On February 21, 2018, Osugi passed away due to heart failure.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/BdB8A6_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yakusho Koji", "alternateName": "役所広司", "birthDate": "January 1, 1956", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Yakusho Koji is a Japanese actor. In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In 1983, he landed the role of Oda Nobunaga in the year-long NHK drama Tokugawa Ieyasu and was catapulted to fame. For several years, he played Kuji Shinnosuke (or "Sengoku"), one of the title characters in the jidaigeki Sambiki ga Kiru!. In 1988, he was given a special award for work in cinema by the Japanese Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/kAkW4r_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hotaru Yukijiro", "alternateName": "螢雪次朗, 渡辺潔, ほたる ゆきじろう, Yukijiro Hotaru, Hotaru Yukijirou, Yukijirou Hotaru", "birthDate": "August 27, 1951", "nationality": "Saitama Prefecture, Japan", "description": "", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/hotaru-yukijiro.png" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kawaya Hidetoshi", "alternateName": "河屋秀俊", "birthDate": "August 8, 1962", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kawaya Hidetoshi (previously known as Kawaya Setchin) is a Japanese actor signed with Lucky River Entertainment.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/46Z6r_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ujiki Tsuyoshi", "alternateName": "うじきつよし", "birthDate": "September 18, 1957", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Tsuyoshi Ujiki is a Japanese entertainer, actor, musician, and singer who is represented by the talent agencies Heart Cleaning Company, then Flos. His nicknamed Jick from his surname.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/2DBWOc.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kurosawa Kiyoshi", "alternateName": "黒沢清", "birthDate": "July 19, 1955", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.
Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, though he has never expressly listed those directors as influences. Nevertheless, he admitted in an interview that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujirou Ozu features analyzed and discussed under the guidance of Shigehiko Hasumi contributed to shape his personal vision of the medium. He also expressed admiration for American film directors such as Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Tobe Hooper.
In a 2009 interview with IFC, Kurosawa talked about the reason why he has cast the actor Koji Yakusho in many of his films: "He has similar values and sensitivities. We’re from the same generation. That’s a big reason why I enjoy working with him on the set."
According to Tim Palmer, Kurosawa's films occupy a peculiar position between the materials of mass genre, on the one hand, and esoteric or intellectual abstraction, on the other. They also clearly engage with issues of environmental critique, given Kurosawa's preference for shooting in decaying open spaces, abandoned (and often condemned) buildings, and in places rife with toxins, pestilence and entropy", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/odQLkc.jpg" } ]
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