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Hirofumi Arai
Park Kyung-bae (born January 18, 1979), professionally known by his Japanese alias is a Zainichi South Korean former actor. Career Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's '' Go'' in 2001 when he was 22 years old. His next film role was the emotionally disturbed senior high school student Aoki in Toshiaki Toyoda's '' Blue Spring'', which won him the Best New Actor award at the 17th Takasaki Film Festival. In 2011, Arai co-starred as Detective Kazuhiko Soga in a one-off TV crime thriller ''Douki'' with co-stars Ryuhei Matsuda as Detective Ryota Udagawa and Chiaki Kuriyama as Michiru Soga. The June 2012 issue of ''Switch'', a Japanese arts and media magazine, features a special segment on top ten manga that teaches love and passion, chosen by Japanese actors, artists and musicians including Arai, who chose ''Bakuman'' while explaining: "You should up your girl power by learning how to behave like a heroine." Arai was represented by Anore Inc., a talent agency founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. According to the FIAPF, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals and the second largest film festival in Asia behind the Shanghai International Film Festival, as well as the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. List of festivals and award winners Other awards Best Screenplay Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko Yano
is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. She has been called "one of the major musical talents of the Japanese popular music world", and her vocals and singing style have been compared to English singer Kate Bush (who she predates by several years). She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as with Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as Yanokami and her daughter Miu Sakamoto. Biography Early life Akiko Yano was born Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo in 1955. She grew up in Aomori, Japan, and learned to play the piano when she was three. She dropped ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Sang-il (film Director)
is a Korean-Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career His first film, '' Chong'', was a medium-length film about the lives of third-generation Koreans living in Japan. '' Hula Girls'' was declared best Japanese film of 2006 by Kinema Jumpo, and Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for the film. His film ''Unforgiven'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Filmography *2000 '' Chong'' *2002 '' Border Line'' *2004 '' 69'' *2005 '' Scrap Heaven'' *2006 '' Hula Girls'' *2010 ''Kaidan - Horror Classics (Ayashiki Bungo Kaidan) in ep. 3 "The Nose"'' (TV series) *2010 ''Villain'' *2013 ''Unforgiven ''Unforgiven'' is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after ...'' *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
69 (film)
''69'' is a 2004 Japanese film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's 1987 novel '' 69''. The film was directed by Lee Sang-il. Plot In Sasebo (on the Island of Kyushu, Southern Japan), in 1969, inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken decide to shake up "the establishment", i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and his friends focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater. Cast * Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kensuke "Ken" Yazaki * Masanobu Andō as Tadashi "Adama" Yamada * Yuta Kanai as Manabu Iwase * Asami Mizukawa as Mie Nagayama * Rina Ohta as Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui * Yoko Mitsuya as Yumi Sato * Hirofumi Arai as Bancho * Hideko Hara as Ken's mother * Ittoku Kishibe as Matsunaga sensei * Jun Kunimura as Sasaki * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuo Shinohara
is a Japanese film director. His film ''First Love (2000 film), First Love'' was the 3rd Best Film at the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival. Filmography * ''Running High'' (1989) * ''Work on the Grass'' (1993) * ''One More Time, One More Chance'' (1996) * ''Aku no hana'' (1997) * ''Sentakuki wa ore ni makasero'' (1999) * ''Kimi no tame ni dekiru koto'' (1999) * ''First Love (2000 film), First Love'' (2000) * ''Stake Out'' (2001) * ''Inochi'' (2002) * ''High School Girl's Friend'' (2002) * ''Mokuyo kumikyoku'' (2002) * ''Kendama (film), Jam Films "Kendama"'' (2002) * ''Karaoke Terror'' (2003) * ''Heaven's Bookstore'' (2004) * ''Breathe In, Breathe Out'' (2004) * ''Female (2005 film), Female'' (2005) * ''Yokubō'' (2005) * ''Metro ni Notte'' (2006) * ''Clearless'' (2007) * ''Manatsu no Orion'' (2009) * ''Ogawa no Hotori'' (2011) * ''Sweet Heart Chocolate'' (2013) * ''Tanemaku tabibito: Kuni umi no sato'' (2015) * ''Kishūteneki Terminal'' (2015) * ''Flower and Sword'' (2017) * ''Shadowfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven's Bookstore
is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka. Plot Kenta ( Tetsuji Tamayama), a classically trained pianist, is fired from his orchestra and gets drunk in a bar. He wakes up the following morning in what turns out to be a bookstore in heaven. The owner of the bookstore had brought him there, and explains that people live to be 100; people who die before this age go to heaven to live out the rest of their allotted time before they are reborn on earth. In heaven, he meets Shoko ( Yūko Takeuchi), a pianist who he had admired on earth. Together, they start work on a special composition that she had started writing on earth. Meanwhile, on earth, Shoko's niece Natsuko (also played by Yūko Takeuchi) wants to organise a fireworks display that was discontinued twelve years ago. It turns out that Shoko had been engage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isshin Inudo
is a Japanese film director. Career Inudo began making films on his own in high school, with one of his works being selected for the 1979 Pia Film Festival. After attending Tokyo Zokei University, he found work at Asahi Promotions where he began directing television commercials, including some award winning ones. He made his feature-length film debut in 1995 with ''Futari ga Shabette iru'', which earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'' (2003) earned him the Minister of Education New Director Award for Fine Art. Filmography * ''Futari ga Shabette Iru'' (1995) * ''Across a Gold Prairie'' (1999) * ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'' (2003) * '' Blooming Again'' (2004) * ''All About My Dog'' (2005) * ''Touch'' (2005) * ''House of Himiko'' (2005) * ''Yellow Tears'' (2006) * ''Bizan'' (2007) * ''Zero Focus is a 1961 Japanese crime drama film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, and co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto and Yoji Yamada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish
is a 1984 Japanese short story by author Seiko Tanabe. It was first published in the June 1984 issue of ''Monthly Kadokawa''. It was later included alongside various stories in the short story collection of the same name, which was published on March 27, 1985, by Kadokawa Shoten. Yen Press licensed the collection for an English release and published it in March 2022. A manga adaptation of the short story by Nao Emoto, originally serialized in ''Da Vinci (magazine), Da Vinci'' from February to November 2020 issues and collected into two volumes, was also licensed by Yen Press and released in September 2022 in one volume. Film adaptations * ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003 film), Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'', a 2003 Japanese live-action film * ''Josée (film), Josée'', a 2020 South Korean live-action film, based in part on the screenplay of the 2003 film * ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020 film), Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'', a 2020 Japanese animated film Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice (2002 Film)
In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes'' of Justinian, a 6th-century codification of Roman law, where justice is defined as "the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due". A society where justice has been achieved would be one in which individuals receive what they "deserve". The interpretation of what "deserve" means draws on a variety of fields and philosophical branches including ethics, rationality, law, religion, and fairness. The state may pursue justice by operating courts and enforcing their rulings. History Early Western theories of justice were developed in part by Ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato in his work '' The Republic'', and Aristotle, in his ''Nicomachean Ethics'' and ''Politics''. Modern-day Western notions of justice also have their roots in Christian t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (Kaneshiro Novel)
''GO'' is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. ''GO'' received a Naoki Prize, an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan. An English translation by Takami Nieda was released by AmazonCrossing in 2018. The story's protagonist is Sugihara, who is a zainichi chosenjin (North Korean nationals in Japan), who falls in love with a Japanese girl. The story revolves around Korean/Chinese racism in Japan with Sugihara changing his Korean name from Lee and moving to a Japanese school from a Japanese Korean school. Summary Sugihara, who was a zainichi chosenjin, began studying at a Japanese high-school. Since his father was an ex-pro boxer, Sugihara knew how to fight other Japanese boys who challenges him to a fight because of his nationality. He became friends with a boy whose father is a yakuza and Sugihara's friend invited him to a party where Sugihara meets a girl who would only let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukisada Isao
is a Japanese film director from Kumamoto. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's ''Love Letter'', ''April Story'', and ''Swallowtail Butterfly''. Filmography Director * ''Open House'' (1998) * (Sunflower) (2000) * ''A Closing Day'' (閉じる日) (2000) * ''Luxurious Bone'' (贅沢な骨) (2001) * '' Go!'' (2001) * ''Rock 'n' Roll Missing'' (2002) * ''Justice'' (2002) * (Sinking into the Moon) (2002) * '' Kanon'' (TV, 2003) * '' Seventh Anniversary'' (2003) * (2003) * (2004) * ''Kita no Zeronen'' (Year One in the North) (2005) * '' Spring Snow'' (2005) * ''Toku no Sora ni Kieta'' (Into the Faraway Sky) (2007) * ''Closed Note'' (2007) * '' A Good Husband'' (今度は愛妻家) (2009) * ''Parade'' (2010) * ''Five Minutes to Tomorrow'' (2014) * '' Pink and Gray'' (2016) * ''Pigeon'' (2016) * '' Narratage'' (2017) * '' River's Edge'' (2018) * ''The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese'' (2020) * ''Theatre: A Love Story'' (2020) * ''Revolver Lily'' (2023) * '' Perfect Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Spring (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. It is an anthology collection of short stories, all revolving around teenage boys at high school and the lives they live. A live action film adaptation was released in 2001. The manga was licensed for English-language release by Viz Media. Release ''Blue Spring'' is written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. Shogakukan released a volume under the Big Spirits Comics imprint on May 1, 1993. Shogakukan re-released it in volume on December 19, 1998. Shogakukan re-released it again in a edition on January 14, 2012. In North America, ''Blue Spring'' was published in English language by Viz Media on January 4, 2005. References Further reading * * * External links * {{Taiyō Matsumoto 1993 manga Drama anime and manga Manga anthologies Seinen manga Shogakukan manga Taiyō Matsumoto Thriller anime and manga Viz Media manga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
