Takuro Okada – Konoma

Tomonori Sato is an alumnus of the Tokyo University of the Arts. He has won various awards, including the Acanthus Music Prize, 1st place in the 16th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition, 2nd place in the 69th and 72nd Music Competition of Japan, the 2nd Lieksa International Trumpet Competition prize, and 3rd place in the 6th Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 24th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES), held in Tokyo, Japan on March 25-28, 2019. ICCES covers all aspects of applied sciences and engineering: theoretical, analytical, computational, and experimental studies and solutions of problems in the physical, chemical, biological, mechanical, electrical, and mathematical sciences. As such, the book discusses highly diverse topics, including composites; bioengineering & biomechanics; geotechnical engineering; offshore & arctic engineering; multi-scale & multi-physics fluid engineering; structural integrity & longevity; materials design & simulation; and computer modeling methods in engineering.

Una antología sobre los deseos internos de la psique.

Director Moriya Kentaro (School Daze) goes for a Japanese take on Four Rooms with Seaside Motel, an ensemble comedy based on the comic book Motel by Okada Yukio. The surreal comedy first hilariously sets up its premise by bringing groups of strangers that include gangsters, gamblers, and call girls into four separate rooms, only to send them into a chaotic colliding course over one fateful night. To match his eccentric group of characters, Moriya has brought together an equally eccentric cast that includes Ikuta Toma (The Fallen Angel), Aso Kumiko (Instant Swamp), Yamada Takayuki (Crows Zero), Tamayama Tetsuji (Goemon), Narumi Riko (Bushido Sixteen), and Furuda Arata (20th Century Boys)…

Stories of two eras of Japanese history play out in parallel in this drama from one of the leading directors of the Japanese New Wave, Yoshishige Yoshida. In the 1910s, Osugi Sakae (Hosokawa Toshiyuki) is an outspoken anarchist who is famous for his calls for sexual freedom. Sakae lives the lifestyle he espouses to others and has three lovers, though not all he women in his life are content with this arrangement, and his flouting of contemporary mores has made him more than a few enemies. In time, a tragic fate awaits him after a massive earthquake hits Japan. Fifty years later, Japan is a more open-minded place, and a handful of college students discuss their political ideals and desire to change their culture for the better as they trade sexual partners among one another.

he Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and artist) Musashi Miyamoto, following him on his path from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. With these three films—1954’s Oscar-winning Musashi Miyamoto, 1955’s Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and 1956’s Duel at Ganryu Island—Inagaki created a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender love story and bloody action.

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death. Middle school teacher Yoko Moriguchi's (Takako Matsu) life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4 year old daughter. Eventually Yoko Moriguchi suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. An elaborate plan for revenge then ensues, including forcing students to drink HIV tainted milk … Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards (2011).

Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai tale on their head in this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki has arrived in a poor neighbourhood of Edo seeking revenge against the man responsible for the death of his father. But when Aoki takes on the task of teaching the children of Edo to read and write, his bloodlust starts to subside, and even more after he falls in love with the beautiful widow Osae. Aoki must decide whether to follow the way of the samurai or to choose peace and reconciliation….