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Yae's Sakura
is a 2013 Japanese historical drama television series and the 52nd NHK taiga drama. Written by Mutsumi Yamamoto, the drama focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase. Yae is a strong believer in women's rights and the story follows her journey in Japan, during the time it is opened up to Western ideas. Yae, who came from the Aizu Domain (now within Fukushima Prefecture), was chosen for the taiga drama as her story of loss and hope was felt to be timely in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The drama was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series. Production * Kunishirō Hayashi - Sword fight arranger Cast *Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae ** Rio Suzuki as childhood Yae ;Her family * Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yamamoto Kakuma, Yae's brother *Hiroki Hasegawa as Kawasaki Shonosuke, Yae's first husband *Joe Odagiri as Joseph Hardy Neesima, Yae's second husband *Jun Fubuki as Yamamoto Saku, Yae's mother *Yutaka Matsushige as Yam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiga Drama
is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white ''Hana no Shōgai'', starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regularly hires different writers, directors, and other creative staff for each taiga drama. The 45-minute show airs on the NHK General TV network every Sunday at 8:00pm, with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 1:05pm. NHK BS, NHK BS Premium 4K and NHK World Premium broadcasts are also available. Taiga dramas are very costly to produce. The usual procedure of a taiga drama production would have one-third of the total number of scripts finished before shooting begins. Afterwards, audience reception is taken into account as the rest of the series is written. Many times, the dramas are adapted from a novel (e.g. ''Fūrin Kazan (TV series), Fūrin Kazan'' is based on ''The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan''). Though taiga dramas have been regarded by Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumiko Akiyoshi
(born July 29, 1954), better known as , is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 1st Hochi Film Award for ''Banka'', ''Saraba natsuno hikariyo'' and ''Brother and Sister''. Filmography Films * '' Tabi no omosa'' (1972) - Kayo * ''Juroku-sai no senso'' (''War of the 16 Year Olds'') (1973) - Azusa/Mizue (Plays two parts) * ''Aka chōchin'' (1974) - Yukie Shimokawa * ''Imouto'' (1974) - Neri Kojima * ''Aoba shigereru'' (1974) - Hiroko Wakayama * ''Virgin Blues'' (1974) - Shoplifter * ''Honō no shōzō'' (1974) * ''Shōwa karesusuki'' (1975) - Noriko, the sister * ''Banka'' (1976) - Reiko Ando * ''Saraba natsuno hikariyo'' (''Farewell, O Summer's Light'') (1976) - Kyoko Toda * ''Fumō chitai'' (1976) * ''Permanent Blue: Manatsu no koi'' (1976) - Woman * ''Brother and Sister'' (1976) - Mon * ''Totsuzen arashi no youni'' (1977) - Yuki Kobayashi * '' Mount Hakkoda'' (1977) - Sawa Takiguchi (Guide) * ''Sugata Sanshiro'' (1977) - Otomi Murai * ''Wani to oum to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuyuki Nakajima
is a Japanese musician, composer, arranger, and pianist, who studied composition in Tokyo and Paris. He has composed original soundtracks for Japanese TV series such as the NHK Taiga drama '' Yae no Sakura'' (nominated for the 42nd International Emmy Awards, Drama Series). In recent years, he participated in Jane Birkin's world tours (''Jane Birkin sings Serge Gainsbourg "Via Japan"'') as musical director, orchestrator and pianist (over 70 concerts in 27 countries) 2011-2013. Since 2016, he also joined her world tour "Gainsbourg Symphonique", as the orchestral arranger and pianist. Discography Studio albums * ''ETE,Palma ~ a vague impression of the summer ~'' (2006) * ''PASSACAILLE'' (2007) * ''MELANCOLIA'' (2010) * ''Cancellare'' (2012) * ''clair-obscur'' (2014) * ''Broken Blossoms'' (2015) Original soundtrack albums * ''The Fallen Angel'' (Ningen Shikkaku) (2010) * ''Tamayura OVA'' (2010) * ''Tamayura ~ hitotose ~'' (2011) * ''Yae no Sakura I'' (2013) * ''Yae no Sakura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. As a film score composer, Sakamoto won an Academy Awards, Academy Award (Oscar), British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA, Grammy Award, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards. Sakamoto began his career as a session musician, producer, and arranger while he was at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in the mid 1970s. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He pursued a solo career at the same time, releasing the Experimental music, experimental electronic Fusion (music), fusion album ''Thousand Knives'' in that year, and the album ''B-2 Unit'' in 1980. ''B-2 Unit'' includes the track "Riot i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuko Kusabue
is a Japanese actress. Selected filmography Films Television dramas Theater Anime Dubbing Honours * Medal with Purple Ribbon (1999) * Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2005) *Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2006) *Japan Academy Film Prize: Distinguished Service Award (2022) *Person of Cultural Merit is an official Japanese recognition and honour which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions. This distinction is intended to play a role as a part of a system of support measures for the promotion of ... (2024) References External linksOfficial profile * 1933 births 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses Living people Actresses from Yokohama Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class Persons of Cultural Merit {{Japanese-voice-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiyuki Nishida
was a Japanese actor. He won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for '' The Silk Road'' (1988) and '' Tsuribaka Nisshi 6'' (1993). He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for '' Get Up!'' and '' Tsuribaka Nisshi 14'' (2003). Outside Japan he was best known for his role as Pigsy (Cho Hakkai) in the TV series ''Monkey''. Nishida served as president of the Japan Actors Union and vice president of the Japan Academy Film Prize Organization Committee. He received the Order of the Rising Sun in 2018. Personal life Nishida was born on November 4, 1947, in Kōriyama, Fukushima, to Izumi and Kie Imai. His biological father Izumi worked at the Kōriyama Postal Savings Bureau, and was born to the family of a ''karō'', a top-ranking samurai official. Izumi died when Nishida was young, and Kie raised him while working as a beautician. After Kie remarried, Nishida, five years old at the time, was adopted by Kie's younger sister and her husband, Miyo and Tatsuji Nishida, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Matsukata
, better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of ''jidaigeki'' actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishina he had two children; son Masaki Nishina and daughter Hitomi Nishina are both in the entertainment industry. Career As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut while still in high school. His first film was 1960's for Tōei, where his father worked. He specialized in romantic leads in ''jidaigeki'' and yakuza films. But he soon switched to modern yakuza for films such as ''Bakuto'' (1964) and ''Showa Zankyoden'' (1965), and starred in Kinji Fukasaku's '' Blackmail Is My Life'' (1968). In 1969 he switched to Daiei as a replacement for the recently deceased Raizo Ichikawa, starring in nine films including two in the ''Nemuri Kyōshirō'' series and ''Mission: Iron Castle'', the final entry in the ''Shinob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroaki Murakami
is a Japanese actor. He specializes in ''jidaigeki'' roles, and has also taken parts in ''tokusatsu'' and modern productions. Career Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in ''Kamen Rider.'' He made his debut as Hiroshi Tsukuba in '' Skyrider''. Hiroaki appeared in a lot of jidaigeki television dramas. He appeared the NHK ''jidaigeki'' ''On'yado Kawasemi'' in 1980–81, and in a new series ''Shin On'yado Kawasemi'' in 1997. He appeared in the Hissatsu series drama '' Hissatsu Shigotonin V'' as the florist-turned-blacksmith named Masa, and as a repeating character in Series and popularity. Five ''Taiga drama'' roles are among his credits. They are in ''Haru no Hatō'' (1985), Kōsaka Masanobu in ''Takeda Shingen'' (1988), Fujiwara no Kiyohira in '' Homura Tatsu'' (1993), Akechi Mitsuhide in '' Hideyoshi'' (1996), and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu in '' Genroku Ryōran'' (1999). In the annual TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiji Okuda
is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in '' Sen no Rikyu''. He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awards for ''Like a Rolling Stone''. He made his directing debut in 2001, and has taken leading roles in front of the camera in the three films he has directed as of 2006. He appeared in the Brazilian soap opera '' Morde & Assopra'', of 2011, as a scientist in the first chapter. He also appeared in the film '' Dirty Hearts'', also released in 2011, this time as the character Colonel Watanabe, officer of the Japanese Imperial Army, leader of Shindo Renmei and the great villain of the film. Selected filmography Actor Films *1986 '' The Sea and Poison'', Suguro *1989 '' Death of a Tea Master'' *1991 '' The Pianist'' *1992 '' Luminous Moss'' *1994 ''Like a Rolling Stone'' *1998 ''Pride'', Ichirō Kiyose *1999 ''Minazuki'' *2001 ''An Adolesce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Sorimachi
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is mostly famous for having portrayed Eikichi Onizuka in the 1998 live-action drama adaptation of the popular manga series ''Great Teacher Onizuka'', and the assassin O in Hong Kong action thriller film '' Fulltime Killer''. Career Sorimachi was a member of Johnny & Associates's trainee group when he was in the third year of junior high school, under his real name, Takashi Noguchi, as backdancer of group Hikaru Genji, together with members of the agency's current groups Tokio (Shigeru Jojima, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, and Taichi Kokubun) and 20th Century (Masayuki Sakamoto), among others, but decided to leave both the group and the agency within the year, to pursue a career as a model and actor. By 1994, Sorimachi was invited to participate at the Paris Fashion Week catwalk. He debuted as an actor that year with the drama "Maido Gomen Nasai", under his stage name. With his acting in "Beach Boys", released in 1997, Sorimachi was calling the att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Inamori
is a Japanese actress signed to Burning Production. Biography Izumi Inamori was born and grew up in Kagoshima Prefecture. After finished from the local high school, Inamori went to University of Texas at Arlington to study English abroad. After a year and a half of school life in the United States, her family was poor so she returned to Japan, and soon started her career as a model locally at the age of 20 in 1992. In 1994, she made her film debut in the TV drama series "''Ue o muite arukō!''". She is also a first dan kendoka. Filmography Movies TV dramas References External linksOfficial profile * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inamori, Izumi 1972 births Living people Japanese film actresses Actors from Kagoshima Prefecture Japanese television actresses People from Kagoshima Prefecture 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsumoto Koshirō X
Matsumoto (松本 or 松元, "base of the pine tree") may refer to: Places * Matsumoto, Nagano (松本市), a city ** Matsumoto Airport, an airport southwest of Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto, Kagoshima (松元町), a former town now part of the city of Kagoshima * Matsumoto Domain, a feudal domain in Shinano Province, modern-day Nagano Prefecture * Matsumoto Pond, a pond in Victoria Land, Antarctica Other uses * Matsumoto (surname), a surname and list of people with the name * Matsumoto Castle, a castle in Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto Baseball Stadium, a baseball stadium in Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto Bus Terminal, a bus terminal in Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto Station, a railway station in Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto University, a university in Matsumoto, Nagano * The Peninsula Hong Kong or Matsumoto Hotel See also * Matsumoto sarin attack The Matsumoto sarin attack was an attempted assassination perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult in Matsumot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
