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The Sound of Waves (潮騒, Shiosai) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, [1] the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ship owner Terukichi. For this book, Mishima was awarded the Shincho Prize from Shinchosha Publishing in 1954. It has been adapted ...
The Sound of Waves, set on the small island of "Kami-shima" where a traditional Japanese lifestyle continued to be practiced, depicts a pure, simple love between a fisherman and a female pearl and abalone diver. Although the novel became a best-seller, leftists criticized it for "glorifying old-fashioned Japanese values", and some people began ...
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The first American television broadcast of The Sound of Music was on February 29, 1976, on ABC, which paid $15 million ($87.7 million in 2024) for a one-time only broadcast that became one of the 20 highest-rated films shown on television to that point [138] with a Nielsen rating of 33.6 and an audience share of 49%. [139]
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Confessions of a Mask (仮面の告白, Kamen no Kokuhaku) is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima.First published on 5 July 1949 by Kawade Shobō, [1] [2] it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties. [3]
Despite its success among critics, the film was a box office failure, grossing $2.6 million worldwide against a production budget of $6 million. Waves grossed a total of $1.7 million in the United States. [2] In its limited opening weekend, the film made $134,333 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $33,583. [22]
Both natives of Pennsylvania, Michael and Chris met and began working together under the tutelage of Milan Stitt at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006.. They have been awarded the prestigious 2013 Fred Ebb Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, and were awarded the first Lorenz Hart Award by the ASCAP Foundation.