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Takeshi Kitano Biography
Takeshi Kitano's Biography is going to be published in France. Well, I sometimes talked about him here. So somewhat I think it's already enough about him here. Recently I saw his TV show, and I thought he really got old. When he was a comedy boy rather than a movie director, his talks on stage was like the thunder storm. That was really [...]
AVATAR outsells TITANIC
In Japan, TITANIC has long had a record of biggest theater sales among foreign movies. Including domestic movies, the top3 biggest selling and highest grossing movies are all Hayao Miyazaki animation films, Spirited away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke. But the foreign movie's sales record seems to be replaced by AVATAR [...]
Movie of YUKIE NAKAMA, GOKUSEN
YUKIE NAKAMA is one of the most beloved actress of Japan now. She came out through TV program, Gokusen. Gokusen is a totally comical drama of a school with YAKUZA born teacher, Gokusen. YUKIE NAKAMA acted GOKUSEN here and this program became huge hit at the time with more than 30% rating at highest. This movie was already sold out at the [...]
Director TAKESHI KITANO at Meiji University Tokyo
Takeshi Kitano is one of the top movie directors in Japan. He seems to have come back to his school,Meiji University, yesterday and made a long speech about his recent workds and his history. Takeshi Kitano dropped out Meiji University before graduation. But he got honored graduate degree about 10 years ago from Meiji University, it's because [...]
YUKO TAKEUCHI plays on Flash Forward
Flash Forward is a recent American TV series, which started on September 24th 2009. The starting impression was really great enough to get more than 100 countries of licenced boadcasting from the 2nd week. Today's news says that YUKO TAKEUCHI, a Japanese actress, played a part in the program aired on November 5th. It's strange for us because [...]
HISAYA MORISHIGE died of senility
It's a sad news. Hisaya Morishige died of senility today at 96 years old. He was a Japanese actor representing the time of after the war, or the time of good old days of Japan. Morishige was not a active type star, but his attitude to dramas was always a textbook of Japanese as a good part of Japanese humanity. He talked qiet with [...]
Kyoka Suzuki starts new movie, Sideways
Kyoka Suzuki is a sophisticated woman and she has a real beauty inside. It's a kind of pride talk but please read with your mind of forgiveness on me, I once worked with Kyoka Suzuki when she was still a commercial model in north Japan area before she becomes famous as an actress. She is now 41 years old, when I met her for the first [...]
Takeshi Kitano or Beat Takeshi ?
When we see Takeshi Kitano's interviews like this video, we often have strange feeling about it. Maybe it's because we think Takeshi Kitano to be a comedian rather than a film director. There are many fans of KITANO films in Japan. They know both comedian side and director side of Takeshi Kitano. For me or people on the same age group [...]
Yoko Minamida died today
// As we were worried yesterday, a Japanese actress who made an new era after the war, Yoko Minamida died today. It's a sad news. Also it's too sad when we see how her husband Hiroyuki Nagato cries after her. Photo is the picture of Yoko Minamida and Hiroyuki Nagato. They met in the movie and they kept the best pertnership wherever [...]
Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki & Joe Hisaishi
// Well, this ultimate beauty needs no explanation. Its beyond words. Again this music is composed by Joe Hisaishi for the amazingly great movie, Princess Mononoke directed by master director, Hayao Miyazaki. I have no word for this movie. It's just a Japanese culture and it's a complete form of talent realized by the collaboration of [...]
