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Takako Irie
was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was ), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as an actress at Nikkatsu in 1927. She became a major star, even starting her own production company, Irie Productions, in 1932. One of Kenji Mizoguchi's silent film masterpieces, ''The Water Magician'', was produced at that company with Irie starring. She appeared in many advertisements, as well as on fans and other commercial goods. Irie was also the subject of a folding screen painting by ''Nihonga'' artist Nakamura Daizaburō, which appeared in the 1930 Teiten (Imperial Exhibition), and which is today in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art; toy dolls were also produced based on this image.Brown, Kendall et al (eds.). ''Taishō Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco''. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001. pp. 70–77. In the postwar period, Irie became known as a " ghost cat actress" (''bakeneko joyū'') for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiyoshi Tamura
Michiyoshi (written: 道由, 道義, 道美 or 通芳) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese film director *, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese politician {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Unabomber Manifesto rect 0 200 300 400 Oklahoma City bombing rect 300 200 600 400 Srebrenica massacre rect 0 400 200 600 Space Shuttle Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS ''Pennsylvania'' stationed in San Francisco harbor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toki O Kakeru Shōjo (1983 Film)
''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'' (Japanese: 時をかける少女, Hepburn: ''Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'') is a 1983 Japanese science fiction film directed and edited by Nobuhiko Obayashi, written by Wataru Kenmotsu, and starring idol Tomoyo Harada in her first film. It is based on the 1965 Japanese novel of the same name and was released by Toei in Japan on July 16, 1983. It has since been released internationally on DVD with English subtitles under various titles including ''The Little Girl Who Conquered Time'', ''Girl of Time'', ''The Girl Who Cut Time'', among others. It was the first film adaptation of ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'', about a high-school girl who gains the ability to time-travel and repeatedly relives the same day in a time loop. The film was a major box office success in Japan, becoming the second highest-grossing Japanese film of 1983. It was followed by several later cinematic adaptations, including a 2006 anime film and a 2010 live-action film. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as an actress at Nikkatsu in 1927. She became a major star, even starting her own produ ..., the latter known for her roles in "ghost cat" films (''kaibyō eiga'' or ''bake neko mono''), with her appearance in ''Ghost Cat of Yonaki Swamp'' being her fifth and final such role. References Further reading * External links * Japanese horror films 1957 films 1957 horror films Films set in Japan 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-horror-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost-Cat Of Arima Palace
is a 1953 Japanese horror film directed by Ryohei Arai and produced by Daiei Film. Filmed in black and white in the Academy ratio format, it stars Takako Irie and Kotaro Bando. A prior version of the story, titled '' Arima Neko'', was released in 1937. Plot Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo. There are scenes of disembodied heads floating around and one in which the ghost, with her hands folded in like a cat's paws, forces two of her victims to tumble around repeatedly. Cast * Takako Irie * Michiko Ai * Kōtarō Bandō * Teruko Ōmi * Yoshitaro Sadato * Shōsaku Sugiyama See also * Japanese horror * ''Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi'' - a 1956 film directed by Bin Kado * ''Ghost-Cat Wall of Hatred'' - a 1958 film directed by Kenji Misumi (2 March 1921 – 24 September 1975) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Of Saga Mansion
is a 1953 Japanese horror film directed by Ryohei Arai. It was filmed in Black and White, academy ratio format (full screen). It was never dubbed in English, nor shown in the United States theatrically. Cast * Kōtarō Bandō * Kunitarō Sawamura * Shōsaku Sugiyama * Shintarō Nanjō * Takako Irie * Kazuko Fushimi * Yōko Wakasugi Release The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 3, 1953, by 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 ... and on DVD in July 2004. References External links * * Japanese horror films Japanese black-and-white films 1953 films 1950s ghost films Daiei Film films Films directed by Ryohei Arai Films set in country houses 1953 horror films Japanese haunted house films 1950s Japanese films {{195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odoroki Ikka
is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Torajiro Saito. Cast * Hibari Misora * Takako Irie (入江たか子) * Harume Tone (利根はる恵) * Nijiko Kiyokawa (清川虹子) * Achako Hanabishi (花菱アチャコ) * Shintarō Kido (木戸新太郎 / キドシン) * Robba Furukawa (古川ロッパ) * Kiiton Masuda (益田喜頓) * Atsushi Watanabe (渡辺篤) * Tamae Kiyokawa (清川玉枝) * Yoshiko Sugiyama (杉山美子) * and others See also * List of films in the public domain in the United States Most films are subject to copyright, but those listed here are believed to be in the public domain in the United States. This means that no government, organization, or individual owns any copyright over the work, and as such it is common property ... References Japanese black-and-white films 1949 films Films directed by Torajiro Saito Toei Company films Films scored by Yūji Koseki {{1940s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Beautiful
is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers at an optics factory during the Second World War, during which the film was produced. Plot Set during World War II, the film depicts the struggle of female volunteer workers to meet production targets at a precision optics factory in Hiratsuka. They drive themselves, individually and collectively, to exceed the targets set for them by the factory directors. The factory directors push the girls to be their best for their country. The girls live in a dormitory, and every day they march and sing songs about Japan's greatness while on the way to work. They live away from their parents but are happy to do so to serve their country. Every morning before work, they pledge that they will be loyal to Japan and will work to destroy the U.S. and Britain. There are encouraging signs posted everywhere about working hard for one's country in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sincerity (1939 Film)
''Sincerity'' ( ja, まごころ, Magokoro) is a 1939 Japanese drama film written and directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a short story by Yōjirō Ishizaka. Plot In a small countryside town, the schoolyear has ended. While Tomiko, daughter of a single mother and of lower middle-class descent, has been ranked the best pupil in her class, her classmate and friend Nobuko, daughter of a seemingly intact upper-class family, has only been ranked tenth. During a discussion between Mrs. Asada and her husband Keikichi about Nobuko's low grades and her new teacher, whom Mrs. Asada holds responsible, it is revealed that Keikichi, who had been adopted into his wife's family, and Tomiko's mother Tsuta had once been in love. In tears, Mrs. Asada blames him for still feeling attracted to her, overheard by Nobuko. The next day, Nobuko tells Tomiko of her parents' conversation, and both start crying when they get into an argument over their different families. Later, when Nobuko is hurt dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo March
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
