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Saburo Ishikura
Saburo Ishikura (石倉 三郎 ''Ishikura Saburō'', born December 16, 1946, in Kagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include ''Zatoichi'' (2003) as Boss Ogi and '' Asakusa Kid'' (2002). He has also made guest appearances in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu Games. Specifically 2008's Newspaper Agency as a man in a oversize bag and 2009's Hotel in a golf bag. Filmography Film *''Go! Go! Sakura Club'' (2023), Kikuo Hanada *''The Scoop'' (2024), Yamamoto *''Unforgettable'' (2025) Television *'' Aoi'' (2000), Aoyama Tadatoshi *''Boogie Woogie Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, but already developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually ex ...'' (2023), Kazuichi Jirōmaru References External links * 1946 births Actors ...
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Kagawa, Kagawa
was a town located in Kagawa District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 24,236 and a density of . The total area was . On January 10, 2006, Kagawa, along with the towns of Aji and Mure (both from Kita District), the town of Kōnan (also from Kagawa District), and the town of Kokubunji (from Ayauta District), was merged into the expanded city of Takamatsu and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' .... External links Official website of Takamatsu Official website of Takamatsu Dissolved municipalities of Kagawa Prefecture Takamatsu, Kagawa {{Kagawa-geo-stub ...
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Takeshi Kitano
, also known as in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. During his time as a student at Meiji University, he became a comedian at the strip theater France-za in Asakusa, Asakusa, Tokyo. In 1973, he formed a comedy duo called Two Beat with Kiyoshi Kaneko, who later became Beat Kiyoshi. Kitano adopted the stage name Beat Takeshi. Riding the wave of the comedy boom, he gained popularity with satirical and sharp-tongued black humor. In the 1980s, he appeared in TV shows such as ''Oretachi Hyōkin-zoku'' which recorded the highest viewership rating of 29.1%, and ''Takeshi's Castle'' which recorded 24.7%, becoming explosively popular on television. He gained recognition as an actor in director Nagisa Ōshima's film ''Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'' (1983). In 1989, he made his directorial debut with the film V ...
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Zatōichi (2003 Film)
(released in the US as ''The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi'') is a 2003 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' action film, directed, written, co-edited by and starring Takeshi Kitano ("Beat" Takeshi) in his eleventh directorial venture. Kitano plays the role of the blind swordsman, with Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusu, Yui Natsukawa, Guadalcanal Taka, Daigoro Tachibana, Yuko Daike, Ittoku Kishibe, Saburo Ishikura, and Akira Emoto in supporting roles. A revival of the classic '' Zatoichi'' series of samurai film and television dramas, the film premiered on 2 September 2003 at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best Director award, and went on to numerous other awards both at home and abroad. Plot The film's plot follows a traditional theme, with Zatoichi (a blind swordsman) coming to the defense of townspeople caught up in a local yakuza gang war and being forced to pay excessive amounts of protection money. Meanwhile, Zatoichi befriends a loc ...
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Asakusa Kid
is a 2021 Japanese film written and directed by Gekidan Hitori and starring Yo Oizumi and Yuya Yagira. It is a biopic based on the apprenticeship of Takeshi Kitano by Senzaburo Fukami, and adapted from Kitano's 1988 memoir of the same name. Cast * Yo Oizumi as Senzaburo Fukami * Yuya Yagira as Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) * Mugi Kadowaki as Chiharu * Nobuyuki Tsuchiya as Beat Kiyoshi * Ayumu Nakajima * Yūsuke Furusawa * Nana Komaki * Yōko Ōshima * Hiroyuki Onoue as Hachiro Azuma * Morio Kazama as Jun Tayama * Honami Suzuki is a Japanese actress. Career Suzuki began acting after high school and debuted at age 19 in the television drama ''Asobi Ja Nai No Yo, Kono Koi Wa'' (TBS, 1986). Her breakthrough came in 1991 with the role of Rika in the Fuji TV television ad ... as Mari Fukami References External links * * {{Takeshi Kitano 2021 biographical drama films Japanese biographical drama films 2010s Japanese-language films Netflix original films Takeshi's Cas ...
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Golf Bag
Golf equipment encompasses the various items that are used to play the sport of golf. Types of equipment include the golf ball, golf clubs, golf divot tool, golf ball marker and devices that aid in the sport. Equipment Balls Originally, golf balls were made of a hardwood, such as beech. Beginning between the 14th and 16th centuries, more expensive golf balls were made of a leather skin stuffed with down feathers; these were called "featheries". Around the mid-1800s, a new material called gutta-percha, made from the latex of the East Asian sapodilla tree, started to be used to create more inexpensive golf balls nicknamed "gutties", which had similar flight characteristics as featheries. These then progressed to "brambles" in the later 1800s, using a raised dimple pattern and resembling bramble fruit, and then to "meshies" beginning in the early 1900s, where ball manufacturers started experimenting with latex rubber cores and wound mesh skins that created recessed patterns over ...
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Aoi (TV Series)
is a 2000 Japanese historical drama television series and the 39th NHK taiga drama. The series respectively stars Masahiko Tsugawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, and Onoe Tatsunosuke II as the first three Tokugawa shōguns. It aired from January 9 to December 17, 2000, and ran for a total of 49 episodes. ''Aoi'' is the first taiga drama to be fully filmed in high definition. Plot The story begins with the battle of Sekigahara. Cast Tokugawa Shoguns *Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate * Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun *Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun ** Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu Tokugawa clan * Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada * Isuzu Yamada as Odai no Kata - mother of Ieyasu * Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone *Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata * Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa * Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga * Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako * Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no K ...
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Aoyama Tadatoshi
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. Biography Tadatoshi was the son of Aoyama Tadanari, a Tokugawa vassal of the Sengoku period who was born in Mikawa Province. Tadatoshi, like his father, was a Tokugawa vassal, and was famous for his role as the third shōgun Iemitsu's teacher. He became a ''daimyō'' in 1603, when Tokugawa Ieyasu granted him the domain of Edosaki. Notes , - , - References Aoyama family history and biographical notes Further reading * Bolitho, Harold. (1974). ''Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan.'' New Haven: Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope .... OCLC 185685588*Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多, Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). ''Kantō no shohan'' 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbu ...
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Boogie Woogie (Japanese TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama series and the 109th Asadora series, following '' Ranman''. It premiered on October 2, 2023 and concluded on March 29, 2024. The drama is modeled after the Japanese singer and actress Shizuko Kasagi, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work. Plot Cast Hanada's family * Shuri as Suzuko Hanada ** Rioka Sawai as young Suzuko * Toshirō Yanagiba as Umekichi Hanada, Suzuko's father * Asami Mizukawa as Tsuya Hanada, Suzuko's Mother * Kodai Kurosaki as Rokuro Hanada, Suzuko's brother * Kyoko Mitsubayashi as Toshi Onishi, Suzuko's Grandmother Osaka Umemaru Shoujo Kagekidan (USK) * Kazuki Tsubasa as Aoi Tachibana * Yū Aoi as Reiko Yamato * Kurumi Shimizu as Sachiko Shirakawa / Lily Shirakawa * Yuki Katayama as Tatsumi Sakuraba * Rikka Ihara as Mitsuki Akiyama * Yuuki Morinaga as Yoshio Matano * Jun Hayashi as Hayashi * Takeshi Masu as Okuma, Umemaru company CEO Public bath "Hanayu * Takeshi Nadagi as Ekisha * Takashi ...
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1946 Births
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. Events January * January 6 – The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic ...
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Actors From Kagawa Prefecture
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval wo ...
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Japanese Male Actors
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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