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Ten Tall Men is a 1951 American adventure film starring Burt Lancaster about the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancaster (whose own company, Norma Productions, produced the film) with the movie being completed by Robert Parrish. [2]
Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,428 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In some names, Japanese characters phonetically "spell" a name and have no intended meaning behind them. Many Japanese personal names use puns. [16] Although usually written in kanji, Japanese names have distinct differences from Chinese names through the selection of characters in a name and the pronunciation of them. A Japanese person can ...
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Takakura was born in Nakama, Fukuoka in 1931. [3] He attended Tochiku High School in nearby Yahata City, where he was a member of the boxing team and English society.It was around this time that he gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza movies. [4]
Men in oni costumes often lead Japanese parades to dispel any bad luck, for example. Onigawara on the roof of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Japanese buildings sometimes include oni-faced roof tiles called onigawara ( 鬼瓦 ) , which are thought to ward away bad luck, much like gargoyles in Western tradition.
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, born 1947), known as Beat Takeshi, Japanese filmmaker and star of Takeshi's Castle Takeshi Kizu ( 木津 武士 , born 1988) , Japanese rugby union player Takeshi Kobayashi ( 小林 武史 , born 1959) , Japanese keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger and record producer
Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前, 玉藻の前, also 玉藻御前) is a legendary figure in Japanese mythology. One of the stories explaining the legend comes from Muromachi period (1336 to 1573) genre fiction called otogizōshi. In the otogizōshi Tamamo-no-Mae was a courtesan under the Japanese Emperor Konoe (who reigned from 1142 through 1155).