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Kyū Sazanka
was a Japanese actor. Career Sazanka debuted as a singer in Asakusa is a district in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. It is known as the location of the Sensō-ji, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon. There are several other temples in Asakusa, as well as various festivals, such as the . History The ... in 1932 and was active on the vaudeville circuit as a member of the Akireta Bōizu. He made his film debut in 1946. Selected filmography Film Television References External links * 1914 births 1971 deaths Male actors from Osaka 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara Prefecture to the southeast, and Wakayama Prefecture to the south. Osaka is the capital and largest city of Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Sakai, Higashiōsaka, and Hirakata. Osaka Prefecture is the third-most-populous prefecture, but by geographic area the second-smallest; at it is the second-most densely populated, below only Tokyo. Osaka Prefecture is one of Japan's two "Fu (country subdivision), urban prefectures" using the designation ''fu'' (府) rather than the standard ''Prefectures of Japan#Types of prefecture, ken'' for prefectures, along with Kyoto Prefecture. Osaka Prefecture forms the center of the Keihanshin metropolitan ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūrakuchō De Aimashō
is 1958 Japanese romance-drama film in technicolor, directed by Koji Shima. Film cast * Machiko Kyō as Aya Koyanagi * Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Takeshi Koyanagi * Kenji Sugawara as Rentaro Shinohara * Hitomi Nozoe as Kana Shinohara * Junko Kano as Fusae Shimazaki * Tanie Kitabayashi as Tetsu Koyanagi * Kyu Sazanka as Saburo Maeda * Chieko Naniwa as Yone * Michiko Ono as Shinko * Teruko Kishi as Kinoshita * Fujio Harumoto as Maruyama * Yoshiro Kitahara as Shimizu * Kiyoko Hirai as Mrs. Sekine * Atsuko Kindaichi as Sekine's daughter * Yoshihiro Hamaguchi as Hirota * Frank Nagai Frank Nagai (フランク 永井; March 18, 1932 – October 27, 2008) was a Japanese singer. Known for his attractive baritone voice. His real name was Kiyoto Nagai (永井 清人 ''Nagai Kiyoto''). Life Frank Nagai was born in Matsuyama, Mi ... as himself (singing) * Mariko Ogasawara as maid at Koyanagi's * Minami Satoko as Sadako Yamanaka * Ryuji Shinagawa as announcer References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akumyō
The series consists of seventeen yakuza films based on the novel by Tōkō Kon. starring Shintaro Katsu and Jiro Tamiya, produced between 1960 and 1974. Films Shintaro Katsu series * (1961) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1961) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1962) directed by Kazuo Mori * (1962) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1963) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1963) directed by Kazuo Mori * (1963) directed by Kazuo Mori * (1963) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1964) directed by Kazuo Mori * (1965) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1965) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1966) directed by Tokuzō Tanaka * (1967) directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda * (1968) directed by Kazuo Mori * (1969) directed by Masahiro Makino * (1974) directed by Yasuzo Masumura Koji Matoba series * (2001) * (2001) References External links * * * * * * * Yakuza films Japanese film series Films with screenplays by Yoshikata Yoda Films directed by Tokuzō Tanaka Daiei Film films 1960s Japanese films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yojimbo (film)
is a 1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard. Based on the success of ''Yojimbo'', Kurosawa's next film, ''Sanjuro'' (1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family ''mon''. The film was released and produced by Toho on April 25, 1961. ''Yojimbo'' received highly positive reviews, and, over the years, became widely regarded as one of the best films by Kurosawa and one of the greatest films ever made. The film grossed an estimated $2.5 million worldwide with a budget of ¥90.87 million. It was unofficially remade by Serg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film '' Sanshiro Sugata''. After the war, the critically acclaimed ''Drunken Angel'' (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films. ''Rashomon'' (1950), which premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bad Sleep Well
is a 1960 Japanese crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father's death. It has its roots in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet,'' while also doubling as a critique of corporate corruption. It is one of four films, along with '' Drunken Angel'' (1948), ''Stray Dog'' (1949) and '' High and Low'' (1963), in which Kurosawa explores the film noir genre. Like Kurosawa and Mifune's next two movies, '' Yojimbo'' (1961) and ''Sanjuro'' (1962), Mifune's character is "a lone hero fighting against overwhelming odds and corrupt authorities." Plot A group of news reporters watch and gossip, at an elaborate wedding reception held by the Public Development Corporation's Vice President Iw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagisa Oshima
NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas or Natural Geography of In-Shore Areas) is an international collaborative effort aimed at inventorying, cataloguing, and monitoring biodiversity of the in-shore area. So named for the Japanese word "nagisa" ("where the land meets the sea"), it is an Apronym. NaGISA is the first project of the larger CoML effort (Census of Marine Life) to have global participation in actual field work. The actual procedures of this project involve inexpensive collection equipment (for easy universal participation). This equipment is used to photograph sampling sites, to actually take samples from the sites, and to process these samples. At each site throughout the world, samples are taken from the intertidal zone out to a depth of 10 meters (and optionally out to 20 meters depth). These samples are then processed (the organisms are isolated) and then analyzed and catalogued. The information (regarding the kind and number of organisms analyzed) is sent to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruel Story Of Youth
is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, starring Yusuke Kawazu and Miyuki Kuwano as teenage delinquents and lovers. It is Ōshima's second feature film and is known for its elements of Japanese '' nuberu bagu''. The film won the 1960 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer for Ōshima. Plot After Makoto Shinjo hitchhikes a ride, the driver tries to molest her, but is stopped by Kiyoshi Fuji. He takes her on a date, first to watch the Anpo Protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty, and then later to ride a motorboat on a river, where he rapes her. One day, after trying to wait for him at a bar he frequents, she is targeted by gangsters who prostitute women, but Kiyoshi fights them and they leave them alone in exchange for a payment. The two fall in love and Makoto spends more time with him, causing her to be rebuked by her older sister Yuki, resulting in her deciding to live with him. To make money, the two reconstruct how they met, with Makoto seducing a driver and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki ("common people drama") films with female protagonists, portrayed by actresses such as Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Setsuko Hara. Because of his focus on family drama and the intersection of traditional and modern Japanese culture, his films have been compared with the works of Yasujirō Ozu. Many of his films in his later career were adaptations of the works of acknowledged Japanese writers. Titled a "major figure of Japan's golden age" and "supremely intelligent dramatist", he remains lesser known than his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Ozu. Among his most noted films are ''Sound of the Mountain'', ''Late Chrysanthemums'', ''Floating Clouds'' and ''When A Woman Ascends The Stairs''. Biography Early years Mikio Naruse was born in Tokyo in 1905 and raised by his brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When A Woman Ascends The Stairs
is a 1960 Japanese drama directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Keiko (called "Mama" by the other characters), a young widow approaching 30, is a hostess at a bar in Ginza. Realizing she is getting older, she decides after talking to her bar manager, Komatsu, that she wants to open her own bar rather than remarrying and dishonoring her late husband to whose memory she is still devoted. To accomplish this, she must secure loans from some affluent patrons who frequent her bar, but has little success. Meanwhile, Yuri, a former employee, has opened up her own bar nearby, consequently taking away most of Keiko's former customers. She scouts locations for her own bar with a confidant of her bar, Junko, undecided as to where she will open up. While Keiko has lunch with Yuri, whom she believes is doing well in her enterprise, Yuri reveals that she is deep in debt and cannot afford to pay off her creditors. She tells Keiko she plans to fake a suicide to keep her creditors at bay. Keiko is shocked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kon Ichikawa
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) and '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959), to the documentary ''Tokyo Olympiad'' (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama ''An Actor's Revenge'' (1963). His film ''Odd Obsession'' (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. Early life and career Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture as Giichi Ichikawa (市川儀一). His father died when he was four years old, and the family kimono shop went bankrupt, so he went to live with his sister. He was given the name "Kon" by an uncle who thought the characters in the kanji 崑 signified good luck, because the two halves of the Chinese character look the same when it is split in half vertically. As a child he loved drawing and his ambition was to become an artist. He also loved films and was a fan of "chambara" or samurai films. In his teens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Obsession
is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It was based on the novel '' The Key'', by Japanese novelist Junichirō Tanizaki. Plot A man who suspects his wife is having an affair with his daughter's fiancé places the two in dangerous situations in order to satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity. Cast * Machiko Kyō as Ikuko Kenmochi * Nakamura Ganjirō II as Kenji Kenmochi * Junko Kano as Toshiko Kenmochi * Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura * Jun Hamamura as Dr. Sōma * Tanie Kitabayashi as Hana * Mayumi Kurata as Koike * Kyū Sazanka as Curio dealer * Ichirō Sugai was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1930 and 1971. Sugai often worked with Kaneto Shindo, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Selected filmography * '' The Water Magician'' (1933) * '' Spring on Leper's Isla ... as Masseur * Mantarō Ushio as Dr. Kodama See also * '' The Key'' (1983) Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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