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In 2016, at the 10th Seiyu Awards, she won the Kazue Takahashi Award for "the female performer who broadens the profession of voice acting in every form of media." [10] Inoue is married, and has a daughter named Honoka. [11] Honoka uses Inoue as her stage "family" name and she is also a voice actress and singer.
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japanese: 古都, Hepburn: Koto) is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura, based on the novel The Old Capital (1962) by Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film was Japan's submission for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
Mana Mikura (三倉 茉奈, Mikura Mana) and Kana Mikura (三倉 佳奈, Mikura Kana) (born February 23, 1986) are Japanese identical twin sister actresses. They are mostly collectively referred to as ManaKana (マナカナ). They were born in Osaka, Osaka. Mana is the older one, born 7 minutes before Kana.
Kamikaze Girls, originally released in Japan as Shimotsuma Monogatari: Yankī-chan to Rorīta-chan (下妻物語 ヤンキーちゃんとロリータちゃん, "Shimotsuma Story: Delinquent Girl and Lolita Girl"), [4] [5] is a 2002 Japanese light novel written by Novala Takemoto. The story centers on the friendship between two students named ...
Nobody Knows (誰も知らない, Dare mo Shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese drama film based on the 1988 Sugamo child abandonment case. [2] The film is written, produced, directed and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and it stars Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, and Hiei Kimura.
Rinko Kikuchi (pronunciation ⓘ) (菊地 凛子, Kikuchi Rinko, born Yuriko Kikuchi (菊地 百合子, Kikuchi Yuriko), January 6, 1981) is a Japanese actress, and was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in Babel (2006).
Ancient City (古都, Koto), also known as The Old Capital [2] [3] is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Old Capital.
Kikoku (鬼哭, distributed as Yakuza Demon in the United States) is a Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. The film reunites Miike with Riki Takeuchi , who stars as the main character. Plot