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Karei-naru Ichizoku
is a 1973 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1974 and then three times as a television series in 1974, 2007, and 2021. Plot Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the show explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family. The cornerstone of their empire is , controlled by the father of the clan, . Eldest son is the managing director of . The ambitious Teppei seeks to expand operations of his company, and goes to his father to see if he can secure a loan. But the Minister of Finance seeks the merger of smaller Japanese banks to fend off foreign competition. Daisuke must decide whether to protect his son's interest in manufacturing or to ensure the survival of the bank that he controls. The series mostly revolves on the hidden secrets within the Manpyo family. A running theme throughout the show is Teppei's constant hunger for his father's approval. However, instead of being seen as a son, he is often seen as a threat b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyoko Yamasaki
was a Japanese novelist. A native of Osaka, Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She published her first story, ''Noren'' (1957), a story of a kelp trader, based on the experiences of her family's business. The following year, she won the Naoki Prize for her second novel ''Hana Noren'', the story about the founder of an entertainment group. A major influence on her writings of that period was Yasushi Inoue, who was deputy head of the Mainichi Shimbun's cultural news desk. Yamasaki wrote some stories based on actual events. For example, ''Futatsu no Sokoku'' is derived from the biography of a Japanese American David Akira Itami, and ''Shizumanu Taiyō'' is based on the Japan Airlines Flight 123 accident. Several works of hers were featured in films and television drama In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) i ... [...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] |
Yoko Yamamoto
is a Japanese actress represented by Kabushikigaisha Sanyō Kikaku. Filmography Films TV dramas NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System Nippon TV Fuji Television TV Asahi TV Tokyo Stage References External linksProfile at Yahoo! Japan {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamamoto, Yoko 1942 births Living people Actresses from Tokyo People from Nakano, Tokyo 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Kagawa
is a Japanese actress. During her 70 years spanning career, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as ''Tokyo Story'', '' Sansho the Bailiff'', ''The Bad Sleep Well'', ''Mothra'' and '' High and Low''. Biography Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949. She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the ''Tokyo Shimbun'' in 1949 and gave her film debut the following year in ''Mado kara tobidase''. She regularly appeared in films by Akira Kusosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shirō Toyoda, Hiroshi Shimizu and others. Kagawa married in 1963 and followed her husband, a newspaper reporter, to New York City. After her return from the US, she acted in television dramas until she appeared again on the big screen in Satsuo Yamamoto's ''Karei-naru ichizoku'' (1974). In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūki Meguro
Yūki Meguro ( ja, 目黒祐樹) is a Japanese actor. He is the son of jidaigeki actor Jūshirō Konoe and had an older brother Hiroki Matsukata. He was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his work in Shōgun in 1981's Emmy award. Filmography Film * ''Karei-naru Ichizoku'' (1974) as Ginpei Manpyo *'' Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy'' (1974) as Arsène Lupin III *''Legend of the Eight Samurai'' (1983) *''Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon'' (1994) *''Musashi'' (2019) Television *''Kunitori Monogatari'' (1973) as Maeda Toshiie *''The Yagyu Conspiracy'' (1978) as Samon Tomonori Yagyū *'' Akō Rōshi'' (1979) as Uesugi Noritsuna *'' Shōgun '' (1980) as Omi *''Papa wa Newscaster'' (1987) as Hyuga *''Hissatsu Shigotonin Gekitotsu'' (1991) as Narikawa *''Come Come Everybody is a Japanese television drama series and the 105th NHK Asadora series, following Okaeri Mone. It premiered on November 1, 2021 and concluded on April 8, 2022. The story i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumeji Tsukioka
was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film ''The Temptress and the Monk'', which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umetsugu Inoue. Selected filmography * ''Late Spring'' (1949) * ''The Bells of Nagasaki'' (1950) * ''Hiroshima'' (1953) * ''Ojōsan shachō'' (1953) * ''Twenty-Four Eyes'' (1954) * ''A Hole of My Own Making'' (1955) * ''The Eternal Breasts'' (1955) * ''The Temptress and the Monk'' (1958) * ''Love Under the Crucifix'' (1962) * ''Karei-naru Ichizoku is a 1973 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1974 and then three times as a television series in 1974, 2007, and 2021. Plot Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the show explores the struggle for po ...'' (1974) References External links * * 1922 births 2017 deaths Japanese film actresses 20th-century Japanese actresses Actors from Hirosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho
is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer and distributor of many '' kaiju'' and ''tokusatsu'' films, the Chouseishin ''tokusatsu'' superhero television franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, CoMix Wave Films, TMS Entertainment and OLM, Inc. All nine of the highest-grossing Japanese films are released by Toho. Other famous directors, including Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, and Mikio Naruse, also directed films for Toho. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured in 32 of the company's films. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are described as Toho's Big Five because of the monsters' numerous appearances throughout the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Toho has also been involved in the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshio Miyajima
was a Japanese cinematographer during the 20th century. Notable works include ''Harakiri'', '' The Human Condition trilogy'', and ''Kwaidan''. Filmography *'' Utano yononaka'' (''The Singing World'') (1936) *'' Bushido orakanarishi'' (''When the Bushido is Big-Hearted'') (1936) *'' Nihon josei dokuhon'' (''Japanese Women's Textbook'') (1937) *'' Minamikaze no oka'' (''Hill of the South Wind'') (1937) *'' Edo no shirasagi'' (''White Egret in Edo'') (1937) *'' Kaminari oyaji'' (''Tough Dad'') (1937) *'' Jinsei Keiba'' (''Life Is a Horse Race'') (1938) *'' Katei niki (zen)'' (''Family Diary, Part One'') (1938) *'' Katei niki (go)'' (''Family Diary, Part One'') (1938) *'' Den'en kôkyôgaku'' (''Pastoral Symphony'') (1939) *'' Uruwashiki shupatu'' (''Beautiful Departure'') (1939) *'' Machi'' (''Town'') (1939) *'' Roppa no shinkon ryoko'' (''Roppa's Honeymoon'') (1940) *'' Ribbon o musubu fujin'' (''The Lady Ties a Ribbon'') (1939) *'' Moyuru ozora'' (''The Burning Sky'') (1940) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaru Sato
(sometimes transliterated Satoh) was a Japanese composer of film scores. Following the 1955 death of Fumio Hayasaka, whom Sato studied under, Sato was the composer of Akira Kurosawa's films for the next 10 years. He was nominated for Best Music at the 15th Japan Academy Prize in 1992. In 1999, the Japanese government decorated Sato with the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contributions to the arts. Career He was born in Rumoi, Hokkaido, and raised in Sapporo. While studying at the National Music Academy, Sato came under the influence of Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Kurosawa's regular composer for his earlier films. He became a pupil of Hayasaka's, studying film scoring with him at Toho Studios, and working on the orchestration of '' Seven Samurai'' (1954). When the older composer died suddenly in 1955, leaving the scores to Kenji Mizoguchi's '' New Tales of the Taira Clan'', and Kurosawa's '' I Live in Fear'' incomplete, Toho assigned Sato to finish t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuya Nakadai
is a Japanese film actor. He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including ''The Human Condition'' trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji, plus ''Harakiri'', ''Samurai Rebellion'' and ''Kwaidan''. Nakadai worked with some of Japan's best-known filmmakers—starring or co-starring in five films directed by Akira Kurosawa, as well as being cast in significant films directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (''The Face of Another''), Mikio Naruse (''When a Woman Ascends the Stairs''), Kihachi Okamoto (''Kill!'' and ''The Sword of Doom''), Hideo Gosha (''Goyokin''), Shirō Toyoda (''Portrait of Hell'') and Kon Ichikawa (''Enjō'' and ''Odd Obsession''). Biography Nakadai grew up in a very poor family and was unable to afford a university education, prompting him to take up acting. He picked up a liking of Broadway musicals, and travels once a year to New York City to watch them. Nakadai was working as a shop clerk in Tokyo before a chance encounter with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Saburi
was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujirō Ozu including ''Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family'' (1941), '' Tea Over Rice'' (1952), ''Equinox Flower'' (1958) and '' Late Autumn'' (1960). He also directed over a dozen films. Selected filmography Film *1931: ''Misu nippon'' - San-chan *1931: ''Hokuman no teisatsu'' *1932: ''Minato no jojôshi'' - Shinoshima *1932: ''Sôretsu bakudn sanyûshi'' *1932: ''Saraba Tokyo'' *1932: ''Kiri no yo no kyakumâ'' *1933: ''Joseijin'' *1935: ''Akogare'' *1935: ''Jinsei no onimotsu'' - Kimimasa Hashimoto *1936: ''Kanjô sanmyaku'' *1936: ''Kazoku kaigi'' *1936: ''Oboroyo no onna'' - Doctor *1936: ''Dansei tai josei'' - Yukio, Atsumi's first son *1936: ''Hitozuma tsubaki'' *1936: ''Shindo'' (part 1, 2) - Toru Nogami *1937: ''Kôjô no tsuki'' - Miura *1937: ''Shu to midori'' *1937: ''Joi Kinuyo sensei'' - Yasuo Asano *1937: ''Konjiki yasha'' - Jôsuke Arao *1937: ''Konyaku sanbagarasu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satsuo Yamamoto
was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima City. After leaving Waseda University, where he had become affiliated with left-wing groups, he joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse. He followed Naruse when the latter moved to P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) and debuted as a director in 1937 with ''Ojōsan''. During World War II he directed the propaganda films ''Winged Victory'' and ''Hot Winds'' before being drafted and sent to China. After returning to Japan, Yamamoto's first film was the 1947 ''War and Peace'' (not based on the Leo Tolstoy novel), co-directed with Fumio Kamei. Being a communist and an active supporter of the union during the Toho labour strikes, he left the studio in 1948 after the strikes' forced ending and turned to independent filmmaking. The left-wing production company Shinsei Eiga-sha, formed by former Toho unionists, produced his commercially successful ''Street of Violence'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
