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Yuzo Kawashima
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his lively comedies. Career Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Shimokita District, Aomori Prefecture. After graduating from Meiji University's Department of Literature, he entered the Shōchiku studios and served as an assistant director under Minoru Shibuya, Yasujirō Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu and others. In 1944, he directed his first film, ''The Man Who Has Returned''. After the war, Kawashima made many comedies at Shōchiku, but it was not before his move to Nikkatsu in 1955 that his work received critical acclaim. At Nikkatsu, he directed such notable works as ''Burden of Love'' (1955), '' Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District'' (1956, Kawashima's own personal favourite of his films), and ''Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate'' (1957). In his remaining years, Kawashima worked at multiple studios—Daiei, Tokyo Eiga, and Toho—continuing to create satirical works like ''Temptation on Glamour Island'' (1959),'' Room for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutsu, Aomori
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 53,804 in 28,553 households, and a population density of 62 persons per km2. The total area of the city is , making it the largest municipality in Aomori Prefecture in terms of area. Geography Mutsu occupies most of Shimokita Peninsula and is bordered by Mutsu Bay to the south and Tsugaru Strait to the north, and is the northernmost city on the island of Honshū. The volcanic Mount Osore, Osorezan Mountain Range extends across the western and central portion of the city, and includes a number of caldera lakes. Mount Hiuchidake, 781 meters above sea level, is on the north side, and Mount Osore is on the south side. At the center of Mount Osore is a caldera with a diameter of about 3 kilometers, inside which is a caldera lake called Lake Usori. Mount Kamabu (elevation 879 m) is located southeast of the caldera's outer rim, and is the highest point of Mount Osore. The Tanabe Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho
is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Toho is best known for producing and distributing many of Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya's ''kaiju'' and ''tokusatsu'' films as well as the films of Akira Kurosawa and the anime of Studio Ghibli, Shin-Ei Animation, TMS Entertainment, CoMix Wave Films, and OLM, Inc. The company has released the majority of the highest-grossing Japanese films, and through its subsidiaries, is the largest film importer in Japan. The Doraemon film series, distributed by Toho since 1980, is the highest-grossing film series and anime film series in Japan. It is also one of the highest-grossing non-English language film series. Toho Company Limited logo with full name in native language Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, featured in 33 of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Film Directors
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1963 Deaths
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1918 Births
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Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily Shoshimin-eiga, shōshimin-eiga ("common people drama") films with female protagonists, portrayed by actresses such as Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Setsuko Hara. Because of his focus on family drama and the intersection of traditional and modern Japanese culture, his films have been compared with the works of Yasujirō Ozu. Many of his films in his later career were adaptations of the works of acknowledged Japanese writers. Titled a "major figure of Japan's golden age" and "supremely intelligent dramatist", he remains lesser known than his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Ozu. Among his most noted films are ''Sound of the Mountain'', ''Late Chrysanthemums'', ''Floating Clouds'', ''Flowing (1956 film), Flowing'' and ''When A Woman Ascends The Stairs''. Biography Early years Mikio N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Light
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The Balloon (1956 Film)
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Yūzō Kawashima. It was adapted by Kawashima and Shōhei Imamura from a novel by Jirō Osaragi. Plot In post-war Japan, a middle aged family man connects with a woman from his past. He has two children, an arrogant son who is torn between his mistress and a new lover, and a disabled daughter who gets mixed up in the affair. Cast * Masayuki Mori as Haruki Murakami * Tatsuya Mihashi as Keikichi Murakami * Mie Kitahara as Mikiko Mikihara * Izumi Ashikawa as Tamako Murakami * Michiyo Aratama as Kumiko Yamana * Shirō Amakusa as Yamaguchi * Sachiko Hidari as Ruiko Home media In 2018, celebrating director Kawashima's 100th birthday, the Nikkatsu studio and VOD platform MUBI Mubi (; stylized as MUBI; the Auteurs before 2010) is a global streaming platform, production company and film distributor. MUBI produces and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusively available ... collaborated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Ginza
is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Yūzō Kawashima. Cast * Tōru Abe as Gō Momoyama * Shinsuke Ashida as Gorō Mitsuboshi * Seizaburō Kawazu as Katsumi Kyōgoku * Mie Kitahara as Yukino Nakamachi * Tatsuya Mihashi as Kan Mimurodo * Hisaya Morishige was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Ma ... as Narrator References External links * Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Yuzo Kawashima Nikkatsu films Japanese drama films 1955 drama films 1950s Japanese films Films based on Japanese novels {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ojōsan Shachō
is a 1953 Japanese musical film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and starring Hibari Misora. Cast * Hibari Misora as Madoka Ohara * Ichirō Arishima as Tetsutaro Kaitani * Keiji Sada as Goro Akiyama * Yumeji Tsukioka as Yumiko Kaitani * Takeshi Sakamoto as Ippachi Sakurakawa * Mutsuko Sakura was a Japanese actress. Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half of the 20th century. Selected filmograp ... as Osugi Morikawa * Takiko Egawa as musical actress * Kodayu Ichikawa as Juzaburo Ohara * Kokinji Katsura as Sanpachi Sakurakawa * Shōichi Kofujita as Mr. O * Yōko Kosono as Kikuko Morikawa * Tatsuo Nagai as Mito * Shinyo Nara as a tutor Sugiura * Shirō Osaka as Keigo Namiki * Ichirō Shimizu as Senzo Akakura * Akira Takaya as Gamaroku * Norikazu Takeda as Matsuzo Morikawa * Jun Tatara as Yasuda References External links * Japanese b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinema Junpō
, 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. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōhei Imamura
was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards. Biography Early life Imamura was born to an upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo in 1926. For a short time following the end of the war, Imamura participated in the black market selling cigarettes and liquor. He studied Western history at Waseda University, but spent more time participating in theatrical and political activities. He cited a viewing of Akira Kurosawa's ''Rashomon'' in 1950 as an early inspiration, and said he saw it as an indication of the new freedom of expression possible in Japan in the post-war era. Upon graduation from Waseda in 1951, Imamura began his film career working as an assistant to Yasujirō Ozu at Shochiku Studios on films like '' Early Summer'' and ''Tokyo Story'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
