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Tetsu Nakamura (actor)
, born Satoshi Nakamura (also credited as Tatsu Nakamura and Tetu Nakamura), was a Japanese film actor and opera singer active from the 1940s to the 1980s. He featured in over 40 films. Early years Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a father involved in the lumber industry, Nakamura studied at Britannia Secondary School before enrolling at a music academy to become a baritone singer. After graduating, he performed on radio and in recitals before moving to Japan in 1940. There he enrolled in Nikkatsu's film acting school, and graduated in 1941. In the meantime, he was selected by the opera singer Yoshie Fujiwara to appear as Escamillo in ''Carmen'' in a performance at the Kabuki-za. Career He became a contract actor at the Toho Studios in 1942, and started appearing in roles in such films as ''The Opium War'' (1943), ''Ano hata o ute'', and '' Aru yoru no tonosama'' (1946). After touring the United States as part of Fujiwara's opera company in 1953, he concentrated on film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction. Its president is Rhonda Herman. Its former president and current editor-in-chief is Robert Franklin, who founded the company in 1979. McFarland employs a staff of about 50, and had published 7,800 titles. McFarland's initial print runs average 600 copies per book. Subject matter McFarland & Company focuses mainly on selling to libraries. It also utilizes direct mailing to connect with enthusiasts in niche categories. The company is known for its sports literature, especially baseball history, as well as books about chess, military history, and film. In 2007, the ''Mountain Times'' wrote that McFarland publishes about 275 scholarly monographs and reference book titles a year; Robert Lee Brewer reported in 2015 that the number is about 350. List of scholarly journals The follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Butterfly (1954 Film)
''Madame Butterfly'' ( it, Madama Butterfly, link=no) is a 1954 musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi and Michiko Tanaka. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera, '' Madama Butterfly'' which is based on David Belasco's short story of the same name. Cast * Kaoru Yachigusa as Madame Butterfly, sung by Orietta Moscucci * Nicola Filacuridi as Pinkerton, sung by Giuseppe Campora * Michiko Tanaka as Suzuki, sung by Gianna Maria Canale * Ferdinando Lidonni as Sharpless, the Consul * Kiyoshi Takagi as Goro, sung by Paolo Carloni * Yoshio Kosugi as Bonze, sung by Plinio Clabassi * Tetsu Nakamura as Yamadori, sung by Adelio Zagonara * Josephine Corry as Kate Pinkerton Production ''Madame Butterfly'' was shot at Cinecittà Studios Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kagi No Kagi
KAGI (930 AM) is a radio station licensed to Grants Pass, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Southern Oregon University, and is an affiliate of Jefferson Public Radio, airing JPR's "News & Information" service, consisting of news and talk programming. External linksijpr.org * *FCC History Cards for KAGI AGI Silver iodide is an inorganic compound with the formula Ag I. The compound is a bright yellow solid, but samples almost always contain impurities of metallic silver that give a gray coloration. The silver contamination arises because AgI is hig ... NPR member stations Grants Pass, Oregon Radio stations established in 1939 1939 establishments in Oregon Southern Oregon University {{Oregon-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost World Of Sinbad
is a 1963 Japanese drama action film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Mie Hama. at Time Out The film is often confused with the theme of fantasy instead of '''' but, the book ''Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia'' specifically identifies it in the genre of ''tokusatsu'' fantasy. It was also released as ''Samurai Pirate'' in the United States. Cast * Toshiro Mifune as Sukezaemon Naya *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mothra (film)
is a 1961 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the first film in the ''Mothra'' franchise. The film stars Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyōko Kagawa, Jerry Ito, and The Peanuts. In 1960, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka hired Shin'ichirō Nakamura to write an original story for a new ''kaiju'' film. Co-written with Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta, ''The Glowing Fairies and Mothra'' was serialized in a magazine in January 1961. Screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa later adapted the story into a screenplay, patterning his version after ''King Kong'' (1933) and ''Godzilla'' (1954). ''Mothra'' was theatrically released in Japan on July 30, 1961. An edited, English dubbed version was released theatrically in the United States on May 10, 1962 by Columbia Pictures. The titular monster, Mothra, would become Toho's second most popular ''kaiju'' character after Godzilla, appearing in elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The H-Man
is a Japanese science fiction thriller film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects directed by Eiji Tsuburaya. Plot On a rainy night in the outskirts of Tokyo, a drug smuggler, Misaki, is killed while trying to escape in a getaway car, leaving only his clothes behind. The police go to his apartment to investigate, questioning his girlfriend, Arai Chikako, who says Misaki hasn't returned home for five days. Arai is a singer at a cabaret, and meets Masada, a Jyoto University professor, there. She gives him a note to take to Misaki, but is confiscated and taken into custody by the police. He theorizes to the police Misaki's disappearance is the result of his physical form melting away due to exposure to radiation in the rain that night. The police dismisses the theory. That night, Nishiyama of a drug smuggling gang sneaks into Arai's apartment and threatens her, asking her where Misaki is. However, Arai doesn't know, and Nishiyama leaves by the window, followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futari No Hitomi
a.k.a. ''Girls Hand in Hand'' (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shigeo Nakaki. Plot A girl (Margaret O'Brien) visits her dad in Japan, and she makes friends with an orphan from the war. She then tries to raise money to make an orphanage. Cast * Hibari Misora as Maria Abe * Hikaru Hoshi * Mitsuko Miura * Tetsu Nakamura * John Norton * Margaret O'Brien * Shiko Saito * Nobuko Shingu * Kyoji Sugi * Yuko Tashiro * Eiran Yoshikawa See also * List of films in the public domain in the United States Most films are subject to copyright, but those listed here are believed to be in the public domain in the United States. This means that no government, organization, or individual owns any copyright over the work, and as such it is common property ... References External links * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416757/ * (public domain) Japanese black-and-white films 1952 films Daiei Film films Japanese drama films 1952 drama films 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriental Evil
''Oriental Evil'' is a 1951 American drama film directed and produced by George Breakston and starring Martha Hyer and Tetsu Nakamura. Plot Sheryl Banning, an American woman, has come to Tokyo to seek information on why her brother killed himself. She hopes to find his former business partner, Thomas Putnam, to gain some kind of understanding or explanation. In the meantime, Roger Mansfield, a British businessman, marries a Japanese girl who is pregnant with his child. Roger one day encounters Sheryl and, after listening to her, volunteers to use his contacts in the city to help her locate Putnam if he can. Roger expresses his desire for Sheryl, who is unaware that he has a wife. A blackmailer turns up wanting money from Roger, threatening to reveal that he and Putnam are one and the same. Sheryl overhears him being called "Tom" and suspects the truth. Roger goes on a rampage, beating his wife, causing her to lose the baby and driving her to suicide. Roger burns down the house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Dinosaur
is a 1977 Japanese/American tokusatsu co-production, co-directed by Alexander Grasshoff and Tsununobu Kotani (the latter billed as Tom Kotani),Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). ''Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films''. McFarland, p. 379. and co-produced by Japan's Tsuburaya Productions and Rankin/Bass Productions. The picture was filmed at Tsuburaya Studios in Tokyo and on location in the Japanese Alps. The film was intended for a U.S. theatrical release, but failed to find a distributor and ended up as a television film, airing on ABC on February 11, 1977 in an edited 92-minute run time. The film was eventually picked up for overseas markets by Cinema International Corporation, where it was released in the unedited 106-minute version as a double feature in the U.K. with the edited version of '' Sorcerer'' (the latter considered a remake of '' The Wages of Fear''). Toho also picked up distribution rights to ''The Last Dinosaur'' in Japan for a theatrical release utili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Sun
''Red Sun'' (french: Soleil rouge, it, Sole rosso) is a 1971 Franco-Italian international co-production Spaghetti Western film directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, and Capucine. It was filmed in Spain by the British director Young with a screenplay by Denne Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts, and Lawrence Roman, from a story by Laird Koenig. It was released in the United States on 9 June 1972. Plot Link Stuart and Gauche are the ruthless leaders of a gang of bandits who rob a train of its $400,000 payload. On the train is a Japanese ambassador on his way to Washington, who has with him a ceremonial tachi meant as a gift for the president. Gauche steals the gold-handled sword and shoots dead one of the ambassador's two samurai guards. At the same time, by Gauche's order, other members of the gang double-cross Link by throwing dynamite into the train car he occupies and leave him for dead. Before the gang departs, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Manster
is an American science-fiction horror film. Shot in Japan, it was produced by George P. Breakston and directed by Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane from a screenplay by Walter J. Sheldon. Sheldon's script was based on Breakston's story which he originally titled ''The Split''. The film starred Peter Dyneley as a foreign correspondent in Japan who is given an experimental drug which causes an eye and eventually, a second head to grow from his shoulder. Tetsu Nakamura played the mad scientist, Dr. Suzuki, and Terri Zimmern his assistant, Tara. Jane Hylton also starred as Dyneley's wife. Plot American foreign news correspondent Larry Stanford has been working in Japan for the last few years, to the detriment of his marriage. His last assignment before returning to his wife in the United States is an interview with the renowned but reclusive scientist Dr. Robert Suzuki, who lives atop a volcanic mountain. During the brief interview, Dr. Suzuki amiably discusses his work on evolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
