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Kaoru Kobayashi (actor)
is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Sorobanzuku''. Career Kobayashi starred in Yoichi Sai's ''Quill''. He also appeared in Yuya Ishii's ''The Great Passage'' and starred as "Master" in both the films, Midnight Diner and Midnight Diner 2. He is most widely recognized by Western audiences for his lead performance in the episodic counterpart drama series, Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories, which was later picked up for international streaming by Netflix. The show garnered critical-acclaim and holds a perfect 100% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Filmography Film Television Dubbing *''The West Wing'' (seasons 1-4), Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films ''The Subj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto, Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware, and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From Earthsea (film)
is a 2006 Japanese anime epic fantasy film co-written and directed by Gorō Miyazaki. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi and Toho, and distributed by the latter company. The film is based on a combination of plot and character elements from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guin's ''Earthsea'' series (''A Wizard of Earthsea'', ''The Tombs of Atuan'', ''The Farthest Shore'', and ''Tehanu''), as well as Hayao Miyazaki's manga series ''Shuna's Journey''. The film's title is named from the collection of short stories ''Tales from Earthsea'', published in 2001. The plot was "entirely different" according to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, who told director Gorō Miyazaki, "It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie", although she later expressed her disappointment with the end result. A film comic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blossoming Of Kamiya Etsuko
is a drama written by Masataka Matsuda. Later, a movie version, directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Tomoyo Harada and Masatoshi Nagase, was released in Japan on August 12, 2006. Kuroki died several months before it was released. Plot In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi. Cast * Tomoyo Harada - Etsuko Kamiya * Masatoshi Nagase - Ensign Nagayo * Shunsuke Matsuoka - Ensign Akashi * Manami Honjo - Fusa Kamiya * Kaoru Kobayashi - Yasutada Kamiya Awards * 31st Hochi Movie Award - Special Prize * 61st Mainichi Film Award - Cinematographic Award ( Koichi Kawakami) * 21st Takasaki Film Festival - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Manami Honjo) * Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Like Asura
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. At the 27th Japan Academy Prize it won three awards and received ten other nominations. The film is a remake of the TV mini series Ashura no Gotoku on NHK. Synopsis The film follows four sisters who discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hide it from their mother, while suspecting each other of having written it. Cast * Shinobu Otake * Eri Fukatsu * Kaoru Yachigusa * Shidou Nakamura Awards and nominations 27th Japan Academy Prize. *Won: Best Director - Yoshimitsu Morita *Won: Best Screenplay - Tomomi Tsutsui *Won: Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Eri Fukatsu *Nominated: Best Picture *Nominated: Best Actress - Shinobu Otake *Nominated: Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Kaoru Yachigusa *Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Shidou Nakamura *Nominated: Best Music - Michiru Oshima *Nominated: Best Cinematograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himitsu (film)
is a 1999 Japanese fantasy romance film directed by Yōjirō Takita, starring Ryōko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi and Kayoko Kishimoto and based on the novel '' Naoko'' by Keigo Higashino. It was released on 25 September 1999. An English-language French remake, '' The Secret'', was released in 2007. Cast *Ryōko Hirosue * Kaoru Kobayashi *Kayoko Kishimoto *Ken Kaneko *Yuriko Ishida *Hideaki Itō Reception It was chosen as the runner-up in the Best 10 films at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival The was held on 6 February 2000 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Awards * Best Film: '' 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō'' * Best Actor: Ken Takakura – ''Poppoya'' * Best Actress: Shinobu Otake – ''Kuroi ie'' * Best Supporting Actor: Ka .... References External links * 1990s romantic fantasy films Films based on Japanese novels Films based on works by Keigo Higashino Films directed by Yōjirō Takita Japanese romantic fantasy films 1990s Japanese films {{fantasy- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Mononoke
is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijo, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori and Hisaya Morishige. ''Princess Mononoke'' is set in the late Muromachi period of Japan (approximately 1336 to 1573 CE), but it includes fantasy elements. The story follows a young Emishi prince named Ashitaka, and his involvement in a struggle between the gods (''kami'') of a forest and the humans who consume its resources. The term , or , is not a name, but a Japanese word for supernatural, shape-shifting beings that possess people and cause suffering, disease, or death. The film was released in Japan on July 12, 1997 by Toho, and in the United States on October 29, 1999. It was a critical and commercial blockbuster, becoming the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untamagiru
Untamagiru ( Okinawan: , ''untamagiruu'') is a 1989 Japanese film directed by Gō Takamine. It is a magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972. Many of the characters speak in the Okinawan language and thus mainland Japanese spectators needed subtitles to understand it. Cast * Chikako Aoyama * Kaoru Kobayashi * John Sayles * Jun Togawa Awards and nominations 14th Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ... *Won: Best Film References External links * 1989 films Films directed by Gō Takamine 1980s Japanese-language films Films set in Okinawa Prefecture 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Of The Cockroaches
is a 1987 anime/live-action film written and directed by Hiroaki Yoshida that combines live-action footage with animation. The plot concerns a society of cockroaches who live peacefully in the apartment of a bachelor named Saito, until a woman moves in and the humans begin to exterminate the cockroaches. The cockroaches are depicted through animation, and the humans are depicted through live-action footage. Famed Japanese illustrator Yoshitaka Amano worked on the film as an art director and character designer. Director Yoshida has stated that the film is "about Japan" and that the "concept of a 'hated' species is like the racial and cultural enmity with which Japan is perceived". In his ''New York Times'' review, Vincent Canby wrote: "The publicity material for ''Twilight of the Cockroaches'' describes the film as an allegory about the fate in store for affluent Japan if it doesn't meet its international responsibilities. The film may read that way in Japan. In this country, it lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Letter (1985 Film)
is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro. Cast * Kenichi Hagiwara *Mitsuko Baisho *Tomoyoshi Wada *Keiko Takahashi * Kaoru Kobayashi *Noboru Nakaya *Tokie Hidari *Isao Hashizume *Eiichi Kudo Awards and nominations 10th Hochi Film Award * Won: Best 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 1985 films Films directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro 1980s Japanese-language films 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorekara (film)
is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, based on the novel by Natsume Sōseki. Cast Awards and nominations 7th Yokohama Film Festival *Won: Best Music Score - Shigeru Umebayashi (born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film sc ... *6th Best Film References External links * * 1985 films Films directed by Yoshimitsu Morita 1980s Japanese-language films Best Film Kinema Junpo Award winners 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ja:それから#映画 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Funeral (1984 Film)
is a 1984 Japanese comedy film by film director, director Juzo Itami. The film shows the preparations for a traditional Japanese funeral. It mixes grief at the loss of a husband and father with wry observations of the various characters as they interact during the three days of preparation. ''The Funeral'' was the writing and directing debut of Itami Juzo, and was an enormous success in Japan. It won five Japan Academy Prize (film), Japanese Academy Awards in 1985, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Tsutomu Yamazaki. It was nominated in a further five categories and also came first in the annual ''Kinema Junpo'' critics' poll. Plot Shinkichi Amamiya (Hideji Otaki) is a difficult 69-year-old man, married to Kikue (Kin Sugai). He dies suddenly of a heart attack, and it falls to his daughter Chizuko (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law Wabisuke Inoue (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to organize the funeral at their house. Among other things, the family have to choose a coffin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
