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Yukino Kishii
is a Japanese actress. She has played Taka in the 55th NHK taiga drama ''Sanada Maru'', Sari Ishikawa in the film '' Pink and Gray'', and Taka KÅda in the 99th NHK asadora ''Manpuku'', among numerous other TV and film roles. Her lead performance in the 2017 film ''Goodbye, Grandpa!'' earned a Best Newcomer Award at the 39th Yokohama Film Festival. Biography Kishii was born in 1992 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She made her acting debut in 2009 as elementary school student Nana Sakurai in the drama '. After a series of minor film and TV appearances, in 2015 she played the role of Taeko Hakozaki, a girl whose friend falls in love with Taeko's father, in the Kenji Yamauchi film ', as well as the supporting role of Kanako in the TBS drama '. The next year Kishii landed several more TV and film roles. Her film roles included Yumika, an ex-girlfriend of a photographer whose rock star subject becomes attracted to her, in ', and Chieko Matsuda, a teenager whose classmate seeks to imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the largest film festival in Asia and the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. Tokyo Grand Prix winners Best Director Award *1985 - Péter Gothár, '' Time Stands St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon TV
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed subsidiary of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest behind Sony. Nippon Television Holdings forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongside Kansai region flagship Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, which owns a 6.4% share in the company. Nippon TV's studios are located in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and its transmitters are located in the Tokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is sometimes contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX". It is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something's Wrong With Us
is a Japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Ando. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Be Love'' magazine beginning on December 1, 2016, and collected into 16 ''tankÅbon'' volumes, ending on July 30, 2021. The series had two million volumes in print as of March 2020 and five million as of September 2021. A live-action Japanese television drama adaptation premiered on Nippon TV since August 12, 2020, starring Minami Hamabe and Ryusei Yokohama is a Japanese actor, model, and former singer. He is affiliated with Stardust Promotion. He is best known for playing the role of the pink-haired Yuri Kyohei in the 2019 romantic comedy drama Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi as well as .... References External links * * {{in lang, ja 2020 Japanese television series debuts Anime and manga about revenge Wrongful convictions in fiction Nippon TV dramas Japanese television dramas based on manga Thriller television series Confectionery in fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÅŒoku (2003 TV Series)
The refers to the women's quarters of Edo Castle, the section where the women connected to the reigning resided. Similar areas in the castles of powerful , such as the Satsuma Domain, were also referred to by this term. History The ''ÅŒoku'' was built inside the ''Honmaru'' enceinte of Edo Castle in 1607 by Tokugawa Hidetada, who passed a special law to separate the ''ÅŒoku'' completely from the outside world. By this law, noblewomen living in the ÅŒoku could not leave the castle without permission, and no women within the ÅŒoku were permitted to have a relationship with man. This system lasted for nearly 200 years. Structure No male adults were admitted onto the floor of the ''ÅŒoku'' without the ''shÅgun''. The corridor through which the ''shÅgun'' entered was called , derived from the custom of ringing of the '' suzu'' bells to announce the entrance of the ''shÅgun''. This corridor was the only route which connected the ÅŒoku to rest of Edo Castle, and it was usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Takeshi Kitazawa which aired in Japan Monday through Friday mornings—it was also the only of such series to be aired for 20 minutes per episode. From 1975 onward, series aired in the first half of the year are produced by the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting station and series in the latter half of the year are produced by the NHK Osaka Broadcasting station; the Osaka branch's first ''asadora'' production was in 1964. Due to the practice of wiping commonly in practice around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, not all episodes of all pre-1980 ''asadora'' series survive, as the 2-inch Quad videotapes were often wiped and reused; 16 of the produced ''asadora'' series in total are incomplete in the NHK archives, with several series having no surviving e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ShÅkÅjo Seira
is a 2009 Japanese drama television series based on the 1905 children's novel ''A Little Princess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mirai Shida stars as Seira, the daughter of a rich boss of a mining company. Due to her father's sudden death in a mining accident, Seira has overcomes many ordeals at the Millenius Seminary boarding school because she is unable to pay her school fees. ''ShÅkÅjo Seira'' aired on Saturdays from 7:56pm on the Tokyo Broadcasting System between 17 October and 19 December 2009. Plot Seira was raised in India, but she is sent back to Japan to continue her education at an affluent boarding high school her mother went to. Although she has lived in luxury, the well-bred Seira is kind and generous, earning her many friends at the school. One person who dislikes Seira is the school's director, though she treats Seira well due to the father's fortune. Then, during Seira's 16th birthday party, the director informs her that her father has died, leaving her pennil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homunculus (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' from March 2003 to February 2011, with its chapters collected in 15 ''tankÅbon'' volumes. A live-action film adaptation, directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring GÅ Ayano premiered in April 2021. Plot Trepanation is the procedure of drilling holes in a person's head, supposedly increasing the circulation of blood and helping to improve the pressure inside one's skull, bringing out a person's sixth sense and causing them to gain superhuman powers such as ESP, being able to see ghosts, and controlling objects remotely with one's mind. This is speculative fiction based on the concept of trepanation. Susumu Nakoshi is a 34-year-old homeless man living out of his car. For two weeks, he has declined his fellow homeless men's invitations to set up a tent with them, preferring to sleep in his car. However, one day, he is acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living In The Sky
''Living in the Sky'' is a 2020 romance film directed by Shinji Aoyama (which was his final film before his death in 2022) from a screenplay written by himself and Chihiro Ikeda, based on lyricist Masato Odake's novel of the same title. It stars Mikako Tabe, with Yukino Kishii, Rie Mimura, Takanori Iwata in supporting roles. The film tells the story of a young lady moving to a high-rise apartment owned by her uncle and his wife to recover from the loss of her parents, where she meets actor Tokito Morinori, and her life begins to change as she struggles to figure the road she should choose. The theme song of the film is Sandaime J Soul Brothers' "Sora ni Sumu～Living in your sky～". The project was announced on August 24, 2020, as Shinji Aoyama's first feature film after a seven-year lapse. Released by Asmik Ace, the film had its premiere on October 4, 2020, in Tokyo, and was released on October 23, 2020. It was screened at Busan International Film Festival on October 25, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Only Love
is a 2018 Japanese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Rikiya Imaizumi. Based on the novel of the same name by Mitsuyo Kakuta, the film stars Yukino Kishii, Ryo Narita, Mai Fukagawa, and Ryuya Wakaba. The film premiered at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival, and received a theatrical release in Japan in April 2019. Cast * Yukino Kishii as Teruko Yamada * Ryo Narita as Mamoru Tanaka * Mai Fukagawa as Yoko Sakamoto * Ryuya Wakaba as Sei Nakahara * Noriko Eguchi as Sumire Reception James Hadfield of ''The Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...'' gave the film a score of three out of five stars, calling it "an honest depiction of the vague boundaries of 20-something romance, and takes the time to show its unequal relationships from both sides." R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched by Motosada Zumoto on 22 March 1897, with the goal of giving Japanese people an opportunity to read and discuss news and current events in English to help Japan to participate in the international community. The newspaper was independent of government control, but from 1931 onward, the paper's editors experienced mounting pressure from the Japanese government to submit to its policies. In 1933, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Hitoshi Ashida, former ministry official, as chief editor. During World War II, the newspaper served as an outlet for Imperial Japanese government communication and editorial opinion. It was successively renamed ''The Japan Times and Mail'' (1918–1940) following its merger with ''The Japan Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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