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Junya Satō
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His son, , is also a film director. Career Born in Tokyo, Satō graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 with a degree in French literature. He joined the Toei Company, Toei studio and worked as an assistant to such directors as Tadashi Imai and Miyoji Ieki. He debuted as a director in 1963 with Rikugun Zangyaku Monogatari, for which he won a best newcomer's award at the Blue Ribbon Awards. While starting in mostly yakuza film, Satō eventually became known for big budget spectaculars. ''The Go Masters'', a China-Japan co-production he co-directed with Duan Jishun, won the grand prize at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1983. He won the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year in 1989 for ''The Silk Road (film), The Silk Road''. Sato died in Tokyo on 9 February 2019. Filmography References External links * * 1932 births 2019 deaths Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year winners Japanese film di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silk Road (film)
, also known as ''Dun-Huang'', is a 1988 in film, 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel '':ja:敦煌 (小説), Tun-Huang'' by Yasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is the Mogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove in Dunhuang, Western China, located along the Silk Road during the Song dynasty in the 11th century. The film was released in Japan and China on June 25, 1988. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize (film), Japan Academy Prize ceremony. It is the List of highest-grossing Japanese live-action films, 48th-highest-grossing Japanese film of all time. Cast * Toshiyuki Nishida as Zhu Wangli, a commander of the Xi Xia empire * Kōichi Satō (actor), Kōichi Satō as Zhao Xingde, a student of Zhu Wangli * Anna Nakagawa as Tsurpia, a princess of a Uyghurs, Uyghur kingdom * :ja:渡瀬恒彦, Tsunehiko Watase as Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia, Li Yuanhao, the Xi Xia emperor * Takahiro Tamura as Tsao Yanhui Recept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Deaths
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1932 Births
Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The Kuomintang's official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack Shanghai later in the month. * January 22 – The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising begins; it is suppressed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. * January 24 – Marshal Pietro Badoglio declares the end of Libyan resistance. * January 26 – British submarine aircraft carrier sinks with the loss of all 60 onboard on exercise in Lyme Bay in the English Channel. * January 28 – January 28 incident: Conflict between Japan and China in Shanghai. * January 31 – Japanese warships arrive in Nanking. February * February 2 ** A general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otoko-tachi No Yamato
is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi. With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship ''Yamato'', concentrating on the ship's demise during Operation Ten-Go. Plot The film begins with footage from ''Asahi Shimbuns special expedition to the ''Yamato'' wreckage in 1999. The narrative then shifts to the present on 6 April 2005, where a woman, Makiko Uchida, is visiting the Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima. She is looking for a boat to take her to the site where the ''Yamato'' sank, to honor the crew on the 60th anniversary of the ship's last battle. Katsumi Kamio, a Yamato survivor who is now a fisherman, agrees to take her after he discovers she was an adopted daughter of Petty Officer First Class Mamoru Uchida, a fellow crewman and close friend who he thought went down with the ship. As Uchida, Kamio, and his teenage apprentice, Atsushi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams Of Russia
Dreams of Russian (; ) is a 1992 Japanese-Russian period film directed and co-written by Jun'ya Satō. It is based on a book of the same name by Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue. Plot The film tells about real historical events in the interstate relations of the Russian Empire during the time of Catherine II and Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shogunate that occurred in the 1780s - 1790s . In 1782, the Japanese ship Shinsho-maru , captained by Daikokuya Kodai, with a crew of 16 sailors, was caught in a storm. The sailors had to cut down the mast, and after a two hundred-day drift , the ship washed up on the Russian coast in the Aleutian Islands . Next, the Japanese were waiting for almost nine years of wandering around the Russian Empire in the hope of returning to their homeland. Together with Russian fur traders, they build a ship and successfully sail from the Aleutian Islands to the mainland. Having reached Okhotsk , they are faced with a new problem: the local Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater Of Life
is a 1983 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Sadao Nakajima, and Junya Satō. It is based on the first three parts of the ''Theater of Life'' series of novels by Shirō Ozaki, 青春篇 ''Youth Chapter'', 情熱篇 ''Passion Chapter'', and 決勝篇 ''Climactic Chapter''. The ''Youth Chapter'' segment was directed by Junya Satō, the ''Passion Chapter'' segment was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and the ''Climactic Chapter'' segment was directed by Sadao Nakajima.「日本映画シアター 今月のおすすめ作品オールガイド」("Japanese Film Theater Complete Guide to This Month's Recommended Films"),『ロードショー』(''Roadshow''), March 1983 issue, published by 集英社 (Shueisha), pages 215-216. Cast * Toshiyuki Nagashima as Hyokichi Aonari *Toshiro Mifune as Hyotaro *Tomisaburō Wakayama as Tsune Kira * Wakiko Kano as Orin ** Kaori Takahashi as Young Orin * Eiji Okuda as Hayao Fukioka * Mitsuru Hirata as Yasuta Yokoi * Kie Nakai as Otoyo * Keiko Matsuzaka as O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Give Up (1978 Film)
is a 1978 Japanese film. It was directed by Junya Sato and produced by Haruki Kadokawa. Plot A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village. Cast * Ken Takakura as Takeshi Ajisawa * Hiroko Yakushimaru as Yoriko Nagai * Ryoko Nakano as Tomoko Ochi * Rentarō Mikuni * Hiroshi Tachi as Naruaki Oba * Fumio Watanabe as Yoshida * Taiji Tonoyama * Takahiro Tamura as Takashi Urakawa, pressman * Kazuo Kitamura as Nagakawa * Hajime Hana as Muranaga * Katsumasa Uchida * Mizuho Suzuki as Kuga * Hideji Otaki as Nomura * Isao Natsuyagi as Kitano * Richard Anderson as Roberts * Shinsuke Ashida as Sakamoto * Nobuo Kaneko as Mizoguchi * Tatsuo Umemiya as Akio Izaki * Mikio Narita as Tasuke Nakao * Hiroki Matsukata , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of ''jidaigeki'' actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proof Of The Man
is a Japanese film from 1977 directed by Junya Satō, starring George Kennedy and Yūsaku Matsuda. It is an adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura. It was produced by Haruki Kadokawa. Plot A young black man from New York named Johnny Hayward (Joe Yamanaka) receives a sum of money. He buys new clothes and takes a flight to Japan. After he arrives, he is found fatally stabbed in an elevator in a Tokyo hotel at the same time as a fashion show by designer Kyōko Yasugi (Mariko Okada) is being held. The police department, including Munesue (Yūsaku Matsuda) and his partner (Hajime Hana), come to investigate. The only clue is the dying man's last words "straw hat". At the same time, a woman having an extramarital affair, Naomi ( Bunjaku Han), is accidentally run over by Yasugi's son (Kōichi Iwaki). He and his girlfriend dump her body in the sea, but drops his watch at the scene. He is haunted by his actions and confesses to his mother, Kyōko, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhunt (1976 Film)
is a 1976 Japanese crime thriller film directed and co-written by Junya Satō. It is based on the novel of the same name by Juko Nishimura, and stars Ken Takakura in the leading role. While ''Manhunt'' received unfavorable critical reviews and was a box-office bomb in its native Japan—only earning in rentals against a reported budget—the film later became the first foreign film released in China following the Cultural Revolution, selling an estimated tickets there. It was also a commercial success in the Soviet Union, where it sold 33.7 million tickets. It is the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time based on box office ticket sales. A Chinese remake, directed by John Woo, was released in 2017. Plot Morioka, a prosecutor in Tokyo, is accused of theft by a woman and again by a man. The stolen items are found at his house, much to his bewilderment, and he flees out the bathroom window. Morioka's superior revokes his position as a prosecutor and calls out a manhunt o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bullet Train
is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Sato and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb. A sequel, '' Bullet Train Explosion'', directed by Shinji Higuchi, premiered on Netflix on 23 April 2025. Plot Tetsuo Okita is a former businessman who lost his manufacturing company to bankruptcy and separated from his wife and son a year earlier. Desperate to make ends meet and start over, he collaborates with activist Masaru Koga and his former employee Hiroshi Ōshiro in an elaborate plot to extort money from the government. '' Hikari 109'' is a high-speed 0 series bullet train carrying 1,500 passengers from Tokyo to Hakata. Shortly after the train's departure, railway security head Miyashita is notified by Okita that a bomb has been p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
