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Haruo Tanaka
was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Career Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to secondary leads and even into leading roles against actresses such as Ranko Hanai and Haruyo Ichikawa, but he never succeeded as a matinee idol. Following Masaichi Nagata, he moved to Daiichi Eiga and Shinkō Kinema before eventually going freelance. He appeared in over 250 films, both gendaigeki and jidaigeki, by directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Sadao Yamanaka, Akira Kurosawa, Tomu Uchida, Mikio Naruse, and Masahiro Makino. He was particularly skilled at comic roles. He also appeared in many ''jidaigeki'' on television. Selected filmography *'' Kyōren no onna shishō'' (狂恋の女師匠) (1926) *'' Hawai Mare oki kaisen'' (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦) (1942) *'' Rikon'' (離婚) (1952) *'' Ikiru'' (生きる) (1952) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. 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 capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomu Uchida
, born Tsunejirō Uchida on 26 April 1898, was a Japanese film director. The stage name "Tomu" translates to “spit out dreams”. Early career Uchida started out at the Taikatsu studio in the early 1920s, but came to prominence at Nikkatsu, adapting literary works with the screenwriter Yasutarō Yagi in a realist style. His 1929 film ''A Living Puppet'' (''Ikeru ningyo'') was selected as the fourth best film of the year by the film journal, ''Kinema Junpo''. Many of his 1930s films featured the actor Isamu Kosugi. One such work, ''Policeman'' (''Keisatsukan''), has been called "a tremendously stylish gangster movie about the love-hate relationship between a cop and a criminal, once childhood friends". It is Uchida’s only surviving complete silent film. Uchida borrows from Hollywood gangster films and expressionist techniques in a story of a young policeman tracking down an old friend who is now a criminal. His work from the 1920 and 1930s possess a leftist social commentary a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of The White Serpent (1956 Film)
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Meoto Zenzai
, also known as ''Love is Shared Like Sweets'', is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda, starring Hisaya Morishige and Chikage Awashima. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Sakunosuke Oda. ''Marital Relations'' tells the story of a couple, a disinherited son of a shopkeeper and his geisha mistress, in Osaka in the early Shōwa era. Cast * Hisaya Morishige * Chikage Awashima * Yoko Tsukasa * Chieko Naniwa * Haruo Tanaka Awards ''Marital Relations'' received the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director, Best Actor (Morishige) and Best Actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Mikio Naruse's '' Floating Clouds'') on the list of the year's ten best films of ''Kinema Junpō , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Inn At Osaka
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian anime convention * Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN) * Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002 ** AN Railway, a successor company, 2002– * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization * Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987 * Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix Entertainment and media * Antv, an Indonesian television network * ''Astronomische Nachrichten'', or ''Astronomical Notes'', an international astronomy journal * ''Avisa Nordland'', a Norwegian newspaper * ''Sweet Bean'' (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as ''An'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crucified Lovers
is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was adapted from Monzaemon Chikamatsu's 1715 bunraku play ''Daikyōji Mukashi Goyomi''. The film was presented at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Plot Mohei is an apprentice to Ishun, the wealthy grand scroll-maker of Kyoto. Ishun makes nightly sexual forays into the maid Otama's room, but she resists his advances, despite offers of goods and property, claiming to be engaged to Mohei. Mohei refuses to go along with the deception and tells Otama to accept the rape because they are both there to serve the household. As two adulterers are paraded through the streets on their way to be crucified, Mohei proclaims that they should not have betrayed morality. When Ishun's brother-in-law asks for a loan, Ishun's wife Osan, knowing Ishun will refuse, seeks help from Mohei. Mohei begins forging a receipt attempting to obtain a loan in Ishun's name, but is caught. Ishun threatens to summon the authorities, but Otama asks him to for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Of A Woman
is a 1953 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', '' Kuroneko'' an .... Cast References External links * 1953 films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films 1953 drama films Films directed by Kaneto Shindo Films based on short fiction Films based on works by Guy de Maupassant Japanese black-and-white films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Chimneys Are Seen
, also titled ''Four Chimneys'', is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It was entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. Based on a novel by Rinzō Shiina, ''Where Chimneys Are Seen'' is regarded as one of Gosho's most important films and a typical example of the shomin-geki genre. Plot Hiroko Ogata and her second husband Ryukichi (her first husband Tsukahara is believed to have died in a bombing in the Second World War) live in the lower-class outskirts of Tokyo. The upper floor of the Ogatas' flat is rented to Kenzo and Senko, a young man and a woman who show interest in each other, but are still not a couple. One day, the Ogatas find a baby in the house entrance with a note signed by Tsukahara, stating it was Hiroko's daughter. The marriage is engulfed in a crisis, with Hiroko nearly committing suicide. Kenzo searches the city for Tsukahara and finally finds him and his new wife, the actual mother of the abandoned child, who initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikiru
is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich''. The major themes of the film include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics. ''Ikiru'' has received widespread critical acclaim, and won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards. It was remade as a television film in 2007. Plot Kanji Watanabe has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years and is near his retirement. His wife is dead and his son and daughter-in-law, who live with him, seem to care mainly about Watanabe's pension and their future inheritance. At work, he's a party t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikon
is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. Cast * Ureo Egawa as Shōgo Yamamura * Yuriko Hanabusa as Natsuno Sōma * Chōko Iida as Kikuyo * Michiyo Kogure as Michiko Sōma * Noriko Munakata as Tsuruko Miyawakita * Shin Saburi as Daisuke Sakuma * Tatsuo Saitō as Hanzō Sakai * Haruko Shima as Sadako Kitazawa * Kyōji Sugi as Masanao Sōma * Haruo Tanaka as Fumio Sōma * Jun Tazaki as Kensaku - Tazaki * Misako Yoshimura is a feminine Japanese given name. It can have many different meaning depending on the kanji characters used and may also be written using the hiragana and katakana writing systems. Different variations of the name include those listed below. Pos ... as Toshiko Yamamura References External links * http://pimo.txt-nifty.com/blog/2009/01/rikon-1952-7b09.html * Japanese black-and-white films 1952 films Films directed by Masahiro Makino 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawai Mare Oki Kaisen
is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Plot Production ''Hawai Mare oki kaisen'' was the most costly film made in Japan up to that time, costing over , when a typical film cost no more than $40,000. It used special effects and miniature models to create realistic battle scenes. These were intercut with genuine newsreel material to make the appearance of a documentary. The film was released during the week of the first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The special effects are by Eiji Tsuburaya. Reception Box office Within its first eight days at the Japanese box office, the film had grossed . According to Toho, it was viewed by 100 million people in Japan and the country's occupied territories. Critical response Joseph L. Anderson comments that ''Hawai Mare oki kaisen'' was "representative of the national-policy films", with the aim of dramatizing "the Navy Spirit as culminated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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