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Omoide Shashin
or ''Photograph of Memories'' is a 2021 Japanese movie, directed by and starring Fukagawa Mai and Kengo Kora. The theme song was performed by Rei Yasuda Plot summary Fukagawa plays a girl who returns to her rural hometown in Toyama after failing to make a career in 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 .... When her grandmother dies and her funeral photo is blurry, she works with her friend in local government (Kora) to take high quality photos of senior citizens. One elderly woman (Yoshiyuki) initially refuses, believing the act of taking a funeral photo to be bad luck, but agrees after Fukagawa offers to take her picture in some place with special significance to her. They rebrand the service as "photographs of memories" and start taking more local seniors on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukagawa Mai
is a Japanese actress and former singer. She is a former member of Nogizaka46, debuting in 2011 as part of the first generation and graduating in 2016. Early life and education Fukagawa was born on March 29, 1991, in Iwata, Shizuoka. While in elementary school, she was a fan of Morning Musume. Although she wanted to become a member of Mini-Moni, she aspired to become an illustrator or Japanese confectioner. In junior high school, she became interested in the entertainment industry, and saw ''Water Boys 2'' being filmed at her alma mater. She then enrolled in an arts high school and majored in design, studying oil and Japanese painting. In her first year of high school, she enrolled in the dance school Heroes Academy. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in a fashion vocational school in Nagoya. Career 2010–2016: Early career and Nogizaka46 In August 2010, Fukagawa won the Grand Prix at the modeling audition of kawaii EXPO 2010, sponsored by Lowrys Farm, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kengo Kora
is a Japanese actor. Career Kora has gained recognition for his roles in films such as Shinji Aoyama's ''Sad Vacation'', Yukio Ninagawa's ''Snakes and Earrings'', Tran Anh Hung's '' Norwegian Wood'', Ryuichi Hiroki's ''The Egoists'', Yoshihiro Fukagawa is a Japanese film director. His film ''Into the White Night'' was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In an interview, Fukagawa explains that there have been many versions of '' ...'s ''Into the White Night'', and Koji Wakamatsu's ''The Millennial Rapture''. Filmography Film Television Awards References External links Official profile * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kora, Kengo Japanese male film actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Actors from Kumamoto Prefecture Living people 1987 births Japanese male television actors People from Kumamoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karina Nose
(born February 21, 1984) is a Japanese model and actress. Her birth name is . She was born in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. She played the lead role in the 2008 TBS drama ''Daisuki!!'' Filmography Dramas * ''Kabachitare'' (2001) * ''Long Love Letter'' (2002) * ''Division 1'' (2004) * ''Nurseman ga Yuku'' (2004) * ''Umizaru'' (2005) * ''Yaoh'' (2006) * ''CA to Oyobi'' (2006) * ''Message'' (2006) * ''Walk My Way / Boku no Aruku Michi'' (2006) * ''Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi / Angels with Broken Wings'' (2007) * ''Bambino!'' (2007) * ''Ushi ni Negai wo: Love & Farm'' (2007) * ''Daisuki!!'' (2008) * ''Sensei wa Erai!'' (2008) * ''Ryokiteki na Kanojo'' (2008) * ''Kiri no Hi'' (2008) * ''Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru'' (2008) * ''Real Clothes'' (2008) as Kinue Amano * ''Galileo: Episode Zero'' (2008) as Namie Shindo * ''Love Shuffle'' (2009) as Airu Aizawa * ''Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo'' (2009) as Catherine Reiko Akimoto * ''Hataraku Gon!'' (2009) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arata Iura
, previously known as Arata, is a Japanese actor, model and fashion designer. He is the Director of fashion brand Elnest Creative Activity. He holds the position of Director at the Artisan Culture Organisation Institute. Biography Iura co-starred in Yukio Ninagawa's ''Snakes and Earrings'' with Yuriko Yoshitaka and Kengo Kora. He appeared in Junji Sakamoto's '' Strangers in the City''. He portrayed Yukio Mishima in Koji Wakamatsu's '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate''. He also appeared in several of Hirokazu Koreeda's films, including '' After Life'', ''Distance'' and ''Air Doll''. Filmography Film * '' After Life'' (1998) * ''Shady Grove'' (1999) * ''Distance'' (2001) * ''Ping Pong'' (2002) * ''Aoi Kuruma'' (2004) * ''Gina K'' (2005) * '' Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' (2005) * ''The Prisoner'' (2007) * ''Purukogi'' (2007) * ''United Red Army'' (2007) * ''Snakes and Earrings'' (2008) * ''20th Century Boys'' (2008) * ''Air Doll'' (2009) * ''Ultra Miracle Love S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
(born 9 August 1935) is a Japanese film actress and voice actress essayist. Biography Early life Kazuko was born in Tokyo as a first daughter of Eisuke Yoshiyuki, a writer, and Aguri. She has an older brother, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, a novelist, and a sister, Rie Yoshiyuki, a poet. A lifelong sufferer of asthma since she was two years old, she was frequently taken as a child to Okayama, where her grandparents lived, for a change of air. She graduated from Joshigakuen Girls High school in Tokyo in 1954. Career She started her career as an actress with theatre troupe Gekidan Mingei in 1955, appearing in the role of Sophie in Junji Kinoshita's '' A Japanese Called Otto'' in 1966. Her major breakthrough on the stage came when she played Anne Frank in ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' in 1977. She made her debut on the screen in 1955 and has appeared in more than 60 films since then. She won Best Supporting Actress award in 1959 Mainichi Film Award, then won Best Actress in 1978 Japan Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rei Yasuda
Rachel Rhodes (born April 15, 1993), known professionally as , is a Japanese singer and model. She portrayed and co-voiced the character Lumi, the fictional lead vocalist of Genki Rockets in 2006. She debuted as a solo singer in 2013. Early life and education Rachel Rhodes was born in North Carolina, United States on April 15, 1993, but moved to Japan at the age of 3. She attended an American school at Yokota Air Base. Rhodes is a hāfu from an American father who was from Michigan and a Japanese mother and is fluent in both English and Japanese. When Rhodes was in first grade, she was inspired to become a singer after hearing her mother listening to "First Love" by Hikaru Utada. She was later influenced by Mariya Takeuchi and Love Psychedelico. When she was in third grade she listened to American R&B artists Alicia Keys and Usher. Her younger brother is model Musashi Rhodes. Career 2006-2013: Genki Rockets Yasuda first began modeling in 2006, and appeared in a promotiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefecture to the south, Nagano Prefecture to the east, and Niigata Prefecture to the northeast. Toyama is the capital and largest city of Toyama Prefecture, with other major cities including Takaoka, Imizu, and Nanto. Toyama Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region, and the majority of prefecture's population lives on Toyama Bay, one of the largest bays in Japan. Toyama Prefecture is the leading industrial prefecture on the Japan Sea coast and has the advantage of cheap electricity from abundant hydroelectric resources. Toyama Prefecture contains the only known glaciers in East Asia outside of Russia, first recognized in 2012, and 30% of the prefecture's area is designated as national parks. History Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
2021 Films
2021 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, film festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2021, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "From an artistic perspective, 2021 has been an excellent cinematic vintage, yet the bounty is shadowed by an air of doom. The reopening of theatres has brought many great movies—some of which were postponed from last year—to the big screen, but fewer people to see them. The biggest successes, as usual, have been superhero and franchise films. ''The French Dispatch'' has done respectably in wide release, and ''Licorice Pizza'' is doing superbly on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, but few, if any, of the year’s best films are likely to reach high on the box-office charts. The shift toward streaming was already under way when the pandemic struck, and as the trend has accelerated it’s had a parad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Drama Films
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