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Masao Kusakari
is a Japanese actor and model (profession), model. Biography Masao Kusakari was born in Fukuoka Prefecture to a Japanese mother and an American father, the latter who died in the Korean War. Considered stunningly good looking, his debut into the public eye began when he became a model for Shiseido Cosmetics in the early 1970's. He joined Toho in 1974 and began his career as a screen actor.日本映画人名事典』男優篇 上巻、キネマ旬報社、1996 P.552 He won his first major award at the Elan d'or Awards in 1975, and a year later, appeared in Kaze to Kumo to Niji to, a dream of his since early childhood to star in a taiga drama. From then to the early 1980's, Kusakari was one of the most popular actors in Japan. He won popularity again through his role in Sanada Maru in 2016. In 2017, Kusakari won Best Supporting Actor of 10th International Drama Festival in Tokyo, Tokyo Drama Awards for his role in Sanada Maru. In 2019, Kusakari appeared in the Asadora Natsuzora a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokura
is an ancient castle town and the center of Kitakyushu, Japan, guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu with its suburb Moji. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen line, which is owned by JR West. Ferries connect Kokura with Matsuyama on Shikoku, and Busan in South Korea. History Edo period The Ogasawara and Hosokawa clans were ''daimyō'' at Kokura Castle during the Edo period (1603–1868). Miyamoto Musashi, samurai swordsman, author of ''The Book of Five Rings'' and founder of the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryū, famous for its use of two swords, lived in the Kokura castle under the patronage of the Ogasawara and Hosokawa clans briefly during 1634. Meiji period After the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Kokura was the seat of government for Kokura Prefecture. When the municipal system of cities, towns and villages was introduced, Kokura Town was one of 25 towns in the prefecture, which later merged wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okita Sōji
was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. He was one of the best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi. Background He was born in 1842 or 1844 from a samurai family in the Shirakawa Domain's Edo mansion. His great-grandfather was Okita Kan'emon (d. 1819) and his grandfather was Okita Sanshiro (d. 1833.) His father, Okita Katsujiro, died in 1845; he had two older sisters, Okita Mitsu (1833–1907) and Okita Kin (1836–1908). In 1846, in order to marry the adopted son of the Okita family, Okita Rintarō (1826–1883), his oldest sister Okita Mitsu became an adopted daughter of Kondo Shusuke in name. Kondo Shusuke was the third master of the ''Tennen Rishin-ryū'' and Okita started training at the ''Shieikan'' with him around the age of nine. By that time, Kondo Shusuke had already adopted Shimazaki Katsuta (the later Kondō Isami), but Hijikata Toshizō had not yet enrolled at the Tennen Rishin-ryū school. Ok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eijanaika (film)
is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society. Cast * Kaori Momoi - Ine * Shigeru Izumiya - Genji * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi - Kinzo * Masao Kusakari - Itoman * Mitsuko Baisho - Oko * Yōhei Kōno - Hara Ichinoshin * Taiji Tonoyama * Junzaburō Ban - Toramatsu * Nenji Kobayashi - Matakichi * Hideo Takamatsu - Koide Yamato no Kami * Ako - Oyoshi * Kazuo Kitamura - Koide Yamatonokami * Jirō Yabuki - Senmatsu * Yasuaki Kurata - T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinji Fukasaku
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking," Fukasaku worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the ''Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' series (1973–1976). According to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "his turbulent energy and at times extreme violence express a cynical critique of social conditions and genuine sympathy for those left out of Japan's postwar prosperity." He used a '' cinema verite''-inspired shaky camera technique in many of his films from the early 1970s. Fukasaku wrote and directed over 60 films between 1961 and 2003. Some Western sources have associated him with the Japanese New Wave movement of the '60s and '70s, but this belies his commercial success. His works include the Japanese portion of the Hollywood war film ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970), ''jidaigeki'' such as ''Shogun's Samurai'' (1978), the space opera ''Mes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virus (1980 Film)
''Virus'', known in Japan as , is a 1980 Japanese post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's 1964 novel of the same name, the film stars an international ensemble cast featuring Masao Kusakari, Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Glenn Ford, and Henry Silva. At the time of its release, the film was the most expensive Japanese film ever made. Plot In 1982, a shady transaction is occurring between an East German scientist, Dr. Krause, and a group of Americans involving a substance known as MM88. MM88 is a deadly virus, created accidentally by an American geneticist, that amplifies the potency of any other virus or bacterium it comes into contact with. The Americans recover the virus sample, which was stolen from a lab in the US the year before, but the virus is accidentally released after the plane transporting it crashes, creating a pandemic initially known as the "Italian F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byoinzaka No Kubikukuri No Ie
''Byoinzaka no Kubikukuri no Ie'' ( ja, 病院坂の首縊りの家), also known as ''The House of Hanging on Hospital Slope'', is a 1979 Japanese film, directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on Seishi Yokomizo's novel of the same name, and is the fifth film in Kon Ichikawa and Koji Ishizaka's Kindaichi film series. Plot Kindaichi Kosuke visits a photo studio to take photo for his passport. There he happens to meet a daughter who came to request a wedding anniversary photo shoot. Kindaichi and the owner of the photo studio visit a house called Byoinzaka no Kubikukuri no Ie to hand that photo to her. Cast * Kōji Ishizaka as Kindaichi Kosuke * Masao Kusakari as Hinatsu Mokutarō * Takeshi Katō as Detective Todoriki * Junko Sakurada as Igarashi Chizuru * Yoshiko Sakuma as Hogen Yayoi * Hideji Ōtaki as Kanō * Akiji Kobayashi as Sannosuke * Kie Nakai * Teruhiko Aoi as Yamauchi Toshio * Mitsuko Kusabue as Amamiya Junko * Eitaro Ozawa as Honjō Tokubei See also *''The Inugami Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōsei Saitō
was a Japanese film director. He is known for directing the film '' G.I. Samurai ''. Selected filmography Film * ''Shayō no Omokage aka The Lonely Life'' (1967) (Fist work as a director) * ''Sannin no Onna Yoru no Chō aka Night Butterflies'' (1967) * ''Onna no Iji'' (1971) * '' Akumaga kitarite fue wo fuku'' (1979) * ''G.I. Samurai'' (1979) * ''Ninja Wars'' (1982) * ''Tsumiki Kuzushi'' (1983) * ''Kizudarake no Kunshō'' (1986) Television * ''Taiyō ni Hoero!'' * ''Oretachino Tabi'' (1976) * ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (Second season) * ''Choshichiro Edo Nikki'' (1983-1991) * ''Unmeitōge'' (1993) * '' Kumokiri Nizaemon'' (1995) * ''Mito Kōmon is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-''sh ... series'' * '' Sengoku Jieitai: Sekigahara no Tatakai'' (2006) * ''Chushingura Sono Ot ... [...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] |
Hi No Tori (film)
is a 1978 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the "Dawn" storyline from Osamu Tezuka's manga of the same title. Himiko, the queen of Yamatai, orders her subordinates to search for the Phoenix, which is said to have eternal life for those who drinks its blood. Cast * Tomisaburo Wakayama as Sarutahaiko, General of the Yamatai * Toshinori Omi as Nagi * Masao Kusakari as Yumihiko of Matsuro * Mieko Takamine as Queen Himiko of Yamatai * Ken Tanaka as Takeru * Mitsuko Kusabue as Iyo * Masaya Oki as Uraji * Akiji Kobayashi as Yamatai * Reiko Ohara as Hinaku * Tōru Emori as Susano * Takeshi Kato as Kamamushi * Hideji Ōtaki as Sukune * Jun Fubuki as Oro * Kaoru Yumi as Uzume * Junzaburo Ban as Oro * Tatsuya Nakadai as Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the Takamagahara Ninigi is a deity in Japanese mythology. Grandson of the sun goddess Amaterasu, Ninigi is regarded according to Japanese mythology as the great-grandfather of Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadashi Imai
was a Japanese film director known for Social realism, social realist filmmaking informed by a Left-wing politics, left-wing perspective. His most noted films include ''An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and ''Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963). Life Although leaning towards left-wing politics already at Tokyo University, where he joined a Communism, Communist student group, Imai's directing career, after serving as Script supervisor, continuity writer at J.O. studios (later Toho), started in 1939 with a series of films promoting the war efforts of the Japanese militarism, militarist regime. Later calling these films "the biggest mistake of my life", he soon turned to socially conscious themes after the Pacific War, war. ''Aoi sanmyaku (1949 film), Aoi sanmyaku'' (1949), although a light comedy, observed the educational system, and was successful both with moviegoers and critics. While his 1950 drama ''Until We Meet Again (1950 film), Until We Meet Again'' portrayed a young couple's doo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother And Sister (1976 Film)
is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. It is the second remake of the award-winning 1935 novel of the same name by Saisei Murō. The original film version, directed by Sotoji Kimura, was released in 1936, and the first remake, directed by Mikio Naruse and starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyo, was released in 1953. It won Golden Peacock (Best Film) at the 5th International Film Festival of India. Cast * Kumiko Akiyoshi as Mon * Masao Kusakari as Inokichi * Hideji Ōtaki as Akaza * Kimiko Ikegami as San * Natsuko Kahara as Riki * Atomu Shimojō as Kobata * Keizō Kanie as Kifuji Awards and nominations 1st Hochi Film Award * Won: Best Actress - Kumiko Akiyoshi * Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki was a Japanese actor. He has served as President of the Mingei Theatre Company. Career After serving in World War II, he became interested in the theater and helped found the Gekidan Mingei troupe in 1950. He gained fame for his television work ... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakadaishō Series
The Wakadaishō series is a series of films starring Yūzō Kayama and Kunie Tanaka. The first film in the series was ''Daigaku no Wakadaishō'' from 1961. Masao Kusakari portrayed the role of Wakadaishō in two other films. All of the films star Kayama as Yuichi Tanuma, nicknamed the meaning "young ace" or "whizz kid" for his prowess in various sports. His perpetual antagonist is the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, played by Kunie Tanaka, who is nicknamed , the Japanese name of the Japanese rat snake. Yuzo Kayama as Wakadaishō Masao Kusakari as Wakadaishō References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wakadaisho series Japanese film series 1960s Japanese films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
