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Yogen
is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Tsuruta Norio. ''Yogen'' is based on the manga ''Kyoufu Shinbun'' ("Newspaper of Terror") by Jirō Tsunoda, serialized in '' Shōnen Champion'' in 1973. The film is about a man who discovers a newspaper that predicts the future. The film was released as a double feature with ''Infection'' as part of Takashige Ichise's J-Horror Theater. The film received mixed reviews from ''The Japan Times'' and ''Video Watchdog''. Plot High school teacher Hideki Satomi ( Hiroshi Mikami); his wife, Ayaka (Noriko Sakai) who works as a psychology teacher; and their five-year-old daughter, Nana (Hana Inoue) are driving home to Tokyo after a vacation. While on a country road, Hideki stops to upload a file in a phone booth. Inside, he sees a newspaper scrap showing his daughter being involved in a car crash, dated just a minute later at 8:00 PM. As Ayaka steps outside to get Hideki's help on Nana's jammed seatbelt, a truck smashes through their car, kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
(born 9 August 1935) is a Japanese film actress and voice actress essayist. Biography Early life Kazuko was born in Tokyo as a first daughter of Eisuke Yoshiyuki, a writer, and Aguri. She has an older brother, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, a novelist, and a sister, Rie Yoshiyuki, a poet. A lifelong sufferer of asthma since she was two years old, she was frequently taken as a child to Okayama, where her grandparents lived, for a change of air. She graduated from Joshigakuen Girls High school in Tokyo in 1954. Career She started her career as an actress with theatre troupe Gekidan Mingei in 1955, appearing in the role of Sophie in Junji Kinoshita's '' A Japanese Called Otto'' in 1966. Her major breakthrough on the stage came when she played Anne Frank in ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' in 1977. She made her debut on the screen in 1955 and has appeared in more than 60 films since then. She won Best Supporting Actress award in 1959 Mainichi Film Award, then won Best Actress in 1978 Japan Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Horror
Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror, tension building ( suspense), and supernatural horror, particularly involving ghosts (''yūrei'') and poltergeists. Other Japanese horror fiction contains themes of folk religion such as possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and ''yōkai''. Forms of Japanese horror fiction include artwork, theater, literature, film, anime and video games. Origins The origins of Japanese horror can be traced back to the horror fiction and ghost stories of the Edo period and the Meiji period, which were known as ''kaidan'' (sometimes transliterated ''kwaidan''; literally meaning "strange story"). Elements of these popular folktales have routinely been used in various forms of Japanese horror, especially the tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norio Tsuruta
is a Japanese film director. He directed ''Premonition'', '' Dream Cruise'', and '' Orochi: Blood''. Career Tsuruta directed '' Dream Cruise'' for the ''Masters of Horror'' Showtime cable network series. It is based on the short story of the same name by Koji Suzuki. He also directed '' Orochi: Blood'', which is based on the manga by Kazuo Umezu. Filmography Film * '' Toneriko'' (1985) * '' Scary True Stories: Ten Haunting Tales from the Japanese Underground'' (1991) * '' Scary True Stories: Night 2'' (1992) * '' Scary True Stories: Realm of Spectres '' (1992) * '' Gotoshi Kabusikigaisha'' (1993) * '' Gotoshi Kabusikigaisha 2'' (1994) * '' Ring 0: Birthday'' (2000) * ''Kakashi'' (2001) * ''Premonition'' (2004) * '' Orochi: Blood'' (2008) * ''Ōsama Game'' (2011) * '' POV: Norowareta Film'' (2012) * ''Talk to the Dead'' (2013) * ''Z ~Zed~ is a Japanese zombie horror manga series created by Koji Aihara. It's serialized in '' Bessatsu Manga Goraku'' magazine by Nihon Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-Horror Theater
J-Horror Theater (:ja:Jホラーシアター, Jホラーシアター, ''J horā shiatā)'' 2004 – 2010 is an anthology of 6 Japanese horror films produced by producer Takashige Ichise (:ja:一瀬隆重, 一瀬 隆重, ''ichise takashige''). Spurred on by the overwhelming success of the 1998 J-Horror, J-horror film Ringu (Ring (film), リング), a group of six directors (Masayuki Ochiai, Masayuki Ochiai 落合正幸, Norio Tsuruta, Norio Tsuruta 鶴田 法男, Takashi Shimizu, Takashi Shimizu 清水 崇, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa 黒沢 清, Hideo Nakata, Hideo Nakata 中田 秀夫, Hiroshi Takahashi :ja:高橋洋 (映画監督), 高橋 洋) were requested to create a horror film to be released under Producer Ichise's J-Horror Theater anthology. Films Infection (2004) Infection (2004 film), Infection (感染, ''kansen''), Dir. Masayuki Ochiai (落合正幸, ''ochiai masayuki'') Original Japanese release date: 2 October 2004. Officially released in theaters as a dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter)
Hiroshi Takahashi may refer to: *, Japanese architect *, Japanese manga artist * Hiroshi Takahashi (baseball) (born 1946), Japanese baseball player (See 1964 in baseball#March, 1964 in baseball) * Hiroshi Takahashi (botanist) (born 1960), (See Tricyrtis chinensis) * Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter) (See J-Horror Theater) *, Japanese table tennis player * Hiroshi Takahashi, chief of staff in the Japanese Korean Army {{hndis, Takahashi, Hiroshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Nakata
is a Japanese filmmaker. Life and career Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as ''Ring'' (1998), ''Ring 2'' (1999) and ''Dark Water'' (2002). Several of these were remade in English as '' The Ring'' (2002), ''Dark Water'' (2005), and ''The Ring Two''. Nakata was scheduled to make his English-language debut with ''True Believers'', but later pulled out. He was later offered by DreamWorks to direct the movie ''The Ring Two'' (2005), which he accepted, making his English-language debut with a sequel to a remake of his own film. Nakata made his initial breakthrough into film with '' Ghost Actress'' a.k.a. ''Don't Look Up'' (1996). Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of ''Ring''. Other Nakata films include ''Sleeping Bride'' (2000); ''Curse, Death and Spirit''; and ''Chaos'' (2000). He directed the psychological thriller The Incite ... [...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] |
Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu (清水 崇 ''Shimizu Takashi'', born 27 July 1972) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the ''Ju-On'' franchise, and directing four of its films, internationally, in both Japan and the U.S. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Shimizu is "one of a new breed of Japanese horror directors" who prefers to "suggest menace and violence rather than directly depict it." Filmography # '' Blue Tiger'' (Movie, 1994, Script) # '' Last Bronx ~Tokyo Bangaichi~'' (ラストブロンクス -東京番外地-) (1997) (Video) # ''Katasumi and 4444444444'', stories from Gakkou no kaidan G (学校の怪談G) (lit, "School Ghost Story G") (1998) (TV) # '' Ju-on: The Curse'' (呪怨) (2000) (Video) # '' Ju-on: The Curse 2'' (呪怨2) (2000) (Video) # 首吊り気球 伊藤潤二恐怖Ｃｏｌｌｅｃｔｉｏｎ (Video) # 心霊ビデオＶ 本当にあった怖い話 恐怖心霊写真館 (Shin rei bideo V: Honto ni atta kowai hanashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Ochiai (film Director)
is a Japanese film director. His films include '' Kansen'' and ''Saimin''. Biography Masayuki Ochiai was born in 1958. Ochiai grew up in the Western Tokyo suburb of Setagaya, where the studios for Toho, Nikkatsu and Daiei Film were located. He recalled watching fantasy televisions shows, including American shows such as ''The Twilight Zone'' and '' The Outer Limits'' as well as Japanese shows such as ''Ultra Q''. Ochiai stated that the shows influenced in "not so much in style, but in how they got me excited. Today, when making films or TV movies, I work hard ont create that same kind of excitement, hoping todays' audience can experience the joy I felt when i was young." Ochiai's main influence to become a director was Charlie Chaplin after seeing ''City Lights'' and ''The Kid'' while in junior high school. He went to the Nihon University College of Art, and believed that at that time that Japanese films were not doing well and it would be impossible to get to work on feature fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayumi Ono (actress)
is a Japanese actress, entertainer, gravure idol, and singer represented by Sun Music Production. She graduated from Jumonji Junior College. Filmography Dramas Variety series Radio series Films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ono, Mayumi 1981 births Living people People from Nagareyama Actors from Chiba Prefecture Japanese television personalities Japanese gravure idols Japanese women pop singers 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers Japanese actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Yamamoto
(born July 1, 1940 – March 31, 2022) was a Japanese actor. Filmography Film Television References External links * * 1940 births 2022 deaths Japanese male actors People from Ibaraki, Osaka {{Japan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
