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Takayuki Hattori
is a Japanese film, television, video game and non-soundtrack music composer, arranger and conductor. He is the son of the composer Katsuhisa Hattori and grandson of composer Ryoichi Hattori. He has won three Japan Academy Prize awards in the category Outstanding Achievement in Music and was the music director of the Japan Pavilion at the Expo 2010. In recent years, Hattori has worked with popular supergroup JAM Project, serving as orchestral arranger and conductor on two of their albums, ''Victoria Cross'' and ''THUMB RISE AGAIN'', as well as in their live concerts promoting said albums. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris in 1988 and since then has worked in Japan. The works he has scored include all of the ''Slayers'' anime films and OAV series, ''Martian Successor Nadesico'' anime television series and film, live-action films ''Godzilla 2000'', '' Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla'' and ''Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald'', anime television series '' Battle Athletes'', '' Code ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Athletes
is a Japanese franchise which includes an OVA series animated by AIC, a manga by Yūki Nakano, and a 26-episode anime television series that aired on TV Tokyo from October 1997 to March 1998. A reboot manga, ''Pale Blue Dot: Battle Athletes Daiundōkai ReSTART!'', was serialized from July 2020 to March 2021, and a new anime series was announced. The new anime television series by Seven aired from April to June 2021 on TV Asahi's block. Crunchyroll, formerly Funimation, licensed the new series and the English dub debuted on September 27, 2022. Plot Battle Athletes ''Battle Athletes'' is a six-episode OVA set in the distant future where, after many years of war with an extraterrestrial race, a contest of physical strength between one representative from each race is agreed. Although the alien race is far superior to the humans, the human champion prevailed, marking an era of peace for humanity. A University Satellite is created where the greatest athletes of the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanzawa Naoki
is a 2013 and 2020 Japanese television series by Japanese broadcaster TBS based on the of novels by . It follows the story of Hanzawa Naoki, a banker working for the largest bank in Japan, Tokyo Chuo Bank. He faces numerous obstacles from upper management as he climbs his way up the ranks. The show received consistently high ratings: the final episode of Season 1 reached 42.2% of viewers in the Kanto area, the highest figure for a drama in the Heisei Era. The show's popularity in viewer polls achieved the highest rating in three decades of Japanese television drama. Following its success as the most-watched series in Japan, ''Hanzawa Naoki'' made was broadcast overseas in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as Jamaica and the Marshall Islands. It was also distributed by Japan Foundation in some Latin American countries such as Mexico and Paraguay, dubbed in Spanish. A second season was announced in 2019, scheduled for the spring of 2020. Due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Doraemon Films
This list of ''Doraemon'' films features both feature-length and short films based on the manga and anime series ''Doraemon''. Since 1980, all of these films to date have been released by Toho. Toho currently holds worldwide distribution and licensing rights for all of the films in the series. At the Japanese box office, ''Doraemon'' had grossed more than revenue and sold more than 100 million tickets by 2015, having surpassed ''Godzilla'' as the highest-grossing film franchise in Japan. , the ''Doraemon'' films have grossed a total of () worldwide. ''Doraemon'' is the highest-grossing anime film franchise of all time, the highest-grossing non-English film franchise, and one of the highest-grossing animated film franchises worldwide. Feature films Most of the original series films were directed by Tsutomu Shibayama. Shunsuke Kikuchi was the music and composer of the movies from the year 1980 to 2000, except the 1998 and 1999 movies, whose music was composed by Senri Ohe. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nodame Cantabile
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoko Ninomiya. It was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the ''josei'' manga magazine ''Kiss'' from July 2001 to October 2009 and collected in 23 ''tankōbon'' volumes. A two-volume sequel, called ''Nodame Cantabile: Encore Opera Chapter'', which began serialization in the December 2009 issue of ''Kiss'', was released in 2010. In 2016 a one-shot epilogue chapter was published in the April edition of ''Kiss''. It was licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga. The series depicts the relationship between two aspiring classical musicians, Megumi "Nodame" Noda and Shinichi Chiaki, as university students and after graduation. The series has been adapted as four different television series: as an award-winning Japanese live-action drama that aired in 2006 followed by a sequel television special that aired in January 2008, as an anime series spanning three seasons with the first broadcast in 2007, the second in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero (2001 TV Series)
''Hero'' is a Japanese drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2001. Hero achieved the highest Japanese TV drama ratings record in 25 years (average audience share over the entire series = 34.3%). It was so successful that it spawned a 2006 miniseries and a feature film entitled '' Hero: The Movie'' which reached #3 on the 2007 top-grossing film chart in Japan. Starting July 2014, Fuji TV aired a second series entitled ''Hero 2'', which had Takuya Kimura reprising his role. Plot Kuryu Kohei is a young public prosecutor who gets transferred to a division in Tokyo from Aomori. Kuryu is unlike a typical prosecutor; he refuses to wear a suit and tie, opting for casual clothing, his trademark orange down jacket and stylish boots. He looks and behaves more like a Generation X slacker. He is known for always buying bizarre items from infomercials and the home shopping network. Kuryu is a high-school dropout who was falsely accused of a felony, cleared only by a public pros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Teacher Onizuka
''Great Teacher Onizuka'', officially abbreviated as ''GTO'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from January 1997 to February 2002, with its chapters compiled into twenty-five ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. It is a continuation of Fujisawa's earlier manga series ''Shonan Junai Gumi'' and ''Bad Company'', both of which focus on the life of Onizuka before becoming a teacher. Due to the popularity of the manga, several adaptations of ''GTO'' were created, including a twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998; a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999; and a 43-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV from J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Planet Eater
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City On The Edge Of Battle
is a 2018 Japanese computer-animated ''kaiju'' film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita, written by Gen Urobuchi, and produced by Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures, in association with Netflix. It is the 33rd film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise, the 31st ''Godzilla'' film produced by Toho, the second entry in the franchise's anime trilogy, and the third film in the franchise's Reiwa period. A sequel to the 2017 film '' Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'', the film continues the story of humans fighting to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla, this time with the help of a weapon known as Mechagodzilla. ''Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle'' was released theatrically in Japan on May 18, 2018, and was released worldwide on Netflix on July 18, 2018. A sequel, '' Godzilla: The Planet Eater'', was released in Japan on November 9, 2018. Plot Following the events of '' Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'', the ''Aratrum'' is unable to contact Haruo and the rest after their enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Of The Monsters
is a 2017 Japanese computer-animated ''kaiju'' film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita, written by Gen Urobuchi, and produced by Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures, in association with Netflix. It is the 32nd film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise, the 30th ''Godzilla'' film produced by Toho, the first animated film in the franchise, and the second film in the franchise's Reiwa era. ''Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'' follows a group of human refugees who attempt to recolonize Earth 20,000 years after the planet was taken over by Godzilla. The film was released theatrically in Japan on November 17, 2017, and was released worldwide on Netflix on January 17, 2018. It was followed by two sequels, '' Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle'' and '' Godzilla: The Planet Eater'', both of which were released in 2018. Setting In the last summer of the 20th century, giant monsters began plaguing Earth and humanity is driven to near extinction by one monster which eliminated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough (manga)
is a manga series by Mitsuru Adachi. It was published by Shogakukan in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from 1987 to 1989, and collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into a live action film in 2006, released in Japan by Toho. Plot Rough tells the story of Keisuke Yamato, a 100 m freestyle swimmer, and Ami Ninomiya, a competitive diver as they overcome their family rivalry and fall in love with each other over the course of their high school years. Their families own competing confectionery stores and Ami has grown up hating Keisuke's family because her family believes her grandfather was driven to an early death after Keisuke's grandfather copied their signature "horned owl" manju and outsold them simply by adding "ears," making it that much larger. Characters ; :''Portrayed by:'' Mokomichi Hayami :The son of a Japanese confectionery store owner and a member of Eisen Private High School's swimming club. In junior high school, he won third place in the national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Brothers (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Chūya Koyama. It has been serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Morning'' since December 2007. A 99-episode anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from April 2012 to March 2014. The manga was also adapted into a live-action film that premiered in May 2012. An anime film, ''Space Brothers #0'', premiered in August 2014. In 2011, ''Space Brothers'' won the general category at both, the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award and the 35th Kodansha Manga Award. As of March 2022, the manga had 28 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. Story In the summer of 2006, Mutta Nanba and his younger brother, Hibito, witness what they believe to be a UFO, which flies off towards the Moon. Hibito decides he will go onto the Moon whilst Mutta decides he will aim for Mars. Nineteen years later, in the year 2025, Hibito has become a fully fledged JAXA astronaut assigned to go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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