Japanese performing arts - Azuchi-Momoyama, Kabuki, Noh: Noh and kyōgen were dance and theatre forms that had come to express the gravity and decorum of a rigidly formal samurai ruling class by the end of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574–1600). Artisti
Nobuko Anan, calling herself "a girl researcher," examines what she calls "girls' aesthetics" in Japanese contemporary performance and visual arts. The incisively chosen examples for the monograph support the originality of her argument for girls' aesthetics. The book is a precious source for ...
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Beginning in the entertainment industry as a child actor performing in television commercials, she played her first voice acting role in 2001 in the anime television series Angel Tales. She released her first single "Breakthrough" in 2006, and she released her first album Riot Girl in 2008. ...
“Iron Girl” is a low-budget erotic actioner featuring curvy Japanese actresses performing dodgy martial arts in various isolated locations. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, as you’re about to find out. “Iron Girl”, which stars Asuka Kirara, Rina Akiyama, and Yasushia ...
Japanese Films Movies can be another fun and interesting way of learning more about another culture, and this applies to Japanese films as well. Traditional Japanese performing arts, such as Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku are audio visual. There is typically very little plot and character development ...
Overview:The teenagers in Gossip Girl don’t hold a candle to the cut-throat ruthlessness ofHyakkaou Private Academy students.The anime series, which is adapted from a manga, is every bit as twisted as it sounds, leaving you with a similar sense of dread to what you felt when you thoug...
During the mid-1930s Syme was prominent in moves to establish a women’s residential college at the University of Melbourne. In 1936, as vice-president of the appeal committee, she donated the proceeds of her print retrospective (held at the gallery of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria...
Given that“[t]he title and promo material might have you believe thatOne Million Yen Girlis a quirky Japanese comedy, ” then a better translation of the original Japanese title would beOne Million Yen and the Nigamushi (Sour Face) Girl,one which“suggests that the real question at the en...
In "The Second Floor," a sexual psychopath waiting in a run-down Philadelphia park to speak again with "schoolgirl" Abby finds himself sitting on the bench with another girl, Cincy, who, in her own endearingly confused and ... K Cherry - 《American Book Review》 被引量: 1发表: 2008年...