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Minoru Uchida
(March 18, 1927 – April 2, 2018) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Okayama Prefecture. He was affiliated with Gekidan Subaru. He was married to fellow voice actress Reiko Niimura. Live-action roles Film * Nihon Chinbotsu (1973) (Research member) *Panic High School (1978) (Kobayashi) *The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) (Gengobee Toda) *Onimasa (1982) (Kankichi Umeda) Television drama *''Ōoku'' (1968) (Manabe Akifusa) *''Oretachi wa Tenshi da!'' (1979) episode #9 *''Haru no Sakamichi'' (1971) (Naoe Kanetsugu) *''Ōgon no Hibi'' (1978) (Ishida Masazumi) *''Ōoku'' (episode #13, 1983) (Michizō Enjuin) *''Sanga Moyu'' (1984) (Saburō Kurusu) Unknown date *''Key Hunter'' (episode #163) (Trade Director Kida) *''Mito Kōmon'' (Strange person (season 20, episode 33), Tsushimaya (season 21, episode 14), Tomezō (season 25, episode 6)) *''Sanbiki ga Kiru!'' (first series, episode 6) (Touan Yamazaki) *''Sanbiki ga Kiru!'' (fourth series, episode 8) (Kenmotsu Shimojima) *''Abarenb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okayama Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the north, Hyōgo Prefecture to the east, and Hiroshima Prefecture to the west. Okayama is the capital and largest city of Okayama Prefecture, with other major cities including Kurashiki, Tsuyama, and Sōja. Okayama Prefecture's south is located on the Seto Inland Sea coast across from Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, which are connected by the Great Seto Bridge, while the north is characterized by the Chūgoku Mountains. History Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the area of present-day Okayama Prefecture was divided between Bitchū Province, Bitchū, Bizen Province, Bizen and Mimasaka Province, Mimasaka Provinces. Okayama Prefecture was formed and named in 1871 as part of the large-scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōoku (1983 TV Series)
is a 1983 Japanese Jidaigeki television series. The story is set in whole Edo period in Ōoku and is fiction set against a background of historical fact. The Ōoku was where thousands of women work for one Tokugawa shogun and the part the ladies lived in Edo Castle. Cast Tokugawa shogun and people of Ōoku *Komaki Kurihara as Oeyo (episode1-3,50,51) *Tomisaburo Wakayama as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episode1-2) *Katsuo Nakamura as Tokugawa Hidetada (episode1-3,8) * Masaya Oki as Tokugawa Iemitsu (episode3-8,10,11,13) *Naoko Otani / Misako Watanabe as Lady Kasuga *Mieko Takamine as Sosinni *Haruko Kato as Senhime (episode14-16) *Mitsuko Kusabue as Asukai (episode14-16) * Ken Tanaka as Tokugawa Ietsuna (episode14-16) *Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (episode18-20,22,23,25,26) *Yoko Tsukasa as Nobuko (episode18,19,21,-23,25,26) *Meiko Kaji as Uemonnosuke no Tsubone (episode22.23) *Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Tokugawa Ienobu (episode26-29) * Ayumi Ishida / Kyoko Enami as Gekkoin *Isuzu Yamad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madigan
''Madigan'' is a 1968 American neo-noir crime drama thriller film directed by Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel) and starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens The screenplay—originally titled ''Friday, Saturday, Sunday''—was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Howard Rodman (credited here under the pseudonym Henri Simoun) and Abraham Polonsky. It was based on the 1962 novel ''The Commissioner'' by Richard Dougherty, a former New York bureau chief of the ''Los Angeles Times'' who had served in the 1950s as a deputy New York City police commissioner for community relations.Goldman, John J"Richard Dougherty, 65; Ex-Times Bureau Chief."''Los Angeles Times'', January 2, 1987. Siegel was a genre director known at the time for taut action films like '' The Lineup'' (1958) and '' Hell Is for Heroes'' (1962), as well as the original ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956). He later directed five films starring Clint Eastwood, including ''Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Longest Day (film)
''The Longest Day'' is a 1962 American epic war film, shot in black and white and based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, who paid author Ryan $175,000 for the film rights. The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, and Jack Seddon. It was directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard Wicki (German scenes). ''The Longest Day'' features a large international ensemble cast including John Wayne, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Steve Forrest, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Rod Steiger, Leo Genn, Gert Fröbe, Irina Demick, Bourvil, Curd Jürgens, George Segal, Robert Wagner, Paul Anka, and Arletty. Many of these actors played rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 Angry Men (1957 Film)
''12 Angry Men'' is a 1957 American courtroom drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from a 1954 teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. The film tells the story of a jury of 12 men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt; disagreement and conflict among them force the jurors to question their morals and values. It stars Henry Fonda (who also produced the film with Reginald Rose), Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Warden. ''12 Angry Men'' explores many techniques of consensus-building and the difficulties encountered in the process among this group of men whose range of personalities adds to the intensity and conflict. The jury members are identified only by number; no names are revealed until an exchange of dialogue at the very end. The film forces the audience to evaluate their own self-image through observing the personalities, experiences, and actions of the jurors. The film i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born and raised in Nebraska, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like ''Jezebel'' (1938), '' Jesse James'' (1939), and ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939). His career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1941, Fonda starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic ''The Lady Eve''. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded Westerns: ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943) and '' My Darling Clementine'' (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's Western '' Fort Apache'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Hearts II
is a 2005 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix in collaboration with Disney Interactive Studios, Buena Vista Games for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The game is a sequel to ''Kingdom Hearts (video game), Kingdom Hearts'', and like the original game, combines characters and settings from The Walt Disney Company, Disney films with those of Square Enix's ''Final Fantasy'' series. An expanded re-release of the game featuring new and additional content, ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', was released exclusively in Japan in March 2007. The ''Final Mix'' version of the game was later remastered in high definition and released globally as a part of the ''Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix'' collection for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch. ''Kingdom Hearts II'' is the third game in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. It picks up one year after the events of ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''. Sora (Kingdom Hearts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trust & Betrayal
''Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot'', often abbreviated simply to ''Siboot'', was a game designed and programmed by Chris Crawford for the Macintosh and published by Mindscape in 1987. Gameplay The player, an alien creature named Vetvel, must compete with six other acolytes (each a different alien species) for the Shepherdship. Each of these characters has a distinct personality. Each morning, the acolytes wake up knowing one of each of the three "auras" the others possess. They must trade knowledge with each other in order to try to gain enough knowledge for the "mind combat" that takes place every night, which is basically a fancy Rock, Paper, Scissors game that depends on the aura counts for the players involved. The game is won when a player gets eight auras in all three categories. However, in giving away somebody's aura count, the player betrays that person, which angers them and may make them less likely to trade aura counts with the player. Therefore, a player h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wings Of Honnêamise
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abarenbō Shōgun
(Abarenbō Shōgun) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa ''shōgun''. The program started in 1978 under the title ''Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun'' (''Chronicle in Praise of Yoshimune: The Unfettered Shogun'') who went after rogue councillors and ''daimyō'' who were abusing their power. After a few seasons, they shortened the first two words and the show ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003; a two-hour special aired in 2004. The earliest scripts occasionally wove stories around historic events such as the establishment of firefighting companies of commoners in Edo, but eventually the series adopted a routine of strictly fiction. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of ''kanzen-chōaku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanbiki Ga Kiru!
or ''Three for the Kill!'' is a group of seven television ''jidaigeki'' series broadcast by TV Asahi in Japan. The show aired in the Thursday evening eight o'clock time slot. Characters The title characters are three men who wander throughout Japan in the late Edo period. In each episode they encounter antagonists, and in the final ''tachimawari'' (fight scene) kill them. The characters traveled sometimes together, sometimes separately. When they arrived in a town they might settle in the same lodging, but sometimes take up with rival factions. In the end, they work together to overcome evil. For the first five series, these characters were the same. Yasaka Heishirō, nicknamed "Tono-sama" ("Lord") is a refined, disciplined ''rōnin'' played by Hideki Takahashi. The other characters occasionally speculate that he is a second son of a ''daimyō'' but his identity is never revealed. He is the informal leader of the group. Yasaka uses the Onoha Ittō-ryū style of sword fighting. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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-''shōgun'' and retired second ''daimyō'' of the Mito Domain. In the guise of Mitsuemon, a retired crepe merchant from Echigo, he roams Japan with two samurai retainers, fun-loving Sasaki Sukesaburō (Suke-san) and studious Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kaku-san). An episode typically starts with some injustice perpetrated by a corrupt official, a wealthy merchant or a gangster. The travelers arrive incognito, discover the injustice and quietly investigate it. The episode concludes with a brawl in which the unarmed, disguised protagonists defeat a crowd of samurai and gangsters, culminating in the presentation of the '' inrō'' that reveals the hero's identity. Afterwards, the hero passes judgement on the villains, sets things straight with comments and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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