In 2008 the original concepts of this symphony were edited and performed by Akira Naito with the Tokyo New City Orchestra.

* Akira Naito, Takeshi Nishikawa ( photographs ), ( translated Charles S. Terry ), Katsura: A Princely Retreat ( Kodansha, New York, 1977 ) is a magnificent book, the definitive work on Katsura in English

These original concepts have been recorded by Akira Naito with the Tokyo New City Orchestra.

It has been recorded by Akira Naito with the Tokyo New City Orchestra.

The revision of 2006 was subsequently recorded by Akira Naito.

* Akira Yoshimura, Author

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

Of the older generation of directors, Akira Kurosawa directed Kagemusha ( 1980 ), which won the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and Ran ( 1985 ).

Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa ( supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya ), the film starred Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, and Eisei Amamoto.

Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa ( supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya ), the film starred Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, and Akihiko Hirata.

The film was also the last to be produced by the four " Godzilla fathers ", with Ishirō Honda directing, Eiji Tsuburaya supervising the special effects ( with Sadamasa Arikawa actually directing ), Tomoyuki Tanaka producing, and Akira Ifukube handling the film's score.

Academy Award winning Japanese director Akira Kurosawa produced Yojimbo ( 1961 ), and Sanjuro ( 1962 ), which both starred Toshirō Mifune as a mysterious Samurai swordsman for hire.

is a 1950 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

This was the second film on which director Akira Kurosawa had worked with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Skelton has competed in one shoot-style pro-wrestling bout-a loss to Kazuo Yamazaki for Akira Maeda's Universal Wrestling Federation on 10 January 1989 at Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

He encouraged his children to watch films ; young Akira viewed his first movies at the age of six.

In the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, Heigo took the 13-year-old Akira to view the devastation.

When the younger brother wanted to look away from the human corpses and animal carcasses scattered everywhere, Heigo forbade him to do so, instead encouraging Akira to face his fears by confronting them directly.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

Through Heigo, Akira devoured not only films but also theater and circus performances, while exhibiting his paintings and working for the left-wing Proletarian Artists ' League.

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

In Akira Toriyama's manga and anime series Dragon Ball, a scientist named Dr. Gero created several cyborgs, including villain Cell, sibling cyborgs Android 17 and Android 18, as well as Android 20, who was built from Gero himself.

Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

Among the films shown in its founding year were Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali.

Akira Kurosawa directed the 1961 classic Yojimbo.

Dodes ' ka-den by Akira Kurosawa and Sandakan No. 8 by Kei Kumai were nominated to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Katsuhiro Otomo followed suit with Akira in 1988.

Cues from these scores were used to almost completely replace the original Japanese score by Akira Ifukube and give the film a more Western sound.

Her announcement was supported by three other commissioners ( Serena Cruz, Lisa Naito & Maria Rojo de Steffey ), but criticized by Lonnie Roberts, who represents the eastern part of Multnomah county and was left out of the decision.

Eight of his famous ' Twenty-Four Generals ' were killed in this battle, including Baba Nobuharu ( 馬場信春 ), Yamagata Masakage ( 山県昌景 ), and Naito Masatoyo ( 内藤昌豊 ).

Terry turns around, trying not to draw attention to himself, and descends a set of stairs on the west side of the bridge and walks onto Naito Parkway, where he is hit by Kate Wheeler ( Cate Blanchett ), who is driving a speeding car.

The west end of the bridge has a full interchange with Naito Parkway ( Oregon Route 10, Pacific Highway West ), as well as access to and from Arthur Street, which carries US 26 towards Interstate 405.

Tadakatsu also served at Tokugawa's greatest defeat, the Battle of Mikatagahara ( 1572 ), where he commanded the left wing of his master's army, facing off against troops under one of the Takeda clan's more notable generals, Naito Masatoyo.

In 1976, the market moved to a site under the Burnside Bridge between First Avenue and Front Avenue ( now Naito Parkway ), where it then remained for the next 33 years.

and cite additional work on the problem and its generalizations by C. Adams ( 1846 ), Adolphe Quidde ( 1850 ), K. H. Schellbach ( 1853 ), Arthur Cayley ( 1854, 1857, 1875 ), Alfred Clebsch ( 1857 ), P. Simons ( 1874 ), J. Casey ( 1888 ), Rouché and Comberousse ( 1900 ), H. F. Baker ( 1925 ), L. J. Rogers ( 1928 ), Angelo Procissi ( 1932 ), Jun Naito ( 1975 ), and D. G. Rogers ( 2005 ).