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Noriko Hayami
is a Japanese actress most known for played the lead role in the 1985 film ''Love Hotel''. She was also the supporting actress in many additional films. On television, Noriko was the lead actress in ''Sora o Tonda Kome Sōba'' (空を飛んだ米相場), Episode #29 of ''Abarenbō Shōgun V''. (''Jidaigeki Senmon Channel'' schedule for April 21, 2009) (Retrieved on April 21, 2009) Filmography *'''' (1983) *'''' (1985) *'' |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese People
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japanese people constitute 97.9% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 122.5 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as , the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people). Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of multiracial people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people. History Theories of origins Archaeological evidence indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Hotel (1985 Film)
is a 1985 Japanese pink film in Nikkatsu's ''Roman porno'' series, directed by Shinji Sōmai and starring Noriko Hayami. Synopsis When businessman Tetsuro Muraki has his company go bankrupt and his wife Ryoko is raped by gangsters who use her body to pay off his debts, he succumbs to despair. He hires a prostitute, Nami, to go with him to a love hotel with sex and suicide in mind. Cast * Minori Terada () as Tetsuro Muraki * Noriko Hayami as Nami Tsuchiya * Rie Nakagawa () as Masayo Ohta * Kiriko Shimizu () as Ryoko Muraki * Nobutaka Masutomi () as Kiyoshi Ohta * Toshinori Omi () as the Assistant Director * Kōichi Satō as the Taxi Driver Background Although director Shinji Sōmai had worked for Nikkatsu in the 1970s and served as an assistant director, this film marked his only work in the ''Roman porno'' genre for Nikkatsu. The film was produced by the Directors's Company (), an association of young directors formed in 1982. The screenplay was the work of Takashi Ishii who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day. See also * IMDb References External links * Internet properties established in 1997 Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... Online film databases {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abarenbō Shōgun
(Abarenbō Shōgun) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa ''shōgun''. The program started in 1978 under the title ''Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun'' (''Chronicle in Praise of Yoshimune: The Unfettered Shogun'') who went after rogue councillors and ''daimyō'' who were abusing their power. After a few seasons, they shortened the first two words and the show ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003; a two-hour special aired in 2004. The earliest scripts occasionally wove stories around historic events such as the establishment of firefighting companies of commoners in Edo, but eventually the series adopted a routine of strictly fiction. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of ''kanzen-chōaku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Geisha (1983 Film)
is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. Awards and nominations Gosha won the Japanese Best Director Award in 1983 for his efforts. The film also received a number of other awards in Japan. 8th Hochi Film Award * Won: Best Supporting Actress - 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 10 ... References External links * 1983 films Films directed by Hideo Gosha 1980s Japanese-language films Films about geisha 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Wedlock
(literally "Ooh! Exploration Party") is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi. Plot Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation. Cast * Yukiyo Toake as Tokiko Enomoto * Kunie Tanaka as Kazuya Enomoto * as Tarō Enomoto * as Jirō Enomoto * as Ryōko * as the photographer * Background The screenplay for the film, based on a novel by Agata Hikari, was written by director Yoshimitsu Morita. The film has been described as "one of the forerunners of Japanese new age movies in the 80s." Awards and nominations 10th Japan Academy Awards * Nominated: Best Screenplay - Yoshim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onibi (film)
is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Rokuro Mochizuki. Cast *Yoshio Harada - Noriyuki Kunihiro *Reiko Kataoka - Asako Hino *Show Aikawa - Naoto Tanigawa *Kazuki Kitamura - Hideyuki Sakata *Ryushi Mizukami - Hanamura *Hiroyuki Tsunekawa - Satoshi Fujima *Ryuji Yamamoto - Hiroshi Fujima *Yoshiaki Fujita - Kinjo *Ei Kawakami - Yoshida *Toshihiro Kinomoto - Aoki *Seiroku Nakazawa - Nagashima *Masai Ikenaga - Kizaki *Eiji Minakata - Kanigawa *Hajime Yamazaki - Driving School Teacher * Eiji Okuda - Myojin Awards and nominations 19th Yokohama Film Festival * Won: Best Film * Won: Best Director - Rokuro Mochizuki * Won: Best Actor - Yoshio Harada * Won: Best Supporting Actress - Reiko Kataoka is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 45th Blue Ribbon Awards for '' Hush!''. Filmography Film *''A Touch of Fever'' (1993) *''New Love in Tokyo'' (1994) *''Kamikaze Taxi'' (1995) *''Two Punks'' (1996) *'' Gonin 2'' ( ... References External links * 鬼火(19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lost Paradise
is 1997 Japanese novel by author Junichi Watanabe. It tells the story of a 54-year-old married former magazine editor, his affair with a 37-year-old married typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kūki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of Sada Abe. The book became a bestseller throughout Asia, selling 3 million copies in Japan. ''Shitsurakuen'' became a slang word for having an affair. It was first serialized in the business newspaper ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' in 1995. The book was made into a film and a TV drama the same year. The film ''Lost Paradise'' was nominated for 13 Japan Academy Prizes winning one with Hitomi Kuroki Hitomi Kuroki (Japanese: ; Katakana: ''Kuroki Hitomi''; born October 5, 1960, in Kurogi-Machi, Yame District, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese actress and film director. Her birth name is Shoko Ichiji ( ''Ichiji Shōko'') née Egami ( ''Egami Shōk ... for lead actress. References External links * (film) ''Shitsurakuen''at J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Balance
is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Shin Togashi based on the novel ''Hi-baransu'' by Naoko Uozumi which won the author the Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature. Cast * Megumi Hatachiya as Chiaki * Fumiyo Kohinata as Kiku-chan * Yu Hatano as Mizue * Momoka Nakamura as Yukari * Shūji Kashiwabara as Heath * Tomato as Yuri-chan * Kumiko Tsuchiya as Homeroom Teacher * Ryūshi Mizukami as Video Store Clerk * Masayo Umezawa as Mizue's Mother * Noriko Hayami as Masayoshi's Wife * Mieko Harada as Chiaki's Mother Awards 23rd Yokohama Film Festival *Won: Best New Director - Shin Togashi is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Fujishima, Yamagata (now part of the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Tsuruoka), Togashi attended Rikkyō University, where he was inspired by the lectures on cinema by the critic Shigehiko Hasumi. After g ... *10th Best Film References External links * * 2001 films Films directed by Shin Togashi 2000s Japanese films {{200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
