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Eizō Sugawa
was a Japanese filmmaker. Career Sugawa was born in Osaka to a family that owned an asbestos manufacturing business. He graduated from the economics department of Tokyo University in 1953, and subsequently joined Toho studios. He was inspired to enter the film industry after watching foreign films, which were imported into Japan in huge amounts following World War II. While working as an assistant director, he wrote a script titled ''Kiken na Eiyūtachi'' that was published in screenplay magazine Independent. Toho producer Masakatsu Kaneko was impressed with the script, which depicted an ambitious reporter involved in a kidnapping incident with a touch reminiscent of American films, and used it as the basis for ''Kiken na Eiyū'' (1957), directed by Hideo Suzuki and starring Shintarō Ishihara. In September 1958, Sugawa and Kihachi Okamoto were promoted to the rank of director by Toho to quell the ire of the company's assistant directors, who objected to the choice of an outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Osaka was traditionally considered Japan's economic hub. By the Kofun period (300–538) it had developed into an important regional port, and in the 7th and 8th centuries, it served briefly as the imperial capital. Osaka continued to flourish during the Edo period (1603–1867) and became known as a center of Japanese culture. Following the Meiji Restoration, Osaka greatly expanded in size and underwent rapid industrialization. In 1889, Osaka was officially established as a municipality. The construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitoshi Ueki
was a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and guitarist. He won six awards for acting.Hitoshi Ueki - Awards IMDB Retrieved June 21, 2008 His film credits stretch from 1960 to 1995. Ueki came to fame through the comic jazz-band led by . His major appearances were in the ''Musekinin Otoko'' film series, the comedy variety show ''Shabondama Holiday'', the prime-time television series ''The Hangman'', and the ten 2-hour television shows in the ''Nagoya Yomeiri Monogatari'' franchise. He appeared in the |
Japanese Filmmakers
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Osaka Elegy
is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's ''Sisters of the Gion'' which shares much of the same cast and production team, and is considered an early masterpiece in the director's career. Plot Sonosuke Asai, head of the Asai Drug Company, lives in an unhappy marriage with his wife Sumiko. While he treats the servants disdainfully, Sumiko reminds him that he owes his position to her family which he married into. He makes advances to one of his employees, telephone operator Ayako, which the young woman fends off. After work, Ayako discusses this with her colleague and boyfriend Susumu, complaining that he doesn't help her collecting the 300 yen which her father embezzled from his employer and is forced to pay back. After an argument with her father, who argues that he embezzled the money to finance his children's education, Ayako leaves home. She takes up Asai's offer to become his mistress, asking him in return to give her 300 yen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Mizoguchi
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include ''The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), ''The Life of Oharu'' (1952), ''Ugetsu'' (1953), and '' Sansho the Bailiff'' (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema. Biography Early years Mizoguchi was born in Hongō, Tokyo, as the second of three children, to Zentaro Miguchi, a roofing carpenter, and his wife Masa. The family's background was relatively humble until the father's failed business venture of selling raincoats to the Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War. The family was forced to move to the downtown district of Asakusa and gave Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buichi Saitō
was a Japanese film director from Saitama Prefecture. His representative works included ''The Wandering Guitarist, Wataridori series'' starring Akira Kobayashi, ''Farewell to Southern Tosa''(1959) and ''Gazing at Love and Death''(1964). Saitō often worked with Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido and Sayuri Yoshinaga. After graduating Waseda University, he joined Shochiku Film and started working as an assistant director under Yasujirō Ozu and Kōzaburō Yoshimura etc. In 1954, he transferred to Nikkatsu Film and made his director debut in the 1956 film ''Anesan no Oyomeiri''. Selected filmography Film * ''Early Summer'' (1951) (Assistant director) * ''The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'' (1952) (Assistant director) * ''Tokyo Story'' (1953) (Assistant director) * ''Early Spring (1956 film), Early Spring'' (1956) (Assistant director) * ''They Came of Age'' (1958) * ''Waterfront Outlaws'' (1959) * ''Farewell to Southern Tosa'' (1959) * ''The Wandering Guitarist'' (1959) * ''The Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuzō Ishikawa
was a Japanese writer. He was the first winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Biography Born in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan, Ishikawa was raised in several places, including Kyoto and Okayama Prefecture. He entered Waseda University's literature department but left before graduating. In 1930 he left Japan for Brazil and worked on a farm. Ishikawa won the first Akutagawa Prize in 1935 for ''Sōbō'' (蒼氓), a novel based on his experiences in Brazil. In December 1937, Ishikawa was dispatched to Nanjing as a special reporter by the ''Chūō Kōron'' publishing company. After landing in Shanghai, he arrived in Nanjing in January 1938, weeks after the fall of the city to the Imperial Japanese Army. Embedded within an army unit later connected to the Nanking Massacre, Ishikawa wrote a fictional account (''Ikite iru Heitai'' 生きている兵隊) of the atrocities suffered by Chinese civilians as well as the widespread pessimism of the Japanese soldiers. Due to its controversi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taichi Yamada
is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name is . Career Born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Yamada attended Waseda University before entering the Shōchiku film studios, where he trained as an assistant director under Keisuke Kinoshita. He left the company at age 30 to focus on writing scripts for television dramas, penning such successful series as ''Kishibe no arubamu'' and ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi''. He has also written scripts for film and the stage. As a novelist, his novel , published in 1987, won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. It was translated into English, in 2004, as ''Strangers''. Another Yamada novel, '' In Search of a Distant Voice'', was translated and published in 2006 from a novel originally published in Japan in 1989. A third Yamada novel, , was translated into English and published in 2008. Selected works Television * ''Kishibe no arubamu'' (1977) * ''Omoide zukuri'' (1981) * ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi'' (1983) * ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi II'' (1985) * ''Fuzoroi no ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rentarō Mikuni
(also sometimes credited as 三国連太郎) (January 20, 1923 – April 14, 2013) was a Japanese film actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. The 1987 film '' Shinran: Path to Purity'' (親鸞：白い道), which he wrote and directed, was awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Actor Kōichi Satō is his son. Biography Mikuni was born the son of a woman who had become pregnant while working as an indentured servant. His mother then married an electrician who had learned his trade while serving in the military, the man Mikuni considered his father. His stepfather was a member of the burakumin, and Mikuni experienced prejudice as a child, such as automatically being suspected of theft when a bicycle was stolen. He was educated to elementary school lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Award (Japan)
is a Japanese production award for television, radio and commercials. It is given out annually by members of the Japan Council for Better Radio and Television. Awards are given out in four categories: television programs, radio programs, television commercials, and news programming. In each category are awarded one Galaxy Grand Prix for best program (Gyarakushī Taishō), two or three Galaxy Awards for outstanding programs (Gyarakushī Yūshūshō), and several Galaxy Awards for highly recommended programs (Gyarakushī Suisenshō). Individual and special awards are also given out. The Galaxy Award was established in 1963 and is one of the most important awards in the Japanese television industry. Grand Prix winners This is a partial list of winners: Television *2000 Drama D-mode トトの世界～最後の野生児 (NHK, NHK Enterprises 21) *2001 TOYD ( WOWOW, ProgPic Pictures, Fuji Creative Corporation) *2002 ETV 2003 アウシュヴィッツ証言者はなぜ自殺したか ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisashi Inoue
was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction. From 1961 to 1986, he used the pen name of Uchiyama Hisashi. Early life Inoue was born in what is now part of Kawanishi in Yamagata Prefecture, where his father was a pharmacist. His father was involved in an agrarian reform movement and also managed a local drama troupe. A novel his father had written won a prize and he was offered a job as a scriptwriter in a film company. But when he was preparing to move to Tokyo, he became ill with spinal caries and, soon after, when Hisashi Inoue was 5 years old, he died at age 34. His father's sudden death influenced Hisashi to be a writer. After suffering from child abuse at the hands of his stepfather, he was subsequently sent off to a Lasallian orphanage in Sendai, where he received a Christian baptism. He graduated from Sophia University’s Facility of Letters, continuing on to graduate school in French literature, with a two-year hiatus in between to raise more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Theatre Guild
Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave and arthouse films. History ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign films in Japan. With the decline of the major Japanese film studios in the 1960s, an "art house" cinema group formed around ATG and the company moved into distributing Japanese works rejected by the major studios. By 1967 ATG was assisting with production costs for a number of new Japanese films. Some of the early films released by ATG include Shōhei Imamura's ''A Man Vanishes'' (1967), Nagisa Oshima's ''Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief'' (1968) and ''Death by Hanging'' (1968), Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece ''Funeral Parade of Roses'' (1969), and Akio Jissoji's ''Mujo'' (1970). See also * Art Theatre Guild filmography The following is a list of films produced by the Art Theatre Guild Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
