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The Balloon (1956 Film)
is a 1956 black and white Japanese film drama directed by Yuzo Kawashima based on a novel by Jiro Osaragi and adapted for the screen by Kawashima and Shohei Imamura. Plot In post-war Japan a middle aged family man connects with a woman from his past. He has two children, an arrogant son who is torn between his mistress and a new lover, and a disabled daughter who gets mixed up in the affair. Availability In 2018 the Japanese film studio Nikkatsu and VOD platform MUBI collaborated on a retrospective of the work of Kawashima to be available to stream in the US to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. ''The Balloon'' was among the films that were screened. In February 2020 the same retrospective was available to stream on MUBI in the Nordic countries. Cast * Masayuki Mori - Haruki Murakami * Tatsuya Mihashi - Keikichi Murakami * Mie Kitahara - Mikiko Mikihara * Izumi Ashikawa - Tamako Murakami * Michiyo Aratama was a Japanese film and stage actress. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuzo Kawashima
was a Japanese film director, most famous for making tragi-comic films and satires. Career Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori in the Shimokita Peninsula. From his youth, he suffered from a paralysis that affected his right leg and arm. He was educated at Meiji University, where he was a member of the film study circle. He entered the Shōchiku studios in 1938 and served as an assistant director under Minoru Shibuya and Keisuke Kinoshita before directing his first film, ''The Man Who Has Returned'', in 1944. At Shōchiku after the war, he made many comedies before switching to Nikkatsu in 1955, when the studio resumed film production. There he made such notable works as ''Burden of Love'' (1955), ''Suzaki Paradise: Akashingō, Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District'' (1956), and ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' (1957), which was later voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in Kinema Junpō's poll of 140 film critics and filmmakers in 1999. In his remaining years, Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuya Mihashi
was a Japanese actor best known internationally for his role as Commander Minoru Genda in the 1970 Japanese-American war epic ''Tora! Tora! Tora!''. In addition, Mihashi was known for his roles in Akira Kurosawa's ''The Bad Sleep Well'', ''The Human Vapor'', '' Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki'', '' High and Low'', ''None but the Brave'' and the lead role as agent Jiro Kitami in '' Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi'', which was reedited in the US as ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'' Mihashi's looks were compared to those of Cary Grant's. He died in 2004 of Myocardial infarction. Selected filmography Film * ''Nishijin no shimai'' (1952) - Hiroshi Yasui * ''Shino machi o nogarete'' (1952) - Yosaburo Sugi * ''Dôkoku'' (1952) * ''Hawai no yoru'' (1953) * ''Sincerity'' (1953) - Tôru Shimura * ''Jinanbo'' (1953) * ''Shin Tokyo koshin-kyoku'' (1953) - Kazuo Kiriyama * ''Gutei kenkei'' (1953) * ''Tôkyô madamu to Ôsaka fujin'' (1953) - Mitsuo Itô * ''Kyûkon sannin musume'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Yuzo Kawashima
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 sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Black-and-white Films
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiyo Aratama
was a Japanese film and stage actress. Biography After graduating from the Takarazuka Music and Dance School, Aratama joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1945. She gave her film debut in 1951, but it was not before 1955 that she left the Takarazuka Revue, signing first with Nikkatsu film studios, then, after her contract expired, with Toho. She worked for directors such as Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi, appearing in films like ''The Human Condition'', ''The End of Summer'', ''Kwaidan'' and ''47 Ronin''. Since the late 1970s, she concentrated solely on stage and television work. Due to health problems, she reduced her appearances after 1994. She died of heart failure in 2001. Selected filmography Films Television Awards Michiyo Aratama received the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Human Condition'' and ''Watashi wa kai ni naritai'', and the Kinema Junpo Award , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Ashikawa
is a Japanese actress. Ashikawa was called the Japanese Audrey Hepburn. In 1953, Ashikawa was scouted by director Yuzo Kawashima and joined the Shochiku studio. She made her film debut with ''Tokyomadamu to Osakafujin'' directed by Yuzo Kawashima. In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio and gained popularity. In 1968, Ashikawa married actor Tatsuya Fuji and retired. She made her final film appearance in the 1968 film ''Koto no Taiyo''. Selected filmography *''Tokyomadamu to Osakafujin'' (1953) * ''The Baby Carriage'' (1956) * '' The Balloon'' (1956) * ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' (1957) * '' Suzaki Paradise: Akashingō'' (1957) * ''Man Who Causes a Storm'' (1957) * ''The Perfect Game'' (1958) * '' Kurenai no Tsubasa'' (1958) * ''A Slope in the Sun'' (1959) * ''Mutekiga Ore o Yondeiru'' (1960) * ''Man with a Shotgun is a 1961 Japanese Western film directed by Seijun Suzuki in the vein of the Nikkatsu Studio's "borderless action cinema". Hideaki Nitani stars as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mie Kitahara
is a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1952 and 1960. She is best known for co-starring in a series of films with Yujiro Ishihara, one of postwar Japan's most famous stars, starting with ''Crazed Fruit'' in 1956. They married in 1960 and she retired from acting, assuming her married name, . Selected filmography * ''A Hole of My Own Making'' (1955) * '' Midori haruka ni'' (1955) * '' The Moon Has Risen'' (1955) * '' The Balloon'' (1956) * '' Ruri no kishi'' (1956) * ''Crazed Fruit'' (1956) * ''This Day's Life'' (1957) * '' I Am Waiting'' (1957) * ''Man Who Causes a Storm'' (1957) * ''A Slope in the Sun'' (1958) * '' Fūsoku 40 metres'' (1958) * ''Subarashiki dansei is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Umetsugu Inoue. Cast * Yujiro Ishihara * Mie Kitahara ( 北原三枝) * Mari Shiraki is a Japanese actress. She joined the Nikkatsu studio and appeared in about 100 films at Nikkatsu. Shiraki is well kno ...'' (1958) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Mori (actor)
was a Japanese actor and son of novelist Takeo Arishima. Mori appeared in many of Akira Kurosawa's films such as ''Rashomon'', ''The Idiot'' and ''The Bad Sleep Well''. He also starred in pictures by Kenji Mizoguchi (''Ugetsu''), Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki ("common people drama") films with female protagonists, ... ('' Floating Clouds'') and other prominent directors. Selected filmography Films Television External links * * Japanese male film actors People from Sapporo 1911 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiro Osaragi
Jiro is the registered name used by Sun Microsystems for an extension to Java and Jini. Jiro as an industry initiative, along with an EMC initiative called "Wide Sky" were catalysts in the late nineties for a common interface to storage devices, leading to the Bluefin specification, subsequently donated to the SNIA for the foundation of the SMI-S industry standard. Jiro was established by Sun in 1998 subsequent to acquiring a small company called Redcape Policy Software. Initially known by the moniker "StoreX," this technology was targeted at storage management. Jiro in many ways was a management oriented extension to Jini, leveraging many of Jini's ideas and capabilities for automatic detection of elements to be managed. Jiro was a Management Framework infrastructure based on a distributed runtime environment. It was standardized aJSR 9by the Java Community Process. Jiro never gained the broad industry support necessary for success, because every device had to have a custom ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
