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Saiko No Jinsei
is a Japanese television drama series. It premiered on TBS on January 12, 2012. The drama revolves around the members of the Ihara family who operate a funeral parlor in Tokyo. Show Synopsis The funeral parlor has been run by Ihara Masato’s (Tomohisa Yamashita) family for generations. Masato grows to hate the family business due to the teasing he suffers from for being "the undertaker's kid", and he leaves home early in life. The sudden death of his estranged father and the disappearance of his older brother Kento (Takashi Sorimachi) leave the Ihara-ya in Masato's reluctant hands. The Ihara-ya has close ties with the police and mostly handles the bodies of people who have died under mysterious or unexplained circumstances. On occasions, when the police simply classify the deaths as accidental, Masato tries to find out the truth for the sake of the surviving family, even though he knows that he is being meddlesome. Masato ends up dealing with these silent bodies, the painful ...
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Tomohisa Yamashita
, also widely known as , or Tomo, is a Japanese singer, actor, and TV host. Yamashita joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates as a trainee in 1996 and made his small acting debut for NHK's ''Shonentachi'' (1998). He made his musical debut as part of idol group NEWS in 2004 and later debuted as a soloist in 2006. He launched his acting career after portraying Kusano Akira in the hit drama ''Nobuta Wo Produce'' (2005). His first major role was in 2006 when he landed the title role in '' Kurosagi''. In October 2011, Johnny & Associates announced that Yamashita would no longer be a member of NEWS, and he would be concentrating on his solo projects as an actor and solo singer. He released his solo music under Warner Music Japan until 2016. In mid-2018, Yamashita began releasing music under Sony Music Japan; however, Johnny & Associates continued to manage the rest of his activities, though he left the agency in October 2020. As early as 2019, he signed a brokerage ...
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Izakaya
An () is a type of informal Japanese Bar (establishment), bar that serves alcoholic drinks and snacks. are casual places for after-work drinking, similar to a pub, a Spanish tapas bar, or an American saloon or tavern. Etymology The word entered the English language by 1987. It is a compound word consisting of ("to stay") and ("sake shop"), indicating that originated from sake shops that allowed customers to sit on the premises to drink. are sometimes called ('red lantern') in daily conversation, as such paper lanterns are traditionally found in front of them. History Anecdotes and songs that appear in the show that -style establishments existed in Japan at the early 700s. There is a record dating to 733 when rice was collected as a brewing fee tax under the jurisdiction of the government office called . In the , written in 797, there is a record of :ja:葦原王, King Ashihara who got drunk and was murdered in a tavern in 761. The full-scale development of bega ...
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2012 Japanese Television Series Debuts
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ...
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Hidenori Iyoda
Hidenori (written: 秀典, 秀憲, 秀則, 秀徳, 英則, 英徳 or 英智) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese sound effects editor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese biathlete *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese cyclist *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese actor and singer {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ...
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Yasuharu Ishii
Yasuharu is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Yasuharu can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *康治, "healthy, to manage" *康春, "healthy, spring" *康晴, "healthy, clear (weather)" *康温, "healthy, to warm up" *靖治, "peaceful, to manage" *靖春, "peaceful, spring" *靖晴, "peaceful, clear (weather)" *靖温, "peaceful, to warm up" *安治, "tranquil, to manage" *安春, "tranquil, spring" *安晴, "tranquil, clear (weather)" *保治, "preserve, to manage" *保春, "preserve, spring" *保温, "preserve, to warm up" *泰治, "peaceful, to manage" *泰春, "peaceful, spring" *泰晴, "peaceful, clear (weather)" *易治, "divination, to manage" *易春, "divination, spring" *恭治, "respectful, to manage" The name can also be written in hiragana やすはる or katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script ...
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Chiho Watanabe
is a Japanese screenwriter. Watanabe is a member of the Scenario Writers Association. She is married to freelance announcer Shinichi Hatori. Biography She was born in Tokyo. In 2000, she worked for a company as an office lady, originally thought that she wanted to write something, because she liked her books originally, as a result of the screenplay version of the television drama ''Fuzoroi no Ringo-tachi'' taken from a bookstore she am was willing for her path of screenwriting. In the era of underwriting worked on plotting screenplay and stayed in the eyes of producers of television stations, she made her debut as a screenwriter at the 2002 TV drama ''Tentai Kansoku'' (Kansai Telecasting Corporation). Since then, she has worked numerous comedies and romantic dramas around television dramas. In 2010 one of her works '' Nakanai to Kimeta Hi'' (Fuji Television) drew attention by hiding the back and front of the human with the theme of female workplace bullying without hiding, att ...
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Rei Okamoto
is a Japanese model and actress who stars as Mia Amagishi in '' Threads of Destiny''. She also appears in the NHK Asadora , colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Ta ... '' Jun and Ai'' (2012). Filmography Film Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Okamoto, Rei 1991 births 21st-century Japanese actresses People from Wakayama (city) Living people ...
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Sansei Shiomi
is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiomi went to Doshisha University. He joined the theater troupe En in 1978 and soon also began appearing in film and television, mostly as a character actor. He won a Japan Movie Critics Award for best supporting actor for the film ''Ki no Umi'' (2004). Selected filmography Film * ''The Gentle Twelve'' (1991) * '' The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark'' (1993) * ''Love Letter'' (1995) * '' Swallowtail'' (1996) * '' Eureka'' (2000) * '' Calmi Cuori Appassionati'' (2001) * '' Go'' (2001) * '' When the Last Sword Is Drawn'' (2003), Kondō Isami * ''Blood and Bones'' (2004) * ''Ki no Umi'' (2004) * '' Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad'' (2007) * ''The Battery'' (2007) * ''Like a Dragon'' (2007) * '' Sukiyaki Western Django'' (2007) * '' Crows Zero'' (2007) * ''Tokyo Rendezvous'' (2008) * '' Children of the Dark'' (2008) * '' Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky'' (2009) * ''Villain'' (2010) * ''A Song I Remembe ...
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Japanese Funeral
The majority of funerals (, ''sōgi'' or , ''sōshiki'') in Japan include a Wake (ceremony), wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family Grave (burial), grave, and a periodic memorial service. According to 2007 statistics, Cremation in Japan, 99.81% of deceased Japanese are cremated. Other practices in Japan include Shinto funerals and the Ryukyuan people’s indigenous Ryukyuan religion#At the tomb, sepultural culture. Modern funerals After death Although Japan has become a more secular society (see Religion in Japan), , 90% of funerals are conducted as Buddhist ceremonies. Immediately after a death (or, in earlier days, just before the expected death), relatives moisten the dying or deceased person's lips with water, a practice known as . Most Japanese homes maintain Buddhist altars, or , for use in Buddhist ceremonies; and many also have Shinto shrines, or . When a death occurs, the shrine is closed and covered with white paper to keep out the impure spirits o ...
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Nana Eikura
is a Japanese actress, model, and occasional radio show host affiliated with Ken-On Group. Biography She was born in Izumi, Kagoshima, and raised in Sagamihara, Kanagawa.
While a junior high student, she was scouted in front of the 109 (department store), 109 department store in . During her middle-teenage years, Nana modeled in several fashion magazines, mainly in '' Seventeen''. During the 2000s, Eikura was featured in ''Seventeen'' along with
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Japanese Television Drama
, also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Television in Japan, Japanese television and are broadcast daily. Format All major Television networks, TV networks in Japan produce a variety of Drama (genre), drama series including Romance film, romance, Television comedy, comedy, Detective fiction, detective stories, Japanese horror , horror, jidaigeki, Thriller (genre), thriller, Boys' love, BL, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of Surrender of Japan, the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a s ...
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