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Min Tanaka
is a Japanese dancer and actor. Biography Tanaka was trained in ballet and modern dance, but in 1974, turned his back on these forms. He began his solo career with a series of nearly-naked primarily outdoor improvisational dances that took place throughout Japan, often dancing up to five times a day. For a time in the 1980s, he was associated with Hijikata Tatsumi and butoh, a loose genre of Japanese dance, but now has broken from that framework as well, and no longer uses that term to describe his dances. From 1986 to 2010, Tanaka hosted dance workshops based in Body Weather, a movement ideology which "conceives of the body as a force of nature: omni-centered, anti-hierarchic, and acutely sensitive to external stimuli." In 1985, Tanaka and his colleagues founded Body Weather Farm, located four hours west of Tokyo, where he taught summer sessions lasting four to five weeks in Japanese and English. Much of the training workshop students received was centered on the labor of work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiji Keisatsu (film)
, also known in English as ''Black Dawn'', is a 2012 Japanese film directed by Kentarō Horikirizono and based on a novel by Iku Asō. Cast * Atsurō Watabe as Kenji Sumimoto (Nihongo: 澄本健二, ''Sumimoto Kenji'') * Kim Kang-woo as An Min-cheol (Hangul: 안민철, ''An Min-cheol''/Nihongo: アン・ミンチョル, ''An Minchoru'') * Yōko Maki as Kaori (Nihongo: かおり, ''Kaori'') * Machiko Ono as Hina Matsuzawa (Nihongo: 松沢ひな, ''Matsuzawa Hina'') * Min Tanaka as Masayoshi Jo (Nihongo: 城正義, ''Jō Masayoshi'') * Im Hyung-joon as Kim Jeong-soo (Hangul: 김정수, ''Gim Jeong-su''/Nihongo: キム・ジョンス, ''Kimu Jonsu'') * Kenichi Endō as Toshiki Kurata (Nihongo: 倉田俊樹, ''Kurata Toshiki'') * Kimiko Yo as Kumi Muramatsu (Nihongo: 村松久美, ''Muramatsu Kumi'') * Ryo Ishibashi as Shotaro Ariga (Nihongo: 有賀章太郎, ''Ariga Shōtarō'') * Toshiyuki Kitami as Ryoga Kanazawa (Nihongo: 金沢良賀 ''Kanazawa Ryōga'') * Kenichi Tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sixth Finger
"The Sixth Finger" is an episode of the original ''The Outer Limits'' television show. It first aired on 14 October 1963, during the first season. Plot Working in a remote Welsh mining town, a rogue scientist, Professor Mathers, discovers a process that affects the speed of evolutionary mutation. Mathers suffers guilt for his role in developing a super-destructive atomic bomb, and hopes his new discovery will better the human race. A disgruntled miner, Gwyllm Griffiths, volunteers for an experiment that will enable the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities. As a man sent forward equal to 20,000 years of evolution, Gwyllm soon begins growing an overdeveloped cortex and a sixth finger on each hand. When the mutation process begins to operate independently of the professor's influence, Gwyllm takes control of the experiment. Now equal to 1 million years of evolution, and equipped with superior intelligence and powers of mind, such as telekinesis, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great War Of Archimedes
is a 2019 Japanese historical film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning the building of the battleship ''Yamato'', the film is based on a manga by Norifusa Mita. It is a fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers, specifically pertaining to budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the ''Yamato''. The film was dubbed into various languages and distributed worldwide. Plot Rear Admiral Shigetarō Shimada and Vice Admiral Tadamichi Hirayama of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) propose to build the super-battleship. Admirals Yamamoto and Nagano, who support aircraft carriers, recruit Tadashi Kai to find faults with the proposal. Kai is an autistic mathematics prodigy obsessed with geometry. Kai uses copied blueprints, extrapolations from the design of the battleship '' Nagato'', and shipbuilding procurement data from personal connections, to show that the steel for the new battleship will cost twice the amount estimated by Hirayama, the desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modest Heroes
is a 2018 Japanese animated anthology film produced by Studio Ponoc. The film is the first volume in the studio's ''Ponoc Short Films Theatre'' anthology, and includes films written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, and Akihiko Yamashita. Plots "Kanini & Kanino" Kanini and Kanino are tiny anthropomorphized freshwater crab siblings who live underwater in a nearby stream. Their father, Toto, is taking care of them while their mother, Kaka, has gone away to give birth. When they suddenly find themselves alone, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey to find their father. All of the dialogue is performed in a made-up language. "Life Ain't Gonna Lose" Shun Yashima is a young boy born with a lethal allergy to eggs. Every day, then, his family focuses on protecting Shun from contact with eggs. Shun has to eat special meals at school, his classmates must be careful not to spit on him and get saliva with egg all over him, and Shun has to take his allergy into cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outsider (2018 Film)
''The Outsider'' is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Martin Zandvliet and written by Andrew Baldwin. A Japanese-American production, the film stars Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Shioli Kutsuna, and Emile Hirsch. ''The Outsider'' was released by Netflix on March 9, 2018, and received generally unfavorable reviews from critics. Plot In 1954, nine years after the Pacific War, ex-United States Marine Corps Captain Nick Lowell is the only non-Japanese inmate in an Osaka prison. Most of his fellow inmates are yakuza criminals, recognizable by their irezumi tattoos. Nick saves a yakuza named Kiyoshi from being hanged to death. Shiromatsu, a yakuza clan to which Kiyoshi belongs, repays their debt for Nick saving Kiyoshi by arranging for Nick's early release. Once Nick was out of the prison gates, he was brought to the Shiromatsu's headquarters and was offered a job, a negotiation deal with Anthony Panetti, an American businessman with a deep hatred for the Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vision (2018 Film)
''Vision'' is a 2018 drama film directed by Naomi Kawase from her own script. It stars Juliette Binoche and Masatoshi Nagase, with Takanori Iwata, Minami (actress), Minami, Mirai Moriyama in supporting roles.The film tells the story of a French woman who goes to look for vision, the plant she hears legends about, in an Old-growth forest, ancient forest of Japan. There she meets Tomo, and starts a story with him that crosses cultures and languages. After a Japanese release on June 8, 2018, ''Vision'' made its North American debut at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and its European debut at the San Sebastiàn Film Festival. Plot Jeanne is a French essayist who writes Travel literature, travelogues while traveling around the world. She visits Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, with her assistant Hana to do some research for her essay. Jeanne is determined to find a mythical herb known as "vision", as she has heard the legend that it can alleviate human pain when it scatters it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitsuji No Ki
is a Japanese manga series written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami and illustrated by Mikio Igarashi. Published by Kodansha, it was serialized in the ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Evening'' from June 2011 to April 2014, with its chapters compiled into five ''tankōbon'' volumes. A live-action film adaptation directed by Daihachi Yoshida was released in Japan in February 2018. Media Manga ''Hitsuji no Ki'' is written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami and illustrated by Mikio Igarashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Evening'' from June 14, 2011 to April 8, 2014. Kodansha collected its chapters in five ''tankōbon'' volumes, released from November 22, 2011 to May 23, 2014. Volumes Live-action film A live-action film adaptation of the manga titled ''The Scythian Lamb'' was released on February 3, 2018. The film is directed by Daihachi Yoshida and had its premiere at the 2017 Busan Film Festival. Reception The manga was one of the Jury Selections in the Manga Division of the 16th Japan Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binbōgami
A is a kami (god or spirit) in Japanese folklore said to inhabit a person or their house, bringing poverty and misery. References to binbōgami appear in classic Japanese tales, essays, and rakugo performances. Description A binbōgami typically appears as a skinny, dirty old man with a pale complexion, often carrying a paper fan (''shibu-uchiwa'') and wearing a sad expression. Regardless of appearance, they are said to be fond of lazy people. When inhabiting a house, they reportedly prefer to live in closets. According to the poet Nakamura Kōgyō, binbōgami have a fondness for miso, and use their fans to waft and enjoy its aroma. Some descriptions add details like wielding a kendama and wearing only one broken geta. Being a kami, a binbōgami cannot be killed, but methods to drive one away exist. Folklore and Literature Historical References * The personification of poverty appears as early as the 13th-century collection '' Shasekishū'' (Collection of Sand and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blade Of The Immortal (film)
is a 2017 samurai action film starring Takuya Kimura and Hana Sugisaki and directed by Takashi Miike. It is based on the successful manga series by Hiroaki Samura. The narrative focuses on the immortal samurai Manji (Kimura) who becomes the bodyguard of an orphan teenager named Rin Asano (Sugisaki) as they go on a journey of vengeance against the members of the Ittō-ryū samurai who killed the child's parents. Miike explored different themes in the story, such as revenge, but in a more complex manner, as he saw Manji as a "dark hero", while the production team found it difficult to write multiple fight scenes to fit the film's duration. The director chose Kimura for the role of Manji due to the actor's popularity, something which he felt was similar to that of the manga. Sugisaki, on the other hand, was chosen for her energetic role in a commercial. The film premiered out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in Japan by Warner Bros. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Ends
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto Inferno
, also known as ''Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno'' in North America, is a 2014 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' action film based on the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' manga series, and serves as the second installment of the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' film series', following the first film ''Rurouni Kenshin'' (2012). The story follows Himura Kenshin as he heads to Kyoto to face a powerful group led by Shishio Makoto, a man who wants to rule Japan after being betrayed by the government. ''Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno'' released in Japan on August 1, 2014, by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, and received positive reviews from critics. The film was followed by a direct sequel, '' Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends'', which released the following month, and takes place immediately from the ending of ''Kyoto Inferno''. Plot In Settsu Mine, Hyōgo Prefecture, Saitō Hajime leads the Japanese police in tracking Shishio Makoto, a notorious renegade who was betrayed by the government after he had helped th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
