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Digital Frontier
, also known as , is a motion picture production company in Japan with a distinguished large scale CG production department. The company is equipped with motion capture studio called "OPAKIS" in Odaiba, Tokyo. The company started producing CG works in 1994 as a new section of TYO Image Enterprise. In 1997 Digital Frontier moved to Daikanyama and became a subsidiary of TYO Corporation then three years later it became corporate company Digital Frontier Inc. as it is known today. Its earlier works are ''Death Note'' (live action film) and '' Appleseed'' (CG film). In 2010, Digital Frontier’s parent company changed from TYO Inc. to Fields Corporation, which is specialized in planning and development, and sales of pachinko machines. The company has subsidiaries in Malaysia, Taiwan, and Japan. The company created reveal trailers for '' Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U'' and '' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''. Works TV Anime *2009: Viper's Creed (co-animated with AIC Spiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabushiki Gaisha
A or ''kabushiki kaisha'', commonly abbreviated K.K. or KK, is a type of defined under the Companies Act of Japan. The term is often translated as "stock company", "joint-stock company" or "stock corporation". The term ''kabushiki gaisha'' in Japan refers to any joint-stock company regardless of country of origin or incorporation; however, outside Japan the term refers specifically to joint-stock companies incorporated in Japan. Usage in language In Latin script, ''kabushiki kaisha'', with a , is often used, but the original Japanese pronunciation is ''kabushiki gaisha'', with a , owing to ''rendaku''. A ''kabushiki gaisha'' must include "" in its name (Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Companies Act). In a company name, "" can be used as a prefix (e.g. , ''Dentsu, kabushiki gaisha Dentsū'', a style called , ''mae-kabu'') or as a suffix (e.g. , ''Toyota, Toyota Jidōsha kabushiki gaisha'', a style called , ''ato-kabu''). Many Japanese companies translate the phrase "" in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Wars
is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, produced by Madhouse, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, and Ayumu Saitō. The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student, Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a self-aware, sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done, and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further chaos. After producing '' The Girl Who Leapt Through Time'', Madhouse was asked to produce something new. Hosoda and writer Satoko Okudera created a story about a social network and a stranger's connection with strange family. The real-life city of Ueda was chosen as the setting for ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Up The New World
is a 2016 Japanese film directed by Shinsuke Sato. The film is based on the manga series ''Death Note'' written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata and is a sequel to '' Death Note 2: The Last Name'' (2006), but features an original story and takes place after the '' Death Note: New Generation'' miniseries. It premiered in Japan on October 29, 2016, by Warner Bros. It was later released on Philippines on March 15, 2017. Plot Ten years after the deaths of Light Yagami/Kira and L, in a world afflicted with cyber-terrorism, a chain of unexplained deaths suggests that Death Notes are being used once more. Interpol assigns L's biological successor, Ryuzaki, to the newly established "Death Note Task Force", led by Detective Tsukuru Mishima. They quickly secure a notebook during a killing spree in Shibuya, after its owner, Sakura Aoi, is killed. Upon touching Aoi's notebook, the Task Force meets and questions its original owner - a Shinigami named Beppo - who reveals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gantz (film)
''Gantz'' is a Japanese series of live-action action horror science fiction films. The ''Gantz'' series is based on Hiroya Oku's manga series, Gantz. The films are titled ''Gantz'', the sequel ''Gantz: Perfect Answer'', and a made-for-TV movie titled ''Another Gantz''. The first film, starring Kazunari Ninomiya and Kenichi Matsuyama, follows two high school students who die and are transported to an alternate world. In this alternate reality, a black sphere gives them a mission to kill aliens. Plot ''Gantz'' (2011) The film follows two young men, Kei Kurono (Kazunari Ninomiya) and Masaru Kato (Kenichi Matsuyama), who are killed in a train accident. After their deaths they find themselves transported to another world, where there exists a black ball known as Gantz. Inside the Gantz is a bald man on life support. They find the Gantz in an unfurnished Tokyo apartment, and it forces them to take part in missions to hunt down and kill aliens. They struggle to figure out whether it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snakes And Earrings
is a Japanese novel by Hitomi Kanehara. The story follows Lui, a young woman in Tokyo whose fascination with body modification and BDSM, sadomasochistic sexual activity drives her to make increasingly dangerous personal choices. First published in 2003 in the literary magazine ''Shōsetsu Subaru'' as the winner of the 27th ''Subaru'' Literary Prize, the novel was republished in 2004 after winning the 130th Akutagawa Prize. Though ''Snakes and Earrings'' received mixed reviews, popular and academic critics have noted its significance in contemporary Japanese literature, not only for its authentic portrayal of Lost Decade (Japan), post-bubble Japanese youth culture, but also for the controversial commercialization of its author's personal life. The novel has sold more than a million copies in Japan, has been translated into sixteen languages, and was adapted into a 2008 Yukio Ninagawa film starring Yuriko Yoshitaka. Background As an elementary school student in Japan, Hitomi Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
