The film was released in Japan on April 26, Stephen Chow, director and star in Shaolin Soccer, was the producer, but is not credited as writer or director. Meanwhile, the president of Seikan University, Yuichiro Oba, seems to be following a sinister objective. She was the daughter and only child of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. The Ii family had no male heir, so Natora's uncle Ii Naomitsu tried to betrothe Ii Naochika his son to her so that he could inherit the clan.
However, Naomitsu planned to rebel against Imagawa. Unidentified Imagawa clan retainers carried a report of the plans to Imagawa, who ordered Naomitsu and his son Naochika to commit seppuku. Naomitsu died, but Naochika, who was very young, He was protected by a buddhist priest named Nankei.
Naochika managed to flee to Shinano. He returned to Iinoya about ten years later, but he had already married another woman while in exile. Naotora became a priest, and was named Jiro Houshi by Nankei. Naochika momentarily ruled the clan but, like his father, he p Scarecrow , is a horror film based on the manga of the same name. The film follows Kaoru Yoshikawa, whose search for her missing brother Tsuyoshi leads her to Kozukata, an isolated village that seems to harbor dark secrets.
Plot The opening text narrates the tradition of "Kakashi", where humans would burn animal and human hairs to prevent evil spirits from entering Earth. They eventually began to burn human effigies made of straws as it also attract the spirits of the dead so they can interact with them. Little did they know that it may bring consequences far greater than they thought. Opening in medias res, lead protagonist, Kaoru Yoshikawa Maho Nonami is shown screaming in front of flames, asking why it had to be done to her.
In the beginning, Kaoru is a young woman who has close relationship with her brother, Tsuyoshi; their parents had been dead a long time ago. Unable to contact him for a week, she goes to his apartment and finds an envelope near his telephone.
Mirai Nikki is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. The plot surrounds a battle royale in which each combatant has a diary with entries from the future. The manga has been licensed by Tokyopop, and ten of the English volumes were released, with a release for the last two now uncertain due to Tokyopop ceasing publishing in North America.
A "pilot anime" DVD was released with the 11th manga volume in December A episode anime television series produced by Asread, aired in Japan between October and April Funimation has licensed the anime for distribution in North America. An episode live-action television drama aired between April and June Esuno has also authored three side-story manga, each one spanning five chapters: Mosaic which focuses on another Di The story revolves around an up-and-coming pilot, Hajime Shinkai, and portrays his interactions with others as he progresses along the road to becoming a captain.
As is common in many Japanese drama series, it blends drama and romance with comedic elements. This drama also emphasizes hardship of being a pilot or a cabin crew, and the serious nature of the industry they're in, which puts thousands of lives in its hands. A young, inexperienced pilot who earns notoriety In , at the age of 13, she began her Nicola modelling career and was very well received as a Nicola model, having set a record for appearing on cover for 15 times.
A fellow Nicola model Ayako Enomoto gave her the popular nickname "Gakky.
In , she decided to put her Nicola career on hold and expand her career path into gravure and acting, and she also appeared in variety shows and commercials, with her Pocky commercials being the most popular. A year later, she offic The film received generally negative reviews from critics but some reviewers bestowed praise for the action scenes and visuals.
Variety magazine listed 47 Ronin as one of "Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of ". Life and career She was born in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. Kuriyama was a popular model during Japan's child model boom in the mids. She also posed as a model for the child fashion magazines Nicola — and Pichi Lemon — She first achieved widespread recognition as an actress in Japan for her starring roles in the horror films Shikoku and Ju-on Chiaki also appeared in the action film Battle Royale In Our Little Sister she stars as a football playing teenager who gets adopted into the Kamakura home of her elder half-sisters after the death of their alienated father.
The Kouda sisters first meet her at the funeral in the town where he settled for his second marriage. Hirose and Kore-eda collaborated again for The Third Murder.
In March Hi Biography Kiki was born in the Kanda area of Tokyo as the daughter of a master of the biwa lute. The Colourful Records imprint was created on June 1, to specialize in the production and promotion of pop music acts. Retrieved February 28, Rockin'On Japan in Japanese. He is under the Japanese talent Agency Stardust Promotion. He lives with his father, mother and older brother. As a child, Kento was an agile kid and loved eating.
Even though his body was thin, he admitted that he was a big eater. Kento also revealed several times in public that he really loved playing soccer and has been played soccer since at 2nd grade until 3rd year in middle school, he even joined a club team and would go to the different school yards to practice. He claimed in interviews that as a child he dreamed of being a soccer player, and that if he had not become an actor he would have become a professional soccer player or coach of the national team.
Yamashita is represented with Stardust Promotion. Biography Yamashita decided to pursue a career as an actress when she watched Ko Shibasaki in the television drama Orange Days when she was in elementary school. She later auditioned for Stardust Promotion, which Shibasaki is affiliated with, in Later in April Yamashita became an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Hanachu. Dai 3 Series in June. Her first leading role in a film was Someday's Dreamers later in December.
In July , Yamashita played Arisa Morishige in the drama Limit whose character is bullied and runs away in extreme condi Career Film Nagasawa entered the film industry in by winning the 5th "Toho Cinderella" competition, in which she competed with thousands of other 6th graders to appear in a Toho film.
She also starred in the comedy series Yasuko to Kenji. She studied in Waseda University but did not graduate. In her modeling work, she is known by the mononym Anne. On November 7, One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo.
Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan. Dororo is a Japanese action film based on the s manga series by Osamu Tezuka. It was filmed in New Zealand.
It is unclear if s he truly identifies as male, as in the manga, or feels pressured into fulfilling the role due to previous life experiences. In spite of others seeing through his brash and often violent exterior, Dororo rarely concedes to his true emotions and refuses to be a "proper" woman. Hyakkimaru and Dororo are significantly older than their manga incarnations, as well. When her father was killed by Daigo when he attempted to call the warlord out, a girl and her mother escaped into the wilderness.
At her mother's dying req In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She has a younger sister. Fukada debuted in with her first appearance in the television drama Sore ga Kotae da! Fukada appeared in her first movie Ring 2 as Kanae Sawaguchi in and in later in School Day of the Dead, released in That same year, she graduated from Horikoshi High School. In , she made an appearance in Dolls as Haruna.
Fukada is also a J-pop singer and her debut single "The Last Fruit" led to her album Dear, both released in Her agency is HoriPro. It is one of the eight central wards of the Tokyo Metropolitan area.
Located in the northern area of Tokyo, Toshima is bordered by the wards of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita in the north, and Nakano, Shinjuku and Bunkyo in the south. The ward was founded on March 15, , and reached a peak resident population of , in During the day the population swells with commuters, resulting in a daytime population of around , The total land area of Toshima is Although Toshima is a ward, it is referred to as a city. The ward offices are located in Ikebukuro, which She was sampled from Ko Shibasaki of the Japanese band galaxias!.
Development A doll was produced by BLYTHE and custom made by galaxxxy for use by the band on albums prior to her unveiling as part of a promotion. She was worked on by Stardust Music, Inc. A total of people had won her vocal by 30 July and the vocal was released as a download only on August 5, The download expired on It is called "lego" for short. The band is managed by Oorong-sha and signed to A-Sketch. They started the band in Osaka in , and had a tour a year later. After that, their song "Ray" was adopted as a featured song on the drama, Akai ito.
The song peaked at number 41 on the Oricon singles chart[2] and in the following year they made their major debut. Their album Quartette Parade reached number 28 on the Oricon album chart in History After Asakawa's band split up in March, he asked Kanata to form a band with him.
Tanaka, who was in the same band as Kanata, joined the new band, followed by Yamamoto, who was a friend of Kanata from high school. They started performing mainly in Osaka. She subsequently made her model debut in the November issue of Seventeen, which became her first job in the entertainment industry. In February , she became a model exclusive to the magazine, and earned her first solo cover on the 15 February issue.
Starting in September , she became the image character for "Beamie", an SNS website used by approximately 5, celebrities. In January , she had She has gone on to star in many TV shows, movies, and commercials. All of these shows portray her as playful and witty, and her smile never fails to melt the hearts of other characters.
All of these have thought-prov Her father is Hakka Taiwanese, and her mother is Japanese. Her father moved to Japan for business and later founded the Hakka Association in Japan. Career Yurina Hirate was born on June 25, She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and released her first single on 2 November Her final release as a J-pop artist was on 1 March She was a member of the short-lived idol groups Nanatsuboshi and Rakutenshi.
She is the younger sister of actress Miho Nakayama. Best known for her role of Mayumi Nagamine in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris , Shinobu Nakayama like her older sister, Miho Nakayama, started out her career as a musician. However, she never quite attained the same popularity of her older sister as a solo artist, but became successful when she joined a music group called Rakutenshi. In the early s Shinobu Nakayama started a career in acting, again following in the footsteps of her older sister. Station layout This station consists of two ground-level opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected to the station building by an underground passage.
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Taiga drama Revolvy Brain revolvybrain. Member feedback about Go film: Finnish Government The Finnish Government comprises 12 ministries, each responsible for the preparation of matters and the functioning of administration within its own sector. Finnish and Czech Prime Ministers discussed digitalisation, new technologies and family policy Roadmap for strengthening bilateral relations between Finland and Cyprus The leaders also decided to further strengthen their bilateral relations and agreed about a roadmap for closer cooperation in different sectors. After that, the Prime Minister will have met more than half of his European colleagues.
Action to combat climate change and developing the Single Market as a means to ensure growth and job creation in Europe were among the key issues at the European Council in Brussels on 14 December. The focus areas of the Trio Programme prepared by Romania, Finland and Croatia, the next three states to hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, include common EU values, sustainable growth and strengthening external capabilities, safety and security.
Finland is in a good position to grow into a bigger climate actor than its size would suggest Finland opens a service to help citizens combat climate change Using the service, anyone who wishes can draw up a personal plan and commit to reducing their carbon footprint by half. At the background of the unique new service is the online Sitra Lifestyle Test, which has already been completed more than half a million times. Security policy questions now more important to EU citizens Questions concerning security policy have become more important to EU citizens, according to a study published by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs today.
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