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The Man They Called Pirate
is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki. It is based on the 2012 novel of same name (in Japanese) by Naoki Hyakuta. It was released in Japan on December 10, 2016. Plot Cast * Junichi Okada as Tetsuzō Kunioka (based on Sazō Idemitsu) * Hidetaka Yoshioka as Tadashi Shinonome * Shōta Sometani as Yoshio Hasebe * Ryohei Suzuki as Kōtarō Takechi *Tōru Nomaguchi as Kōichi Kashiwai * Pierre Taki as Sōhei Fujimoto * Haru Kuroki as Hatsumi Ogawa * Ken Mitsuishi as Makio Kunioka * Haruka Ayase as Yuki Kunioka, Tetsuzō's wife * Shinichi Tsutsumi as Tatsurō Morita * Masaomi Kondō (special appearance) as Shōtarō Kida * Jun Kunimura as Takumi Torikawa *Kaoru Kobayashi as Jisaku Kōga * Kenichi Yajima *Kisuke Iida *Kunihiro Suda *Kazuyuki Asano *Takashi Kobayashi *Ian Moore *Rakuto Tochihara is a Japanese businessman and former actor from Tokyo, a graduate of Horikoshi High School. His debut role was in ''Boogiepop Phantom'' where he voiced the character P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Yamazaki
is a Japanese visual effects artist, television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year, Director of the Year and Japan Academy Film Prize for Screenplay of the Year, Screenplay of the Year awards at the Japan Academy Film Prize in 2006 for ''Always Sanchōme no Yūhi, Always: Sunset on Third Street''. He is a member of the animation and visual effects studio Shirogumi. Filmography Films * ''Juvenile (2000 film), Juvenile'' (2000) * ''Returner'' (2002) * ''Always Sanchōme no Yūhi, Always: Sunset on Third Street'' (2005) * ''Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2'' (2007) * ''Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ballad'' (2009) * ''Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film), Space Battleship Yamato'' (2010) * ''Friends: Naki on Monster Island'' (2011) * ''Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64, Always: Sunset on Third Street 3'' (2012) * ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013) * ''Stand by Me Doraemon'' (2014) * ''Parasyte: Part 1'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J Storm
is a Japanese music and film company owned by Johnny & Associates. It was established on November 12, 2001, initially as a label for the Johnny's group, Arashi, after which it was named. Aside from producing and releasing CDs and DVDs, the company also produces films for Johnny's various talents. J Storm also has the same strict policies for portrait rights of its talents with its parent company. Among others, images of their talents are prohibited to appear in websites, though on 28 February 2011, the ban was lifted and loosened the regulations (it is still prohibited in news sites). The ban was lifted completely on 31 January 2018. The company's releases are currently being distributed by Avex Asia in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Sony Music in Japan, SM Entertainment in South Korea, GMM Grammy in Thailand, and recently, Universal Records in the Philippines, and Sony Music subsidiary The Orchard in the United States. Artists J Storm produced Arashi's singles and albums since 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Telecasting
Hiroshima Telecasting Co., Ltd. (HTV, 広島テレビ放送株式会社, callsign: JONX-TV) is a TV station in Hiroshima. It is affiliated with Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System. It is broadcast in Hiroshima Prefecture. History HTV began broadcasting on September 1, 1962 as a primary affiliate of both NNN and FNN and a secondary affiliate of Nihon Educational Television. It remained affiliated with NET until 1970, when Hiroshima Home Television signed on and took over the NET (later ANN) affiliation. On October 1, 1975, TV Shinhiroshima TSS-TV Co., Ltd. (株式会社テレビ新広島, Television Shin-Hiroshima System), named Shinhiroshima Telecasting Co., Ltd. until 2008, is a TV station serving in Hiroshima Prefecture and eastern Yamaguchi Prefecture, affiliated with of Fuji ... began operations as an FNN affiliate, leaving HTV as an affiliate of NNN. The station began broadcasting in digital in November 2005, and would cease operations on its a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chūkyō Television Broadcasting
JOCH-DTV, branded as , is the Chūkyō metropolitan area flagship station of the Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System (NNS), owned by Nippon Television Holdings through . Its studios are located in Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. The Chūkyō UHF TV Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (中京ユー・エッチ・エフテレビ放送株式会社, former corporate name of Chūkyō TV) was founded on March 1, 1968, and started TV broadcasting on April 1, 1969. Then the company was renamed "Chūkyō TV Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (中京テレビ放送株式会社)" on April 1, 1970. Broadcasting Analog JOCH-TV (as of 1969/04/01 open date and 2011/07/24 end date) *Nagoya: Channel 35 *Toyohashi: Channel 58 *Gifu-Nagara: Channel 47 *Tajimi: Channel 59 *Nakatsugawa: Channel 26 * Takayama: Channel 26 *Ise: Channel 47 *Toba: Channel 36 * Isobe: Channel 39 * Nabari: Channel 54, etc. Digital JOCH-DTV (as 2003/12/01 open date) *Button: 4 *Nagoya: Channel 19 *Toyohashi: Channel 17 *Chuno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shizuoka Daiichi Television
Shizuoka Daiichi Television (静岡第一テレビ, SDT) is a TV station broadcasting in Shizuoka Prefecture. It is an affiliate of Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System Nippon Television Network System (; NNS) is a Japanese television network organized by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings through its subsidiary NTV. NTV feeds entertainment and other non-news programming over NNS to 29 affiliated stations. Distrib .... Stations Analog Stations Digital Stations(ID:4) Programs * Marugoto (16:53-17:53 ST Rival Stations External links Nippon News Network Mass media in Shizuoka (city) Television channels and stations established in 1979 {{Japan-tv-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Miyagi Television Broadcasting (宮城テレビ放送) is the Nippon TV station ( NNN and NNS NNS can stand for: * New neoclassical synthesis (economics) * NASCAR Nationwide Series (previous name of the NASCAR Xfinity Series) * Nashville Number System (music) * National Numeracy Strategy (UK education) * Near Net Shape * Nearest neighbor se ...) for Sendai. The channel is branded as Miyatere (ミヤテレ). History *January 17, 1970 - MMT is founded. *October 1, 1970 - MMT begins broadcasting as a dual affiliate of ANN and NNN. The station was originally branded ''MTB''. *September 1, 1975 - The station is rebranded as MM34 (JO''MM''-TV, channel ''34''). *September 30, 1975 - KHB begins broadcasting. MMT becomes a sole NNN/NNS station. *October 1, 1985 - The station is rebranded, this time as ''MMT''. *March 31, 2012 - Analog broadcasts cease. External links Official site Nippon News Network Mass media in Sendai Television stations in Japan Television channels and stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapporo Television Broadcasting
STV News Center "D・Tera・s" is a TV station of Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Hokkaidō, Japan. Headquartered in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaidō prefecture, the TV station was established on April 8, 1958. It is usually called "STV" for short, which is used as a name in a number of TV programs. Since December 15, 1962, the company has worked as both television and radio station until July 12, 2005, when the radio section was split into the was established. Currently, the STV Radio is a radio station of National Radio Network (NRN) in Hokkaidō, Japan. The license of the radio broadcasting was succeeded to the STV Radio, and started radio broadcasting on October 1, 2005. History Early stages In early 1957, Youzo Kurosawa (then president of the Hokkai Shimbun), Yoshjiro Kikuchi (then president of the Hokkaido Charcoal Steamship Company), and Yoshitaro Hagiwara (president of the Hokkaido Charcoal Steamship Company), consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releases of So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkatsu
is a Japanese entertainment company known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio, founded in 1912 during the silent film era. The name ''Nikkatsu'' amalgamates the words Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Motion Pictures". Shareholders are Nippon Television Holdings (35%) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (28.4%). History Founding in 1912 Nikkatsu was founded on September 10, 1912, when several production companies and theater chains, Yoshizawa Shōten, Yokota Shōkai, Fukuhōdō and M. Pathe, consolidated under the name Nippon Katsudō Shashin. The company enjoyed its share of success. It employed such notable film directors as Shozo Makino and his son Masahiro Makino. During World War II, the government ordered the ten film companies that had formed by 1941 to consolidate into two. Masaichi Nagata, founder of Daiei Film and a former Nikkatsu employee, counter-proposed that three companies be formed and the suggestion was appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yomiuri Shimbun
The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are the ''Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun (Tokyo Shimbun)'' the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', and the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. It is headquartered in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.' It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based liberal (Third way) Asahi Shimbun and the Nagoya-based Social democratic Chunichi Shimbun. It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings is the largest media conglomerate by revenue in Japan, while Sony is Japan's largest media con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Japan Railway Company
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, and next to the Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya Stock Exchange, Nagoya and Osaka Exchange, Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the other being Central Japan Railway Company, JR Central and West Japan Railway Company, JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned Japanese National Railway Settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horipro
is a large Japanese talent agency. History It was founded in 1960 as Hori Productions (ホリプロダクション ''Hori Purodakushon'') and changed to its present name in 1990. Horipro has two locations in the United States: Nashville and Los Angeles. In the 1970s, one of Hori Productions' most famous stars was singer Momoe Yamaguchi. In 1989, Horipro purchased the publishing assets of famed rock band Kiss. Next, the company moved on to invest in more catalogs. A year later, HoriPro Entertainment Group opened their first U.S. location in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years, Horipro's songwriters would go on to write many hits for some of Country music's most recognized voices. In the late 1990s, Horipro planned to create a "virtual idol", an electronic rendition using motion capture methods of Kyoko Date. The virtual idol based on Date charted in Tokyo in 1996, and provided inspiration for the character of Idoru in William Gibson's eponymous novel. In 2006, Horipro' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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