The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter — (Japanese: 竹取物語; Taketori Monogatari ) is a 10th century Japanese folktale, also known as The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語, Kaguya hime no Monogatari ). It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative, [… … Wikipedia
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — infobox Book | name = The Temple of the Golden Pavilion title orig = 金閣寺 Kinkakuji translator = Ivan Morris author = Yukio Mishima illustrator = cover artist = country = Japan language = Japanese English series = genre = Novel publisher =… … Wikipedia
The Tale of Genji — Nihongo| The Tale of Genji |源氏物語|Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world … Wikipedia
The Makioka Sisters (film) — nihongo| The Makioka Sisters |細雪|Sasame yuki|extra=lit. small snow flakes is the name of three films based on the serial novel of the same name by Jun ichirō Tanizaki. The third of these films, released in 1983, is the most famous. It was… … Wikipedia
The Adventures of Milo and Otis — Koneko monogatari The Adventures of Milo and Otis US release poster Directed by Masanori Hata Produced by Masu … Wikipedia
The Biggest Geno — Infobox Film name = The Biggest Geno director = Masanori Hata| producer = Masuru Kakutani Satoru Ogata writer = Masanori Hata (story) Mark Saltzman (screenplay) starring = distributor = released = flagicon|Japan June 27, 1986 flagicon|USA August… … Wikipedia
Fires on the Plain (film) — Infobox Film name = Fires on the Plain image size = caption = director = Kon Ichikawa producer = Masaichi Nagata writer = Natto Wada Shohei Ooka (novel) narrator = Eiji Funakoshi starring = Eiji Funakoshi Osamu Takizawa Mickey Curtis music =… … Wikipedia
Fires on the Plain — (Japanese: 野火 Nobi ) is a Yomiuri Prize winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier in the routed Imperial Japanese Army on the Philippines in the final days of World War II.Plot introductionThe… … Wikipedia
Shunji Iwai — Infobox Person name=Iwai Shunji caption=Shunji Iwai, filming 2004s Hana Alice . birth date=Birth date and age|1963|1|24|mf=y birth place= death date= death place=Shunji Iwai (岩井俊二 Iwai Shunji , born January 24, 1963 in Sendai, Japan, Miyagi… … Wikipedia
motion picture, history of the — Introduction history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first … Universalium
