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Yōko Sugi
Yōko Sugi (杉 葉子) (October 28, 1928 – May 15, 2019) was a Japanese actress who performed major roles in films like ''Aoi sanmyaku'' and '' Repast''. Early life Sugi was born on October 28, 1928 in what is now Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1945 she graduated from a Japanese high school in Shanghai. Career After returning to Japan in 1947, Sugi entered the second Toho New Face competition. She joined Toho after winning the competition. She soon gained popularity as a calm and refined actress. Her first film was ''Aoi sanmyaku,'' which released in 1949. Sugi performed in several other coming of age films, and became known for them. In 1962, Sugi married an American, retired from the entertainment industry, and moved to the United States. She worked at the New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles. Occasionally returning to Japan, she appeared in films like ''The Twilight Years''. She served as a Japanese Cultural Envoy to the United States for the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoi Sanmyaku
is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. It is based on Yōjirō Ishizaka was an influential and popular novelist of post-World War II Japan. Education, early career, and family Born at Daikancho 82, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Ishizaka went to Hirosaki Middle School in 1913 and then to Keio University in 1920. Upon ...'s novel of the same name, which was first published in serialised form in 1947. Plot After defending Shinko, student at a rural girls' high school, for seeing a young man from the village, teacher Yukiko, who has just been transferred from Tokyo, finds herself in opposition to the conservative faculty and villagers. Cast Production and legacy ''Aoi sanmyaku'' was released in two parts, part one on July 19, 1949, part two one week later, and was highly successful both with the audience and the critics. The film's popular theme song theme was sung by Ichiro Fujiyama and Mitsue Nara. Ishizaka's novel was adapted again in 1957, 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husband And Wife (1953 Film)
is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Because her brother's future wife will soon move into the family's house, Kikuko and her husband Isaku are forced to look for a new room. They move into the house of Isaku's colleague Ryota, who has just lost his wife. Kikuko and the spontaneous, emotional Ryota develop an affection for each other, much to the concern of the rather detached, distanced Isaku. Kikuko and Isaku finally move into a new room whose landlady only accepts tenants without children. When Kikuko admits to her husband that she is pregnant, he tries to talk her into having an abortion. Kikuko first gives in, but eventually refuses, and Isaku agrees to have the child, even if their decision will make things difficult for them. Cast *Yōko Sugi as Kikuko *Ken Uehara as Isaku *Rentarō Mikuni as Ryota *Keiju Kobayashi as Shigekichi, Kikuko's brother * Mariko Okada as Kumiko, Kikuko's sister *Kamatari Fujiwara as Kikuko's father *Hisako Takihan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Births
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2019 Deaths
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Picture Bride (film)
''Picture Bride'' is a 1995 American Japanese-language feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay co-written with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" at the turn of the century for a man she has never met before. The story is based on the historical practice, due to U.S. anti-miscegenation laws, of Japanese immigrant laborers in the United States using long-distance matchmakers in their homelands to find wives. Released by Miramax Films, the film stars Youki Kudoh, Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, with a special appearance by Toshiro Mifune in his penultimate film role. ''Picture Bride'' premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for narrative dramatic feature film. Considered a landmark Asian American work, the film was an Official Selection at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard secti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Rainbow Plays In My Heart
is a 1957 black and white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 44 feature films in a career spanning 59 years. The most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki, his films have had a significant influence on the film industry. Honda enter .... Cast References External links * * わが胸に虹は消えず 第一部 http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg002670.htm * わが胸に虹は消えず 第二部 http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg002680.htm 1957 films 1950s Japanese-language films Films directed by Ishirō Honda Japanese black-and-white films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wife's Heart
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Plot Kiyoko lives with her husband Shinji and Shinji's mother in the family's house, where the married couple runs a not-too-successful food store. Although their marriage is not happy, it is pragmatic, and both agree on the plan to open an additional coffee shop in the house, despite the mother's objections. Kiyoko asks her friend Sumiko's brother Kenkichi, a bank clerk, for a loan, which he approves. Shortly after, Shinji's older brother Zenichi loses his job. Together with his wife and mother, Zenichi puts pressure on Kiyoko and Shinji to give the money to him to start his own business. Although both Kiyoko and Shinji are against Zenichi's plan, they slowly retreat. Kiyoki feels humiliated when she is told that Shinji visited a hot spring with a friend and two geisha. At the same time, she and Kenkichi develop a mutual affection, which they never openly acknowledge. When Shinji learns that Kiyoko was seen with Kenkichi in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moon Has Risen
is a 1955 Japanese romantic comedy film and the second film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Plot Setsuko and her older sister Ayako live in their father's house in Nara. Ayako's aunt, who is worried about Ayako's marriage prospects as she grows older, tries to set Ayako up with a bank manager's son. Setsuko is determined not to see her sister enter into an unhappy marriage, and sets about trying to spark a love interest between Ayako and Amamiya, a visiting friend from Ayako's past. Setsuko bounces her ideas off of Yasui, a family friend, and enlists his help, ultimately aiming to get Ayako and Amamiya to go for a moonlit walk together. Cast * Chishū Ryū as Mokichi Asai * Shūji Sano as Shunsuke Takasu * Hisako Yamane as Chizuru * Yōko Sugi as Ayako * Mie Kitahara as Setsuko * Shōji Yasui as Yasui * Ko Mishima as Amamiya * Kinuyo Tanaka as Yoneya * Shōji Yasui as Shōji Yasui Background The screenplay was based on an unused script gifted to Tanaka by Yasujirō Ozu. Contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eternal Breasts
, also titled ''Forever a Woman'', is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka. It is based on the life of tanka poet Fumiko Nakajō (1922–1954). Plot Unhappily married Fumiko, mother of two children, divorces her drug-addicted husband after an incident which she regards as an act of unfaithfulness, and moves back to her mother. At the same time, she tries to find her voice as a poet, regularly attending a poetry circle, encouraged by her married tutor Hori, whom she loves with a respectful distance. While struggling with the divorce and the fact that she could only take her daughter with her, she is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. She undergoes a double mastectomy, which she writes about in a series of widely noticed and prize-winning poems, and tries to live her life as freely as possible and as her illness allows. She has a short affair with journalist Ōtsuki, who writes about her in a newspaper series before she finally dies. Cast * Yumeji Ts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onna No Koyomi
is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu based on the short story collection by the Japanese woman writer Sakae Tsuboi. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Kinuyo Tanaka as Michi Saeki * Yōko Sugi as Kuniko Hyūga * Kyōko Kagawa as Mie Hyūga * Hisao Toake as Manzō Saeki * Masao Mishima as Sakutarō Sugie * Yukiko Todoroki as Takako Takagi * Gen Funabashi as Kyōhei Ishida * Eiko Miyoshi as Ofuku * Ranko Hanai as Kayano Sugie * Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio ''Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima'' ... as Aoshima References External links * * 1954 films 1950s Japanese-language films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Seiji Hisamatsu Films scored by Ichirō Saitō Japanese drama films 1954 drama films 1950s Japanese films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of The Mountain
is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954, and first published as a standalone book in 1954 by Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo. Plot Shingo Ogata, a 62-year-old businessman living in Kamakura and working in Tokyo, is close to retirement. He is experiencing temporary lapses of memory, recalling strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and hearing sounds, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep, "like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth." Shingo takes the sound to be an omen of his impending death. At the same time, he is repeatedly confronted with the passing away of friends and former fellow students. Shingo observes and questions his relations with the other family members. He married his wife Yasuko after the untimely death of her older sister, whose beauty Shingo adored, considering both Yasuko and their daughter Fusako to be rather unattractive. Shingo has both fatherly and subtle erotic feelings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel movements, weight loss, and fatigue. Most colorectal cancers are due to old age and lifestyle factors, with only a small number of cases due to underlying genetic disorders. Risk factors include diet, obesity, smoking, and lack of physical activity. Dietary factors that increase the risk include red meat, processed meat, and alcohol. Another risk factor is inflammatory bowel disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Some of the inherited genetic disorders that can cause colorectal cancer include familial adenomatous polyposis and hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer; however, these represent less than 5% of cases. It typically starts as a benign tumor, often in the form of a polyp, which over time becomes cancerous. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
