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Mozu (film)
is a 2015 Japanese suspense action film directed by Eiichirō Hasumi and based on the '' Mozu'' series by Go Osaka and its Japanese television drama series adaptation of the same name. It was released on November 7, 2015. Cast * Hidetoshi Nishijima *Teruyuki Kagawa * Yōko Maki *Sosuke Ikematsu * Atsushi Itō *Hana Sugisaki *Tsuyoshi Abe *Yūsuke Iseya *Tori Matsuzaka * Hiroki Hasegawa *Fumiyo Kohinata *Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, filmmaker, and author. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. With th ... Reception The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with . By its third weekend, it had grossed . References External links * * 2015 action films Films based on Japanese novels Films based on television series Films directed by Eiichirō Hasumi Japanese action films Toho films 2010s Japanese f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiichirō Hasumi
is a Japanese film director. Filmography Film * ''Umizaru (2004 film), Umizaru'' (2004) * ''Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * ''Oppai Volleyball'' (2008) * ''Umizaru 3: The Last Message'' (2010) * ''Wild 7'' (2011) * ''Brave Hearts: Umizaru'' (2012) * ''Assassination Classroom (film), Assassination Classroom'' * ''Mozu (film), Mozu'' (2015) * ''Assassination Classroom: Graduation'' (2016) * ''Over Drive (film), Over Drive'' (2018) * ''The Sun Stands Still'' (2020) * ''Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness'' (2021) * ''Re/Member'' (2022) * ''Resident Evil: Death Island'' (2023) TV series * ''Antique Bakery'' (2001) * ''Umizaru Evolution'' (2005) References External links * 1967 births Japanese film directors Living people {{Japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspense Film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, and is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. The cover-up of important information from the viewer, and fight and chase scenes are common methods. Life is typically threatened in a thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize that they are entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films' characters conflict with each other or with an outside force, which can sometimes be abstract. The protagonist is usually set against a problem, such as an escape, a mission, or a mystery. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies thriller films as one of eleven super-genres in his screenwriters' taxonomy, claiming that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho Films
is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer and distributor of many '' kaiju'' and ''tokusatsu'' films, the Chouseishin ''tokusatsu'' superhero television franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, CoMix Wave Films, TMS Entertainment and OLM, Inc. All nine of the highest-grossing Japanese films are released by Toho. Other famous directors, including Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, and Mikio Naruse, also directed films for Toho. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured in 32 of the company's films. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are described as Toho's Big Five because of the monsters' numerous appearances throughout the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Toho has also been involved in the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Action Films
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Eiichirō Hasumi
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] |
Films Based On Television Series
This a list of television programs that were later adapted into feature films. Programs with films which are prequels, sequels or based upon the series Pilot episodes released as feature films Television pilots that were soon or later adapted into feature films for either a release or re-release to movie theaters or direct-to-video. *''77 Sunset Strip'' (Pilot, '' Girl on the Run'', 1958, initially briefly shown as a "feature film" in one Caribbean theater in order for the studio to cheat Roy Huggins of television series creator rights) *'' The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (Original unaired TV pilot, "Runaway Rocketboy", 1998, expanded and remade into a feature film as '' Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', 2001) *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' ('' Spider-Man'', 1977) *'' Battlestar Galactica'' (Three-part TV pilot, "Saga of a Star World", re-edited into a big screen release in 1978 in the UK and international territories, in order to recoup its high production costs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Japanese Novels
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] |
2015 Action Films
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Film Business Asia
''Film Business Asia'' was a film trade magazine based in Hong Kong. The magazine was created in 2010 by Patrick Frater, former journalist for ''Variety'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and '' Screen International'' and Stephen Cremin, co-founder of the London Pan-Asian Film Festival. The magazine specifically focused on the film development and news of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as reviews. Its chief-film-critic was Derek Elley, former resident critic at ''Variety''. In 2011, the magazine launched the ''Asian Film Database'', boasting information on over 45,000 films in the Asia-Pacific regions It was operated by Film Business Asia Limited. See also *List of film periodicals Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ... References External links * English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 2015 Box Office Number-one Films In Japan
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office in Japan for the year 2015 in film, 2015. It lists the films with the highest box office gross and when the film with the highest gross is not also the film with the highest attendance, both are listed. Highest-grossing films See also *List of Japanese films of 2015 References {{List of Box office number-one films Lists of box office number-one films in Japan, 2015 2015 in Japanese cinema Lists of 2015 box office number-one films, Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozu (TV Series)
''Mozu'' (styled ''MOZU'') is a Japanese police television drama series. It premiered in April 2014. The series has two seasons: , broadcast on TBS, and , broadcast on WOWOW. A film adaptation based on the series, '' Gekijōban Mozu'', was released on November 7, 2015. Cast * Hidetoshi Nishijima *Teruyuki Kagawa is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor and boxing commentator. Biography Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Yuko Hama. His grandmother is the film actress Sanae Takasugi. In the Kabuki world, ... * Yoko Maki References 2014 Japanese television series debuts Japanese drama television series TBS Television (Japan) dramas Wowow original programming Television shows based on Japanese novels {{Japan-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Television Drama
, also called , are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thriller, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a specific season. The majority of dramas are aired weekdays in the evenings around 9pm through 11pm. Daytime dramas are typically broadcast daily, and episodes of the same drama can be aired daily for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
