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Taiji Tonoyama
was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. He served in the Japanese military in China in the Second Sino-Japanese War and considered himself to have narrowly escaped from death. He was married but also had a mistress and maintained relationships with both women until the end of his life. He was a keen reader of detective stories and a fan of jazz music. He wrote a series of semi-autobiographical essays under the title , meaning "third rate actor". Kaneto Shindo wrote a biography of Tonoyama called ''Sanmon yakusha no shi'',三文役者の死 meaning "The death of a third-rate actor", which he also filmed as ''By Player is a 2000 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of actor Taiji Tonoyama. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaneto Shindo
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include ''Children of Hiroshima'', ''The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', ''Kuroneko'' and ''A Last Note''. His screenplays were filmed by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki, and Tadashi Imai. His films of the first decade were often in a social realist vein, repeatedly depicting the fate of women, while since the seventies, portraits of artists became a speciality. Many of his films were autobiographical, beginning with his 1951 directorial debut ''Story of a Beloved Wife'', and, being born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he also made several films about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the effect of nuclear weapons. Shindo was one of the pioneers of independent film production in Japan, co-founding his own film company Kindai Eiga Kyōkai with director Yoshimura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fearful Attack Of The Flying Saucers
is a 1956 independent Japanese ''tokusatsu'' science fiction film directed and written by Shinichi Sekizawa, with special effects and cinematography by Sadao Uemura. Produced by Kokumotsu Films and distributed by Shintoho, it is Sekizawa's sole directorial credit. The film stars Tadao Takashima, Junko Ebata, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroshi Sugi, Shigeru Amachi, and Junji Masuda. In the film, a group of Japanese scientists deal with a sudden alien invasion by inventing a rocket in order to save the planet. ''Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers'' was released nationwide in Japan by Shintoho on November 7, 1956. After its release, it was considered lost until a 16mm cut was found in 2010 and sold for auction online for 2.1 million yen.『映画秘宝』June 2010 Issue Plans were made for a DVD release following the auction, though they have yet to materialize. Plot While tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union's nuclear tests cause severe neuroticism in Japan, alleged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Innocent Witch
''An Innocent Witch'' ( ja, 恐山の女, Osorezan no onna, Woman of Mount Osore) is a 1965 Japanese drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is based on the novel ''Reiba no onna'' by Hajime Ogawa. Called "uncharaceristically harsh" for the director by Gosho biographer Arthur Nolletti, the film, produced by Gosho's own production company, was not a commercial success, but is critically acclaimed by film historians. Plot During the annual religious festivities at Mount Osore, widow Kikuno joins a medium to contact the spirit of her deceased daughter Ayako and ask her for forgiveness. The film switches back to 20 years earlier when in 1937, Ayako, a poor fisherman's daughter from Ōma, is sold to a brothel as her ill father can't support the family anymore. She is violently deflowered by rich merchant Yamasan, who becomes her regular customer. One year later, she meets Kanjiro, a young student, who becomes another regular customer and to whom she develops an emotional bond. It t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onibaba (film)
is a 1964 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. The film is set during a civil war in the fourteenth century. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill soldiers to steal their possessions, and Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them. Plot The film is set somewhere in Japan near Kyoto, in the mid-fourteenth century during a period of civil war. Two fleeing soldiers are ambushed in a large field of tall, thick reeds and murdered by an older woman and her young daughter-in-law. The two women loot the dead soldiers, strip them of their armour and weapons, and drop the bodies in a deep pit hidden in the field. The next day, they take the armor and weapons to a merchant named Ushi and trade them for food. The merchant tells them news of the war, which is driving people across the country to desperation. As they leave, Ushi makes a sexual proposition to the older woman, who rebuffs him. A neighbor named Hachi, who has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Insect Woman
is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, where Sachiko Hidari won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award. It was also awarded numerous national film prizes. Plot The film follows Tome, a young woman born to a rural lower-class family in the Tōhoku region in 1918, who, after a long series of mishaps, rises to the status of a madam in the post-war era. When she is sentenced to jail, her daughter Nobuko becomes her patron's lover, but later steals his money to use it for building up a farming commune. Cast * Sachiko Hidari as Tome Matsuki * Jitsuko Yoshimura as Nobuko * Emiko Aizawa as Rui * Masumi Harukawa as Midori * Emiko Higashi as Kane * Daizaburo Hirata as Kamibayashi * Seizaburo Kawazu as Karasawa * Teruko Kishi as Rin * Tanie Kitabayashi as Madam * Kazuo Kitamura as Chuji * Asao Koike as Sawakichi * Masakazu Kuwayama as Owagawa En's Lover * Hiroyuki Nagato as Matsunami * Shoichi Ozawa as Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanto Wanderer
is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō. It was a programme picture produced by the Nikkatsu Company to fill out the second half of a double bill with Shohei Imamura's ''The Insect Woman''. The film was based on a novel by Taiko Hirabayashi and had been previously adapted to the screen as '' Song from the Underworld'' (1956) by Suzuki's mentor, Hiroshi Noguchi. The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between '' giri'' (duty) and ''ninjo'' (humanity). The Kanto of the title refers to a large plain on which Tokyo is located. Plot Three schoolgirls are infatuated with a yakuza, Katsuta, of the Izu Clan. They meet another yakuza, "Diamond" Fuyu, of the rival Yoshida clan. As he gets a tattoo, two of the girls become squeamish and run off but Hanako, the best friend of the daughter of Sota Izu, boss of the Izu clan, stays to watch. She is intrigued wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ningen (1962 Film)
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindo, and starring Taiji Tonoyama, Kei Satō, and Nobuko Otowa, produced by Shindo's company Kindai Eiga Kyokai. Plot A ship loses all means of navigation in a storm. The crew becomes increasingly desperate as food and water run out. The captain, Kamegoro (Taiji Tonoyama), prays to the sailor's god Kompira to rescue them and rations their food and water. His grandson, Sankichi (Kei Yamamoto), follows his grandfather, but the other two crew members, Hachizo (Kei Satō) and Gorosuke ( Nobuko Otowa) rebel and insist on eating their rations of food all at once. In a vision, Kamegoro sees Kompira, who promises to deliver rain. Then the rain comes and the threat of dying of thirst is gone, but there is no food. Each member of the crew revisits pleasant times, which are recreated as flashbacks in the film. Kamegoro also has less pleasant memories of his war service, where he saw another soldier turn to cannibalism. After weeks of hunge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundry Town
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Kirio Urayama. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and won the Blue Ribbon Awards in 1962. Cast * Sayuri Yoshinaga as Jun * Mitsuo Hamada as Tsukamoto, Katsumi * Eijirō Tōno as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father) * Shoichi Ozawa * Tokuko Sugiyama as Tomi (Jun's mother) * Takeshi Katō * Tanie Kitabayashi * Akiji Kobayashi as Heisan * Kin Sugai * Yoshio Ichikawa * Taiji Tonoyama * Kawai Okada is a Japanese former actress and businesswoman. Filmography Films * 1962 ''Foundry Town'' - Kaori * 1963 '' A Legend or Was It?'' * 1969 '' Red Lion'' * 1972 ''Gecko Kung Fu'' * 1973 ''A Man Called Tiger'' - Yoshida Ayako. * 1974 ''Karafut ... as Kaori References External links * 1962 films 1962 drama films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese drama films 1960s Japanese-language films Films directed by Kirio Urayama 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked Island
''The Naked Island'' ( ja, text=裸の島, translit=Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue. Plot The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea on the island of Sukune in Mihara, Hiroshima, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island. When the boys catch a large fish, the family travels to Onomichi by ferry, where they sell it to a fishmonger, then eat at a modern restaurant. While the parents are away from the island, the older son falls ill. The desperate father runs to find a doctor to come to treat his son, but when they arrive, the boy is already dead. After the boy's funeral, which is attended by his classmates from his school on the nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaizu
is a city located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 139,578 in 57,593 households, and a population density of 2000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Yaizu is a noted port for commercial fishing. Geography Yaizu is located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, on a heavily indented coastline of Suruga Bay, facing the Pacific Ocean. The climate, tempered by the warm Kuroshio Current offshore is maritime temperature, with hot, humid summers and short cool winters. Surrounding municipalities *Shizuoka Prefecture **Suruga-ku, Shizuoka ** Shimada ** Fujieda ** Yoshida Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Yaizu has been increasing over the past 70 years. Climate The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Yaizu is 16.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2176 mm with Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Dragon No
Lucky may refer to: *An adjective of luck Lucky may also refer to: Film and television * '' Lucky: No Time for Love'', a 2005 Hindi-language romance starring Salman Khan, Sneha Ullal, and Mithun Chakraborty * ''Lucky'', a 2005 short film by Avie Luthra * ''Lucky'', a 2010 American documentary by Jeffrey Blitz * ''Lucky'' (2011 film), an American crime comedy starring Colin Hanks * ''Lucky'' (2012 Kannada film), a romantic comedy * ''Lucky'' (2012 Telugu film), a romantic comedy * ''Lucky'' (2017 American film), an American drama directed by John Carroll Lynch and starring Harry Dean Stanton * ''Lucky'' (2017 Italian film), Italian name ''Fortunata'', an Italian melodrama directed by Sergio Castellitto * ''Lucky'' (2019 film), American animated film * ''Lucky'' (2020 film), an American horror film starring Brea Grant * ''Lucky'', a 2020 Belgian film by Olivier Van Hoofstadt * ''Lucky'' (American TV series), a 2003 American dark-comedy series * ''Lucky'' (Indian TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning (1959 Film)
is a 1959 Japanese comedy film co-written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film '' I Was Born, But...'', and is Ozu's second film in color. Plot The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home. The film steers into a subplot concerning the local women's club monthly dues. Everyone in the neighborhood club believes that Mrs Hayashi, the treasurer, has given the dues to the chairwoman, Mrs Haraguchi, but Mrs Haraguchi denies it. They gossip amongst themselves who could have taken the money, and speculate that Mrs Haraguchi could have used the money to buy for herself a new washing machine. Later Mrs Haraguchi confronts Mrs Hayashi for starting the rumor and ruining her reputation, but Mrs Hayashi states that she ''has'' indeed handed the dues money to Haraguchi's mother. Only later does Mrs Haraguchi realize it was her mistake (her mother being quite senile and forgetful), and she goes to apo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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