Among Smith's most recent work is the Kitty Pride: Shadow and Flame limited series written by Akira Yoshida.

Though AJW remained the strongest joshi promotion during this period, featuring stars such as WON Hall of Famers Akira Hokuto, Aja Kong and Manami Toyota, plus unheralded stars Kyoko Inoue, Toshiyo Yamada, Takako Inoue, Mariko Yoshida, Mima Shimoda and others, eventually matters caught up with them.

At the event, Nakano and Akira Hokuto defeated Manami Toyota and Mariko Yoshida.

Written by Akira Yoshida and illustrated by Greg Tocchini, the series follows Thor's early adventures in Asgard with Sif and Balder.

The series was written by Akira Yoshida and pencilled by Chris Bachalo ; the first two issues were inked solely by Tim Townsend, with other helping out with the rest.

After the match Homicide explained that he did not care about winning or losing and continued to attack Moxley, before he was saved by Akira Tozawa.

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

The film was the first samurai film that Akira Kurosawa had ever directed.

Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, was commissioned by Morheim to produce the first draft " faithfully " adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; when Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version " is largely what's on screen.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.

Although the first tantric Buddhist texts appeared in India in the 3rd century and continued to appear until the 12th century, scholars such as Hirakawa Akira believe that the Vajrayana probably came into existence in the 6th or 7th century, while the term Vajrayana first came into evidence in the 8th century.

Akira Kurosawa wrote the original screenplay intending it to be his first color film following Red Beard, but difficulties with the American financial backers led to it being shelved.

A sign of the changing times was the rise to prominence of such diplomatic historians such as the Japanese historian Chihiro Hosoya, the British historian Ian Nish, and the Japanese historian Akira Iriye, which was the first time that Asian specialists became noted diplomatic historians.

The son of Koyo Toya, Akira is already a very strong go player when Hikaru first begins playing.

Meanwhile, Hikaru is impressed with how serious and focused Akira is for being only a 6th grader like him when they first meet.

, spelled as Freeza in the Japanese version, Freezer in English and Spanish version is a fictional character, a Supervillain and a major antagonist from Frieza arc of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama, who first introduced the character in his manga Dragon Ball, followed by its anime adaptation Dragon Ball Z. Frieza also appears in the television special Bardock: The Father of Goku, two Dragon Ball Z movies, the side story The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, and in Dragon Ball GT.

Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon ( 1950 ), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

During the late 1970s, Akira Kamiya, Tōru Furuya and Toshio Furukawa were the first to unite into a band, Slapstick, and perform live.

It was the first to show the Streamline Pictures English dubs of the films Robot Carnival, Lensman, and Akira, as well as airing Central Park Media's Dominion: Tank Police, Gall Force, and Project A-ko.

The first high profile product distributed by Streamline was its December 1988 release of the anime film Akira.

At first, Akira is very shy, modest and gentle, trying to avoid conflict.

In the first OVA, she saves Akira from a gang of bullies who are threatening him.

To promote the release of the first Dr. Slump & Arale-chan DVD box set, Akira Toriyama illustrated a special one-shot spin-off titled Dr. Mashirito & Abale-chan published in the fourth 2007 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

In those days, many celebrities went to the restaurant ; Akira Kurosawa, Yukio Mishima, Kōbō Abe, Seiji Ozawa, Ryu Murakami, Taro Okamoto, Kishin Shinoyama, and Hiroshi " Monsieur " Kamayatsu, who eventually became her first record producer.

Midori and Akira ( also from Ten Nai ) are the first to buy Mikako's creations at the flea market – further proving both series apparently take place in the same universe, but approximately 4 years apart ( Akira reveals Midori's age to be 20 during their cameo ).

Although reluctant at first, once Midori realizes that Akira Sudō is also running for student council, she becomes eager to win the election.

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), the first Japanese film to be widely screened in the West, depicts four witnesses ' contradictory accounts of a rape and murder.

She first meets BPS ( Akira ) when he is seen walking home after waiting in front of a book store.

Y. Hatano promoted " manpo-kei pedometers " from 1985, after his research was accepted as proving that 10, 000 Steps A Day was the proper balance of caloric intake and activity-based caloric expenditure to maintain a healthy body, and Jiro Kato who is Yamasa Tokei Keiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo Japan founder, Akira and Yasuji Kato's Father, manufactured pedometers recognized to be accurate, and, named them, " manpo-meter " ( later known as " manpo-kei ") as the world first invented device to measure number of steps of walking.

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.

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.

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.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

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.

Also, at this time, he was busy assisting his friend Akira Kurosawa with films he was directing, such as Kagemusha and Ran.

The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee.

While the serialization of Akira was taking place, Otomo decided to animate it into a feature film, although the comic was yet to be finished.

In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.

" Pauline Kael, he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus appreciate how a film such as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo ( 1961 ) " could exploit Western conventions while debunking its morality.

George Lucas is famous for the sweeping use of wipes in his Star Wars films, which help evoke a kinship to old pulp science fiction novels and serials ; he was inspired by a similar use of wipes by Akira Kurosawa ( as can be seen in The Hidden Fortress ).

The Magnificent Seven a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

His film A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari, 1964 ) was based upon Akira Kurosawa's Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Under the collaboration of Zapf and Akira Kobayashi, the Palatino typeface family was expanded.

Akira Yoshizawa in particular was responsible for a number of innovations, such as wet-folding and the Yoshizawa – Randlett diagramming system, and his work inspired a renaissance of the art form.

George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress ( USA release 1962 ), particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe.

Akira Kurosawa was known, particularly in his later years, for painstaking detail in his storyboarding, to the degree that the storyboard paintings for Ran ( for which he storyboarded every shot ) are regarded as fine works of art in themselves.

As a 17-year-old teenager, he discovered comic books, and became a fan of creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez ( as well as the writing of Alan Moore ), but was especially drawn to the more atypical art of Michael Golden and Katsuhiro Ōtomo, creator of the manga Akira.

It also bears some parallels with the American Westerns ; Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, for example, was remade in a Western setting as The Magnificent Seven.