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Shirō Sano
is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Sano lived in Tokyo and Matsue, Shimane as a child, before returning to Tokyo to enter art school. He joined several theatrical troupes, including Jurō Kara's Jōkyō Gekijō. He had his first starring role in a film in Kaizō Hayashi's '' To Sleep so as to Dream'' in 1986, but gained fame for playing the character Fuyuhiko in the television drama ''Zutto Anata ga Suki datta'' in 1992. He directed his first film, ''Karaoke'', in 1999. Filmography Films *''To Sleep so as to Dream'' (1986) *'' Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis'' (1988) *'' Tomorrow'' (1988) *'' Violent Cop'' (1989) *''It's a Summer Vacation Everyday'' (1994) *''Sharaku'' (1995) *''Karaoke'' (1999) (as director) *''Godzilla 2000'' (1999) *''The Princess Blade'' (2001) *'' Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack'' (2001) *''Infection'' (2004) – Dr. Kiyoshi Akai *'' Godzilla: Final Wars'' (2004) *'' The Sun'' (2005) *''Waiting in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamanashi, Yamanashi
file:Yamanashi City Center from Fuefuki River, Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.jpg, 270px, Yamanashi city center from the Fuefuki River is a Cities of Japan, city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 34,738 in 14,679 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Yamanashi City is located in north-central Yamanashi Prefecture in the northeastern end of the Kofu Basin. The city is flat in the south, rising toward mountains to the north. The Fuefuki River flows through the city. Neighboring municipalities *Yamanashi Prefecture **Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Fuefuki, Kōfu, Yamanashi, Kōfu, Kōshū, Yamanashi, Kōshū *Saitama Prefecture **Chichibu, Saitama, Chichibu *Nagano Prefecture **Minamisaku District, Nagano, Minamisaku District: Kawakami, Nagano, Kawakami Climate The city has a Humid continental climate characterized by characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively severe winte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persona (2008 Film)
is a 2008 film written and directed by Tatsuro Kashihara. The film premiered on January 1, 2008 in Japan. It was gravure idol Mami Yamasaki's first starring role in a film. Synopsis Doctor Koichiro Kiba's wife Sayoko takes a new job at the secret LIS Research Institute, but soon "collapses during the meeting, probably heart failure", and dies, or so we believe. It turns out that her personality was recorded and then put into another woman, Misono, a student who now has two personalities that take turns operating the body. She also develops super-human fighting skills as a "Persona." Several other characters also become Personas, part of a government plan for military use, though originally intended to preserve part of you after death. Cast * Mami Yamasaki * Koji Moritsugu * Kumiko Nakano * Masato Hagiwara * Akira Otaka * Naoko Inoue * Makoto Kai * Yuichi Kimura * Tôshirô Muraki * Aimi Nakamura * Maria Abe * Satoshi Nikaido * Naoya Ohshima * Shirō Sano * Sawa Suzuki * Mariko T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuitan 2
, or the Gluttonous Detective 2, is a Japanese TV drama aired on Nippon TV from April 14, 2007, to June 23, 2007, at 21:00 on Saturdays. The sequel of the Japanese TV drama Kuitan aired in 2006. The TV series Kuitan and Kuitan 2 were inspired by the manga kuitan, but the episodes presented in the TV series are different from those in the original manga series. Cast *Noriyuki Higashiyama as Seiya Takano, The Kuitan *Gō Morita as Ryōsuke Noda * Kotomi Kyōno as Momo Ogata *Mikako Ichikawa as Kyōko Idemizu *Kenta Suga as Hajime Kaneda *Shirō Sano as Detective Igarashi *Shirō Itō as Chief Yamauchi *Rina Koike as Rei Kinoshita Guests *Kinako Kobayashi (episode 2) *Aki Maeda (episode 8) *Airi Taira (episode 8) *Akira Kubo is a Japanese actor who has appeared in over 70 films since 1952. He starred in the film ''Arashi'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Arashi'' (1956) as Saburo Mizusawa * ''Snow Coun ... (episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Boys 2
is a Japanese drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2004. The series is very closely related in style to the first season of '' Water Boys'', except set in a girls school. Story Three years ago, the former all-girl Himeno High School opened its doors to male students, but the school still retains its female-dominated environment as the school still has a majority female population. Eikichi Mizushima transfers into the school from a prestigious Aoba High School in Tokyo, where he was previously a member of the swimming team, to be with his grandfather, Kamekichi, while his father was away in New York City starting a new business. Yōsuke Yamamoto always wanted to have a boys' sports club in the school and, when he heard about Eikichi's involvement with the swim club, decided to make his own. Starting from scratch, the boys must go through similar hardships to start their own swimming club, except this time they have a strong opposition of the female presence. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana No Ran
was the 33rd Taiga drama to be broadcast on the NHK network in Japan. It premiered on 3 April 1994 and its finale aired on 25 December of the same year. Plot The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. The main character in the series is Hino Tomiko, a historical figure with a bad reputation because of her actions to rebuild Kyoto after the Ōnin War. Cast ;Hino and Ashikaga *Hino Tomiko: Yoshiko Mita **Young Tomiko: Takako Matsu *Ashikaga Yoshimasa: Ichikawa Danjūrō XII **Young Yoshimasa: Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII *Hino Shigeko: Machiko Kyō *Hino Katsumitsu: Masao Kusakari *Hino Mitsuko: Yoshie Taira *Ashikaga Yoshimi: Shirō Sano *Takao Osawa: Ashikaga Yoshiki ;Hosokawa *Hosokawa Katsumoto: Nomura Mansai ;Yamana *Yamana Sōzen: Yorozuya Kinnosuke ;Imperial Court *Emperor Go-Hanazono: Shun Ōide *Ichijō Kaneyoshi: Taketoshi Naito *Nijō Mochimichi: Yū Fujiki ;Others *Junkichi Orimoto: Zenami * Ōuchi Masahiro: Hiroshi Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nezura 1964
is a 2020 Japanese crowdfunded ''kaiju'' biopic film directed by Hiroto Yokokawa. The film was based on Daiei's unfinished 1964 ''Gamera'' precursor, ''Giant Horde Beast Nezura'' and stars Yukijirō Hotaru as a character based on the president of Daiei, Mai Saito, Mach Fumiake, and Shirō Sano. Cast * Yukijirō Hotaru as Nagano * Kazuma Yoneyama as Yukawa * Norman England as Schmidt * Ippei Osako as Shigeo * Yoshiro Uchida as Takiyama * Shirō Sano as Azuma *Noboru Sato as Muraoka * Mai Saito as Junko * Mach Fumiake as Monto * Masanori Kikuzawa as Tsukaji *Himawari Ono as Sachiko * Bin Furuya as Oyaji * Akira Ohashi as Mammoth Nezura Production On December 7, 2020, Takuya Imahori and Michiaki Watanabe was announced as the film's composers. Release Theatrical ''Nezura 1964'' was first released in Tokyo released on December 19, 2020. A month later, it was released nationwide on January 16, 2021. Home media The film was released to DVD in Japan in January 2021 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsukichi Minobe
was a Japanese statesman and scholar of constitutional law. His interpretation of the role of the monarchy in the pre-war Empire of Japan was a source of considerable controversy in the increasingly radicalized political environment of Japan in the 1930s. His wife was the daughter of Dairoku Kikuchi, and his son Ryokichi Minobe was governor of Tokyo (1967–1979). Biography Minobe was born in Takasago city, Hyōgo prefecture to a doctor of Chinese medicine. He graduated from the law school of Tokyo Imperial University in 1897, where one of his mentors was future Privy Councilor Ichiki Kitokurō. He went to work for the Home Ministry, and was sent for further studies to Germany, France and the United Kingdom, returning to Japan in 1902 to take up a position as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1912, Minobe published a work on constitutional interpretation, which came to be known as the “emperor organ theory”. Per Minobe, the “State”, or ''kokutai'' was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoto Kan
is a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011. Kan was the first Prime Minister since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than one year, with his predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzō Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election. On 26 August 2011, Kan announced his resignation. Yoshihiko Noda was elected as his successor. On 1 August 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of the UN high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda. Early life and education Kan was born in Ube, Yamaguchi, the eldest son of Hisao Kan, the executive director of the glass manufacturing company Central Glass. He graduated in 1970 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and became a licensed ''benrishi'' (patent agent/attorney) in 1971. Diet career After graduating from college, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukushima 50 (film)
''Fukushima 50'' is a 2020 Cinema of Japan, Japanese disaster film, disaster drama (film and television), drama film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu and written by Yōichi Maekawa. Starring Koichi Sato (actor), Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, it is about the titular Fukushima 50, group of employees tasked with handling the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The film is based on the book by Ryusho Kadota, titled ''On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi'', and it is the first Japanese film to depict the disaster. Synopsis At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history with a magnitude of 9.1 and a maximum seismic intensity of 7 occurred. A huge tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It was clear that a nuclear reactor lost all power due to flooding by the tsunami. A ''Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, station blackout'' (SBO) caused the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Little Monster
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Robico about the relationship between a girl named Shizuku Mizutani and a boy named Haru Yoshida. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Dessert'' magazine from August 23, 2008 to June 24, 2013. An anime adaptation by Brain's Base aired from October 2 to December 25, 2012. It was also streamed on Crunchyroll during its original run. Plot ''My Little Monster'' focuses on the relationship between Shizuku Mizutani, who has absolutely no interests except in studying and her plans for the future, and a boy named Haru Yoshida, who sits next to Shizuku in class but rarely attends school. After Shizuku is tasked with delivering class printouts to Haru's home, she meets Haru, who immediately greets her as a friend, starting their new relationship. Nicknamed "dry ice," Shizuku is renowned as a girl who is emotionless and cold. However, when she meets Haru she is touched by his innocence and his lack of knowledge concerning human relationships. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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