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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] |
Japanese People
are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.4% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them list of contemporary ethnic groups, one of the largest ethnic groups. Approximately 120.8 million Japanese people are residents of Japan, and there are approximately 4 million members of the Japanese diaspora, known as . In some contexts, the term "Japanese people" may be used to refer specifically to the Yamato people, who are primarily from the historically principal islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku and constitute by far the largest group. In other contexts, the term may include other groups native to the Japanese archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of people with both Japanese and non-Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agitator (film)
is a 2001 Yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. Plot Mr. Kaito, head of the Kaito Group of over 2,000 soldiers under the umbrella of the Tenseikai Syndicate, seeks to absorb the 500 soldiers of the Shirane Group as well as the 400 soldiers of that group's rival, the Yokomizo Family, and become the largest group in the syndicate in order to ensure that he will be chosen as the successor to the hospitalized leader of the syndicate. Kaito enlists the aid of Mizushima and Muroi of the Shirane Group, promising that Mizushima will thereby take over as leader of the Shirane Group. Muroi hires Shinozake, who assaults hostesses on Yokomizo turf and is then killed by the Higuchi Gang. Higuchi is reprimanded by the Yokomizo Family but Mizushima and Muroi hire an outside assassin named Numata to kill the leader of the family, Yokomizo Takanori, and claim that the assassin was an overzealous Shirane soldier seeking revenge. Mr. Kaito mediates on behalf of the Tenseikai but Tsuchiya of the Yo ... [...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] |
We're No Angels 2
In Modern English, ''we'' is a plural, first-person pronoun. Morphology In Standard Modern English, ''we'' has six distinct shapes for five word forms: * ''we'': the nominative (subjective) form * ''us'' and ': the accusative (objective; also called the 'oblique'.) form * ''our:'' the dependent genitive (possessive) form *''ours:'' the independent genitive (possessive) form * ''ourselves'': the reflexive form There is also a distinct determiner ''we'' as in ''we humans aren't perfect'', which some people consider to be just an extended use of the pronoun. History ''We'' has been part of English since Old English, having come from Proto-Germanic *''wejes'', from PIE *''we''-. Similarly, ''us'' was used in Old English as the accusative and dative plural of ''we'', from PIE *''nes''-. The following table shows the old English first-person plural and dual pronouns: By late Middle English, the dual form was lost, and the dative and accusative had merged. The ''ours'' geniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waru (2006 Film)
''Waru'' (悪) is a 2006 Japanese action film directed by Takashi Miike. The sequel, '' Waru: kanketsu-hen'', followed later in the year. Cast *Show Aikawa as Yoji Himuro *Nagare Hagiwara as Luo *Yoshihiko Hakamada as Genji *Ryo Ishibashi as Sakuragi * Hisao Maki *Keiko Matsuzaka as Reiko Misugi * Johnny Okura *Hitoshi Ozawa * Atsuko Sakuraba * Hideki Sone *Kimika Yoshino *Akira Maeda *Satoru Sayama *Guts Ishimatsu , better known as is a Japanese actor, comedian, tarento and former professional boxer who competed in the Lightweight division from 1966 to 1978. He is a one-time former WBC Lightweight Champion and an OPBF Lightweight Champion. As a boxer, h ... External links * Films directed by Takashi Miike 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Story (2007 Film)
is a 2007 Japanese crime film directed by Takashi Miike. Plot Takashima Raita, known as a brilliant hacker, moves into a low-rent apartment next door to Kazama Raita, a man with the same given name who works as a private detective. A girl named Inoue Manami comes looking for the detective late at night but finds him drunk and unwilling to help so they agree to meet the next morning. She is then murdered on her walk home afterwards. The next morning Kazama does not meet with the girl but rather police detectives who have traced her last known location to his apartment. Kazama takes it upon himself to investigate the girl's death. A second girl, Asanuma Ritsuko, is murdered and the police stake out Kazama's apartment. He avoids them and investigates an affair she was having with a bartender. The police link a third victim to this series of murders because they have all had different organs removed from their bodies. Kazama remains a suspect. Kazama visits Gamou, a convicted child k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Japanese Male Actors
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
