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Bashing (film)
is a 2005 film by Masahiro Kobayashi. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. ''Bashing'' went on to win special jury award at the Fajr Film Festival and won grand prize at Tokyo FILMeX. Plot Yuko Takai and a few other Japanese political activists in the Middle East were kidnapped and used as hostages. Upon returning to Japan, Yuko is mistreated for basically "making ripples in the water;" in other words, for not committing suicide and for making the Japanese look weak. This story is based on the real affairs of the kidnapping of three Japanese political activists by militia in Iraq in April 2004. Yuko Takai is a model of Nahoko Takato, a political activist, who was also harshly criticised by almost all Japanese. Cast * Fusako Urabe - Yuko Takai * Nene Otsuka - Noriko Takai, Yuko's step mother * Ryūzō Tanaka - Koji Takai, Yuko's father * Takayuki Katō - Ex-boyfriend * Kikujirō Honda - Father's boss * Teruyuki Kagawa is a J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiro Kobayashi (director)
was a Japanese film director. Career Kobayashi became the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In its wake, he founded Monkey Town Productions and made three films back to back which won prizes in three consecutive years at Cannes: ''Kaizokuban Bootleg Film'' (1999) and ''Man Walking on Snow'' (2001) in Un Certain Regard and ''Koroshi'' (2000) in the Directors' Fortnight. '' Bashing'' was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. “Amazing Story” (2003), “The Rebirth” (2007) and “Where are you?” (2009) were invited in competition to Festival del film Locarno. “The Rebirth” won four prizes at the 60th Festival del film Locarno prizes, including the Golden Leopard and the Daniel Schmid award. In 2008, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Festival do Rio and the Buenos Aires International Film Festival hosted a retrospective of his films to great acclaim. Kobayashi makes out of as many as 16 feature fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takayuki Katō
Takayuki (written: 孝之, 孝行, 孝幸, 隆之, 隆行, 隆幸, 高之, 高行, 高猷, 貴之, 貴幸, 貴由, 貴由輝, 崇之, 崇幸, 敬之, 卓行, 鷹幸, 恭之 or タカユキ in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese hurdler *, Japanese poet and writer *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese chief executive *, Japanese long-distance runner *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese ice hockey player *, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Kobayashi Masahiro
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 sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Drama Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Japanese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teruyuki Kagawa
is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor and boxing commentator. Biography Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Yuko Hama. His grandmother is the film actress Sanae Takasugi. In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps from a very early age, but his parents divorced in 1968 and his mother was given custody. After that, he totally lost contact with his father, and his mother refused to give him any training in the Kabuki art and he grew believing that it was "something that must not be watched". However he tried several times to meet his biological father. When he was 20, he went to one of his performances and asked if he could see him, stating that he was Ennosuke's son, but when his father's assistants reported to him the situation he refused, stating that he didn't have any son. He graduated in social psychology at the University of Tokyo and decided to start a career in cinema. Sexu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūzō Tanaka
Ryūzō, Ryuzo or Ryuuzou (written: , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese military leader *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist and folklorist *, Japanese scientist Fictional characters * Ryuzo, a character in ''Ghost of Tsushima'', played by actor Leonard Wu Leonard Wu is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Orus in the Netflix television drama series ''Marco Polo'' (2016), Shiwei Chen in the drama television series '' Bosch'' (2018), Kinuba in the action film '' Alita: Battle Angel'' (2019 ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryuzo Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusako Urabe
Fusako (written: or ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese diver *, Japanese princess *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese diver *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese racewalker *, Japanese kidnapping victim *, Japanese communist *, Japanese empress consort *, Japanese writer {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nene Otsuka
is a Japanese actress. She starred in Masahiro Kobayashi's film '' Bashing'', which was screened in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Career Otuska has appeared in films such as Hirokazu Koreeda's '' I Wish'' and Yoshihiro Nakamura's '' See you tomorrow, everyone''. She also appeared in Shinji Aoyama's 2002 television film '' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name''. Filmography Film * ''Quiet Days of firemen'' (1994) * ''Hanako'' (1995) * '' Swallowtail'' (1996) * ''Ooi Naru Kan'' (1998) * ''Film Noir'' (2000) * '' The Guys from Paradise'' (2000) * ''Man Walking on Snow'' (2001) * '' Kikansha Sensei'' (2004) * '' Bashing'' (2005) * ''Female'' (2005) * '' Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * ''Hero'' (2007), Misuzu Nakamura * '' Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess'' (2009) * '' Piecing Me Back Together'' (2010) * '' I Wish'' (2011) * '' It All Began When I Met You'' (2013) * '' See You Tomorrow, Everyone'' (2013) * ''Flight on the Water'' (2020) * ''Daughters'' (2020) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palme D'Or
The Palme d'Or (; en, Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, The Palme d'Or was replaced again by the Grand Prix, before being reintroduced in 1975. The Palme d'Or is widely considered one of the film industry's most prestigious awards. History In 1954, the festival decided to present an award annually, titled the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival, with a new design each year from a contemporary artist. The festival's board of directors invited several jewellers to submit designs for a palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the city of Cannes, evoking the famous legend of Saint Honorat and the palm trees lining the famous Promenade de la Croisette. The original design by Parisian jeweller Lucienne Lazon, inspired by a sketch by director Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
