#Hiroshi Takao

[redsamuraiii]

The Silent Service (2023)

Japan's first nuclear submarine built in collaboration with the United States goes missing under the command of Captain Shiro Kaeida (Takao Osawa). Since the submarine is technically under the command of the United States, the country has ordered the destruction of the submarine, viewing it as a threat.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force deploy a submarine under the command of Captain Hirosh Fukamachi (Hiroshi Tamaki) to bring back the nuclear submarine safely before the US Navy finds it and destroys it. The story makes audience think about true peace amidst the complexities of international relations.

It's like a Japanese version of The Hunt for the Red October starring the late Sean Connery where a Soviet Nuclear Submarine intends to defect to the United States as both the US and Soviet Navy race against time to get their hands on the sub before the other.

This Japanese movie is based on the manga of the same name which ran from 1988 to 1996 during the end of the Cold War. I'm looking forward to this as I've always been a fan of military films and political thrillers like Tom Clancy.

The casts for this movie is incredible. They're all my favourite drama actors, like Takao Osawa (Kingdom), Hiroshi Tamaki (The Way of the Househusband), Aya Ueto (Yoshitsune), Tomoya Nakamura (Kamen Rider Black Sun), Yosuke Eguchi (Rurouni Kenshin), and more.

[questintheskies]

Kingdom 3: Flame of Destiny trailer

[silvadour]

"One who had inherited the curse of the Zen'in clan from birth, and one who could not completely cast off that curse, both stood in witness to the one who cast it all off now manifested in raw flesh...and taking action." Jujutsu Kaisen S02E15 - "Fluctuations, Part 2" Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko (瀬古浩司) Storyboarder(s): Takao Abo (阿保 孝雄) & Isuta Meister (椅子汰) Episode Director(s): Isuta Meister (椅子汰), Ryouta Aikei (愛敬 亮太), Hayato Kurosaki (黒崎 隼人), Fei Hung (鸿 飞), and Teppei Okuda (奥田 哲平)

[benevadeca]

KNB SOLO SERIES Translations Compilation

Hello for purposes of my own design I've been trying to collect all the KNB music content. Have only gotten thru the solo series so far but I'll do the duet series next. But the current state of things is:

Source missing for/translated on the fandom wiki but no source provided: Monologues 1-4, 9, 12 (momoi)

Missing translation for: Monologue 8 (koganei), 12 (riko), & 17 (haizaki)

So if anyone's able to help with the missing translations pls HMU lol.

1. Tetsuya Kuroko / Kenshō Ono

Monologues

FUTURE LINE

Kimi ga Hikari de Aru Tame ni

2. Taiga Kagami / Yūki Ono

Monologues

Eikō Made no Run and Gun

Michi no Tochū translation

3. Ryōta Kise / Ryōhei Kimura

Monologues

Perfect Copy?

Sharara☆Goes On

4. Shintarō Midorima / Daisuke Ono

Monologues

Nerai doori no Destiny

Iwaku Kani-za no Kichijitsu ni v1

Iwaku Kani-za no Kichijitsu ni v2

5. Kazunari Takao / Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Monologues & F.O.V.

Ace-sama ni Banzai

6. Junpei Hyūga / Yoshimasa Hosoya

Monologues & CLUTCH TIME

Hanashi wo Shiyou

7. Shun Izuki / Hirofumi Nojima

Monologues & Kitakore!

Tatta Hitotsu no Hibi

8. Shinji Koganei / Takuya Eguchi

Monologues

Heibon Elegy

APPARE Seirin DAYS

9. Daiki Aomine / Junichi Suwabe

Monologues

UNSTOPPABLE

Netsu no Kakera

10. Teppei Kiyoshi / Kenji Hamada

Monologues & Strong Heart

Mou Sugu Modoru, Sono Basho de v1

Mou Sugu Modoru, Sono Basho de v2

11. Yukio Kasamatsu / Sōichiro Hoshi

Monologues & Songs

12. Riko Aida / Chiwa Saitō & Satsuki Momoi / Fumiko Orikasa

Monologue (Riko, missing entirely)

Monologue (Momoi)

GROWING UP

Brand-new Season

13. Tatsuya Himuro / Kishō Taniyama

Monologues

Any time, Any place

Ready Fight!!

14. Makoto Hanamiya / Jun Fukuyama

Monologues

MAD BREAKER

STEAL YOUR BREATH

15. Ryō Sakurai / Nobunaga Shimazaki

Monologues

QUICK START

Ayamari Kinoko no Yuutsu

16. Atsushi Murasakibara / Kenichi Suzumura

Monologues

LAZY LAZY

Rifujin ni,

17. Shōgo Haizaki / Masakazu Morita

Monologues

BUCK WILD

TYRANT

18. Seijūrō Akashi / Hiroshi Kamiya

Monologue 1

Monologue 2

FINAL EMPEROR

DOUBLE CORE

[prfm-multiverse]

About Perfume's performance of TOKYO GIRL at the 2017 NHK Kouhaku, were the moving searchlights in the background, which converged into a single point at the end, created through real-life setup or CGI?

There was a CG team working on it.

Performance of “TOKYO GIRL” on the 68th annual NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen New Year’s musical review. The live broadcast featured the trio atop a skyscraper in Shibuya, backed by searchlights illuminating the downtown Tokyo nightscape.

Credits Creative Direction: Daito Manabe Technical Direction: Motoi Ishibashi Software Engineering, Visual System Development: Yuya Hanai Synchronous System Development & Operate: Shintaro Kamijo Craft: Muryo Homma, Kyohei Mouri, Saki Ishikawa Produce: Takao Inoue

CG team: Toshihiko Sakata, Hiroshi Niiyama, Yuki Hirakawa, Yu Onishi, Ryohei Suzuki, Kenta Katsuno, Kenta Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Kato

[japanesedoramaandanimelover91]

#ARASHI Newsletter vol.103

#NINO 2023122907:06

💛Good morning, everyone!

Kaikyuu VOL.103 "にのあわせ VOL.11"💛

Thank you all for asking so many questions!(While looking at the questions) Then, let's answer the first question right away.

Q1: "Lately, what's the obsession?"

💛 Lately, in terms of acting, i've been investigating what i can star in that will make people happy and inspire them to watch.

Of course, i don't know if i'll be able to act, but i've been doing that research and i hope to act in something like that a little bit.

Q2: "Can you share some behind-the-scenes footage of 『VIVANT』?"

💛 That's something i've been talking about since the days of 'My Family' (TBS).Although the director wasn't Fukuzawa-san (Katsuo) of "Vivant", the producer was Kazutaka Iida-san (of "Vivant"). Then i asked Iida-san, "What are you going to produce after that?" He said, "Next summer, there will be a drama with Sakai Masato-san and director Fukuzawa. "And, i heard that it will also star Abe Hiroshi-san... 💛 I said to him "Wow! I want to be in it!" "If there's any suitable role, please cast me in it" (laughs). When i was doing this job, i always dreamed of acting in the same production as Yakusho-san Hiroshi-san. Also, unlike in the past, being involved in a work as a non-starring role allows fans to focus more on the work. Of course, it may be worthwhile to be the main actor and to be involved all the time, but when you're not acting this week or last week, it's natural to take the work seriously, and the audience says, "It's not a big deal."And so the audience said, "It's not a big deal that [Ninomiya didn't appear]. I think that people who support me in this way have an additional effect on the "viewing" perspective of the work. I hope that you will enjoy the work as purely as you do, and that's very important.

💛 Dramas like the TV series "ONE DAY 〜聖夜のから騒ぎ～" (Fuji Television) have also demonstrated this kind of decentralization. With social media and other options now available, fewer people seem to be watching 1 hour dramas than before. 15-20 minute videos are also predominant on SNS. Therefore, i think we need to create a format that can automatically attract attention. In other words, if Takao Osawa-san, Miki Nakatani-san, and i are each responsible for 15 minutes, then ultimately viewers will be able to see a 1-hour story. Now is the time when producers also need to change their presentations in this way. Although the show may be over by the time this newsletter is sent out, i'm happy if people enjoy it.

Q3: "What kind of role would you like to try in a movie or drama?"

💛 Personally, i don't have any particular role or work that i want to try. Although i can't disclose the specifics ...... for now, thankfully, next year i'll be so busy that i probably won't be able to do it without 2 Ninomiya (laughs). Therefore, i will continue to be involved in TV and various media next year as well. Or rather, if i don't continue to be involved, the work may not end (laughs). Also next year and the year after that, maybe something interesting can be made. So there hasn't been much change in the way I've been acting so far, so i hope you'll continue to look forward to it.

Q4: "How do you feel about fans?"

💛 The fans may find the current situation disturbing because values are changing every day, and the environment and situation are also changing, and in this case, it's a fact that can't be changed, and we're trying to navigate the unclear situation. Maybe the "airiness" of the environment will get better and we can do more different things, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I'll do my best to reassure the fans who support us and keep up the good work.

[classic-shoujo]

“Ai no Merry Christmas,” performed by Morning Musume/Hello! Project, Hiroshi Itsuki, and Takao Horiuchi. 2002.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: The Garden of Words

Rating: NR

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Cast: Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano, Takeshi Maeda, Yuka Terasaki, Takanori Hoshino, Suguru Inoue, Megumi Han, Mikako Komatsu, Yuki Hayashi, Wataru Sekine, Risa Mizuno, Hiroshi Shimozaki, Kuniko Ishijima, Taishi Murata, Azusa Tadokoro

Release year: 2013

Genres: drama, romance

Blurb: Takao is training to become a shoemaker, and skips school to sketch shoes in a Japanese garden. He meets the mysterious older woman Yukino, and without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other...but the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

[dorothydalmati1]

Obscure Animation Subject #51: Tentōmushi no Uta

Originally posted on Twitter on April 11, 2023.

Another show based on a children’s manga by Noboru Kawasaki, produced by Tatsunoko Production and airing on Fuji TV on Sundays at 6 PM, shown before Sazae-san, it aired from October 6, 1974 to September 26, 1976 for 104 episodes.

It replaced Gatchaman in its timeslot and was replaced by Paul's Miraculous Adventure, the show is about seven young brothers and sisters who grow up peacefully supported by the love and care of their parents, but by their touring wedding anniversary, they were killed.

The show is written by Shigeru Yanagigawa and Takao Koyama (the latter later became the first head writer for Urusei Yatsura) and is directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa, whose known already as the head director on plenty Tatsunoko shows. As for my thoughts on it, well, it unfortunately didn’t get a fansub so no. However, I’m curious on checking it out because it can actually get quite intriguing for a children’s anime, I also would like to mention that unlike Inakappe Taishō, the episodes are full-length, which means more story and development!

[crazyasianlove]

Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Sub. Esp)

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Título: Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Kingdom 2: Hacia la Tierra Lejana) País: Japón Duración: 134 min. Género: acción, historia, guerra Fecha de estreno: 15 de julio, 2022 Dirección: Sato Shinsuke Guion: Kuroiwa Tsutomu SINOPSIS Después de reprimir la rebelión de su hermano menor, el rey del estado de Qin, Eisei, que había tomado el trono y aspira a unificar China, es amenazado por asesinos que entraron en el palacio real por la noche. Gracias a Shin y Ka Ryou TEn, quienes se apresuraron a la escena, los asesinos fueron repelidos con éxito, pero estaba claro que había alguien dentro del palacio que planeaba asesinar a Eisei. Si bien todavía había cierta incertidumbre, el enemigo vecino, el estado de Wei, comenzó a invadir a través de la frontera, y Shin finalmente se unirá a su primera batalla como soldado de a pie. Los soldados de a pie formaron un equipo "GO" de cinco hombres, y Shin se unió al campo de batalla junto con sus viejos amigos Bi Hei y Bi Tou, que vienen de la misma ciudad natal, el experimentado líder del escuadrón Taku Kei, que no es fiable pero nunca había matado a nadie, y el misterioso Kyou Kai, cuyo rostro está cubierto casi por completo con una máscara. Go Kei, el gran general de Wei, es un genio con una excelente estrategia militar, y también hace pleno uso de la poderosa fuerza de carros de Wei para invadir a los soldados de a pie de Qin en la línea del frente. Cuando el gran general de Qin, el duque Hyou, recibe noticias de la amarga batalla, simplemente sonríe irónicamente y ordena a sus tropas que se mantentan alerta. Contra probabilidades abrumadoras, Shin pelea una batalla solitaria con su habilidad perfeccionada con la espada, mientras que sus camaradas y otros lograron sobrevivir con su propio ingenio. Baku Koshin, un general de mil hombres de Qin, ve el éxito de Shin y sus hombres y corrió a las colinas para unirse a ellos en un asalto aún más imprudente. Con Shin y sus hombres del Cuarto Ejército mostrando un ligero tambaleo por la abrumadora desventaja de Qin del día anterior, el duque Kyou encuentra la "chispa" de la batalla y finalmente hace su movimiento. Mientras la batalla vanza a lo grande y un gran fuego comienza a rodar, esa persona inesperada también aparece en el campo de batalla... CAST Yamazaki Kento como Shin Yoshizawa Ryo como Eisei/Hyou Hashimoto Kanna como Ka Ryou Ten Seino Nana como Kyou Kai Mitsushima Shinnosuke como Heki Okayama Amane como Bi Hei Miura Takahiro como Bi Tou Hamatsu Takayuki como Taku Kei Makabe Togi como Hairou Yamamoto Chihiro como Kyou Sho Toyokawa Etsushi como Hyou Kou Takashima Masahiro como Shobunkun Kaname Jun como To Kato Masaya como Shishi Takahashi Tsutomu como Kyugen Shibukawa Kiyohiko como Baku Koshin Hirayama Yusuke como Mou Bu Ozawa Yukiyoshi como Gou Kei Tamaki Hiroshi como Shou Hei Kun Sato Koichi como Ryo Fui Osawa Takao como Ou Ki

TRÁILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJR1YKFq_8

[ulkaralakbarova]

Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Li Xin: Kento Yamazaki Yin Zheng: Ryo Yoshizawa He Liao Diao: Kanna Hashimoto Qiang Lei: Nana Seino …: Hiroshi Tamaki …: Koichi Sato Wang Qi: Takao Osawa Zi Xia: Anne Watanabe …: Yuki Yamada …: Ainosuke…

[redsamuraiii]

The Silent Service (2023) by 東宝映画情報

A film about Japan's first nuclear submarine built in collaboration with the United States of America which had gone rogue. Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Captain (Hiroshi Tamaki) tried to get it back before the Americans decide to sink it, seeing it as a threat.

Also stars Takao Osawa (Kingdom), Aya Ueto (Yoshitsune), Tomoya Nakamura (Kamen Rider Black Sun), Yosuke Eguchi (Rurouni Kenshin), and more.

[miriamundertale]

Skate-Leading Stars, The Bane of my Fucking Existence

I've partially wanted to talk about this anime for a while, but after Confirmation that it's real and I haven't been fucking hallucinating it, I think now is likely a better time than ever to uh, Discuss this weird ass show. Skate-Leading Stars was first revealed to me while working on a separate whole project (My attempt to watch every anime where Hiroshi Kamiya voices a main character) and saw it as the main currently airing show that he was voicing a character in. Unfortunately for me, the thought that formed was "oh sweet, this is a currently airing one I could watch this as it airs," not realizing the two fucking year long brainworm I was about to nourish. As a precursor, I need to make clear I'm going to be jumping around in focus a lot. moreover, this is NOT a review, i just want to vent about something that's been taking over my mind. there is a LOT of weird shit going on with this anime that I'd like to at least cover so if I leave something hanging for a bit, I will get back to it at some point.

Spoilers for Skate-Leading Stars, Your Lie In April

What the fuck is Skate-Leading?

Have you ever watched like, a sport, a game, or some other activity (Including Single player ones!) and just wanted to add people to it for no fucking reason? like, "What if chess was 5 people on each side per board deliberating every action while really hoping nobody else listens in" tier shit. That's the main premise of Skate-Leading. It's a sport where 5 anime boys do figure skating all at once in a formation together. The obvious concerns about safety are not even mentioned and the idea of "how do you even judge this on a regional level well without a LOT of judges" is settled by having the numbers be put up as a box that they say is an AI judging it. a core plot point is the One Interesting Character figuring out how the AI works in his gamer cave and gaming it.

Your first bit of confusion you may encounter with that premise is of course "isn't there already pair skating as an actual real sport one could use for the drama of multi-person skating?" or maybe "doesnt this mean this just a more fucked up yuri on ice?" which to me are both great questions, with only the first easily answered with a Yes. Yuri on ice is the obvious comparison for what SLS is attempting to draw from here, given you have seen literally anything about yuri on ice and the timing of the two shows, but you need to understand that the figure skating is a bait. the yaoi is the point but is bait in regards for understanding this plot. they're not trying to do Yuri on ice. They're trying to do Your Lie In April.

Let's Talk about the OP (Updated info in final paragraph)

For some fucking reason that I originally credited to COVID delays, half the fucking OP is black screens.

I don't think anything of it is especially standout aside from that, while SLS has many weaknesses the OP isnt one of them. Unfortunately it's not anything to write home about either, so I don't want anyone else to feel like we're truly missing out when I reveal the fact that as far as I can tell the OP was censored for the western release. I'm operating on my own anecdotal evidence and what is one of my two current white whales (the other that isn't about to be mentioned is the Japanese dub of Batman Vs Superman) so if my theorizing here is completely incorrect than that's Fine. Thats Fine. About a month into watching the show while it was airing, the half black OP started to get to me. I wanted to see more, try and get to the bottom of it, and eventually managed to find the full uncensored version uploaded which remained up for about two weeks before disappearing. I know that the version we can find online is fucking censored. I have no idea why. once again, so little people I know have any knowledge about this show aside from me, let alone have talked about it. I cannot find anything online talking about the OP aside from light mentions in the comments of the Crunchyroll upload sandwiched between Jesus Bots.

While spending a pathetic amount of time delaying this, I actually in fact have been sent proof of the uncensored OP existing. from anything I could tell or from what the friend who sent this from me could tell, the entire reason is something involving covid delays (Confirming my original suspicion, at least!) making them rush out the international version before the broadcast version, thought the delay wasn't that huge? its still definitely a mystery to me that haunts me a little but at least I know it Exists.

Since I've spent enough time talking about not the plot I think its a good time to address the whole Your Lie In April thing

What the Fuck do you Mean Its Trying to do Your lie In April??

Your lie in April, if you haven't seen it, is a story about dealing with grief, parental abuse and falling in love again with your passions even after loss. it's a very rough anime to sit through emotionally, and while its very much a show i have mixed feelings about personally, it's still a very well written example of its genre. Skate-Leading Stars spends has the main character parallel Kousei Arima's (The Main character of Your Lie in April) very basic arc of a teenager getting back into the area he used to be a prodigy in as a child, any forms of subtly or trauma have been entirely replaced with as many meatheaded brash qualities as they can in order to fit the true BL purpose of the story. Instead of having the love interest heavily foreshadowed to die being someone who views said passion in an entirely different light than him as a way to work through trauma and difficulty handling the act of playing piano again, the love interest is a mysterious boy who's using him to try and get back at his brother. Skate-Leading Stars, unabashedly, apes the format and ideas of Your Lie in April, barely understanding anything else going on, and uses it for a bl anime about a sport that is at best impossible to judge and realistically physically dangerous to exist.

Ok now what?

I don't think its necessary to do a plot summary of SLS, partially because I don't want to, but mostly because who fucking cares. I love bad shows, and while the start of the show is undeniably strong in its garbage it goes nowhere with anything. It spends a large amount of its time as a story setting up beats that never pay off, having loud yaoi boys yelling constantly, or underusing Hiroshi Kamiya. There IS a manga I could read for the rest of the story that's likely been playing out, but since only the first chapter is translated I don't see any reason to examine it too closely. If you want to watch gay ice skating anime, Yuri on ice is talked about for a reason. if you want to watch bad anime with Hiroshi Kamiya Ultimate Otaku Teacher exists. If you have read the manga please tell me if Sasugai actually has some sort of fatal disease or they're just aping the framing from Your Lie in April without meaning again.

[visplay]

Chris: Orochi is a Japanese sword and sorcery fantasy film including wizards, an eight-headed dragon, kaiju, magic, and was originally going to be part of a three movie series that would conclude with a film about the main character vs. a Godzilla variant, Watch: When Free.

Richie: I’ve seen this movie many times and I never tire of it, it is a fun watch, watch any way you can, Watch: Rent.

[anamon-book]

鮎川哲也 日影丈吉 土屋隆夫集　日本推理小説体系 第13巻 編集委員＝江戸川乱歩・平野謙・荒正人・中島河太郎・松本清張 東都書房 装幀＝真鍋博

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D-Frag

Episode 3 end card by Hiroyama Hiroshi