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Mitsuru Fukikoshi
is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Aomori Prefecture, Fukikoshi moved to Tokyo at age 19 and joined the Wahaha Honpo theater troupe. Since leaving Wahaha in 1999, he has appeared in many films and television dramas, while continuing to act on stage. He works in both serious drama and comedy, and has often played police detectives. He starred in Sion Sono's '' Cold Fish''. He co-starred with Hideaki Itō in Takashi Miike's ''Lesson of the Evil''. Personal life In 1994, Fukikoshi married the actress Reona Hirota. They divorced in 2005 after having one child, but then remarried in 2012. The couple separated for the second time in December 2016. Filmography Film * '' Gamera 2: Attack of Legion'' (1996) * '' Love & Pop'' (1998) * ''Samurai Fiction'' (1998) * '' Whiteout'' (2000) * '' Red Shadow'' (2001) * '' The Twilight Samurai'' (2002) * '' Spy Sorge'' (2003) * ''Lady Joker'' (2004) * ''Year One in the North'' (2005) * '' Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * '' Kabei: Our Mother' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamikita District, Aomori
is a district located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It occupies the east-central portion of the prefecture, south of Shimokita Peninsula. As of 2010, the district has an estimated population of 100,526 and a density of 78.5 persons per km2. The total area was 1281.05 km2. Politics In terms of national politics, the district is represented in the Diet of Japan's House of Representatives as a part of the Aomori 1st district and the Aomori 2nd district. Towns and villages The district consists of six towns and one village. The cities of Towada and Misawa were formerly part of the district. * Noheji * Oirase * Rokkasho * Rokunohe * Shichinohe * Tōhoku * Yokohama History Kamikita District was part of ancient , established by the Northern Fujiwara. During the Edo period, the area was part of the Morioka han feudal domain of the Nanbu clan, with daikansho located in Noheji and Shichinohe. The Nanbu clan sided with the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei during the Boshin Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Shadow (2001 Film)
is a Japanese manga series written and Illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1966 to 1967. The manga was adapted into a 52-episode tokusatsu series by Toei Company, Toei and was broadcast on Kansai TV and Fuji Television, Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968, followed by a film adaptation in 1969. A 26-episode anime adaptation by Toei Animation was broadcast on Nippon TV from October 1987 to March 1988. A second live-action film that serves as a loose adaptation, titled Red Shadow (film), Red Shadow was released in 2001. Plot The story is set in the late sixteenth century when Japan was in the midst of a long period of civil wars. While some seek to unite Japan in order to bring peace, there are others who encourage conflict in order to bring more power to themselves. Akakage, Aokage, and Shirokage are all good ninjas working for those who seek peace and unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven's Story
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Forum section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It has also won the Séquences Prize at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Plot ''Heaven's Story'' shows a murder and how it changes the lives of those people who were closely related to the victims. Cast * Moeki Tsuruoka * Tomoharu Hasegawa * Shugo Oshinari * Jun Murakami * Hako Yamasaki * Noriko Eguchi * Mitsuru Fukikoshi * Kyusaku Shimada * Shun Sugata * Ken Mitsuishi * Kanji Tsuda * Makiko Watanabe * Nao Nagasawa * Kōichi Satō * Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor. Career In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' Dr. Akagi''. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for '' Dotonbori River'' and '' Hearts an ... References External links * * 2010 films Films directed by Takahisa Zeze 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Operations Under The Orion
is a Japanese action drama film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara depicting an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine battling a United States Navy destroyer near the end of World War II. Plot The story alternates between the past and present, linked by a fateful song. During World War II, Japanese submarine I-77 battles an American destroyer off the coast of Okinawa. Before heading to war, the captain received a final present from his lover, the score to a song titled ''Manatsu no Orion''. Sixty-four years later, his granddaughter discovers the score and the significance behind the song. Cast * Hiroshi Tamaki as Takayuki Kuramoto * Keiko Kitagawa as Shizuko Arisawa / Izumi Kuramoto * Yoshikuni Dōchin as Yoshihiko Arisawa * Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Hiroshi Nakatsu * Yuta Hiraoka as Makoto Tsubota * Masaya Kikawada as Hajime Toyama * Taiga as Katsumi Suzuki See also * ''Das Boot'' * Submarine films * Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) * '' The Cruel Sea'' References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen To My Heart (film)
is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Shinichi Mishiro. Cast * Takako Tokiwa as Mao Kubota * Kento Hayashi *Tomoko Nakajima *Nozomu Iwao *Terunosuke Takezai * Nako Mizusawa *Teruhiko Saigō *Masato Hagiwara * Kōsuke Toyohara * Tsurutaro Kataoka (special appearance) *Shirō Itō (special appearance) *Kaoru Yachigusa *Tatsuya Nakadai is a Japanese film actor. He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including '' The Human Condition'' trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji, plus '' Harakiri'', '' Samurai Rebellion'' and '' Kwaidan''. Nakada ... References External linksOfficial website* Japanese drama films 2009 drama films 2009 films 2000s Japanese films 2000s Japanese-language films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Rainy Days
is a 2009 Japanese romantic drama film based on the cell phone novel of the same name. Director Yuri Kanchiku made her directorial debut in this film. Japanese model Nozomi Sasaki stars in her first lead role in a film, as a seventeen-year-old high school student. The film tells the story of a manipulative schoolgirl who mends her ways when she falls for an older professor. ''My Rainy Days'' debuted in a special screening at the 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival. It was subsequently released in Japanese cinemas on 7 November 2009. The film grossed a total of US$1,090,202 in four different countries, and it received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot Seventeen-year-old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends exist only so she can use them for her gains. Rio is only interested in money. She is involved in " compensated dating" and extor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguins In The Sky
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae () of the order Sphenisciformes (). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is equatorial, with a small portion of its population extending slightly north of the equator (within a quarter degree of latitude). Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch with their bills and swallow whole while swimming. A penguin has a spiny tongue and powerful jaws to grip slippery prey. They spend about half of their lives on land and the other half in the sea. The largest living species is the emperor penguin (''Aptenodytes forsteri''): on average, adults are about tall and weigh . The smallest penguin species is the little blue penguin (''Eudyptula minor''), also known as the fairy penguin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinjuku Incident
''Shinjuku Incident'' (, ''Shinjuku Inshidento'') is a 2009 Hong Kong Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama film directed by Derek Yee, and written by Yee and Chun Tin-nam. It stars Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Xu Jinglei, and Fan Bingbing. The film tells the story of Steelhead (Chan), a labour worker from China who travels to Japan as an illegal immigrant to look for his long-lost fiancée Xiu Xiu (Jinglei), only to be embroiled in the violent Japanese underworld. The film was distributed by Chan's own film company, JCE Movies Limited. It was originally to be released on 25 September 2008 but was delayed to the first quarter of 2009. It premiered at the 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival and was released on 2 April 2009. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic nicknamed ''Steelhead'' (Jackie Chan) Illegal immigration, illegally enters Japan from Hong Kong in search of his fiancée, Xiu-Xiu (Xu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Exposure
is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the art of upskirt photography. The first version was originally six hours long, but was trimmed at the request of the producers. Following its release, it won many awards and received acclaim from critics. At the Berlin International Film Festival, it won the Caligari Film Award and the FIPRESCI Prize. Plot Yū Honda is a Catholic teenager attempting to live his life faithfully. His father, Tetsu, has become a devout Catholic priest following the death of Yū's mother and operates his own church. Tetsu asks Yū to confess his sins, but Yū believes he is a good person who has little to confess. To appease his father, he makes up sins but his father sees right through him so Yū becomes obsessed with committing real sins. Yū befriends other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoroi Samurai Zombie
is a 2008 Japanese Comedy horror, comic horror film directed by Tak Sakaguchi and written by Ryuhei Kitamura, who had previously collaborated on ''Versus (2000 film), Versus''. A family taken hostage and their kidnappers become prey to an undead samurai in a haunted cemetery. Plot A family of four (Shigeo, Yasuko, Asami and Ryota) on a road trip has their idyllic vacation turned into a nightmare with a bizarre series of events. They stop their car after accidentally hitting a man dressed in white (Aihara) but when he stands up brandishing a gun, another man, Jirō, shoots Aihara. Jirō and his manic girlfriend Lisa then carjacking, carjack the family's car, holding the father at gun point. When one of the tires is punctured, Jirō tells the father, Shigeo, that they are in the land of the undead and that the father must go off to find help, leaving his family with the captors. When Shigeo finds a ghostly cemetery he starts digging until he finds a blade which he then uses to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Mother
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Our or OUR may refer to: * The possessive form of " we" Places * Our (river), in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany * Our, Belgium, a village in Belgium * Our, Jura, a commune in France Other uses * Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), a government utility regulator in Jamaica * Operation Underground Railroad, a non-profit organization that helps rescue sex trafficking victims * Operation Unified Response, the United States military's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake * Ownership, Unity and Responsibility Party, a political party in the Solomon Islands See also * Ours (other) Ours may refer to: People * Ours (singer), a French singer and songwriter. * Wes Ours (born 1977), an American football player Music * Ours (band), an American rock group Songs * Ours (song), "Ours" (song), by Taylor Swift, 2011 * "Ours", a son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umizaru
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūhō Satō. It was serialized by Shogakukan in '' Weekly Young Sunday'' from 1998 to 2001. Yōichi Komori is credited with the original idea for the series, and he also did the research to make the series more authentic. The series focuses on Daisuke Senzaki, an officer in the Japan Coast Guard, and tells the stories of shipwreck rescues and other incidents where the coast guard plays a role. The plotlines in the series were drawn from incidents and accidents which actually happened while the manga was being written (similar to the "ripped from the headlines" tagline used by various ''Law & Order'' series). The manga has been adapted into two NHK high-definition specials, four films, and one drama series. Media Manga Adaptations ''Umizaru'' (2004) ''Umizaru Evolution'' (2005) Title: 海猿 Title (romaji): Umizaru Also known as: Umizaru Evolution / Sea Monkey Format: Renzoku Genre: Action, human drama, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
