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Narumi Yasuda
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Inujini seshi mono'', '' Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!'' and ''Sorobanzuku''. She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film Award for ''Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad''. Yasuda was born in Tokyo. Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'', "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", written by Takashi Matsumoto and composed by Haruomi Hosono. Selected filmography Films *'' Inujini seshi mono'' (1986) *'' Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!'' (1986) *''Sorobanzuku'' (1986) *''Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad'' (1988) *'' My Soul Is Slashed'' (1991) *'' Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'' (2010) *''Fukushima 50'' (2020) *''Under the Open Sky'' (2021) Television * ''Sugao no Mama De (1992), Yumiko Kosaka'' *'' Teppan'' (2010–2011), Machiko Mura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noritake Kinashi
is a Japanese comedian, actor, singer and artist. He is the short member of the comedy duo Tunnels, with whom he was a member of the pop group Yaen. His partner is Takaaki Ishibashi. He is the executive vice president of the entertainment office Arrival. Kinashi's wife is actress Narumi Yasuda is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Inujini seshi mono'', '' Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!'' and '' Sorobanzuku''. She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film .... His cousin is Liberal Democratic Party Suginami lawmaker Morisho Kinashi. Works Creations Kinashi had seven solo exhibitions by 2013. His style of painting is abstract based on the color red, sketching letters in landscapes, and still life drawings with simple color expression. While using his exhibitions via the interactive method of the Internet, he can also handle character designs in video games. Discography Delivery Videos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nausicaa
Nausicaa (; grc, Ναυσικάα, Nausikáa, or , ) also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's ''Odyssey''. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name means "burner of ships" ( 'ship'; 'to burn'). Role in the ''Odyssey'' In Book Six of the ''Odyssey'', Odysseus is shipwrecked on the coast of the island of Scheria (Phaeacia in some translations). Nausicaä and her handmaidens go to the seashore to wash clothes. Awakened by their games, Odysseus emerges from the forest completely naked, scaring the servants away, and begs Nausicaä for aid. She gives Odysseus some of the laundry to wear and takes him to the edge of the town. Realizing that rumors might arise if Odysseus is seen with her, she and the servants go into town ahead of him, but first she advises him to go directly to Alcinous's house and make his case to Nausicaä's mother, Arete. Arete is known as wiser even than Alcinous, and Alcinous trusts her judgment. Odysseu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Actresses
The following is a list of Japanese actresses in surname alphabetical order. Names are displayed given name first, per Wikipedia manual of style. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing that they are Japanese actresses or must have references showing that they are Japanese actresses and are notable. A * Haruka Abe *Nagisa Abe *Natsumi Abe *Rika Adachi *Yumi Adachi *Saki Aibu *Shoko Aida *Yuzuki Aikawa *Rina Aizawa *Kyoko Aizome *Sayaka Akimoto *Tsubasa Akimoto *Yoko Akino * Rio Akisada *Kumiko Akiyoshi *Yūki Amami *Chisato Amate *Eiko Ando * Sakura Andō *Yū Aoi *Wakana Aoi *Mayuko Aoki *Tsuru Aoki *Yuko Araki *Yui Aragaki *Michiyo Aratama *Narimi Arimori *Kasumi Arimura *Momoka Ariyasu *Nao Asahi *Mayumi Asaka * Nana Asakawa *Aiko Asano *Atsuko Asano *Yūko Asano *Ruriko Asaoka *Kumiko Asō *Yumi Asō *Chikage Awashima *Haruka Ayase B *Fumika Baba *Chieko Baisho *Mitsuko Baisho C *Catalina Yue * Chara *Chiaki (Fujimoto Chiaki) *Reiko Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Dinosaur
''The Good Dinosaur'' is a 2015 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Sohn (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Denise Ream, making it the first Pixar film to be directed by a non-white director. The screenplay was written by Meg LeFauve, who also wrote the film's story with Sohn, Bob Peterson, Kelsey Mann, and Erik Benson. It stars the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Steve Zahn, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, A. J. Buckley, Jeffrey Wright, and Frances McDormand. The film explores an alternate history where non-avian dinosaurs never became extinct, following a young, timid ''Apatosaurus'' named Arlo (Ochoa), who meets an unlikely human friend named Spot (Bright) while traveling through a dangerous and mysterious landscape in order to return home, after being washed downriver by a rainstorm. Development of ''The Good Dinosaur'' began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teppan (TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating (in the Kanto region), making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years. Cast *Miori Takimoto, as Akari Murakami, the heroine *Narumi Yasuda, as Michiko Murakami, Akari's adoptive mother * Ken'ichi Endō, as Jō Murakami, Akari's adoptive father * Shingo Yanagisawa * Toshinori Omi *Shūji Kashiwabara *Hidekazu Akai *Rie Tomosaka * Sumiko Fuji, as Hatsune Tanaka, Akari's real grandmother *Tamao Nakamura (narrator) *Haruka Kinami is a Japanese actress who is affiliated with Horipro. Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Open Sky
is a 2020 Japanese drama film directed by Miwa Nishikawa. The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Mikami, a middle-aged former yakuza who has spent most of his life in prison, is released after serving 13 years for murder. Hoping to find his long-lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies to a TV show and meets young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, Mikami struggles to get a proper job and fit in society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him. (cited from Aoi Pro) Cast * Kōji Yakusho as Masao Mikami * Taiga Nakano as Ryūtarō Tsunoda * Seiji Rokkaku as Ryōsuke Matsumoto * Yukiya Kitamura as Hisatoshi Iguchi * Hakuryu as Akimasa Shimoinaba * Midoriko Kimura as Masuko Shimoinaba * Shūhei Takahashi * Maho Yamada * Rina Sakuragi as Lily-san * Yōhei Matsukado * Tamaki Shiratori * Eita Okuno * Takumi Matsuzawa * Masami Nagasawa as Haruka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukushima 50 (film)
''Fukushima 50'' is a 2020 Cinema of Japan, Japanese disaster film, disaster drama (film and television), drama film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu and written by Yōichi Maekawa. Starring Koichi Sato (actor), Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, it is about the titular Fukushima 50, group of employees tasked with handling the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The film is based on the book by Ryusho Kadota, titled ''On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi'', and it is the first Japanese film to depict the disaster. Synopsis At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history with a magnitude of 9.1 and a maximum seismic intensity of 7 occurred. A huge tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It was clear that a nuclear reactor lost all power due to flooding by the tsunami. A ''Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, station blackout'' (SBO) caused the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
is a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Originally serialized from 1965 to 1966, it tells the story of a high-school girl who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel, which leads to a time loop where she repeatedly relives the same day. Originally serialised in seven installments in two of Gakken's secondary school student-aimed magazines, beginning in ''Chūgaku Sannen Course'' in November 1965 and ending in ''Kō Ichi Course'' in May 1966, and first published as a book in 1967 by Kadokawa Shoten, it has gone on to become one of Tsutsui's most popular works and has been reinterpreted in other media many times, the most famous internationally being a 1983 live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, and a 2006 anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The original novel was first published in English translation by the British publisher Alma Books on May 26, 2011, in a translation by David James Karashima. The title is also that of a song, written by Yum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Soul Is Slashed
, also known as ''From Dracula with Love'', is a 1991 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. It stars Ken Ogata as a pharmaceutical company employee who finds himself in intensive care after a critical injury and during a Blood transfusion, transfusion is given the blood of Count Dracula. Plot After the complete destruction of Count Dracula, his vampiric blood arrives in Japan, where a young scientist who is researching vampires hides it in a hospital for later experiments. At the same time, Shutaro Ishikawa, who works for a pharmaceutical company, discovers a scandal, but is killed before he can make it public. In the hospital, he accidentally receives some of Dracula's blood. The young scientist tells the daughter of Shutaro to drop blood on his ashes to allow him to revive. One year later, Shutaro is reborn as a vampire. After some familiarization with his situation and help from his daughter and the scientist, his goal is to avenge his murder by feasting on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruomi Hosono
, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for decades as well as pop music outside of Japan. He also inspired genres such as city pop and Shibuya-kei, and as leader of Yellow Magic Orchestra, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous electronic genres. The grandson of ''Titanic'' survivor Masabumi Hosono, Haruomi began his career with the psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, before achieving recognition both nationally and internationally, as a founding member of the bands Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles, including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums. As well as recording his own music, Hosono has done considerable production work for other artists such as Miharu Koshi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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