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Osamu Fukutani
Fukutani Osamu (福谷 修 ''Fukutani Osamu'', born August 2, 1967, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a film director. Selected filmography *'' Ley's Line'' (2002) *''Suicide Manual is a 2003 film directed by Fukutani Osamu. The movie follows Yū (played by Kenji Mizuhashi), a cameraman who works for a small TV station. He and his assistant Rie (Chisato Morishita) are sent by their superior, Keita ( Hideo Sakaki), to inve ...'' (2003) External links *JMDb profile (in Japanese) Japanese film directors 1967 births Living people People from Nagoya 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-film-director-stub ...
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Kazunari Shibata
Kazunari is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Kazunari can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *和成, "peace/harmony, become" *一成, "one, become" *一就, "one, settle People with the name *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist *, Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and radio host *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese cross-country skier *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese cyclist {{given name Japanese masculine given names ...
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Fuyuhiko Nishi
(3 July 1900 – 12 April 1990) was a Japanese poet and film critic. His real name was . While born in Shiga Prefecture, he was raised in Manchukuo in China due to his father's work on the South Manchurian Railway, and then graduated from Tokyo University. He began publishing his own poetry in Manchukuo in 1924 and his work was influenced by that colonial context. His work was praised by Riichi Yokomitsu, and he became a prominent figure in modernist poetry in Japan, pursuing especially prose poetry. Kitagawa was also a well-known film critic, one who especially praised the work of Mansaku Itami (the father of Juzo Itami), calling it a new, realistic "prose cinema" (''sanbun eiga'') in opposition to the old "poetic cinema" (''inbun eiga'') of Sadao Yamanaka, Daisuke Itō, and others. He was a champion of neorealism in the postwar era. He was a standard-bearer of the Scenario-Literature-Movement. He, Shuzo Takiguchi, Akira Asano and other members formed a group called 'T ...
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Yui Sobue
Yui may refer to: People * Yui (name), a Japanese name *Yui (singer) (born 1987), Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress * Yui people or Ibi, a Timucuan-speaking people in what now is Georgia, United States Places * Yui, Shizuoka, a former town located in Shizuoka, Japan * Yui Station, a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Shizuoka Other * YUI Library, an open-source JavaScript and CSS library *'' Corrector Yui'', a 1999 magical girl series *Yui Rail The , also known as , is a monorail line serving the cities of Naha, Okinawa, Naha and Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa, Japan. Operated by , it opened on 10 August 2003, and is the only public rail system in Okinawa Prefecture. Yui Rail is ...
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Kengo Takafuji
''Kengo'' (剣豪) is a series of video games developed by Genki. ''Kengo'' is considered a spiritual successor to the '' Bushido Blade'' game series for the PlayStation. Games ''Kengo: Master of Bushido'' ''Kengo 2: Legacy of the Blade'' The second game in the ''Kengo'' series was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan on June 27, 2002. It was released in Europe on February 14, 2003 under the title ''Sword of the Samurai''. It features a character creation feature and over 100 detailed swords to choose from. Published by Ubisoft. It was not released in North America. In Japan, ''Famitsu'' gave the sequel 30 out of 40. The game received a 64% overall review score from Futuregamez. ''Kengo 3'' The third game in the ''Kengo'' series was released for the PlayStation 2 on September 22, 2004. Featuring much improved graphics and a simplified fighting system from ''Kengo 2''. It was released only in Japan. ''Kengo: Legend of the 9'' Released for the Xbox 360 on September 7, 20 ...
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Saku Sakamoto
Saku may refer to: Places * Saku, Nagano, a city in Japan *Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku) was a town located in Minamisaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. On March 20, 2005, Saku, along with the village of Yachiho (also from Minamisaku District), was merged to create the town of Sakuho. As of January 1, 2004, the town ha ..., a town in Japan * Saku Parish, a rural municipality in Harju County, Estonia ** Saku, Estonia, a small borough in Saku Parish, Harju County, Estonia * Saku Constituency, an electoral constituency in Kenya Other uses * Saku (given name), a masculine Finnish given name and a feminine Japanese given name * Saku Brewery, an Estonian brewery * Saku, a song by the band Dir En Grey {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Shin Hayasaka
Shin may refer to: Biology * The front part of the human leg below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates Names * Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese given name * Shin (Korean surname) (Hangul: 신, Hanja: 申, 辛, 愼), a Korean family name * Shin (Chinese: 新, which means "new"), spelled in Pinyin as Xin Fictional characters * Shin Akuma, a character in the Street Fighter series * Shin Asuka (other), multiple * Shin Malphur, a character in the video game '' Destiny 2: Forsaken'' *Kamen Rider Shin, a character in the Kamen Rider series * Seijuro Shin (進), a character in the manga and anime series ''Eyeshield 21'' * A character in the manga Dorohedoro * A character in the manga and anime '' Fist of the North Star'' Music * Shin (band) ( zh, 信樂團, links=no) * Shin (singer) (蘇見信), a Taiwanese singer and former lead singer of the band Shin * Shin, the drummer o ...
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Fukutani Osamu
Fukutani Osamu (福谷 修 ''Fukutani Osamu'', born August 2, 1967, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a film director. Selected filmography *''Ley's Line'' (2002) *''Suicide Manual is a 2003 film directed by Fukutani Osamu. The movie follows Yū (played by Kenji Mizuhashi), a cameraman who works for a small TV station. He and his assistant Rie (Chisato Morishita) are sent by their superior, Keita ( Hideo Sakaki), to inve ...'' (2003) External links *JMDb profile (in Japanese) Japanese film directors 1967 births Living people People from Nagoya 21st-century Japanese people {{Japan-film-director-stub ...
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2002 Films
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows: 2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous years record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first Spider-Man movie). Events * March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary. * May – '' The Pianist'' directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. * May 3–5 – '' Spider-Man'' is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation. * May 16 – '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was t ...
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2000s Japanese-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ...
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