#Kusabue Mitsuko

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Mitsuko Kusabue – 草笛 光子 Photo by Keiko Shimizu – 清水 恵子 (けい子) 草笛光子のクローゼット, 2018年ファッションディレクター

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Jigen Daisuke(2023) / Lupin the Third Pt.2 "Wings of Death, Albatross"(1980) and Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

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Japanese actress Mitsuko Kusabue (1933- ).

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The upcoming live-action spin-off film, Jigen Daisuke 「次元大介」, has a brand-new action-packed trailer!

Narrated by the current Japanese voice actor of the animated Jigen, Akio Ōtsuka, the trailer gives a better look at what we can expect from the film, along with a glimpse at its supporting cast.

Yōko Maki is due to play Jigen's arch-enemy, Adel, an assassin who has lost both a leg and her voice - neither of which stop her from being a formidable foe for our hero.

Kotoka Maki features as Oto, a young girl targeted by the villainous Adel's organization.

Masatoshi Nagase stars as Takeshi Kawashima, an assassin and right-hand man of Adel who possesses impressive mimicry and disguise abilities.

Honami Satō plays Ruri, Kawashima's lover, and Mitsuko Kusabue plays Chiharu Yaguchi, the world's best gunsmith whose run-down watch repair shop serves as a front for her services.

The film is releasing “worldwide” (exact locations to be revealed) on October 13th, 2023, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Tetsuji Tamayama, who previously portrayed the character in the 2014 released feature film, will be returning to the role of Jigen. He is the second actor to take the role of Jigen in a live action Lupin III film, with Kunie Tanaka being the first in 1974’s Strange Psychokinetic Strategy.

Yoshimasa Akamatsu (BD ~Akechi Tantei Jimusho, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows) has produced the script for the upcoming film, and Hajime Hashimoto (The Detective Is in the Bar franchise, AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo, Shimauma, Signal) is on directing duties.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/UD13qp8-LfE

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Yuzo Kayama and Yoko Tsukasa in Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967)

Cast: Yoko Tsukasa, Yuzo Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori, Mie Hama, Daisuke Kato, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yu Fujiki, Tadao Nakamura. Screenplay: Nobuo Yamada. Cinematography: Yuzuru Aizawa. Production design: Satoru Chuko. Film editing: Eiji Ooi. Music: Toru Takemitsu. 

As Scattered Clouds opens, Yumiko Eda (Yoko Tsukasa) is as happy as a married woman can be: Her husband has just had a promotion that will take them from Tokyo to Washington, D.C., and she has just learned that she's pregnant. And then he's killed in an accident and she loses the child. It's a mark of Mikio Naruse's masterly control of tone that he chooses neither to show the accident happening or to make explicit how her pregnancy ended -- whether it was a miscarriage or an abortion. The cause is less important than the effect: Yumiko's utter devastation. And then we switch from her point of view to learn that the driver who killed her husband, Shiro Mishima (Yuzo Kayama), was devastated by the accident in his own way. Although he is exonerated -- he was in no way responsible for the death of Yumiko's husband, the result of a blown-out tire that caused him to lose control of the car -- he suffers at work: His company wants to avoid scandal and transfers him to a less-desirable location. He also suffers from guilt: Desperate to make amends, he arranges to send Yumiko a monthly stipend. She needs the money: Her husband's family coldly distances itself from her, and the insurance isn't enough to live on. But she proudly rejects Shiro's offer, regarding it as "blood money," until it's apparent that she needs it to survive. To that point, Scattered Clouds is a probing look at the nature of grief and guilt. And then melodrama sets in: Shiro's transfer coincidentally puts him in the neighborhood of the inn that Yumiko's sister-in-law runs, and Yumiko takes a job as hostess at the inn. As their plot-crossed paths intersect, Shiro and Yumiko overcome their initial antipathy and fall in love. But what matters in Scattered Clouds is not the familiarity of the tropes of melodrama but the skill with which Naruse, his actors, and his crew -- especially composer Toru Takemitsu -- handle them. It's an irresistible film, no matter how contrived its plot, and if you're not a little teary-eyed when it ends, I feel sorry for you.   

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I just watched the Jigen Movie. Read of my thoughts.

(spoilers under the cut! I had a great time 😊)

MR TETSUJI TAMAYAMA SIR YOUR ACTING IN THIS FILM WAS INCREDIBLE!! Especially in the bits between him and Oto; the hand shake he did when reading Oto's backstory was just AAAAAAAHHH PERFECTION

All the performances in this movie were great honestly! Special mention goes to Kotoka Maki and Mitsuko Kusabue as Oto and Chiharu respectively. Loved them

TOTALLY thought Chiharu was gonna die like three separate times in this movie. Was very pleasantly surprised when she survived. And she even adopted Oto!

Really liked Ruri the prostitute girl too

Felt really bad for Kyoko and Yuya

The whole street thinking Jigen was Chiharu's nephew and Oto was his daughter was hilarious. One of the best scenes in the movie

The stuff about Adele was really interesting

Also the shapeshifting gimmick of Kawashima or whatever his name was I forgot

James's music... *chef's kiss*

I appreciated the Monkey Punch photo and the Fiat at the end (I KNEW there was gonna be a cameo!)

I swear to God I thought Shun Oguri was about to come out of that car for a second

Jigen making sukiyaki and spaghetti... I see what you did there 😆

I really liked the look of the city in this movie. While there were parts where I couldn't really tell what was going on, on the whole I think it was really well lit.

I thought Akio Otsuka was supposed to narrate this but I didn't hear him anywhere! Maybe I missed it, maybe it was in the credits and I didn't see it cause I skipped them, idk.

Also thought they were gonna make at least some mention of Kobayashi but didn't see any

This one was a LOT of fun. Took a little bit to really hook me but when it did I had a BLAST. And now to wait and see what the hell they're gonna do next!

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Il trailer del film live action Jigen Daisuke rivela nuovi membri del cast Yōko Maki, Kotoka Maki, Masatoshi Nagase, Honami Satō, Mitsuko Kusabue si aggiungono al cast del film del 13 ottobre. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/il-trailer-del-film-live-action-jigen-daisuke-rivela-il-cast-principale/?feed_id=398165&_unique_id=64f9afa23de46 #JigenDaisuke #Liveaction #LupinIII #TMSEntertainment

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Mitsuko Kusabue (1933-)

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みんな、「タツオ」くんが大好きね!

『まだ結婚できない男』(2019) “The Man Who Still Can’t Get Married” aka “He Who Still Can’t Marry”

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The Inugami Family / Inugami-ke no ichizoku (1976, Kon Ichikawa)

犬神家の一族　（市川崑）

10/24/19

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'Evangelion 3.0+1.0,' 'BELLE,' 'JUJUTSU KAISEN 0,' Nominated for Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year

  The 45th Annual Japan Academy Film Prize, Japan's top award show for domestic Japanese films, announced their nominees today for the award show's top categories, including Picture of the Year, Animation of the Year, Director of the Year, all the actor categories, and more, revealing that Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time is competing against JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 for Animation of the Year, which Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train won last year.

  Picture of the Year 


God of Kinema

Last of the Wolves

Under the Open Sky

Drive My Car

In the Wake

  Animation of the Year

Sing a Bit of Harmony

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

JUJUTSU KAISEN 0

Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time

BELLE

  Director of the Year

Kazuya Shiraishi (Last of the Wolves)

Takahisa Zeze (In the Wake)

Miwa Nishikawa (Under the Open Sky)

Izuru Narushima (A Morning of Farewell)

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

  Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Takeru Satoh (In the Wake)

Masaki Suda (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet)

Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car)

Tori Matsuzaka (Last of the Wolves)

Koji Yakusho (Under the Open Sky)

  Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Yuki Amami (Rogo no Shikin ga Arimasen!)

Kasumi Arimura (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet)

Mei Nagano (And, the Baton Was Passed)

Mayu Matsuoka (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction)

Sayuri Yoshinaga (A Morning of Farewell)

  Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Hiroshi Abe (In the Wake)

Ryohei Suzuki (Last of the Wolves)

Shinichi Tsutsumi (The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill)

Taiga Nakano (Under the Open Sky)

Nijiro Murakami (Last of the Wolves)

  Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Satomi Ishihara (And, the Baton Was Passed)

Kaya Kiyohara (In the Wake)

Mitsuko Kusabue (Rogo no Shikin ga Arimasen!)

Nanase Nishino (Last of the Wolves)

Suzu Hirose (A Morning of Farewell)

  Outstanding Foreign Language Film

Tailor (Greece)

Nomadland (United States)

Minari (United States)

No Time to Die (United Kingdom)

Dune (United States)

  Newcomer of the Year

Mio Imada (Tokyo Revengers) NOTE: Live-action film

Nanase Nishino (Last of the Wolves)

Touko Miura (Drive My Car)

Ai Yoshikawa (Honey Lemon Soda)

Hayato Isomura (A Family) / (What Did You Eat Yesterday? The Movie)

Ukon Onoe II (Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai)

Hio Miyazawa (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction)

Fukase (Character)  

  While not every film or actor is a winner, everyone who is nominated will be given an Award for Excellence, which also includes a statue. The awards will be given out on March 11 in a ceremony at Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo.

  Source: Oricon

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

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まれ (Mare)

DORAMA DETAILS

Title: まれ

Title (romaji): Mare

Broadcast Network: NHK

Genre: Drama

Episodes: 156

Release Date: March 30 - September 26, 2015

Runtime: Mon-Sat 8:00

TV Ratings: 19.4%

Theme song: Mare-zora

PLOT

Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto.

The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mother supports the family by working at the salt pond.

8 years later, Mare, about to graduate from high school, decides to work for the Wajima local government. She wants to have a steady job, unlike her father. Her job is to support people who move to Noto.

CAST

Tsumura Family

Tsuchiya Tao as Mare

Matsumoto Ramu as young Mare

Watanabe Konomi as Mare (age 5)

Oizumi Yo as Tsumura Toru, Mare's father

Tokiwa Takako as Tsumura Aiko, Mare's mother

Hayama Shono as Tsumura Ittetsu, Mare's brother

Kimura Seiya as young Ittetsu

Kusabue Mitsuko as Robert Yukie, Mare's grandmother

Takahashi Rai as Tsumura Tetsushi

Okesaku Family

Tanaka Yuko as Okesaku Fumi

Tanaka Min as Okesaku Ganji

Teraoka Family

Kadowaki Mugi as Teraoka Minori, Mare's classmate

Mizuno Ayame (水野あやめ) as young Minori

Tsukaji Muga as Teraoka Makoto, Minori's father

Fuse Eri as Teraoka Kumi, Minori's mother

Kuramoto Family

Shimizu Fumika as Kuramoto Ichiko, Mare's classmate

Aikawa Aoi (愛川あおい) as young Ichiko

Sasai Eisuke as Kuramoto Koichi, Ichiko's father

Suzuki Sawa as Kuramoto Haru, Ichiko's mother

Nakagawa Shoko as Obara Maki, woman of mystery

Kontani Family

Yamazaki Kento as Keita Kontani, Hiroyuki's son and Mare's classmate and Mare's Husband

Yamazaki Yuuma (山崎祐馬) as young Keita

Itao Itsuji as Kontani Hiroyuki, Keita's father

Fujiyoshi Kumiko as Kontani Naomi, Keita's mother

Nakamura Atsuo as Kontani Yataro, Keita's grandfather

Koyama Harutomo (小山春朋) as Kontani Takumi

Yokoyama Mei (横山芽生) as Kontani Ayumi

Kado Family

Takahata Yuta (高畑裕太) as Kado Yoichiro, Mare's classmate

Guts Ishimatsu as Kado Shinichiro, Yoichiro's father

Oshima Kota (大嶋康太) as young Yoichiro

Others

Watanabe Taichi (渡辺大知) as Futaki Takashi, Mare's classmate

Tsuchiya Kaede (土屋楓) as young Takashi

Negishi Toshie as Wakabayashi Kimiko

Kajiwara Hikari (梶原ひかり) as Okano Ami

Iitoyo Marie as Sawa Saya (ep133-156)

People from Yokohama

Kohinata Fumiyo as Ikehata Daigo

Ryo as Ikehata Wako

Yagira Yuya as Ikehata Daisuke

Nakamura Yurika as Ikehata Minami

Suzuki Taku (鈴木拓) as Asai Kazuya

Shuko (柊子) as Yano Toko

Son Seijun (孫成順) as Chin Bunki

Fukuda Ayano as Ueda Yayoi

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director: Kazuki Watanabe (渡辺一貴), Masae Ichiki (一木正恵), Nishimura Takegoro (西村武五郎)

Screenwriter: Eriko Shinozaki

Executive Producer: Takahashi Ren (高橋練)

Producer: Hase Tomoki (長谷知記)

Music: Sawano Hiroyuki

Narrator: Toda Keiko

WEBSITE 

Official Pages: story | cast | blog announcement | video & images

source : AsianWiki + DramaWiki + Wikipedia

SPOILER

Yamazaki Kento played as a grandson and a guy who love wajima lacquer. He studies hard about it and could be said that lacquer is his whole life? But besides that, he has a first love and she is Mare (his classmate). Actually he is Mare's first love as well. He confessed to her but end up with no clear reply. He then get a grip of himself and keep move forward to his passion about lacquer. Both of them then decided to be a friend & support each other's dream. What happen to their dream? How about their heart? And how could they end up getting married? Find the full story by download or stream here:

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RAW VIDEO: ALT1 | ALT2

SUBTITLES: ALT1 | ALT2

STREAM (with engsub)

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Sumito Tachikawa, Mitsuko Kusabue and Minori Matsushima sing compositions by Ryoichi Hattori

LP Clover lovers

Artist unknown.  Victor Records Japan (1964)  “New Songs in Our Life”

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Yuzo Kayama and Hideko Takamine in Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Yuzo Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yumi Shirakawa, Mie Hama, Aiko Mimasu. Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama, based on a story by Mikio Naruse. Cinematography: Jun Yasumoto. Music: Ichiro Saito

Mikio Naruse's Yearning could almost have been a Douglas Sirk romantic melodrama, with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in the roles played by Hideko Takamine and Yuzo Kayama, except that Hollywood would never have allowed the Japanese film's bleak downer ending. (Sirk argued for an ending to the 1955 All That Heaven Allows in which Hudson's character died, but was overruled by producer Ross Hunter.) Like Sirk, Naruse takes the woman's side and uses the film for sharp commentary on the changing role of women. Reiko Morita's (Hideko Takamine) husband died in the war, after a brief marriage, but she stayed on to help the Morita family rebuild its business after the war ended, and in the subsequent years has run the family grocery and liquor store with great skill. But now a new threat has emerged to their business: the supermarket, which can afford to cut prices below what the Morita's store is able to charge. Reiko runs the store almost single-handedly, with no help from her brother-in-law, Koji (Yuzo Kayama), a college-educated layabout. And then her sister-in-law, Hisako (Mitsuko Kusabue), acting on a suggestion from her husband, proposes that the family convert the store into a supermarket because of its prime location. Koji, as the surviving male in the family, would become president -- if he can clean up his act. The problem with the plan is that there's no room in the scheme for Reiko, who is not actually a member of the family, even though she has kept it going for years. Meanwhile, Koji also discloses to Reiko that he's in love with her, which causes problems because she's his brother's widow as well as because she's 11 years older than he is -- the kinship and the age gap being huge challenges to tradition. When the situation reaches a crisis point, Reiko decides to go home to her own family, which lives far away. Koji follows her onto the train and in a long ride they try to work things out. Naruse and his lead actors give this concluding section a great poignancy, though it ends abruptly and painfully, leaving the audience to work out the consequences of the ending for themselves.

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Mitsuko Kusabue (1933-) in Onna no da (1962)