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The production of the film started in April 2007. This is the first time Aparna Sen has made a film based on someone else's story. This movie is based on the title story of The Japanese Wife and Other Stories by Bengali Indian author Kunal Basu, who writes from Oxford and is an engineer by training.
The Full-Time Wife Escapist (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ, Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu, lit. Running away is shameful, but useful) is a Japanese romance josei manga series written and illustrated by Tsunami Umino.
Another YouTube channel dedicated to gyaru culture, especially towards the gyaru mama subculture, would be the Japanese YouTube channel 'kaorimama1'. [323] This channel was established in June 2010, and published videos from 2010 until 2012. It had many and a series of episodes dedicated to the gyaru mama lifestyle called BeMamaTV. [324]
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
Massan (Japanese: マッサン) is a Japanese television drama series, the 91st Asadora (morning drama) broadcast daily on NHK from September 29, 2014, until March 28, 2015. Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan , whom he met while studying abroad.
It was broadcast on BS Nittele (BS 日テレ) in Chinese with Japanese subtitles, every Thursday at 2300 in high definition (1080i), six times as high as in Taiwan. The whole TV series was divided into 34 episodes in Japan, and the DVDs in both Chinese and Japanese went on sale on 20 June 2012. The TV series was a big hit in 2011.
The film was shot at the Inba Marsh in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Onibaba was inspired by the Shin Buddhist parable of yome-odoshi-no men (嫁おどしの面, bride-scaring mask) or niku-zuki-no-men (肉付きの面, mask with flesh attached), in which a mother used a mask to scare her daughter from going to the temple.
In particular, since the postwar period, Japan has adopted the "male breadwinner" model, which favors a nuclear-family household in which the husband is the breadwinner for the family while the wife is a dependant. [34] When the wife is not employed, the family is eligible for social insurance services and tax deductions.