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The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
From the verb bokeru 惚ける or 呆ける, which carries the meaning of "senility" or "air headed-ness," and is reflected in a performer's tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness. The boke is the "simple-minded" member of an owarai kombi ( "tsukkomi and boke" , or vice versa ) that receives most of the verbal and physical abuse from ...
Toda (written: 戸田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erika Toda (born 1988), Japanese actress; Hiroshi Toda (born 1928), Japanese ...
Papá a toda madre is a Mexican comedy telenovela that premiered on Las Estrellas on 22 October 2017, and concluded on 11 March 2018. Produced for Televisa by Eduardo Meza . The telenovela revolves around four dads of different ages, who have a radical change in their lives by assuming their role as parents.
Toda may refer to: Toda people; Toda language; Toda Embroidery; Toda lattice; Toda field theory; Oscillator Toda; Toda (surname), a Japanese surname "Toda" (song), ...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family was Ozu's first film after a three year hiatus. Unsatisfied with his salary paid by the Shochiku film studio, Ozu approached the company's president Shirō Kido, asking for a raise, which Kido conditioned on the outcome of his next film. During filming, Ozu was pressured into a tight shooting schedule by ...
Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.
Watanabe (渡辺 and other variants [note 1]) is a Japanese surname derived from the noble and samurai Watanabe clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, descending from the Emperor Saga (786-842), the 52nd Emperor of Japan, and refers to a location called 'Watanabe no tsu' which was settled by the Watanabe clan, who took the name of the place.