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Satoshi Tsumabuki is a popular Japanese actor born December 13, 1980 in Mitsuhashi (now Yanagawa), Fukuoka, Japan. His career in the entertainment world began when Satoshi modeled for teen magazine “Street News”. In 1998, Satoshi competed alongside 3 million other contestants in “Star Audition” co-produced by talent agencies Amuse, Horipro, and television network NTV. Satoshi won the competition and soon afterwards signed with Horipro. Later that year Satoshi made his acting debut in the 1998 Fuji TV drama “Subarashii Hibi”.
Satoshi’s career would then reach new heights with his role in the 2001 film “Waterboys”. Satoshi portrayed main character Suzuki – the lone member of a high school swimming team who finds himself on a hastily formed male synchronized swimming team. His performance would garner Satoshi the “Newcomer of the Year” award at the 2002 Japan Academy Awards. Since that time Satoshi’s career has blossomed with Satoshi performing in critically acclaimed film’s like “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” and “Tokyo!”, while also headlining major blockbuster films like “Dororo” and “The Magic Hour”. For his recent performance in the Japanese-Korean co-produced film “Boat,” Satoshi learned Korean and delivered some lines in Korean.
In his free time Satoshi Tsumabuki is an avid music fan and even formed the band “Basking Life” back in 1999 with his brother. Although he doesn’t pursue his musical career in earnest, he does find music to be the best instrument to express himself and relieve stress. Satoshi has also stated that actor and likewise semi-pro musician Tadanobu Asano is his favorite actor. —AsianMediaWiki
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Miki Nakatani (born January 12, 1976 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Miki Nakatani began her professional career as a member of a singing group “Key West Club”. In 1993, she began appearing in television dramas and commercials, and then in 1995 made her film debut in Toei’s “Dai shitsuren”.
In 1996 she released her first single, “Mind Circus”, on For Life Records with production by Ryuichi Sakamoto who produced and often wrote music for her subsequent albums and singles. Her most recent music release was the single “Air Pocket” in May, 2001.
In January 1999, Nakatani appeared both in the hit TV series Keizoku, as Jun Shibata (reprising the role in the 2000 Toho movie version “Keizoku: The Movie”), and in the horror film sequel Ring 2, having worked with its director Hideo Nakata previously on the mystery-thriller film Chaos. She won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for he role as Nui in Shochiku’s “When the Last Sword Is Drawn” (2003).
She was cast in the co-starring role of Hermes in the hit Japanese movie “Train Man: Densha Otoko” (2005), based on a popular TV series, partly due to her resemblance to the real-life pseudonymous Hermes as described in the originating non-fiction book, Train Man: Densha Otoko, by Nakano Hitori.
In 2006 she starred “Christmas on July 24th Avenue” and “Memories of Matsuko”. Miki Nakatani won the inaugural Best Actress Award at the Asian Film Awards for her performance in Memories of Matsuko. —AsianMediaWiki
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Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna?) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model. Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent. She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in English after her parents divorced when she was 7. She has an older sister, Angela, who is also a former model.
Tsuchiya made her acting debut in 2004 in Novala Takemoto’s adapted runaway hit Kamikaze Girls as the girl biker punk yanki “Ichigo Shirayuri”. This role brought her both immediate attention and critical success, with Tsuchiya winning several awards in Japan because of “Kamikaze Girls”. Tsuchiya’s success in acting continued after various movie performances and appearances in dramas such as The Taste of Tea, Dororo, Sakuran and as the voice of Lindsay Lohan’s character “Maggie Peyton” in the Japanese dub of Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her latest performance in a film is starring in the live action adaptation of the manga The Legend of Kamui. —Wikipedia
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Ryōko Hirosue (広末 涼子, Hirosue Ryōko?, born July 18, 1980) is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.
Hirosue made her television debut in 1995 at the age of 15 in Fuji TV’s Heart ni S. She was also named “Best Newcomer” at the 10th Television Drama Academy Awards the same year when she starred in Fuji TV’s comedy series, Shota no Sushi. In 1997, she appeared in the finalé of medical drama, Hoshi no Kinka and the special episode of Odoru Daisousasen before making her breakthrough performance in Fuji TV’s comedy series, Beach Boys, where she was awarded “Best Supporting Actress” at the 14th Television Drama Academy Awards. Hirosue also made her film debut in the same year when she appeared in 20-seki Nostalgia which won her critical acclaim. She was awarded the Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award at the Mainichi Film Awards, Best New Talent at the Yokohama Film Festival and perhaps most importantly, the Newcomer of the Year award at the 21st Japanese Academy Awards.
In 1998, Hirosue reprised her role in the special episode of Beach Boys while also appearing in four other television dramas in the same year. In 1999, she returned to the big screen in Poppoya and Himitsu. Her performances in both films won her much praise from award-giving bodies of Japan and she received two nominations at the 23rd Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actress (for Himitsu) and Best Supporting Actress (for Poppoya). Her international profile also increased when she received the Best Actress prize for her performance in Himitsu at the 30th Catalonian International Film Festival.
She returned prominently to television in 2000 playing Yuki Katase in the drama, Summer Snow, which won 5 awards at the 26th Television Drama Academy Awards including “Best Supporting Actress” and “Best Drama” before showing off her comedic chops in TBS’s Oyaji. The latter role again won her “Best Supporting Actress” at the 27th awards ceremony.
In 2001, Hirosue made her international film debut in Luc Besson’s Wasabi. Not being able to speak French for her role, she had to learn her lines phonetically. She also reunited for the fourth time on television with her frequent co-star, Yutaka Takenouchi (they starred together in Long Vacation, Beach Boys and Seikimatsu no Uta), in Fuji TV’s romantic comedy series, Dekichatta Kekkon, starring as an expectant couple who did not know each other well before their one-night stand leading to the planning of a shotgun wedding. The series also starred Hiroshi Abe who won Best Supporting Actor at the 30th Television Drama Academy Awards.
In 2002, Hirosue appeared in the film, Renai Shashin, and the low-rated television drama, Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu before capping the year in the family drama series, Otousan. She reunited with her Summer Snow lead co-star, Tsuyoshi Dōmoto, in 2003’s romance series, Moto Kare. Her portrayal as the initially flippant ex-girlfriend, Makoto Saeki, won her “Best Supporting Actress” yet again at the 38th Television Drama Academy Awards.
In 2004, Hirosue married Takahiro Okazawa (岡沢高宏) on January 17, 2004 and gave birth to her son on 10 April 2004. They later divorced in March 2008. Her marriage and new motherhood decreased her workload when she only made one appearance in 2004 in the film, Hana and Alice, and in 2005’s Fuji TV’s romance drama, Slow Dance.
Hirosue returned to film and television in 2006 by appearing in three television dramas, a TV movie and a film. In 2007, she co-starred for the third time with Hiroshi Abe (her fellow actor in Dekichatta Kekkon and Haruka naru Yakusoku) in the film, Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust. She also appeared in two TV movies, Mama ga Ryori wo Tsukuru Wake, aired by Fuji TV and Long Wedding Road! which was broadcast by TBS. Hirosue also made a guest appearance in the third episode of detective-mystery series, Galileo.
She had a supporting role in NTV’s comedy series, Yasuko to Kenji in 2008. She portrayed Mika Kobayashi opposite Masahiro Motoki in the 2008 Japanese film Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film. In 2009, she is starring in the remake of the mystery film Zero Focus and the adaptation to film of the novel Villon’s Wife by Osamu Dasai. On October 9, 2010 she was married to Candle June, a candle artist. They met in Haiti in March 2010 participating in earthquake relief efforts.On November 22, 2010 she announced that she is pregnant with her second child. —Wikipedia
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69 (Japan, 2004)
Dir: Lee Sang-il
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Scrap Heaven (Japan, 2005)
Dir: Lee Sang-il
Cast: Ryo Kase, Jô Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama
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Antenna (Japan, 2004)
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
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Cencoroll (Japan, 2009)
Director: Atsuya Uki
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Kisaragi (Japan, 2007)
Director: Yuichi Sato
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Dororo (Japan, 2007)
Director: Akihiko Shiota
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Shinobi (Japan, 2005)
Director: Ten Shimoyama
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From Me to You / Kimi ni Todoke (Japan, 2010)
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
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Train Man / Densha Otoko (Japan, 2005)
Director: Shosuke Murakami
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A Pierrot / Jyuryoku Pierrot (Japan, 2009)
Director: Junichi Mori
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Sakuran (Japan, 2006)
Director: Mika Ninagawa
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Detroit Metal City (Japan, 2008)
Director: Toshio Lee
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Satoshi Tsumabuki
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Satoshi Tsumabuki is a popular Japanese actor born December 13, 1980 in Mitsuhashi (now Yanagawa), Fukuoka, Japan. His career in the entertainment world began when Satoshi modeled for teen magazine “Street News”. In 1998, Satoshi competed alongside 3 million other contestants in “Star Audition” co-produced by talent agencies Amuse, Horipro, and television network NTV. Satoshi won the competition and soon afterwards signed with Horipro. Later that year Satoshi made his acting debut in the 1998 Fuji TV drama “Subarashii Hibi”.
Satoshi’s career would then reach new heights with his role in the 2001 film “Waterboys”. Satoshi portrayed main character Suzuki – the lone member of a high school swimming team who finds himself on a hastily formed male synchronized swimming team. His performance would garner Satoshi the “Newcomer of the Year” award at the 2002 Japan Academy Awards. Since that time Satoshi’s career has blossomed with Satoshi performing in critically acclaimed film’s like “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” and “Tokyo!”, while also headlining major blockbuster films like “Dororo” and “The Magic Hour”. For his recent performance in the Japanese-Korean co-produced film “Boat,” Satoshi learned Korean and delivered some lines in Korean.
In his free time Satoshi Tsumabuki is an avid music fan and even formed the band “Basking Life” back in 1999 with his brother. Although he doesn’t pursue his musical career in earnest, he does find music to be the best instrument to express himself and relieve stress. Satoshi has also stated that actor and likewise semi-pro musician Tadanobu Asano is his favorite actor. —AsianMediaWiki
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Miki Nakatani
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Miki Nakatani (born January 12, 1976 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer.
Miki Nakatani began her professional career as a member of a singing group “Key West Club”. In 1993, she began appearing in television dramas and commercials, and then in 1995 made her film debut in Toei’s “Dai shitsuren”.
In 1996 she released her first single, “Mind Circus”, on For Life Records with production by Ryuichi Sakamoto who produced and often wrote music for her subsequent albums and singles. Her most recent music release was the single “Air Pocket” in May, 2001.
In January 1999, Nakatani appeared both in the hit TV series Keizoku, as Jun Shibata (reprising the role in the 2000 Toho movie version “Keizoku: The Movie”), and in the horror film sequel Ring 2, having worked with its director Hideo Nakata previously on the mystery-thriller film Chaos. She won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for he role as Nui in Shochiku’s “When the Last Sword Is Drawn” (2003).
She was cast in the co-starring role of Hermes in the hit Japanese movie “Train Man: Densha Otoko” (2005), based on a popular TV series, partly due to her resemblance to the real-life pseudonymous Hermes as described in the originating non-fiction book, Train Man: Densha Otoko, by Nakano Hitori.
In 2006 she starred “Christmas on July 24th Avenue” and “Memories of Matsuko”. Miki Nakatani won the inaugural Best Actress Award at the Asian Film Awards for her performance in Memories of Matsuko. —AsianMediaWiki
Anna Tsuchiya
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Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna?) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model. Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent. She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in English after her parents divorced when she was 7. She has an older sister, Angela, who is also a former model.
Tsuchiya made her acting debut in 2004 in Novala Takemoto’s adapted runaway hit Kamikaze Girls as the girl biker punk yanki “Ichigo Shirayuri”. This role brought her both immediate attention and critical success, with Tsuchiya winning several awards in Japan because of “Kamikaze Girls”. Tsuchiya’s success in acting continued after various movie performances and appearances in dramas such as The Taste of Tea, Dororo, Sakuran and as the voice of Lindsay Lohan’s character “Maggie Peyton” in the Japanese dub of Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her latest performance in a film is starring in the live action adaptation of the manga The Legend of Kamui. —Wikipedia
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Last Quarter / Kagen no Tsuki (Japan, 2004)
Director: Ken Nikai
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Touch (Japan, 2005)
Director: Isshin Inudô
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The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God / Ahiru to kamo no koinrokkâ (Japan, 2007)
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
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One Missed Call Final (Japan, 2006)
Director: Manabu Asô
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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police (Japan, 2008)
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto
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Ryoko Hirosue
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Ryōko Hirosue (広末 涼子, Hirosue Ryōko?, born July 18, 1980) is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.
Hirosue made her television debut in 1995 at the age of 15 in Fuji TV’s Heart ni S. She was also named “Best Newcomer” at the 10th Television Drama Academy Awards the same year when she starred in Fuji TV’s comedy series, Shota no Sushi. In 1997, she appeared in the finalé of medical drama, Hoshi no Kinka and the special episode of Odoru Daisousasen before making her breakthrough performance in Fuji TV’s comedy series, Beach Boys, where she was awarded “Best Supporting Actress” at the 14th Television Drama Academy Awards. Hirosue also made her film debut in the same year when she appeared in 20-seki Nostalgia which won her critical acclaim. She was awarded the Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award at the Mainichi Film Awards, Best New Talent at the Yokohama Film Festival and perhaps most importantly, the Newcomer of the Year award at the 21st Japanese Academy Awards.
In 1998, Hirosue reprised her role in the special episode of Beach Boys while also appearing in four other television dramas in the same year. In 1999, she returned to the big screen in Poppoya and Himitsu. Her performances in both films won her much praise from award-giving bodies of Japan and she received two nominations at the 23rd Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actress (for Himitsu) and Best Supporting Actress (for Poppoya). Her international profile also increased when she received the Best Actress prize for her performance in Himitsu at the 30th Catalonian International Film Festival.
She returned prominently to television in 2000 playing Yuki Katase in the drama, Summer Snow, which won 5 awards at the 26th Television Drama Academy Awards including “Best Supporting Actress” and “Best Drama” before showing off her comedic chops in TBS’s Oyaji. The latter role again won her “Best Supporting Actress” at the 27th awards ceremony.
In 2001, Hirosue made her international film debut in Luc Besson’s Wasabi. Not being able to speak French for her role, she had to learn her lines phonetically. She also reunited for the fourth time on television with her frequent co-star, Yutaka Takenouchi (they starred together in Long Vacation, Beach Boys and Seikimatsu no Uta), in Fuji TV’s romantic comedy series, Dekichatta Kekkon, starring as an expectant couple who did not know each other well before their one-night stand leading to the planning of a shotgun wedding. The series also starred Hiroshi Abe who won Best Supporting Actor at the 30th Television Drama Academy Awards.
In 2002, Hirosue appeared in the film, Renai Shashin, and the low-rated television drama, Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu before capping the year in the family drama series, Otousan. She reunited with her Summer Snow lead co-star, Tsuyoshi Dōmoto, in 2003’s romance series, Moto Kare. Her portrayal as the initially flippant ex-girlfriend, Makoto Saeki, won her “Best Supporting Actress” yet again at the 38th Television Drama Academy Awards.
In 2004, Hirosue married Takahiro Okazawa (岡沢高宏) on January 17, 2004 and gave birth to her son on 10 April 2004. They later divorced in March 2008. Her marriage and new motherhood decreased her workload when she only made one appearance in 2004 in the film, Hana and Alice, and in 2005’s Fuji TV’s romance drama, Slow Dance.
Hirosue returned to film and television in 2006 by appearing in three television dramas, a TV movie and a film. In 2007, she co-starred for the third time with Hiroshi Abe (her fellow actor in Dekichatta Kekkon and Haruka naru Yakusoku) in the film, Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust. She also appeared in two TV movies, Mama ga Ryori wo Tsukuru Wake, aired by Fuji TV and Long Wedding Road! which was broadcast by TBS. Hirosue also made a guest appearance in the third episode of detective-mystery series, Galileo.
She had a supporting role in NTV’s comedy series, Yasuko to Kenji in 2008. She portrayed Mika Kobayashi opposite Masahiro Motoki in the 2008 Japanese film Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film. In 2009, she is starring in the remake of the mystery film Zero Focus and the adaptation to film of the novel Villon’s Wife by Osamu Dasai. On October 9, 2010 she was married to Candle June, a candle artist. They met in Haiti in March 2010 participating in earthquake relief efforts.On November 22, 2010 she announced that she is pregnant with her second child. —Wikipedia
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Beck (Japan, 2010)
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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L: Change the World (Japan, 2008)
Director: Hideo Nakata
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion (Japan, 2007)
Director: Kenki Saegusa
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Seaside Motel (Japan, 2010)
Director: Kentarô Moriya
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A Stranger of Mine (Japan, 2005)
Director: Kenji Uchida
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Midnight Sun / Taiyô no Uta (Japan, 2006)
Director: Norihiro Koizumi
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Halfway (Japan, 2009)
Director: Eriko Kitagawa
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G@me (Japan, 2003)
Director: Satoshi Isaka
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Gokusen: The Movie (Japan, 2009)
Director: Tôya Satô
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Frog River (Japan, 2002)
Director: Hajime Ishimine
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