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Southbound (2007 Film)
is a 2007 Japanese movie directed by Yoshimitsu Morita and starring Toyokawa Etsushi and Yūki Amami. Based on the novel of the same name by Hideo Okuda, it tells the story of a schoolboy whose family moves from Tokyo to Okinawa. It began filming in May 2007 in Tokyo; the crew went to Okinawa for on-location filming at the end of June. Its theme song is " Eien no Uta" by Nakashima Mika. Cast * Etsushi Toyokawa as 'Ichiro Uehara' (as a father who was an extremism activist) * Yūki Amami as 'Sakura Uehara' (as a mother who was an extremism activist) * Keiko Kitagawa as 'Yoko Uehara' (as a Sakura's daughter) * Shuto Tanabe as 'Jiro Uehara' (as a Eldest son. 6th grade schoolboy. This movie's protagonist) * Rina Matsumoto as 'Momoko Uehara' (as a Second daughter. 4th grade schoolgirl. She loves being bitten by her father) * Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Officer 'Niigaki' (He fell in love with Yoko at first sight.) * Mitsuru Hirata as the Principal * Hideko Yoshida is a Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshimitsu Morita
was a Japanese film director who was born in Tokyo. Career Self-taught, first making shorts on 8 mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature film debut with ''No Yōna Mono'' (''Something Like It'', 1981).Mark Schillin"Director Yoshimitsu Morita dies" ''Chicago Tribune'', 21 December 2011 In 1983 he won acclaim for his movie ''Kazoku Gēmu ( The Family Game)'', which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the '' Kinema Junpo'' magazine poll.Roger Mac"Yoshimitsu Morita: Director best known for 'The Family Game'" ''The Independent'', 3 January 2012 This black comedy dealt with then-recent changes in the structure of Japanese home life. It also earned Morita the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. The director has been nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for ''Ashura no Gotoku'' ('' Like Asura'', 2003). He also won the award for best director at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for ''39 keihō dai sanj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keiko Kitagawa
is a Japanese actress and former model. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese '' Seventeen'' magazine from late 2003 to mid-2006, and quit modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon'' (2003-2004), and after her role in the film '' Mamiya Kyōdai'', she left modeling to concentrate on acting. She has appeared in several films, including '' The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) and ''Handsome Suit'' (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas ''Mop Girl'' (2007), ''Homeroom on the Beachside'' (2008), '' Buzzer Beat'' (2009), ''Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile'' (2011), and ''Akumu-chan'' (2012). Biography Personal life and career Kitagawa was born on August 22, 1986 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. She grew up in Kobe, and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. As a child, she wanted to be a doctor, but by the time she reached high school she was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Japanese Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Okinawa Prefecture
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadokawa Daiei Studio Films
Kadokawa may refer to: * Kadokawa Corporation, the holding company of the Kadokawa Group **Kadokawa Content Gate and Kadokawa Mobile, both former names for BookWalker **Kadokawa Future Publishing, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation and the publishing side of Kadokawa with its brand companies **Kadokawa Light Novel Expo, an event held yearly by Kadokawa Corporation, dedicated to news for their various light novel series. **Kadokawa Pictures Kadokawa Daiei Studio, formerly is the film division of the Japanese company the Kadokawa Corporation. It is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is therefore one of Japan's Big Four film studi ..., the film production branch, at various times called Kadokawa Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd., Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Inc. and Kadokawa Shoten Pictures, Inc. ** Kadokawa Shoten, a publishing house, or its subsidiaries. Currently a brand company of Kadokawa Future Publishing * Genyoshi Kadokawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of '' Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Insurance Agency
The was an agency administered by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. After a scandal involving millions of lost pension records, on January 1, 2010 it was abolished and replaced by the Japan Pension Service. It was responsible for four types of social insurance * Employees’ Health Insurance * Seamens' Insurance * Employees’ Pension Insurance * The National Pension. Pension records problem The Social Insurance Agency computerized their records in 1979 and in 1997 the SIA attempted to integrate three different databases together. Numerous problems resulted from this and in May 2007 it was exposed by the then-opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan that 50 million pre-1997 premium payers could not be matched to any citizen enrolled in the system. The then-ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, subsequently suffered a loss in the 2007 election, which was partly attributed to the pension scandal.The Japan Times websitRuling coalition suffers huge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideko Yoshida
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for ''Shaso''. Filmography * '' Neo Tokyo'' (1989) * ''Shaso'' (1989) * ''The Pillow Book'' (1996) * ''Will to Live'' (1999) * '' By Player'' (2000) * '' Cutie Honey'' (2004) * ''Heaven's Bookstore is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka. Plot Kenta (Tetsuji Tamayama), a ...'' (2004) * '' Southbound'' (2007) References 1944 births Living people Japanese actresses Actors from Ishikawa Prefecture People from Kanazawa, Ishikawa {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuru Hirata
is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award and the award for best supporting actor at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Fall Guy''. Filmography Films *'' Fall Guy'' (1982), Yasu *''Theater of Life'' (1983) *''Time and Tide'' (1984) *''Shanghai Rhapsody'' (1984) *''Final Take'' (1986) *''Love & Pop'' (1998) *'' First Love'' (2000) *'' The Man In White'' (2003) *'' The Ode to Joy'' (2006) *'' Southbound'' (2007) *''The Lone Scalpel'' (2010) *'' Rebirth'' (2011) *''The Woodsman and the Rain'' (2011) *''Angel Home'' (2013) *''The Mourner'' (2015) *''Gukoroku: Traces of Sin'' (2017) *''And Then There Was Light'' (2017) *'' Memoirs of a Murderer'' (2017) *''We Are'' (2018) *''5 Million Dollar Life'' (2019) *'' Listen to the Universe'' (2019) *'' Fukushima 50'' (2020) *''The Asadas'' (2020) *''Dreaming of the Meridian Arc'' (2022) *''Call Me Chihiro'' (2023), Bitō Television *''Bakumatsu Seishun Graffiti: Fukuzawa Yukichi'' (1985) - John Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken'ichi Matsuyama
is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films '' Death Note'', '' Death Note 2: The Last Name'' and '' L: Change the World'' in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the '' Death Note'' animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel '' Norwegian Wood'', which was released in December 2010. Personal life On April 1, 2011, he married Koyuki Katō, who co-starred with him in '' Kamui Gaiden''. The couple's first child was born in January 2012, and their second child was born in January 2013 in South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas .... In July 2015, the couple had their third child. Filmog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Matsumoto
Rina or RINA may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Rina (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Kento Rina, Indian politician * Mahfuza Rahman Rina, Bangladeshi politician * Tongam Rina (born 1979), Indian journalist and human rights activist * Ita Rina, stage name of Yugoslav actress Tamara Đorđević (1907-1979) * Rina (rapper), Kosovo-Albanian rapper, singer and songwriter Rina Balaj * A member of South Korean girl group Weki Meki * Rina (wrestler), Japanese professional wrestler Acronyms * Recursive Internetwork Architecture, a computer network architecture proposed as an alternative to the TCP/IP model * Registro Italiano Navale, the Italian shipping register * Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London Other uses * ''Rina'' (EP), the debut extended play by British-Japanese singer Rina Sawayama * ''Rina'' (TV series), a Mexican telenovela, or its main character * Hurricane Rina (2011), which made landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuto Tanabe
is a Japanese footballer who plays as a right-back for J1 League club, Kawasaki Frontale is a Japanese professional football club based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Their home stadium is Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium, in Nakahara .... Career statistics Club . References External links * 2002 births Living people Association football people from Kyoto Prefecture Japanese men's footballers Japan men's youth international footballers Men's association football defenders Kawasaki Frontale players JEF United Chiba players J2 League players {{Japan-footy-defender-2000s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
