in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. Headquarters In 2003, the company headquarters moved to a new building designed by Fumihiko Maki currently located at 6-9-1 Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. File:朝日電視台 (16202552212).jpg, Atrium of TV Asahi's HQ in Roppongi File:TV Asahi Ark Broadcasting Center 20200801.jpg, TV Asahi's Broadcasting Center at Ark Hills, not far from its headquarters since 2003 Some of TV Asahi's departments and subsidiaries, such as TV Asahi Productions and Take Systems, are still located at ''TV Asahi Center'', the company's former headquarters from 1986 to 2003. It is located at Ark Hills, not far from its headquarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gokudō No Onna-tachi Revenge
is a name for cheaply produced (often direct to video) Yakuza movies. The genre often is known for its themes of sex and violence. 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 an ... is one director who rose through the world of Gokudō to become an internationally known sensation. Film genres {{film-genre-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakuza
, also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the term ''yakuza'' is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. The ''yakuza'' are known for their strict codes of conduct, their organized fiefdom nature and several unconventional ritual practices such as ''yubitsume'' or amputation of the left little finger. Members are often portrayed as males, wearing "sharp suits" with heavily tattooed bodies and slicked hair. This group is still regarded as being among "the most sophisticated and wealthiest criminal organizations". At their height, the ''yakuza'' maintained a large presence in the Japanese media and operated internationally. At their peak in the early 1960s, police estimated that the ''yakuza'' had a membership of more than 200,000."Police of Japan 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
