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Ninja Drones
is a 2019 Japanese musical film distributed by Shochiku, a film version of musical theatre ''Boys'' which has been running since 1969. The film Director is Katsuhide Motoki, screenwriter by Katsumi Ishikawa, and executive producer is Johnny Kitagawa. Overview This production is an adaptation of musical theatre ''Boys'', which has been staged since 1969 and is based on the musical theater that has been performed mainly by young trainees starring in the show before their debut since it was revived in 2010 with Kis-My-Ft2 and A.B.C-Z in the lead roles. In this production, the red team was performed by SixTones, the blue team by Snow Man, and the black team by Kansai trainees such as Daigo Nishihata and Koji Mukai. Since this is a musical film, song and dance are woven throughout. At the end of the film, there is a gorgeous musical show time where all the trainees perform and dance. Story The setting is a Nara juvenile prison, 2012. Orphan Jun (Taiga Kyomoto) has come to prison ...
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Boys (Japanese Musical)
is a musical theatre production featuring many performers from Johnny & Associates. The theme of the show is friendship, peace, and dreams of future by boys in juvenile prison for various reasons. Since its premiere in 1969, Four Leaves played the lead roles until 1975, and since its restoration in 2010, many young members, mainly trainees affiliated with Johnny's, have appeared in the show. The musical theatre ''Boys'' was premiered in 1969, using songs from Four Leaves' 1969 LP record ''Boys: A Little Resistance''. This play was revised and performed in successive productions, and became known as ''Boys'' musical theatre series. In 2010, after 34-year absence, the play was revived starring A.B.C-Z and Kis-My-Ft2, trainee groups at the time. After that, it has been performed by young trainees. Since 2015, the theme of "War and Peace" has been incorporated into the show. It was also made into a movie '' Ninja Drones?'' in 2019. This production was written, planned, composed, a ...
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Snow Man
Snow Man is a Japanese idol boy band under Starto Entertainment. The group's activities focused on acrobats and stage play. Snow Man made their official debut on January 22, 2020, at the same time as SixTones. The groups' simultaneous debut marked the first time for two groups to debut on the same day in the company's history. "D.D."/"Imitation Rain" became the best-selling debut release in Asian history with more than 1.8 million physical copies sold, making Snow Man the best selling debut group since KAT-TUN in 2006. It is also the first male idol single in 17 years to remain in the top 100 of the Oricon chart for more than 100 weeks. Since their debut in 2020, the group has sold over 20 million physical copies in Japan. In 2021, their debut studio album, ''Snow Mania S1'', sold in its first week more than 841k physical copies, and became in the best selling first week for a boy group studio album in Japanese history, and the second best week for a debut album in the country ...
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Curiosity
Curiosity (from Latin , from "careful, diligent, curious", akin to "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking, such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident in humans and other animals. Curiosity helps Developmental psychology, human development, from which derives the process of learning and desire to acquire knowledge and skill. The term ''curiosity'' can also denote the behavior, characteristic, or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is the driving force behind human development, such as progress in science, language, and industry. Curiosity can be considered to be an evolutionary adaptation based on an organism's ability to learn. Certain curious animals (namely, Corvidae, corvids, octopuses, dolphins, elephants, rats, ''etc.'') will pursue information in order to adapt to their surrounding and learn how things work. This behavior is termed Neophile, neophilia, the lo ...
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Four Leaves
was a Japanese boy band A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their Teenage, teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform love songs marketed towards girls and young women. Many boy bands ... from the talent agency Johnny & Associates. Four Leaves was one of the earliest acts produced by the agency, and the four-member group first formed in 1967 and made their record debut with the single the following year. They disbanded in 1978 due to popularity loss, but they reunited in 2002 until 2009. Members *Toshio Egi (1967-1978, 2002–2009) *Kōji Kita (1967-1978, 2002–2009; died 2012) *Masao Orimo (1967-1978, 2002–2009) *Takashi Aoyama (1968-1978, 2002–2009; died 2009) *Eiji Nagata (1967-1968) Kōhaku Uta Gassen Appearances References Japanese musical quartets Japanese boy bands Japanese idol groups Japanese pop music groups Johnny & Associates Musical groups established in 19 ...
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Tire Swing
A swing is a seat or platform, suspended from chains, ropes, or bars, on which one or more people can swing back and forth for enjoyment or relaxation. Swings are a common piece of equipment at children's playgrounds and may also be found in yards or gardens, on porches, inside homes (for example, the Indian oonjal), or as freestanding public play equipment like the Estonian village swing. Swings have a long history in many different parts of the world and come in various types. On playgrounds, several swings are often suspended from a shared metal or wooden frame, known as a swing set, allowing more than one child to play at a time. Such swings come in a variety of sizes and shapes. For infants and toddlers, swings with leg holes support the child in an upright position while a parent or sibling pushes the child to get a swinging motion. Some swing sets include play items other than swings, such as a rope ladder or sliding pole. For older children, swings are sometimes made of ...
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Ministry Of Justice (Japan)
The is one of the cabinet level ministries of the Japanese government. It is responsible for the judicial system, correctional services, and household, property and corporate registrations, and immigration control. It also serves as the government's legal representatives. The MOJ represents the Japanese government in litigation, and is also responsible for maintaining the official registers of households, resident aliens, real estate and corporations. At the top of the ministry is the Minister of Justice, a member of the Cabinet, who is chosen by the Prime Minister from among members of the National Diet. History The Ministry of Justice was established in 1871 as the .https://www.moj.go.jp/EN/hisho/soshiki/enkaku.html On February 15, 1948, the Attorney General's Office Establishment Law led to the creation of the Attorney General's Office. It acquired its present name under the post-war Constitution of Japan in 1952. Under the Central Government Reorganization Plan, the ...
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Prison Guard
A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. Terms for the role Historically, terms such as " jailer" (also spelled " gaoler"), "guard" and "warder" have all been used. The term "prison officer" is used for the role in the UK and Ireland. It is the official English title in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Poland. The term "corrections officer" or "correction officer" is used in the U.S. and New Zealand. The term "correctional police officer" or "CPO" is used in New Jersey. Due to the law enforcement status and authority of New Jersey's officers, New Jersey's officers employed by the Department of Corrections are classified as "police officers". Brazil has a similar system to New Jersey, but the officers are known as "state penal police agent" or "federal penal pol ...
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Hoodlum
A hoodlum is a thug, usually in a group of misfits who are associated with crime or theft. Early use The earliest reference to the word "hoodlum" was in the December 14, 1866, ''San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin'' after the Hoodlum Band was arrested on December 13, 1866. Members of the gang were sentenced to the Industrial School for stealing clothes. The gang used many keys to enter hotel rooms and boarding houses. On December 14, 1866, Lazarus Moses was arrested for selling clothes stolen by the Hoodlum Band. Moses was fined $300. Moses's nickname was Fagin. The public read about the acts of the Hoodlum Band, and the word hoodlum became a synonym for a young thug. The term was associated with anti-Chinese violence. An article in ''The New York Times'' of July 26, 1877, stated: "People who sack Chinese houses and stone Chinamen are not workingmen. San Francisco calls them 'hoodlums,' a term which includes everything that is base and mean. The hoodlum is a non-producer, lo ...
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Orphan
An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown, or have permanently abandoned them. It can also refer to a child who has lost only one parent, as the Hebrew language, Hebrew translation, for example, is "fatherless". In some languages, such as Swedish language, Swedish, the term is "parentless" and more ambiguous about whether the parents are dead, unknown or absconded, but typically refers to a child or younger adult. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e., if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition). Definitions Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor (law), minor bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". In everyday use, an orphan ...
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Juvenile Prison
In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC),Stahl, Dean, Karen Kerchelich, and Ralph De Sola. ''Abbreviations Dictionary''. CRC Press, 20011202. Retrieved 23 August 2010. , . juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term basis while awaiting trial or placement in a long-term care program. Juveniles go through a separate court system, the juvenile court, which sentences or commits juveniles to a certain program or facility. Some juveniles are released directly back into the community to undergo community-based rehabilitative programs, while others juveniles may pose a greater threat to society and to themselves and therefore are in need of a stay in a supervised juvenile detention center. If a juvenile is sent by the courts to a juvenile detent ...
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Nara Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the northwest, Wakayama Prefecture to the southwest, and Mie Prefecture to the east. Nara (city), Nara is the capital and largest city of Nara Prefecture, with other major cities including Kashihara, Nara, Kashihara, Ikoma, Nara, Ikoma, and Yamatokōriyama. Nara Prefecture is located in the center of the Kii Peninsula on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast, and is one of only eight landlocked prefectures. Nara Prefecture has the distinction of having more UNESCO World Heritage listings than any other prefecture in Japan. History The Nara Prefecture region is considered one of the oldest regions in Japan, having been in existence for thousands of years, and is widely viewed as the Japanese cradle of civilization. Like Kyoto, Nara was one of Imperial ...
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Koji Mukai
, is a Japanese singer, tarento, and actor. He is a member of the Japanese boy band Snow Man. Biography Koji Mukai was born on June 21, 1994, in Thailand, to a Thai mother and Japanese father. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Nara Prefecture, Japan, and was subsequently raised there. Filmography Film Television Variety show Bibliography * Asahi Shimbun Publishing ** Asahi Camera ''Incandescent Lessons on Photography with Masters'' (April 2020 issue - July 2020 issue) ** Aera ''Koji Mukai learns incandescent camera lessons'' (July 27, 2020 enlarged issue) * Hinode Publishing “CINEMA SQUARE” ''Koji’s movie'' (issue released on August 3, 2020 ol.122 Awards and nominations References External links * at Snow Man * at ISLANDTV Snow Man Officialat Starto Ent. * at TVer Tver (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the V ...
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