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Ryōko Kinomiya
was a Japanese actress and voice actress. She was born Ryōko Sakurai in Kyoto, Japan. She was known for her low voice. Kinomiya was the Japanese dub voice of Faye Dunaway. In 2008 she won a Merit Award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards. Kinomiya died of multiple organ failure on 25 November 2013 at the age of 82. Filmography Television animation ;1960s *''Astro Boy'' (1963) *''Speed Racer'' (Aya Mifune/Mom Racer) ;1970s *'' Wandering Sun'' (1971) - (Michiko Nohara) *'' Devilman (TV)'' (1972) - (Ebain) *'' Galaxy Express 999'' (1978) - (Queen Prometheum) *''The Rose of Versailles'' (1979) - (Madame Du Barry) ;1980s *'' Queen Millennia'' (1981) - (Narrator) *'' City Hunter 3 (TV)'' (1989) - (Haruko) ;1990s *'' Hell Teacher Nube'' (1996) - (Narrator) ;2000s *'' Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier'' (2001) - (Black Ghost) *'' Wolf's Rain (TV)'' (2003) - (Hanabit) *'' Cromartie High School (TV)'' (2003) - (Narrator) *''Tweeny Witches'' (2003) - (Grand Master of Witches) *'' Phoenix'' (2004) - ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the List of cities in Japan, ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf's Rain
''Wolf's Rain'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series created by writer Keiko Nobumoto and produced by Bones. It was directed by Tensai Okamura and featured character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto with a soundtrack produced and arranged by Yoko Kanno. It focuses on the journey of four lone wolves who cross paths while following the scent of the Lunar Flower and seeking Paradise. ''Wolf's Rain'' spans twenty-six television episodes and four original video animation (OVA) episodes, with each episode running approximately twenty-three minutes. The series was originally broadcast in Japan on Fuji TV, some of Fuji TV's affiliate stations, and the anime CS television network, Animax. The complete thirty episode series is licensed for a North American release by Funimation, in Europe by Beez Entertainment and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The series was adapted into a short two-volume manga series written by Keiko Nobumoto and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Singing Buttocks Bomb
Fierceness (foaled March 28, 2021) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2023 the two-year-old colt won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park en route to being named champion juvenile of 2023. In 2024 he won the Grade I Florida Derby by a record lengths and later that year also the Travers Stakes. Background Fierceness is a bay colt who was bred and owned by Mike Repole. He was bred in Kentucky. Fierceness is the lone runner and winner of three foals of racing age out of the winning Stay Thirsty mare Nonna Bella. The dam also has a yearling full brother to Fierceness and a Caravaggio filly born in 2023. Repole raced both Nonna Bella and Stay Thirsty and is a shareholder in Fierceness's sire City of Light, who stands next year at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky for $35,000. Fierceness' full-brother 'Mentee' of Mike Repole's stable, in his June 15 debut in the seventh race of a five-furlong maiden special weight at Aqueduct Racetrack was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen
is a 1994 Japanese animated science fantasy film which premiered in Japan on March 12, 1994, based on the 14th volume of the same name of the '' Doraemon Long Stories'' series. This film marks the 15th anniversary of the Doraemon television series on TV Asahi. It's the 15th Doraemon film. Plot The movie begins with Nobita in a dream but is interrupted by his mother telling him to wake up, Nobita asks for Doraemon to bring a Dream Machine, Doraemon disapproves and gives him a lecture which makes Nobita angry and he runs away from home. Doraemon then relents and gets him the machine which allows Nobita to dream of anything he wants. After an attempt to dream about the fall of Atlantis fails, he chooses a dream named The Three Musketeers after a version of Toriho in the real world convinces him to. At the start of the dream, he meets a fairy who brings him to a city in the Kingdom of Yumirume under the attack of Emperor Odrome's army. Enemies start firing at Nobitanian (Nobita), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arion (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, published in Tokuma Shoten's manga magazine ''Monthly Comic Ryū'' from May 1979 to November 1984, with its chapters collected in five volumes. A young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her. An anime feature film adaptation, directed by Yasuhiko and co-written with Akiko Tanaka, was released in 1986 under the title , and has been licensed by Discotek Media. Cast * Shigeru Nakahara - Arion * Miki Takahashi - Resphoina * Mayumi Tanaka - Seneca * Hirotaka Suzuoki - Apollo * Masako Katsuki - Athena * Chikao Ōtsuka - Hades * Kiyoshi Kobayashi - Poseidon * Masanobu Ōkubo - Zeus * Ichirō Nagai - Lycaon * Reiko Mutō - Demeter * Hideyuki Tanaka - Prometheus * Kazue Komiya - Arion (young) * Ryōko Kinomiya - Gaia * Toku Nishio - Gido * Daisuke Gōri - Heracles * Bin Shimada - Ares * Taka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unico
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. It was serialized in Sanrio's manga magazine ' from November 1976 to March 1979 and collected in two volumes. The series follows the titular unicorn as he uses his magic to help friends from around the world across different time periods. The series was drawn in a western style, being published in full color and read from left to right. It has since been published in different collections and has been adapted into film and comics. A modern-day reboot of the series began publication by Scholastic under its Graphix imprint in 2024. Plot Unico is a young, innocent male unicorn who possesses a special ability to bring happiness to anyone near him. The story begins in ancient Greece with a young mortal girl named Psyche. She is the first friend to Unico, and is apparently so beautiful that the goddess Venus becomes jealous. The goddess attributes Psyche's beauty to her happiness and decides to separate th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adieu Galaxy Express 999
is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions with perfect fidelity into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality. The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shōnen manga, shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981. Matsumoto was inspired to create ''Galaxy Express 999'' by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel ''Night on the Galactic Railroad'' by Kenji Miyazawa. Plot Anime and manga An impoverished ten-year-old named Tetsuro Hoshino desperately wanted an indestructible machine body, giving him the ability to live forever and have the freedom that the unmechanized do not have. While machine bodies are impossibly expensive, they are supposedly given away for free on the plane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumoon
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software. It was founded in 1985 by CEO Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been forcibly removed from Apple that year. NeXT debuted with the NeXT Computer in 1988, and released the NeXTcube and smaller NeXTstation in 1990. The series had relatively limited sales, with only about 50,000 total units shipped. Nevertheless, the object-oriented programming and graphical user interface were highly influential trendsetters of computer innovation. NeXT partnered with Sun Microsystems to create a programming environment called OpenStep, which decoupled the NeXTSTEP operating system's application layer to host it on third-party operating systems. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from the hardware industry to concentrate on marketing OPE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Express 999 (film)
is a 1979 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Rintaro, based on the manga and anime television series of the same name originally created by Leiji Matsumoto. Plot In the distant future, humanity freely traverses space and has developed a way to transfer consciousness into mechanized robotic bodies as means to potentially obtain eternal life. Although the process of mechanization is expensive, there are rumors that anyone who makes it to the last stop of the ''Galaxy Express 999'', an advanced intergalactic transit system resembling a passenger train pulled by a JNR Class C62 steam locomotive, can get a machine body for free. To get there is the goal of twelve-year-old street urchin Tetsuro Hoshino, living in the slums of Megalopolis City, where the ''999'' makes its stop on Earth for one day of each year. Tetsuro attempts to swipe a pass for the train with the help of his friends, only to be apprehended by mechanical policemen and losing a scarab-like locket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rion
Rion may refer to: Surname * Chanel Rion (born 1990), American broadcaster * Francis Rion (born 1933), Belgian international football referee * José Luis Rion (born 1952), Mexican rower * Raicu Ionescu-Rion (1872–1895), Romanian literarist Given name * Rion Amilcar Scott, American short story writer * Rion Azuma (born 1996), Japanese singer * Rion Brown (born 1991), American basketball player * Rion Taki (born 1992), Japanese football player * Rion Sumiyoshi (born 2003), Japanese figure skater Other * '' Galerians: Rion'', 2002 animated film * Rion Hall, historic building * Rion, South Carolina * Rion-des-Landes * Tone Rion, vocaloid See also * Rio, Greece, also known as Rion * Rioni River, also known as the Rion River * Rions Rions is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Gironde department The following is a list of the 534 communes of the Gironde department of France. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crest Of The Royal Family
is a shōjo manga by Chieko Hosokawa. It has run in the monthly magazine ''Princess'' since 1976. In 1991, it received the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo. As of 2015, the collected volumes had sold 40 million copies in Japan, making it the fourth best-selling ''shōjo'' manga ever. With 68 volumes (as of January 2023), it is one of the longest-running manga series of all time. The manga has been adapted into 2 anime drama CD's released in 1990 by Pony Canyon (reprinted in 2004) and an anime OVA produced by Toei Animation. It was adapted into a stage musical in 2016. Story The main character, Carol, is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American teenager from a wealthy family who has an interest in Egyptology and is studying in Cairo. When her mentor discovers the tomb of a young pharaoh, a curse is put on the excavation team and Carol. The curse sends her back in time to ancient Egypt, where she becomes embroiled in the affairs of Egypt and other ancient countries such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix (manga)
is an unfinished creative work, unfinished manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered ''Phoenix'' his "magnum opus, life's work"; it consists of 12 parts, each of which tells a separate, self-contained story and takes place in a different era. The plots go back and forth from the remote future to prehistoric times. The story was never completed, having been cut short by Tezuka's death in 1989. Several of the stories have been adapted into anime and a live-action film, along with a musical production by the Takarazuka Revue. As of 2008, the entire manga series is available in English-language translations. Overview ''Phoenix'' is about reincarnation. Each story generally involves a search for immortality, embodied by the blood of the eponymous Phoenix (mythology), bird of fire, which, as drawn by Tezuka, resembles the ''Fenghuang''. The blood is believed to grant eternal life, but immortality in ''Phoenix'' is either unobtainable or a terri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
