Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan.
Karyn Kiyoko Kusama is an American film and television director. She made her feature film debut with the 2000 film Girlfight, which she wrote and directed, for which she won the Award of the Youth at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. She went on to direct the 2005 sci-fi action film Æon Flux, based on Peter Chung's animated series of the same name, and the 2009 cult horror comedy Jennifer's Body. She has recently worked as a television director. In 2017 she directed a segment in the film XX, an all-female horror anthology. Her latest film is the 2018 crime thriller Destroyer, starring Nicole Kidman. Three of her films have been written by her husband Phil Hay and his writing partner Matt Manfredi.
Girlfight is a 2000 American sports drama film written and directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Michelle Rodriguez in both of their film debuts. It follows Diana Guzman, a troubled teenager from Brooklyn who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, despite the disapproval of both her father and her prospective trainers and competitors in the male-dominated sport.
Ryosuke Irie is a Japanese competitive swimmer who competes in backstroke events. He is a Kinki University student in Osaka.
Welton Irie, sometimes credited simply as Welton, is a Jamaican reggae deejay, best known for his work in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Carposina atronotata is a moth of the family Carposinidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Tsubasa no gaika is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto made for Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd. It was co-written by Akira Kurosawa. The film's full title is The Triumphant Song of the Wings.
Mesosini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.
Agelasta is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.
Pachyosa is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
The Invitation is a 2015 American horror thriller film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. The film stars Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman, and Emayatzy Corinealdi. The Invitation premiered March 13, 2015, at the SXSW film festival, and began a limited release on April 8, 2016, and through video on demand, by Drafthouse Films. Responding to an invitation from his ex-wife, a man brings his girlfriend to a dinner party. There, he relives the trauma of their child's death and becomes suspicious that his ex-wife has ulterior motives for inviting him.
Agelasta praelongipes is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Kusama and Irie in 1976.
Pachyosa cervinopicta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Léon Fairmaire in 1897. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa guanyin is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Yamasako and Chou in 2014. It is known from Taiwan.
Pachyosa hirtiventris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1937, originally under the genus Coptops. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa itoi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Ohbayashi in 1985. It is known from Japan.
Pachyosa kojimai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Masao Hayashi in 1974. It is known from Taiwan and Japan.
Shigehiro Irie is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist best known for his work in DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Irie has also competed for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), and a number of North American independent promotions in the past.
The Kuzuha International was a golf tournament in Japan between 1965 and 1990. It was played at the Kuzuha Public Golf Course in Kuzuha, Hirakata, Osaka. The first two editions were a five-man invitation event for one round. Later editions were 36-hole events. From 1978 to 1983, it was a Japan Golf Tour event.
Kusama: Infinity is a 2018 American biographical documentary film covering the life and art of Japan's painter Yayoi Kusama, now one of the best-selling painters in the world, who earned her recognition despite sexism, racism, and a stigma of mental illness. Magnolia Pictures released the film on September 7, 2018.
