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Tomotaka Tasaka
was a Japanese film director. Career Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as '' Robō no ishi'' and ''Mud and Soldiers'', both of which starred Isamu Kosugi. His war film, ''Five Scouts'', was screened in the competition at the 6th Venice International Film Festival. Tasaka was a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and spent many years recovering. He eventually resumed directing and won the best director prize at the 1958 Blue Ribbon Awards for ''A Slope in the Sun'', which starred Yūjirō Ishihara. His brother, Katsuhiko Tasaka, was also a film director, and his wife, Hisako Takihana, was an actress. Selected filmography * ''Five Scouts'' (五人の斥候兵, Gonin no sekkōhei) (1938) * '' Robō no ishi'' (路傍の石) (1938) * ''Mud and Soldiers'' (土と兵隊, Tsuchi to heitai) (1939) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama Prefecture to the east, Tottori Prefecture to the northeast, Shimane Prefecture to the north, and Yamaguchi Prefecture to the southwest. Hiroshima is the capital and largest city of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region, with other major cities including Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Fukuyama, Kure, Hiroshima, Kure, and Higashihiroshima. Hiroshima Prefecture is located on the Seto Inland Sea across from the island of Shikoku, and is bounded to the north by the Chūgoku Mountains. Hiroshima Prefecture is one of the three prefectures of Japan with more than one UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The area around Hiroshima was formerly divided into Bingo Province and Aki Province. This location has been a center of tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūjirō Ishihara
was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe. His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the 1956 film ''Season of the Sun'', based on a novel written by his brother. He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver cancer. Life and career Yūjirō grew up in Kobe, in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yūjirō attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his elementary school years he participated in competitive swimming and skied on Mt. Tengu. He then attended Zushi City Zushi junior High School, where he began playing basketball. He aimed to enter Keio Senior High School, but d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Hiroshima Prefecture
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Deaths
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1902 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipkn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Film Directors
This article is a list of Japanese film directors. __NOTOC__ A * Yutaka Abe * Masao Adachi * Kyōko Aizome * Masatoshi Akihara * Keita Amemiya * Tetsurō Amino * Hiroshi Ando * Hideaki Anno * Shinji Aoyama * Tarō Araki * Genjiro Arato * Mari Asato D * Masanobu Deme * Nobuhiro Doi F * Kei Fujiwara * Kinji Fukasaku * Jun Fukuda * Yasuo Furuhata * Tomoyuki Furumaya G * Hideo Gosha * Heinosuke Gosho H * Sachi Hamano * Tsutomu Hanabusa * Susumu Hani * Masato Harada * Yasuharu Hasebe * Kazuhiko Hasegawa * Ryusuke Hamaguchi * Ryōsuke Hashiguchi * Kaizo Hayashi * Shinji Higuchi * Hideyuki Hirayama * Ryūichi Hiroki * Ishirō Honda I * Jun Ichikawa * Kon Ichikawa * Mako Idemitsu * George Iida * Takahiko Iimura * Toshiharu Ikeda * Kazuo Ikehiro * Yutaka Ikejima * Kaoru Ikeya * Kunihiko Ikuhara * Tadashi Imai * Shohei Imamura * Shinji Imaoka * Hiroshi Inagaki * Haruo Inoue * Umetsugu Inoue * Isshin Inudo * Minoru Inuzuka * Yu Irie * Katsuhito Ishii * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Of Tears (film)
is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It was Japan's submission to the 39th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Yoshiko Sakuma as Saku * Katsuo Nakamura as Ukichi Matsumiya * Nakamura Ganjirō II as Samezaemon * Hisano Yamaoka as Matsue Torii * Minoru Chiaki as Kidayu Momose * Michiyo Kogure as Suzuko * Kirin Kiki as Kayo Sugumo * Kunie Tanaka as Kenkichi Ohara * Chiyo Okada as Masuko * Junko Miyazono as Teruko See also * List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the inception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Day's Life
is a 1957 black and white Japanese film drama directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. Cast * Yujiro Ishihara * Mie Kitahara * Masahiko Tsugawa * Nobuo Kaneko * Akira Kobayashi is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is . Biography Kobayashi attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He became an actor at Nikkatsu and made his film debut with "Ueru Tamashii" directed by Yuzo Kawashima in 1956. He s ... References External links * an image Japanese black-and-white films 1957 films Films directed by Tomotaka Tasaka Nikkatsu films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baby Carriage
is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. Cast * Yujiro Ishihara as Muneo Aizawa * 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 Takarazuk ...: Tomoko Aizawa * Izumi Ashikawa: Yumiko Kuwahara * Toyo Fukuda: Katsu Kijima * Ryoha Hatanaka: Old man * Hiroshi Hijikata: Policeman * Ikunosuke Koizumi * Eiko Misuz: Natsuko Murakami * Kyoko Mori: Mariko Aizawa * Sanae Nakahara: Sachiko Kaneda * Sonosuke Niki * Masao Oda: Doctor * Akiko Sagawa: Shige, maid * Ichiro Sakai References External links * Japanese black-and-white films 1956 films Films directed by Tomotaka Tasaka Nikkatsu films 1950s Japanese films Japanese drama films 1956 drama films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisako Takihana
Hisako is a Japanese name for females. Although written romanized the same way, the kanji can be different. ''Hisako'' may refer to: *Hisako Arakaki (born 1977), J-pop singer * Hisako Hibi (born 1907), Japanese painter *Hisako Higuchi (born 1945), Japanese professional golfer *Hisako Kanemoto (born 1987), Japanese voice actress * Hisako Koyama (born 1916), Japanese solar observer *Hisako Kyōda (born 1935), Japanese voice actress * Hisako Manda (born 1958), Japanese actress *Hisako Matsubara (born 1935), Japanese novelist *Hisako Ōishi (born 1936), Japanese politician * Hisako Sasaki (born 1967), Japanese professional wrestler *Hisako Shirata (born 1982), Japanese actress *, Japanese judge *Hisako Terasaki (born 1928), Japanese-American etcher *Hisako Tōjō (born 1990), Japanese voice actress *Hisako Tottori, (born 1953), later the Princess Takamado of Japan Characters *Hisako, guitarist of Girls Dead Monster in the anime Angel Beats! * Hisako, an undead spirit in the video g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuhiko Tasaka
was a Japanese film director. He directed films from 1930s to 1960s. His older brother, Tomotaka Tasaka ( 田坂具隆), was also a Japanese film director. Filmography Katsuhiko Tasaka directed over 40 films:http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0291730.htm 25 accessed 25 January 2009 * ''The Great White Tiger Platoon'' (1954) * '' Fighting Birds'' (1956) * '' Flowery Hood'' (1956) * '' Flowery Hood 2'' (1956) * ''The Renyasai Yagyu Hidden Story'' (1956) * ''Ghost Cat of Yonaki Swamp , also known as ''Necromancy'', is a 1957 Japanese horror film directed by Katsuhiko Tasaka. It stars Shintaro Katsu and Takako Irie was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was ), ...'' (1957) * ''Tōkaidō no yarō domo'' (1958) References External links * 1914 births 1979 deaths Japanese film directors People from Hiroshima {{Japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slope In The Sun
aka ''A Slope in the Sun'' is a 1958 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第四章言語のユートピア-裕次郎の青春ドラマの意味 2「一緒にいるためには嘘が必要だわ」-「乳母車」「陽のあたる坂道」p.90-113 The film is based on the novel by Yōjirō Ishizaka. The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best director and also won 1959 Mainichi Film Concours for best cinematography. Cast * Yujiro Ishihara as Shinji Tashiro * Mie Kitahara as Takako * Koreya Senda as Tamakichi Tashiro * Yukiko Todoroki as Midori Tashiro * Izumi Ashikawa as Kumiko Tashiro * Tamio Kawachi as Tamio Takagi * Isamu Kosugi was a Japanese actor and film director. Career Born in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Kosugi first studied at the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He came to prominence in tendency films such as '' Ikeru ... as Shiosawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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