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is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Tsuruta Norio. ''Yogen'' is based on the manga ''Kyoufu Shinbun'' ("Newspaper of Terror") by Jirō Tsunoda, serialized in ''Shōnen Champion'' in 1973. The film is about a man who discovers a newspaper that predicts the future. The film was released as a double feature with ''Infection (2004 film), Infection'' as part of Takashige Ichise's J-Horror Theater. The film received mixed reviews from ''The Japan Times'' and ''Video Watchdog''. Plot High-school teacher Hideki Satomi (Hiroshi Mikami), his wife Ayaka (Noriko Sakai) who works as a psychology teacher, and their five-year-old daughter Nana (Hana Inoue) are driving home to Tokyo after a vacation. While on a country road, Hideki stops to upload a file in a phone booth. Inside, he sees a newspaper scrap showing his daughter being involved in a car crash, dated just a minute later at 8:00 PM. As Ayaka steps outside to get Hideki's help on Nana's jammed seatbelt, a truck smashes throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norio Tsuruta
is a Japanese film director. He directed ''Premonition (2004 film), Premonition'', ''Dream Cruise'', and ''Orochi: Blood''. Career Tsuruta directed ''Dream Cruise'' for the ''Masters of Horror'' Showtime (TV network), Showtime cable network series. It is based on the short story of the same name by Koji Suzuki (writer), Koji Suzuki. He also directed ''Orochi: Blood'', which is based on the manga by Kazuo Umezu. Filmography Film * ''Toneriko'' (1985) * ''Scary True Stories: Ten Haunting Tales from the Japanese Underground'' (1991) * ''Scary True Stories: Night 2'' (1992) * ''Scary True Stories: Realm of Spectres '' (1992) * ''Gotoshi Kabusikigaisha'' (1993) * ''Gotoshi Kabusikigaisha 2'' (1994) * ''Ring 0: Birthday'' (2000) * ''Kakashi (film), Kakashi'' (2001) * ''Premonition (2004 film), Premonition'' (2004) * ''Orochi: Blood'' (2008) * ''Ōsama Game'' (2011) * ''POV: Norowareta Film'' (2012) * ''Talk to the Dead'' (2013) * ''Z ~Zed~'' (2014) Television * ''Sky High (TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-Horror Theater
J-Horror Theater ( Jホラーシアター, ''J horā shiatā)'' (2004–2010) is an anthology of 6 Japanese horror films produced by Takashige Ichise ( 一瀬 隆重, ''ichise takashige''). Spurred by the overwhelming success of '' Ringu リング'' (1998), six filmmakers – Masayuki Ochiai 落合正幸, Norio Tsuruta 鶴田 法男, Takashi Shimizu 清水 崇, Kiyoshi Kurosawa 黒沢 清, Hideo Nakata 中田 秀夫, Hiroshi Takahashi 高橋 洋 – were requested to create a horror film to be released under Ichise's J-Horror Theater anthology. Films Infection (2004) Infection (感染, ''kansen''), Dir. Masayuki Ochiai (落合正幸, ''ochiai masayuki'') Original Japanese release date: 2 October 2004. Officially released in theaters as a double feature with Premonition and on DVD as part of the J-Horror Theater series. Premonition (2004) Premonition (予言, ''yogen'') Dir. Norio Tsuruta (鶴田 法男, ''tsuruta norio'') Original Japanese release date: 2 Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter)
Hiroshi Takahashi may refer to: *, Japanese architect *, Japanese manga artist * Hiroshi Takahashi (baseball) (born 1946), Japanese baseball player (See 1964 in baseball#March, 1964 in baseball) * Hiroshi Takahashi (botanist) (born 1960), (See Tricyrtis chinensis) * Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter) (See J-Horror Theater) *, Japanese table tennis player * Hiroshi Takahashi, chief of staff in the Japanese Korean Army {{hndis, Takahashi, Hiroshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Nakata
is a Japanese filmmaker. Life and career Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as ''Ring'' (1998), ''Ring 2'' (1999) and '' Dark Water'' (2002). Several of these were remade in English as '' The Ring'' (2002), '' Dark Water'' (2005), and ''The Ring Two''. Nakata was scheduled to make his English-language debut with ''True Believers'', but later pulled out. He was later offered by DreamWorks to direct the movie ''The Ring Two'' (2005), which he accepted, making his English-language debut with a sequel to a remake of his own film. Nakata made his initial breakthrough into film with '' Ghost Actress'' a.k.a. ''Don't Look Up'' (1996). Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of ''Ring''. Other Nakata films include '' Sleeping Bride'' (2000); '' Curse, Death & Spirit''; and '' Chaos'' (2000). He directed the psychological thriller The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor, and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (2005-2023). Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' inner turmoils and quests for meaning and connections, he is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, notably his acclaimed 1997 film '' Cure'', although he has also worked in a variety of other genres. While most of his work has been in Japanese, two of his films, '' Daguerrotype'' (2016) and '' Serpent's Path'' (2024; a remake of his own 1998 film of the same name), were in French. Early life and education Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started making films about his life in high school. He studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films. He is not related to director Akira Kurosawa. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Shimizu
Takashi Shimizu (清水 崇 ''Shimizu Takashi'', born 27 July 1972) is a Japanese people, Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for being the creator of the Ju-On, ''Ju-On'' franchise, and directing four of its films, internationally, in both Japan and the U.S. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Shimizu is "one of a new breed of Japanese horror directors" who prefers to "suggest menace and violence rather than directly depict it". Early life Shimizu was born on 27 July 1972, in Maebashi, Tokyo. He attended Wakamiya Elementary School and Maebashi City Fourth Junior High School before graduating from Gunma Prefectural Chuo High School. He initially enrolled in Kindai University but dropped out. He then enrolled in Nihon University where he met future collaborator and film producer Takashige Ichise. Together they went on to develop ''Ju-On''. Career After graduating, he was given the opportunity to direct a short film for Kansai TV's horror omnibus "Gakkou no Kaidan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Ochiai (film Director)
is a Japanese film director. His films include ''Infection (2004 film), Kansen'' and ''Saimin (film), Saimin''. Biography Masayuki Ochiai was born in 1958. Ochiai grew up in the Western Tokyo suburb of Setagaya, where the studios for Toho, Nikkatsu and Daiei Film were located. He recalled watching fantasy televisions shows, including American shows such as ''The Twilight Zone'' and ''The Outer Limits (1963 TV series), The Outer Limits'' as well as Japanese shows such as ''Ultra Q''. Ochiai stated that the shows influenced in "not so much in style, but in how they got me excited. Today, when making films or TV movies, I work hard ont create that same kind of excitement, hoping todays' audience can experience the joy I felt when i was young." Ochiai's main influence to become a director was Charlie Chaplin after seeing ''City Lights'' and ''The Kid (1921 film), The Kid'' while in junior high school. He went to the Nihon University College of Art, and believed that at that time that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayumi Ono (actress)
is a Japanese actress, entertainer, gravure idol, and singer represented by Sun Music Production. She graduated from Jumonji Junior College. Filmography Dramas Variety series Radio series Films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ono, Mayumi 1981 births Living people People from Nagareyama Actresses from Chiba Prefecture Japanese women television personalities Japanese gravure idols Japanese women pop singers 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese women singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Yamamoto
(born July 1, 1940 – March 31, 2022) was a Japanese actor. Filmography Film Television References External links * * 1940 births 2022 deaths Japanese male actors People from Ibaraki, Osaka {{Japan-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maki Horikita
is a Japanese former actress. During her career from 2003 until 2017, she starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies, including roles in '' Nobuta wo Produce'', ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' and '' Doctor Ume''. Biography Horikita was born on October 6, 1988, in Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan. She is the eldest of three daughters. Considered a tomboy in her childhood, Horikita enjoyed playing basketball and baseball. She was the vice-captain of their basketball club in junior high. Despite her boyishness, Horikita looked up to her mother. This was revealed when she appeared in an episode of KAT-TUN's now-defunct variety show ''Cartoon KAT-TUN'' where she mentioned that she liked imitating her mother when she was younger. Career Print & TV endorsement Apart from modeling for photobooks, Horikita has appeared in magazines and television advertisements. She is best remembered for her television commercials for Fujifilm (where she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
(born 9 August 1935) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and essayist. Biography Early life Kazuko was born in Tokyo as a first daughter of Eisuke Yoshiyuki, a writer, and Aguri. She has an older brother, Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, a novelist, and a sister, Rie Yoshiyuki, a poet. A lifelong sufferer of asthma since she was two years old, she was frequently taken as a child to Okayama, where her grandparents lived, for a change of air. She graduated from Joshigakuen Girls High school in Tokyo in 1954. Career She started her career as an actress with theatre troupe Gekidan Mingei in 1955, appearing in the role of Sophie in Junji Kinoshita's '' A Japanese Called Otto'' in 1966. Her major breakthrough on the stage came when she played Anne Frank in ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' in 1977. She made her debut on the screen in 1955 and has appeared in more than 60 films since then. She won Best Supporting Actress award in 1959 Mainichi Film Award, then won Best Actress in 1978 Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
