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Love Cinema
is a series of Japanese films by CineRocket, it consists of six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers via a brief but exclusive run at the minuscule Shimokitazawa cinema in Tokyo. The six films were conceived as low budget exercises to explore the benefits afforded by the low-cost Digital Video medium such as the increased mobility of film and the low-lighting conditions available to the filmmakers. All six volumes are produced by Reiko Arakawa and Susumu Nakajima with Akira Saitō and Hisanori Endō serving as executive producers on all six volumes. Each film are officially titled as Love Cinema Vol. umber Umber is a natural brown earth pigment that contains iron oxide and manganese oxide. In its natural form, it is called raw umber. When Calcination, calcined, the color becomes warmer and it becomes known as burnt umber. Its name derives from '' .../nowiki>: itle of film/nowiki> External links Official site 2000s Japanese-language films Japanese avant-ga ...
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Cinema Of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) ranked number three in ''Sight & Sound'' critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. ''Tokyo Story'' also topped the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning '' Citizen Kane'', while Akira Kurosawa's '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadoka ...
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Isao Yukisada
is a Japanese film director from Kumamoto. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's ''Love Letter'', ''April Story'', and ''Swallowtail Butterfly''. Filmography Director * ''Open House'' (1998) * (Sunflower) (2000) * ''A Closing Day'' (閉じる日) (2000) * ''Luxurious Bone'' (贅沢な骨) (2001) * '' Go!'' (2001) * '' Rock 'n' Roll Missing'' (2002) * ''Justice'' (2002) * (Sinking into the Moon) (2002) * '' Kanon'' (TV, 2003) * '' Seventh Anniversary'' (2003) * (2003) * (2004) * ''Kita no Zeronen'' (Year One in the North) (2005) * '' Spring Snow'' (2005) * ''Toku no Sora ni Kieta'' (Into the Faraway Sky) (2007) * ''Closed Note'' (2007) * '' A Good Husband'' (今度は愛妻家) (2009) * ''Parade'' (2010) * ''Five Minutes to Tomorrow'' (2014) * '' Pink and Gray'' (2016) * ''Pigeon'' (2016) * ''Narratage'' (2017) * ''River's Edge'' (2018) * ''The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese'' (2020) * ''Theatre: A Love Story'' (2020) * ''Revolver Lily'' (2023) Awards and nominat ...
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2000s Japanese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ...
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Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and surrealism, bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best known films are Audition (1999 film), ''Audition'', Ichi the Killer (film), ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Gozu'', One Missed Call (2003 film), ''One Missed Call'', the ''Dead or Alive (1999 film), Dead or Alive'' trilogy, and various remakes: Graveyard of Honor (2002 film), ''Graveyard of Honor'', ''Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Hara-kiri'' and 13 Assassins (2010 film), ''13 Assassins''. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Yao, Osaka Prefecture, to a ''Japanese diaspora#Asia, Nikkei'' family originally from th ...
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Visitor Q
is a 2001 Japanese erotic black comedy-horror film directed by Takashi Miike. It was filmed as the sixth and final part of the Love Cinema series consisting of six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers via a brief but exclusive run at the minuscule Shimokitazawa cinema in Tokyo. The six films were conceived as low budget exercises to explore the benefits afforded by the low-cost digital video medium such as the increased mobility of the camera and the low-lighting conditions available to the filmmakers. ''Visitor Q'' often replicates the style of documentary footage and home movies, which invokes a sense of realism that contradicts the film's more bizarre elements and black comedy. Plot The film's plot is often compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''Teorema'', in which a strange visitor to a wealthy family seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter, and finally the father, before leaving a few days after, subsequently changing their lives. The film star ...
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Akihiko Shiota
(born 11 September 1961, Maizuru, Kyoto) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Shiota attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyama and began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyo students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His independently made films were recognized at the Pia Film Festival and he began writing film criticism and working as an assistant for Kurosawa and other filmmakers. He also studied screenwriting under Atsushi Yamatoya, who wrote scenarios for Seijun Suzuki, and worked as the cinematographer for films by Takayoshi Yamaguchi. His first two films as a director, ''Moonlight Whispers'' and ''Don't Look Back (1999 film), Don't Look Back'', were both released in 1999 and earned Shiota the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ''Don't Look Back'' also won the Jury Prize at the Three Continents Festival. ''Harmful Insect'' (2002) screened at the Venice Film Festival and ...
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Gips (film)
Gips or GIPS may refer to: People * Archie Gips, American filmmaker * Dirk Boest Gips (1864–1920), Dutch sport shooter * Donald Gips (born 1960), American diplomat * James Gips (died 2018), American academic Other uses * "Gips" (song), by Ringo Sheena, 2000 * Billion instructions per second * Global Investment Performance Standards, a set of standards defined for the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement * Global IP Solutions Global IP Solutions (also known as GIPS) was a United States-based corporation that developed real-time voice and video processing software for Internet Protocol, IP networks, before it was acquired by Google in May 2010. The company delivered em ..., an American corporation * Grand Island Public Schools, an American public school district See also * * GIP (other) * Gipps (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Tetsuo Shinohara
is a Japanese film director. His film ''First Love'' was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography * ''Running High'' (1989) * ''Work on the Grass'' (1993) * ''One More Time, One More Chance'' (1996) * ''Aku no hana'' (1997) * ''Sentakuki wa ore ni makasero'' (1999) * ''Kimi no tame ni dekiru koto'' (1999) * ''First Love'' (2000) * ''Stake Out'' (2001) * ''Inochi'' (2002) * ''High School Girl's Friend'' (2002) * ''Mokuyo kumikyoku'' (2002) * '' Jam Films "Kendama"'' (2002) * '' Karaoke Terror'' (2004) * ''Heaven's Bookstore'' (2004) * '' Breathe In, Breathe Out'' (2004) * ''Female'' (2005) * '' Yokubō'' (2005) * ''Metro ni Notte'' (2006) * ''Clearless'' (2007) * ''Manatsu no Orion'' (2009) * ''Ogawa no Hotori'' (2011) * ''Sweet Heart Chocolate'' (2013) * ''Tanemaku tabibito: Kuni umi no sato'' (2015) * ''Kishūteneki Terminal'' (2015) * ''Flower and Sword is a 2017 Japanese film on ''kadō'' directed by Tetsuo Shinohara. Plot Cast * Mansai Nomura as ...
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Stake Out (film)
A stakeout is the hidden surveillance of a location or person for the purpose of gathering evidence Stakeout or Stake Out may also refer to: Books *Stakeout, crime novel by Parnell Hall (writer) 2013 Film and TV * ''Stakeout'' (1958 film), a Japanese drama film by Yoshitarō Nomura * ''Stakeout'' (1987 film), a detective/comedy film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez * ''Stakeout'' (2013 film) or ''Cold Eyes'', a South Korean crime film * ''Stake Out'' (game show), a 2001 British programme * Stakeout (Transformers), a fictional character from the Transformer universe Episodes * "Stakeout" (''Amphibia'') * "Stakeout" (''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'') * "The Stakeout" (''The Legend of Korra'') * "The Stakeout" (''Parks and Recreation'') * "The Stake Out" (''Seinfeld'') Guns *The ''Ithaca 37 The Ithaca 37 (or Model 37) is a pump-action shotgun made in large numbers for the civilian, law enforcement and military markets. Based on a 1915 patent by firearms designer John Browning ...
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Enclosed Pain
Enclosure or Inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a formal or informal process. The process could normally be accomplished in three ways. First there was the creation of "closes", taken out of larger common fields by their owners. Secondly, there was enclosure by proprietors, owners who acted together, usually small farmers or squires, leading to the enclosure of whole parishes. Finally there were enclosures by Acts of Parliament. The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture. However, there were other motives too, one example being that the value of the land enclosed would be substantially increased. There were social consequences to the policy, with many protests at the removal of rights from the common people. Enclosure riots ar ...
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Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, TV series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere. This distribution strategy was prevalent before streaming platforms came to dominate the TV and movie distribution markets. Because inferior sequels or prequels of larger-budget films may be released direct-to-video, review references to direct-to-video releases are often pejorative. Direct-to-video release has also become profitable for independent filmmakers and smaller companies. Some direct-to-video genre films (with a high-profile star) can generate well in excess of $50 million revenue worldwide. Reasons for releasing direct to video A production studio may decide not to generally release a TV show or film for several possible reasons: a low budget, a lack of support from a TV network, negative reviews, its controversial nature, that it may appeal to a small ni ...
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