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Kamen Rider Shin
is a 1992 Japanese tokusatsu biopunk-horror V-Cinema film directed by Makoto Tsuji. It is a reimagining of the Kamen Rider Series and is also the first standalone film in the franchise. Toei has marketed the film to English speaking markets as ''"True Masked Rider: Prologue"''. Plot Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists, researching cures for diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the human body. The test subject, Shin Kazamatsuri, races motorcycles and is Doctor Kazamatsuri's son. Unknown to the doctors, their operation is funded by a syndicate group who plans to use the research to have the bodies of men strengthened to create cyborg soldiers for their own gain. However, they did not count on Onizuka's own secret ambitions: he wants to create a new species of soldiers by fusing the DNA of a grasshopper and test subjects to start a new civilization and be their God. He may have tested it on himself, but seems to be having greater succ ...
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Kaoru Wada
is a Japanese composer and arranger. He has composed the scores for many anime series, including ''Inuyasha'', ''D.Gray-man'', '' Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas'', ''Samurai 7'' and, more recently, '' Tesla Note''. He also became known to the West through his arranged works for orchestra and piano in video games like ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Wada, along with other later-famous musicians, studied at the Tokyo College of Music under Akira Ifukube and Sei Ikeno. He is also an apprentice of the famed Godzilla composer, Akira Ifukube. He is married to ''Inuyasha'' voice actress Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talen ... Akiko Nakagawa, who voices Sota Higurashi in that anime. Works Anime Video games References External links * Discography at V ...
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Masanobu Takashima
is a Japanese film and television actor. Career He has appeared in over 20 television productions and ten films in Japan and other countries as well. Takashima appeared as Daisuke Matoba in the 2008 film '' L: Change the World'' (also known as ''Death Note: L Change the World'') (2008).Staff writer (undated"News Headline"(in Japanese language). Warner Bros. Japan. Accessed 18 January 2010. Filmography Films Television *''Taiheiki'' (1991), Ashikaga Tadayoshi *''Hideyoshi'' (1996), Toyotomi Hidenaga *''Tenchijin'' (2009), Higuchi Sōemon *'' Prison School'' (2015), Chairman of the board *'' Sanada Maru'' (2016), Hōjō Ujimasa *''Shizumanu Taiyō'' (2016) *''Black Leather Notebook'' (2017), Tsuneo Hashida *''Yuri's World'' (2017), Polar Bear *''Ieyasu, Edo wo Tateru'' (2019) *'' The Grand Family'' (2021) *'' Chimudondon'' (2022), Kōji Futatsubashi Personal life Takashima is the son of actor Tadao Takashima and actress Hanayo Sumi, and younger brother of actor Masahiro T ...
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Kamen Rider Decade
is the title of the first installment of the 2009 editions of the long-running Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu dramas. ''Decade'', as its title suggests, is the tenth of the Heisei Rider special anniversary Series, having begun with '' Kamen Rider Kuuga'' in 2000. It began broadcasting the week following the finale of ''Kamen Rider Kiva'' and was featured in Super Hero Time alongside the 2009 edition of the Super Sentai Series, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and replaced by Tensou Sentai Goseiger. ''Kamen Rider Zi-O'', the last Heisei era series of 2018-2019, acts as a spiritual sequel, where both Decade and Diend play prominent roles as re-occurring side characters who are directly involved in that series plotline. Production And Casting The Kamen Rider Decade trademark was registered by Toei on July 29, 2008. Masahiro Inoue, who portrayed Keigo Atobe in the ''Prince of Tennis'' musicals, was cast in the lead role for ''Decade'' as Tsukasa Kadoya/Kamen Rider Decade. Also involve ...
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Billboard Japan
''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine '' Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company of Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The first character for Kobe (神戸) and the second character for Osaka is a designated cit ...), holding an exclusive licence from ''Billboard''s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan,"Hanshin Contents Link, the operator of Billboard Japan": and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country. In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from ''Billboard'', launched the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 music chart. As of 2016, the list of charts compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' also includes an albums chart named ''Billbo ...
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Ryudo Uzaki
is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock music Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and ... bands. He also composed many of Momoe Yamaguchi's songs with Yoko Aki. He is married to lyricist and actress Yoko Aki. Discography Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band Composer Acting roles References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uzaki, Ryudo 1946 births Japanese composers Japanese male actors Japanese male composers Japanese rock musicians Living people Musicians from Kyoto Prefecture People from Kyoto Prefecture ...
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Toei Channel
Toei or Tōei may refer to: * Tōei, Aichi, Japan * Toei Company, Japanese film and television production company ** Toei Animation, their animation subsidiary * , Japanese abbreviation meaning "operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government" **Transportation lines operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (TMBT) *** Toei Subway (都営地下鉄) *** Toei Bus (都営バス) ** Toei Jūtaku (都営住宅), public housing Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, d ...
owned and managed by the Bureau of Urban Development, Tokyo Metropolitan Government {{disambig ...
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Bandai Visual
was a Japanese anime, film production, and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai and a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. They focused mainly in international distribution of anime properties in North America. Most of the anime and films that have been distributed and licensed by Bandai Visual have been released under the Emotion label. After the reorganization of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual headed the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries included the Emotion Music Company, Ltd. (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis music publishing labels. Until 2012, it was involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, an alternate anime studio subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings. In September 2017, Bandai Visual acquired the anime studio Actas. In February 2018, it wa ...
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Hiroko Kimura
, real name (born 10 May 1933 as , is a Japanese actress and politician. During her 30-year-long political career, she served in some important posts. She became the first female President of the House of Councillors in 2004. Her pseudonymous surname is also spelled Ogi, Ōgi and Ohgi for a variety of Hepburn romanization systems. She herself uses Oogi. Early life Oogi was born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo. She survived the Bombing of Kobe in World War II, Kobe Air Raid at age 11. She wrote later that her experience of the air raid had convinced her to make efforts to attain peace and defense (military), national defense.Chikage Oogi, ''Dekiru Koto Deki nai Koto'', Sekaibunkasha, Stage career Oogi graduated from Takarazuka Music School and joined the Takarazuka Revue in April 1954. Her first movie appearance was in October of that year. She retired from the revue in 1958 and married Sakata Tōjūrō IV, Kotaro Hayashi, a kabuki actor later known as Tojuro Sakata. Oogi h ...
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Noriko Watanabe
is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for ''His Motorbike, Her Island''. Filmography See also *Hiroko Yakushimaru *Tomoyo Harada is a Japanese actress, singer, and lyricist, and was a popular idol in the 80's. She was cast in numerous films and TV-series since her beginning in 1982 in the leading role of the original TV series '' Sailorfuku to kikanju''. Her first role i ... References External links * * 1965 births Living people Japanese actresses People from Ōita Prefecture {{Japan-actor-stub ...
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Katsushi Murakami
Katsushi (written: 克志, 克史, 勝志, 豪氏 or かつし in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese animator *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese editor *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese ski jumper {{given name Japanese masculine given names ...
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Nobuo Yajima
Nobuo (written: , , , , , in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine, Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese basketball player * Nobuo Fujita (1911–1997), Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese basketball player * Nobuo Kojima (1915–2006), writer * Kanda Nobuo (1921–2003), historian who specialized in early * Nobuo Nakagawa (1905–1984), film director *, Japanese actor *, Japanese boxer * Nobuo Okishio (1927–2003), Japanese economist *, Japanese handball player * Nobuo Satō (born 1942), former Japanese figure skater and current coach *, Japanese sculptor * Nobuo Suga, a Japanese biologist, known for hearing research * Nobuo Tanaka (born 1950), former executive director of the International Energy Agency * Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi (1911–1943), war participant * Nobuo Tobita (born 1959), Japanese voice actor * Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959), composer of video game music * Nobuo Yoneda (1930 ...
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Kazuyoshi Yamada
Kazuyoshi (written: 和良, 和美, 和喜, 和佳, 和慶, 和義, 和嘉, 和幸, 知良, 一義, 一吉, 一良, 一慶, 一巖 or 一嘉) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese politician *, Japanese conductor *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese racing driver and businessman *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese triple jumper *, Japanese astronomer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese Buddhist scholar *, Japanese Yakuza member *, Japanese film director *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese figure skater and coach *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese film director *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese anime director {{given name Japanese masculine given names ...
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