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Vibrator (film)
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki. It is based on the 1999 book of the same name by writer Mari Akasaka. Plot After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual discovery. Cast *Shinobu Terajima * Nao Omori *Tomorowo Taguchi *Masahiro Toda *Eriko Takayanagi *Riho Makise *Miki Sakajo *Jun Murakami *Eugene Nomura Awards and nominations 25th Yokohama Film Festival * Won: Best Film * Won: Best Director - Ryūichi Hiroki * Won: Best Screenplay - Haruhiko Arai * Won: Best Actress - Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performan ... * Won: Best Supporting Actor - Nao Ōmori References External links * 2003 films Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūichi Hiroki
is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for ''800 Two Lap Runners''. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Biography ''Pink film'' Hiroki is one of several Japanese film directors who got their start in the Japanese softcore pornographic film genre of '' pink film''. He said in an interview that in the late 1970s when he wanted to get into directing, he wrote a script for a ''pink film'' and brought it to the Ōkura Eiga studio but they told him he needed to start as an assistant director. At this time he met prolific ''pink film'' director Genji Nakamura and during the next three years, Hiroki worked as an assistant director, editor, and manager for Nakamura's company Yū Pro. Hiroki made his first film as a director with ''Sexual Abuse! Exposed Woman'' for Million Film in 1982. His debut met with poor reviews and was "terrible" according to Hiroki and he wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruhiko Arai
is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film ''W's Tragedy'' in 1984. He wrote the screenplay for Junji Sakamoto's '' KT'' (2001), and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films '' Vibrator'' (2003) and ''It's Only Talk'' (2005). In 2013, he wrote the scripts for Junichi Inoue's ''A Woman and War'' and Shinji Aoyama's ''The Backwater''. His published but unfilmed scenario, , has been called lesescenario by figures such as the director Shinichiro Sawai. Filmography As screenwriter * ''Woman with Red Hair'' (1979) * ''Enrai'' (1981) * ''W's Tragedy'' (1984) * '' The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark'' (1993) * ''Body and Soul'' (1997) * '' KT'' (2002) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''It's Only Talk'' (2005) * '' Someday'' (2011) * ''A Woman and War'' (2013) * ''The Backwater'' (2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinobu Terajima
is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performance in '' Oh Lucy!'' (2017) earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress. Early life Her father is the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII, her mother the actress Sumiko Fuji, and her brother the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V. Career Terajima appeared in Shinobu Yaguchi's ''Happy Flight''. Personal life In 2007, she married Laurent Ghnassia, a French art director based in Japan. The couple have one son, born in 2012. In an interview with The Japan Times, Terajima stated that she is raising her son to be a kabuki actor. Filmography Films * ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) * '' Get Up!'' (2003) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''Quill'' (2004) * '' Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles'' (2005) * ''Tokyo Tower'' (2005) * ''Yamato'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Ōmori
, sometimes credited as Nao Ohmori or Nao Omori, is a Japanese actor. He was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival. Career Omori starred in Takashi Miike's ''Ichi the Killer''. He co-starred with Shinobu Terajima in Ryuichi Hiroki's '' Vibrator''. Personal life Omori is the son of the actor Akaji Maro and the younger brother of the film director Tatsushi Ōmori. Filmography Films * ''The Revenge: A Scar That Never Fades'' (1997) * ''Tenshi ni Misuterareta Yoru'' (1999) - Shop assistant * ''Big Show! Hawaii ni Utaeba'' (1999) - Jimmy * ''Monday'' (2000) * ''Swing Man'' (2000) * ''Quartet'' (2001) - Daisuke * ''Ichi the Killer'' (2001) - Ichi * ''Harmful Insect'' (2001) - Man at Love Hotel * '' Out'' (2002) - Kenji Yamamoto * ''Dolls'' (2002) - Matsumoto's Colleague * ''Demonlover'' (2002) - Shoji * ''Pakodate-jin'' (2002) * ''Perfect Blue'' (2002) - Toshihiko Horibe * ''Saru'' (2003) - Isomura * ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) * '' Vibrator'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) ranked number three in ''Sight & Sound'' critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. ''Tokyo Story'' also topped the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning '' Citizen Kane'', while Akira Kurosawa's '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadoka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Akasaka
is a Japanese novelist. Biography Mari Akasaka was born in Suginami, Tokyo, and studied Politics in the Law Department at Keio University. In 1999 her novel ''Vibrator'' was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. She was again nominated for the Akutagawa prize in 2000 for her novel, ''Muse'', and won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for the same novel. ''Vibrator'' was adapted into a 2003 film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, starring Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performan ... and Nao Ōmori. The English translation of the book was published in 2005. Works * ''Chō no Hifu no Shita'' (1997) * ''Vibrator'' (1998) * ''Vanille'' (1999) * ''Calling'' (1999) * ''Muse'' (1999) * ''Kare ga Kanojo no Onna Datta Koro'' (2003) * ''Taiyō no Namida'' (2008) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorowo Taguchi
is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in ''Zokubutsu Zukan'' (based on the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui) in 1982. He was also a prominent cult musician in the Tokyo underground scene with his band Bachikaburi in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is probably most well known to the West as the lead actor in '' Tetsuo'' and '' Tetsuo II'' directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. He also makes regular appearances in Takashi Miike's films. He became known to the Japanese public as a narrator for the TV documentary series ''Project X - Challengers'' which aired between 2000 and 2005 on NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riho Makise
is a Japanese actress. She debuted at the Takeda Hi-C contest in 1989, which she won. She is represented by the Blooming Agency. Appearances Films TV series Special TV dramas External links Official blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Makise, Riho 1971 births Japanese actresses Japanese idols Living people People from Fukuoka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Murakami
is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami. Career Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka. He has also appeared in films such as Takahisa Zeze's ''Heaven's Story'' and Gakuryu Ishii's '' Isn't Anyone Alive?''. Filmography Film * ''Bounce Ko Gals'' (1997) * ''Nabbie's Love'' (1999) * '' Shiki-Jitsu'' (2000) * '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (2000) * ''Stereo Future'' (2001) * ''Konsento'' (2001) * ''Blue'' (2001) * '' Red Shadow'' (2001) * ''Konsento'' (2001) * '' Border Line'' (2002) * ''Filament'' (2002) * ''Desert Moon'' (2003) * ''Out of This World'' (2004) * ''Cutie Honey'' (2004) * '' 69'' (2004) * ''Into a Dream'' (2005) * ''Nanayo'' (2008) * ''Michiko & Hatchin'' (2008) * ''Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death'' (2008) * ''Counterfeit Bills'' (2009) * ''Zen'' (2009) * ''Nonchan Noriben'' (2009) * ''The Lightning Tree'' (2010) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, France announced plans to help sponsor the festival with grants from the National Cinema Center. Ceremonies Categories *Best Film *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best Director *Best New Director *Best Screenplay *Best Cinematographer *Best Newcomer *Special Jury Prize *Best New Actor *Best New Actress References External links * Yokohama Film Festival - Overviewon IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... {{Authority control Awards established in 1980 Film festivals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Films
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2003 by worldwide gross are as follows: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' grossed more than $1.14 billion, making it the highest-grossing film in 2003 worldwide and in North America and the second-highest-grossing film up to that time. It was also the second film to surpass the billion-dollar milestone after ''Titanic'' in 1997. '' Finding Nemo'' was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time until being overtaken by ''Shrek 2'' in 2004. Events * February 24: '' The Pianist'', directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. * June 12: Gregory Peck dies of bronchopneumonia. * June 29: Katharine Hepburn dies of cardiac arrest. * November 17: Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Governor of California. * December 22: Both of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
