1213 results found for: Nihon Senshuken Series
Japan Sinks: People of Hope
Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes7.8
In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Higashiyama Eiichi pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Higashiyama…
The Life Heritage
Japanese Drama - 2005, 5 episodes8.9
An elementary school student who can't accept that he is alive. A mysterious woman with the "power of life", a boy with a jagged heart. A story of human adolescence, that everyone looks back on, once or twice. The…
Night and Fog in Japan
Japanese Movie - 19607.0
The wedding of two former student activists is interrupted by an uninvited guest, also a former activist. The film explores the rise and fall of student activism in 1950's Japan following the Japan-US Security Treaty…
Dark Tales of Japan: Special Edition
Japanese Movie - 20056.4
It comprises five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in a kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long, isolated mountain road. >>…
Nuclear Japan: The Nightmare Continues
Japanese Movie - 2015
A complete picture of Japan's nuclear problem is drawn in this documentary. Based on interviews with concerned parties and experts as well as documents and information gathered on-site, the film seeks out the truths…
Japan's Longest Day
Japanese Movie - 19677.3
Depicting the time period from August 14, 1945 at noon until August 15. It depicted the Emperor and the cabinet as they decide to surrender and the subsequent radio broadcast announcing the decision to the Japanese…
Japan’s Longest Summer
Japanese Movie - 20103.3
The year is 1963. Twenty-eight former military and government officials meet at a restaurant in Ginza to lament over Japan’s decision to surrender in World War II.
Japan's Tragedy
Japanese Movie - 20135.9
A retired widower, Murai Fujio, who after being diagnosed with lung cancer, refuses treatment and shuts himself in his room with his wife’s altar. Meanwhile, his unemployed son is suffering with depression after…
Renewable Japan: The Search for a New Energy Paradigm
Japanese Movie - 2017
The lawyer and director Kawai Hiroyuki present how pioneering individuals, communities, and companies are meeting their energy needs in Japan and around the world. Together with Iida Tetsunari, the director shows the…
Ley Lines
Japanese Movie - 19997.3
A group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in life and eventually find trouble with the local crime syndicate.
Aoe Shunjiro
Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…
Higashi Yoichi
Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…
Ko Hideo
Ko Hideo, born Yoshida Hideo (吉田英男) in Tomari, Sakhalin, Russia, was a Japanese singer and actor. The youngest of eight siblings, he was adopted by his maternal aunt's family shortly after birth. Both his biological and adoptive families were involved in the paper industry and had connections…
Horikoshi Kenzo
Horikoshi Kenzo is a Japanese film producer. He is the representative of the film production and distribution company Eurospace and also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the Anime and Manga Faculty of Kaishi Professional…
Ota Tadashi
Ota Tadashi was a Japanese composer and pianist born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He became acquainted with the organ at the age of 8 and began studying piano and composition at the age of 15. After graduating from commercial school in 1919, he composed numerous songs and children's…
Naraoka Tomoko
Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…
Kamei Fumio
Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…
Iwato Shisetsu
He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…
