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Yūzō Yamamoto
was a Japanese novelist and playwright. His real name was written as "山本 勇造" but pronounced the same as his pen name. Biography Yamamoto was born to a family of kimono makers in Tochigi (city), Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture. After finishing high school, he started an apprenticeship and later worked in the family business, before eventually entering the German literature department at University of Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial University. While still a student, he contributed to the literary magazine ''Shinshicho''. He debuted as a playwright with ''The Crown of Life'' (1920) and gained a reputation for his solidly crafted plays, notably ''Sakazaki, Lord Dewa'' (1920) and ''Dōshi no hitobito'' ( "Comrades", 1923). A recurring theme were social injustices, suffered by women in particular, while the contemporary settings of his early plays later gave way to historical ones. In 1926 he turned to novels, known for their clarity of expression and dramatic composition, and also wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitaka, Tokyo
file:井之頭恩賜公園 (16016034730).jpg, 260px, Inokashira Park in Mitaka is a Cities of Japan, city in the Western Tokyo region of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 190,403, and a population density of 12,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Mitaka is located on the Kantō region, Kantō Plain, just outside the 23 special wards of Tokyo Metropolis, which are on its eastern borders. The Tamagawa Aqueduct canal, which runs alongside Mitaka station, has an important place in history, built in 1653 to feed the local metropolitan area, metropolis. It is also the place where novelist Osamu Dazai died by suicide in 1948. The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is located in Mitaka. Surrounding municipalities Tokyo Metropolis *Chōfu, Tokyo, Chōfu *Koganei, Tokyo, Koganei *Musashino, Tokyo, Musashino *Setagaya, Tokyo, Setagaya *Suginami, Tokyo, Suginami Climate Mitaka has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or the nomination of the prime minister, the House of Representatives can insist on its decision. In other decisions, the House of Representatives can override a vote of the House of Councillors only by a two-thirds majority of members present. The House of Councillors has 248 members who each serve six-year terms, two years longer than those of the House of Representatives. Councillors must be at least 30 years old, compared with 25 years old in the House of Representatives. The House of Councillors cannot be dissolved, and terms are Staggered elections, staggered so that only half of its membership is up for election every three years. Of the 121 members subject to election each time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyoji Ieki
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He often made adolescents the protagonists of his films, which addressed political themes through personal drama. His most noted works include '' Stepbrothers'' (1957) and '' Naked Sun'' (1958). Life After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Miyoji Ieki joined the Shochiku film studios in 1940, where he became an assistant of Heinosuke Gosho and Minoru Shibuya, before debuting as director with ''Torrent'' (Gekiryū) in 1944. After World War II, he directed youth films and romances like '' The Sad Whistle'' (1949), before being expelled by Shochiku together with other filmmakers as a communist sympathiser during the Red Purge. In the following years, Ieki, working for independent companies, directed his most notable films, including ''Beyond the Clouds'' (1953), a portrait of young kamikaze pilots, ''Sisters'' (1955), ''Stepbrothers'' (1957), an account of the ongoing conflicts in a military family, and ''Naked Sun'' (1958), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadashi Imai
was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and '' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963). Life Although leaning towards left-wing politics already at Tokyo University, where he joined a Communist student group, Imai's directing career, after serving as continuity writer at J.O. studios (later Toho), started in 1939 with a series of films promoting the war efforts of the militarist regime. Later calling these films "the biggest mistake of my life", he soon turned to socially conscious themes after the war. '' Aoi sanmyaku'' (1949), although a light comedy, observed the educational system, and was successful both with moviegoers and critics. While his 1950 drama '' Until We Meet Again'' portrayed a young couple's doomed love against the backdrop of the Pacific War, the 1953 anti-war film ''Tower of Lilies'' was a stark account of untrained female students forced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noboru Nakamura
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Biography After graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University Faculty of Letters in 1936, Nakamura joined the Shochiku film studios, working as an assistant director for Torajirō Saitō and Yasujirō Shimazu. He debuted as director in 1941 with ''Life and Rhythm'', and finally received recognition with his 1951 film '' Home Sweet Home''. His most noted works include the Yasunari Kawabata adaptation '' Twin Sisters of Kyoto'' (1963), ''The Kii River'' (1966) and '' Portrait of Chieko'' (1967). Both ''Twin Sisters of Kyoto'' and ''Portrait of Chieko'' were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nakamura was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class. Filmography (selected) * ''Life and Rhythm'' (1941) * ''The Ideals of Marriage'' (1941) * ''Otoko no iki'' (1942) * ''Omitsu no endan'' (1946) * '' Home Sweet Home'' (1951) * '' Nami'' (1951) * ''Natsuko no Bōken'' (1953) * ''Shuzenji Monagat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nami (film)
is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It is based on the novel of the same name by Yūzō Yamamoto. Cast * Chikage Awashima was a Japanese film and stage actress. Life A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numero ... * Akira Ishihama * Hanshiro Iwai * Yōko Katsuragi * Chishū Ryū * Shin Saburi * Takeshi Sakamoto * Keiko Tsushima Release ''Nami'' was screened at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. References External links * 1952 films 1952 drama films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese drama films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Noboru Nakamura 1950s Japanese films Films scored by Toshiro Mayuzumi {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomotaka Tasaka
was a Japanese film director. Career Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as '' Robō no ishi'' and '' Mud and Soldiers'', both of which starred Isamu Kosugi. His war film, '' Five Scouts'', was screened in the competition at the 6th Venice International Film Festival. Tasaka was a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and spent many years recovering. He eventually resumed directing and won the best director prize at the 1958 Blue Ribbon Awards The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1950 by , established under the name of the "Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Award", which was formed mainly by film reporters from th ... for '' A Slope in the Sun'', which starred Yūjirō Ishihara. His brother, Katsuhiko Tasaka, was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomu Uchida
, born Tsunejirō Uchida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Uchida chose the stage name Tomu, a transliteration of the English Tom, written in Kanji characters meaning "to spit out dreams". Biography Early career After leaving junior high school in Okayama prematurely, Uchida started acting in films of the short-lived Taishō Katsuei studio in 1920, later moving to Nikkatsu in 1926. In 1927, he gave his directorial debut with ''Kyōsō mikkakan'' (lit. "Three days of competition"). In the following years, Uchida worked in a variety of genres: the tendency film ''Ikeru ningyo'' (lit. "Living dolls"), which is regarded as one of the first of its kind, the satirical comedy and Historical drama, period film ''Adauchi senshu'' (lit. "Vengeful player", 1931) and the gangster film ''Policeman'' (''Keisatsukan'', 1933), Uchida's only surviving complete silent film, which film historians described as "a perfect pastiche, well ahead of its time" (Noël Burch) and "incredibly st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupied Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952. The occupation, led by the American military with support from the British Commonwealth and under the supervision of the Far Eastern Commission, involved a total of nearly one million Allied soldiers. The occupation was overseen by the US General Douglas MacArthur, who was appointed Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers by the US president Harry S. Truman; MacArthur was succeeded as supreme commander by General Matthew Ridgway in 1951. Unlike in the occupations of Germany and Austria, the Soviet Union had little to no influence in Japan, declining to participate because it did not want to place Soviet troops under MacArthur's direct command. This foreign presence marks the only time in the history of Japan that it has been occupied by a foreign power. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hella Wuolijoki
Hella Wuolijoki (née Ella Marie Murrik; 22 July 1886Hella Wuolijoki biography , encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. Accessed 16 June 2023. – 2 February 1954), also known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer known for her ''Niskavuori'' series.Wuolijoki, Hella. Eesti Entsüklopeedia 10. ''Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers'', Tallinn, 1998. Early life Hella Wuolijoki was born as Ella Marie Murrik in the hamlet (place), hamlet of Ala, Valga County, Ala in Helme Parish (now in Tõrva Parish), Valga County, Governorate of Livonia. She began her studies in Tartu, before moving to Helsinki in 1904. In 1908, she married Sulo Vuolijoki (1881-1957), a personal friend of Lenin. They divorced in 1923. Later, Hella Vuolijoki began ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote ''The Threepenny Opera'' with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic ''Lehrstücke'' and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the . When the Nazi Party, Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California where he established himself as a screenwriter, while also being surveilled by the FBI. In 1947, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
