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Sanezumi Fujimoto
was a Japanese film producer. He served as the head of production for Toho Studios. He was co-producer of Akira Kurosawa's ''The Hidden Fortress''. He also produced many other films, including Yasujirō Ozu's ''The End of Summer'', Kihachi Okamoto's ''The Sword of Doom'' and ''Japan's Longest Day'' and several films directed by Mikio Naruse. After co-producing ''The Hidden Fortress'', Fujimoto had the task as Toho's head of production of convincing Kurosawa to form his own production company. He had to convince Kurosawa that his own production company would be to his advantage, even though the main reason Toho wanted Kurosawa to form his own production company was to avoid the risk of cost overruns as had happened on ''The Hidden Fortress''. Fujimoto then became a board member of Kurosawa Productions. Selected filmography *'' Repast'' (めし Meshi), Mikio Naruse, (1951) *'' Husband and Wife'' (夫婦 Fûfu), Mikio Naruse, (1953) *'' Mr. Pu'' (Pu-san), Kon Ichikawa, (1953) *''Wif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi
is the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 10, 1929. As of February 1, 2010, the city had an estimated population of 198,971 and a population density of 194.44 persons per km². The total area is 1,023.31 km². Yamaguchi is home to the Buddhist temple, , with its five-story pagoda. Yamaguchi is served by Yamaguchi Ube Airport in nearby Ube. History Merger history *April 1, 1889: 40 towns were merged to form the town of Yamaguchi. *April 1, 1905: The village of Kami-unorei was merged into the town of Yamaguchi. *July 1, 1915: The village of Shimo-unorei was merged into the town of Yamaguchi. *April 10, 1929: The town of Yamaguchi absorbed the village of Yoshiki to create the city of Yamaguchi (1st Generation). *April 1, 1941: The village of Miyano was merged into the city of Yamaguchi. *April 1, 1944: The towns of Ogōri and Ajisu, and the villages of Hirakawa, Ōtoshi, Sue, Natajima, Aiofutajima, Kagawa and Sayama were merged with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife (film)
''Wife'' ( ja, 妻, Tsuma) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on Fumiko Hayashi's novel ''Chairo no me'' (1950). Cast *Ken Uehara as Toichi *Mieko Takamine as Mihoko *Yatsuko Tan'ami as Fusako * Sanae Takasugi as Setsuko *Rentarō Mikuni as Tadashi *Michiyo Aratama as Yoshimi *Chieko Nakakita as Eiko Production ''Wife'' was part of a series of six films by Naruse based on works by writer Hayashi, made between 1951 and 1962. Like '' Repast'', the theme of ''Wife'' involved a couple trapped with each other and, like in ''Lightning Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of an avera ...'', an unhappy family. References External links * * 1953 films 1953 drama films 1950s Japanese-language films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shūe Matsubayashi
(born July 7, 1920 - August 15, 2009, Shimane Prefecture, Japan) was a Japanese film director. He is best known for films in the comedy and war genres. He was also an ordained Shin Buddhist priest. His final work as director was in the 1992 film ''Shorishatachi''. Filmography He directed over 69 movies: * 東京のえくぼ ('' Tokyo no ekubo'', 1952) * ハワイの夜 ('' Hawai no yoru'', 1953) * 戦艦大和 (1953) * 人間魚雷回天 ('' Ningen gyorai kaiten'', 1955) * 兄とその妹 (''Ani to sono musume'', aka ''Brother and Sister'', 1956) * 続青い山脈 雪子の巻 ('' Zoku Aoi sanmyaku Yukiko no maki'', 1957) * 美貌の都 (1957) * ひかげの娘 (''Hikage no musume is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Ema Tōyama. The series was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine, ''Nakayoshi''. The series ended with 5 volumes released by Kodansha under the imprint, ''Kodansha Comics''. It was announced in th ...'', 1957) * 社長三代記 ('' Shachō sandai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last War (1961 Film)
is a 1961 Japanese tokusatsu science-fiction film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi. Produced and distributed by Toho, it was the Toho's second highest-grossing film in Japan that year. Plot The film begins with a narration over shots of a modern-day Tokyo, noting that 16 years have passed since the end of World War II, and Japan has achieved rapid recovery. Mokichi Tamura works as a driver for a press center, hoping for happiness for his family. His daughter, Saeko, is in love with a merchant, Takano, who has been at sea for a long time. When he returns, the young couple agrees to get married with the consent of Saeko's father. Meanwhile, tensions between the Federation and the Alliance (fictional stand-ins for the United States/NATO and the USSR/Warsaw Pact, respectively) build, especially after an intelligence-gathering vessel is captured. A new Korean War breaks out across the 38th parallel, with the Federation and Alliance drawn into the war. Tensions reach a critical leve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshio Sugie
was a Japanese film director. He directed films from the 1940s to the 1960s. Career Sugie was born in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture (currently Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City). After graduating from the Waseda University, Sugie joined P.C.L/Photo Chemical Laboratory (latter became Toho) in 1937. He worked as an assistant director for Kajiro Yamamoto, Shiro Toyoda, Yasujiro Shimazu, Mikio Naruse, and Akira Kurosawa. In 1950, he directed his first feature film, The Gate of Tokyo. Since then, Sugie directed romance dramas (" I Can't Say The Person's Name" and " Oblivion Petals"), youth movies such as " Janken Musume", " He even supported Toho as a location director who filmed in various places with the comedy starring the " Company President Series" and Crazy Cats. Even on a public basis, mass production in the Japanese art world, with 6 in 1955, 7 in 1956, 5 in 1957, 4 in 1958, 4 in 1959, 5 in 1960, 6 in 1961 ... In that times, he continued to produced projects that cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daigaku No Wakadaishō
AKA ''Sir Galahad in Campus'', is a 1961 Japanese musical comedy romance film starring Yūzō Kayama and directed by Toshio Sugie. It was the first in a series of films about the "Wakadaishō". Yuzo Kayama plays Yuichi Tanuma, ace of the swimming club of Kyonan university, against the rivalry of the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, played by Kunie Tanaka, nicknamed , the Japanese name of the Japanese rat snake. Cast *Yūzō Kayama as Yuichi Tanuma, "Wakadaishō" *Ichirō Arishima * Chōko Iida as Grandmother * Machiko Naka *Yuriko Hoshi *Reiko Dan as Kyoko Danno * Akemi Kita * Tatsuyoshi Ehara *Kunie Tanaka was a Japanese actor. Tanaka first made a name for himself as the lecherous antagonist of the ''Wakadaishō'' series (1961–1981) of films. He is also well-known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the '' Battles Without Hono ... as Shinjiro Ishiyama, "Aodaishō" Release The film was released on 8 July 1961 in Japan. References Bibliography * External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Daughter, A Wife, And A Mother
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishirō Honda
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 44 feature films in a career spanning 59 years. The most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki, his films have had a significant influence on the film industry. Honda entered the Japanese film industry in 1934, working as the third assistant director on Sotoji Kimura's ''The Elderly Commoner's Life Study''. After 15 years of working on numerous films as an assistant director, he made his directorial debut with the short documentary film ''Ise-Shima'' (1949). Honda's first feature film, ''Aoi Shinju, The Blue Pearl'' (1952), was a critical success in Japan at the time and would lead him to direct three subsequent drama films. In 1954, Honda directed and co-wrote ''Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla'', which became a box office success in Japan, and was nominated for two Japanese Movie Association awards. Because of the film's commercial success in Japan, it spawned a Godzilla (franchise), multimedia franchise, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song For A Bride
is a 1958 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda. Cast Release ''Song for a Bride'' was released on February 11, 1958. Reception In a retrospective review, Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski declared the film "one of Honda's most thoroughly entertaining film" that "showcases Honda's flair for comedy in ways similar to ''Mothra'' and ''King Kong vs. Godzilla is a 1962 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the third film in both the ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'' franchises, as well as the first T ...''" had." References ;Bibliography * External links * http://www.ishirohonda.com/works/195802-sanju/195802-sanju.shtml * Japanese black-and-white films 1958 films Films directed by Ishirō Honda Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto Films scored by Masaru Sato 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagareru
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel ''Nagareru'' by Aya Kōda. Plot Widow Rika starts working as a maid in the okiya (geisha lodging house) of geisha Otsuta, who lives with her daughter Katsuyo, her younger sister Yoneko and Yoneko's child, and geisha Nanako. Of the seven geisha who once worked for Otsuta, only Nanako and Someka are left; a third girl, Namie, has just run away, convinced that she has been tricked out of her share. Otsuta's older sister Otoyo tries to pressure Otsuta into finding a financially secured husband to pay back the loans on the house which the two of them mortgaged together. Ohama, a former geisha sister of Otsuta, tries to help by making contact between her and her nephew's employer Hanayama, a former patron of Otsuta. The situation tightens when Namie's uncle shows up, demanding the money which he thinks his niece is entitled to. Otsuta tries to compensate him with 50,000 yen, half of Hanayama's onetime dona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wife's Heart
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Kiyoko lives with her husband Shinji and Shinji's mother in the family's house, where the married couple runs a not-too-successful food store. Although their marriage is not happy, it is pragmatic, and both agree on the plan to open an additional coffee shop in the house, despite the mother's objections. Kiyoko asks her friend Sumiko's brother Kenkichi, a bank clerk, for a loan, which he approves. Shortly after, Shinji's older brother Zenichi loses his job. Together with his wife and mother, Zenichi puts pressure on Kiyoko and Shinji to give the money to him to start his own business. Although both Kiyoko and Shinji are against Zenichi's plan, they slowly retreat. Kiyoki feels humiliated when she is told that Shinji visited a hot spring with a friend and two geisha. At the same time, she and Kenkichi develop a mutual affection, which they never openly acknowledge. When Shinji learns that Kiyoko was seen with Kenkichi in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shūu
is a 1956 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a play by Kunio Kishida. Plot The marriage of Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki has gone stale, with both of them constantly arguing about what to do on a day off, or her cutting out cooking recipes from the newspaper before he finished reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who pays a visit to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos. When Ryōtarō's company announces the dismissal of some of their employees, a group of colleagues visits him at home and offers him to become their partner in a bar financed with their severance pay, with Fumiko serving the bar's guests. Ryōtarō throws them out and has an argument with Fumiko, declaring that he does not want his wife to take up a job. The couple contemplates a divorce and Ryōtarō's return to his hometown to work on his family's farm. The next morning, a children's balloon falls i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
