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Youki Kudoh
is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Crazy Family (1984 film), The Crazy Family''. She also won the awards for best actress at the 16th Hochi Film Award and at the 1992 Blue Ribbon Award for ''War and Youth''. Additionally, Kudoh has been nominated three times for Best Actress, in the 5th Independent Spirit Awards, 5th independent Spirit Award for Mystery Train (film), ''Mystery Train'', in the 15th Japan Academy Prize (film award), Japanese Academy Prize for ''War and Youth'', and in the 4th Golden Satellite Awards, 4th Golden Satellite Award for ''Snow Falling on Cedars (film), Snow Falling on Cedars''. Filmography Films Television Stage productions * ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' (as Kiki, 1993) References External links Youki Kudoh's homepage * 1971 births 21st-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers Actresses from Tokyo Japanese fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachiōji
is a Cities of Japan, city located in the Western Tokyo, western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 561,344, and a population density of 3,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . It is the most populous city in Tokyo outside of the special wards of Tokyo, special wards. In 2015, it was designated as a core city for the first time in Tokyo. It was the second first city in Tokyo Prefecture (present-day Tokyo) to implement the municipal system after Tokyo City (present-day Tokyo's 23 wards). Geography Hachiōji is located in the foothills of the Okutama Mountains of western Tokyo, about 40 kilometers west of the center of the 23 special wards of Tokyo. The city is surrounded on three sides by mountains, forming the Hachioji Basin which opens up toward the east in the direction of Tokyo. The mountain ranges in the southwest include Mount Takao (599 m) and Mount Jinba (857 m), two popular hiking destinations which can be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind Carpet
''The Wind Carpet'' or Kaze no jûtan () is a 2003 Iranian drama film directed by Kamal Tabrizi. Plot A Japanese female designer wants a carpet made that she plans to show at the Nakayama Carnival. She asks weavers in Isfahan to weave the carpet, but her death leaves the work unfinished. Her husband and daughter go to Iran to finish the incomplete work and become the guests of a family in Isfahan. Cast * Reza Kianian * Rentarō Mikuni * Youki Kudoh * Hushang Harirchiyan * Shirin Bina * Miyu Yagyu is a Japanese actress, ''tarento'', and fashion model who has appeared in a number of feature films and television series. She is represented with Hirata Office. She is nicknamed . Filmography TV series Films Short films, unreleased films B ... * Maryam Boubani * Fereydoon Heydari * Mohammadreza Khorshidi * Reza Nabavi * Takaaki Enoki * Yuri Masuda * Farboud Ahmadjoo * Fariba Kamran * Hossein Ghgiabi * Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh * Mehdi Tarokh References The Wind Carpeton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karakara (film)
''Karakara'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2012. The film stars Gabriel Arcand as Pierre, a professor from Quebec who is on sabbatical in Okinawa to reevaluate his life after the death of his friend, and is drawn into a love affair with Junko (Youki Kudoh), a local woman fleeing an abusive husband who offers to be his tour guide.Brendan Kelly, "An unusual love story, by an unusual director". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 31, 2012. The film's screenplay was partially inspired by Gagnon's own trip to Japan following the death of one of his closest friends. The film was shot in 2011, and premiered at the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival. Critical response Writing for ''Variety'', Ronnie Scheib noted that the film reversed "the usual Westerner-in-the-Orient stereotype, where the ambitious hero learns to slow down and smell the roses. Here he’s dragged, kicking and screaming, out of the rose garden and into the world at large." For the ''Montre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last
The Last may refer to: *The Last (band), Los Angeles power pop band active since 1976 * ''The Last'' (audio drama), a ''Doctor Who'' audio drama released in 2004 * ''The Last'' (album), 2009 album by Aventura *"The Last", a song by The Replacements from the 1990 album All Shook Down *'' The Last: Naruto the Movie'', 2014 Japanese animated film from the ''Naruto'' franchise * ''The Last'' (film), 2019 movie See also *Last (other) *The Last One (other) The Last One may refer to: Television * "The Last One", an episode of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' * " Last Last One Forever and Ever", an episode of ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' * "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We ... Mean It)", ... * The Last Man (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Last, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Limits Of Control
''The Limits of Control'' is a 2009 American film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Isaach de Bankolé as a solitary assassin, carrying out a job in Spain. Filming began in February 2008, and took place on location in Madrid, Seville and Almería, Spain. The film was distributed by Focus Features. It received mixed reviews, and has a 42% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, having been criticized for its slow pace and inaccessible dialogue while praising its beautiful cinematography and ambitious scope. Plot In an airport, Lone Man is being instructed on his mission by Creole. The mission itself is left unstated and the instructions are cryptic, including such phrases as "Everything is subjective," "The universe has no center and no edges; reality is arbitrary," and "Use your imagination and your skills." After the meeting at the airport, he travels to Madrid and then on to Seville, meeting several people in cafés and on trains along the way. Each mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change The World
"Change the World" is a song written by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy, and Wayne Kirkpatrick and recorded by country music artist Wynonna Judd. A later version was recorded by English singer Eric Clapton for the soundtrack of the 1996 film ''Phenomenon''. Clapton's version was produced by R&B record producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. The Clapton release was recorded for Reprise and Warner Bros. Records. While reaching the top 40 in twenty countries, it topped the charts in Canada as well. The Clapton version also registered as ''Billboard'' magazine's Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts in the United States. The single won eight awards, including three Grammy Awards at the 39th annual ceremony in 1997. Background and recording In an interview with ''American Songwriter'', Gordon Kennedy retold the recording history of the song: Although some of the recordings took place in London, most of the song's recording was conducted in Record Plant studios in Los Angeles wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
