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Kamen Rider Agito
is the eleventh installment in the popular Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider tokusatsu franchise. The series represented the 30th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series. The series was also a joint collaboration between Asatsu-DK and Toei Company, Toei and was shown on TV Asahi from January 28, 2001, to January 27, 2002. The series served as an indirect sequel to ''Kamen Rider Kuuga'', which this show is set in the same universe as the previous show, and the first Kamen Rider series to not have an ending sequence. The series aired along with ''Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger''. The series is airing on Toku (TV network), Toku after being added to the network in November 2020. Story Two years have passed since the Unidentified Lifeform case concluded, a series of mysterious and impossible murders are taking place across the city carried out by unknown beings. A man named Shouichi Tsugami has no memory of who he was, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar circumstances to tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, ''tokusatsu'' mainly refers to science fiction film, science fiction, War film, war, fantasy film, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself. Its contemporary use originated in the Mass media in Japan, Japanese mass media around 1958 to explain special effects in an easy-to-understand manner and was popularized during the ":ja:第一次怪獣ブーム, first monster boom" (1966–1968). Prior to the monster boom, it was known in Japan as or shortened . Subgenres of include ''kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla (film series), Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the ''Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider'' and ''Metal Hero Series, Metal Hero'' series; Kyodai Hero, ''Kyodai'' Hero like ''Ultra Series, Ultraman, and Gridman the Hyper Agent, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yūsuke Tomoi
, known professionally as is a former Japanese actor, best known for his role as Ryou Asihara/Kamen Rider Gills in ''Kamen Rider Agito''. Biography On June 6, 2006, he married Mika Katsumura. In August that same year, Katsumura gave birth to a girl. The couple separated in June 2008 and announced their divorce in August 2008. Katsumura gained custody of their daughter. Yusuke retired from acting on January 11, 2019 after admitting to allegations of domestic violence, adultery and theft. He now works as a grilled meat chef. Filmography Film *'' Kamen Rider Agito: A New Transformation'' (2001) as Ryou Asihara / Kamen Rider Gills *'' Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4'' (2001) as Ryou Asihara / Kamen Rider Gills *'' Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final'' (2002) as Asakura's Victim *'' Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla'' (2002) as Lieutenant Susumu Hayama *'' Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.'' (2003) as Lieutenant Susumu Hayama *''Getsuyou Drama series'' (2003) *''Ai no gekijou'' (2004) *''Kiken na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, ''tokusatsu'' mainly refers to science fiction film, science fiction, War film, war, fantasy film, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself. Its contemporary use originated in the Mass media in Japan, Japanese mass media around 1958 to explain special effects in an easy-to-understand manner and was popularized during the ":ja:第一次怪獣ブーム, first monster boom" (1966–1968). Prior to the monster boom, it was known in Japan as or shortened . Subgenres of include ''kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla (film series), Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the ''Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider'' and ''Metal Hero Series, Metal Hero'' series; Kyodai Hero, ''Kyodai'' Hero like ''Ultra Series, Ultraman, and Gridman the Hyper Agent, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Series
The , also known as ''Masked Rider Series'' (until '' Decade'' and except Thailand), is a Japanese superhero media franchise consisting of tokusatsu television programs, films, manga, and anime, created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. ''Kamen Rider'' media usually revolves around the titular defined group of motorcycle-riding superheroes with an insect motif who fights supervillains, often known as . The franchise began in 1971 with the ''Kamen Rider'' television series, which followed college student Takeshi Hongo and his quest to defeat the world-conquering Shocker organization. The original series spawned television and film sequels and launched the Second Kaiju Boom (also known as the Henshin Boom) on Japanese television during the early 1970s, impacting the superhero and action-adventure genres in Japan. Bandai owns the toy rights to Kamen Rider in Japan and other Asian regions. Bandai Collectables, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco, distributes Kamen Rider merchandise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Ryuki
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series. The twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Series, it was a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei Company, Toei, and it was shown on TV Asahi from February 3, 2002 to January 19, 2003. The series marked the franchise's switch from Nippon Columbia, Columbia Music Entertainment to Avex Group, which continues to produce music for the series today. The series aired along with ''Ninpu Sentai Hurricanger''. It is the first series debuted an animal, knights, cards, and battle royal motif. In 2008, ''Ryuki'' was adapted into the American television series ''Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight'', the second American adaptation of a Kamen Rider series after Haim Saban, Saban's ''Masked Rider (TV series), Masked Rider'' (1995). Story Thirteen were created for thirteen Kamen Riders. They form contracts with monsters from the mysterious , a parallel dimension opposite to our own in which only the Kamen Riders can exist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asatsu-DK
d/b/a ADK, formerly known as Asatsu-DK, is a Japanese advertising agency. Headquartered in the Toranomon Hills building complex in Minato, Tokyo since June 2014 (previously in Tsukiji, Chūō, Tokyo), the firm is Japan's third largest advertising agency after Dentsu and Hakuhodo. The agency has 80 offices in over 20 countries. One, Asatsu-DK Europe, was established in 1993 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bain Capital has owned the company since 2018. History Asatsu Inc. was established in 1956 by Masao Inagaki. In August 1998, it entered a business tie-up with the WPP Group. It soon merged with fellow advertising agency Dai-ichi Kikaku Co., Ltd. (established in 1951) to form Asatsu-DK (the DK stands for Dai-ichi Kikaku) on January 1, 1999. Inagaki died on April 16, 2015. In October 2017, it was reported that U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital was looking to buy Asatsu-DK for ¥152 billion ($1.35 billion). On January 1, 2019, it was reported that Asatsu-DK fully acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Asahi
JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. Its studios are located in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. TV Asahi is one of the "Big Six" broadcasters based in Tokyo, alongside Nippon Television, TBS, TV Tokyo, NHK General TV, and Fuji Television. History Pre-launch After NHK General TV, Nippon TV, and TBS TV were launched in 1953 and 1955, TV has become an important medium in Japan. However, most of the programs that were aired at that time were vulgar which caused well-known critic Sōichi Ōya to mention in a program that TV made people in Japan "a nation of 100 million idiots"; those criticisms already gave birth to the idea of opening an education-focused TV station. On February 17, 1956, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsushi Ogawa
Atsushi is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Atsushi (musician), Japanese singer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese synchronized swimmer *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese water polo player *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese writer and manga critic *, Japanese actor *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese Go player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese tennis player *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese author *, Japanese rower *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese animation director *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese sumo wrestler known as Wakatakakage *, Professional Wrestler *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese rugby union player *, Japanese singer *, Japanese runner *, Japanese alpine s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Yamasaki
Jun or JUN may refer to: People and anthroponymy * Lee Jun-young, South Korean singer and actor with the stage name Jun, member of South Korean boy band U-KISS * Wen Junhui, Chinese singer and actor with the stage name Jun, member of South Korean boy band Seventeen * Tomáš Jun, Czech footballer * Jun (given name), a common Japanese given name * A spelling of common Korean family name Jeon (Korean surname) * A spelling of uncommon Korean family and given name Joon (Korean name) * A spelling of Chinese given name Joon (Chinese name) * Jun. Jr. or Jnr., abbreviations for Junior (suffix) Places * Jun, Granada, Spain Science * c-jun, a protein encoded by gene JUN Time * Abbreviation of June * A ten-day period in the Japanese calendar History * Commandery (China) A commandery ( zh, s=郡, p=jùn) was a historical administrative division of China that was in use from the Eastern Zhou (c. 7th century BCE) until the early Tang dynasty (c. 7th century CE). S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiyoshi Shibata
Akiyoshi (written: or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanese actress *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese American musician *, Japanese ten-pin bowler Akiyoshi (written: , , , , , or ) is also a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese ''kugyō'' *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese warlord *, Japanese psychologist *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese actor *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese film director *, Japanese mass murderer *, Japanese politician and samurai *, Japanese footballer {{given name, type=both Japanese-language surnames Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanori Kikuchi
Takanori (written: 貴教, 貴紀, 貴徳, 貴則, 孝敬, 孝紀, 孝徳, 孝典, 孝憲, 孝法, 孝則, 隆典, 隆則, 陽功, 聖典, 雅男, 崇典 or 鎬則) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese composer and arranger *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese neurosurgeon *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese actor, film director and singer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese singer and actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese electrical engineer and composer *, Japanese voice actor and actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese triple jumper *, Japanese sumo wrestler {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
