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Takeshi Furusawa
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Furusawa began making 8mm films in college, and won the scriptwriting award for his film ''home sweet movie'' at the 1997 Pia Film Festival. He enrolled at the Film School of Tokyo in 1997. After graduating, he worked as a director's assistant for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, and Takahisa Zeze, and penned the scripts for Zeze's ''Chōgokudō'' and Kurosawa's '' Doppelganger''. He made his major feature length directorial debut with ''Ghost Train In ghostlore, a ghost train is a phantom vehicle in the form of a locomotive or train. The ghost train differs from other traditional forms of haunting in that rather than being a static location where ghosts are claimed to be present, "the appar ...'' in 2006. Selected filmography References External links * 1972 births Living people Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters {{japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pia Film Festival
The (also known as the PIA Film Festival or PFF for short) is an annual film festival established in 1977. According to film scholar Jasper Sharp, the festival "not only ranks as a vital hotbed from which the careers of some of Japan's most talented young filmmakers have been launched, but it also lays claim to being the first ever film festival in Japan." History The festival was first held in 1977 as the "Off Theater Film Festival" by the Tokyo listings magazine ''Pia''. Early jury members included Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama, and the second festival featured such later star directors as Sogo Ishii, Yoshimitsu Morita, and Shunichi Nagasaki. According to Bryan Hartzheim writing in 2010, "many of the biggest directors of the last 20 years had their debuts at Pia." Other filmmakers who were screened at the PFF before making their professional debut include Joji Iida, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Akihiko Shiota, Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Shinobu Yaguchi, Lee Sang-il, Naoko Ogigami, Kazuyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film School Of Tokyo
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific nicknamed " David Cronenberg of Japan". Biography Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is not related to director Akira Kurosawa, started making films about his life in high school. After studying at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films, Kurosawa began directing commercially in the 1980s, working on pink films and low-budget V-Cinema (direct-to-video) productions such as formula yakuza films. In 1981, his 8mm film ''Shigarami Gakuen'' (しがらみ学園) was nominated for the Oshima Prize at the PFF (Pia Film Festival). In 1983, after he worked with Shinji Soumai, he released his first feature film '' Kandagawa Pervert Wars'' (1983). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Aoyama
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film ''Eureka (2000 film), Eureka''. Biography Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He began to be interested in cinema when he watched ''Apocalypse Now'' and he thought seriously about making films after watching Jean-Luc Godard's films such as ''Pierrot le Fou'' and ''Two or Three Things I Know About Her''. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was deeply influenced by the film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes. After graduating, Aoyama worked as an assistant director to Swiss film director Daniel Schmid, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. He made his directorial debut with the V-Cinema production ''It's Not in the Textbook!'' in 1995. In 1996, Aoyama made ''Helpless'', which is his first feature film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he has directed such major commercial hits as '' 64: Part I'', '' 64: Part II'', and '' The 8-Year Engagement'', while continuing to make independent art films like ''Heaven's Story'' and ''The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine''. Life and career "I try to show relationships, I make films about love. It's not just about the act of having sex, but what leads up to it and what comes after. What are the feelings of the people before, while they do it and after they did it? It's this development that interests me. I don't care very much about rape, because it's very one-sided and doesn't allow for this kind of development... I don't want to depict characters as having sex, but as making love."-- Takahisa ZezeZeze, Takahisa quoted in Takahisa Zeze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doppelganger (2003 Film)
is a 2003 Japanese black comedy film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku and Yūsuke Santamaria. Plot At a medical instrument manufacturing company, timid engineering scientist Michio Hayasaki (Kōji Yakusho) struggles to develop a robotic chair that could mobilise a clinically paralysed person. He realises he's not getting anywhere with it--not while his company keeps making demands and issuing deadlines on him. Highly stressed, he bitterly realises he doesn't have the courage to bite back. Whilst arriving home from work, he's startled to find himself waiting on his doorstep. He soon sees it's not him, but a man who's the spitting image of him. Fearing he's having a mental breakdown, he wonders whether a legend that says one is destined to die soon after seeing own doppelganger may be true. His apparent twin (also Kōji Yakusho) smoothly assures him that he has nothing to fear. He's a doppelganger. Bemused, Hayasaki invites him to his home. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Train (2006 Film)
is a Japanese horror film released in 2006. It was the first Japanese film that was released in Korea before Japan. Plot A young boy, Takeshi, is told by a mysterious woman that he will die after picking up a ticket inside a red bag. While boarding the subway train home, he is pulled outside of the train, which briefly stops when the conductor is distracted by a figure outside. The next day, Takeshi's classmate, Noriko Kimura, finds the ticket and shows it to her sister, Nana, experiencing a vision of a baby and her mother in the process. Noriko spots Takeshi while waiting for the train and tries to follow him, but she ends up missing as well. Nana decides to take action and contacts the train conductor, Shunichi Kuga. From the name written on the ticket, Yaeko Aonuma, she learns that the ticket has been returned to the lost-and-found multiple times. The people who returned it, have all died. The victims all have two distinguishing features: black marks covering their face and bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another (film)
is a 2012 Japanese school mystery horror film directed by Takeshi Furusawa, starring Kento Yamazaki, Ai Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Hakamada and Ai Kato and based on the novel of the same name by Yukito Ayatsuji. It was released in Japan by Toho on 4 August 2012. Plot On April 19, 1998, Koichi Sakakibara is hospitalized at Yumigaoka Hospital due to a pneumothorax episode. He stumbles upon an eyepatch-wearing girl as she boards an elevator to the hospital's abandoned basement, ignoring Koichi's attempts to communicate. Three weeks later, Koichi enters Yomiyama North Middle School as a transfer student of Class 3-3. Yomiyama is his deceased mother's childhood home, and, while his father is abroad in India, Koichi is temporarily staying there alongside his grandmother and aunt, Reiko, who is also Class 3-3's homeroom teacher. The eyepatch girl, Mei Misaki, is one of his classmates, but he is confused as others are apparently unaware of her existence. Once told about a student named Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roommate (2013 Japanese Movie)
is a 2013 Japanese psychological horror film directed by Takeshi Furusawa and based on the novel ''Rūmumeito'' by Aya Imamura. Cast *Keiko Kitagawa as Harumi Hagio *Kyoko Fukada as Reiko Nishimura *Kengo Kora as Kensuke Kudo *Hiroyuki Onoue *Chihiro Otsuka *Mariko Tsutsui * Yukijiro Hotaru *Tomorowo Taguchi *Riko Yoshida Riko Yoshida (吉田 莉胡, born 18 June 2002) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for WE League club Chifure AS Elfen Saitama. Club career Yoshida made her WE League The , officially the , also known as the ... as young Harumi External links ルームメイト(2013)aallcinema ルームメイト(2013)aKINENOTE * 2013 psychological thriller films 2013 films 2013 horror films Japanese action horror films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Takeshi Furusawa Japanese horror films Japanese psychological horror films 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clover (2014 Film)
is a 2014 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Takeshi Furusawa and based on the manga series created by Toriko Chiya. Plot Saya Suzuki, hotel employee, works at Hotel Toyo under her supervisor, Susumu Tsuge. Saya is dimwitted, and often commits mistakes and gets scolded by Tsuge. Out of blue, Tsuge asks her out and Saya is taken aback. Reluctantly, she agrees to go out. During date, she tells him about her past with famous singer and aspiring theatre artist, Haruki Hino. During school days, she and Haruki were in love and eloped until they were found by cops. Both she and Haruki believe that when they find a four leaf clover then they have found the one. Soon after failed elopement, Haruki is sent to America and Suzuki is heartbroken. Now, Haruki has returned as a teen icon. Tsuge suggests that he'll be her rehabilitation till she can love again. Once organizing an event, Saya and Haruki meet again and become friends. Tsuge is a proud, well educated and career oriented pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ReLIFE (film)
is a Japanese science fiction drama film directed by Takeshi Furusawa, starring Taishi Nakagawa and based on the manga series of the same name by Yayoiso. It was released in Japan by Shochiku on 15 April 2017. The theme song for the film is "Sakura" by Sonoko Inoue, the cover of Ketsumeishi's 2005 single. Synopsis Arata Kaizaki (Taishi Nakagawa) is 27-years-old and unemployed. He quit his prior job after working for the company for 3 months. Arata decides to take part in a research program. He takes medication that makes him look younger and he is to attend high school for a year. There, he falls in love with female high school student Chizuru Hishiro (Yūna Taira) Cast *Taishi Nakagawa as Arata Kaizaki * Yūna Taira as Chizuru Hishiro *Mahiro Takasugi as Kazuomi Ōga *Elaiza Ikeda as Rena Kariu * as An Onoya *Yudai Chiba as Ryō Yoake *Kenshō Ono is a Japanese voice actor, actor and singer. His most well-known characters are Tetsuya Kuroko, the titular protagonist in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Lies (2017 Film)
is a 2017 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Takeshi Furusawa from a screenplay by Erika Yoshida, based on the manga series of the same name by Musawo. The film stars Aoi Morikawa as Aoi Nisaka, the lead heroine; Takumi Kitamura as Yūto Siba, Aoi's childhood friend; and Kanta Satō as Sōsuke Takachino, Aoi's arranged partner. Unlike the manga series, which features a love triangle between one boy and two girls, the film's love triangle involves one girl and two boys. The film was released in Japan on October 14, 2017. A visual for that film was unveiled on May 17, 2017. Cast * Aoi Morikawa as Aoi Nisaka * Takumi Kitamura as Yūto Siba * Kanta Sato as Sōsuke Takachiho * Nana Asakawa as Konatsu * Momoko Tanabe as Akiho * Rieko Miura as Nizaka Marie * Shōzō Endō as Yoichi Nisaka * Houka Kinoshita is a Japanese actor who was formerly represented by the talent agency, Cast Power. He graduated from Osaka Prefectural Nozaki High School and Osaka University of Arts. Biog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
