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The Snake Girl And The Silver-Haired Witch
is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Noriaki Yuasa. The film is about a young girl named Sayuri who is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage, but discovers that her homelife involves an amnesiac mother, her sister is confined to the attic and begins to wonder if this is related to her father's experiments with poisonous snakes. Cast Release ''The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch'' was released in Japan on December 14, 1968. It was released in the United States by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969. The film was released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video in September 2021. This was its blu-ray debut and the first time it was released on home video outside of Japan. Reception From retrospective reviews, Andrew Crump of '' Fangoria'' found that the film on paper seemed like "Japanese genre cinema at its wackiest" but was more like a ''Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animated media franchise based on an animated te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriaki Yuasa
(28 September 1933 – 14 June 2004) was a Japanese director. Yuasa is the main director of the Japanese film series ''Gamera'', about a giant flying turtle that befriends small boys and battles giant monsters. The series was created by Daiei Film Studios after the box office success of the Toho ''Godzilla'' series. Biography Noriaki Yuasa was born 28 September 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. Yuasa was the son of a stage actor and began work at a young age as a child actor. After graduating university, he began to seek work on the production of films. Yuasa joined Daiei Studios in 1955 and became director in 1964 with the musical comedy film ''Shiawasa nara te o tatake'' (). Yuasa's next project was a film tentatively tiled ''Dai gunju Nezura'' (lit. The Great Rat Swarm) which would involve real rats crawling over miniatures of cities. The rats received for the film had fleas, which halted production on ''Dai gunju Nezura''. As the miniatures for the film were already built, Masaichi Nag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Umezu
is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. He is among the most famous authors of horror manga and has been vital for its development since the 1960s. Life Umezu was born in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, but raised in the mountainous Gojō, Nara Prefecture. His mother motivated him to draw when he was seven years old. His father would tell him local legends about ghost and snake women before going to bed. He was inspired to start drawing manga by reading Osamu Tezuka's ''Shin Takarajima'' in fifth grade. He was part of a drawing circle with others called "Kaiman Club". In 1955, he published his first manga at the age of 18 with ''Mori no Kyōdai'' based on the fairytale Hansel and Gretel with the kashihon publisher Tomo Book. He would soon shift towards the gekiga movement and publish manga in the kashi-hon industry in Osaka of the time, which would allow him more freedom than serializing his manga in magazines. His specialty was to include paranormal elements in his sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiei Film
Daiei Film Co. Ltd. ( Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ''Daiei Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha'') was a Japanese film studio. Founded in 1942 as Dai Nippon Film Co., Ltd., it was one of the major studios during the postwar Golden Age of Japanese cinema, producing not only artistic masterpieces, such as Akira Kurosawa's '' Rashomon'' (1950) and Kenji Mizoguchi's ''Ugetsu'' (1953), but also launching several film series, such as ''Gamera'', ''Zatoichi'' and ''Yokai Monsters'', and making the three ''Daimajin'' films (1966). It declared bankruptcy in 1971 and was acquired by Kadokawa Pictures. History Origin Daiei Film was the product of government efforts to reorganize the film industry during World War II in order to rationalize use of resources and increase control over the medium. Against a government plan to combine all the film studios into two companies, Masaichi Nagata, an executive at Shinkō Kinema, pressed hard for an alternative plan to create three studios. His efforts won out and Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu Advertiser
''The Honolulu Advertiser'' was a daily newspaper published in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the time publication ceased on June 6, 2010, it was the largest daily newspaper in the American state of Hawaii. It published daily with special Sunday and Internet editions. ''The Honolulu Advertiser'' was the parent publisher of ''Island Weekly'', ''Navy News'', ''Army Weekly'', ''Ka Nupepa People'', ''West Oahu People'', ''Leeward People'', ''East Oahu People'', ''Windward People'', ''Metro Honolulu People'', and ''Honolulu People'' small, community-based newspapers for the public. ''The Honolulu Advertiser'' has had a succession of owners since it began publishing in 1856 under the name the ''Pacific Commercial Advertiser''. On February 25, 2010, Black Press, which owned the '' Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', purchased ''The Honolulu Advertiser'' from Gannett Pacific Corporation, which acquired the ''Advertiser'' in 1992 after it had sold the ''Star-Bulletin'' to another publisher that later sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuniko Miyake
was a Japanese actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films between 1934 and 1991. Career After graduating from Kuki High School, Miyake joined the Shochiku film studios in 1934 and made her film debut the same year with ''Yume no sasayaki''. She starred in many films directed by Yasujirō Ozu, including ''Late Spring'' and ''Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogni ...''. She also frequently appeared in television dramas. Selected filmography References External links * * 1916 births 1992 deaths Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Saitama (city) {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadashi Date
Tadashi (Kanji: 正, 禎, 忠, 荘, 匡史 Hiragana: ただし), Japanese masculine name, may refer to : *, the first aikido master to live and teach in the west *, Japanese manga story writer, novelist and screenwriter *, Japanese basketball coach *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese film critic *, a Japanese yakuza boss *, baseball catcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles *, Japanese cyclist *,artist,painter *, a Japanese plasticist *, Japanese politician *, Japanese boxer *, a Japanese voice actor *, Japanese conductor and flautist *, Japanese politician * Tadashi Nakamura (other) *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese badminton player *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese rower * Tadashi Sasaki (other) * Tadashi Sato, American artist *, Japanese kickboxer *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese communist politician *, Japanese fencer * Tadashi Shoji, fashion designer *, a Japanese engineer *, a theatrical director, writer *, Japanese photographer *, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrow Video
An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow. A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and a slot at the rear end called a nock for engaging the bowstring. A container or bag carrying additional arrows for convenient reloading is called a quiver. The use of bows and arrows by humans predates recorded history and is common to most cultures. A craftsman who makes arrows is a fletcher, and one that makes arrowheads is an arrowsmith.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 56 History The oldest evidence of likely arrowheads, dating to c. 64,000 years ago, were found in Sibudu Cave, current South Africa.Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. Backwell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fangoria
''Fangoria'' is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. It is published four times a year by Fangoria Publishing, LLC and is edited by Phil Nobile Jr. The magazine was originally released in an age when horror fandom was still a burgeoning subculture; in the late 1970s, most horror publications were concerned with classic cinema, while those that focused on contemporary horror were largely fanzines. ''Fangoria'' rose to prominence by running exclusive interviews with horror filmmakers and offering behind-the-scenes photos and stories that were otherwise unavailable to fans in the era before the Internet. The magazine would eventually rise to become a force itself in the horror world, hosting its own awards show, sponsoring and hosting numerous horror conventions, producing films, and printing its own line of comics. ''Fangoria'' began struggling in the 2010s due to issues arising from the internet, including difficulty in g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo
''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'', for Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera Productions. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured teenagers Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo), Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo (character), Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.CD liner notes: Saturday Mornings: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and spin-off animated series and several related works, including television specials and made-for-TV movies, a line of direct-to-video films, and two Warner Bros.-produced theatrical feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting is an American multi-media company, which began as a horror genre-focused news site/website specializing in information services that covered various horror medias, including: film, television, video games, comics, and music. The company expanded into other media including advertising, podcast networking, film, television, streaming media, and management. The film production studio developed and produced the ''V/H/S'' franchise, a collection of six found footage films, two spin-off films, and one miniseries. History Bloody Disgusting was founded in 2001 by Brad Miska (under the pseudonym "Mr. Disgusting") and Tom Owen, who run the site along with current managing editor John Squires. By 2007, the site had 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. In September 2007 a minority stake was purchased by The Collective, a Beverly Hills–based management company. In 2011 Bloody Disgusting began distributing and producing films that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
