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The Weavers Of Nishijin
, also known in English simply as ''Nishijin'', is a 1961 Japanese short documentary film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. It starred Hideo Kanze as a Noh player. Film scholar Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano has written that the film's "depiction of a craftsmen's forced life in the traditional textile trade of Kyoto discloses the multiplicity of the Japanese as well as offering an instance to contemplate the role of cinema as the most popular culture at that time." Cast * Hideo Kanze was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojō VII, a descendant of Kan'ami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers ... as a Noh player References External links * {{1960s-Japan-film-stub Japanese short documentary films 1960s Japanese films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshio Matsumoto
(25 March 1932 – 12 April 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist. Biography Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. His first short was '' Ginrin'', which he made in 1955. His most famous film is ''Funeral Parade of Roses'' (''Bara no soretsu''). The film was loosely inspired by '' Oedipus Rex'', featuring a transvestite (portrayed by Peter) trying to move up in the world of Tokyo Hostess clubs. Matsumoto published many books of photography and was a professor and dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. There, he taught experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito Takashi Ito may refer to: * Takashi Ito (basketball) (b. 1990), Japanese professional basketball player * Takashi Ito (director) (b. 1956), Japanese experimental filmmaker * Takashi Ito (kickboxer) is a Japanese former welterweight kickboxer f .... He was also president of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences. In the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Kanze
was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Kanze Tetsunojō VII, a descendant of Kan'ami and Zeami, who founded the Noh movement in the 14th century. Trained alongside his brothers by his father and grandfather, Kanze made his Noh stage debut at the age of three. After World War II ended, Kanze attended the Tokyo Music School, although he dropped out before completing his studies. With his family running one of Japan's five main Noh schools, Kanze was controversially adopted by another school, the Kita group, for 11 years. His activities caused an uproar in the Noh community, and he quit the movement, acting in conventional drama and films. With the help of his older brother, Hisao Kanze, also an actor, Hideo resumed his career in Noh in 1979. On May 2, 2007, Kanze was involved in a serious car accident when his car crashed into the median strip on the Chūō Expressway in Tokyo. An elderly female passenger, beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Kusaka
was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Toshima, Tokyo. He was the founder of the Shiki Theatre Company. He remarried with actress Fujiko Kimura in 2010. Roles Live action films *'' Assassination'' (1964) ( Narahara Shigeru) *'' Honoo to onna (Flame and Women)'' (1967) *''The Petrified Forest'' (1973) *''Fumō chitai'' (1976) (Koide) *'' Tempo suikō-den'' (1976) *''Antarctica'' (1983) (Hokkaidō University professor) *'' Deaths in Tokimeki'' (1984) *'' Those Swell Yakuza'' (1988) *'' Teito Taisen'' (1989) ( Fumimaro Konoe) *'' Noh Mask Murders'' (1991) *'' Mr. Moonlight'' (1991) *'' Maadadayo'' (1993) (Doctor Kobayashi) *'' Kaettekite Kogarashi Monjiro'' (1993) *'' Shin sarariiman senka'' (1997) *'' Mars Sweet Home'' (2000) Live action television * ''Ten to Chi to'' (1969) (Sanjōnishi Sanezumi) * '' Naruto Hichō'' (1977–78) (Zeami) * '' Ōoku'' (1983) ( Ryūkō) * ''Ōedo Sōsamō'' (1984) (Narrator) * '' Sanga Moyu'' (1984) Anime television *'' Ginga Eiyū Densetsu'' (D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Miyoshi
Akira Miyoshi (三善 晃; January 10, 1933 – 4 October 2013) was a Japanese composer. Biography Miyoshi was born in Suginami, Tokyo. He was a child prodigy on the piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, and then studied composition with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun at the Paris Conservatory from 1955 to 1957. He was very influenced by Henri Dutilleux. Oxford Music on Line, ''Miyoshi, Akiro'' He returned to Japan in 1957 and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1960. In 1965, he became a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1996, Miyoshi was awarded the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government. In 1999, he received the 31st Suntory Music Award. He received the Otaka prize six times for his compositions. Works Orchestral * 1960 ''Trois mouvements symphoniques – (Kôkyô sanshô)'' * 1962 ''Concerto'' for piano and orchestra * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshio Miyajima
was a Japanese cinematographer during the 20th century. Notable works include ''Harakiri'', '' The Human Condition trilogy'', and ''Kwaidan''. Filmography *'' Utano yononaka'' (''The Singing World'') (1936) *'' Bushido orakanarishi'' (''When the Bushido is Big-Hearted'') (1936) *'' Nihon josei dokuhon'' (''Japanese Women's Textbook'') (1937) *'' Minamikaze no oka'' (''Hill of the South Wind'') (1937) *'' Edo no shirasagi'' (''White Egret in Edo'') (1937) *'' Kaminari oyaji'' (''Tough Dad'') (1937) *'' Jinsei Keiba'' (''Life Is a Horse Race'') (1938) *'' Katei niki (zen)'' (''Family Diary, Part One'') (1938) *'' Katei niki (go)'' (''Family Diary, Part One'') (1938) *'' Den'en kôkyôgaku'' (''Pastoral Symphony'') (1939) *'' Uruwashiki shupatu'' (''Beautiful Departure'') (1939) *'' Machi'' (''Town'') (1939) *'' Roppa no shinkon ryoko'' (''Roppa's Honeymoon'') (1940) *'' Ribbon o musubu fujin'' (''The Lady Ties a Ribbon'') (1939) *'' Moyuru ozora'' (''The Burning Sky'') (1940) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Short Documentary 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] |
