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Natsuna
, better known as just , is a Japanese actress. She was born in Saitama Prefecture. When she graduated from high-school she decided to focus her career entirely on acting. As of 2009, she shortened her stage name and is now simply going by "Natsuna" (夏菜). In 2012, she landed the coveted lead role in the NHK Asadora '' Jun to Ai'' after an audition of over 2250 actors. Appearances TV dramas * ''Gachi Baka'' ( TBS, 2006), Hikari Seike * ''Kiraware Matsuko no Issho'' (TBS, 2006), Kumi Kawajiri * ''Erai Tokoroni Totsuide Shimatta'' (TV Asahi, 2007), Nao Yamamoto * ''Kodoku no Kake: Itoshiki Hitoyo'' (TBS, 2007), Mika Inui * '' Mop Girl'' (TV Asahi, 2007), Tamaki Nakamura * ''Ando Natsu'' (TBS, 2008), Miyo * ''Daimajin Kanon'' (TV Tokyo, 2010), Saki Uehara * ''Quartet'' ( MBS, 2011), Kasumi * '' Okusama wa 18-sai'' (Fuji TV Two, 2011), Asuka Takagi * '' Another Gantz'' (NTV, 2011), Kei Kishimoto * ''Shima Shima'' (TBS, 2011), Yumi Tachibana * ''Ore no Sora: Keijihen'' (TV As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun To Ai
is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on October 1, 2012, and was broadcast until March 30, 2013. It is about a girl named Jun Kanō, raised in Miyakojima, Okinawa, who moves to Osaka to work in a hotel. There she meets a man named Itoshi Machida, with whom she falls in love. It is the 87th NHK Asadora. Synopsis Jun Kanō was raised in Miyakojima, where her grandfather ran a small hotel that inspired her life's ambition to create a hotel that would serve as a "magical land" for people. Often fighting with her father Zenkō, Jun went to Osaka for college and eventually finds work at the Osaki Plaza Hotel, where she often gets in trouble for her unorthodox ways. In Osaka she meets an odd young man, Itoshi, who can't look straight at people because he says he can read people's inner feelings. First finding him weird, Jun eventually becomes attracted to Itoshi, who himself falls in love with Jun, even though her name reminds him of his dead twin brother Jun. The two ultim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specialist (2016 TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama series that premiered on TV Asahi on 14 January 2016. It was previously aired as Saturday Night drama from 2013 to 2015. In this drama, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, a member of SMAP, played the lead role, Kaho Minami, Yūta Hiraoka and Natsuna appeared in supporting roles. The first episode received a viewership rating of 17.1%, and its overall average was 12.0%. It was Sei Ashina’s final television role before her death in 2020. Plot In this drama series, Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) works together with his former team, consisting of Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami), Yuiko Matsubara (Sei Asahina), Kohei Horikawa (Yuta Hiraoka) and newcomer Maria Azuma (Natsuna Watanabe), to solve a variety of cases. Cast * Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Yoshito Takuma * Kaho Minami as Chinami Anekōji * Yūta Hiraoka as Kōhei Horikawa * Natsuna as Maria Azuma * Sei Ashina as Yuiko Matsubara * Masato Wada as Nozomu Nogata * Mitsuru Fukikoshi is a Japanese actor. Career Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clover (2014 Film)
is a 2014 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Takeshi Furusawa and based on the manga series created by Toriko Chiya. Plot Saya Suzuki, hotel employee, works at Hotel Toyo under her supervisor, Susumu Tsuge. Saya is dimwitted, and often commits mistakes and gets scolded by Tsuge. Out of blue, Tsuge asks her out and Saya is taken aback. Reluctantly, she agrees to go out. During date, she tells him about her past with famous singer and aspiring theatre artist, Haruki Hino. During school days, she and Haruki were in love and eloped until they were found by cops. Both she and Haruki believe that when they find a four leaf clover then they have found the one. Soon after failed elopement, Haruki is sent to America and Suzuki is heartbroken. Now, Haruki has returned as a teen icon. Tsuge suggests that he'll be her rehabilitation till she can love again. Once organizing an event, Saya and Haruki meet again and become friends. Tsuge is a proud, well educated and career oriented pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimi Ni Todoke (film)
, also known as ''From Me to You'', is a 2010 Japanese romantic drama film based on the manga of the same name. The film is directed by Naoto Kumazawa, who also co-wrote the film's script with Rika Nezu. The film stars actress Mikako Tabe, who plays the role of Sawako Kuronuma, also known as "Sadako", and Haruma Miura, who plays the role of Shota Kazehaya, an outgoing teenager who is popular with his classmates. ''Kimi ni Todoke'' was released in Japanese cinemas on 25 September 2010. It was subsequently screened at the 10th Asian Film Festival of Dallas on 17 July 2011. The film grossed a total of $18,027,475 in Japan. Plot Sawako Kuronuma has always been avoided by her classmates because her name, her appearance and her manner too strongly resembles that of "Sadako", the main character in the 1998 horror film ''Ring''. They believe that when one stared into Sawako's eyes for more than three seconds, bad luck will befall the person. They also believed that she could summon gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mop Girl
is a television drama series based on the novel of the same title by ; it recounts the adventures of Momoko Hasegawa, played by Keiko Kitagawa, who possesses the ability to travel back in time upon contact with belongings of a deceased person with unfinished business in life. She then has the chance to prevent the death of the would-be deceased. Plot Momoko Hasegawa, a girl who dreams of being a wedding planner is transferred to Little Angels, a subsidiary company of her employer that provides funeral services, following a disastrous incident in a wedding ceremony at the hotel. She acquires the ability to travel back in time at the age of ten, when she is involved in a traffic accident but is saved by a mysterious woman, who passes the ability to her shortly before succumbing to her wound. Years later, she finally learns that the trigger to activating her ability is by touching an important item which belonged to a deceased person that held some sort of significance for them. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daimajin Kanon
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television drama produced by Kadokawa Pictures and broadcast on TV Tokyo. The series premiered on April 2, 2010. The series retells the story of the original ''Daimajin'' film in a modern Japanese setting. Planned to run for 26 episodes, the series was prefaced by a manga by Seijuro Mizu in ''Young Ace'' magazine. Writing for the series is shared by Shinji Ōishi and Naruhisa Arakawa. Episodes Each episode of the series has its own unique kanji, but they are all read as "Kanon". # - April 2, 2010 # - April 9, 2010 # - April 16, 2010 # - April 23, 2010 # - April 30, 2010 # - May 7, 2010 # - May 14, 2010 # - May 21, 2010 # - June 4, 2010 # - June 11, 2010 # - June 18, 2010 # - June 25, 2010 # - July 2, 2010 # - July 9, 2010 # - July 16, 2010 # - July 23, 2010 # - July 30, 2010 # - August 6, 2010 # - August 13, 2010 # - August 20, 2010 # - August 27, 2010 # - September 3, 2010 # - September 10, 2010 # - September 17, 2010 # - September 24, 2010 # - Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranma Saotome
is a Character (arts), fictional character and the titular protagonist of the manga series ''Ranma ½'', created by Rumiko Takahashi. Ranma is a Japanese teenage boy who has trained in martial arts since early childhood. As a result of falling into an enchanted spring during a training journey in China, he is cursed to transform into a girl when splashed with cold water, while hot water changes him back into a boy. Throughout the series Ranma seeks out a way to rid himself of the curse, while his friends, enemies, rivals, and many fiancées constantly hinder and interfere. Creation and conception Because most of her previous series had female protagonists, Rumiko Takahashi decided that she wanted a male for ''Ranma ½''. However, she was worried about writing a male main character in a magazine targeted toward male readers, and therefore decided to make him half-female. In 1993, an ''Animerica'' interviewer asked Takahashi if she intended the sex-changing theme "as an effort to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranma ½
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from August 1987 to March 1996, with the chapters collected into 38 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shogakukan. The story revolves around a teenage boy named Ranma Saotome who has trained in martial arts since early childhood. As a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become a girl when exposed to cold water, while hot water changes him back into a boy. Throughout the series Ranma seeks out a way to rid himself of his curse, while his friends, enemies and many fiancées constantly hinder and interfere. ''Ranma ½'' has a comedic formula and a sex-changing main character, who often willfully transforms into a girl to advance his goals. The series also contains many other characters, whose intricate relationships with each other, unusual characteristics, and eccentric personalities drive most of the stories. Although the characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saki (film)
is a Japanese film based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Ritz Kobayashi. The film is directed by , written by and stars Minami Hamabe as the title character Saki Miyanaga. It is scheduled for release in Japan by on 3 February 2017. Cast *Minami Hamabe as Saki Miyanaga *Nana Asakawa as Nodoka Haramura *Aika Hirota as Yūki Kataoka *Mai Kikuchi as Koromo Amae *Rena Takeda as Kana Ikeda *Seika Furuhata as Hisa Takei *Anna Yamada as Mako Someya *Mariya Nagao as Tōka Ryūmonbuchi * Kyōka Shibata as Hajime Kunihiro * as Jun Inoue *Rie Kaneko as Tomoki Sawamura * as Mihoko Fukuji * as Miharu Yoshitome * as Sumiyo Fukabori *Yuzu Higuchi as Seika Bundō *Natsumi Okamoto as Yumi Kajiki *Ano as Momoko Tōyoko *Aguri Ōnishi as Satomi Kanbara * as Kaori Senō * as Mutsuki Tsuyama *Natsuna Watanabe as Yasuko Fujita *Hinako Sano '' Weekly Playboy'' (Shueisha) (August 20, 2013) is a Japanese actress, model, and gravure idol who is affiliated with Horipro. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fullmetal Alchemist (film)
is a 2017 Japanese science fantasy action film directed by Fumihiko Sori, starring Ryosuke Yamada, Tsubasa Honda and Dean Fujioka and based on the manga series of the same name by Hiromu Arakawa, covering the first four volumes of the original storyline. It was released in Japan by Warner Bros. Pictures on 1 December 2017. The theme song of the film, "Kimi no Soba ni Iru yo", is performed by Misia. Plot In the country of Amestris, Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse live in the rural town of Resembool with their mother Trisha while self-learning alchemy at a young age. When the brothers commit the taboo act of Human Transmutation to resurrect Trisha after she dies of illness, it backfires and they face the consequences via the Law of Equivalent Exchange: Edward loses his left leg, while Alphonse is dragged into the Gate of Truth. Edward then sacrifices his right arm to save his brother's soul and bind it to a suit of armor via a blood seal, later replacing his miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Gantz Characters
The anime and manga series ''Gantz'' features a large number of fictional characters created by Hiroya Oku. The series takes place in a modern Japan, in which several creatures known as aliens start attacking citizens. The series starts with the teenager Kei Kurono, who dies in a train accident along with his childhood friend Masaru Kato. Suddenly, they appear in an apartment from Tokyo along with several people who have recently died. A black sphere named Gantz revives them and then it sends them messages, telling them they have to kill aliens if they want to live. All the participants are given powerful weapons such as guns, and black bodysuits that increase their strength. As the characters participate in the game, they start discovering more things related to Gantz such as what happens when they defeat several aliens, and why Gantz holds the game. ''Names are in Western order, with the given name before the surname (family name).'' Creation and conception When creating t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Expo
Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in the world - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival - Kultima - and expanded to include some European and US pop culture as well. It is held yearly at the beginning of July for four days (usually from Thursday to Sunday) in the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center (the second-largest convention center in France). The attendance has increased steadily over the years, with 2,400 visitors welcomed in the first edition in 1999 and more than 252,510 for the 2019 edition. Like the Olympic Games and many other mass gatherings, the 2020 edition was canceled because of the global COVID‑19 pandemic. History The first exposition took place in 1999 at the ISC Paris Business School and welcomed 2,400 visitors, a number which has grown steadily. In 2002, Japan Expo was hosted at the Center of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) in La Défense, Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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