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[3] [1] [5] The film was the highest-grossing film of 1959 for Toho and the second highest grossing domestic production in Japan for the year. [ 4 ] The film was shown in Japan in 1959 as Nippon Tanjo ( The Birth of Japan ) with a running time of 182 minutes, but it was released in the United States in December 1960 as The Three Treasures ...
March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1883) April 30 – Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (b. 1879) June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887) August 9 – Noboru Ishizaki, admiral (b. 1893)
The Birth of Japan (Nippon Tanjo) [2] Shown in Japan in 1959 as Nippon Tanjo (Birth of Japan) at 182 minutes; later released in the United States in December, 1960 as The Three Treasures, edited down to only 112 minutes; AKA Age of the Gods [2] Battle in Outer Space [16] AKA Uchū daisensō (Great War in Space) [16]
The Jomon Pottery of Japan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1957). Japan Before Buddhism (London: Thames and Hudson; New York: Praeger, 1959). Masterpieces of Japanese Sculpture (Charles E. Tuttle, 1961). Japanese Temples (Abrams, 1964). Ancient Japan (London: Weindenfeld & Nicolson; New York: John Day, 1964).
Mizuno was born Maya Igarashi on 1 January 1937 in Sanjō Niigata prefecture, Japan. [2] She was acquainted with Giant Baba , her junior by one year, who is also from Sanjō. She enrolled and eventually graduated from an acting school and began a professional career in film in 1957 in Crazy Society ( Shochiku ). [ 3 ]
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Eiichi Ono (小野 榮一, Ono Eiichi, December 6, 1924 – June 16, 1987), better known by his stage name Kōji Tsuruta (鶴田 浩二, Tsuruta Kōji), was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Sayaka Tsuruta, is an actress.
1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.