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Dr. Rintarō
is a Japanese television drama series based on the novel by Shinkai Sei. It premiered on NTV on 15 April 2015, starring Masato Sakai in the lead role. It received the viewership rating of 12.7% on average. Cast * Masato Sakai as Rintarō Hino, a psychiatrist * Yū Aoi as Yumeno, a geisha who works in Shinbashi * Michiko Kichise as Yuriko Mizushima, a surgeon and Hino's childhood friend * Yuki Uchida as Kaoru Kiryū, a nurse * Rin Takanashi as Yōko Kawakami, an intern who loves Hino * Fumiyo Kohinata as Kazuo Ennōji, a hospital director * Kimiko Yo as Ikumi Masuda, a geisha house mother * Kenichi Endō as Shigeto Araki, Hino's senior doctor Episodes In other media In 2015, the variety show ''AKBingo!'' featured several skits titled , in which the titular doctor, portrayed by Haruka Shimazaki, is a deadpan Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of Comedy, comedic delivery to contrast with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masato Sakai
あ is a Japanese actor. Since the success of '' Naoki Hanzawa'' (2013), he has become one of the most famous actors in Japan. Career Sakai aspired to become a bureaucrat until high school, but when he entered university, he decided to pursue a career as an actor. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for '' The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio'' and ''The Chef of South Polar'' and the award for best supporting actor at the 2008 Nikkan Sports Film Award, at the 33rd Hochi Film Award and at the 51st Blue Ribbon Awards. He also received a nomination for best supporting actor at the 32nd Japan Academy Film Prize. Personal life He is married to Japanese actress and J-pop singer Miho Kanno is a Japanese actress and J-Pop singer. Her nickname is ''Kanchan'' (菅ちゃん). She was born in Sakado, Saitama, Japan. Career In 1992, Kanno made her debut as a member of a group called '' Sakurakko Club'' after passing the orientation .... He has two chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AKBingo!
''AKBingo!'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese television variety show featuring Japanese idol girl group AKB48. The show aired weekly on Nippon Television. In each episode, members of AKB48 and occasionally their sister groups participate in activities that include quizzes, games, sports, and news. The original show was cancelled in 2019, and has been succeeded by two different shows since then: ''AKBingo! NEO'' and '' AKB48 Sayonara Mōri-san''. History ''AKBingo!'' is the successor of two previous shows featuring AKB48 with very similar concepts, ''AKB 0ji 59fun'' and ''AKB 1ji 59fun''. The concept of the show was reused for the Sakamichi Series groups with ''NogiBingo!'' for Nogizaka46, ''KeyaBingo!'' for Keyakizaka46 and ''HinaBingo!'' for Hinatazaka46, as well as STU48 with ''SetoBingo!'' and HKT48 with ''HKTBingo!'' in 2018, and SKE48 with ''SKEBingo!'' in 2019. The hosts of the show were changed in June 2016 after 395 episodes, when the ''owarai'' comedy duo Bad B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Japanese Television Series Endings
Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number) *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2007 * ''15'' (Phatfish album), 2008 * ''15'' (Tuki album), 2025 * ''15'' (mixtape), a 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie * ''Fifteen'' (Green River Ordinance album), 2016 * ''Fifteen'' (The Wailin' Jennys album), 2017 * ''Fifteen'', a 2012 album by Colin James Songs * "Fifteen" (song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift *"Fifteen", a song by Harry Belafonte from the album '' Love Is a Gentle Thing'' *"15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album ''Under the Blacklight'' *"15", a song by Marilyn Manson from the album ''The High End of Low'' Other media * ''15'' (film), a 2003 Singaporean film * ''Fifteen'' (TV series), international release name of ''Hillside'', a Canadian-American teen drama * "Fifteen" (''Runaways''), an episode of ''Runaways'' *Fifteen (novel), a 1956 juvenile fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Japanese Television Series Debuts
Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number) *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2007 * ''15'' (Phatfish album), 2008 * ''15'' (Tuki album), 2025 * ''15'' (mixtape), a 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie * ''Fifteen'' (Green River Ordinance album), 2016 * ''Fifteen'' (The Wailin' Jennys album), 2017 * ''Fifteen'', a 2012 album by Colin James Songs * "Fifteen" (song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift *"Fifteen", a song by Harry Belafonte from the album ''Love Is a Gentle Thing'' *"15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album ''Under the Blacklight'' *"15", a song by Marilyn Manson from the album ''The High End of Low'' Other media * ''15'' (film), a 2003 Singaporean film * ''Fifteen'' (TV series), international release name of ''Hillside'', a Canadian-American teen drama * "Fifteen" (''Runaways''), an episode of ''Runaways'' *Fifteen (novel), a 1956 juvenile fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Japanese Television
Events in 2015 in Japanese television. Events Debuts Ongoing *''AKB48 Show!'', variety (2013–present) *'' AKBingo!'', variety (2008–present) *'' Music Fair'', music (1964–present) *''Sazae-san'', anime (1969–present) *'' FNS Music Festival'', music (1974–present) *'' Panel Quiz Attack 25'', game show (1975–present) *'' Soreike! Anpanman'', anime (1988–present) *''Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!'', game show (1989–present) *''Crayon Shin-chan'', anime (1992–present) *''Nintama Rantarō'', anime (1993–present) *'' Chibi Maruko-chan'', anime (1995–present) *''Detective Conan'', anime (1996–present) *'' SASUKE'', sports (1997–present) *''Ojarumaru'', anime (1998–present) *''One Piece'', anime (1999–present) *''Doraemon'', anime (2005–present) *'' Naruto: Shippuden'', anime (2007–2017) *'' Aikatsu!'', anime (2012-2016) *'' Tetsujin 28-go Gao!'', anime (2013–2016) *'' Pocket Monsters XY'', anime (2013–2016) *''Fairy Tail'', anime (2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Drama Television Series
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by Talent agent, talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadpan
Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of Comedy, comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blunt, ironic, Laconic phrase, laconic, or apparently unintentional. Etymology The term ''deadpan'' first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan. Bresnahan described how Woodburn used his skill as a ventriloquist to make his manager and others think they were being heckled from the stands. Woodburn, wrote Bresnahan, "had a trick of what the actors call 'the dead pan.' He never cracked a smile and would be the last man you would suspect was working a trick." George M. Cohan, in a 1908 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haruka Shimazaki
is a Japanese actress, singer, and former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. Her supposed apathetic attitude toward idol fans led to the popularity of the buzzword in Japanese media. Since graduating from AKB48 in 2016, Shimazaki has worked as an actress, including roles in '' Hiyokko'', ''Nisekoi'', and '' Tonde Saitama''. She also started her own YouTube channel on March 30, 2020. Career Haruka Shimazaki was born in Saitama Prefecture, and began her entertainment career in 2009 by successfully auditioning for AKB48 in the 6th Kenkyūsei Audition (9th generation AKB48 audition). Her official nickname, Paruru, was coined by then fellow member Rumi Yonezawa. In the AKB48 17th single senbatsu election, which took place from May to June 2010, Shimazaki ranked 28th, the highest of all trainees. In June 2011 it was announced that she would be promoted to a newly created Team 4. In the AKB48 27th single senbatsu election, which took place from May to June 2012, Shimazaki ranke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skits
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in music hall in Britain and vaudeville in North America, today it is used widely in variety shows, as well as in late night talk shows and even some sitcoms. While sketch comedy is now associated mostly with adult entertainment, certain children's television series such have used it, too. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. History Sketch comedy has its origins in music hall and vaudeville, where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In the 1890s, music hall impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue, and in 1904 he produced a sketch called ''Mumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimiko Yo
is a Japanese actress. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for '' Departures'' and '' Dear Doctor'' respectively. Family Yo was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Her mother is Japanese and her father, who moved to Japan for business and later founded the Hakka Association in Japan, is Hakka Taiwanese. Filmography Films *'' Chōchin'' (1987) *'' A Sign Days'' (1989) *'' Hiruko the Goblin'' (1991) *'' Yumeji'' (1991) *'' Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer'' (1993) *'' Ghost Pub'' (1994) *''Sharaku'' (1995) *'' School Ghost Stories'' (1995) *'' Moonlight Serenade'' (1997) *'' Wait and See'' (1998) *'' Tsuribaka Nisshi Eleven'' (2000) *'' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (2000) *'' Suicide Club'' (2002) *'' Aiki'' (2002) *'' Café Lumière'' (2003) *''Drugstore Girl'' (2004) *''Tokyo Tower'' (2005) *'' Brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yū Aoi
is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film '' All About Lily Chou-Chou''. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in '' Hana and Alice'' (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film '' Hula Girls'' and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the '' Honey and Clover'' manga series. She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best supporting actress in 2007 for '' Hula Girls'' and Rookie of the Year for continued performances in the field of ''Films in Media and Fine Arts'' by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2009. Early life Aoi was born on August 17, 1985, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She moved to Tokyo in junior high school and lived in Kasai, Edogawa ward. Career Early career Yu Aoi made her stage debut as Polly in the 1999 rendition of '' Annie'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
