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Izo
''IZO'' is a 2004 Japanese surrealist period horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The main character of the film is Izo Okada (1832–1865), the historical samurai and assassin in 19th-century Japan who was tortured and executed by beheading in Tosa. Izo appeared previously in Hideo Gosha's ''Hitokiri'' (1969), then played by Shintaro Katsu. However, Miike's portrayal of the character (or rather his spirit) transcends reality (and time and space) and is more of a surrealist exposé of Izo's exceedingly bloody yet philosophical encounters in an afterlife heavy on symbolism, occasionally interrupted by stock footage of World War II accompanied by acid-folk singer Kazuki Tomokawa on guitar. Kazuya Nakayama plays Izo and the many characters he encounters on his journey include figures played by Takeshi Kitano and Bob Sapp. Cast * Kazuya Nakayama as Okada Izo * Kaori Momoi * Ryuhei Matsuda * Ryôsuke Miki as Hampeita Takechi * Yuya Uchida as Spirit * Masumi Okada as Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over 100 feature film, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films span a variety of different genres, ranging from violent and surrealism, bizarre to Drama (film and television), dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Cinema of Japan, Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best-known films are Audition (1999 film), ''Audition'', Ichi the Killer (film), ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Visitor Q'', ''Dead or Alive (1999 film), Dead or Alive'', ''One Missed Call (2003 film), One Missed Call'', and various remakes: 13 Assassins (2010 film), ''13 Assassins'', ''Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Hara-kiri'', and Graveyard of Honor (2002 film), ''Graveyard of Honor''. He has also acted in more than 20 films. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Yao, Osaka Prefecture. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuya Nakayama
Kazuya Nakayama (中山一也) is a Japanese actor and producer known for films such as ''Izo'' and '' Agitator'' directed by Takashi Miike. Filmography * ''Keiji monogatari 2 - Ringo no uta'' (1983) * ''Renzoku satsujinki: Reiketsu'' (1984) * '' We're No Angels 2'' (1993) * '' Agitator'' (2001) * ''Izo'' (2004) * '' Waru: kanketsu-hen'' (2006) * ''Jitsuroku Shinsengumi'' (2006) * ''Jitsuroku Shinsengumi: kanketsu-hen'' (2006) * '' Waru'' (2006) * ''Detective Story Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as specu ...'' (2007) * ''Johnen: Love of Sada'' (2008) References External links * Living people Japanese male actors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masumi Okada
was a French-born Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and film producer. Early life Okada was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father and a Danish mother. His father, Minoru Okada, was an artist and his mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen". He had an elder brother, Taibi Okada, who later became a tarento under the stage name 'E.H. Eric." French law at the time meant that Okada was initially registered under his Western name - Otto Sevaldsen. He was raised in a multilingual environment, fluent in French, Japanese, and (later) English. The elder Okada was an associate of Chaïm Soutine who moved to Nice from Paris, and was oft patronized by Kunio Kishida. Masumi Okada spent his early childhood in La Gaude until 1939. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Okada's father took the family to Japanese Taiwan, and Okada attended school in Taipei for a time. However, his father was pursued relentlessly by the Kempeita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuki Tomokawa
Tenji Nozoki (及位典司; born February 16, 1950), best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa (友川 かずき), is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early 1970s. His music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Kōji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pink films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film '' In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre," an ..., and he also appears in person in Miike's '' Izo'' (2004). Japanese poet Satoru Nozoki is his brother. Discography *''Yatto Ichi Mai Me'' (English title: ''Finally First Album''), 1975 *''Nikusei'' (English title: ''Human Voice''), 1976 *''Senbazuru Wo Kuchini Kuwaeta Hibi'', 1977 *''Ore no Uchi de Nariyamanai Uta'' (English title: ''Poems That Won't Stop Crying From Within Me''), 1978 *''Inu - Tomokawa Kazuki Akita Konsaato Raibu'' (E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Momoi
is a Japanese actress. Life and career Momoi was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 12, she traveled to London to study dance at the Royal Ballet Academy. After three years, she returned to Tokyo. She graduated from Japan's Bungakuza School of Dramatic Arts. In 1971, Momoi debuted in director Kon Ichikawa's '' Ai Futatabi'' (To Love Again). Her career has spanned 52 years and over 60 films. As an actress, she has worked with directors including Akira Kurosawa (''Kagemusha'', 1980), Tatsumi Kumashiro (''Seishun no Satetsu'', 1974), Yoji Yamada (''The Yellow Handkerchief'', 1977 and ''Otoko wa Tsuraiyo'', 1979), Shohei Imamura (''Why Not?'', 1981), Shunji Iwai (''Swallowtail Butterfly'', 1996), Jun Ichikawa (''Tokyo Yakyoku'', 1997), Mitani Koki ('' Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald'', 1997), Yoshimitsu Morita (''Like Asura'', 2003) and Takashi Miike ('' Izo'', '' Sukiyaki Western Django''). She performed in ''The Sun'' (2005) directed by Alexander Sokurov and appeared in director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Yamanaka
, better known as , was a Japanese singer and actor. He is known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician; singing at a vocal range of three octaves. As an actor, he appeared in many television shows and movies, such as '' Blackmail Is My Life'' (1968), '' Proof of the Man'' (1977), '' Zatoichi'' (1989) and '' Deadly Outlaw: Rekka'' (2002). He is also recognized for 20 years of charity and volunteer work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency and flew around the world helping those in poor or war-torn conditions; visiting more than 30 countries including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bosnia, numerous sovereign states in Africa, China, Ukraine (including Chernobyl), North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Brazil. While doing aid work in Jamaica, he met local musicians and later became involved in reggae music. His aid work was a personal inspiration to help those who were growing up in similar conditions that he had experienced as a child. Biography Akira Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Ogata
, better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 50 movies and 25 television series. For his merits and contribution to arts in 2000 received Japan's Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon. Among many movie awards and nominations, he received three times Japan Academy Film Prize award for Best Actor for '' The Demon'' (1978), '' The Ballad of Narayama'' (1983) and '' House on Fire'' (1986), and in addition Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for '' The Catch'' and '' Okinawan Boys'' (1983). Other notable roles were in Shohei Imamura's '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1979), Paul Schrader's '' Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'' (1985), Peter Greenaway's ''The Pillow Book'' (1996). Life Ogata was born on July 20, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. He started his acting career in 1958 as part of the Shinkokugeki theater troupe. His movie debut was 1960s '' Tooi Hitotsu No Michi'', but his starring role as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1965 NHK Taiga drama '' Taikōki'' catapult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saburō Shinoda
is a Japanese actor who has played roles in films and television dramas. He signed with Daiei film and made his film debut with ''Gan'' in 1966. He is famous for playing the role of Kotaro Higashi in ''Ultraman Taro''. He is the only original Ultraman actor to have not reprised his role in any other Ultraman film or television series. Filmography Drama Series *1973: ''Ultraman Taro'' as Higashi Kotaro *1979: ''Kusa Moeru'', Minamoto no Sanetomo *1984: ''Sanga Moyu'', Keisuke Mishima *1988: ''Takeda Shingen (TV series), Takeda Shingen'', Yamagata Masakage *1989: ''Onihei Hankachō (1989 TV series), Onihei Hankachō'' as Sakai *1994: ''Hana no Ran'', Gan'ami *1996: ''Hideyoshi (TV series), Hideyoshi'', Niwa Nagahide *2000: ''The One Stringed Harp'' *2002: ''Golden Bowl'' *2009: ''A Secret in Summer'' *2014: ''Mozu (TV series), Mozu Season 2 - Maboroshi no Tsubasa'' Films *1966: Gan *1966: Red Angel (Movie), Red Angel *1967: Zen'in shugo shirizu 1 *1968: The Time of Reckoning *196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Nagato
, stage name of Akio Kato (加藤晃夫), was a Japanese actor. He starred in ''Season of the Sun'', '' Endless Desire'', '' My Second Brother'', '' Stolen Desire'', and ''Sukeban Deka'', and ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop''. Life and career Nagato was born in Kyoto City and came from an illustrious film family. His younger brother Masahiko Tsugawa is an actor. His wife Yōko Minamida was an actress. His grandfather is the director Shōzō Makino, nicknamed the Father of Japanese Film; his father, Kunitarō Sawamura, and his mother, Tomoko Makino, were both actors. His aunt and uncle through his father are the actors Sadako Sawamura and Daisuke Katō. His niece was the actress Mayuko and she referred to him as "Achi" (Uncle Akio). Masayuki Makino, his cousin from his mother's side, was the first principal of the Okinawa Actors School. He had no children with his wife Yoko. He is distantly related to the modern Japanese comedian Daisuke Miyagawa. After graduating from Hanazono High School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taisaku Akino
is a Japanese actor. In 1970, he married actress Kiwako Taichi. They later divorced. Selected filmography Films *'' It's Tough Being a Man'' (1969) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Tora-san's Cherished Mother'' (1969) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Tora-san's Grand Scheme'' (1970) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Tora-san's Dear Old Home'' (1972) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Tora-san's Dream-Come-True'' (1972) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Hissatsu Shikakenin Baian Arijigoku '' (1973) *''Pink Lady no Katsudō Daishashin'' (1978) *''Marriage Counselor Tora-san'' (1984) as Kawamata Noboru *'' Bloom in the Moonlight'' (1993) as Sakunosuke Koyama *'' Agitator'' (2001) *''Izo ''IZO'' is a 2004 Japanese surrealist period horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The main character of the film is Izo Okada (1832–1865), the historical samurai and assassin in 19th-century Japan who was tortured and executed by beheadin ...'' (2004) *'' Bunny Drop'' (2011) *''Teppen no Ken'' (2024) *''Our Journey of 50 Years'' (2026) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Curtis
is a Japanese actor, singer and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where he began as a rockabilly singer. In 1967, he became internationally known for his psychedelic rock band "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai". After five years Mickey disbanded the group and returned to Japan in 1972, where he began producing other musicians. As an actor his first role was as a rock singer in the 1958 film ''All About Marriage'' by Kihachi Okamoto and he has since gone on to star in more than 70 feature films. Apart from his entertainment career he has also been a race car driver and owns a motorcycle shop in Meguro is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |