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Tsurutarō
is a Japanese television personality, actor, artist, and former professional boxer. For his role in the 1988 film '' The Discarnates'', he won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards, at the 13th Hochi Film Award, and at the 10th Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography Film *'' The Discarnates'' (1988) - Hidekichi Harada *''Zatoichi'' (1989) - Tsuru *''Sharaku'' (1995) - Goro *'' Sada'' (1998) - Tatsuzo Kikumoto *'' Last Love'' (2007) *''Maniac Hero'' (2016) - Kōzō Kusaka *''Labyrinth of Cinema'' (2020) - Sen no Rikyū *''One Last Bloom'' (2023) *''The Brightest Sun'' (2025) *''Haoto'' (2025) - Aramata Television *'' Rose Against the Odds'' (1991) - Fighting Harada *''Taiheiki'' (1991) - Hōjō Takatoki *''Sayonara Ri Kōran'' (1989) - Masahiko Amakasu *''Shūchakueki Series ''5～ (1996–) – Masanao Ushio *'' Atsuhime'' (2008) - Iwakura Tomomi *'' Clouds Over the Hill'' (2009–2011) - Yashiro Rokurō *''Gunshi Kanbei'' (2014) - Kodera Masamoto *''Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Discarnates
is a 1988 Japanese fantasy drama mystery film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi from a screenplay by Shin'ichi Ichikawa, based on the novel'' Strangers'' by Taichi Yamada. Produced and distributed by Shochiku, the film was released in Japan on September 15, 1988. It was screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden St. George but lost to Maurizio Nichetti's '' The Icicle Thief''. Plot Hideo Harada is a TV drama writer who lives alone in an apartment after his divorce from his wife. While researching places for his written teleplay, he quickly realizes that he is in Asakusa, his childhood hometown. When he enters a theater, he notices a familiar man, only to find out that it is his long-deceased father, Hidekichi. Hidekichi invites his son to his home where he lives with his wife Fusako. Cast * Morio Kazama as Hideo Harada: A TV drama writer who lives alone in his apartment after he divorced Ayako. * Tsurutarô Kataoka as Hidekichi Harada: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saka No Ue No Kumo (TV Series)
(lit. “Clouds Over the Hills”) is a Japanese war drama television series which was aired on NHK over three years, from November 29, 2009 to December 2011, as a special taiga drama. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first season, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while seasons two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in season two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Ryōtarō Shiba and adapted by Hisashi Nozawa. Executive producer Yoshiko Nishimura acquired the rights to the novel from Shiba's widow Midori Fukuda in 2001, after decades of the author refusing to let anyone adapt his controversial work for the screen. The NHK officially announced their intention to adapt the novel in 2003, though shooting would only begin in 2008. The series is the first taiga drama to be mainly set during the Meiji era, thus its produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the '' Hochi Shimbun''. Categories *Best Picture *Best International Picture *Best Animated Picture (since 2017) *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best New Artist *Special Award *Best Director Winner References External links Hochi Film Awards official site List of awards on IMDB {{Cinema of Japan 1976 establishments in Japan Awards established in 1976 Japanese film awards Recurring events established in 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zatoichi (1989 Film)
, also known as ''Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally'', ''Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman'' and ''Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi'', is a 1989 Japanese ''Chambara'' film directed by and starring Shintaro Katsu, who also produced and co-wrote the screenplay. It is the twenty-sixth entry in a series of films featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi, released 16 years after the twenty-fifth film in the series '' Zatoichi's Conspiracy'' (1973). The main character is based on a fictional character, a blind masseur and swordmaster created by novelist Kan Shimozawa and set during the late Edo period. ''Zatoichi'' is the last film in the original classic saga of Zatoichi (1962–1989). It is also the second time Shintaro Katsu directed a Zatoichi film, and the last time Katsu played the title character on screen. Synopsis After being released from a brief captivity in prison, an older Ichi continues his life of wandering. He befriends a Rōnin (a masterless samurai), and later decides to live in a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharaku (film)
''Sharaku'' () is a 1995 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Hiroyuki Sanada as Tonbo (Sharaku) * Frankie Sakai as Tsutaya Jūzaburō * Shima Iwashita as Troupe Leader * Tsurutarō Kataoka as Goro (Jippensha Ikku) * Shirō Sano as Utamaro * Riona Hazuki as Hanasato * Toshiya Nagasawa as Tetsuzo (the future Hokusai) * Yasosuke Bando as Matsudaira Sadanobu * Nakamura Tomijūrō V as Ichikawa Danjūrō V * Haruko Kato as Ofuji * Masumi Miyazaki as Gohi * Choichiro Kawarazaki as Santō Kyōden * Naomasa Musaka as Tsuruya Nanboku IV * Takayoshi Takaba as Kurazo (Takizawa Bakin , born , was a Japanese novelist of the Edo period, who wrote under the pen name . Later in life he took the pen name . Modern scholarship generally refers to him as , or just as n. He is regarded as one of, if not the, leading author of early ...) References External links * 1995 films 1995 drama films Japanese drama film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sada (film)
is a 1998 Japanese drama film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi and based on the true story of Sada Abe. It was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Hitomi Kuroki as Sada Abe * Tsurutarō Kataoka as Tatsuzo Kikumoto * Norihei Miki as Takuzo Abe * Kippei Shiina as Masaru Okada * Toshie Negishi as Yoshi Kikumoto * Bengaru as Sanosuke Tachibana * Renji Ishibashi as Shinkichi * Kyūsaku Shimada as Takiguchi * Jirō Sakagami was a Japanese comedian, actor, and singer. Career Sakagami was born in Kagoshima Prefecture but spent most of his childhood in Manchukuo. Winning an NHK song contest at age 19, he headed to Tokyo to try to make a name in the entertainment busin ... as Miyazaki References External links * * 1998 films Japanese drama films 1990s Japanese-language films 1998 drama films Films directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi Cultural depictions of Sada Abe Japanese films based on actual events Films about prostitution in Japan 1990s Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsuhime (TV Series)
is a 2008 Japanese historical drama television series. It is the 47th NHK taiga drama. It aired from January 6 to December 14, 2008, and ran a total of 50 episodes. The drama chronicles the life of Tenshō-in, based on Tomiko Miyao's 1984 novel . Viewership for ''Atsuhime'' was high; the series received an average rating of 24.5%, the highest rating received by a taiga drama since '' Hideyoshi'' in 1996. Background The taiga drama is based on Tomiko Miyao's novel ''Tenshō-in Atsuhime''. The protagonist is Tenshō-in (Princess Atsu), the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the thirteenth ''shōgun'' of the Edo shogunate. It is the seventh taiga drama to feature a female lead, coming just two years after '' Kōmyō ga Tsuji'' in 2006. Following '' Yoshitsune'' in 2005, this is Miyao's second work to be turned into a taiga drama. Following ''Shinsengumi!'', it is also the second taiga drama taking place at the end of the Edo shogunate. The character of Tenshō-in was previously taken up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Drive
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series serving as the 16th Heisei period, Heisei Kamen Rider Series, and 25th series overall. Riku Sanjo returns to the Kamen Rider Series to serve as ''Drive''s lead screenwriter, with Ryuta Tasaki as director. It premiered on TV Asahi and affiliate stations throughout Japan on October 5, 2014, the week following the finale of its preceding series ''Kamen Rider Gaim'', and joining ''Ressha Sentai ToQger'' then ''Shuriken Sentai Ninninger'' in the Super Hero Time programming block, until ''Drive'' concluded on September 27, 2015. ''Drive'' is peculiar among the heroes in the ''Kamen Rider'' franchise, as his motif and main mode of transportation is a car, rather than the signature motorcycles used by his predecessors. Story Shinnosuke Tomari is a former elite police officer in the Metropolitan Police, who, after an event that crippled one of his colleagues, has been "demoted" into the Special Investigations Division. This division looks into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Neechan
is a Japanese television drama series and the 94th asadora on NHK. It premiered on April 4, 2016, and ended on October 1, 2016. The theme song is " Hanataba o Kimi ni" by Hikaru Utada. Plot Tsuneko is the eldest of three daughters of Takezō and Kimiko Kohashi. When her father dies while she is only in her early teens, Tsuneko takes on the role of the father of the family, which earns her the nickname "Toto-neechan" (literally "Father older sister"). She cares for and protects her family during WWII and the early postwar era, graduating from school and eventually working as an editor at a publishing house. She eventually starts her own magazine offering advice to housewives and consumers about life and raising a family. With the help of the talented editor Isaji Hanayama, the magazine becomes a huge hit. Refusing to accept advertising, it becomes a model for a new form of consumer journalism. The story is loosely based on the life of Shizuku Ōhashi, who founded the magazine ''Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yashiro Rokurō
Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Navy Minister, succeeding the last of the Satsuma-era naval leaders of the early Meiji period. Biography Military career Yashiro was born in Gakuden Village, Owari Province (present-day Inuyama, Aichi), as the third son of a village headman, Matsuyama Shoichi. The Matsuyama claimed descent from a retainer of the medieval pro-Imperial hero Kusunoki Masashige, and as a youth Yashiro joined a cadet movement of pro-Sonnō jōi militia of Owari Domain and despite his young age, fought in the Boshin War. He was adopted in 1868 by Yashiro Ippei, a samurai retainer of Mito Domain, whose surname he took. His adopted father saw that he was enrolled in the han school and subsequently Yashiro graduated from the 8th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1881, ranked 19th of his class of 35 cadets, and excelled at navigation and surveying. After midshipman service in the ironclad warship , he served as a crewman on the corv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunshi Kanbei
is a 2014 Japanese historical drama television series and the 53rd NHK ''taiga'' drama. The series was broadcast from January 5 to December 21, 2014, and ran a total of 50 episodes. The drama depicts the life of Kuroda Kanbei (played by Junichi Okada), a retainer of daimyō Kodera Masamoto of Harima Province, and a strategist for daimyō Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Plot The drama tells the story of Kuroda Kanbei, a son of Kuroda Mototaka, chief retainer of Kodera Masamoto who ruled Harima Province (currently Hyōgo Prefecture) in the 16th century. In troubled times, Kanbei persuades Kodera to join forces with the all-powerful Oda Nobunaga. Though imprisoned by Araki Murashige and lamed for life, Kanbei endures hardships and later becomes a strategist for Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His son Kuroda Nagamasa serves Tokugawa Ieyasu after the death of Hideyoshi. Production *Screenwriter – Yoichi Maekawa *Music – Yugo Kanno *Titling – Shoshu *Narrator – Shiho Fujimura→ Shuko Hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arakawa, Tokyo
is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The ward takes its name from the Arakawa River (Kantō), Arakawa River, though the river does not run through or touch the ward. Its neighbors are the wards of Adachi, Tokyo, Adachi, Kita, Tokyo, Kita, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Bunkyo, Taito, Tokyo, Taito and Sumida, Tokyo, Sumida. In English, the ward calls itself Arakawa City. Arakawa has sister-city relationships with Donaustadt in Vienna, Austria, and with Corvallis, Oregon, Corvallis, Oregon, United States, U.S. Domestically, it has similar relationships with nine cities, towns and villages. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 208,763, and a population density of about 20,550 persons per km2. The total area is 10.16 km2. Geography Arakawa is in the northeastern part of Tokyo. The shape is long and narrow, stretching from west to east. The Sumida River forms the northern boundary. The ward is surrounded by five other special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
