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Wait And See (1998 Film)
''Wait and See'' ( ja, あ、春, Ah, haru, italic=yes) is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Shinji Sōmai was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. Career and style His film '' Moving'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. His 1998 film, '' Wait and See'', won the FIPRESCI .... References External links * 1998 films Japanese drama films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Sōmai
was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. Career and style His film '' Moving'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. His 1998 film, '' Wait and See'', won the FIPRESCI prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999. The Edinburgh International Film Festival artistic director Chris Fujiwara noted that American film director Nicholas Ray and French film director Jean Vigo shared Somai's sensibilities. Filmography * ''Tonda Couple'' (1980) * '' Sailor Suit and Machine Gun'' (1981) * ''P.P. Rider'' (1983) * ''The Catch'' (1983) * ''Love Hotel A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sexual activities. The name originates from "Hotel Love" in Osaka, which was built in 1968 and had a rotating s ...'' (1985) * '' Typhoon Club'' (1985) * ''Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion'' (1985) * ''Luminous Woman'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōichi Satō (actor)
is a Japanese actor. He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni. Career Sato has appeared in some of Junji Sakamoto's films such as '' Tokarev'', ''Face'', '' KT'', ''Children of the Dark'', and ''Human Trust''. He also appeared in Takashi Miike's ''Sukiyaki Western Django'', Yoichi Sai's ''Kamui Gaiden'', and Takahisa Zeze's ''Heaven's Story''. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations Awards won *1982: 24th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best New Actor for '' The Gate of Youth'' *1982: 5th Japan Academy Prize: Newcomer of the Year for ''The Gate of Youth'' *1984: 8th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year *1995: 18th Japan Academy Prize: Best Actor for ''Crest of Betrayal'' *1995: 7th Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Actor for ''Crest of Betrayal'' *1995: 16th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor for '' Tokarev'' *1996: 10th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Actor for ''Gonin'' *2001: 24th Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for '' Whiteout'' *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Saito (actress)
Yuki Saito ( ja, 斉藤 由貴, Saitō Yuki; born September 10, 1966 in Minami-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She attended Kanagawa Prefectural Shimizugaoka High School (now Yokohama Seiryo Sogo High School). She is well known in Japan for being a member of LDS Church, as she refuses to work on Sundays. Saito used a fake cigarette while filming the 1986 film ''Koisuru Onnatachi'' due to her beliefs. In 1985, after making her singing debut with her single '' Sotsugyō'' and her debut album, '' Axia'', she was cast in the lead role of Saki Asamiya in the first '' Sukeban Deka'' television drama series. She later revisited that story by playing Saki's mother in the 2006 movie, '' Sukeban Deka: Codename = Asamiya Saki''. She has starred in and been cast in many television and film dramas and comedies, and has also done voice-over narration work. Saito has released 21 singles and 13 original albums. She has also released a live album, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junko Fuji
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actress. She began acting in the 1960s under the name , becoming famous as the female lead in yakuza films opposite such stars as Kōji Tsuruta and Ken Takakura. She even starred in her own series as the sword-wielding gambler Red Peony in the '' Hibotan Bakuto'' series. Initially retiring in 1972 after getting married, she began appearing on TV in 1974 under her real name. She later returned to films in 1989 using the name Sumiko Fuji, and expanded her acting repertoire. She won the Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actress in 1999 and 2006. She is married to the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō VII and is the mother of the actress Shinobu Terajima and the kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V. Early life and career Fuji was born in Wakayama as the third child and younger daughter of future film producer Koji Shundo. Her family eventually moved to Osaka, where, as a big fan of Takarazuka Revue, Fuji started to attend a dancing, singing and acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsutomu Yamazaki
is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for '' The Funeral'' and '' Farewell to the Ark''. Yamazaki is well known for his role "Nenbutsu no Tetsu" on the television jidaigeki '' Hissatsu Shiokinin'' and ''Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin''. Career Yamazaki graduated from Haiyuza Theatre Company and joined Bungakuza in 1959. He made his film debut in Kihachi Okamoto`s ''Daigaku no sanzôkutachi'' in 1960. In 1961, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. In 1963, he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's ''High and Low''. He worked with Kurosawa twice more: in the director's next film, 1965's ''Red Beard'', then fifteen years later, in ''Kagemusha''. In 1973, he appeared jidaigeki television drama '' Hissatsu Shiokinin'' and he played the same role in ''Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin'' again in 1977. He also starred in director Juzo Itami movies, as a trucker who resembles John Wayne in ''Tampopo'' (1985) as well as co-starring in '' The Ramen Girl'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otomo Yoshihide
is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise music, noise, jazz, avant-garde and contemporary classical music, contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the Electroacoustic improvisation, EAI-scene, and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records. He has composed music for many films, television dramas, and commercials. In 2017, Otomo became the 2nd Guest Artistic Director of The Sapporo International Art Festival 2017. Biography Early years Otomo was born in Yokohama in 1959, but due to his father's job, moved to Fukushima, Fukushima, Fukushima when he was nine years old. In high school, he frequented Jazz kissa, jazz cafés and started his own band. After entering university, he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōchiku
() is a Japanese film and kabuki production and distribution company. It also produces and distributes anime films, in particular those produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks (which has a long-time partnership—the company released most, if not all, anime films produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks). Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. It has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Shochiku is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and the oldest of Japan's "Big Four" film studios. History As Shochiku Kinema The company was founded in 1895 as a kabuki production company and later began producing films in 1920. Shochiku is considered the oldest company in Japan involved in present-day film production, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Drama Films
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