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Sawamura Sōjūrō IX
Sawamura (written: 沢村 or 澤村) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * (1917–1944), Japanese baseball player * (born 1988), Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player *Ikki Sawamura (沢村 一樹) (born 1967) Japanese actor * (1905–1974), Japanese actor * (1943–2021), Japanese kickboxer Fictional characters: *Chizuru Sawamura of Inubaka *Haruka Sawamura of Yakuza (series) *Seiji Sawamura and his sister Rin of Midori Days *Daichi Sawamura Daichi may refer to: * the JAXA's Advanced Land Observation Satellite (aka ''Daichi'') * Daichi (given name), a Japanese given name * Daichi, Iran (other) Daichi ( fa, دايي چي, link=no) may refer to: * Daichi, Kermanshah * Daichi, ... of Haikyuu! *Dai Sawamura of Space Sherrif Shaider *Eijun Sawamura of Diamond no Ace {{surname, Sawamura Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiji Sawamura
Eiji Sawamura (沢村 栄治; February 1, 1917 – December 2, 1944) was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants. Early life On November 20, 1934, the 17-year-old Sawamura faced a team of visiting all-star players from Major League Baseball, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, and Charlie Gehringer. Entering the game in the fourth inning, the high school pitcher struck out nine batters and held the Americans to a single run over five innings pitched; a home run by Gehrig in the seventh saddled Sawamura with the loss. However, he did manage to strike out Gehringer, Ruth, Gehrig, and Foxx in succession. Connie Mack, who was managing the American team, was so impressed by Sawamura's performance that he tried to sign him to a Major League contract; Sawamura refused to go, citing a reluctance to leave home. Professional career With the formation of the Japanese Baseball League, Sawamura joined the Yomiur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirokazu Sawamura
is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in NPB for the Yomiuri Giants and the Marines, and has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at and , he throws and bats right-handed. Baseball career Sawamura played college baseball for Chuo University in Tokyo. On October 28, 2010, Sawamura was drafted by the Yomiuri Giants first overall pick in the 2010 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. Yomiuri Giants Sawamura played nine seasons for the Yomiuri Giants during 2011–2020; he missed the 2017 season due to a shoulder injury. In 2011, he was named the Central League Rookie of the Year. In 2013, he was named MVP of the first game of the NPB All-Star Series. During his first four seasons with the Giants, he was predominantly a starting pitcher; after 2014, he only appeared for the Giants as a relief pitcher. As a closer during 2015 and 2016, he recorded 36 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikki Sawamura
is a Japanese model, film and television actor, and television presenter signed to Ken-On. His second son, Kōta Nomura is also an actor. Biography Ikki Sawamura was born in Kagoshima in 1967. After graduating from the local high school, he moved to Tokyo and started his career as a fashion model. In 1996, Sawamura debuted in a TV drama ''Matsuda no Drama'' as an actor. Since then, he has appeared in many television dramas and commercials. Sawamura married a Japanese ex-model in 2000, and has three sons. In public and some variety shows, Sawamura often portrays his character as a sexually perverted personality. He is also a well-known fan of Bruce Lee. His hobbies are playing tennis, playing billiards and watching movies. Filmography Movies * (1997) * (2006) * (2006) * (2009) * (2009) * (2009) * (2010) * (2016) *'' Ossan's Love: Love or Dead'' (2019) *''Love and the Grand Tug-of-war'' (2021) *''Masquerade Night'' (2021) TV dramas ;1996 * *, as ;1997 *, as *, as *, as ;1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunitarō Sawamura
was a Japanese kabuki and film actor. Career Sawamura, whose original name was Yūichi Katō, was born in Tokyo to the kabuki actor Denzō Takeshiba. He studied acting under Sōjūrō Sawamura VII before taking the stage name Kunitarō Sawamura IV in 1926, appearing mostly as an onnagata. He began his movie career at the film studio Makino Productions in 1929, and later moved to Nikkatsu, working most of the time in jidaigeki. After the war, he mainly worked as a character actor. Family Both Sawamura's own family and that of his wife were active in the film industry. Sawamura's younger brother and sister were the actors Daisuke Katō and Sadako Sawamura. He married Tomoko Makino, the daughter of Shozo Makino (director), Shozo Makino, a film director and the head of Makino Productions. His brothers in law were thus the film directors Sadatsugu Matsuda (1906–2003), Masahiro Makino (1908–1993), and Shinzō Makino, as well as the producer Mitsuo Makino. Masahiro married the actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadashi Sawamura
was a Japanese kickboxer whose real name was . He was one of the first popular participants in the sport, and enjoyed great fame throughout his career. He is sometimes credited with sustaining the early boom in the popularity of kickboxing. He had an exceptionally high knockout percentage of 94.60% in . For comparison, in heavyweight boxing the two highest knockout percentages are 87.76% by and 87.23% by . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chizuru Sawamura
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yukiya Sakuragi. It started in Shueisha's Seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' on September 22, 2004, and was later transferred to ''Monthly Young Jump'' on August 18, 2009, where it ran until April 28, 2010. Its chapters were collected in 17 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The series was licensed in North America by Viz Media with a preview in the new ''Animerica''; Viz Media ceased its publication in March 2011. Plot Sheltered and controlled by her parents for most of her life, and owner of a loyal mutt (dog), mutt named Lupin, 18-year-old Suguri wants to move from the country-side to the big city, Tokyo, to find a career and a new life. After being kidnapped and stranded at a rest area, Lupin mates another dog while her owner Teppei is not looking, shattering his dream of a litter of purebred puppies. To make up for her mongrel's wayward wooing, Suguri accepts Teppei's offer to work at the pet store he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruka Sawamura
is a fictional character in Sega's action-adventure game series ''Yakuza''. She is introduced in the first ''Yakuza'' game as a young child searching for her missing mother, while being mysteriously pursued by multiple yakuza clans, including the Tojo Clan. Kazuma Kiryu, the main playable character throughout most of the series, protects and assists her during her search for her mother and Haruka is later adopted by him at the end of the first game. Over the course of the series, Haruka grows up alongside her adoptive father, debuting as a playable character in ''Yakuza 5'' working as an idol and eventually starting a family of her own in '' Yakuza 6: The Song of Life''. Haruka is voiced by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese and by Debi Derryberry in the English version of the first game. Haruka was created by Sega writer Toshihiro Nagoshi as an alternative protagonist to Kiryu due to her growth in her debut. Although initially absent from ''Yakuza 6'', Nagoshi wrote the narrative to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakuza (series)
''Yakuza'', also known as is a Japanese video game franchise created, owned and published by Sega. The franchise incorporates elements of the action-adventure, beat 'em up, and role-playing genres. The storyline premise for each franchise installment is typically a crime drama, with plot lines inspired by yakuza films and pre-millennial Japanese crime dramas. The most frequently featured protagonist is Kazuma Kiryu, a reformed yakuza associated with the Kanto-based Tojo Clan. While Kiryu often finds himself working with the leaders of the Tojo Clan to thwart conspiracies aimed against them, the primary theme of the series is his desire to leave the yakuza for good and start over by raising orphans and trying to assimilate into civilian life. The gameplay of ''Yakuza'' has the player controlling Kiryu (or another character, depending on the title) in an open world where he can fight random groups of punks and gangsters, take on side missions and activities to earn experience a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiji Sawamura
is a Japanese manga series by Kazurou Inoue. It was published by Shogakukan in the magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from September 2002 to July 2004, with its chapters collected in eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. The manga was licensed in North America by Viz Media. The series follows Seiji Sawamura, who one day finds his right hand replaced with a girl named Midori Kasugano and his attempts to return her to her real body. The series was adapted as a 13-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, broadcast from April to June 2004. The anime series was licensed in North America by Media Blasters. Plot Seiji Sawamura is the toughest student in his high school. His grades are not very good because he fights more than he studies, but he tends to protect the weaker students from bullies. A few classmates idolize him; one (Midori Kasugano from a different school) shyly loves him from afar; but everybody else is just afraid of him, which has made it impossible for him to fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rin Sawamura
is a Japanese manga series by Kazurou Inoue. It was published by Shogakukan in the magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from September 2002 to July 2004, with its chapters collected in eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. The manga was licensed in North America by Viz Media. The series follows Seiji Sawamura, who one day finds his right hand replaced with a girl named Midori Kasugano and his attempts to return her to her real body. The series was adapted as a 13-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, broadcast from April to June 2004. The anime series was licensed in North America by Media Blasters. Plot Seiji Sawamura is the toughest student in his high school. His grades are not very good because he fights more than he studies, but he tends to protect the weaker students from bullies. A few classmates idolize him; one (Midori Kasugano from a different school) shyly loves him from afar; but everybody else is just afraid of him, which has made it impossible for him to fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daichi Sawamura
Daichi may refer to: * the JAXA's Advanced Land Observation Satellite (aka ''Daichi'') * Daichi (given name), a Japanese given name * Daichi, Iran (other) Daichi ( fa, دايي چي, link=no) may refer to: * Daichi, Kermanshah * Daichi, Lorestan {{geodis ..., places in Iran See also * Daiichi {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
