In most countries, intertitles came to be used to provide dialogue and narration for the film, thus dispensing with narrators, but in Japanese cinema human narration remained popular throughout the silent era.

But even in Japan, a figure such as the benshi, the live narrator who was a major part of Japanese silent cinema, found his acting career was ending.

Japanese cinema later became one of the main inspirations behind the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

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.

The huge level of activity of 1960s Japanese cinema also resulted in many classics.

* Japanese Film Festival ( Singapore ) – An annual curated film program focusing on classic Japanese cinema and new currents, with regular guest directors and actors.

Though his films are predominantly set in the United States, Jarmusch has advanced the notion that he looks at America " through a foreigner's eyes ", with the intention of creating a form of world cinema that synthesizes European and Japanese film with that of Hollywood.

Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

2 ), a highly stylized " revenge flick " in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia ( Chinese martial arts ), Jidaigeki ( Japanese period cinema ), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror.

Japanese cinema reached its zenith with films from director Akira Kurosawa including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress.

Chiba's breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series ( 1974 ), which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema.

Director Heinosuke Gosho's Madamu to nyobo ( The Neighbor's Wife and Mine ; 1931 ), a production of the Shochiku studio, was the first major commercial and critical success of Japanese sound cinema.

The enduring popularity of the silent medium in Japanese cinema owed in great part to the tradition of the benshi, a live narrator who performed as accompaniment to a film screening.

' Sony Dynamic Digital Sound ' ( SDDS ) ( Japanese: ソニーダイナミックデジタルサウンド ) is a cinema sound system developed by Sony.

* Donald Richie – an author who has written a number of books about the Japanese people and Japanese cinema

His Umarete wa mita keredo ( I Was Born, But ..., 1932 ), a comedy with serious overtones on adolescence, not only marks the beginning of this transition, but was also received by movie critics as the first notable work of social criticism in Japanese cinema, winning Ozu wide acclaim.

* Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.

Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa ( the title of the series is derived from Kurosawa's 1960 film Yojimbo ) and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla.

At home the percentages of the languages residents speak are English 70. 47 %, Spanish 6. 26 %, Chinese 5. 96 %, Japanese 2. 70 %, Mandarin 1. 80 %, Cantonese 1. 57 %, Persian 1. 43 %, Tagalog 1. 30 %, Korean 1. 08 %, French 0. 90 %, German 0. 83 %, Formosan 0. 73 %, Italian 0. 66 %, Vietnamese 0. 57 %, Urdu 0. 50 %, and 3. 23 % of people spoke some other language which represented less than 0. 50 % of the population.

The groups most likely to be involved in a mixed union were Japanese ( 74. 4 %), Latin Americans ( 47 %) and blacks ( 40. 6 %).

In 1941 the Japanese military commissioned director Kenji Mizoguchi ( Ugetsu ) to make The 47 Ronin.

The Hollywood film 47 Ronin is currently under production by Universal Pictures and will star Keanu Reeves as an outcast who joins the samurai in their quest to avenge their slain master along with some of the biggest Japanese actors such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kô Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, and Jin Akanishi.

The story of Louie Zamperini who flew in a B-24 ; and how he survived crashing in the Pacific, set adrift for 47 days in the Pacific, and more than 2 years in Japanese POW camps.

An early study of human Y-DNA variation published in 1999 included a sample of 118 Japanese males, among whom haplogroup DE-YAP ( xE-SRY4064 ) was found to be predominant ( 47 %).

Altogether, 99 Japanese episodes were made ( 47 in the 1974 Toei series, and 52 in the 1992 Toei series ).

#" Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen " ( Japanese bonus track )-2: 47

The second part is two digits ( 01 – 47 ), which is the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0401 code of the prefecture.

The battle ended in a Korean victory, with Japanese losses of 59 ships – 47 destroyed and 12 captured in the Battle of Hansan Island.

47, " Auxiliary Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy ", March 1997

The event, held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997, attracted 47, 000 fans, as well as Japanese mass media attention.

Since 2ch users often refer to anonymous users by their post numbers, Kaneko came to be known as " Mr. 47 " (" 47-Shi ", or 47氏 in Japanese ), or just " 47 ".

* Russo-Japanese War: The number of total Japanese dead in combat is put at around 47, 000, with around 80, 000 if disease is included

After 47 days of bitter fighting, Japanese troops managed to occupy Hengyang with a high price in casualties over the city of Hengyang-many lives were lost, including 390 Japanese commissioned officers dead and another 520 wounded.

* Science Channel's The Making Series: # 47 Making of Cup Noodles ( video in Japanese )

47 % of the Japanese population consume nutraceuticals.

The influences listed on the band's MySpace page are Siege, Japanese hardcore groups Gauze and S. O. B., British anarcho-punk groups Crass and Conflict, Swedish D-beat bands Mob 47 and Anti Cimex, and Japanoise pioneer Merzbow.

In the 1997 Pride 1 Vale Tudo match in Japan's Tokyo Dome ( before 47, 860 spectators ), Gracie defeated Japanese professional wrestler, Nobuhiko Takada, in 4: 47 of the first round.

Boring dated the preface December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor because this was the last day “ pure scholarship could be undertaken with a clear conscious ”( p. 47 ).

Working in French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared in numerous successful films such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin, and Léon: The Professional.

The tragedy of the Forty-seven Ronin has been one of the most popular themes in Japanese art, and has lately even begun to make its way into Western art.

Many Japanese television shows, including single programs, short series, single seasons, and even year-long series such as Daichūshingura and the more recent NHK Taiga drama Genroku Ryōran, recount the events of the Forty-seven Ronin.

There he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan ( 1871 )-a book credited with making such classical Japanese tales as the " Forty-seven Ronin " first known to a wide Western public.

Ronin Warriors, known in Japan as, is a Japanese anime series and manga adaptation created by Hajime Yatate.

Into the Dragon acknowledged the debt it owed to the Japanese hip-hop label Major Force, New York producer Steinski, UK artists Massive Attack / Wild Bunch and the 23 Skidoo / Ronin collective.

The name " Ronin " refers to the Japanese term for a masterless samurai, a lone warrior.