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Yumeji
is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō ''Roman Trilogy'', preceded by ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) and ''Kagero-za'' (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Kenji Sawada as Takehisa Yumeji * Tomoko Mariya as Tomoyo * Yoshio Harada as Sokichi Wakiya * Masumi Miyazaki as Hikono * Tamasaburo Bando as Gyoshu Inamura * Reona Hirota as O-Yo * Chikako Miyagi as Wet-nurse * Kazuhiko Hasegawa as Onimatsu * Michiyo Okusu as Landlady Other "Yumeji's Theme", written by Shigeru Umebayashi, features prominently in Wong Kar-Wai's 2000 film, In the Mood for Love. References External links * * * Yumeji' at the Japanese Movie Data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takehisa Yumeji
was a Japanese poet and painter. He is known foremost for his ''Nihonga'' illustrations of ''bijin'', beautiful women and girls, though he also produced a wide variety of works including book covers, serial newspaper illustrations, ''furoshiki'', postcards, and patterned ''washi'' paper. Biography Early life Takehisa was born in the town of Oku, which has since been merged into the city of Setouchi in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. His childhood home has been preserved and opened to visitors. After struggling to make ends meets doing odd jobs in Tokyo, he eventually enrolled at Waseda Jitsugyō High School, a college-preparatory school for Waseda University in September 1902. Takehisa's career doing illustrations began in June 1905 after he won a competition by the magazine ''Chugakusekai'', owned by Hakubunkan, one of Japan's leading publishing companies. It was at this time that he adopted the name Yumeji. After he won the competition he began contributing regularly to Hakubun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Umebayashi
(born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's ''Yumeji''), included in director Wong Kar-wai's '' In the Mood for Love'' (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, '' 2046'' (2004), and ''House of Flying Daggers''. He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, '' Charleston & Vendetta''. Umebayashi received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" aAvvantura Film Festival Zadar(Croatia) in 2013 during his stay as member of the official Jury. Filmography 1980s * ''Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru'' (1984) * ''Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure'' (1985) * ''Sorekara'' (1985) * ''Sorobanzuku'' (1986) * ''Shinshi Domei'' (1986) * ''Kyohu no Yacchan'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seijun Suzuki
, born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, ''Branded to Kill'' (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his ''Taishō'' trilogy, ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980), ''Kagero-za'' (1981) and ''Yumeji'' (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Sawada
is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed because of his self-professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Tottori), Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3. As a singer (often he also worked as a songwriter) and actor, Sawada prospered greatly on Japanese popular culture in the last three decades of the Shōwa era. At the end of the 1960s, he had great success as the lead singer of the band The Tigers. After the breakup of The Tigers and another project Pyg, he began his own solo career. Music career Sawada was the lead singer of the best-known J-pop music act of the late 1960s Group Sounds era band The Tigers. A national teen idol, his nickname is Julie. Japanese pop stars of that era often adopted nicknames, particularly often English-language girls' names. His nickname is derived from the actress Julie Andrews as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reona Hirota
is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Ōte'' and ''Yumeji''. In 1994, she married the actor Mitsuru Fukikoshi. They divorced in 2005 after having one child. Filmography * ''A Sign Days'' (1989) * '' Ōte'' (1991) * ''Yumeji'' (1991) * ''Calmi Cuori Appassionati ''Calmi Cuori Appassionati'' ( aka ''Reisei to Jōnetsu no Aida''; lit. "Between Calmness and Passion") is a 2001 Japanese movie directed by Isamu Nakae, starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Kelly Chen. It is a love story about two students who met at ...'' (2001) References Living people Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Sapporo Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Mood For Love
''In the Mood for Love'' is a 2000 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Wong Kar-wai. A co-production between Hong Kong and France, it portrays a man ( Tony Leung) and a woman (Maggie Cheung) whose spouses have an affair together and who slowly develop feelings for each other. It forms the second part of an informal trilogy, alongside ''Days of Being Wild'' and '' 2046''. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2000, to critical acclaim and a nomination for the Palme d'Or; Leung won Best Actor (the first Hong Kong actor to win the award). It is often listed as one of the greatest films of all time and one of the major works of Asian cinema. In a 2016 survey by the BBC, it was voted the second greatest film of the 21st century by 177 film critics from around the world, saying "never before has a film spoken so fluently in the universal language of loss and desire". In 2022, the film placed 5th in ''Sight & Sound'' "Greatest Films of All Time" c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Cannes Film Festival
The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1991. The Palme d'Or went to ''Barton Fink'' by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The festival opened with ''Homicide'', directed by David Mamet and closed with ''Thelma & Louise'', directed by Ridley Scott. Juries Main competition The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1991 feature film competition: *Roman Polanski (Poland) Jury President *Férid Boughedir (Tunisia) *Whoopi Goldberg (USA) *Margaret Menegoz (France) * Natalya Negoda (Soviet Union) *Alan Parker (UK) *Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France) * Hans Dieter Seidel (Germany) *Vittorio Storaro (Italy) *Vangelis (Greece) Camera d'Or The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1991 Caméra d'Or: *Géraldine Chaplin (actress) (United States) President *Didier Beaudet (France) *Eva Sirbu (journalist) (Romania) *Fernando Lara (cinephile) (Spain) *Gilles Colpart (critic) (France) *Jan Aghed (journalist) (Sweden) *Myriam Zemmour (cinephile) (France) *Roger Kaha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Films
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events. Important films released this year included '' The Silence of the Lambs'', ''Beauty and the Beast'', ''Thelma & Louise'', ''JFK'' and '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events *February 14 – '' The Silence of the Lambs'' is released and becomes only the third film after ''It Happened One Night'' (1934) and '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975) to win the top five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director ( Jonathan Demme); Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins); Best Actress (Jodie Foster); and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). It is also the first, and to date only, Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film. * July 3 – '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic. *August 7 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Man Who Stole the Sun''. Life and career Hasegawa began his career in film at Nikkatsu in the early 1970s as a scriptwriter on such ''Roman porno'' projects as Chūsei Sone's ''Love Bandit Rat Man'' (1972), Yukihiro Sawada's '' Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland'' (1973) and Tatsumi Kumashiro's ''Evening Primrose'' (1974). He also served as Assistant Director on the 1972 ''Woman on the Night Train'' and several other ''Roman porno'' films for Nikkatsu. After leaving Nikkatsu, he made his debut as a director in the October 1976 ''The Youth Killer'', produced by ATG, a provocative study of alienation focusing on a young killer. In 1979, he directed his second film, the black comedy ''The Man Who Stole the Sun'', which won him the Best Director award at the 1979 Yokohama Film Festival. This was Hasegawa's last film and although he never returned to directing, he was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genjiro Arato
was a Japanese film producer, actor and director. Career In 1980, Arato produced ''Zigeunerweisen'' for director Seijun Suzuki. He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially-built, inflatable, mobile tent. The film won four Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was voted the best Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics. He also produced Tatsushi Ōmori's ''The Whispering of the Gods'' in 2005. In 1995, Arato directed ''The Girl of the Silence'', which stars Mami Nakamura and Kaori Momoi. He returned with the 2003 film, ''Akame 48 Waterfalls'', starring Takijirō Ōnishi, Michiyo Okusu and Shinobu Terajima. His 2010 film, ''The Fallen Angel'', starred Toma Ikuta. He died of ischemic heart disease on 7 November 2016 at the age of 70. Filmography Producer * ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) * '' Kagerō-za'' (1981) * ''Knockout'' (1989) * ''Tekken'' (1990) * ''Checkmate'' (1991) * ''Yumeji is a 1991 independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masumi Miyazaki
(born January 26, 1968 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan), is an actress and model. She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, and made her film debut in the 1983 release ''Aiko 16-sai'', and was selected as the 11th Clarion Girl in 1985. Miyazaki has appeared nude in multiple films, including and . She has also released nude photo books and appeared in the Japanese edition of ''Playboy''. In 1996, Miyazaki married and ceased work on her entertainment career. She now lives in the United States where she is a housewife and a lecturer. She resumed work as an entertainer in 2005. In November of that same year, Miyazaki announced that she had breast cancer. Filmography *''Aiko 16-sai'' (1983) *'' Be-Bop High School'' (1985, Toei) **''Be-bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Aika'' (1986, Toei) **''Be-bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Kōshinkyoku'' (1987, Toei) **''Be-bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Kyōsōkyoku'' (1987, Toei) **''Be-bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Ondo'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kagero-za
is a 1981 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on a novel by Kyōka Izumi. It forms the middle section of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by ''Zigeunerweisen'' (1980) and followed by ''Yumeji'' (1991), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912–1926) setting. All were produced by Genjirō Arato. Cast * Yūsaku Matsuda as Shunko Matsuzaki * Michiyo Okusu as Shinako * Katsuo Nakamura as Tamawaki * Yoshio Harada as Wada * Eriko Kusuda as Ine * Mariko Kaga as Miyo * Asao Sano * Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Shishō References External links * * * Kagerō-za' at the Japanese Movie Database The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. ... 1981 films 1980s Japanese-language films 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
