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Kōzō Shibasaki
is a Japanese cinematographer. A member of the , he is the recipient of four Japanese Academy Awards, three of which were for films directed by acclaimed filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki. Life and career Shibasaki was born on January 30, 1958, in Tochigi, Japan. In 1981, Shibasaki graduated from Nihon University's Department of Cinema and began working as a freelance photographer. He made his debut working on '' The Games Teachers Play'' (1992). He then moved on to serve as the cinematographer for ''It's a Summer Vacation Everyday'' (1994), ''School Ghost Stories'' (1995), '' Haunted School 2'' (1996), ''Parasite Eve'' (1997), ''School Ghost Stories 3'' (1997), ''Juvenile'' (2000), '' Returner'' (2002), ''Out'' (2002), ''Lady Joker'' (2004), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street'' (2005), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street 2'' (2007), ''Three for the Road'' (2007), '' K-20: Legend of the Mask'' (2008), ''Space Battleship Yamato'' (2010), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street '64'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tochigi Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Tochigi Prefecture has a population of 1,943,886 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,408 Square kilometre, km2 (2,474 Square mile, sq mi). Tochigi Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the west, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the southeast. Utsunomiya is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture, with other major cities including Oyama, Tochigi, Oyama, Tochigi, Tochigi, Tochigi, and Ashikaga, Tochigi, Ashikaga. Tochigi Prefecture is one of only eight landlocked prefectures and its mountainous northern region is a popular tourist region in Japan. The Nasu District, Tochigi, Nasu area is known for its onsens, local sake, and Skiing, ski resorts, the villa of the Imperial House of Japan, Imperial Family, and the station of the Shinkansen railway line. The city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Nikkō, with its ancient Shinto s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three For The Road (2007 Film)
is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Plot A courtesan (Okino) is tired of her life in Edo, and is starting to be outshone by younger women, so she tricks a man (Yaji) into helping her escape the brothel where she is bound by contract to stay. Okino claims that her father is dying of "hearth trouble" and she needs to visit him right away. The two pair up with an actor (Kita) who made a mess of a scene in a popular kabuki play and so cannot show his face in Edo, and the three set out to find her father. They meet with various adventures along the way to Okino's hometown. The rakugo story of Teresuko is intertwined with their tale, possibly referring to various kinds of trickery played by the characters on each other in trying to better their lives. Cast * Kanzaburo Nakamura as Yajirobee * Akira Emoto as Kitahachi * Kyōko Koizumi as Okino * LaSalle Ishii as Umehachi * Naomi Fujiyama as Osen * Koji Kikkawa as Seijuro * Matsunosuke Shofukutei as Yohei * Keiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laughing Frog
is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast * Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Ippei Kurasawa * Nene Ohtsuka as Ryoko Kurasawa * Mickey Curtis as Kiichiro Aisawa * Jun Kunimura as Akio Yoshizumi * Kitarō as Kentaro Inamatsu * Shuzo Mitamura as Keiji Uzaki * Kumija Kim as Sakiko Inamatsu * Kaho Minami as Takako Motoyoshi * Izumi Yukimura as Sanae Inamatsu Awards 24th Yokohama Film Festival *Won: Best Director - Hideyuki Hirayama *Won: Best Cinematography *Won: Best Actor - Kyōzō Nagatsuka *Won: Best Supporting Actress - Nene Otsuka is a Japanese actress. She starred in Masahiro Kobayashi's film '' Bashing'', which was screened in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Career Otuska has appeared in films such as Hirokazu Koreeda's ''I Wish'' and Yoshihiro Nakamura ... *7th Best Film References External links * * 2002 films Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th Yokohama Film Festival
The was held on 2 February 2003 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: '' Hush!'' * Best Actor: **Seiichi Tanabe – '' Hush!'' **Kyōzō Nagatsuka – ''The Laughing Frog'' * Best Actress: Asaka Seto – ''Travail'' * Best Supporting Actor: Shinya Tsukamoto – ''Travail'', ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Kuroe'' * Best Supporting Actress: Nene Otsuka – ''The Laughing Frog'', ''Utsutsu'' * Best Director: ** Ryosuke Hashiguchi – '' Hush!'' **Hideyuki Hirayama – ''The Laughing Frog'', '' Out'' * Best New Director: Fumihiko Sori – ''Ping Pong'' * Best Screenplay: Kentarō Ōtani – ''Travail'' * Best Cinematography: Kozo Shibazaki – '' Out'', ''The Laughing Frog'' * Best New Talent: **Masahiro Hisano – '' Gomen'' **Yukika Sakuratani – '' Gomen'' **Mikako Ichikawa – ''Travail'' Best 10 # '' Hush!'' # '' Out'' # ''The Twilight Samurai'' # '' KT'' # ''Travail'' # '' Sorry'' # ''The Laughing Frog'' # ''Ping Pong'' # ''Harmful Insect'' # '' Hikari no Ame'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begging For Love
is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It was Japan's submission to the 71st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. Cast * Mieko Harada: Terue Yamaoka * Maho Nonami: Migusa Yamaoka * Fumiyo Kohinata * Mami Kumagai * Jun Kunimura: Saburo Wachi * Naomi Nishida * Tsuyoshi Ujiki: Takenori Wachi * Yuji Nakamura * Moro Morooka * Kiichi Nakai: Fumio Chin * Ai Koinuma: Terue Yamaoka, aged 5 2017 Television Drama remake A television special drama (tanpatsu) remake, starring Ryoko Shinohara, Alice Hirose, Takaya Kamikawa and Rio Suzuki was broadcast on NTV on 11 January 2017. See also *Cinema of Japan *List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film *List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and ''The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered optiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godzilla Minus One
is a 2023 Japanese Epic film, epic ''kaiju'' film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Produced by Toho Studios and Robot Communications and distributed by Toho, it is the 37th film in the Godzilla (franchise), ''Godzilla'' franchise, Toho's 33rd ''Godzilla'' film, and the fifth film in the Godzilla (franchise)#Reiwa era (2016–present), franchise's ''Reiwa'' era. The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada (actor), Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando and Kuranosuke Sasaki. Set in postwar Japan, it follows a former ''kamikaze'' pilot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after encountering a giant monster known as "Godzilla". After finishing his film ''The Great War of Archimedes'' (2019), Yamazaki was appointed to make a ''Godzilla'' film. He spent three years writing the script, taking influence from ''Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla'' (1954), ''Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great War Of Archimedes
''The Great War of Archimedes'' (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film about the building of the battleship ''Japanese battleship Yamato, Yamato''. Based on a manga by Norifusa Mita, the movie is a fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers, specifically around budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the ''Yamato''. The movie was dubbed into various languages and distributed worldwide. Plot To replace an aging battleship, a new super battleship (the future ''Yamato'') is proposed to the Navy. Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Yamamoto and Osami Nagano, Nagano believe that battleships are becoming obsolete, and advocate building a new aircraft carrier instead, but they are opposed by the Navy's old guard. Yamamoto and Nagano enlist Tadashi Kai, an eccentric, headstrong, and pacifist mathematics prodigy on the autism spectrum with an obsession for measuring things. Kai is at first unwilling to help Yamamoto and Nagano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man They Called Pirate
is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki. It is based on the 2012 novel of same name (in Japanese) by Naoki Hyakuta. It was released in Japan on December 10, 2016. Plot Cast * Junichi Okada as Tetsuzō Kunioka (based on Sazō Idemitsu) * Hidetaka Yoshioka as Tadashi Shinonome * Shōta Sometani as Yoshio Hasebe * Ryohei Suzuki as Kōtarō Takechi *Tōru Nomaguchi as Kōichi Kashiwai * Pierre Taki as Sōhei Fujimoto *Haru Kuroki as Hatsumi Ogawa * Ken Mitsuishi as Makio Kunioka * Haruka Ayase as Yuki Kunioka, Tetsuzō's wife * Shinichi Tsutsumi as Tatsurō Morita * Masaomi Kondō (special appearance) as Shōtarō Kida * Jun Kunimura as Takumi Torikawa *Kaoru Kobayashi as Jisaku Kōga * Kenichi Yajima *Kisuke Iida *Kunihiro Suda *Kazuyuki Asano *Takashi Kobayashi *Ian Moore *Rakuto Tochihara is a Japanese businessman and former actor from Tokyo, a graduate of Horikoshi High School. His debut role was in ''Boogiepop Phantom'' where he voiced the character Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eternal Zero (film)
is a 2013 Japanese war drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and based on a novel by Naoki Hyakuta, published in English by Vertical Inc. The film starts with a frame story set in 2004. A Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a Kamikaze military aviator, who was killed in World War II. He then investigates the life story of his grandfather, wanting to find out why a supposedly timid man volunteered for a suicide mission. Most of the film depicts the grandfather's wartime service. Plot In 2004, twenty-six-year-old Kentaro Saeki is repeatedly failing the national bar examination and is uncertain about his future. One day, after the funeral of his grandmother, Matsuno, he is startled to learn from his mother and older sister Keiko that his maternal grandfather Kenichiro was not his blood-relation. Keiko and Kentaro start hearing stories about their real grandfather, Kyuzo Miyabe and visit many of his former comrades, all of whom begin by criticizing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
