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Kuniko Miyake
was a Japanese actress. She appeared in nearly 200 films between 1934 and 1991. Career After graduating from Kuki High School, Miyake joined the Shochiku film studios in 1934 and made her film debut the same year with ''Yume no sasayaki''. She starred in many films directed by Yasujirō Ozu, including '' Late Spring'' and ''Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogni ...''. She also frequently appeared in television dramas. Selected filmography References External links * * 1916 births 1992 deaths Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses People from Saitama (city) {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwatsuki, Saitama
was a city located within Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 109,580 and the density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematicall ... of 2,229.05 persons per km². The total area was 49.16 km². On April 1, 2005, Iwatsuki was merged into the expanded city of Saitama, effectively the former city becomes Iwatsuki-ku. The city was founded on July 1, 1954 by turning in South Saitama District into a district-independent city. Dissolved municipalities of Saitama Prefecture Populated places established in 1954 Populated places disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Japan {{Saitama-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice
is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The screenplay concerns a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure) who have marital difficulties, and their niece who uses the couple's troubles as her excuse for not attending arranged marriage interviews. Plot Taeko and Mokichi Satake are a childless married couple living in Tokyo. The husband, whom the wife thinks dull, is an executive at an engineering company. Taeko's friend Aya persuades Taeko to falsely claim to her husband that Taeko's brother's daughter, Setsuko, is ill, so that she can go to a spa with a couple of friends. The plan goes wrong when Setsuko visits her house unexpectedly, but Taeko substitutes the invalid with another friend and obtains consent from her husband to go for a break. At the spa, the four women drink sake and look at the koi in the pond, comparing a slow moving black one to Taeko's husband. A few days later, Taeko, Aya, and another friend attend a baseball game. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriaki Yuasa
(28 September 1933 – 14 June 2004) was a Japanese director. Yuasa is the main director of the Japanese film series ''Gamera'', about a giant flying turtle that befriends small boys and battles giant monsters. The series was created by Daiei Film Studios after the box office success of the Toho ''Godzilla'' series. Biography Noriaki Yuasa was born 28 September 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. Yuasa was the son of a stage actor and began work at a young age as a child actor. After graduating university, he began to seek work on the production of films. Yuasa joined Daiei Studios in 1955 and became director in 1964 with the musical comedy film ''Shiawasa nara te o tatake'' (). Yuasa's next project was a film tentatively tiled ''Dai gunju Nezura'' (lit. The Great Rat Swarm) which would involve real rats crawling over miniatures of cities. The rats received for the film had fleas, which halted production on ''Dai gunju Nezura''. As the miniatures for the film were already built, Masaichi Nag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snake Girl And The Silver-Haired Witch
is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Noriaki Yuasa. The film is about a young girl named Sayuri who is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage, but discovers that her homelife involves an amnesiac mother, her sister is confined to the attic and begins to wonder if this is related to her father's experiments with poisonous snakes. Cast Release ''The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch'' was released in Japan on December 14, 1968. It was released in the United States by Daiei International Films with English subtitles in 1969. The film was released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video in September 2021. This was its blu-ray debut and the first time it was released on home video outside of Japan. Reception From retrospective reviews, Andrew Crump of '' Fangoria'' found that the film on paper seemed like "Japanese genre cinema at its wackiest" but was more like a ''Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animated media franchise based on an animated te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuyo Tanaka
was a Japanese actress and film director. She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 acting credits, but was best known for her 15 films with director Kenji Mizoguchi, such as ''The Life of Oharu'' (1952) and ''Ugetsu'' (1953). With her 1953 directorial debut, ''Love Letter'', Tanaka became the second Japanese woman to direct a film, after Tazuko Sakane. Biography Early life and career Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the youngest of nine children of Kumekichi and Yasu Tanaka. Her family were ''kimono'' merchants. Although her family was originally wealthy, after her father Kumekichi died in 1912, the family began having financial troubles. She learned playing the biwa at an early age and moved to Osaka in 1920, where she joined the Biwa Girls' Operetta Troupe. Tanaka's first credited film appearance was in ''Genroku Onna'' (lit. "A Woman of the Genroku era") in 1924, which also marked the start of her affiliation with the Shochiku Studios. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Under The Crucifix
is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Love Under the Crucifix is the last film Tanaka directed. The film was adapted from Tōkō Kon's novel '' Ogin-sama''. The film is a bittersweet love story between Sen no Rikyū's daughter Ogin and Takayama Ukon. Cast * Ineko Arima as Ogin * Tatsuya Nakadai as Takayama Ukon * Mieko Takamine as Riki * Masakazu Tamura as Ogin's younger brother * Minoru Chiaki * Ryūji Kita * Kuniko Miyake * Tatsuo Endō * Yoshi Katō * Ryosuke Kagawa * Manami Fuji as Uno * Yumeji Tsukioka as Lady Yodo * Kōji Nanbara as Ishida Mitsunari * Chishū Ryū as Sokei * Nakamura Ganjirō II as Sen no Rikyū * Osamu Takizawa as Toyotomi Hideyoshi * Keiko Kishi is a Japanese actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. Life and career She made her acting debut in 1951. In the 1950s, David Lean had proposed her for the main role in ''The Wind Cannot Read'', which is about a Japanese language instruc ... as a sinner References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Autumn Afternoon
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Shochiku Films. It stars Ozu regular Chishū Ryū as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who eventually realises that he has a duty to arrange a marriage for his daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita). It was Ozu's last film; he died the following year on the day he turned 60. Today, ''An Autumn Afternoon'' is considered by many to be one of Ozu's finest works. Plot Tokyo, 1962. Shūhei Hirayama (Chishū Ryū) is an aging widower with a 32-year-old married son, Kōichi (Keiji Sada), and two unmarried children, 24-year-old daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) and 21-year-old son Kazuo ( Shin'ichirō Mikami). The ages of the children and what they respectively remember about their mother suggests that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 1944–45. Since his marriage, Kōichi has moved out to live with his wife in a small flat, leaving Hirayama and Kazuo to be looked after by Michiko. Hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Autumn (1960 Film)
is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa as a mother and daughter, and is based on a story by Ton Satomi. ''Late Autumn'' follows the attempts of three older men to help the widow of a late friend to marry off her daughter. The daughter is less than happy at the proposals, mainly because of her reluctance to leave her mother alone. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 33rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. While not one of the works for which Ozu is most known, ''Late Autumn'' is highly regarded by critics. Plot Three middle-aged friends and former college mates – Mamiya (Shin Saburi), Taguchi (Nobuo Nakamura) and Hirayama (Ryūji Kita) – meet up for a memorial service on the seventh anniversary of the death of a late college friend, Miwa. Miwa's widow Akiko (Setsuko Hara) and 24-year-old daughter Ayako (Yoko Tsukasa) are also present. The three friends re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning (1959 Film)
is a 1959 Japanese comedy film co-written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film ''I Was Born, But...'', and is Ozu's second film in color. Plot The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home. The film steers into a subplot concerning the local women's club monthly dues. Everyone in the neighborhood club believes that Mrs Hayashi, the treasurer, has given the dues to the chairwoman, Mrs Haraguchi, but Mrs Haraguchi denies it. They gossip amongst themselves who could have taken the money, and speculate that Mrs Haraguchi could have used the money to buy for herself a new washing machine. Later Mrs Haraguchi confronts Mrs Hayashi for starting the rumor and ruining her reputation, but Mrs Hayashi states that she ''has'' indeed handed the dues money to Haraguchi's mother. Only later does Mrs Haraguchi realize it was her mistake (her mother being quite senile and forgetful), and she goes to apol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuzo Masumura
was a Japanese film director. Biography Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei Film studio, later returning to university to study philosophy; he graduated in 1949. He then won a scholarship allowing him to study film in Italy at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. Masumura returned to Japan in 1953. From 1955, he worked as a second-unit director on films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Daisuke Ito, before directing his own first film, ''Kisses'', in 1957. Over the next three decades, he directed 58 films in a variety of genres. Legacy Japanese film critic Shigehiko Hasumi said, "Young and influential filmmaker Shinji Aoyama was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Canne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzakumon (film)
, is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. At the 1957 Asia-Pacific Film Festival the film won awards for best film and best cinematography ( Kazuo Miyagawa). The film also won a special award at the 1958 Mainichi Film Concours. Cast *Source: * Ayako Wakao as Princess Kazu, a.k.a. Kazunomiya * Raizo Ichikawa as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yuhide, Princess Kazu's waiting woman * Shunji Natsume as Emperor Kōmei * Kuniko Miyake as Tsuneko, Kazunomiya's mother * Eijirō Tōno as Tomofusa Kunokura, Yuhide's father * Eitaro Ozawa as Iwakura Tomomi (as Sakae Ozawa) * Yoichi Funaki as Tokugawa Iemochi * Toshio Hosokawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu * Masao Mishima as Sakai Tadaaki, the Kyoto Shoshidai * Kikue Mōri as Honjuin, 13th Shogun's mother * Kimiko Tachibana as Oriko * Hisao Toake as Kujō Hisatada, the Kampaku * Eijirō Yanagi as Ryuan, Yuhide's real father * Hisako Takihana as Tenshō-in * Seishirō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Spring (1956 Film)
is a 1956 film by Yasujirō Ozu about a married salaryman ( Ryō Ikebe) who escapes the monotony of married life and his work at a fire brick manufacturing company by beginning an affair with a fellow office worker ( Keiko Kishi). The film also deals with the hardships of the salaryman lifestyle. "I wanted," Ozu said, "to portray what you might call the pathos of the white-collar life." With a runtime of 144 minutes, ''Early Spring'' is Ozu's longest surviving film, and his penultimate shot in black and white. Plot Office worker Shoji Sugiyama ( Ryō Ikebe) wakes and goes about his morning routine, attended by his wife, Masako ( Chikage Awashima), before commuting to his job in the Tokyo office of a fire brick manufacturing company. During a hiking trip with office friends, Shoji spends time alone with a fellow worker, a typist nicknamed "Goldfish" for her large eyes ( Keiko Kishi). After the trip Goldfish makes advances to Shoji and the two begin an affair. Masako suspects so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
