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Satoko Okudera
is a Japanese screenwriter. She is known for her screenplays in both the live-action and anime mediums. Her 1995 screenplay for ''Gakkō no kaidan'' was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize. She is best known for her collaborations with anime director Mamoru Hosoda. Career A graduate of the Literature Department of Tokai University in Tokyo, Okudera did not originally consider a career in screenwriting. Instead, she worked for an oil company until 1991, after which she quit her job and became a full-time writer. After over a decade of work in live-action film and television, Okudera was offered her first animation project: adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel '' Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'' for director Mamoru Hosoda. The resulting film, '' The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'', received worldwide acclaim and gave her international recognition upon its release in 2006. Okudera again collaborated with Hosoda on the 2009 film '' Summer Wars''. At the 2009 Anime Festival Asia in Singapore, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwate Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at , with a population of 1,210,534 (as of October 1, 2020). Iwate Prefecture borders Aomori Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the west, and Miyagi Prefecture to the south. Morioka is the capital and largest city of Iwate Prefecture; other major cities include Ichinoseki, Ōshū, and Hanamaki. Located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast, Iwate Prefecture features the easternmost point of Honshu at Cape Todo, and shares the highest peaks of the Ōu Mountains—the longest mountain range in Japan—at the border with Akita Prefecture. Iwate Prefecture is home to famous attractions such as Morioka Castle, the Buddhist temples of Hiraizumi including Chūson-ji and Mōtsū-ji, the Fujiwara no Sato movie lot and theme park in Ōshū, and the Tenshochi park in Kitakami known for its huge, ancient cherry trees. Iwate has the lowest population density of any prefec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Anime Award
The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third award ceremonies were simply named 'Competition'. The award ceremonies were held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo and the formation of the AnimeJapan convention, the Tokyo Anime Awards was changed into a separate festival called Tokyo Anime Awards Festival (TAAF). Notably, there are ''Open Entry Awards'' for amateur creators (the Grand Prize winner is awarded with one million yen).Information about the awards at the 6th event (2007) Though there are ten main judges, the total number of judges is over one hundred people. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watashi, Teiji De Kaerimasu
''Watashi, Teiji de Kaerimasu'', subtitled ''No Working After Hours!'', is a 2018 novel by Japanese writer Kaeruko Akeno. The story follows the life of a woman who refuses to follow the working habits of her coworkers and bosses. The book and its sequel were adapted by Satoko Okudera into a 2019 TBS television drama starring Yuriko Yoshitaka that drew international attention for its criticisms of Japanese corporate life. Plot After growing up with a father whose corporate life meant that he did not spend time with his family, office worker Yui Higashiyama decides that she will never work overtime, and regularly leaves work at the official end of the day. This places her in conflict with other employees, who usually stay at work until much later, and with her bosses at the company, who see her refusal to work overtime as a lack of commitment to the company and its clients. Her situation is complicated by the arrival of an ex-boyfriend who joins the company. Higashiyama gradually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki's Delivery Service (2014 Film)
is a Japanese fantasy film released in 2014. It was directed by Takashi Shimizu and based on the children's fantasy novel of the same name. Plot The young witch, Kiki still lives with her parents, her witch mother, Kokiri and her ordinary human father, Okino. But with her 13th birthday everything has to change. An old witchcraft law dictates that at this age she must leave her loving home in order to live as a witch in a strange place for a whole year. She sets off on her broomstick. Her black cat Jiji is allowed to accompany her. After hours of flight, over land and sea, she discovers a strange city by the sea. Rather involuntarily, she makes a stopover at the local zoo, where she has to realize that not every resident likes witches. But soon after, Kiki meets the baker Osono, who offers Kiki a place to live under the roof of her windmill. Next, Kiki has to find a living. Kiki can only fly with her magic powers, which she loves to do. Encouraged by Osono, she decides to open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Princess And The Pilot
is a 2008 Japanese light novel by written by Koroku Inumura and illustrated by Haruyuki Morisawa. An anime film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas on 1 October 2011. ''To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku'' is a joint production by Japanese animation studios Madhouse and TMS Entertainment, and it was directed by the director Jun Shishido. This is a translation of the original article by eiga.com The cast of this film was officially revealed on 19 May 2011. Plot Koroku Inumura's original war romance light novel revolves around Charles Karino, a Levamme Kingdom mercenary aerial pilot and Juana del Moral, a princess of del Moral family. Charles, who's the best fighter pilot in the entire Kingdom, lives with the mercenaries and is looked down upon by the regular soldiers of the Kingdom, but one day gets to man the twin-seater reconnaissance seaplane Santa Cruz after receiving a surprise assignment: to fly over 12,000 kilometers of enemy waters to protect aforementioned princess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyori No Mori
is a 2004 manga series by Hideji Oda and a 2007 anime television film based on it. Two manga sequels, and were published in 2007 and 2008. Anime A TV movie was produced by Nippon Animation and aired on the Fuji TV network on August 25, 2007. It was the directorial debut of Nizo Yamamoto, known for his art direction on a number of Studio Ghibli films, as well as ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time''. Besides helming the project, Yamamoto also was the art director, and drew storyboards. The film reunited Yamamoto with ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Times screenwriter Satoko Okudera. Yū Aoi starred in the film as the titular character. ''Miyori no Mori'' had a budget of ¥210 million ($1.7 million), unusually high for a television movie. Plot The movie begins with a flashback, from when Miyori is a baby. While on a family visit to her grandparents in Komori Village, she goes missing while her mother and father fight over being so far away from the city. The whole family sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 Film)
is a 2006 anime, Japanese-animated science fiction film, science fiction romance film produced by Madhouse (company), Madhouse, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. Released by Kadokawa Daiei Studio, Kadokawa Herald Pictures, the film is a loose sequel to the 1967 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui and shares the basic premise of a young girl who gains the power of time travel and repeatedly relives the same day in a time loop, but with a different story and characters than the novel. Riisa Naka voices teenager Makoto Konno, who learns from Kazuko Yoshiyama, Makoto's aunt and the protagonist to the original story, that Makoto has the power to time travel, travel through time. Makoto begins using the time-leaps frivolously to fix problems. ''The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'' was released on July 15, 2006, and received positive reviews. The film won numerous awards, including the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Nest
, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Erica Sakurazawa. The manga was serialized in Shodensha's ''josei'' manga magazine ''Feel Young'' from 1999 to 2000, and collected in a single volume released on February 22, 2001. The manga was licensed for a North American release by Tokyopop, which released the manga on September 9, 2003. The manga was licensed in Germany by Tokyopop Germany and in France by Kana. Adaptations Sakurazawa's earlier work ''Angel'' and this manga, ''Angel Nest'' were adapted into a live action film titled . The film was directed by Mayumi Miyasaka, who was awarded the Special Jury Prize for the Feature Length Competition division at the 2005 Skip City International D-Cinema Festival. The screenwriter for the film was Satoko Okudera, with Ryo Yoshimata as music director. Kyoko Fukada was cast as the angel, Shigeru Izumiya as Tano, Akemi Kobayashi as Emi and Saori Koide as Mizuho. The film premiered in Japan on January 21, 2006. The theme song of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samurai Resurrection
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast * Yosuke Kubozuka as Shiro-Tokisada Amakusa * Kumiko Asō as Clara Oshina * Tetta Sugimoto as Yorinobu Tokugawa * Arata Furuta as Inshun Hozoin * Masaya Kato as Mataemon Araki * Kyozo Nagatsuka as Musashi Miyamoto * Kōichi Satō as Jubei Yagyu * Akira Emoto * Arata Furuta as Hozoin Inshun * Jun Kunimura * Katsuo Nakamura as Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori * Yōji Tanaka is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is often credited as BoBA. Career Born in Kiso, Nagano, Tanaka first began working for Japan National Railways after high school, but often went to the movies, including shows of indie and self-produced films ... References External links * 2003 films Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konsento
is a Japanese thriller film released in 2001 and directed by Shun Nakahara. It is based on the bestseller novel of the same title by Randy Taguchi. Main cast * Miwako Ichikawa - Yuki Asakura * Miho Tsumiki - Ritsuko * Houka Kinoshita - Takayuki Asakura * Masahiko Akuta - Dr. Kunisada * Mantarô Koichi - Yamagishi * Jun Murakami is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami. Career Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka. He has also a ... - Jun Murakami External links * 2001 films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Shun Nakahara 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
