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Tae Kimura
is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for '' All Around Us''. Biography Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's '' All Around Us''. Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one of the most accurate portrayals of someone suffering from depression I've ever seen." She co-starred in Isshin Inudo's ''Zero Focus'' with Miki Nakatani and Ryōko Hirosue, and starred in Makoto Shinozaki's ''Tokyo Island''. She appeared in Miwa Nishikawa's ''Dreams for Sale''. Filmography Films *''Hana and Alice'' (2004) *''Infection'' (2004) – 2nd nurse *'' All About My Dog'' (2005) *''Densha Otoko'' (2005) *'' Oh! Oku'' (2006) *''Kaidan'' (2007) *'' All Around Us'' (2008) *'' Shizumanu Taiyō'' (2009) *''Zero Focus'' (2009) *''Tokyo Island'' (2010) *''Yoake no Machi de'' (2011) *''Dreams for Sale'' (2012) *'' Monsterz'' (2014) *''The Case of Hana & Alice'' (2015) *'' Have a Song on Your Lips'' (2015) *''Gold Medal Man'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infection (2004 Film)
is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Masayuki Ochiai. The film is about a run-down hospital where a doctor's mistake unwittingly creates horrific consequences for the staff at the hospital. The film was adapted from Ochiai's earlier screenplay from ''Tales of the Unusual''. On its release, the film was part of the six-volume '' J-Horror Theater'' series. On its release in Japan, it was the second highest grossing film at the weekend box office, only being beaten by '' I Robot''. Plot At a run-down, understaffed hospital, Dr. Akiba refuses to admit a patient with a strange black rash and is alerted to a severe crisis in Room 3, where a burn victim dies, having been given the wrong drug. Akiba, Dr. Uozumi, and four nurses decide to cover up the cause of death and move the body to an unused room. The head nurse then discovers that the patient Akiba previously refused to admit has been left in the hallway and informs him. However, when Akiba goes to check, he discovers that D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie''
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottontail (film)
''Cottontail'' () is a 2023 drama film written and directed by Patrick Dickinson. It premiered at the Rome Film Festival on 26 October 2023, winning the BNL BNP Paribas Best First Film award. Premise A widower and his son travel from Japan to England's Lake District to scatter his wife's ashes there, as she grew up loving the stories of Beatrix Potter. Cast *Lily Franky as Kenzaburo * Ryo Nishikido as Toshi *Tae Kimura as Akiko *Rin Takanashi as Satsuki *Ciarán Hinds as John * Aoife Hinds as Mary Production It was announced in November 2019 that Ken Watanabe, Ralph Fiennes, Jessie Buckley and Dai Watanabe had been cast in the film. Filming was set take place between Japan and England, beginning autumn 2020. In April 2021, the previously announced cast, minus Buckley, had exited the film, with Lily Franky, Ciarán Hinds, Ryo Nishikido, Tae Kimura and Rin Takanashi now set to star. Filming took place in June 2021. Late 2022, it was announced that Ciarán Hinds Ciarán Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yurigokoro
is a Japanese drama film directed by Naoto Kumazawa, based on Mahokaru Numata's novel of the same name. It stars Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kenichi Matsuyama and Tori Matsuzaka. Plot Cast * Yuriko Yoshitaka as Misako * Kenichi Matsuyama as Yōsuke * Tori Matsuzaka as Ryōsuke * Aimi Satsukawa as Mitsuko * Nana Seino as Chie * Kaya Kiyohara as young Misako * Tae Kimura is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for '' All Around Us''. Biography Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's '' All Around Us''. Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one ... as Hosoya Awards References External links * * 2017 films Films based on Japanese novels Aeon Entertainment films 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Have A Song On Your Lips
is a 2015 Japanese film directed by Takahiro Miki and based on a novel of the same title by Eiichi Nakata (a/k/a Otsuichi) published in 2011. The original novel is inspired by a television documentary "''Greetings to a 15 year old - Students on the island who walked with songs''" (broadcast by NHK in May 2009), which depicts the interaction between Angela Aki (the songwriter of "'' Letter: Greetings to a 15 Year Old''" which was an assigned song for the NHK National School Music Competition in 2008) and junior high school students on Wakamatsu Island in the Goto Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture. The novel has been adapted into a novel for children as well as a manga of the same title (by Taishi Mori). The film was released on February 28, 2015. Plot Yuri Kashiwagi, a beautiful and talented pianist suddenly returns to her hometown in Goto Islands. She relieves her friend Haruko, who is on maternity leave, as the advisor for the school chorus. The choir aims to take part in NCon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Case Of Hana & Alice
is a Japanese rotoscoped youth drama film written, directed, edited, co-scored and co-produced by Shunji Iwai. It is the prequel to Iwai's 2004 live-action film ''Hana and Alice''. The film was released on February 20, 2015. A manga adaptation by Dowman Sayman was serialized on Shogakukan's ''Yawaraka Spirits'' web magazine from February 16 to July 27, 2015. Plot Fourteen-year-old Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa moves into the neighborhood of Fujiko with her divorced mother. While moving into her new home, Alice notices a girl her age spying on her from the neighboring house, and finds a stash of tests with bad grades in her own bedroom closet. At her new school, her teacher, Ms. Ogino, assigns her one of two desks that strangely do not get dusted, and that sit on top of letters written on the floor. Her fellow students keep talking about an evil spirit named Judas with "four wives". A heavily made-up student named Mutsu "Moo" Mutsumi accuses her of releasing the spirit, and leads the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsterz
''Monsterz'' is a 2014 Japanese fantasy horror thriller film directed by Hideo Nakata. It is a remake of the 2010 South Korean film ''Haunters''. Cast *Tatsuya Fujiwara *Takayuki Yamada *Satomi Ishihara *Tae Kimura *Yutaka Matsushige * Mina Fujii Reception The film has grossed ¥697 million in Japan. In ''Film Business Asia'', Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 3 out of 10, calling it a "feeble Japanese remake" with "no atmosphere". ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'' was more positive, listing it as one of the best Japanese horror films. References External links * * 2014 fantasy films 2014 horror thriller films 2014 horror films Films directed by Hideo Nakata Warner Bros. films Nippon Television films Horror film remakes Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoake No Machi De
is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu, based on the novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino. Cast * Gorō Kishitani * Kyoko Fukada * Tae Kimura * Ken Ishiguro * Masaya Kikawada * Ken Tanaka (actor), Ken Tanaka * Hisako Manda * Masatoshi Nakamura References External links * Films based on Japanese novels Films based on works by Keigo Higashino Films directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shizumanu Taiyō
(lit. ''The Never-setting Sun'') is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as ''The Unbroken'' in the United States. ''Shizumanu Taiyō'' is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki which centers on Hajime Onchi, an employee of "NAL," a large national airline. The first part of the novel focuses on Onchi's activity as the chairman of the employees' union in the 1960s; his reward for fighting for better working conditions for the staff is a series of postings abroad, to Pakistan, Iran, and finally Kenya, a destination to which the company does not even fly. The second and third parts of the novel take place in 1985 and chronicle the crash of a jumbo jet and its aftermath within the company. The events portrayed in the story are based upon actual events that took place at Japan Airlines. The character of Onchi is based upon JAL labor organizer and author Hirotaro Ogura, and the pivotal crash portrayed in the novel is based closely upon the crash of Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaidan (2007 Film)
is a 2007 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. It centers on two young lovers who are haunted by the ghost of a murdered moneylender who seeks revenge, which leaves a lasting effect on the couple. Plot In feudal Japan, Toyoshiga (Hitomi Kuroki) and Osono are sisters whose father has been killed by Shinzaemon, a samurai, due to a debt dispute. Upon his death, Toyoshiga and Osono's father vowed revenge for his wrongful murder. His body is dumped in a mysterious lake that's believed to be cursed and haunted by a woman who was wrongfully killed by her husband many years ago. Shortly after, Shinzaemon kills his wife and himself, leaving their baby, Shinkichi, orphaned and in care of his uncle. Years later, Toyoshiga, now a respected teacher who runs a school for young girls in Edo, falls in love with a young tobacco vendor named Shinkichi (Onoe Kikunosuke V), who lives with his uncle. Shinkichi and Toyoshiga decide to live together as husband and wife, but Shinkichi begins f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
