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Mitsuko Baisho
, is a Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2010. Baisho has also appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa. She won awards for best actress at the 10th Hochi Film Award for ''Love Letter'' and '' Ikiteru Uchi ga Hana nano yo Shindara Sore made yo to Sengen''. She also won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for ''The Geisha'' and at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for ''Tokyo Lullaby''. Private life Her sister is actress-singer Chieko Baisho. She was married to professional wrestler Antonio Inoki from 1971 to 1987, and together they had a daughter, Hiroko. Partial filmography Films * '' Hitokiri'' (1969) * ''Duel at Fort Ezo'' (1970) * ''Sword of Fury'' (1973) * ''The Life of Chikuzan'' (1977) * ''Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron'' (1978) * '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1979) * ''Kagemusha'' (1980) * '' Eijanaika'' (1981) * ''Flames of Blood'' (1981) * ''Shomben Rider'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibaraki Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture to the northwest, Saitama Prefecture to the southwest, Chiba Prefecture to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Mito, Ibaraki, Mito, the capital, is the largest city in Ibaraki Prefecture. Other major cities include Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Tsukuba, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Hitachi, and Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Hitachinaka. Ibaraki Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast to the northeast of Tokyo, and is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Ibaraki Prefecture features Lake Kasumigaura, the second-largest lake in Japan; the Tone River, Japan's second-longest river and largest drainage basin; and Mount Tsukuba, one of the most famous mountains in Japan. Ibaraki Prefectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okinawan Boys
is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Taku Shinjō based on a novel by Mineo Higashi. Awards and nominations 26th Blue Ribbon Awards * Won: Best Actor - Ken Ogata , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. Life Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's ''The Pillow Book'', Paul Schrader's '' Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'' and Shohei Imamura's ... References 1983 films 1980s Japanese-language films Films set in Okinawa Prefecture 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pecoross' Mother And Her Days
is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Azuma Morisaki and based on a manga by Yuichi Okano. It was released in Japan on November 16. Cast * Harue Akagi as Mitsue Okano * Ryo Iwamatsu as Yuichi Okano * Kiwako Harada as Young Mitsue Okano * Ryo Kase as Satoru Okano * Kensuke Owada as Masaki Okano * Tomoyo Harada as Chieko * Naoto Takenaka as Honda * Mitsuko Baisho as Matsu * Yoichi Nukumizu as Cafe owner * Ryudo Uzaki as Conductor * Wakana Matsumoto as Nursing home staff * Nao Nagasawa as Nursing home staff Reception Accolades It was chosen as the best Japanese film of 2013 by the film magazines ''Eiga Geijutsu'' and ''Kinema Junpo , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ...''. References External links * 2013 films 2013 drama films Live-action films based on ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11'09"01 September 11
''11'09"1 September 11'' is a 2002 international film composed of 11 contributions from different filmmakers, each from a different country. Each gave their own vision of the events in New York City during the September 11 attacks, in a short film of 11 minutes, 9 seconds, and one frame. The original concept and production of the film was by French producer Alain Brigand. It has been released internationally with several different titles, depending on the language. It is listed in the Internet Movie Database as ''11'09"01 - September 11'', while in French, it is known as ''11 minutes 9 secondes 1 image'' and in Persian as ''11-e-Septambr''. Plot Eleven episodes of eleven different directors on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds, and 1 frame: 11'09"01. Episode # 01: "'' Iran" '' * '' 'Direction' '': Samira Makhmalbaf The news of the September 11, 2001 attacks reaches an Afghan refugee camp, where bricks are produced to build new shelters, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
Warm, WARM, or Warmth may refer to: * A somewhat high temperature * Kindness Music * Warm (The Lettermen album), ''Warm'' (The Lettermen album), 1967, and the title song * Warm (Johnny Mathis album), ''Warm'' (Johnny Mathis album), 1958, and the title song * Warm (Herb Alpert album), ''Warm'' (Herb Alpert album), 1969 * Warm (Jeff Tweedy album), ''Warm'' (Jeff Tweedy album), 2018 * Warmer (Randy VanWarmer album), ''Warmer'' (Randy VanWarmer album), 1979 * Warmer (Jeff Tweedy album), ''Warmer'' (Jeff Tweedy album), 2019 * "Warm", a song by Majid Jordan from ''Majid Jordan (album), Majid Jordan'', 2016 * "Warm", a song by Charli XCX featuring Haim from ''Charli (album), Charli'', 2019 * "Warmer", a song by Bea Miller from ''Chapter Two: Red'' and ''Aurora'', 2017 * "Warmth", by C418 from ''Music of Minecraft#Minecraft - Volume Beta, Minecraft - Volume Beta'', 2013 Other uses * ''Warm.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), Danish botanist * WARM (foundat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn (film)
is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast * Riho Makise as Maki Mori * Nakamura Kantarō II as Yohei Izumi * Mitsuko Baisho as Satoko Mori * Kazuki Kitamura is a Japanese film and television actor who won the award for best supporting actor at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for '' Minazuki'', ''Kyohansha'' and ''Kanzen-naru shiiku'' as well as the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film at JAPAN CUTS ... as Kiyotaka Kakizaki Reception One review said, "''Turn'' manages to suffer most of the downsides of the twist ending." References External links * 2001 films 2000s Japanese films Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By Player
is a 2000 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of actor Taiji Tonoyama. The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo. Plot The first part of the film shows Tonoyama talking to a waitress, Kimie (Keiko Oginome), in a coffee shop. He then meets her father and asks him for permission to marry Kimie. The father asks him to first divorce his existing wife, Asako (Hideko Yoshida). In fact he is not married to Asako. To prevent him marrying Kimie, Asako then registers them as married. The film moves through various episodes of Tonoyama making films with director Kaneto Shindo. At the time of ''The Naked Island'', Tonoyama is close to death from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toki O Kakeru Shōjo (1997 Film)
is the second live-action film adaptation of novel of the same name. The film was released in Japan on November 8, 1997, directed by Haruki Kadokawa, with a screenplay by Ryōji Itō, Chiho Katsura and Haruki Kadokawa, starring beginner Nana Nakamoto in the main role. The film is narrated by the previous 1983 film's lead-actress Tomoyo Harada, and is set in 1965, when the novel was published for the first time. The film poster was used as the new cover for the 1997 edition of the novel. Cast * Nana Nakamoto as Kazuko Yoshiyama * Shunsuke Nakamura as Kazuo Fukamachi * Mitsuko Baisho * Takaaki Enoki * Mariko Hamatani ( :ja:浜谷真理子) * Yu Hayami * Masatō Ibu * Yoshiko Kuga * Hironobu Nomura * Tsunehiko Watase * Itsumi Yamamura Theme songs "Yume no Naka de ~We are not alone, forever~" and "Toki no Canzone", a remake of the 1983 film's theme song, written and sung by Yumi Matsutoya , nicknamed , is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. Generally the writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eel (film)
is a 1997 film directed by Shohei Imamura and starring Kōji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, and Akira Emoto. The film is loosely based on the novel ''On Parole'' by celebrated author Akira Yoshimura, combined with elements from the director's 1966 film ''The Pornographers''. It shared the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival with ''Taste of Cherry''. It also won the 1998 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year. Plot Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Acting on the advice of an anonymous note, Takuro Yamashita (Kōji Yakusho) returns home early one night to find his wife in bed with another man. He kills her and then turns himself in to the police. After being released from prison, he opens a barber shop and brings along a pet eel that he talks to while mostly ignoring conversation with others. He helps save Keiko Hattori (Misa Shimizu) from a suicide attempt, resulting in her working at the shop. She starts developing romantic feelings for him, but he acts nonchalant an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Last Note
is a 1995 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Kaneto Shindo. It was the last film of actresses Haruko Sugimura and Nobuko Otowa. Plot Yoko Morimoto, an aged but still active widowed actress, takes a rest from rehearsals and the hot temperature in Tokyo in her rural summer residence. Toyoko Yanagawa, her housemaid of many years, tells her that the 83-year-old gardener committed suicide, leaving behind a note which simply said, "it's over". On his self-made coffin, he had placed a heavy stone from the nearby riverbed, to be used for nailing the coffin's lid. Later, Yoko receives a phone call by Mr. Fujihachiro Ushiguni, who is on a trip with his wife Tomie, an old friend and former theatre troupe colleague of Yoko. Yoko invites them into her house. Tomie is senile and has memory lapses and difficulties to recognise others, but with Yoko's help, she can still recite passages from Chekhov's plays ''The Seagull'' and '' Three Sisters'', which they used to perform many years ago. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams (1990 Film)
is a 1990 magical realist film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Harada and Mitsuko Baisho. It was inspired by actual recurring dreams that Kurosawa said he had repeatedly. It was his first film in 45 years in which he was the sole author of the screenplay. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, ''Dreams'' was made five years after ''Ran'', with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and has consistently received positive reviews. ''Dreams'' addresses themes such as childhood, spirituality, art, death, and mistakes and transgressions made by humans against nature. Plot The film does not have a single narrative, but is rather episodic in nature, following the adventures of a "surrogate Kurosawa" (often recognizable by his wearing Kurosawa's trademark hat) thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zegen
is a 1987 Japanese black comedy film by director Shohei Imamura. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot The film tells the story of Iheiji Muraoka, who built brothels for the Japanese military. Cast * Ken Ogata as Iheiji Muraoka * Mitsuko Baisho as Shiho * Bang-ho Cho as Komashitai * Yuki Furutachi * Shino Ikenami as Tome * Kozo Ishii as Kumai * Satoko Iwasaki * Kurenai Kanda as Otsuno * Choichiro Kawarazaki as Kunikura * Chun Hsiung Ko as Wang (as Chun-Hsiung Ko) * Hiroyuki Konishi as Uehara * Mami Kumagaya as Kino * Leonard Kuma as Shop owner * Norihei Miki as Tomonaga * Sanshō Shinsui as Chota * Tetta Sugimoto as Genkichi * Minori Terada as Hisamitsu * Taiji Tonoyama as Shimada * Fujio Tsuneta as Nishiyama * Kimiko Yoshimiya as Takey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
