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Mermaid Legend
is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards. Synopsis When a fisherman stands in the way of an industrial scheme, the business developers have him murdered. His wife Migiwa, a pearl diver, plots to avenge his death. Cast * Mari Shirato as Migiwa Saeki * Jun Etō () as Saeki Keisuke * Kentarō Shimizu as Miyamoto Shouhei * Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsuo * Junko Miyashita as Natsuko * Yoshirō Aoki () as Terumasa Miyamoto * Takashi Kanda () as Lawyer Hanaoka * Hiroko Seki () as Nobu Awards and nominations 6th Yokohama Film Festival. *Won: Best Director - Toshiharu Ikeda (23 February 1951 – 26 December 2010) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who worked in pink film and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Mermaid Legend''. Life and career Ea ... *Won: Best Actress - Mari Shirato *Won: Best Cinematography - Yonezou Maeda *4th Best Film Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiharu Ikeda
(23 February 1951 – 26 December 2010) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who worked in pink film and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Mermaid Legend''. Life and career Early career - Nikkatsu Ikeda graduated from the literature department of Waseda University in 1974, but became involved in filmmaking while still a student. According to Ikeda, his entry into the film industry was accidental, the result of a drunken barroom bet. His first job was at a small independent production company, Ishihara Productions, but he later moved to the major studio Nikkatsu, which at the time produced only films of the ''Roman porno'' genre, big budget versions of the pink film. At both companies, he began working as an Assistant Director, whose duties could include anything from cleaning floors to shaving actresses at a time when it was illegal to show even the slightest hint of pubic hair in Japanese media. Ikeda continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Shirato
(born December 24, 1958 in Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Actress at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Mermaid Legend''. Filmography *''Mermaid Legend is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards. Synopsis When a fisherman stands in the way of an industrial scheme, the business developers have him murdered. His wife Migiwa, a pearl ...'' (1984) References External links * * 1958 births Japanese actresses Living people Actors from Fukuoka Prefecture People from Iizuka, Fukuoka {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junko Miyashita
is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Career Junko Miyashita was born in Tokyo on January 29, 1949. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in '' Pink films''. Her debut film was in July 1971 with . Her work in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno genre included eight entries in the ''Apartment Wife'' series from 1972 until 1974. She worked with leading ''pink film'' director Kōji Wakamatsu, and some of the best directors in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films, including Noboru Tanaka, and Tatsumi Kumashiro. Among the highlights of her early career were starring roles in Tanaka's ''Showa Trilogy'' ('' A Woman Called Sada Abe'' (1975), ''Watcher in the Attic'' (1976), and '' Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!'' (1977)). An exceptionally good actress for the genre, she was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award for best new actress in her roles in Kihachi Okamoto's film ''Dynamite Bang Bang'' and Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Director's Company
was a Japanese film production company created in 1982 to provide a venue outside the major studio system for young proven filmmakers to grow artistically. The company's president, Susumu Miyasaka, came from an advertising and public relations background and he was joined by founding members Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Toshiharu Ikeda, Sōgo Ishii, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kichitaro Negishi, Kazuki Ōmori, Shinji Sōmai and Banmei Takahashi, none of them older than 36 years of age. For distribution of its works, the group maintained links with major companies such as Nikkatsu, Kadokawa Pictures and Art Theatre Guild, as well as the smaller firms New Century Producers and Kitty Films. The company dissolved due to bankruptcy in 1992, ten years after its foundation. The organization provided a means for several of its members to leave the fading prospects of the ''Roman porno'' genre of pink film at Nikkatsu and enter mainstream filmmaking. Major works * (1982, Banmei Takahashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Theatre Guild
Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave and arthouse films. History ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign films in Japan. With the decline of the major Japanese film studios in the 1960s, an "art house" cinema group formed around ATG and the company moved into distributing Japanese works rejected by the major studios. By 1967 ATG was assisting with production costs for a number of new Japanese films. Some of the early films released by ATG include Shōhei Imamura's ''A Man Vanishes'' (1967), Nagisa Oshima's ''Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief'' (1968) and ''Death by Hanging'' (1968), Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece ''Funeral Parade of Roses'' (1969), and Akio Jissoji's ''Mujo'' (1970). See also * Art Theatre Guild filmography The following is a list of films produced by the Art Theatre Guild Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 In Film
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was ''Beverly Hills Cop''. ''Ghostbusters'' overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (the highest-grossing film worldwide that year); Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed ''Gremlins''. U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' achieving this. ''Beverly Hills Cop'' made it three for films released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) ranked number three in ''Sight & Sound'' critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. ''Tokyo Story'' also topped the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning '' Citizen Kane'', while Akira Kurosawa's '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadoka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, France announced plans to help sponsor the festival with grants from the National Cinema Center. Ceremonies Categories *Best Film *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best Director *Best New Director *Best Screenplay *Best Cinematographer *Best Newcomer *Special Jury Prize *Best New Actor *Best New Actress References External links * Yokohama Film Festival - Overviewon IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{Authority control Awards established in 1980 Film festivals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentarō Shimizu
is a Japanese actor and singer. Born , he graduated from the Ashikaga Institute of Technology. He has been arrested several times, and served prison terms, for various offences, among others illegal drug use. Discography (selection) * 1991 First (''Fāsuto'') * 1994 * 2001 * 2003 Oyaji / Umi ni Utaō (Oyaji / Oyaji / Umi ni Utaō) Filmography (selection) * * * * * * Truck Yaro: Otoko Ippiki Momojirō (1977) Kaoru Murase *Tantei Monogatari , or ''Detective Story'', is an action Japanese TV series starring Yūsaku Matsuda that was originally broadcast on Nippon TV in 27 forty-five-minute episodes from September 18, 1979 to April 1, 1980. The show had various directors including T ... (episode 20) (1980) References External links * Japanese male actors 1952 births Living people People from Kitakyushu Japanese people convicted of drug offenses {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiji Miyaguchi
was a Japanese actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Tadashi Imai and many others. He succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 71. Distinctions One of Kurosawa's iconic ''Seven Samurai'', Miyaguchi won the 1955 Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actor award for his role. In 1983 he was awarded Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon. A character designed as a caricature of Miyaguchi is regularly featured in the cat-oriented manga ''Mon-chan and Me'', published in Fusosha's popular webzine ''Joshi Spa!'' (Women's Spa!). Selected filmography *1945: ''Sanshiro Sugata Part II'' - Kohei Tsuzaki *1946: ''Urashima Tarô no kôei'' *1947: ''Sanbon yubi no otoko'' *1951: '' The Good Fairy'' - Editor-in-chief *1951: ''Early Summer'' - Nishiwaki *1951: '' Fireworks over the Sea'' - Gunzô Ishiguro *1951: ''Inochi uruwashi'' - Oshima *1952: ''Ikiru'' - Yakuza Boss *1953: ''The Last Embrace'' - Gangster *1953: ''Senkan Yamato'' *1953: '' An Inlet of Muddy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
