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Funassyi (ふなっしー, Funasshī) is a fictional Japanese mascot character, unofficially representing the city of Funabashi, Chiba.It was created by a citizen of Funabashi with the objective of cheering up local residents and helping promote its hometown.
Summer Sonic Festival was founded in 2000 in Japan, by Naoki Shimizu, CEO of Tokyo promotions company Creativeman Productions Ltd. [3] Addressing the ever-growing demand for western music, the festival drew established and emerging musical acts of most genres to become, by 2010, Japan's biggest music event.
In 1991, when 14 fighting movies starring Chiba were revived in Los Angeles, this work was also screened. On November 20, 2007, BCI Eclipse released the film in their Sonny Chiba Collection DVD set, which also includes Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon , The Bullet Train , Dragon Princess , Karate Kiba , and Sister Street Fighter .
Umeda Arts Theatre, the Musicals of Japan Origin project, [12] Meijiza, and other companies have also produced original musicals in Japan. Japan has also seen productions of musicals from South Korea, France, Austria, and other places around the world that have not had English-language productions. Elisabeth is the most famous of these.
[6] In an interview with Sonny Chiba, Desjardins opines, "The four Yakuza Cop movies and the two Bodyguard Kiba films, it seemed Toei was attempting to groom you into even more of an action star, a character thrown into dangerous situations but often with humor added to the mix." Chiba responds, "Your impression of Toei trying to turn me into a ...
The film opens with Isshin Higaki (Sonny Chiba) and his daughter Yumi Higaki (Etsuko Shihomi) being attacked by a rival karate master, Hironobu Nikaido who wants Isshin's job as top karate master. Nikaido teams up with four other masters and they manage to disable one of Isshin's arms and wound his eye with a kunai knife.
Chiba Shrine (千葉神社, Chiba-jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Chūō-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture.Originally a Buddhist temple dedicated to the deity Myōken, the patron of the Chiba clan, it was converted into a Shinto shrine dedicated to Ame-no-Minakanushi (a kami in Japanese mythology conflated with Myōken) during the Meiji period.
Karate for Life (Japanese: 空手バカ一代 Karate Baka Ichidai) is a 1977 Japanese martial arts film about the martial arts master Mas Oyama starring Sonny Chiba. [1] [2]It is to Champion of Death and Karate Bear Fighter and is the third part in the Champion of Death series [], a series of movie adaptations of the Karate Baka Ichidai by Ikki Kajiwara. [3]