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Shinjuku Swan (film)
is a 2015 Japanese comedy film directed by Sion Sono based on the manga of the same name by Ken Wakui. It was released in Japan on May 30, 2015. Plot Tatsuhiko, an unemployed young man, gets into a fight with a gang and is rescued by Mako, a scout who recruits girls to work for the Burst scouting agency run by Yamashiro in Kabukichō, a red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Tatsuhiko learns the trade and becomes a scout as well, with Yosuke as his direct superior. Yamashiro, the boss of the Burst scouting agency, is pressured by a need to pay extravagant protection payments to Chairman Shuzen Amano of the Monbukai family, who demands a bigger cut due to a better offer from the rival Harlem scouting agency. Matsukata, the boss of the rival Harlem scouting agency, feels that his agency is letting Shinjuku be taken over by Burst. Harlem scout Hideyoshi Minami attempts to take control of the gray zone for his agency alone while he also works behind his boss Matsukata's back to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sion Sono
Sion may refer to * an alternative transliteration of Zion People * Sion (name) or Siôn, a Welsh and other given name and surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Shion or Sion, a Japanese given name Places France * Sion, Gers, France * Sion, Saxon-Sion, Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France * Sion-les-Mines, Loire-Atlantique department, France * Sion-sur-l'Océan, Vendee department, France * Mont Sion, namesake of the Priory of Sion India * Sion, Mumbai, India **Sion Causeway **Sion Creek **Sion Hillock Fort **Sion railway station (India) Switzerland * Sion, Switzerland ** Sion District ** Sion Airport ** Sion railway station (Switzerland) ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion ** Sion Cathedral Elsewhere * Sion (Asia Minor), a former ancient city and bishopric, and present Latin Catholic titular see in Asian Turkey * Sion, Alberta, Canada * Sion, Czech Republic, a castle * Sion, Netherlands Other uses * Sion (periodical), ''Sion'' (peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Sawajiri
is a Japanese former actress, singer, and model. After starting out as a junior model, Sawajiri transitioned to acting in 2002 and has starred in ''Break Through!'', ''Shinobi: Heart Under Blade'', and ''1 Litre no Namida (TV series), 1 Litre of Tears'', for all of which she received several newcomer acting awards. Sawajiri also launched a singing career through the 2006 television drama ''Taiyō no Uta (TV series), Taiyō no Uta'', where her first commercially-released Taiyō no Uta (song), song of the same name was certified Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. She later released solo music under the name Erika. In 2007, Sawajiri went on hiatus after her public image was affected by her controversial statements and personal relationships. She later returned to acting in 2010 and starred in ''Helter Skelter (manga), Helter Skelter'', for which she received a Best Leading Actress nomination at the 36th Japan Academy Film Prize. On November 16, 2019, she was arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Business Asia
''Film Business Asia'' was a film trade magazine based in Hong Kong. The magazine was created in 2010 by Patrick Frater, former journalist for ''Variety'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and '' Screen International'' and Stephen Cremin, co-founder of the London Pan-Asian Film Festival. The magazine specifically focused on the film development and news of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as reviews. Its chief-film-critic was Derek Elley, former resident critic at ''Variety''. In 2011, the magazine launched the ''Asian Film Database'', boasting information on over 45,000 films in the Asia-Pacific regions It was operated by Film Business Asia Limited. See also *List of film periodicals Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ... References External links * English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōtarō Yoshida (actor)
is a Japanese actor and theatre director. He is currently affiliated with Horipro. Biography Yoshida spent six years in Osaka during his grade school days, and later grew up in Hino, Tokyo. While a student at St. Paul High School, he saw the Shakespearean comedy "Twelfth Night" by the Kumo Theater Company and decided to become an actor. While studying at the Department of German Literature in the Faculty of Literature at Sophia University, he made his debut by performing Twelfth Night in the Shakespeare Study Group. He later dropped out of the same university. After working with the Shiki Theatre Company for six months, he worked with Shakespeare Theatre, Lyming Theatre Company, and Tokyo Ichigumi before forming Performance Unit AUN with director Yoshihiro Kurita in 1997, which he also directed. He was valued as an actor capable of performing the roles required of foreign classics such as Shakespeare and Greek tragedies, and was a regular in Yukio Ninagawa's productions. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorena Kotō
Lorena may refer to: *Lorena (name), a given name *Lorena (footballer), Brazilian footballer *Lorena (singer), Spanish pop singer In arts and entertainment * ''Lorena'' (album), a 2007 album by Spanish singer Lorena * "Lorena" (song), an 1856 song by Joseph Phillbrick Webster * ''Lorena'' (telenovela), a Colombian soap opera * ''Lorena'' (TV series), an Amazon Video documentary series Places * Lorena, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas, US * Lorena, São Paulo, a municipality in Brazil * Lorena, Texas, a city in McLennan County, Texas, US * Masonic, California, US, alternately called Lorena * ''Lorena'', the Italian exonym for the French region of Lorraine ** ''Lorena'', the Italian version of the name of the House of Lorraine that ruled this region Other uses * Lorena adobe stove, a type of cook stove * ''Lorena'' (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Apostasimerini See also * Hurricane Lorena (other) * Loreena, a given name * Loren (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Kubota
is a Japanese actor and model whose work has included stage, television and film roles. He is best known as the character Takatora Kureshima / Kamen Rider Zangetsu / Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin in the Kamen Rider series ''Kamen Rider Gaim''. He is currently affiliated with thJapan Music Entertainmentagency. Career Kubota debuted as a magazine model in 2002 after being scouted in Harajuku. In 2007 he made his theatrical debut as Hal Kurabayashi in the stage play ''Switch'', based on the manga of the same name. Also in the same year he got small roles in TV series such as ''Oniyome Nikki'' and ''Jotei'', as well as a brief appearance in '' Kamen Rider: The Next''. A year later he got the part of Keigo Atobe in the stage play '' Prince of Tennis Musical''. In 2009 he starred in the stage adaptation of Capcom's video game ''Sengoku Basara'' as Date Masamune. After playing the character for four years, he transitioned to a broader career in films and TV. In 2010, Kubota got his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuaki Kaneko
is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is nicknamed and N.K. He is a member of the rock band Rize. He is represented with Itoh Company and his label is Illchill. He graduated from Horikoshi High School. Kaneko's father was Johnny Yoshinaga who was also a drummer, and his mother is singer Mari Kaneko. His younger brother is Kensuke Kaneko (known as KenKen) who is the bassist of Rize, and the brothers formed a rhythm section. In November 2013, Kaneko married a non-celebrity woman who is a former model. Discography Bands *Gonna Be Fun: a band formed in ''Ponkickies'' with Rie Tomosaka (vocals) and Takumi Samejima (guitar). On 1 November 1997, the band released a single CD "Birthday Party" with Toshiba EMI. *Rize: three-piece band with Jesse (vocals) and his brother KenKen (bass). *Dadas: Indie band with Daisuke Ide (vocal and guitar), Hidenaki Tanaka (bass), Kenji Akimine (guitar) and Kaneko (drums). They belong to Disillusion Recordings. *Torcerse: a unit formed by Kaneko and KenKe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayaka Morita
, known simply as Ayaka, is a female Japanese singer, songwriter and record producer formerly signed to Warner Music Japan. Born in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to pursue a singing career. She married actor Hiro Mizushima on February 22, 2009. Biography Early life In the summer of 2003, Ayaka began a live performance in her hometown of Osaka. In the spring of 2004, she started going to the music school "Voice", the principal of which is her former music producer Yoshihiko Nishio, in Fukuoka. She commuted between Osaka and Fukuoka every weekend and started to learn a songwriting under the direction of Nishio. She eventually transferred to another high school in Fukuoka. The demo of songs which she produced in "Voice" was soon brought to the music industry and led to her contract with Warner Music Japan. 2006 In January 2006, Ayaka recorded " I Believe" as the opening theme for the Japanese drama ''Rondo''. The full single was first released as a download-only single and went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mao Asou
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. He supported Chinese nationalism and had an anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University as a librarian and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
