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Mitsutoshi Tanaka
is a Japanese film and commercial director. He is President and CEO of Osaka-based film production firm Creators' Union and widely known for award-winning feature films such as ''Godai - The Wunderkind'' (2020), ''125 Years Memory'' (2015), ''Blossoms Bloom'' (2014) and ''Ask This of Rikyu'' (2013). He has received numerous awards, including the Kinema Junpo Readers' Choice Award for Best Japanese Director for his period drama ''Godai - The Wunderkind'' and the Japan Academy Film Prize as Excellent Director for the Japanese-Turkish co-production ''125 Years Memory''. Career After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Department of Visual Concept Planning in 1981, Tanaka worked with Dentsu Eigasha (now Dentsu Tec) and TV Man Union."田中光敏" ''researchmap''. Retrieved on 31 May 2021. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urakawa, Hokkaido
is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 12,800 and a population density, density of 18 persons per km2. The total area is 694.24 km2. Climate Urakawa has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification, Köppen ''Dfb'') with warm summers and cold winters. Owing to its slightly more southerly latitude, easterly aspect and location on the sea, snowfall is much lighter than in the major cities of western Hokkaido like Sapporo, Hakodate, Asahikawa and Wakkanai, with the most in one month being in January 1969. Precipitation in heaviest in the summer months when remnant typhoons may approach; the heaviest daily rainfall being on 5 August 1981 and the wettest month being in August 1995. The driest month has been in February 2003. Year-round sunshine, although less than in the Tokachi Plain, is also higher than western Hokkaido, with the dullest month being 48. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kushimoto Turkish Memorial And Museum
The Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum ( ja, トルコ軍艦遭難記念碑), aka Frigate ''Ertuğrul'' Memorial and Museum ( tr, Ertuğrul Anıtı ve Müzesi,), is a monument and a museum to commemorate the sailors of the Ottoman frigate ''Ertuğrul'', which sunk in 1890 off Kushimoto, Wakayama in Japan. Background ''Ertuğrul'' was an 1863-built sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. She left İstanbul on July 14, 1889 with around 600 sailors and officers on board for an official visit to Japan. She completed her visit on September 16, 1890 after a three-month stay, and set sail from Yokohama for return. Around midnight on September 16, the vessel hit reefs and fell apart in stormy weather. She sank off Kii Ōshima while only six officers and sixty-three sailors survived, most of them with injuries. The survivors were transported home aboard two Japanese corvettes in October 1890, who were received by the sultan Abdul Hamid II in January 1891. Cemetery and monument In Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Shimbun
''The Tokyo Shimbun'' (東京新聞, ''Tōkyō Shinbun'', literally ''Tokyo Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area. The group's combined daily morning circulation is 2.3 million. As of July 2021, according to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the average daily circulation of ''The Tokyo Shimbun''s morning edition was 407,777 and its evening edition sold 133,708 copies daily. The Chunichi Shimbun Company's headquarters is in Nagoya, Japan. Its total workforce number is 2,783. ''The Tokyo Shimbun'' newspaper is also the owner of the Chunichi Dragons, a professional Japanese baseball team. History The group dates back to 1888 when a regional newspaper was founded in Nagoya. In 1942, the newspaper merged with the ''Miyako Shimbun'', which was another N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruma Miura
was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his acting debut in the television drama ''Agri'' (1997) and rose to popularity after starring in the film ''Koizora'' (2007), winning Newcomer of the Year at the 31st Japan Academy Prize. In the following years, Miura notably starred in the third season of ''Gokusen'' (2009), ''Bloody Monday'' (2009), ''Naoko'' (2009), ''Kimi ni Todoke'' (2010), ''Last Cinderella'' (2013), ''Boku no Ita Jikan'' (2013), ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013), ''Attack on Titan'' (2015), '' Gintama 2'' (2018), and ''Two Weeks'' (2019). He also starred as Lola in the Japanese production of '' Kinky Boots'' (2016), winning Best New Actor and the Haruko Sugimura Award at the 24th Yomiuri Theater Awards. In addition to his acting career, Miura debuted as a singer in 2019 with the single "Fight for Your Heart", which was followed by "Night Diver" in 2020. Career 1997–2006: Early acting career Miura made his acting debut in the television drama adaptation of the novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiji (era)
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas. As a result of such wholesale adoption of radically different ideas, the changes to Japan were profound, and affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The period corresponded to the reign of Emperor Meiji. It was preceded by the Keiō era and was succeeded by the Taishō era, upon the accession of Emperor Taishō. The rapid modernization during the Meiji era was not without its opponents, as the rapid changes to society caused many disaffected traditionalists from the former samurai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godai Tomoatsu
was one of the Satsuma students of 1865 who were smuggled out of Bakumatsu period Japan to study in Great Britain. He returned to become Japan's leading entrepreneur of the early Meiji period. Early life Godai was born in Satsuma domain (in what is now part of Kagoshima city, Kagoshima Prefecture), and was sent by the domain to study naval science and technology at the ''Kaigun Denshujo'' in Nagasaki. At the outbreak of the Anglo-Satsuma War of 1864, he was appointed captain of the '' Tenu Maru''. Along with Matsuki Koan, he was taken prisoner by the Royal Navy when his ship was captured. He was chosen as one of 15 students to be sent to Great Britain to study at the University College, London in defiance of the Tokugawa bakufu's official national seclusion policy. Bakumatsu period In 1865 Godai made contact with Thomas Glover who steered negotiations with the Platt textile machinery giant in Oldham, Lancashire, England. This visit led to the establishment of the Kagoshima Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
37th Japan Academy Film Prize
The is the 37th edition of the ''Japan Academy Film Prize'', an award presented by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association to award excellence in filmmaking. It awarded the best films of 2013 and it took place on March 7, 2014 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. Nominees Awards Films with multiple nominations The following films received multiple nominations: ''Note: Incomplete.'' References External links * - {{Japan Academy Film Prize Japan Academy Film Prize The , often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, ''Nippon Akademii- ... 2014 in Japanese cinema Japan Academy Film Prize March 2014 events in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto International Film Festival is North America's only accredited non-competitive festival). The public festival, which was founded in 1977 as a replacement for the defunct Montreal International Film Festival (1960–68), is held annually in late August in the city of Montreal in Quebec. Unlike the Toronto International Film Festival, which has a greater focus on Canadian and other North American films, the Montreal World Film Festival has a larger diversity of films from all over the world. The festival was cancelled in 2019. In 2022, former festival president Serge Losique announced plans to revive the festival as the Global Montreal Film Festival, with a 2022 edition featuring free screenings of a selection of films that had previously screene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
33rd Japan Academy Film Prize
The ceremony was held on March 5, 2010, by the ''Japan Academy Film Prize'' Association to honor its selection of the best films of 2009. Nippon Television, NTV broadcast the event, which took place at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan. The nominations for the Awards were announced on December 22, 2009. Nominees Awards References External links * - The 33rd Japan Academy Prize - {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2011 Japan Academy Film Prize 2009 film awards, Japan Academy Film Prize 2010 in Japanese cinema, Japan Academy Film Prize March 2010 events in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan. The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanese newspapers (Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shinbun) as well as the Japanese Associated Press withdrew their support for the Blue Ribbon Awards and established the , (which were held a mere six times). In 1967, the awards were cancelled following a series of demoralizing national political scandals that became known as "The Black Mist" and eventually enveloped Japan's baseball industry.Johnston, Michael. "Influence Markets", ''Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), , p. 79. In 1975, the awards were revived, and have continued until the present day. The annual award ceremony is held in a variety of places in Tokyo every F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masashi Sada
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, novelist, actor, and a film producer. Sada formed the folk duo Grape with Masami Yoshida in 1972, and they made their debut as recording artists a year afterward. The pair rose to fame owing to the hit song " Shourou Nagashi" () composed by Sada, which peaked at the number-two position on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1974. They broke up in 1976, after producing some hit singles including "En-kiri Dera" () and "Muen Zaka" (). Sada released his first solo album entitled ''Kikyorai'' shortly after Grape's dissolution. Following the commercial success of the number-one hit single "Amayadori" (, Shelter from the rain) in 1977, he enjoyed a recording career as one of the most popular Japanese male artists during the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. Throughout his career as a musician, Sada released over 35 solo albums and 70 singles, and multiple live albums or compilations. Since the release of ''Shourou Nagashi'', published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Shanghai International Film Festival
The 5th Shanghai International Film Festival was film festival held between June 9 and June 17, 2001. 164 films were screened including 46 from China. 14 films were entered into the Golden Cup competition, with '' Antitrust'' from the United States winning the grand prize. The Festival utilized 9 theaters, which held 479 screenings to an aggregate audience of 170,000. This marked the last time the Shanghai International Film Festival was held on a biannual basis. Beginning with 2001, the festival was held on an annual basis. Jury *Zhu Yongde, Chairman of China Film Producers Association (China) (Jury president) *Eberhard Junkersdorf, film producer (Germany) *Alan Parker, director (United Kingdom) * Andrzej Zulawski, director (Poland) *Gleb Panfilov, director (Russia) * Lee Chang-Dong, director (South Korea) *Pan Hong, actress (China) In competition Awards Golden Goblet *Best Film- Antitrust (USA) *Best Director- Peter Howitt (for '' Antitrust'') (USA) *Best Actor- Daniel Aute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
