What does the film dramatizes for which Yoshiro Muraki was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work?
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Yoshirō Muraki Yoshiro Muraki (August 15, 1924 – October 26, 2009) was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), "Kagemusha" (1980), and "Ran" (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in "Yojimbo" (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from "Record of a Living Being" (1955) onward, with the exception of "Dersu Uzala" (1975).
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Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ ) is a 1970 Japanese-American war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, and Jason Robards.
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Blue Spring (film) Blue Spring (青い春 , Aoi haru ) is a 2002 Japanese youth drama film, written and directed by Toshiaki Toyoda and based on Taiyō Matsumoto's manga of same title. It tells a tale of apathetic school students at a run-down Tokyo high school for boys. It was released on June 29, 2002.
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The Beast to Die The Beast To Die (野獣死すべし , Yajū shisubeshi ) is a 1980 Japanese thriller starring Yusaku Matsuda. It was directed by Toru Murakawa and produced by Haruki Kadokawa.
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Noboru Nakamura Noboru Nakamura (中村 登 , Nakamura Noboru , 4 August 1913 – 20 May 1981) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His 1963 film "Twin Sisters of Kyoto" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1967 film "Portrait of Chieko" was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. His 1967 film "Lost Spring" was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. It was announced that his three films, "Home Sweet Home" (1951), "When It Rains, It Pours" (1957), and "The Shape of Night" (1964), will screen at the Tokyo Filmex in 2013.
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Utamaro and His Five Women Utamaro and His Five Women or Five Women Around Utamaro (Japanese: 歌麿をめぐる五人の女 , Hepburn: Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna ) is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the novel of the same title by Kanji Kunieda, itself a fictionalized account of the life of printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro. It was Mizoguchi's first film made under the American occupation.
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Three Bewildered People in the Night Three Bewildered People in the Night is a 1987 American drama film directed by Gregg Araki. The film follows three characters through the dissolution of a heterosexual relationship and the possible beginning of a gay one.
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Akō Rōshi (1961 film) Akō Rōshi (赤穂浪士 , Akō Rōshi ) is a 1961 color Japanese film about the 47 Ronin directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda. It earned ¥435 million at the annual box office, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1961. Ako Roshi was produced by Toei, and Shigeru Okada. It is based on Novel written by Jiro Osaragi.
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Battle Royale (film) Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル , Batoru Rowaiaru ) is a 2000 Japanese dystopian film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. It is the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the screenplay written by his son Kenta, and stars Takeshi Kitano. The film takes place in a dystopian Japan and it follows the story of Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student, and his classmates. Their class has been chosen by the government to take part in an annual game where all the students of the class must fight to the death until only one remains alive. The film aroused both domestic and international controversy and was either banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries.
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The 47 Ronin (1941 film) The 47 Ronin (元禄 忠臣蔵 , Genroku Chūshingura , "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers of the Genroku era") is a 1941/1942 black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, adapted from a play by Seika Mayama. The film chronicles the end of the lives of the forty-seven Ronin.
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Journey to the Shore Journey to the Shore (岸辺の旅 , Kishibe no Tabi ) is a 2015 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It is adapted from the novel "Kishibe no Tabi" by Japanese writer Kazumi Yumoto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where Kurosawa won the prize for Best Director. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Maborosi Maborosi, known in Japan as Maboroshi no Hikari (Japanese: 幻の光 , literally "phantasmic light", but best translated as 'a trick of the light') , is a 1995 Japanese drama film by director Hirokazu Koreeda starring Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, and Takashi Naito. It is based on a novel by Teru Miyamoto.
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Lady Snowblood (film) Lady Snowblood (Japanese: 修羅雪姫 , Hepburn: Shurayuki-hime ) is a 1973 Japanese action thriller film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on the manga series of the same name, recounting the tale of Yuki, a woman who seeks vengeance upon three people who raped her mother and killed her mother's husband and son.
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Jun Ichikawa Jun Ichikawa (市川 準 , Ichikawa Jun , 25 November 1948 – 19 September 2008) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first a director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities. His most famous film outside Japan was "Tony Takitani", an adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage after suddenly collapsing at a restaurant, shortly before his latest film, "Buy a Suit", was to premier at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
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Summer Vacation 1999 Summer Vacation 1999 (1999年の夏休み , Sen-kyūhyaku-kyūjūkyū-nen no natsu yasumi ) is a 1988 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and based on the shōjo manga "Thomas no Shinzō" written by Moto Hagio, about four boys at a boarding school. Although the manga concerns homoerotic relationships among the boys, director Kaneko used girls, aged 14 to 16, to portray the boys in the film.
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Girl in the Sunny Place Girl in the Sunny Place (陽だまりの彼女 , Hidamari No Kanojo ) is a 2013 Japanese fantasy romance film directed by Takahiro Miki. The film, about an ordinary young couple named Kosuke and Mao, is based on a novel by Osamu Koshigaya of the same name that ranked first among novels which Japanese girls wanted boys to read in the year 2011, and has sold more than one million copies in Japan.
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Heroic Purgatory Heroic Purgatory (煉獄エロイカ , Rengoku eroica ) is a Japanese black-and-white arthouse film released in 1970. It was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida and written by Masahiro Yamada. It's the second film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism, preceded by "Eros + Massacre" (1969) and followed by "Coup d'Etat" (1973).
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Tokyo Sonata Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ , Tōkyō Sonata ) is a 2008 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It won the award for Best Film at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and received 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations for Achievement in Directing and Best Screenplay. At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival it won the Jury Prize of the "Un Certain Regard" section.
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Mansaku Itami Mansaku Itami (伊丹万作; real name Yoshitoyo Ikeuchi 池内義豊; 2 January 1900 – 21 September 1946) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his critical, sometimes satirical portraits of Japan and its history. He is the father of the director Juzo Itami.
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The Tale of Genji (1951 film) The Tale of Genji (Japanese: 源氏物語, Genji monogatari ) is a 1951 Japanese drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura. It is based on the piece of Japanese literature of the same name. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
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Hiroshi Inagaki Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣 浩 , Inagaki Hiroshi , 30 December 1905 – 21 May 1980) was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Award-winning "", which he directed in 1954.
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The Face of Jizo (film) The Face of Jizo (父と暮せば , Chichi to Kuraseba ) is a 2004 Japanese war drama film directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano. It is based on the play of the same name by Hisashi Inoue. It was filmed as the 3rd and concluding volume of Kazuo Kuroki's "Trilogy works for War Requiem".