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Kame Wa Igaito Hayaku Oyogu
is a 2005 feature film by Japanese writer/director Satoshi Miki. Plot Suzume Katagura (Juri Ueno) is an ordinary housewife whose spouse is sent overseas on business. She keeps regular contact by phone, but is more concerned with the welfare of his pet turtle, Taro. She dreams of being able to escape from her mundane existence one day. On one occasion, she accidentally floods her apartment, causing her to send in a plumber. Her best friend, Kujaku Ogitani (Yū Aoi) leads a much more interesting life than her and still wants more, namely a husband in Paris with a house with a view of the Eiffel Tower. Later on, while she is on some steep steps, a cart filled with apples accidentally unloads, prompting her to duck, and notice a tiny flyer advertising for spies wanted. After trying (and failing) to make her life more interesting, she replies to the advert and goes into a ramshackle home to meet the spy masters, unemployed couple Shizuo Kugitani (Ryō Iwamatsu) and Etsuko Kugitani (Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoshi Miki
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has directed and written many films from 1981 to present day. Works Films Television References External links * 1961 births Living people Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters {{Japan-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryō Iwamatsu
The was a gold currency unit in the shakkanhō system in pre- Meiji Japan. It was eventually replaced with a system based on the ''yen''. Origins The ''ryō'' was originally a unit of weight from China, the ''tael.'' It came into use in Japan during the Kamakura period. By the Azuchi–Momoyama period it had become nearly uniform throughout Japan, about 4.4 ''monme'' as a unit of weight (about the same as 16.5 grams). During the Sengoku period, various local ''daimyō'' began to mint their own money. One of the best known and most prestigious of these private coins was the ''koshukin'' issued by the warlord Takeda Shingen, who had substantial gold deposits within his territories. The value of the koshukin was based on its weight, with one ''koshukin'' equal to one ryō of gold, and thus stamped with its weight (about 15 grams). During the Tenshō period (1573–1592), one ryō was equal to four ''koku'' of rice, or 1000 brass coins. Tokugawa period The Tokugawa shogunate at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raindance Film Festival
Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates in major cities including London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin, and Brussels. The festival was established in 1992 by Elliot Grove to be the voice of British filmmaking, and it showcases features and shorts by filmmakers from around the world to an audience of film executives and buyers, journalists, film fans and filmmakers. In 2013, the festival was listed by ''Variety'' as one of the world's top 50 "unmissable film festivals". Timeline *1992 – Raindance is founded. Film training courses are offered. *1993 – The Raindance Film Festival is launched, World premiere of ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'' *1994 – ''Pulp Fiction'' makes its UK debut at Raindance. *1998 – Raindance creates the British Independent Film Awards which celebrate the achievements of independent British filmmaking. *2000 – Christopher Nolan's '' Memento'' has its UK premiere at Raindance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Pool (film)
The is a series of short stories by the Japanese writer Hideo Okuda which features the fictional psychiatrist . The stories were originally published in the literary magazine ''All Yomimono'' from August 2000 to January 2006 and later collected in three ''tankōbon'': , and . Of these, ''Kūchū Buranko'' is particularly acclaimed, having won Okuda the 131st Naoki Prize (given for a book published in the first half of 2004). However, as of January 2011, only ''In the Pool'' has been published in English, though the other collections have been published in other languages, including German and French. Works in other media based on the stories include a feature film, television drama, stage play and animated television series. Premise is a psychiatrist of the Irabu General Hospital. He is fat and pale skinned, with a fetish for administering injections to patients. An unreasonable and rather immature person, in the story "Kūchū Buranko", he normally ignores Yamash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eri Fuse
Eri may refer to: People * Eri (biblical figure) * Eri (given name), a Japanese feminine given name, including lists of people and fictional characters * Eri (king), the progenitor of the Umu-Eri and Umu-Nri-Igbo ancient Nigerian city-states * Eri D. Woodbury (1837–1928), Union Army officer during the American Civil War * Eri Marina Yo (born 1987), Indonesian inline speed skater * Chiemi Eri (1937–1982), Japanese singer and actress * Vincent Eri (1936–1993), Governor General of Papua New Guinea Other uses * Eri silk, a type of silk * Eri-TV, an Eritrean television network * Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo * Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland * Eldorado Resorts, an American gaming company * Electrical resistivity imaging * Empowerment and Rights Institute, a Chinese human rights organization * Energy and Resources Institute, an Indian research institute * Eridanus (constellation) * Erie International Airport in Pennsylvania, Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Japanese Film Directors
This article is a list of Japanese film directors. __NOTOC__ A * Yutaka Abe * Masao Adachi * Kyōko Aizome * Masatoshi Akihara * Keita Amemiya * Tetsurō Amino * Hiroshi Ando is a Japanese writer and director. Born 13 June 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. Hiroshi Ando has several films to his credit including ''Saraba gokudo dead beat'', ''Blue'', ''Kokoro to karada'' and ''Boku wa imōto ni koi o suru''. ''Blue'' was entered ... * Hideaki Anno * Shinji Aoyama * Tarō Araki * Genjiro Arato * Mari Asato D * Masanobu Deme * Nobuhiro Doi F * Kei Fujiwara * Kinji Fukasaku * Jun Fukuda * Yasuo Furuhata * Tomoyuki Furumaya G * Hideo Gosha * Heinosuke Gosho H * Sachi Hamano * Tsutomu Hanabusa * Susumu Hani * Masato Harada * Yasuharu Hasebe * Kazuhiko Hasegawa * Ryusuke Hamaguchi * Ryōsuke Hashiguchi * Kaizo Hayashi * Shinji Higuchi * Hideyuki Hirayama * Ryūichi Hiroki * Ishirō Honda I * Jun Ichikawa * Kon Ichikawa * Mako Idemitsu * George Iida * Takahiko Iimura * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juri Ueno
is a Japanese actress. She first gained recognition in the 2005 film ''Swing Girls'' where she was a recipient of Newcomer of the Year prize at the Japanese Academy Awards. Ueno achieved mainstream success for playing the titular role in the live-action adaptations of manga ''Nodame Cantabile'' for which she won Best Lead Actress at the 51st Television Drama Academy Awards in 2007. She further gained acclaim with her role in the television series ''Last Friends'' for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix and the 57th Television Drama Academy Awards in 2008. Career Ueno made her television debut in 2002 at the age of 16 in the NHK series ''Seizon'' before making her first film major appearance in 2003 in ''Chirosoku no Natsu'' which won her the Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award at the Mainichi Film Awards along with her performance in the 2004 film, ''Swing Girls''. ''Swing Girls'' proved to be a breakthrough when she received critical accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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