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Keiju Kobayashi
was a Japanese actor who appeared in 253 films in a career spanning 67 years. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In 1956 he moved to Toho film company. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films made at Toho, where he worked alongside Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Katō, Norihei Miki, and others. There he helped define the popular image of the postwar salaryman. He also won many awards for his acting, including best actor awards at the Mainichi Film Awards for '' The Naked General'' in 1958 (where he played Kiyoshi Yamashita), for '' Kuroi gashū'' in 1960, and for ''The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman'' in 1963. Kobayashi appeared in films made by such notable directors as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kihachi Okamoto. He continued to give powerful performances after largely movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunma Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Nagano Prefecture to the southwest, Saitama Prefecture to the south, and Tochigi Prefecture to the east. Maebashi is the capital and Takasaki is the largest city of Gunma Prefecture, with other major cities including Ōta, Isesaki, and Kiryū. Gunma Prefecture is one of only eight landlocked prefectures, located on the northwestern corner of the Kantō Plain with 14% of its total land being designated as natural parks. History The ancient province of Gunma was a center of horse breeding and trading activities for the newly immigrated continental peoples. The arrival of horses and the remains of horse tackle coincides with the arrival of a large migration from the mainland. From this point forward, the hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elegant Life Of Mr Everyman
is a 1963 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and based on the Naoki Prize winning novel by Hitomi Yamaguchi. Plot Eburi, an advertising department employee, promises two women's magazine editors to write a masterpiece of a magazine article while drunk. Once he sobers up, he decides to write an article using his own life and his family's history as a basis. Addressing his father's profiteering during the Pacific War, Eburi reflects upon postwar Japan and the legacy of the militarist regime. After winning the Naoki Prize, he gets drunk with two colleagues, lamenting the fate of the many young men who had been seduced to go to war and died. Cast * Keiju Kobayashi as Eburi * Michiyo Aratama as Natsuko, his wife * Eijirō Tōno as Meiji, his father * Yuriko Hanabusa as Miyo, his mother * Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Hane, his neighbor Production The film was originally supposed to be directed by Yūzō Kawashima, but the job was passed on to Okamoto when Kawashima di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burari Bura-bura Monogatari
''Burari Bura-bura Monogatari'' ( ja, ぶらりぶらぶら物語) is a 1962 Japanese comedy film directed by Zenzo Matsuyama. It was Matsuyama's second film as a director. Plot Komako (Hideko Takamine) is a confidence trickster who pretends to be an atom-bomb victim with keloids who is collecting money for charity but actually just has a burn scar. Junpei is a confidence trickster who is beaten up after falsely claiming there is a fly in his udon. They meet in a police station. Komako tells Junpei to get a proper job, then steals his money, food and clothes. Two children are abandoned by their aunt at Shimonoseki Station, and go with Junpei to Tokyo to find her, visiting many sites along the way, including the Kintai bridge, Himeji Castle and the Kurama Fire Festival. Junpei pretends to be a war victim, a blind man and a cripple to beg money but his begging often ends in failures. When Mariko gets a fever, no-one will treat her because of Junpei's appearance, until Komako helps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of Summer
is a 1961 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Toho Films. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was his penultimate; only ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962) followed it, which he made for Shochiku Films. Plot Manbei Kohayagawa (Nakamura Ganjirō II) is the head of a small sake brewery company outside Kyoto, with two daughters and a widowed daughter-in-law. His daughter-in-law, Akiko (Setsuko Hara), and youngest daughter, Noriko (Yoko Tsukasa), live in Osaka. Akiko helps out at an art gallery and has a son Minoru. Noriko, unmarried, is an office worker. Manbei's other daughter, Fumiko (Michiyo Aratama), lives with him. Her husband, Hisao, helps at the brewery and they have a young son Masao. Manbei asks his brother-in-law Kitagawa (Daisuke Katō) to find Akiko a husband, and Kitagawa lets Akiko meet a friend of his, Isomura Eiichirou (Hisaya Morishige), a widower, at a pub. Isomura is enthusiastic about the match but Akiko is hesitant. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Holiday In Tokyo
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shūu
is a 1956 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a play by Kunio Kishida. Plot The marriage of Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki has gone stale, with both of them constantly arguing about what to do on a day off, or her cutting out cooking recipes from the newspaper before he finished reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who pays a visit to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos. When Ryōtarō's company announces the dismissal of some of their employees, a group of colleagues visits him at home and offers him to become their partner in a bar financed with their severance pay, with Fumiko serving the bar's guests. Ryōtarō throws them out and has an argument with Fumiko, declaring that he does not want his wife to take up a job. The couple contemplates a divorce and Ryōtarō's return to his hometown to work on his family's farm. The next morning, a children's balloon falls i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night School (1956 Film)
is a 1956 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. Cast Production ''Night School'' was director Ishirō Honda's only film ever directed outside of Toho. The film was among the first about the topic of night schools. The original idea for developing a film around night schools was from Kanesaku Toda, a Toho staff member who approached Honda and other ex-Nichidai men. The team got the rights to the short story by Teiji Seta titled "Mail Desk" (''Yubin zukue'') which appeared in the children's magazine ''Boys and Girls''. Among the crew was Yoko Mizuki as the screenwriter, and other Nichidai grads including Keiju Kobayashi and Jukichi Uno who starred as a teacher and a student's father. The film was produced by Nihon University College of Art with a low budget. Most actors on set worked without pay. Honda and the film's producers submitted ''Night School'' to the Japanese government's education department, hoping to secure a seal of approval to get the film approved for familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husband And Wife (1953 Film)
is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Because her brother's future wife will soon move into the family's house, Kikuko and her husband Isaku are forced to look for a new room. They move into the house of Isaku's colleague Ryota, who has just lost his wife. Kikuko and the spontaneous, emotional Ryota develop an affection for each other, much to the concern of the rather detached, distanced Isaku. Kikuko and Isaku finally move into a new room whose landlady only accepts tenants without children. When Kikuko admits to her husband that she is pregnant, he tries to talk her into having an abortion. Kikuko first gives in, but eventually refuses, and Isaku agrees to have the child, even if their decision will make things difficult for them. Cast *Yōko Sugi as Kikuko *Ken Uehara as Isaku *Rentarō Mikuni as Ryota *Keiju Kobayashi as Shigekichi, Kikuko's brother * Mariko Okada as Kumiko, Kikuko's sister *Kamatari Fujiwara as Kikuko's father *Hisako Takihan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rainbow Man (1949 Film)
''The Rainbow Man'' (known as ''La valle delle rose'' in Italy) is a 1929 American pre-Code musical drama film. A copy of ''The Rainbow Man'' is preserved by the Library of Congress Packard Campus. Cast *Eddie Dowling as Rainbow Ryan *Marian Nixon as Mary Lane *Frankie Darro as Billy Ryan * Sam Hardy as Doc Hardy *Lloyd Ingraham as Colonel Lane *George 'Gabby' Hayes as Bill (credited as George Hayes) *Dannie Mac Grant as (uncredited) Soundtrack * "Sleepy Valley" :Written by James F. Hanley and Andrew Sterling * "Little Pal" :Written by James F. Hanley and Eddie Dowling * "Rainbow Man" :Written by James F. Hanley and Eddie Dowling Trivia ''The Rainbow Man'' was the film debut of George 'Gabby' Hayes (billed as "George Hayes"). Critical response A ''New York Times'' review stated that: "''The Rainbow Man'' is an ingenuous stream of slow music and tears, with occasional interludes of more or less effective comedy. Those in the theatre laughed heartily at the fun, and for all one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whisper Of The Heart
is a 1995 Japanese animated romantic drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo. The film stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi. ''Whisper of the Heart'' was Kondō's only film as director before his death in 1998. Studio Ghibli had hoped that Kondō would become the successor to Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. A spinoff film, ''The Cat Returns'', was released in 2002, which focused on a minor character of the film, the Baron. Plot Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best friends with Yūko Harada. She lives in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya and older sister Shiho, and is keen on creative writing. One evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books and disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Koganei, Tokyo."Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment". ''Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment''. Retrieved 2020-12-14. It is best known for its animated feature films, and has also produced several short subjects, television commercials, and two television films. Its mascot and most recognizable symbol is a character named Totoro, a giant spirit inspired by raccoon dogs (''tanuki'') and cats from the 1988 anime film ''My Neighbor Totoro''. Among the studio's highest-grossing films are ''Spirited Away'' (2001), ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (2004) and ''Ponyo'' (2008). The studio was founded on June 15, 1985, by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after the successful performance of Topcraft's ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1984). It has also collaborated with video game studios on the visual development of several games. Five of the studio's films are among the ten hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kihachi Okamoto
was a Japanese film director who worked in several different genres. Career Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted into the Air Force 1943 and entered World War II, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work, one third of which dealt with war. Finally graduating after the war, he entered the Toho studies in 1947 and worked as an assistant under such directors as Mikio Naruse, Masahiro Makino, Ishirō Honda, and Senkichi Taniguchi. He made his debut as a director in 1958 with '' All About Marriage''. Okamoto directed almost 40 films and wrote the scripts for at least 24, in a career that spanned almost six decades. He worked in a variety of genres, but most memorably in action genres such as the jidaigeki and war films. He was known for making films with a twist. Inspired to become a filmmaker after watching John Ford's ''Stagecoach'', he would insert elements of the Western in war films like '' Desperado Outpost'' (1959) and ''West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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