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Unbound (TV Series)
is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Ryusei Yokohama as Tsutaya Jūzaburō. The series is the 64th NHK ''taiga'' drama. Plot In the mid-18th century Japan, the ''Rōjū'' Tanuma Okitsugu prioritized commerce over agriculture to rebuild the nation's finances. As the economy improved, a relatively liberal atmosphere emerged among the common people, fostering cultural development. One of the central figures in this cultural movement was Tsutaya Jūzaburō, a publisher. However, when the era transitioned to Matsudaira Sadanobu's governance from Tanuma's, stricter controls on entertainment were imposed, causing hardship for Jūzaburō. Even so, he remained undeterred, discovering and making talents such as Utamaro, Hokusai and Sharaku famous. Cast Starring role *Ryusei Yokohama as Tsutaya "Tsutajū" Jūzaburō **Haru Takagi as young Tsutajū His family *Ai Hashimoto as Tei, Jūzaburō's wife *Katsumi Takahashi as Surugaya, Jūzaburō's foster father * Naoko Iij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryusei Yokohama
is a Japanese actor, model, and former singer. He is best known for playing the role of the pink-haired Yuri Kyohei in the 2019 romantic comedy drama ''A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love'', as well as List of Ressha Sentai ToQger characters#Hikari, Hikari Nonomura (ToQ 4gou) in the 2014 Super Sentai TV series ''Ressha Sentai ToQger''. Early life and education Yokohama Ryūsei was born on September 16, 1996, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In March 2015, Yokohama graduated from a men's modelling course. Career When he was a sixth grader, Yokohama was discovered by a talent scout while with his family on his first trip to the trendy Tokyo neighborhood of Harajuku. He is currently working under Stardust Promotion. He was a former member of the male talent group Ebidan, a group also produced by Stardust Promotion. Yokohama's first appearance was at a commercial for Eiko Seminar. He served as a male model of the fashion magazine ''Nikopuchi'' through a public audition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "historical drama, period dramas", it refers to stories that take place before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. ''Jidaigeki'' show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. ''Jidaigeki'' films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of ''jidaigeki''. ''Jidaigeki'' rely on an established set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, catchphrases, and plotlines. Types Many ''jidaigeki'' take place in Edo, the military capital. Others show the adventures of people wandering from place to place. The long-running television series ''Zenigata Heiji'' and ''Abarenbō Shōgun'' typify the Edo ''jidaigeki''. ''Mito Kōmon'', the fictitious story of the travels of the historical ''daimyō'' Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and the ''Zatoichi'' movies and television series, exemplify the traveling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishimura Yohachi
Nishimuraya Yohachi (dates unknown) was one of the leading publishers of Woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock prints in late 18th-century Japan. He founded the Nishimuraya Yohachi publishing house, also known as Nishiyo (西与), which operated in Nihonbashi's Bakurochō Nichōme under the shop name Eijudō. The firm's exact dates are unclear, but many art historians date its activity to between . According to Andreas Marks, Nishimuraya is "one of the most important publishers in the history of prints and may be the publisher with the biggest output over time," attributing his success to "engaging the best artists and providing a broad range of prints to satisfy the public's interest." One of the press' most significant products was Hokusai's famous ''Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji'', which appeared between and the first two volumes of his exquisite ''100 Views of Mount Fuji'' ehon in 1834 and 1835. Nishimuraya Yohachi also published prints by Eishi, Kuniyasu, Toyokuni I and Kuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiko Nishimura
is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He is best known for his comedic portrayals. Biography Nishimura was born on December 12, 1960, in Toyama, Toyama, Japan. While he attended Toyo University to study photography, he met Kōki Mitani, a script writer for radio and playwright who aspired to be an actor and who turned his attention to the theatre. In 1983, Nishimura, Mitani and others including the actors Zen Kajiwara and Kazuyuki Aijima formed the Tokyo Sunshine Boys, a comedy troupe that grew in popularity over the following ten years. They produced the popular play ''12 Gentle Japanese'', a parody of Reginald Rose's '' 12 Angry Men''. When ''12 Gentle Japanese'' was adapted to film, Nishimura did not form part of the cast. In the 1990s, the success of the Tokyo Sunshine Boys brought Nishimura parts in television dramas, notably a part in ''Furikaereba Yatsuga Iru'' and as the flamboyant Shintaro Imaizumi in Kōki Mitani's '' Furuhata Ninzaburo''. With the release of the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunsuke Kazama
is a Japanese actor and television personality. Career In 1997, when Kazama was in his second year of junior high school, he entered Johnny & Associates and started activities as a trainee. He made his debut on stage that same year in a Shonentai stage play. In 1999, he played Kenjiro Kanesue in '' Kinpachi-sensei''. His performance earned him the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix award for Best Newcomer. In 2002, Kazama was member of unit "FOURTOPS" with fellow trainees Tomohisa Yamashita, Toma Ikuta, and Jun Hasegawa. The quartet hosted Shounen Club, a Johnny's Jr. variety show. In September 2003, Yamashita was chosen to be a member of a new unit, News. FOURTOPS was dissolved with News' debut, and the remaining members would focus on acting. They reunited in 2018 for Fuji Television's Year-End show ''Johnny's Countdown'' as back dancers for duo Tackey & Tsubasa, just as they did in the group's original days, for the duo's final appearance on the show. In 2011, Kazama wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saki Takaoka
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for '' Crest of Betrayal''. Filmography Film * ''cf girl'' (''cfガール'', 1989) * '' Swimming Upstream'' ('' バタアシ金魚'', 1990), Sonoko * '' The River with No Bridge'' ('' 橋のない川'', 1992), Nanae Minemura * '' Crest of Betrayal'' ('' 忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談'', 1994), Oiwa * '' Kyoko'' (''KYOKO'', 1996), Kyoko * ''Happy People '' ('' HAPPY PEOPLE'', 1997) * '' Young Thugs: Nostalgia'' ('' 岸和田少年愚連隊 望郷'', 1998), Miss Itō * ''Tales of Terror'' ('' 怪談新耳袋「手袋」'', 2004) * ''Koi wa go-shichi-go!'' ('' 恋は五・七・五!全国高校生俳句甲子園大会'', 2004) * ''Nureta akai ito'' (''濡れた赫い糸'', 2005) * ''Female'' (''female フィーメイル'', 2005), Masako Kihara * ''Desire'' (''欲望'', 2005) * ''Nezu no ban'' ('' 寝ずの番'', 2006) * ''Kanashiki Tenshi'' ('' 悲しき天使'', 2006) * '' A Long Walk'' ('' 長 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Iijima
is a Japanese television and film actress and a former gravure idol who was born on February 29, 1968, in Kōhoku-ku, a ward of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Life and career Early career - ''Zero Woman'' Iijima began her entertainment career in 1988 on the late night Japanese TV show ''11 PM'', followed by a number of appearances in commercials and as a Race Queen. An early cinema role was the December 1990 straight-to-video V-cinema drama which also starred Risa Tachibana and Mari Ayukawa. The next year, she was featured in the comedy which was released to theaters by the Toei Company in December 1991. Over the next four years, Iijima starred in more than a dozen V-cinema productions as well as posing for gravure (non-nude) photobooks and performing in gravure videos. In January 1995, Iijima was cast as the lead in the action feature film , a revival of the Zero Woman character from Miki Sugimoto's 1974 film. Despite the title of this film, the Zero W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharaku
was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known. His active career as a woodblock artist spanned ten months; his prolific work met disapproval and his output came to an end as suddenly and mysteriously as it had begun. His work has come to be considered some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre. Sharaku made mostly ''yakusha-e'' portraits of kabuki actors. His compositions emphasize poses of dynamism and energy, and display a realism unusual for prints of the time—contemporaries such as Utamaro represented their subjects with an idealized beauty, while Sharaku did not shy from showing unflattering details. This was not to the tastes of the public, and the enigmatic artist's production ceased in the first month of 1795. His mastery of the medium with no apparent apprenticeship has drawn much speculation, and researchers have long tried to discover his true identity—among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokusai
, known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock print series ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' includes the iconic print ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa''. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ''ukiyo-e'' from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century. Hokusai created the monumental ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' as a response to a domestic travel boom in Japan and as part of a personal interest in Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically, ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa'' and ''Fine Wind, Clear Morning'', that secured his fame both in Japan and overseas. Hokusai was best known for his woodblock ukiyo-e p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utamaro
was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his ''Bijin-ga, bijin ōkubi-e'' "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects. Little is known of Utamaro's life. His work began to appear in the 1770s, and he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features. He produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime. In 1804 he was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later. Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionism, Impressionists, particularly with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsudaira Sadanobu
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the mid-Edo period, famous for his financial reforms which saved the Shirakawa Domain, and similar reforms he undertook during his tenure as chief of the Tokugawa shogunate, from 1787 to 1793. Early life Matsudaira Sadanobu was the seventh son of Tokugawa Munetake, of the Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa clan. The Tayasu was one of the '' gosankyō'', the senior-most of the lesser cadet branches of the Shōgun's family, and was thus the grandson of the reform-minded eighth shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune. The Tayasu house stood apart from the other cadet branches resident in Edo Castle, living a more austere lifestyle, following the example set by Yoshimune—in Munetake's words, the praise of manly spirit (''masuraoburi'') as opposed to feminine spirit (''taoyameburi''). It also set itself apart from the other branches due to its history of thwarted political ambition—the founder, Munetake, had hoped to become his father's heir but was passed over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanuma Okitsugu
(September 11, 1719 – August 25, 1788) was a chamberlain (''sobashū'') and a senior counselor ('' rōjū'') to the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ieharu of the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the Edo period of Japan. Tanuma and his son exercised tremendous power, especially in the last 14 years of shogun Ieharu's reign.Hane, M. (2018). ''Premodern Japan: A historical survey''. Routledge. He is known for the economic reforms of the Tenmei era and rampant corruption. He was also a ''daimyō'' of the Sagara Domain. Tanuma used the title Tonomo-no-kami. Tanuma's reforms aimed to rectify the systemic problems in Japan's economy, particularly the trade imbalance between the provinces (''han'') and the shogunal areas (''tenryō'') of Japan. The previous shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, sought to rectify the shogunate's economic problems by frugality and a focus on agriculture. Instead, Tanuma debased currency, sold monopoly rights to dealers, and taxed merchant guilds. To stem unfavorable balanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
