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Hitobashira (人柱, "human pillar"), also known as Da sheng zhuang (simplified Chinese: 打生桩; traditional Chinese: 打生樁; pinyin: dǎshēngzhuāng; Jyutping: daa2saang1zong1) in China, is a cultural practice of human sacrifice in East Asia of premature burial before the construction of buildings.
Junpei Gomikawa (March 15, 1916 – March 8, 1995; Japanese: 五味川純平) was the pen name of Japanese novelist Kurita Shigeru.He is best known for his 1958 World War II novel The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), which became a best seller. [1]
Half Human (獣人雪男, Jūjin Yuki Otoko, lit. ' Beastman Snowman ' ) is a 1955 Japanese science fiction horror film directed by Ishirō Honda , with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya . The film stars Akira Takarada , Momoko Kōchi , Akemi Negishi , Sachio Sakai , and Nobuo Nakamura , with Sanshiro Sagara as the Abominable Snowman.
The Human Condition (人間の條件, Ningen no jōken) is a trilogy of Japanese epic war drama films co-written and directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the novel of the same name by Junpei Gomikawa. The films are subtitled No Greater Love (1959), Road to Eternity (1959), and A Soldier's Prayer (1961).
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
' special filming ') is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya , tokusatsu mainly refers to science fiction , war , fantasy , or horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself.
The first Japanese film to be banned due to a scene's explicit nature where Mitsuri Kanroji, Love Hashira, takes a shower in the hot spring. [278] 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Banned due to it containing frames which feature a transgender flag on which the phrase "Protect Trans Kids" is displayed. [43] 2023 Barbie: No official ...
Nyaa Torrents (named for the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat's meow) is a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian (Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) media. It is one of the largest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes. [1] [2] [3]