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Kagero-za
is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi. It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) and followed by ''Yumeji'' (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting. All were produced by Genjirō Arato. Cast * Yūsaku Matsuda as Shunko Matsuzaki * Michiyo Okusu as Shinako * Katsuo Nakamura as Tamawaki * Yoshio Harada as Wada * Eriko Kusuda as Ine * Mariko Kaga as Miyo * Asao Sano * Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Shishō References External links * * * Kagerō-za' at the Japanese Movie Database The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. ... 1981 films 1980s Japanese-language films 1981 ... [...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] |
Zigeunerweisen (film)
is a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida's novel, ''Disk of Sarasate''. It takes its title from a gramophone recording of Pablo de Sarasate's violin composition, ''Zigeunerweisen'', which features prominently in the story. The film makes the first part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, followed by ''Kagero-za'' (1981) and ''Yumeji'' (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. When exhibitors declined to screen the film, Arato screened it himself in an inflatable, mobile tent to great success. It won Honourable Mention at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival, was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards and won four, including best director and best film, and was voted the number one Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics. Plot Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuo Nakamura
is a Japanese actor. Nakamura is a former Kabuki actor as well as his older brother Kinnosuke Nakamura. His first film appearance was in the 1955 film ''Furisode Kenpo''. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 5th Japan Academy Prize and at the 6th Hochi Film Award for ''Kagero-za'', '' Buriki no kunsho'', and ''Shikake-nin Baian''. In 2016, he appeared in the Martin Scorsese's film ''Silence''. Filmography * ''Furisode Kenpo'' (1955) * '' Stepbrothers'' (1957) * '' Akō Rōshi'' (1961) * ''Kwaidan'' (1965) - (segment "Hoichi the Earless") * ''Samurai Banners'' (1969) * ''Shinsengumi'' (1969) * ''Bakumatsu'' (1970) *''Zatoichi in Desperation'' (1972) * ''Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin'' (1977) * ''Nichiren'' (1979) * ''Tempyō no Iraka'' (1980) * '' Buriki no kunsho'' (1981) * ''Kagero-za'' (1981) * ''Shikake-nin Baian'' (1981) * ''Ōoku'' (1983) * ''Station to Heaven'' (1984) * '' Shinran: Path to Purity'' (1987) * '' Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis'' (1988) * '' Whiteout'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūtarō Ōtomo
(5 June 1912 – 27 September 1985) was a Japanese film and television actor most famous for his starring roles in jidaigeki. In 1936, he made his debut in movies with the film ''Aozura Roshi''. He ended his life by leaping from the top of a building in 1985. His final appearance in the film was ''Tampopo'' directed by Juzo Itami in 1985. Filmography Films * ''Aozura Roshi'' (1936) * (仇討崇禅寺馬場 Adauchi sōzenji baba) (1957) * '' Akō Rōshi'' (赤穂浪士 Akō Rōshi) (1961) * ''Castle of Owls'' (1963) * ''The Magic Serpent'' (怪竜大決戦 Kairyū Daikessen) (1966) * ''Eleven Samurai'' (1967) : Chief Retainer Akiyoshi Gyobu * '' Yakuza's Law: Yakuza Keibatsushi: Rinchi'' (1969) : Tomozo * ''Kagero-za'' (1981) : Shishō * ''Tampopo'' (1985) : Noodle professor Television * '' Akō Roshi'' (1964) : Horiuchi * ''Minamoto no Yoshitsune'' (1966) * ''Ten to Chi to'' (1969) – Itagaki Nobukata * ''Kunitori Monogatari'' (1973) – Takeda Shingen * ''Shinsho Taikōki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asao Sano
was a Japanese actor. He was known for playing the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni on the television jidaigeki series ''Mito Kōmon''. Sano died on 28 June 2022, at the age of 96. Selected filmography Film *'' Listen to the Voices of the Sea'' (1950) *''Season of the Sun'' (1956) *'' Black River'' (1957) *'' Fires on the Plain'' (1959) *''Ballad of the Cart'' (1959) *''Burari Bura-bura Monogatari (1962) *''Carmen from Kawachi'' (1966) *''Fighting Elegy'' (1966) *'' Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō'' (1967) *''The Sands of Kurobe'' (1968) *''Apart from Life'' (1970) *''The Last Samurai'' (1974) *''Cops vs. Thugs'' (1976) *''Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset'' (1976) *'' THe Incident'' (1978) *''NIchiren'' (1979) *''Kagero-za'' (1981) *'' The Funeral'' (1984) *''Ooinaru Kan'' (1998) Television *''Ten to Chi to'' (1969) *''Katsu Kaishū'' (1974) *''Kaze to Kumo to Niji to'' (1976) *''Mito Kōmon'' (1993–2000) as Mito Mitsukuni , also known as , was a Japanese daimyo who was known for his ... [...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] |
Yoshio Harada
was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades. Career Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1966 and made his television debut in 1967 with "Tenka no seinen" and his film debut in 1968 with ''Fukushū no uta ga kikoeru''. He came to fame appearing in New Action films at Nikkatsu playing youthful rebels. Among his features for Nikkatsu was the 1971 exploitation film, ''Stray Cat Rock: Crazy Riders '71'' (aka ''Alleycat Rock: Crazy Riders '71'') for director Toshiya Fujita where he played the son of a yakuza boss. Leaving the Haiyūza in 1971, he appeared in films made by many directors, including Seijun Suzuki, Shūji Terayama, Azuma Morisaki, Kihachi Okamoto, Rokurō Mochizuki, Jun Ichikawa, Hirokazu Koreeda and Kōji Wakamatsu, but he was particularly favored by Kazuo Kuroki and Junji Sakamoto. He starred in many independent films, including those of the Art Theatre Guild. According to the critic Mark Schilling, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day. See also * IMDb References External links * Internet properties established in 1997 Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... Online film databases {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Seijun Suzuki
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Japanese Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Independent Films
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 Japan ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
