Woman in the Dunes or Woman of the Dunes is a 1964 Japanese New Wave film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Eiji Okada and Kyōko Kishida. It received positive critical reviews and was nominated for two Academy Awards. The screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel.
Tuxedo Gin is a romantic comedy manga series by Tokihiko Matsuura. It was published by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1997 to 2000 and collected in 15 bound volumes. It is published North America in English by Viz Communications. The series is about a teenaged boxer named Ginji Kusanagi who is reincarnated as a penguin in order to be close to the girl he likes. On August 4, 2011, Walt Disney Pictures and Viz Pictures announced they were adapting the Tuxedo Gin manga into a feature film under the name, Tux.
Hiroshi Tanahashi is a Japanese professional wrestler who works primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). His accolades in NJPW include being a record setting eight-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, a two-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion, a three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion and a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. Tanahashi holds the record for most reigns as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, while his fifth reign held the record for most successful defenses with eleven until May 5, 2018. He has also won NJPW's premier tournament, the G1 Climax, on three occasions and won the New Japan Cup twice, in 2005 and 2008.
Minoru Suzuki is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, currently working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).He is the current NEVER Openweight Champion in his second reign. In NJPW, Suzuki has held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship as well as the NEVER Openweight Championship. He is also a former British Heavyweight Champion and co-holder of the Undisputed British Tag Team Championship alongside fellow Suzuki-gun stablemate, Zack Sabre Jr. in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW). He is also known for his time in Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a former one-time GHC Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time GHC Tag Team Champion along with Naomichi Marufuji.
Okada is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the name include:
Hirooki Goto is a Japanese professional wrestler. Since his debut, he has wrestled primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is currently in his first reign as a NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion with Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi. He is also a two-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion, one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, five-time NEVER Openweight Champion and one-time winner of the G1 Climax (2008), two-time winner of the World Tag League and a record three-time winner of the New Japan Cup.
Junichi Okada is a member of Japanese boy band V6, which is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He joined Johnny & Associates at the age of 14.
Tokyo Chorus is a 1931 silent film produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo. It was based on various stories in the Shoshimin-gai series and shares influences with King Vidor's The Crowd. Most of the film takes place in Tokyo during a depression-like time in the beginning of the Shōwa period.
Mariko Okada is a Japanese actress. She is married to film director Yoshishige Yoshida.
The Proletarian Film League of Japan was a left-wing film organization, known as Prokino for short, active in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Japan. Associated with the proletarian arts movement in Japan, it primarily used small gauge films such as 16mm film and 9.5mm film to record demonstrations and workers' lives and show them in organized events or, using mobile projection teams, at factories and mines. It also published its own journals. Most of its films were documentaries or newsreels, but Prokino also made fiction films and animated films. Prominent members included Akira Iwasaki and Genjū Sasa, although in its list of supporters one finds such figures as Daisuke Itō, Kenji Mizoguchi, Shigeharu Nakano, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Kiyohiko Ushihara, Kogo Noda, Takiji Kobayashi, Sōichi Ōya, Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, Tokihiko Okada, Matsuo Kishi, Kiyoshi Miki, Denmei Suzuki, Teppei Kataoka, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki. The movement was eventually suppressed by the police under the Peace Preservation Law, but many former members became prominent figures in the Japanese documentary and fiction film industries.
Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, making him a five-time world champion. Okada's fourth reign with the championship is the longest in history at 720 days; he also holds the record for most successful title defenses with twelve.
Taishō Katsuei (大正活映) was a Japanese film studio active in the early 1920s. Founded in April 1920 by Ryōzō Asano, the son of Asano zaibatsu head Sōichirō Asano, it was mostly known as Taikatsu for short. Its origins can be traced back to Tōyō Film, a venture started in 1918 by Benjamin Brodsky and Thomas Kurihara, that Asano ended up supporting. With Kurihara as the main director and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki as the literary consultant, Taikatsu was one of two studios founded in 1920 that publicly announced their intention to make "pure films" in line with the Pure Film Movement. It established an actors school and began production with Amateur Club, a film directed by Kurihara and scripted by Tanizaki that was strongly influenced by American cinema. Other important works include A Serpent's Lust, another Kurihara-Tanizaki collaboration based on the same story as Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi. The Taikatsu studio was located in Yokohama, below the Bluff and the Foreigner's Cemetery. Taikatsu did not last long, since it did not have enough theaters to recoup the costs of production and of importing American films. Its production division was taken over by Shōchiku in 1922, even though the company lasted a few more years as an exhibition business. A number of important film figures emerged from Taikatsu, including the directors Tomu Uchida and Buntarō Futagawa and the actors Tokihiko Okada, Ureo Egawa and Atsushi Watanabe.
Togo Yamamoto was a pioneering actor who appeared on stage and film in the United States and Japan.
Shinkō Kinema (新興キネマ) was a Japanese film studio active in the 1930s.
Tokihiko is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
Events in the year 1934 in Japan.
Akitsu Springs is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada and Hiroyuki Nagato.
Hime-anole is a 2016 Japanese romantic black comedy–crime drama film directed by Keisuke Yoshida. It is based on the manga of the same name written by Minoru Furuya, serialized in the Weekly Young Magazine between 2008–2010, and republished into six volumes. The film received an R-15 rating in Japan. It is the second of Furuya's works to be adapted to the big screen, following 2011's Himizu.
That Night's Wife is a 1930 Japanese crime and drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The film starring Tokihiko Okada, Tatsuo Saitō, Chishū Ryū, Emiko Yagumo and Tōgō Yamamoto in the lead roles.
Events in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (明治36年) in the Japanese calendar.
