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Sei Ikeno
was a Japanese composer who wrote the film scores for directors such as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Yūzō Kawashima, Yasuzō Masumura and new wave filmmaker Yoshishige Yoshida. Ikeno was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. In 1950, he entered the Tokyo Music School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) and studied under Tomojirō Ikenouchi and Akira Ifukube. In addition to writing film and other music work, he lectured on composition and orchestration at the Tokyo College of Music and the Tokyo University of the Arts. He died in Tokyo in 2004. Film music (selected) * 1956: ''Night River'' (dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura) * 1961: ''Women Are Born Twice'' (dir. Yūzō Kawashima) * 1962: ''The Temple of the Wild Geese'' (dir. Yūzō Kawashima) * 1962: ''Black Test Car'' (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) * 1962: ''A Woman's Life'' (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) * 1962: ''The Graceful Brute'' (dir. Yūzō Kawashima) * 1963: ''Bamboo Doll of Echizen'' (dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura) * 1964: ''Zatoichi's Flashing Sword'' (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Classical music, Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, wikt:compono, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters [...] and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or 'singer-songwriter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
is a 1964 Japanese chambara film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures). ''Zatoichi's Flashing Sword'' is the seventh episode in the 26-part film series devoted to the character of Zatoichi. Plot A lone yakuza musketeer chases after Ichi alongside a canal and shoots him in retaliation for Ichi cutting the yakuza boss and to earn the prestige of his more experienced fellows. His fellow yakuza arrive and he claims to have killed Ichi, but without a corpse they don't believe him. Ichi is rescued from the water and a travelling stranger pays a local townswoman to nurse Zatoichi back to health. When well again Ichi travels to the stranger's home town to express his gratitude. The yakuza learn of Ichi's survival and his destination. They go after him and leave the failed shooter behind. He goes alone to make up for his lost face. On the way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Male Composers
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2004 Deaths
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1931 Births
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Kinema Junpo
, commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' has been published twice a month. The magazine was founded by a group of four students, including Saburō Tanaka, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Technical High School at the time). In that first month, it was published three times on days with a "1" in them. These first three issues were printed on art paper and had four pages each. ''Kinejun'' initially specialized in covering foreign films, in part because its writers sided with the principles of the Pure Film Movement and strongly criticized Japanese cinema. It later expanded coverage to films released in Japan. While long emphasizing film criticism, it has also served as a trade journal, reporting on the film industry in Japan and announcing new films and trends.加藤 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affair In The Snow
is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. Plot Yuriko and her lover, high school teacher Sugino, take a vacation together, which she intended to use to put an end to their affair. Sugino insists that she stays with him, but Yuriko leaves alone for Muroran, where she wants to abort her and Sugino's unborn child. In Muroran, she contacts Kazuo, a former friend to whom she was once close. At the clinic, Yuriko learns that she had a false pregnancy. Re-united with Sugino, Yuriko tells him that she once spent the night with Kazuo, but that he was unable to make love to her. The next day, Yuriko wants to travel back to Sapporo first, but heads for Niseko instead. All three meet again at an inn in Niseko, where Kazuo slaps Sugino during a confrontation. Sugino disappears into the heavy snow, followed by Yuriko and Kazuo, who fear that he might get lost. Yuriko and Kazuo spend the night in a mountain hotel, where he finally manages to make love to her. When Yuriko an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satsuo Yamamoto
was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima City. After leaving Waseda University, where he had become affiliated with left-wing groups, he joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse. He followed Naruse when the latter moved to P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) and debuted as a director in 1937 with ''Ojōsan''. During World War II he directed the propaganda films ''Winged Victory'' and ''Hot Winds'' before being drafted and sent to China. After returning to Japan, Yamamoto's first film was the 1947 ''War and Peace'' (not based on the Leo Tolstoy novel), co-directed with Fumio Kamei. Being a communist and an active supporter of the union during the Toho labour strikes, he left the studio in 1948 after the strikes' forced ending and turned to independent filmmaking. The left-wing production company Shinsei Eiga-sha, formed by former Toho unionists, produced his commercially successful ''Street of Violence' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zatoichi The Outlaw
is a 1967 Japanese '' chambara'' film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures), and is the first film produced by Katsu Productions (Katsu's own company). ''Zatoichi the Outlaw'' is the sixteenth episode in the 26-part film series devoted to the character of Zatoichi. Plot In a rural village, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters Shushi Ohara (Suzuki; modeled after 18th-century agriculturalist Yagaku Ohara) a sword-less rōnin who defends himself against multiple attackers without killing them. Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the abstention from gambling, drinking, and whoring. Cast *Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi * Rentarō Mikuni as Boss Asagoro * Kō Nishimura as Suga * Yuko Hamada as Oshino * Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Nisaburo *Takuya Fujioka as Zatosanji * Kenjiro Ishiyama as Tatsugoro * Tatsuo Endo as Boss Tomizo * Kayo Mikimoto as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Affair (1967 Film)
is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It is based on Masaaki Tachihara's novel ''Shiroi keshi''. Plot One year after her mother died in an accident, Oriko returns to writing poetry which she had given up when she married her husband Takashi. At a gathering of fellow writers, she meets Mitsuharu, a sculptor and former lover of her late mother. Oriko had despised her mother's changing affairs, although she had been a widow by then, and is herself blamed by her husband for her coldness. Mitsuharu informs her that he wasn't her mother's last lover, but that she had left him for a labourer, with whom she was seen drunk on the day when she was fatally hit by a truck. One night, Oriko witnesses her husband's sister Yuko having sex with a construction worker in a hut, which she considers rape and reports to the police. Later, she returns to the worker's hut, where he tells her outright that she speculated on sleeping with him as well. He makes a forceful advance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Angel
is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yoriyoshi Arima ( ja). Plot Sakura Nishi is a Japanese nurse in China during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Initially she works in a ward of chronically ill men. She is raped by a patient, Sakamoto. She reports the rape and Sakamoto is sent to the front lines. Nishi is sent to a field hospital. The hospital is overwhelmed and has too few doctors and not enough medicine to treat all the patients. Nishi works with Doctor Okabe. Sakamoto comes in, shot in the belly and dying. Okabe refuses to provide him with a blood transfusion, reasoning that Sakamoto is beyond saving, but Nishi pleads with him. Okabe tries to save Sakamoto on condition that Nishi will come to his room that night. Sakamoto dies, but Nishi goes to Okabe's room. However, Okabe just wants to talk to Nishi and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman Of The Lake
is a 1966 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' The Lake''. Plot Miyako, comfortably married to businessman Yuzo Mizuki, is having an affair with Kitano, who is himself engaged. She allows Kitano to take nude pictures of her, but the photos end up in possession of Ginpei, who had been waywarding her. Miyako agrees to meet Ginpei, who threatens to inform her husband of the affair, in Katamayazu, Lake Shibayama (Ishikawa Prefecture). She is followed by Kitano and still later Kitano's fiancée Machie. Ginpei has prints made of the negatives at a local photo shop in Katamayazu. The shop owner blackmails Miyako, but while he is satisfied with money, Ginpei wants to possess Miyako, whom he feels attracted to since he first saw her with Kitano. At the same time, he confesses that he might be less in love with Miyako herself than with her image. After sleeping with Ginpei, she pushes him off a cliff. When she returns to her hotel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
