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Elephant Story
is a 1980 Japanese nature documentary co-directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, his brother Koretsugu Kurahara and Hino Narimichi, and written by Junichi Mimura. A co-production between Nippon Television and Toho-Towa, it was theatrically released in Japan on March 20, 1980. The film depicts the lives of a family of African elephants, including an older elephant protecting his younger brother from poachers in the Kenyan savanna, after their mother dies of illness. ''Elephant Story'' was one of three animal films that Koreyoshi Kurahara took part in directing. The others were 1978's ''The Glacier Fox'' (キタキツネ物語, ''Kita-kitsune monogatari'') and the 1983 blockbuster ''Antarctica'' (南極物語, ''Nankyoku monogatari''). Premise ''Elephant Story'' traces seven years in the lives of its elephant protagonists. Kenya is a mother elephant in Africa with four children: her eldest son Muchanga, 12 years old, her second son Tanza, 9 years old, her eldest daughter Sabang, 6 years ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koreyoshi Kurahara
(31 May 1927 – 28 December 2002) was a Japanese screenwriter and director. He is perhaps best known for directing ''Nankyoku Monogatari, Antarctica'' (1983), which won several awards and was entered into the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. He also co-directed ''Hiroshima (1995 film), Hiroshima'' (1995) with Roger Spottiswoode, which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. Biography He was born in Kuching, Kingdom of Sarawak (now a state of Malaysia) on Borneo, to an agricultural engineer. His family returned to Japan when Kurahara was in elementary school. He was the nephew of literary critic Korehito Kurahara, and older brother of film director Koretsugu Kurahara. His son Jun Iwasaki, a former producer for Ishihara International Productions Inc., is currently secretary to politician Nobuteru Ishihara. While a film student at Nihon University, Nihon University College of Art, he became a live-in student of Kajiro Yamamoto at the intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watering Hole
A watering hole or waterhole is a geological depression in which a body of water forms, usually a pond or a small lake. A watering hole is "a sunken area of land that fills with water". Watering holes may be ephemeral or seasonal. Ephemeral rivers sometimes form waterholes in geological depressions or areas scoured by erosion, and are common in arid regions of Australia. In Australia, the term " billabong", often defined as a type of oxbow lake (an isolated crescentic pond left behind after a river loop is cut off when the river channel changes course), is also used to refer to other types of waterholes. While they exist in both wetlands and arid lands, they are of particular importance in desert areas of Australia, where they are often the only water source for native animals, people, and livestock, and provide critical habitat for a number of wildlife species. Their existence is being threatened by climate change. Desert waterholes are often found in dry hilly areas, sust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony, Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States–based Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the anime, Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid 1990s producing and licensing music for animated series such as ''Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's ''Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single (music)
In Music industry, music, a single is a type of Art release#Music, release of a song Sound recording, recording of fewer tracks than an album (LP record, LP), typically one or two tracks. A single can be released for record sales, sale to the public in a variety of physical or digital formats. Singles may be standalone tracks or connected to an artist's album, and in the latter case would often have at least one single release before the album itself, called lead singles. The single was defined in the mid-20th century with the ''45'' (named after its speed in revolutions per minute), a type of 7-inch sized vinyl records, vinyl record containing an A-side and B-side, A-side and a B-side, i.e. one song on each side. The single format was highly influential in pop music and the early days of rock and roll, and it was the format used for jukeboxes and preferred by younger populations in the 1950s and 1960s. Singles in Digital distribution, digital form became very popular in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Mayuzumi
Jun Mayuzumi (黛ジュン ; born 26 May 1948, in Chōfu, Tokyo) is a Japanese singer. Her best known songs include "Tenshi-no Yūwaku" (Angel's Temptation 1968).John Francis DE FRANCIS, Leatrice T. Mirikitani ''Things Japanese in Hawaii'' 1972 - Page 33 "Jun Mayuzumi, a young singer who also visited the Islands and worked closely with the HJJCC in the course of making a movie in which she portrayed the role of a Cherry Blossom contestant." She won a Japan Record Award in 1969, and won the inaugural Yamaha Popular Song Contest Grand Prix at the Nemu no Sato Indoor Hall, on November 5, 1970. She appeared on the New Year's Eve Kōhaku Uta Gassen , more commonly known simply as ''Kōhaku'', is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK net ... show for four years, 1967-1970. Discography Singles * Koi no Hallelujah (1967. 2. 15) co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoko Aki
is a Japanese songwriter, actress, novelist and essayist. With her husband, Ryudo Uzaki, she has written many songs for other singers, with Aki as lyricist and Uzaki as composer. They are especially famous for a series of hit songs of Momoe Yamaguchi's. She has acted in several films, and she won the award for best supporting actress at the 5th Hochi Film Award for ''Shiki Natsuko''. She was a model under an exclusive contract with ''Kanebo Cosmetics'' for many years. Career In 1969, Aki wrote ''Blue Lonesome Dream'' which is a debut song of the Group Sounds band ''Julie and The baron'' for the first time. Her husband, Ryudo Uzaki composed it. Then they wrote many hit songs. They also co-wrote two songs for the soundtrack of the nature documentary '' Elephant Story''. In 1980, she made her debut as an actress. Discography (as lyricist) *''Manjushaka'' *''Playback Part Two'' *'' "I MY MIE"'' ( MIE) Filmography * ''Shiki Natsuko'' (1980) * ''The Family Game'' (1983) * '' Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Chiaki
is a Japanese singer and actress who worked from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Chiaki made her debut as a singer in 1969, and released her breakthrough single "Yottsu no Onegai" in the following year. "Kassai", a song which has been commonly considered her signature song was released in 1972 and gained success, and finally won the 14th Japan Record Award. "Kassai" sold over one million copies by February 1973, and was awarded a gold disc. After marrying the actor Eiji Go in 1978, Chiaki continued her career intermittently until circa 1992. This included contributions to the soundtrack A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television show, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of m ... for '' Elephant Story'' (featuring the songs "Lullaby of the Land of the Wind" and "African Night"). However, she disappeared from the Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
The (TSO) is a Japanese orchestra, administratively based in Kawasaki. The orchestra offers subscription concert series at its home, the Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall and at Suntory Hall, the Concert Hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, and Tokyo Opera City. It also serves as the opera orchestra for selected opera productions at New National Theatre Tokyo. History The orchestra was established in 1946 as the Toho Symphony Orchestra (東宝交響楽団), and gave its first performance on 14 May 1946 under the direction of Hitoshi Ueda. The Toho Symphony Orchestra began full-time activities in 1947, starting on 29 September 1947 with performances of Beethoven conducted by Hidemaro Konoe. The orchestra took the name of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 1951, under the auspices of Radio Tokyo. In May 1956, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Foundation undertook management of the ensemble. In March 1964, the foundation was dissolved, and the orchestra was reconstituted under n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchestral Score
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, Arabic, or other languages – the medium of sheet music typically is paper (or, in earlier centuries, papyrus or parchment). However, access to musical notation since the 1980s has included the presentation of musical notation on computer screens and the development of scorewriter computer programs that can notate a song or piece electronically, and, in some cases, "play back" the notated music using a synthesizer or virtual instruments. The use of the term "sheet" is intended to differentiate written or printed forms of music from sound recordings (on vinyl record, cassette, CD), radio or TV broadcasts or recorded live performances, which may capture film or video footage of the performance as well as the audio component. In everyday use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safari 5000
A safari (; originally ) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in East Africa. The so-called "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an important part of the safari market, both for wildlife viewing and big-game hunting. Etymology The Swahili word means "journey", originally from the Arabic noun , meaning "journey", "travel", "trip", or "tour"; the verb for "to travel" in Swahili is . These words are used for any type of journey, e.g., by bus from Nairobi to Mombasa or by ferry from Dar es Salaam to Unguja. ''Safari'' entered the English language at the end of the 1850s thanks to explorer Richard Francis Burton. The Regimental March of the King's African Rifles was "Funga Safari", literally 'set out on a journey', or, in other words, pack up equipment ready for travel. Which is, in English: On Kenya's independence from the United Kingdom, "Funga Safari" was retained as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umi E, See You
is a 1988 Japanese auto racing epic film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and written by Sō Kuramoto. It is based on the story ''Suna no bôkensha'' (lit. ''Adventurers of the Sand'') by José Giovanni (credited onscreen as Joze Jovanni). The plot revolves around the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. It follows the lives, loves and losses of the competitors of Japan's Team DANKAI during the 1988 competition. ''Umi e, See You'' was theatrically released by Toho on May 18, 1988, and stars a multi-national cast with Ken Takakura in the lead role, alongside Junko Sakurada, Philippe Leroy, Nenji Kobayashi and Ayumi Ishida. This production was Sō Kuramoto's final feature film screenwriting credit for 36 years until the release of ''Silence of the Sea'' in 2024. Plot With the Paris-Dakar Rally fast approaching, SurfBreak, the sponsor of Mitsubishi's Team DANKAI, adds popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii (Goro Ohashi) to their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strawberry Road (1991 Film)
is a 1991 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and written by Nobuo Yamada. It is based on the bestselling memoir of the same name by Yoshimi Ishikawa, first published in 1988 by Hayakawa Publishing. The story follows two Japanese brothers who emigrate to rural California in the 1960s and start a strawberry farm. As a Japanese-American co-production, ''Strawberry Road'' features a multi-national cast and crew, including several Japanese-American actors. It stars Japanese actor Ken Matsudaira in the lead role, alongside Mako, Toshiro Mifune, Mariska Hargitay and Tamotsu Ishibashi, with a cameo appearance by Pat Morita. Toho released the film theatrically on April 27, 1991, in Japan. Fred Karlin composed the film's score. Premise Hisa Ishii (Ken Matsudaira) and his brother Akira (Tamotsu Ishibashi) emigrate from Japan to the United States. Settling in rural California, they start a strawberry farm and slowly integrate themselves into the community, which includes Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
