was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

Although he had demonstrated no previous interest in film as a profession, Kurosawa submitted the required essay, which asked applicants to discuss the fundamental deficiencies of Japanese films and find ways to overcome them.

Category: Japanese film producers

Category: Japanese film directors

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

* Cleopatra ( 1970 film ), a 1970 Japanese anime film

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.

* Cyclops ( 1987 film ), a Japanese science fiction horror film

* 1959 – Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

* Suzaku, a 1997 Japanese film by Naomi Kawase

Tungusic – Korean – Japanese (" Macro-Tungusic "), with Turkic and Mongolic as separate language families.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

A new song called " Sumiregusa " (" Wild Violet ") was based on a Japanese poem by Roma Ryan.

The first chapter of the Nihongi (" Chronicles of Japan ") describes the ancient Japanese belief that the world was flat and that dry land floated " like oil " on water:

Japanese is replete with pseudo-anglicisms, known as wasei-eigo (" Japan-made English ").

Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu ( superseded by modern no ) is preserved in words such as matsuge (" eyelash ", lit.

" hair of the eye "); modern mieru (" to be visible ") and kikoeru (" to be audible ") retain what may have been a frequentative suffix-ru ( kikoyu > kikoyuru ( the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period ) > kikoeru ( as all shimo-nidan verbs in modern Japanese did )); and the genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech.

Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan (" bread ") and tabako (" tobacco ", now " cigarette "), both from Portuguese.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

He created the ping ' an forms (" heian " or " pinan " in Japanese ) which are simplified kata for beginning students.

* Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred Poems from the Japanese ( New Directions, 1955, ISBN 0-8112-0181-3 ) contains several of Hitomaro's waka, as well as notable translations of 3 naga uta (" In the sea of ivy clothed Iwami ", " The Bay of Tsyunu ", and " When she was still alive ")

In Japanese, the wild kiwi vine is called 猿梨 サルナシ sarunashi, which has the same meaning as Chinese 獼猴梨 míhóu lí (" macaque pear ").

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

In 1969 a group of female manga artists ( later called the Year 24 Group, also known as Magnificent 24s ) made their shōjo manga debut (" year 24 " comes from the Japanese name for the year 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists ).

Shōhei Ōoka won the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Fires on the Plain about a Japanese deserter going mad in the Philippine jungle.

Fires on the Plain ( 1959 ) by Kon Ichikawa explores the Japanese experience in World War II by depicting a sick Japanese soldier struggling to stay alive.

* " Herne The Hunter "-( bonus track on Japanese edition of Fires in Distant Buildings – 2005 )

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

Throughout this period Ainu became increasingly dependent on goods imported by Japanese, and suffered from epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.