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Mariko Shiga
was an idol star and voice actress born in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. She attended and graduated from Funabashi Municipal High School before enrolling in the University of California, Riverside in 1989. While on a trip to Arizona in November of that same year, Shiga was killed in an accident near Flagstaff when she was thrown from the vehicle due to the car rolling as it swerved to miss an animal. She died thirty-one days before her 20th birthday. Biography Shiga had a starring role as one of the children answering questions in the NHK quiz show ''Donna Mondai Q TV'' from 1984 to 1985. She performed the song ''Yume no Naka no Rondo'', which was used as the theme song for the July 1985 OVA '' Magical Princess Minky Momo: La Ronde in My Dream''. In 1986, Shiga played the role of Yumi Hanazono, the main character in ''Magical Idol Pastel Yumi''. Her single, ''Freesia no Shōnen'', was used as a theme song for the same series, and this helped her gain in popularity. After playing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magical Idol Pastel Yumi
is a magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot. It was simultaneously released as a manga by Kiyoko Arai. The fourth magical girl series created by Studio Pierrot, Pastel Yumi also appears in a feature-length OVA as well as the ''#Majokko Club Yoningumi A-kūkan kara no Alien X, Majokko Club Yoningumi A-kūkan kara no Alien X'' OVA. Anime Sols attempted to crowd-fund the release of the show on North American DVD, but was not successful. The series became available on the streaming service RetroCrush on May 1, 2020. However the series was taken down on September 1, 2020 as it was discovered that the subtitles for episodes 16-25 on the site came from the fansubber Johnny English Subs without his approval. It eventually returned to RetroCrush on March 26, 2021. Story Yumi Hanazono loves flowers. She does not perform well in school, but loves to draw, and wants to be a Mangaka, manga artist. Her family runs a flower shop so she has grown up with a floral appreciation. Yumi is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips in 1963, Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although other tape cassette formats have also existed - for example the Microcassette - the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally always used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. Its uses have ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers; the Compact Cassette technology was originally designed for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led to it supplanting the stereo 8-track cartridge and reel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukeban Deka
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Wada. It was serialized in ''Hana to Yume'' from 1975 to 1982 and collected into 22 volumes. has been adapted into three live-action television series, an original video animation (OVA) series, and three feature films, the last of which was released as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'' in 2006. It has also inspired four spin-off manga: , a short story collection published in 2004, and , , and , three ongoing series that premiered in '' Monthly Princess'' in 2021. Plot A 16-year-old (delinquent schoolgirl) named Saki Asamiya is offered by the police to become an undercover detective to escape prison. She initially refuses, so the police blackmail her by offering to pardon her mother, who is on death row for killing her husband, eventually forcing her to accept. Put under the tutelage of officer Kyouichiro Jin, she is given a metal yo-yo that doubles as a weapon as well as a police badge, and is made to infiltrate hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youki Kudoh
is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for '' The Crazy Family''. She also won the awards for best actress at the 16th Hochi Film Award and at the 1992 Blue Ribbon Award for ''War and Youth''. Additionally, Kudoh has been nominated three times for Best Actress, in the 5th independent Spirit Award for ''Mystery Train'', in the 15th Japanese Academy Prize for ''War and Youth'', and in the 4th Golden Satellite Award for ''Snow Falling on Cedars''. Filmography Films Television Stage productions * ''Kiki's Delivery Service is a 1989 Japanese Anime, animated fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, adapted from the Kiki's Delivery Service (novel), 1985 novel by Eiko Kadono. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Yamato Transpor ...'' (as Kiki, 1993) References External links Youki Kudoh's homepage * 1971 births 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Fujitani
is a Japanese actress. In addition to her many live-action film and television roles, she had a prominent voice role as Kamiya Kaoru in the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' anime series, and as Chun-Li in '' Street Fighter II The Movie''. Filmography Live-action film * (1988) * (1988) * (1988) * '' Nozomi Witches'' (live-action, 1990) * '' Bloom in the Moonlight'' (1993) * (1994) – Chie Minami * (1995) * (Heisei version, 1996) – Yuki * (1997, directed by Kan Mukai) – Mirai Ito * (1998) – Kuniko * (2000, directed by Ikuo Sekimoto) – Xiao Chun * ''Merdeka 17805'' (2001) – Sanae Miyata * (2004) – Koma Inoue * (2007) – Toshiko Suzuki * (2007) – Chiyo Awaji Live-action television ; 1980s * (1987) - cast member * (1988) - cast member * (1989) * (1989) - cast member * (1989) * (1989) – Episode series: '' Sarashina Nikki'' ; 1990s * (1990) * (1990) * ''Anne of Green Gables'' (CX golden movie theater, 1990) – Anne (dub) * (1991) * (1991) * (1991) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yū Aihara
is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex. Possible writings Yū can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *優, "tenderness" or "superiority" *夕, "evening" *友, "friend" *有, "qualified" *勇, "courage" *祐, "help" *裕, "abundant" *雄, "masculine" *悠, "permanence" *由宇, "reason, eaves" *侑, "assist" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People ;with the given name Yū * Yu Aida (裕), a Japanese manga artist and illustrator * Yū Aoi (優), a Japanese actress *Yū Asagiri (夕), a Japanese manga artist * Yū Asakawa (悠, born 1975), a Japanese voice actress * Yu Darvish (有), an Iranian-Japanese starting pitcher *, Japanese footballer * Yū Hayami (優), a Japanese pop singer and actress *Yū Hasebe (優), a Japanese actress, singer and model *Yū Hayashi (勇), a Japanese voice actor and singer *Yuu Kashii (由宇), a Japanese actress and model *Yuu Kikkawa (友), a Japanese pop singer *Yū Kikumura (憂), a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumiko Takeda
is a Japanese actress. Personal life Takeda was married to an American from 2000 until divorcing in 2016. She currently lives with her daughter in San Diego. Filmography * ''Shuffle (film), Shuffle'' (1981) - Girl in playground * ''High Teen Boogie'' (1982 aka "Haithīn bugi") - Momoko Miyashita * ''Tropical Mystery: seishun kyowakoku'' (1984) * ''A Promise (1986 film), A Promise'' (1986 aka "Ningen no yakusoku") - Naoko, Yoshio's daughter * ''Aidoru wo sagase'' (1987) * ''24 Hour Playboy'' (1989 aka "Ai to heisei no iro - Otoko") - Yuri Nodate * ''Gurenbana'' (1993) - Yoko * ''If: Moshimo'' (1993) TV series * ''Zero Woman, Zero Woman III: Keishichō 0-ka no onna'' (1996 aka ''Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers'') - Rei * ''Me wo tojite daite'' (1996 aka "Close Your Eyes and Hold Me") - Hanabusa * ''Ghost School: Teacher Mako's Head'' (1997 aka "Reikai gakkō: Mako sensei no kubi") * ''24 jikan dake no uso'' (1999 TV) - Yukari Sakai * ''Big show! Hawaii ni utaeba'' (1999) * ''Fly Me t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rie Hatada
Rie is a Japanese ( ja, 利恵, りえ, リエ) and Dutch feminine given name. It is also an uncommon masculine short form of Henri and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Japanese given name Rie can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *理恵, "logic, blessing " *利恵, "value, blessing" *梨絵, "pear, picture" *理江, "logic, inlet" *理絵, "logic, picture" *里枝, "village, branch" *梨恵, "pear, blessing" *里依, "village, reliable" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with this name include: *Rie, a Japanese fashion model *Rie Arikawa (梨絵), a Japanese retired ice dancer *Rie Eto (利恵), a Japanese music artist * Rie Fu (リエ), a Japanese singer-songwriter *Rie Ishizuka (理恵), a Japanese voice actress *Rie Isogai (利恵), a Japanese murder victim * Rie Kitahara (北原里英), member of Japanese idol group sensation AKB48 *Rie Kanda (理江), a Japanese voice actress *, Japanese women's footballer * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshimi Yokosuka
Yoshimi is a unisex Japanese given name and can also be used as a surname. Possible writings *佳美, meaning "excellent, beautiful" *良美, meaning "good, beautiful" *好美, meaning "like, beautiful" *芳美, meaning "fragrant, beautiful" People with the given name * Yoshimi (吉見), a guitarist and composer from the pop rock band Funta *, Japanese actress and singer *Yoshimi Hayashi (1923–2006), American lawyer * Yoshimi Ishibashi (石橋義三, born 1949), a Japanese professional race car driver * Yoshimi Iwasaki (岩崎良美), a Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese softball player *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese long-distance runner * Yoshimi P-We or Yoshimi Yokota (横田佳美, born 1968), a Japanese musician and drummer of the rock band Boredoms *, Japanese politician People with the surname *, Japanese ice hockey player Fictional characters * Agent Yoshimi, a character from the television series '' Duck Dodgers'' * Yoshimi Akashi (明石 好美), a character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asuka Suita
Asuka may refer to: People * Asuka (name), a list of people * Asuka (wrestler), professional wrestler * Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan Places In Japan * , an area in Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture) in Japan, where imperial palaces and centers of government were built in the 6th and 7th centuries * , a village in Nara Prefecture in Japan, in the same area as ancient ** , also known as , a Buddhist temple in Asuka, Nara * , a park in Kita, Tokyo, Japan Outside of Japan * Asuka, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia * Asuka Station (Antarctica) Ships * (now MS ''Amadea''), a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 1991 to 2006 * , a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 2006 onwards * , an experimental ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned in 1995 Popular media * ''Asuka'' (album), by the traditional/pop-rock group Rin' * ''Asuka'' (magazine), a Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Hosokawa
Naomi Hosokawa (細川直美 ''Hosokawa Naomi''; real name: Chiho Katsurayama (葛山知保 ''Katsurayama Chiho''; born 18 June 1974 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer. Filmography Films *''Shigure no Ki'' (1998) - Yūko Furuya *'' The Setting Sun'' (2022) Television *''Karin'' (1993–94) *''Hoshi no Kinka'' (1995) - Shōko Yūki *''Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Cour ...'' (1996) - Sato References External links *JMDb Profile 1974 births Living people People from Yokohama Japanese television actresses Asadora lead actors {{Japan-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsumi Kurasawa
Atsumi (written: 渥美 or 温海) may refer to: People *Atsumi (name) Atsumi is both a unisex Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Possible writings Atsumi can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *渥美, "kindness/moisten, beauty" *渥実, "kindness/ ... Places *, former town in Atsumi District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan *, former district in Aichi Prefecture, Japan *, peninsula in Aichi Prefecture, Japan *, former town in Nishitagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
