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After the Rain (雨あがる, Ame agaru) is a 1999 Japanese and French film. The story is based on the last script written by Akira Kurosawa and is directed by his former assistant director of 28 years, Takashi Koizumi. It was awarded a Japanese Academy Award in 1999. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. [2]
Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since the inception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
Mayuzuki’s most famous work is the series After the Rain, which was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine in June 2014, before moving to the magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits in January 2016 and finished in March 2018.
After the Rain tells the story of Akira Tachibana, a high school student working part-time at a family restaurant, who starts falling in love with the manager, a forty-five-year-old divorcé with a young son. Akira struggles to determine why she is falling for Masami, and whether or not to reveal her feelings to him.
After a narrow escape, Kikujiro promises to keep to the journey and take Masao to his mother. When the taxi Kikujiro steals breaks down, they are forced to hitchhike to Toyohashi, meeting various people along the way. They get lifts from a juggler and her boyfriend on a date, and a travelling poet who delivers them to Toyohashi.
Ao Haru Ride was a best-selling manga series in Japan, achieving popularity within teenagers and women between 20 and 30 years old, most of them who identified with Futaba's struggles. [68] The magazine Da Vinci ranked Ao Haru Ride as one of the top 5 best female-oriented comics in 2013. [ 69 ]
My Rainy Days (天使の恋, Tenshi no Koi, lit: Angel's Love) is a 2009 Japanese romance drama film based on the popular cell phone novel of the same name. [2] Director Yuri Kanchiku made her directorial debut in this film. Japanese model Nozomi Sasaki stars in her first lead role in a film, as a seventeen-year-old high school student. [3]
Mafumafu (Japanese: まふまふ, Hepburn: Mafumafu, born October 18, 1991) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In addition to his solo work, he is one half of the music duo After the Rain with fellow utaite singer Soraru.