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Begging For Love
is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It was Japan's submission to the 71st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. Cast * Mieko Harada: Terue Yamaoka * Maho Nonami: Migusa Yamaoka * Fumiyo Kohinata * Mami Kumagai * Jun Kunimura: Saburo Wachi * Naomi Nishida * Tsuyoshi Ujiki: Takenori Wachi * Yuji Nakamura * Moro Morooka * Kiichi Nakai: Fumio Chin * Ai Koinuma: Terue Yamaoka, aged 5 2017 Television Drama remake A television special drama (tanpatsu) remake, starring Ryoko Shinohara, Alice Hirose, Takaya Kamikawa and Rio Suzuki was broadcast on NTV on 11 January 2017. See also *Cinema of Japan * List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film *List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Featu ...
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Hideyuki Hirayama
is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film '' Maria's Stomach'' in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for '' The Games Teachers Play'' in 1992. In 1995, '' School Ghost Stories'' was a big hit and made into popular series. ''Begging for Love'' in 1998 got many awards as International press award (FIPRESCI) in Montreal World Film Festival, Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director etc. In 2001, Hirayama won Best Director Choice for '' Turn'' at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. He also got several Japanese film awards for director, including the Best Director award for ''The Laughing Frog'' and ''Out'' at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography * '' Maria's Stomach'' (1990) * '' The Games Teachers Play'' (1992) * '' Human Scramble -RAIN- (1993) * '' Playing with Good Children'' (1994) * '' School Ghost Stories'' (1995) * '' School Ghost Stories 2'' (1996) * ''Begging for L ...
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Kiichi Nakai
is a Japanese actor. His name was given by Yasujirō Ozu. His father, Keiji Sada, also a movie actor, died when Nakai was only two years old. Nakai started his acting career while he was still in university and was awarded the Rookie of the Year at the Japan Academy Awards in 1981. He won the Japan Academy Best Supporting Actor award in 1994 (for ''47 Ronin'') and Best Actor award in 2003 (for '' Mibu gishi den'' (''When the Last Sword is Drawn'')). He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 19th Hochi Film Award for ''47 Ronin''. In 2003 he played a Japanese delegate to a Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty in ''Warriors of Heaven and Earth ''Warriors of Heaven and Earth'' () is a 2003 Chinese action adventure film directed by He Ping. The film's notable cinematography captures a wide range of landscapes across China's Xinjiang province. It was China's official entry for the Academy ...''. Though a few of his lines are in Japanese, most are in Mandarin. Hi ...
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1990s Japanese-language Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ...
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Films Directed By Hideyuki Hirayama
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ...
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1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ...
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by '' The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his f ...
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List Of Japanese Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the inception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film was not created until 1956; however, between 1947 and 1955, the academy presented Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards were not competitive, as there were no nominees but simply a winner every year that was voted on by the Board of Governors of the academy. Three Japanese films were recipients of Honorary Awards during this period. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. , twelve Japanese fil ...
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List Of Submissions To The 71st Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
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Cinema Of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. '' Tokyo Story'' (1953) ranked number three in '' Sight & Sound'' critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. ''Tokyo Story'' also topped the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning ''Citizen Kane'', while Akira Kurosawa's '' Seven Samurai'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kad ...
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Rio Suzuki
is a Japanese actress and tarento. She is famous for such TV dramas as ''Yae no Sakura'', ''Ashita, Mama ga Inai'' and as a television personality. Filmography Television * (Fuji TV, 2012) – Minagawa Riko * ''Yae's Sakura'' (NHK, 2013) – Yamamoto Yae (child) * ''Woman'' (NTV, 3 July–11 September 2013) – Aoyagi Nozomi (Koharu's daughter) * (23 September, Fuji TV) – Masaki Tamao ** (29 September 2014) * (Fuji TV) – Satomi Yumika (episode 1, 8 October 2013) * ''Ashita, Mama ga Inai'' (NTV, 2014) – Maki, nicknamed "Donki" * (TBS) – Hanamura Miyuki (episode 5, 13 May 2014) * (MBS, 5 October 2014) – Kirihara Mai * (NTV, January – March 2015) – Shizukuishi Miko (starring role) * '' 37.5°C no Namida'' (TBS, July – September 2015) - Asahina Koharu * ''Asa ga Kita'' (NHK, 2015) - Asa (child) and Chiyo (child) * '' Never Let Me Go'' (TBS, 2016) - Hoshina Kyoko (child) * ''Zenryoku Shissō'' (NHK, 2018) - Isoyama Nanami Films * (26 March 2013, Sho ...
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Takaya Kamikawa
is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. Biography Kamikawa was born in Hachioji, Tokyo in 1965. He graduated from Hachioji-Kita high school in Tokyo. While studying economics in Chuo University, he acted in a minor theatrical group which was touring around Japan and performing at local schools. Kamikawa left Chuo University without a diploma, and joined the group Caramel Box to become a full-time actor. In 1995, Kamikawa starred in a TV drama by NHK, ''Daichi no Ko'', and played the leading role, Lu Yixin. The original author, Toyoko Yamasaki, initially wanted Masahiro Motoki to play the role. However, since the most of the drama was filmed in China and required a lot of travel, Motoki was not able to meet the tight filming schedule. Then one of the staff found Kamikawa, who was still unknown, in a magazine. Toyoko Yamasaki later commented that Kamikawa had been the right choice. Kamikawa is nicknamed "cyborg" by his colleagues due to his extraordinary ability to memo ...
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Alice Hirose
is a Japanese actress, TV personality, and model. She has a younger sister, Suzu Hirose, who is also a model and actress. Appearances TV dramas * ''Geki Koi: Unmei no Love Story'' (NHK, 2010), Kaho Hisanaga * ''Asu no Hikari o Tsukame'' ( Tōkai TV, 2010), Haruka Sawaguchi *''You Taught Me All the Precious Things'' (Fuji TV, 2011), Ryōko Kagawa * ''Shin Anata no Shiranai Sekai'' (NTV, 2011) * ''Hōkago wa Mystery to Tomo ni'' ( TBS, 2012), Naoko Takabayashi * ''Answer: Keishichō Kenshō Sōsakan'' Episode 3 (TV Asahi, 2012), Rio Yamane * ''Miss Double Faced Teacher (TBS, 2012), Eika Saeki * '' AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo: Season 11'' Episode 11 (TV Asahi, 2013), Ruriko Tachibana * ''Tada's Do-It-All House'' Episode 5 (TV Tokyo, 2013) * '' No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35'' (NTV, 2013), Rina Hasegawa * ''Jikenya Kagyō'' (Fuji TV, 2013), Kaori Kawashima * ''Roosevelt Game'' (TBS, 2014), Misato Yamazaki * ''We Are Already Dead'' (TBS, 2014), Rin Akatsuki * ''Honto ni Att ...
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