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Manpuku
, sometimes romanized as ''Mampuku'', is a Japanese television drama series and the 99th Asadora series, following ''Hanbun, Aoi''. It premiered on 1 October 2018, and concluded on 30 March 2019. The series is based on the lives of Momofuku Andō, who invented instant ramen, and his wife Masako. Sakura Ando was selected to play the lead and is the first actress to play an Asadora heroine who is herself a mother. Plot Fukuko Imai graduates from high school in 1938 and is about to begin work at a high-class hotel in Osaka. Her oldest sister Saki is about to get married, so Fukuko arranges for an inventor, Manpei Tachibana, to do a show at the ceremony using his new slide projectors. A few years later, when Japan is at war, they meet again and start dating, but Fukuko's mother Suzu wants her to marry the man she selects. Manpei tries to help by finding a good hospital when Saki is diagnosed with tuberculosis, but Saki's death only makes Suzu object to him even more. But things turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukino Kishii
is a Japanese actress. She has played Taka in the 55th NHK taiga drama ''Sanada Maru'', Sari Ishikawa in the film '' Pink and Gray'', and Taka Kōda in the 99th NHK asadora '' Manpuku'', among numerous other TV and film roles. Her lead performance in the 2017 film ''Goodbye, Grandpa!'' earned a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th Yokohama Film Festival. Biography Kishii was born in 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2009 as elementary school student Nana Sakurai in the drama '. After a series of minor film and TV appearances, in 2015 she played the role of Taeko Hakozaki, a girl whose friend falls in love with Taeko's father, in the Kenji Yamauchi film ', as well as the supporting role of Kanako in the TBS drama '. The next year Kishii landed several more TV and film roles. Her film roles included Yumika, an ex-girlfriend of a photographer whose rock star subject becomes attracted to her, in ', and Chieko Matsuda, a teenager whose classmate seeks to im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenta Kiritani
is a Japanese actor and singer. He was born in Kita-ku, Osaka. Filmography Films TV series Internet series Dubbing *'' The Legend of Tarzan'', Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård (; born August 25, 1976) is a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm, he began acting at age seven but quit at 13. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in th ...) References External links * Kenta Kiritaniat Wiki Infromer Japanese male actors 1980 births Living people People from Osaka 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese male singers {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakura Ando
is a Japanese actress. Career Ando won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival 2010 for ''Love Exposure'', ''The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio'' and '' Tsumitoka batsutoka''. She was also nominated for the award for best supporting actress at 4th Asian Film Awards 2010 for ''A Crowd of Three''. She appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2012 television drama ''Penance''. She has also appeared in films such as ''The Samurai That Night'', '' Our Homeland'', and ''Petal Dance''. In 2015, Ando received the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film at JAPAN CUTS JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film is an annual festival of modern Japanese cinema held at New York City's Japan Society. The festival was first held in 2007, growing out of the Japan Society's popular bi-annual series, ''New Films from J ...: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York. In 2018, Ando received high praise for her performance as Nobuyo Shibata in director Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Takeshi Kitazawa which aired in Japan Monday through Friday mornings—it was also the only of such series to be aired for 20 minutes per episode. From 1975 onward, series aired in the first half of the year are produced by the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting station and series in the latter half of the year are produced by the NHK Osaka Broadcasting station; the Osaka branch's first ''asadora'' production was in 1964. Due to the practice of wiping commonly in practice around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, not all episodes of all pre-1980 ''asadora'' series survive, as the 2-inch Quad videotapes were often wiped and reused; 16 of the produced ''asadora'' series in total are incomplete in the NHK archives, with several series having no surviving e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana Ashida
is a Japanese actress, '' talent'' and singer. Ashida's first appearance was in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's ''ABC Short Movie 2'', though she rose to prominence after acting in the television drama ''Mother''. She became the youngest lead star in Japanese drama history when she starred in ''Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien''. She was the youngest lead actress in a television serial drama by appearing in the serial drama ''Marumo no Okite'' in the spring of 2011. She also appeared in Japanese films such as '' Confessions'' and ''Bunny Drop''. Ashida and her co-actor Fuku Suzuki sang the 2011 hit song "Maru Maru Mori Mori", the theme song for the television drama ''Marumo no Okite''. Career Early career Ashida made her debut appearance in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's ''ABC Short Movie 2. Bokenmama'' in 2009. Her first film was the live-action film adaptation of the manga ''Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora'' in 2010. In the same year, she starred in the film '' Confessio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiko Matsuzaka
(born July 20, 1952) is a Japanese actress. Early life Born in Ōta, Tokyo, her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Career In the 1960s, Matsuzaka became a child actress. Matsuzaka grew into adulthood in film working for Daiei and Shochiku. Matsuzaka played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film ''Naniwa no Koi no Torajirō,'' the 27th in the '' Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' series. The producers called on her again for that role in ''Torajirō no Endan,'' the 46th of the 49 installments (1993). Keiko also appeared in '' Legend of the Eight Samurai'' (1983), ''Shin Izakaya Yūrei'' (1996), '' Dr. Akagi'' by Shōhei Imamura (1998), '' Runin: Banished'' by Eiji Okuda (2004), and ''Inugamike no Ichizoku'' (scheduled for release in 2007). She won the award for best actress at the 6th Hochi Film Award for '' The Gate of Youth'' and ''Tora-san's Love in Osaka'', and at the 15th Hochi Film Award for ''The Sting of Death''. Her early television appearances h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isao Hashizume
is a Japanese actor. He also worked as a narrator for documentaries, both on television and film. He trained as an actor at Bungakuza. 週刊現代6月5日号「私の地図」第485回 p84-86 Selected filmography Film Television Awards and honours ;Awards ;Honours References External links Official profile * 1941 births Living people Japanese male film actors Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaki Suda
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor and singer. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. His debut song is "Mita Koto mo Nai Keshiki". Personal life Suda is a close junior to Shun Oguri and Takayuki Yamada. His friends are Kento Yamazaki, Taiga Nakano and Fumi Nikaido. He worked with Kenshi Yonezu, Huwie Ishizaki and Aimyon at the music industry. Suda married Nana Komatsu on November 15, 2021. Career Acting Suda met talent agents while at school. He had several auditions, and was a finalist at Amuse, Inc. and Junon Superboy Contest. He played Philip in the tokusatsu series, ''Kamen Rider W''. His film debut after ''Kamen Rider'' was in '' The Backwater''. He won the Best New Actor Award from Tama Cinema Forum. He played Akuma in ''Shinigami-kun'' and Karma Akabane in ''Assassination Classroom''. Suda starred in the web series '' Death Note: New Generation'' and its subsequent film. He won the Japan A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Kawai
is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films and video games. Among his credits are Toei's Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever, Tsui Hark's ''Seven Swords'' and '' Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon''; Wilson Yip's '' Ip Man''; Mamoru Oshii's films '' The Red Spectacles'', '' StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops'', ''Ghost in the Shell'', '' Mobile Police Patlabor'' and ''Avalon''; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's ''Ranma ½'' and '' Maison Ikkoku''; the live-action adaptation of '' Gantz'' and Hideo Nakata's films ''Ring'', '' Ring 2'', '' Chaos'', ''Dark Water'' and ''Kaidan''. His nephew, Hidehiro Kawai, is a bassist in Fox Capture Plan, an instrumental band. Career After dropping out of a nuclear engineering program at Tokai University, Kawai began studying music at Shobi Music Academy. However, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manami Hashimoto
, better known as , is a Japanese gravure idol A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Thou ... and actress represented by Irving and her business alliance is Harmony Promotion. Hashimoto is called by such unique catchphrases such as "Heisei no Danchi Tsuma," "Aijin ni Shitai Onna No. 1," and "Kokumin no Aijin." Filmography Dramas Films Variety References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hashimoto, Manami Japanese gravure idols Japanese actresses Japanese television personalities 1984 births Living people Horikoshi High School alumni Actors from Yamagata Prefecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryohei Otani
is a Japanese actor and model. He began his modeling career in Japan, then entered Korean entertainment by being featured in a commercial for Dunkin' Donuts in 2003, followed by Hyundai Motors, Olympus and SK Telecom. His popularity helped him land roles on television, beginning with the 2006 sitcom ''Soulmate''. Otani's acting career continued to be active in South Korea, starring in television dramas such as '' The Road Home'', ''Dear My Sister'', ''Hero'', ''The Chaser'', and ''Gunman in Joseon'' that earned him Global Star Award in the 7th Korea Drama Awards as well as the period blockbusters ''War of the Arrows'' and '' The Admiral: Roaring Currents''. He has currently been acting in Japan; starring in hit Japanese dramas like '' The Full-Time Wife Escapist'' as Ryota Kazami, Love Rerun as Ryosuke Sagisawa in 2018, and will be taking part in many more Japanese works later in 2018 as well. Filmography Television series * ''Soulmate'' (MBC, 2006) * '' Tokyo Sun Shower'' (SBS, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Kaname
is a Japanese actor and tarento. He was born in Mitoyo, Kagawa and made his drama debut as an actor in 2001 in the Tokusatsu Series "Kamen Rider Agito". He appears not only in TV dramas but also in movies, commercial messages, variety TV programs, plays, and music videos. Kaname married a non-celebrity woman April 28, 2013. Filmography TV *''Kamen Rider Agito'' (TV Asahi 2001) - as Makoto Hikawa/Kamen Riders G3 & G3-X *'' Kamen Rider Agito: A New Transformation'' (TV Asahi 2001) - as Makoto Hikawa/Kamen Rider G3-X *''Kono Fuyu no Koi'' (2002) *''Shin Ai no Arashi'' (2002) *'' Tensai Yanagisawa kyoju não Seikatsu'' (2002) *'' Mantenhan'' (NHK 2002) - as Takashi Nakashima *'' Boku to Kanojo to Kanojo no Ikiru Michi'' (Fuji TV 2003) - as Kishimoto Hajime *''Good Luck!!'' (TBS 2003) - as Takayuki Abe *'' Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro'' (2003) *''Dōbutsu no Oisha-san'' (TV Asahi 2003) - as Nikaidou Akio *'' Kokoro no Teryōri'' (2003) *'' Koibumi carta de amor'' (TBS 2003) - as Wakabaya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |