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Shigeru Komatsubara
is a Japanese cinematographer. His work has mostly been in the action genre, but his first feature film was as an assistant on '' The Pornographers'' by Shohei Imamura. He worked on early Takashi Miike straight-to-video films such as '' Lady Hunter'' and '' A Human Murder Weapon'', and then resumed working with Imamura as chief cinematographer for some of his last films such as '' Unagi'' and '' Dr. Akagi''. He also did the cinematography for the 2013 TV series ''Neko Zamurai'' starring Kazuki Kitamura. Awards He received a Japan Film Technical Award (Nihon Eiga Gijutsushō) from the Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan for the cinematography for '' Unagi'' in 1997, and won the Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for ''Koi suru tomato or more specifically , are colored varieties of the Amur carp (''Cyprinus rubrofuscus'') that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens. Koi is an informal name for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera and light crews working on such projects and would normally be responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image and for selecting the camera, film stock, lenses, filters, etc. The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography. The cinematographer is a subordinate of the director, tasked with capturing a scene in accordance with director’s vision. Relations between the cinematographer and director vary. In some instances, the director will allow the cinematographer complete independence, while in others, the director allows little to none, even going so far as to specify exact camera placement and lens selection. Such a level of involvement is less common when the direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shō Aikawa (screenwriter)
is a Japanese screenwriter. Active in various fields (and credited through various pseudonyms) since he was 17 years old, the most popular works he has helmed have been in anime and tokusatsu: ''Dangaioh'', ''Angel Cop'', '' Ultraman: Towards the Future'', ''Martian Successor Nadesico'', ''Love Hina'', ''The Twelve Kingdoms'', ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', ''Kamen Rider Blade'', ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger'' and ''Concrete Revolutio''. Most of his anime work has been in adaptations which, when he is the main writer, feature significant deviations from the source materials' trajectory. Among those based on original concepts, 7 titles were conceived, wholly or partly, by him; he also had one manga he had written adapted to animation. Works Works that are derivatives of titles Aikawa also worked on in other mediums are in bold. Anime , style="text-align:left", , - , rowspan="2", 1987 , scope="row" style="text-align:left", , , , , , #4, #5 , } , style="text-align:left", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Cinematographers
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Banmei Takahashi
(or Tomoaki Takahashi) is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with ''Escaped Rapist Criminal''. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years.Weisser, p. 234. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, ''Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution'' (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979. Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takahashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's '' Tattoo Ari'' (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival. With the success of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Iwata
is a Japanese film director and illustrator. Career Iwata is the director of the 2011 film ''Looking for a True Fiancee'', which was based on a novel by Takami Itō is a Japanese author who won an Akutagawa Prize in 2006. Biography Itō was born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As a middle-school student, he was a classmate of Ken Hirai. He later graduated from Waseda University. Prizes * Bungei Prize (1 .... References External links * Yuki Iwata at CinemaToday Japanese film directors 1972 births Japanese illustrators Living people {{Japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirakawachi Itchōme
Hirakawachi Itchōme ( ja, 平川地一丁目) is a former Japanese folk music group consisting of brothers Ryūnosuke Hayashi (born April 14, 1988) and Naojirō Hayashi (born December 23, 1990). Their name is more often romanized as Hirakawachi 1-chome. Their name is actually a reference to where they were originally from in Shizuoka Prefecture, and references the Japanese addressing system. 1-''chome'' is like "first district". Background Growing up on Sado Island, the brothers' musical influence came from their father who taught them to play guitar. Ryūnosuke, the oldest, began copying folk songs from the 1970s and 1980s and then began writing his own and asked his younger brother, Naojirō, to join him. They began playing locally at music events and festivals (hence the name Hirakawachi Itchōme which is the district they lived in growing up) and eventually participated in a New Year countdown event in Sado, gaining them invitations to perform from all over Japan. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Watanabe (director)
Takeshi Watanabe may refer to: * Takeshi Watanabe (bureaucrat) (1906–2010), first president of the Asian Development Bank * Takeshi Watanabe (footballer) (born 1972), a Japanese football player {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
is a Japanese actor. Ikeuchi's mother is Salvadoran and his father is Japanese. He is an avid martial artist, notably holding a black belt in judo, and is also a keen fisherman. Career Ikeuchi played a supporting role as General Miura in Wilson Yip's ''Ip Man''. He also appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's ''Charisma''. Filmography Film * ''Tokimeki Memorial'' (1997) * ''Dream Studium'' (1997) * ''Blues Harp'' (1999) * ''Charisma'' (1999) * ''Space Travelers'' (2000) * ''Chicken Heart'' (2002) * ''The Boat to Heaven'' (2003) * ''Karaoke Terror'' (2003) * ''Warau Iemon'' (2004) * ''Female'' (2005) * ''Hazard'' (2005) * '' Love My Life'' (2006) * ''Dolphine Blue'' (2007) * ''Ip Man'' (2008) * '' Team Batista no Eikō'' (2008) * '' The Handsome Suit'' (2008) * ''Otonari'' (2009) * '' Space Battleship Yamato'' (2010) * ''The Wrath of Vajra'' (2013) * '' S The Last Policeman - Recovery of Our Future'' (2015) * '' Railroad Tigers'' (2016) * '' Manhunt'' (2017) * ''Eating Women'' (2018) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge
Warm, WARM, or Warmth may refer to: * A somewhat high temperature * Kindness Music * Warm (The Lettermen album), ''Warm'' (The Lettermen album), 1967, and the title song * Warm (Johnny Mathis album), ''Warm'' (Johnny Mathis album), 1958, and the title song * Warm (Herb Alpert album), ''Warm'' (Herb Alpert album), 1969 * Warm (Jeff Tweedy album), ''Warm'' (Jeff Tweedy album), 2018 * Warmer (Randy VanWarmer album), ''Warmer'' (Randy VanWarmer album), 1979 * Warmer (Jeff Tweedy album), ''Warmer'' (Jeff Tweedy album), 2019 * "Warm", a song by Majid Jordan from ''Majid Jordan (album), Majid Jordan'', 2016 * "Warm", a song by Charli XCX featuring Haim from ''Charli (album), Charli'', 2019 * "Warmer", a song by Bea Miller from ''Chapter Two: Red'' and ''Aurora'', 2017 * "Warmth", by C418 from ''Music of Minecraft#Minecraft - Volume Beta, Minecraft - Volume Beta'', 2013 Other uses * ''Warm.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), Danish botanist * WARM (foundat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akihiko Shiota
(born 11 September 1961, Maizuru, Kyoto) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Shiota attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyama and began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyo students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His independently made films were recognized at the Pia Film Festival and he began writing film criticism and working as an assistant for Kurosawa and other filmmakers. He also studied screenwriting under Atsushi Yamatoya, who wrote scenarios for Seijun Suzuki, and worked as the cinematographer for films by Takayoshi Yamaguchi. His first two films as a director, ''Moonlight Whispers'' and '' Don't Look Back'', were both released in 1999 and earned Shiota the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ''Don't Look Back'' also won the Jury Prize at the Three Continents Festival. ''Harmful Insect'' (2002) screened at the Venice Film Festival and earned two more awards at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Whispers
is a 1999 Japan film directed by Akihiko Shiota and based on the manga ''Gekko no sasayaki'' by Masahiko Kikuni. Plot A boy (Takuya) meets a girl (Satsuki), both 17 years of age, and they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes Satsuki brands Takuya ''hentai'' (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him. She has him watch as she had sex with another man, then asks him to lick her body. Cast * Kenji Mizuhashi as Takuya Hidaka * Tsugumi as Satsuki Kitahara * Kōta Kusano as Tadashi Uematsu * Harumi Inoue as Shizuka Kitahara * Yoshiki Sekino as Maruken Reception The film has received mixed reviews, scoring 57 out of 100 on the review aggregator site Metacritic. Awards * 1999: Special Jury Prize at the 10th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival * 1999: Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award * 1999: Hochi Film Award (Best New Director for Akihiko Shiota) * 1999: Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
