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unusual facts about Japanese film



Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Although The Twin Snakes was largely developed at Silicon Knights (mostly programming), its cut scenes and models were developed in-house at Konami and directed by Japanese film director Ryuhei Kitamura, reflecting his dynamic signature style, utilizing bullet-time photography and choreographed gunplay extensively.

My Girl and I

It is a remake of the Japanese film Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, adapted from the novel Socrates in Love by Kyoichi Katayama.

The Guys from Paradise

The Guys from Paradise (Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.


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Apartment 1303 3D

The US-Canadian co-production is the English-language remake of the Japanese film of the same name.

Blackpool Dance Festival

It was depicted in the 1996 award-winning Japanese film, Shall We ダンス?, directed by Masayuki Suo and again, in the 2004 U.S. remake Shall We Dance?.

Bravo My Life

This film is an adaptation based on the 1988 Japanese film Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You, written and directed by Jun Ichikawa.

Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

In 1927, the The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well.

Cosmos sulphureus

Cosmos sulphureus is featured in the 1997 Japanese film Remembering the Cosmos Flower.

Distant Thunder

Enrai, a 1981 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi

Fran Rubel Kuzui

In 2003, the Kuzuis were among the executive producers for the Thai-Japanese film Last Life in the Universe.

Fueki

Yuko Fueki (born 1979), Japanese film actress popular in Korea

Hideyuki Hirayama

He also got several Japanese film awards for director, including the Best Director award for The Laughing Frog and Out at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival.

Higanbana

Equinox Flower (originally titled Higanbana), a 1958 Japanese film

Hinano Yoshikawa

The following year she made her international debut in Jean-Pierre Limosin's Tokyo Eyes, a Franco-Japanese film, in which she played Hinano.

Joe's Apartment

It was based on a 1992 short film first made for MTV (which was used as filler in between commercial breaks), but was also inspired by the 1987 Japanese film Gokiburi-tachi No Tasogare (known as Twilight of the Cockroaches in the USA) and the 1987 American short film Those Damn Roaches.

K-20: Legend of the Mask

Although a Japanese film, the final credits roll to the sound of "The Shock of the Lightning" by British band Oasis.

Kazuyuki

Kazuyuki Izutsu (born 1952), Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic

Koe ni Dekinai

It served as the theme song for the 2011 Japanese film Yoake no Machi de.

Late Bloomers

Late Bloomer, (Japanese: Osoi Hito), 2004 Japanese film directed by Go Shibata

Michiko Maeda

After 42 years of exile from the Japanese film world pink film pioneer Satoru Kobayashi and cult film director Teruo Ishii persuaded her to appear in Ishii's 1999 remake of Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku (1960).

Michiko to Hatchin

The two eponymous starring roles are portrayed by noted Japanese film actresses Yōko Maki (The Grudge) and Suzuka Ohgo (Memoirs of a Geisha) respectively.

Moeru Tairiku

It was made the same year as another Japanese film shot in Australia, The Drifting Avenger.

Not Yet

Madadayo (English:Not Yet), a 1993 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

Railroad Man

Poppoya, a 1999 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata

Redbeard

Red Beard, a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa

Rises Over Japan

This Japanese film includes 5 songs from a concert at Budokan Hall on December 15th, 1975.

Seven Warriors

This film is a homage to the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.

Spy Sorge

Spy Sorge is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003, about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge.

Tenkatsu

Tenkatsu, the abbreviated name of a 1910s Japanese film studio, Tennenshoku Katsudō Shashin

The Final Countdown

Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown, a 2008 Japanese film, the third film adaptation of Kamen Rider Den-O

The Master Gunfighter

The Master Gunfighter is mainly a remake of the 1969 Japanese film Goyokin, although the story revolves around a true incident in the early 1800s involving massacred Indians that occurred in the vicinity of Goleta, California.

The Star Sisters

In 1984, they performed a song (during the film's end credits) on the Japanese film The Return of Godzilla.

The Voice in the Night

The story has been adapted a number of times, most prominently in the 1963 Japanese film Matango.

The Wandering Songstress

The song has been covered by numerous singers, including Li Xianglan in the 1944 Japanese film Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊, Military Combat Music Band), Bai Guang, Teresa Teng, Tsai Chin, Wakin Chau, Adia Chan (in Cantonese), Lin Bao (林寶, in Wu dialect), Song Zuying, Zhang Yan (張燕).

They Came Back

Yomigaeri, a 2002 Japanese film with strikingly similar themes.

Triple Cross

The Triple Cross, a 1992 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Yamagata dialect

Yamagata-ben was used for comic effect in the Japanese film Swing Girls, 2004, to suggest that the film was set in a rural, 'backward' location.