What do Amos Oz and Kenzaburō Ōe have in common?
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Amos Oz Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז‎ ; born Amos Klausner; May 4, 1939) is an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author.
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Kenzaburō Ōe Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎 , Ōe Kenzaburō , born 31 January 1935) is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
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Osamu Kaneda Osamu Kaneda (Japanese: 金田 治 , born August 31, 1949) is a director, action director and a stuntman. He is the president and CEO of Japan Action Enterprise, and a graduate of Tokyo Designer Gakuin College.
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Kenzō Tange Kenzō Tange (丹下 健三 , Tange Kenzō , 4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. Tange was also an influential patron of the Metabolist movement. He said: "It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was later to call structuralism", (cited in "Plan" 2/1982, Amsterdam), a reference to the architectural movement known as Dutch Structuralism.
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Shōzaburō Watanabe Shōzaburō Watanabe (渡辺 庄三郎 , Watanabe Shōzaburō , June 2, 1885 – February 14, 1962) was a Japanese print publisher and the driving force behind the Japanese printmaking movement known as "shin-hanga" ("new prints").
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Ame-no-Koyane Ama-no-Koyane-no-mikoto (天児屋命, 天児屋根命) is a kami, a male deity of the Japanese religion of Shinto. He is one of the deities of Kasuga Shrine, Nara, Japan.
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Arai Ikunosuke Arai Ikunosuke (荒井 郁之助 , June 12, 1836 – July 19, 1909) was a Japanese "samurai" of the late Edo period. Prominent as Navy Minister of the Republic of Ezo, he later became famous as the first head of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Also known as Akinori (顕徳 ) or Akiyoshi (顕理 ) .
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Teiji Ōmiya Teiji Ōmiya (大宮 悌二 , Ōmiya Teiji , November 22, 1928 – December 23, 1994, born in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese voice and dramatic actor, and a member of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society when he died. He attended Nihon University, but withdrew before completing his degree. He was known for playing the roles of kind old men in many 1970s anime series. During his life, he achieved 3-dan in kendo.
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Edo OSE The Edo OSE was a 1940s American single-seat multi-role floatplane designed and manufactured by the Edo Aircraft Corporation.
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Masataka Ogawa Masataka Ogawa (小川 正孝 , Ogawa Masataka , 21 February 1865 – 11 July 1930
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Masaaki Ōkura Masaaki Ōkura (大倉正章 , Ōkura Masaaki , born November 5, 1961) is a Japanese voice actor from Kumamoto Prefecture attached to 81 Produce. He was formerly attached to Aoni Production and Sigma Seven.
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Ozzie Nelson Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American band leader, actor, director, and producer. He originated and starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", a radio and long-running television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.
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Makoto Naruse Kōya Watanabe (渡部弘也 , Watanabe Kōya ) , better known by the stage name Makoto Naruse (成瀬誠 , Naruse Makoto ) , is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with Kenyuu Office.
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Ozu's Anti-Cinema Ozu's Anti-Cinema (Japanese: 小津安二郎の反映画 , Hepburn: Ozu Yasujirō no han eiga ) is a 1998 book written by Yoshishige Yoshida (also called Kiju Yoshida), translated into English in 2003, and published by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. It included analysis and commentary on Yasujirō Ozu's films and film-making techniques.
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Nobuaki Sekine Nobuaki Sekine (関根 信昭 , Sekine Nobuaki , born January 1, 1934 in Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor.
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Ichiro Abe Ichiro Abe (安部一郎 , Abe Ichirō ) is a Japanese judoka. He is head of the Promotions Panel at the Kodokan and former international chairperson of the All Nippon Judo Federation. He is one of only three living Kodokan 10th dan (and one of only 15 to have attained this rank), having been promoted at the New Year Kagami biraki Ceremony, January 8, 2006 along with Toshiro Daigo and Yoshimi Osawa.
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Ōuchiyama Heikichi Ōuchiyama Heikichi (born Heikichi Ōuchi, 19 June 1926 – 1 November 1985) was a sumo wrestler from Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1944, and reached the top "makuuchi" division in 1949. He reached the second highest rank of "ōzeki" in 1955, and was a runner-up in two tournaments. He was well known for his extraordinary size – at 2.02 m tall he was the tallest modern era "ōzeki" until Akebono in 1992. After his retirement in 1959 he worked as a coach at Tokitsukaze stable and Tatsutagawa stable until his death in 1985.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, known in Japan as Oz no Mahōtsukai (オズの魔法使い , "Ozu no Mahōtsukai" ) , is a Japanese anime television series adaptation based on four of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum. In Japan, the series aired on TV Tokyo from 1986 to 1987. It consists of 52 episodes, which explain other parts of the Oz stories, including the events that happened after Dorothy returned home.
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Yūji Oda Yūji Oda (織田 裕二 , Oda Yūji , born December 13, 1967 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is one of Japan's 11 most popular male entertainers, according to an NHK survey taken in 2004.
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Amos Vogel Amos Vogel (born Amos Vogelbaum; April 18, 1921 – April 24, 2012) was a New York City cineaste and curator.
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Amos Lee Parker Amos Lee Parker (December 12, 1936 – August 19, 2013) was an American aikido teacher. He was ranked 9th dan in Yoshinkan Aikido.
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Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII (十八代目 中村 勘三郎 , Jūhachidaime Nakamura Kanzaburō ) , born Noriaki Namino (波野 哲明 , Namino Noriaki , May 30, 1955 – December 5, 2012) , was a Japanese actor active in kabuki, other forms of live theatre, television and commercials. Kanzaburō was a versatile actor whose credits include farce, period pieces, and Shin Kabuki.