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Sandakan No. 8
is a 1974 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai, starring Yoko Takahashi, Komaki Kurihara and Kinuyo Tanaka. It was nominated for the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It also became one of the highest-grossing Japanese films at the Chinese box office, where it generated box office admissions in the hundreds of millions. Plot A young female journalist Keiko Mitani (Komaki Kurihara) is researching an article on the history of Japanese women who were sex slaves in Asian brothels during the early 20th century. She locates Osaki (Kinuyo Tanaka), an elderly woman who lives with a number of cats in a shack in a remote village. Osaki agrees to tell her life story, and the film goes into flashback to the early 1920s. A young Osaki (Yoko Takashi) is sold by her poverty-stricken family into indentured servitude as a maid in Sandakan, British North Borneo (today’s Sabah, Malaysia) at what she believes to be a hotel. At parting, Osaki's distraught and tragic mother ...
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Kei Kumai
was a Japanese film director from Azumino, Nagano prefecture. After his studies in literature at Shinshu University, he began work as a director's assistant. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film, '' Nihon rettō'', in 1965. His 1972 film '' Shinobu Kawa'' was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1973 film ''Rise, Fair Sun'' was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. ''Sandakan No. 8'' received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II. Kinuyo Tanaka won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards. Kumai's follow-up film was 1976's ''Cape of North'', starring French actress Claude Jade as a Swiss nun who falls in love with a Japanese engineer on a trip from Marseilles to Yokohama. His 19 ...
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Eiko Mizuhara
Eiko is a feminine Japanese given name. Eikō, also spelled Eikou or Eikoh, is a masculine Japanese given name. The meanings of these names depend on the kanji used to write them. Kanji In the feminine name Eiko, "ko" is generally written with a kanji meaning "child" (), while "Ei" may be written in a wide variety of ways with either a single kanji read "ei" or two kanji read "e" and "i", including: * (first kanji meaning "eternity") * (first kanji meaning "glory" or "honour") * (first kanji meaning "flower" or "outstanding") * (first kanji meaning "lustre" or "crystal") * (first kanji meaning "river", second meaning "power") In the masculine name Eikō, both "Ei" and "kō" may be written with many different kanji, including: * ("outstanding", "duke") * ("glory", "light") People Notable people with the name Eiko include: *, Japanese actress *, Japanese former freestyle swimmer *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese historian *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, J ...
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Kinema Jumpo Awards
, commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' has been published twice a month. The magazine was founded by a group of four students, including Saburō Tanaka, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Technical High School at the time). In that first month, it was published three times on days with a "1" in them. These first three issues were printed on art paper and had four pages each. ''Kinejun'' initially specialized in covering foreign films, in part because its writers sided with the principles of the Pure Film Movement and strongly criticized Japanese cinema. It later expanded coverage to films released in Japan. While long emphasizing film criticism, it has also served as a trade journal, reporting on the film industry in Japan and announcing new films and trends.加藤 ...
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Karayuki-san
Karayuki-san (唐行きさん) was the name given to Japanese girls and women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were trafficked from poverty-stricken agricultural prefectures in Japan to destinations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Siberia (Russian Far East), Manchuria, British India, and Australia, to serve as sex workers. History were Japanese women who travelled to, or were trafficked, to various parts of the Asia-Pacific region during the second half of the 19th, and the first half of the 20th centuries, to work as prostitutes, courtesans, and geisha. During this period, there was a network of Japanese prostitutes being trafficked across Asia, in what was then known as the ’ Yellow Slave Traffic’. Many of the women who went overseas to work as ''karayuki-san'' were the daughters of poor farming or fishing families, or were ''burakumin''. The mediators, both male and female, who arranged for the women to go overseas would search for those of appropriate age in ...
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Omar Hitam Aka Udo Omar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph , image = تخطيط كلمة الخلفاء الراشدون.png , caption = Calligraphic representation of Rashidun Caliphs , birth_place = Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia present-day Saudi Arabia , known_for = Companions of ..., ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634. Umar was a senior Companions of the Prophet, companion and father-in-law of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also an expert Faqīh, Muslim jurist known for his pious and just nature, which earned him the epithet ''al-Fārūq'' ("the one who distinguishes (between right and wrong)"). Umar initially opposed Muhammad, his distant Qurayshite kinsman and later son-in-law. Following his conversion to Islam in 616, he became the first Muslims, ...
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Siti Sundari Samad Aka Siti Tanjung Perak
Siti or SITI may refer to: People * Siti (given name), a common Malay female given name * Siti Kassim (born 1961), Comorian politician * Siti Mwinyi (born 1932), Tanzanian first lady * Beáta Siti (born 1973), Hungarian handball player and coach * Eszter Siti (born 1977), Hungarian handball player * Walid Siti (born 1952), Kurdish artist *Siti Badriah (born 1991), musical artist Dancedhut at the Productions Nagaswara * Places * Siti Hydroelectric Power Station (other) Other * Siti, character in Opera Jawa * Saratoga International Theater Institute, theater company in New York, United States * SITI: An Iconic Exhibition of Dato' Siti Nurhaliza * Siti (film), 2014 Indonesian film * Siti Networks * Siti language Sιtι (Sitigo) is a Gurunsi ( Gur) language of Ghana. It has been mistaken for a dialect of Vagla.Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices References Languages of Ghana Gurunsi langua ... * Stevens ...
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Kaneko Iwasaki
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founded in , Japan, by Hiroshi Kaneko. It published a number of games both under its brand and other companies, such as '''', '' Nexzr'', '' Shogun Warriors'', ''

Mitsuo Hamada
is a Japanese actor. He co-starred with Sayuri Yoshinaga in many Nikkatsu films. In 1960, Hamada joined Nikkatsu Company. He won his first major award at the Elan d'or Awards in 1961. In 1966, Hamada was involved in the quarrel at the bar in Nagoya and came close to losing an eye. The incident hindered his acting career. Hamada appeared in the ''Tokusatsu'' superhero series ''Ultraman Gaia'' in 1999. Selected filmography Film * ''Foundry Town'' (1962) : Tsukamoto Katsumi * '' Bad Girl'' (1963) * ''Dorodarake no Junjō'' (1963) * ''Utsukushi Jyudai'' (1964) * ''Gazing at Love and Death'' (1964) * ''Izu no Odoriko'' (1963) * '' Outlaw: Gangster VIP'' (1968) : Tsujikawa Takeo * '' Daikanbu Nagurikomi'' (1969) * ''Fuji sanchō'' (1970) : Sokkō * ''Sandakan No. 8'' (1974) : Satō * ''Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon'' (1974) : Kiyoharu Nakanishi * '' KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops'' (1977) as Goro Totsuka * ''Inubue'' (1978) * ''Tempyō no Iraka'' (1980) : Genrō * '' A Litre of Tear ...
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Hideo Sunazuka
Hideo (ひでお) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hideo Den (田 英夫, 1923–2009), Japanese politician and news presenter * Hideo Fujimoto (藤本 英雄, 1918–1997), Japanese baseball player * Hideo Fukui (福井 英郎, born 1977), Japanese athlete who competes in triathlon * Hideo Fukuyama (福山 英朗, born 1955), Japanese NASCAR driver * Hideo Gosha (五社 英雄, 1929–1992), Japanese film director * Hideo Hagiwara (萩原 英雄, 1913–2007), Japanese artist *, Japanese marathon runner * Hideo Hashimoto (橋本 英郎, born 1979), Japanese footballer * Hideo Higashikokubaru (東国原 英夫, born 1957), Japanese comedian, best known for his role in ''Takeshi's Castle'' and the current governor of Miyazaki Prefecture * Hideo Hiraoka (平岡 秀夫, born 1954), Japanese politician *, Japanese sprinter and baseball player * Hideo Ishikawa (石川 英郎, born 1969), Japanese voice actor * Hideo Itokawa (糸川 英夫, 191 ...
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Tomoko Jinbo
Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 友子 - "friendly child" * 知子 - "knowing child" * 智子 - "wise child" * 朋子 - "friendly child" * 皆子 - "beautiful girl" * 詩子 - "poetic child" People with the name * , Japanese politician * , Japanese voice actress * Tomoko Aran (荒野智子), born January 14, 1958, Japanese city pop artist * , Japanese judoka * , Japanese origami writer * , Japanese swimmer * , Japanese announcer * , Japanese actress and essayist * , Japanese motorcycle racer * , Japanese actress * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese politician * , victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo ''Tomoko and Mother in the Bath'' * , Japanese singer * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese artist * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese singer * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe * , Japa ...
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Eitaro Ozawa
, also credited as Sakae Ozawa (小沢栄), was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1988, directed by notable filmmakers such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Kaneto Shindō. Selected filmography Films * ''Lady from Hell'' (1949) as Fujimura * ''Lightning'' (1952) * ''Ugetsu'' (1953) * ''The Crucified Lovers'' (1954) * ''Princess Yang Kwei-Fei'' (1955) * ''Wolf'' (1955) * ''A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love'' (1955) * ''An Actress'' (1956) * '' Suzakumon'' (1957) * ''The H-Man'' (1958) * '' The Loyal 47 Ronin'' (1958) * ''Tsukihime keizu'' (1958) * ''Ballad of the Cart'' (1959) * '' Lucky Dragon No. 5'' (1959) * ''When a Woman Ascends the Stairs'' (1960) * ''Scar Yosaburo'' (1960) * ''Go to Hell, Hoodlums!'' (1960) * ''The Demon of Mount Oe'' (1960) * ''Kurenai no Kenju'' (1961) * ''The Mad Fox'' (1962) * ''Gorath'' (1962) * '' Assassination'' (1964) * ''Our Blood Will Not Forgive'' (1964) * '' Akuto'' (1965) * ''Shiroi Kyotō ...
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Masayo Umezawa
Masayo (written: 雅世 or 雅代, 政代, 正世 or 匡代) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese synchronized swimmer and coach *, Japanese entomologist *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese diver *, Japanese physician, ophthalmologist and stem cell researcher *, Japanese politician See also * 5295 Masayo, a main-belt asteroid {{given name Japanese feminine given names ...
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