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Kōji Kikkawa
is a Japanese musician. His most recent album is 2016's ''Wild Lips''. Kōji was born in Hiroshima and his music career began on February 1, 1984, with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won eight music awards in the same year. After taking a short break in 1988, he came back as a lead singer in the band Complex with Tomoyasu Hotei (former guitarist of Boøwy) and "Be My Baby" was released. Complex remained as one of the most popular bands in Japan until 1990, when it was announced that Complex had disbanded. After "Complex", Kōji released series of hit singles such as "Setsunasa O Korosenai", "Kiss Ni Utarete Nemuritai" and "Boy's Life". Kōji completed a "20th Anniversary Tour" at Budokan on February 1, 2005. In 2006 he recorded "One World," the theme for the 2006 motion picture '' Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love''. More recently, he had teamed up with popular Japanese DJ TWINS to release a single "Juicy Jungle". Also, DJ TWINS had rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuchū, Hiroshima (town)
is a town located in Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of May 1, 2017, the town has an estimated population of 52,056 and a density of 5,000 persons per km². The total area is 10.45 km². It has the headquarters of Mazda , commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one m .... ." Mazda. Retrieved on October 29, 2009. 
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God Speed Love
is the theatrical film adaptation of the ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' TV series directed by Hidenori Ishida and written by Shōji Yonemura. Unlike previous Kamen Rider movies, its serves a prologue of sorts to the TV series rather than following its storyline. The movie shows a previous timeline where the close relations between Riders ( Kuuga to Hibiki) did not exist and the impact of the first meteor evaporated all of Earth's oceans. Seven years after the meteor hit Earth, ZECT pretends to use a passing comet to refill the Earth's oceans, while in fact they are pulling another meteor to crash on Earth, one large enough to wipeout all of humanity. The film was produced by Ishimori Productions and Toei, the producers of all the previous television series and films in the ''Kamen Rider'' franchise. Following the tradition of all Heisei Kamen Rider movies, it is a double bill with 2006's ''Super Sentai'' movie, '' GoGo Sentai Boukenger The Movie: "The Greatest Precious"''. Upon its rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword Of Desperation
is a 2010 Japanese jidaigeki drama film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It was released in Japan on July 10, 2010. It was written by Hidehiro Itō and Itaru Era, based on a novel by Shūhei Fujisawa, and was produced by Hidehiro Itō. Plot Ukyo-dayu, a powerful Edo-era ''daimyō'', and his court attend a ''kabuki'' play in the courtyard of his palace. After the performance ends, members of the court bow in respect as Lord Ukyo and his family, including his favorite concubine Lady Renko, are leaving. Suddenly, a samurai named Sanzaemon Kanemi unsheathes his ''tantō'' and stabs Lady Renko to death. He surrenders his weapon and is taken into custody. Despite expecting to be put to death for murdering his lord's consort, Kanemi is surprised to learn that Lord Ukyo has instead sentenced him to spend a year under house arrest. Kanemi's estate is barricaded and placed under watch by armed guards, while Kanemi himself is sealed in a makeshift cell inside a woodshed. His servants are d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie War Core
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie War 2010
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Batista No Eikō
is a Japanese mystery film and television show adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Takeru Kaidō. The story revolves around a hospital with a team of doctors known for their success with a type of heart surgery. After a series of failed operations that result in the patient's death, an internal investigation is initiated, led by a doctor named Taguchi and a brash government official. In the original novel the main character Taguchi, was a male doctor in his forties. However, for the film adaptation TBS suggested replacing the character with a young female resulting in Yūko Takeuchi being cast as in the role. For the TV show, Taguchi is a man, with Atsushi Itō playing the role. Plot A top notch seven-member team of doctors and nurses known as “Team Batista” are Tojo University Hospital’s pride and joy. The medical team performs a prominent heart surgery known as the Batista Operation which has a normal 60% success rate, but the team has consecutively p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three For The Road (2007 Film)
is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Plot A courtesan (Okino) is tired of her life in Edo, and is starting to be outshone by younger women, so she tricks a man (Yaji) into helping her escape the brothel where she is bound by contract to stay. Okino claims that her father is dying of "hearth trouble" and she needs to visit him right away. The two pair up with an actor (Kita) who made a mess of a scene in a popular kabuki play and so cannot show his face in Edo, and the three set out to find her father. They meet with various adventures along the way to Okino's hometown. The rakugo story of Teresuko is intertwined with their tale, possibly referring to various kinds of trickery played by the characters on each other in trying to better their lives. Cast * Kanzaburo Nakamura as Yajirobee * Akira Emoto as Kitahachi * Kyōko Koizumi as Okino * LaSalle Ishii as Umehachi * Naomi Fujiyama as Osen * Koji Kikkawa as Seijuro * Matsunosuke Shofukutei as Yohei * Keiko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Joker
is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, based on a story by Kaoru Takamura. Cast * Tetsuya Watari as Seizo Monoi * Satoshi Tokushige as Yuichiro Gouda * Koji Kikkawa as Shuhei Handa * Jun Kunimura as Satoru Hirose * Ren Osugi as Junichi Nunokawa * Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Katsumi Ko * Haruhiko Kato as Yokichi Matsudo * Miho Kanno as Yoshiko Shiroyama * Ittoku Kishibe , born , is a Japanese actor and musician. Career He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands, The Tigers and Pyg, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor Japanese Ac ... as Seiichi Shirai * Kyozo Nagatsuka as Kyohei Shiroyama References External links * 2004 films 2000s crime films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama Japanese crime films 2000s Japanese films 2000s Japanese-language films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guys From Paradise
is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, adapted from the novel by Yōji Hayashi. Plot Japanese businessman Kohei Hayasake of Sanyu Trading is arrested for possession of a kilo of heroin in Manila and sent to a prison there. Umino, a restaurant owner in Manila, introduces Kohei to Yoshida, a former member of the criminal underworld who has chosen to be imprisoned in order to escape from his enemies, who hires Kohei to be his business representative in exchange for permission to use Yoshida's private toilet. Yoshida bribes the guards to let him take Kohei to a hotel to purchase a kilo of heroin but Kohei uses the opportunity to escape and runs to the hotel where his wife is staying but finds that she did not return to the hotel the previous night. Yoshida finds Kohei and insists that he will kill him if Kohei betrays him again. Yoshida sells the drugs through the warden, who states that Kohei must produce money for bribes in order to win his case. The pedophile Sakamoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Of Lost Souls
is a 2000 Japanese action film directed by Takashi Miike based on a novel by Hase Seishu. Plot The Brazilian-Japanese criminal Mario hijacks a helicopter and uses a machine gun to attack a prison bus and free his Chinese girlfriend Kei. They attempt to raise money by robbing a cockfight but end up robbing drugs bought by the yakuza Fushimi of the Okayama Group from a Chinese triad boss named Ko moments before. Fushimi's boss demands his finger but Fushimi kills him and takes over his position with the aid of his soldier Yamazaki. Mario and Kei sell the drugs to a local Brazilian TV broadcaster, who attempts to sell the drugs back to Ko but is beaten then given a message that there is a million-yen reward for Mario and Kei. Mario and Kei fly to Okinawa and are about to stow aboard a boat bound for Tapei then escape to Australia with the aid of their fake passports, but Fushimi abducts Mario's former lover Lucia's blind foster daughter Carla, so Mario and Kei return to Tokyo. Kei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatterer
is a 1987 film directed by Tonino Valerii. Production ''Shatterer'' was produced with Japanese funding. Producer Asao Kumada got in contact with director Tonino Valerii after being suggested to him by Peter Shepherd. Shepherd had previously met with Valerii on the set of '' The Best of Enemies'' and again on ''Day of Anger'' where he was Giuliano Gemma's dialogue coach. Valerii did not like Kumada's story for the film involving the mafia taking over a nearly bankrupt steel mill that is saved by a Japanese team. Valerii stated that it was absurd for the mafia to attempt to take over a company that was at a loss and read about a car engine that would work for less fuel was being tested on and suggested Kumada to make a story about that. Valerii stated that "it was an unlikely story, but it worked well in Japan." Beatrice Ring was cast in the film, but was not the first choice for the role. She had the interview with Tonino Valerii right after finishing work on Lamberto Bava's film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider W
, is a 2009-2010 Japanese tokusatsu drama, the eleventh series in the Heisei period run of the Kamen Rider Series and the twentieth overall. It premiered following the finale of ''Kamen Rider Decade'' on September 6, 2009, and aired alongside ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'' in TV Asahi's Super Hero Time programming block. Following ''Shinkenger's'' finale, it aired alongside ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', until ''W'' concluded on August 29, 2010. The series is described as the . In the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze, W is revealed to be in the same continuity as the original Showa timeline, making it the first series to do so since ''Kamen Rider Agito''. The series is notable for being the first installment in what's popularly viewed as Heisei era Kamen Rider's second phase by fans. A sequel manga series, '' Fuuto PI'', began serialization in August 2017 and an anime adaptation began airing in August 2022. Promotion Advertisements throughout the months of May, June, and July 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
