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Mainichi Film Award For Best Art Direction
The Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards. List of winners References {{film-award-stub Art Direction Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to super ... Awards established in 1947 1947 establishments in Japan Lists of films by award Awards for best art direction ...
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ...
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Kisaku Itō
was a Japanese art director. He was born in Tokyo. He developed a skill in drawing, and became among the most prominent set designers in Japanese cinema following World War II. He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction for the 1953 film ''Ugetsu''. In 1955, he served as art director for '' She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum''. Selected filmography * ''Typhoon Over Nagasaki ''Typhoon Over Nagasaki'' (French: ''Typhon sur Nagasaki'') is a 1957 French-Japanese-West German romantic drama directed by Yves Ciampi and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi and Gert Fröbe.Parish p.361 It was shot in Japan i ...'' (1957) References 1899 births 1967 deaths Japanese art directors Artists from Tokyo {{Japan-artist-stub ...
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Naniwa No Koi No Monogatari
Naniwa () may refer to: People with the given name *, Japanese spy *, ring name by Yoshikuni Kimura, japanese professional wrestler *, Empress of Japan *, Japanese actress Music * Naniwa Danshi, Japanese boy band * Naniwa Express, Japanese jazz fusion group Places * Naniwa-kyō, the place that became the modern Japanese city of Osaka * Naniwa-ku, Osaka, one of the 24 wards of Osaka City, Japan Other uses * Naniwa Kin'yūdō, is a Japanese manga * Naniwa Maru, is a replica ship of a typical Japanese trader * Japanese cruiser ''Naniwa'', the first protected cruiser built specifically for the Imperial Japanese Navy See also * Namba Namba (, ) is a district in Chūō and Naniwa wards of Osaka, Japan. It is regarded as the center of Osaka's ''Minami'' ( :ja:ミナミ, "South") region. Its name came from a variation of '' Naniwa'', the former name of Osaka. Namba hosts som ... {{disambiguation, geo Japanese unisex given names Japanese-language surnames ...
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Atsuji Shibata
Atsuji (written: 厚次 or 貴嗣) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese manga artist and character designer {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ...
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The Snowy Heron
is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Fujiko Yamamoto - Oshino * Keizo Kawasaki - Junichi Inaki * Yosuke Irie - Takashi Irie * Shūji Sano - Kumajirō Gosaka * Hitomi Nozoe - Nanae Date * Hideo Takamatsu was a Japanese actor from Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture. Takamatsu appeared in more than 120 films between 1948 and 2007. Profile In 1951, he signed his contract with Daiei film company. Two years later, Takamatsu made his film debut with ''Ikare ... - Yokichi Tatsumi * Eijirō Tono * Tamae Kiyokawa - Hideko Gosaka * Rieko Sumi - Wakakichi References External links * 1958 films Japanese drama films 1950s Japanese-language films Films directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Films produced by Masaichi Nagata 1950s Japanese films Japanese-language drama films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ...
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Yoshirō Muraki
was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. Muraki joined Toho Film studio in 1944. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970), ''Kagemusha'' (1980), and ''Ran'' (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in ''Yojimbo'' (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from '' Record of a Living Being'' (1955) onward, with the exception of ''Dersu Uzala'' (1975).Gerow, Aaron.Muraki Yoshiro" ''Tangemania: Aaron Gerow's Japanese Film Page''. 27 October 2009. Accessed 2 November 2009 He was married to Shinobu Muraki was a Japanese production designer and art director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature ...
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The Lower Depths (1957 Film)
is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, the screenplay by Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa, based on the 1902 play ''The Lower Depths'' by Maxim Gorky. The setting was changed for the film from late 19th-century Russia to Edo period Japan. Plot In a run-down Edo tenement, an elderly man and his bitter wife rent out rooms and beds to the poor. The tenants are gamblers, prostitutes, petty thieves and drunk layabouts, all struggling to survive. The landlady’s younger sister who helps the landlords with maintenance, brings in an old man and rents him a bed. Kahei, who dresses as a Buddhist pilgrim, quickly assumes the role of a mediator and grandfatherly figure, though there is an air of mystery about him, and some of the tenants suspect his past is not unblemished. Sutekichi, thief and self-appointed tenement leader, is having an affair with Osugi the landlady, though he is gradually shifting his attention to her sweet-tempered sister. Okayo thinks little of him, howev ...
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Throne Of Blood
is a 1957 Japanese epic ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles, modelled on the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. As with the play, the film tells the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Kurosawa was a fan of the play and intended to make his own adaptation for several years, delaying it after learning of Orson Welles' ''Macbeth'' (1948). Among his changes was the ending, which required archers to shoot arrows around Mifune. The film was shot around Mount Fuji and Izu Peninsula. With a budget of (), the film was one of the most expensive films ever made in Japan at the time of its release. Des ...
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Satoru Chūko
is a Japanese verb meaning "to know" or "understand". It is a common masculine Japanese given name. Satoru is the root of the Zen Buddhist word . Written forms ''Satoru'' can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *悟る, "be spiritually awakened" or "attain higher perception" ;as a given name *悟, "enlightenment" *聡, "smart" *智, "wisdom" *知, "knowledge" *了, "understanding" *哲, "philosophy" *聖, "virtuous" *暁, "daybreak" The name can also be written in hiragana People with the name *Satoru Abe (1926–2025), American painter and sculptor *, Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author * Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese sprinter *, fourth president and CEO of Nintendo *, Japanese table tennis player *Satoru Kobayashi (other), multiple people *, Japanese professional baseball player *, Japanese music composer *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese bioi ...
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Nagareru
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel ''Nagareru'' by Aya Kōda. Plot Widow Rika starts working as a maid in the okiya (geisha lodging house) of geisha Otsuta, who lives with her daughter Katsuyo, her younger sister Yoneko and Yoneko's child, and geisha Nanako. Of the seven geisha who once worked for Otsuta, only Nanako and Someka are left; a third girl, Namie, has just run away, convinced that she has been tricked out of her share. Otsuta's older sister Otoyo tries to pressure Otsuta into finding a financially secured husband to pay back the loans on the house which the two of them mortgaged together. Ohama, a former geisha sister of Otsuta, tries to help by making contact between her and her nephew's employer Hanayama, a former patron of Otsuta. The situation tightens when Namie's uncle shows up, demanding the money which he thinks his niece is entitled to. Otsuta tries to compensate him with 50,000 yen, half of Hanayama's onetime don ...
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