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Kiga Kaikyo
is a 1965 Japanese crime drama film directed by Tomu Uchida and starring Rentarō Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Ken Takakura and Junzaburō Ban. It is based on the 1963 novel ''Kiga Kaikyō'' by Tsutomu Minakami. Plot In 1947, two ex-convicts on parole murder pawnbroker Sasada and his family in Iwanai, Hokkaido, take his money and set fire to the house to cover their tracks. They escape together with a third man, Takichi Inukai, to Shimokita Peninsula during a typhoon. The murderers' dead bodies later wash up on the shore after a ferry sinks, but policeman Yumisaka becomes suspicious because they are not listed as passengers. He believes that the missing Inukai killed his two accomplices while crossing the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the two islands. Meanwhile, Inukai is sheltered in Ominato by a prostitute, Yae Sugito, and gives her a large sum of money in return, which enables her to start a new life. When Yumisaka questions Yae, she lies and claims that the customer was not Inu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinema Junpo
, commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' has been published twice a month. The magazine was founded by a group of four students, including Saburō Tanaka, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Technical High School at the time). In that first month, it was published three times on days with a "1" in them. These first three issues were printed on art paper and had four pages each. ''Kinejun'' initially specialized in covering foreign films, in part because its writers sided with the principles of the Pure Film Movement and strongly criticized Japanese cinema. It later expanded coverage to films released in Japan. While long emphasizing film criticism, it has also served as a trade journal, reporting on the film industry in Japan and announcing new films and trends. After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinjū
is a Japanese term meaning "double suicide", used in common parlance to refer to any group suicide of two or more individuals bound by love, typically lovers, parents and children, and even whole families. A double suicide without consent is called and it is considered as a sort of murder–suicide. Lovers committing double suicide believed that they would be united again in heaven, a view supported by feudal teaching in Edo period Japan, which taught that the bond between two lovers is continued into the next world, and by the teaching of Pure Land Buddhism wherein it is believed that through double suicide, one can approach rebirth in the Pure Land. Etymology The word ''shinjū'' is formed by the characters for and . In this usage it literally means "heart-inside" or "oneness of hearts", probably reflecting a psychological link between the participants. In popular culture In Japanese theater and literary tradition, double suicides are the simultaneous suicides of two lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agency For Cultural Affairs
The is a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It was set up in 1968 to promote Japanese arts and culture. The agency's budget for FY 2018 rose to ¥107.7 billion. Overview The agency's Cultural Affairs Division disseminates information about the arts within Japan and internationally, and the Cultural Properties Protection Division protects the nation's cultural heritage. The Cultural Affairs Division is concerned with such areas as art and culture promotion, art copyrights, and improvements in the national language. It also supports both national and local arts and cultural festivals, and it funds traveling cultural events in music, theater, dance, art exhibitions, and film-making. Special prizes are offered to encourage young artists and established practitioners, and some grants are given each year to enable them to train abroad. The agency funds national museums of modern art in Kyoto and Tokyo and The National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inuhiko Yomota
is a Japanese author, cultural essayist, translator, film historian, and critic. His real name is . Biography Inuhiko Yomota was born on February 20, 1953, in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, but grew up in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in religious studies, and continued in graduate school there to study comparative literature and culture. After finishing graduate school, he traveled the world as a guest professor and researcher at Konkuk University in South Korea, Columbia University in the United States, the University of Bologna in Italy, Tel Aviv University in Israel and Pristina University in Kosovo. He was formerly a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University. He is married to Chie Tarumi, a scholar of Taiwanese literature during the Japanese occupation. His main area of study is film history, particularly the history of film in East Asian countries, and organizes an annual symposium on differing topics in film hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōhoku Dialect
The , commonly called 東北弁 ''Tōhoku-ben'', is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in the Tōhoku region, the northeastern region of Honshū. Toward the northern part of Honshū, the Tōhoku dialect can differ so dramatically from standard Japanese that it is sometimes rendered with subtitles in the nationwide media and it has been treated as the typical rural accent in Japanese popular culture. Phonetics A notable linguistic feature of the Tōhoku dialect is its neutralization of the high vowels "i" and "u" (Standard and ) after coronal obstruents, so that the words ''sushi'', ''susu'' ('soot'), and ''shishi'' ('lion') are rendered homophonous, where they would have been distinct in other dialects. In light of this, Tōhoku dialect is sometimes referred to as ''Zūzū-ben''. The vowels tend to be neutralized to in Northern Tōhoku dialect and in Southern Tōhoku dialect. In addition, all unvoiced stops become voiced intervocalically, rendering the pronunciation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isamu Kosugi
was a Japanese actor and film director. Career Born in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Kosugi first studied at the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He came to prominence in tendency films such as '' Ikeru ningyō'' (1929). He was the lead player in a series of critically acclaimed realist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the 1930s, particularly Tomu Uchida's '' Jinsei gekijō'' (1936) and '' Tsuchi'' (1939) and Tomotaka Tasaka's war films, '' Gonin no sekkōhei'' (1938) and '' Mud and Soldiers'' (1939). In 1937, he starred in the German-Japanese co-production, '' Atarashiki tsuchi'' (aka ''Die Tochter des Samurai''), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami. He was renowned at the time as a skilled actor with an individual style. After World War II, he moved into directing, working primarily at Nikkatsu, where he filmed comedy series and action films starring Jō Shishido, while still appearing in films as an actor. His son wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiko Sakuma
is a Japanese actress. Her son is actor Takehiro Hira. In 1957, Sakuma was scouted and signed her contract with Toei film company. Following year she made her film debut with ''Utsukushiki Shimai no Monogatari Modaeru Soshun''. In 1970, she married actor Mikijirō Hira but divorced in 1984. Sakuma landed lead role in the 1981 Taiga drama ''Onna Taikōki''. Selected filmography Film *''Kiiroi Fudo'' (1961) *''The G-Men of the Pacific'' (1962) *'' Gang vs. G-Men'' (1962) as Akiko Mizuno *''Gang 6'' (1963) *''Gobanchō yūgirirō'' (1963) *''Jinsei gekijo: hisha kaku'' (1963) *''Kaoyaku'' (1965) *'' Lake of Teras'' (1966) as Saku *''Samurai Banners'' (1969) as Princess Yu *'' Chōkōsō no Akebono'' (1969) *'' Men and War Part II'' (1971) *''Byoinzaka no Kubikukuri no Ie'' (1979) *''The Makioka Sisters'' (1983) *'' Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo'' (2012) as Myobu *'' Earthquake Bird'' (2019) as Yamamoto Television *'' Shin Heike Monogatari'' (1972) as Taira no Tokuko *''Onna Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shūkan Asahi
is a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. The ''Asahi Shimbun'' is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan along with the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', the ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' and ''Chunichi Shimbun''. The newspaper's circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and 1.33 million for its evening edition as of July 2021, was second behind that of the ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. By print circulation, it is the second largest newspaper in the world behind the ''Yomiuri'', though its digital size trails that of many global newspapers including ''The New York Times''. Its publisher, is a media conglomerate with its registered headquarters in Osaka. It is a privately held family business with ownership and control remaining with the founding Murayama and Ueno families. According to the Reuters Institute Digital Report 2018, public trust in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrow Films
Arrow Films is a British independent film distributor and restorer specialising in world cinema, arthouse, horror and classic films. As Arrow Video, it sells Ultra HD Blu-rays, Blu-rays and DVDs online; it also operates its own subscription video on-demand service, Arrow Player. Since 2017, Arrow have had a dedicated podcast hosted by film-makers Sam Ashurst and Dan Martin. Arrow Video is considered a boutique Blu-ray label. History Arrow Films was established in 1991 as a family firm in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Whilst Arrow Films was the company's primary brand for theatrical releases, the Arrow Video label was created in 2009 specialising in cult and horror home video. In September 2011, the ArrowDrome brand was created for budget DVDs. The Arrow Academy and Arrow TV labels specialised in the world cinema and Nordic noir genres respectively, but since 2021, each has been merged into Arrow Video. In the same year, the company launched Arrow Player, a subscription video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinichi Yamamoto
was a Japanese actor from Hokkaido. In 1953, he signed to the Toei Company and made his film debut in ''Gakusei Goninotoko''. He is most famous for playing villains, and appeared more than 200 films. He also had many guest appearances as a villain in television dramas. His final role was Yoshinaka in the 1980 miniseries ''Shōgun''. Selected filmography Film * ''Planet Prince'' (1959) * '' The Mad Fox'' (1962) * '' League of Gangsters'' (1963) as Kusunoki * '' A Fugitive from the Past'' (1965) as Monk * '' The Valiant Red Peony'' (1968) * ''Onna Gokuakuchō'' (1970) as Akaza Matajūrō * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War'' (1973) * '' Lady Snowblood'' (1973) as Maruyama * ''The Street Fighter'' (1974) * '' Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy'' (1974) * ''The Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' (1975) as Wang Long-Ming * '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss'' (1975) as Kurihara * '' Karate Kiba'' (1976) * '' Empire of Passion'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Yana
is a Japanese film actor. He is most famous for playing villains. Before he started his acting career, he was a professional baseball player of Toei Flyer's. In 1956, he joined Toei Flyer's but in 1958, he retired because of an injury. He joined Toei film company and made his film debut in 1959. He debuted as a director with his film '' Dagashiya Koharu'' in 2018. Selected filmography Film * '' The Proud Challenge'' (1962) * '' Gang vs. G-Men'' (1962) * '' Wolves, Pigs and Men'' (1964) : Bagman * '' A Fugitive from the Past'' (1965) : Machida * '' Soshiki Bōryoku series'' (1967–69) : Tetsu * '' Abashiri Prison'' film series (1965-1972) * '' Gendai Yakuza: Yotamono Jingi'' (1969) : Itō * '' Bloodstained Clan Honor'' (1970) : Yabuki * '' Street Mobster'' (1972) : Karasawa * '' Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable'' (1973) : Adachi * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima'' (1973) : Asano * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War'' (1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susumu Fujita
was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Akira Kurosawa's first feature, '' Sanshiro Sugata'', and appeared in other Kurosawa films including '' The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail'' (as Togashi, commander of the border guards) and '' The Hidden Fortress'' (as General Tadokoro). Later, he was a supporting actor in Ishirō Honda's '' Mothra vs. Godzilla'', among many other films. Before and during World War II Fujita was considered one of the great stars of Japanese cinema. In the post-war period he became known for supporting roles, often playing a soldier in war films, such as in Masaki Kobayashi's ''The Human Condition'' (film series). During the 1960s and 1970s he played minor roles in "special effects pictures" such as ''Ultraman'' and '' Frankenstein vs. Baragon''. Life and career Fujita was born in Kurume, Fukuoka in Japan. After graduating from high school in 1929 he moved to Tokyo, where he took entrance examinations for several univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
