Japanese films of 2002
Encyclopedia
A list of films released in Japan
in 2002 (see 2002 in film
).
Japan
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in 2002 (see 2002 in film
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...
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2002
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| 2002 2002 in film The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of... |
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| 2LDK 2LDK 2LDK is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi starring Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike. It was coupled with Ryuhei Kitamura's film Aragami to form the Duel Project... |
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| 6 Angels 6 Angels is a 2002 science fiction action anime film directed by Makoto Kobayashi, with a screenplay by Yasushi Hirano with story, layouts, and original concepts by Yasushi Akimoto.-Background:... |
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| Alive Alive (2002 film) Alive is a 2002 Japanese action film and the fourth film by director Ryuhei Kitamura. It is based on the manga ALIVE by Tsutomu Takahashi and stars Hideo Sakaki as the protagonist, Tenshu. Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend... |
Ryuhei Kitamura Ryuhei Kitamura -External links:*... |
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| The Cat Returns The Cat Returns is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiroyuki Morita, produced by Studio Ghibli and theatrically released in Japan in 2002 and in 2003 in the United States through Walt Disney Pictures.... |
Hiroyuki Morita Hiroyuki Morita is a Japanese animator and and director. He has worked as an animator on projects such as Akira and Lupin III. He is best known for working as director on the Studio Ghibli film The Cat Returns as well as doing key animation for the Studio Ghibli production My Neighbors the Yamadas and in-between... |
Fantasy Fantasy film Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap... , Anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons.... |
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| Crayon Shin-chan: The Battle of the Warring States Crayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yoshito Usui.Crayon Shin-chan follows the adventures of five-year-old Shinnosuke "Shin" Nohara and his parents, baby sister, neighbors, and friends and is set in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.... |
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| Dark Water Dark Water (2002 film) Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese drama-horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2. Dark Water is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki. Its Japanese name is Honogurai mizu no soko kara , which is also the name of the horror anthology by Koji Suzuki... |
Hideo Nakata Hideo Nakata Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker.-Life and career:Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring , Ring 2 and Dark Water... |
Horror Horror film Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres... |
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| Dead or Alive: Final Dead or Alive: Final Dead or Alive: Final is a 2002 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike. It is the third in a three-part series, preceded by Dead or Alive in 1999 and Dead or Alive 2: Birds in 2000. The films are not connected in any apparent way except by director Takashi Miike and stars... |
Takashi Miike Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions... |
Riki Takeuchi Riki Takeuchi is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike... , Show Aikawa |
Action Action film Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases... , Science fiction Science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic... |
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| Dolls Dolls (film) is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film, Dolls is part of Kitano's non-crime film oeuvre, like 1991's A Scene at the Sea, and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it... |
Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic... |
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| Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Wataru Mimura, and produced by Toho Co., Ltd. It is the 26th installment in the Godzilla series of films. It is the fourth film to feature Mechagodzilla... |
Masaaki Tezuka | Kaiju Kaiju is a Japanese word that means "strange beast," but often translated in English as "monster". Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu entertainment.... |
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| Harmful Insect Harmful Insect is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota.-Awards:27th Hochi Film Award* Best Actor - Seiichi Tanabe24th Yokohama Film Festival*9th Best Film... |
Akihiko Shiota Akihiko Shiota is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiota attended Rikkyō University, where he began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyō students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa... |
Aoi Miyazaki Aoi Miyazaki is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her pure image and roles such as in Nana and Virgin Snow. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is an actor, and they starred together in the film Hatsukoi. She married Sosuke Takaoka on June 15, 2007, her partner since she was fifteen.-Career:Miyazaki started... , Seiichi Tanabe Seiichi Tanabe is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for Hush! and at the 27th Hochi Film Award for Hush! and Harmful Insect.-Filmography:* Atashi wa juice * April Story * Blues Harp... |
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| The Laughing Frog The Laughing Frog is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama.-Awards:24th Yokohama Film Festival*Won: Best Director - Hideyuki Hirayama*Won: Best Cinematography*Won: Best Actor - Kyōzō Nagatsuka... |
Hideyuki Hirayama Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. He was given a Best Director award at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival... |
Kyōzō Nagatsuka Kyōzō Nagatsuka is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for The Laughing Frog.-Filmography:* The Laughing Frog * Atsuhime -References:... , Nene Ootsuka, Yuika Motokariya Yuika Motokariya is a Japanese actress. She is signed with the Stardust Promotion agency.-Dramas:* 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi sensei Season 6 * Satokibi Batake no Uta * Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu * Fight... |
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| Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass is the second movie of the InuYasha movie series. It was released in Japan on December 21, 2002 , and in the United States on December 28, 2004... |
Kappei Yamaguchi, Satsuki Yukino Satsuki Yukino Satsuki Yukino , real name Yuki Inoue , is a popular Japanese voice actress from Ōtsu, Shiga. Yukino is also a singer as part of the Hinata Girls... |
Fantasy Fantasy film Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap... anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons.... |
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| Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final Kamen Rider Ryuki is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It was the twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu shows. It was a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and it was shown on TV Asahi from February 3, 2002 to January 19, 2003. The catchphrase for the series is... |
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| Kinnikuman Nisei: Muscle Carrot Competition! The Great Choujin War | ||||
| One Piece the Movie: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals | Mayumi Tanaka Mayumi Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo currently affiliated with Aoni Production.She is best known for the roles of Ryuunosuke Fujinami in Urusei Yatsura, Pazu in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, Krillin, Yajirobe and Uranai Baba in Dragon Ball... , Kazuya Nakai Kazuya Nakai is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Hyōgo-ku, Kobe. He is currently attached to Aoni Production.-Overview:Kazuya Nakai debuted in After War Gundam X as Witz Sou.... , Akemi Okamura Akemi Okamura is a Japanese voice actress and narrator from Tokyo who works for Mausu Promotion. She has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta. Okamura made her debut as Fio Piccolo in the 1992 film Porco Rosso.-Television Animation:... , Kappei Yamaguchi Kappei Yamaguchi , better known by his stage name of , is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gokū and 21st Century Fox.He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome , Jackson Neil , Tombo , Yattaro , InuYasha , Ryuichi Sakuma , L , Usopp... , Hiroaki Hirata Hiroaki Hirata is a male seiyū from Tokyo. He stands at 175 centimeters , and is a member of Gekidan Subaru.He is most known for the roles of Sanji , Sha Gojyo , and the Narrator of Digimon Adventure... , Ikue Ōtani Ikue Otani is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo, most famous as the voice of Pikachu in the Pokémon anime series and products and the voice of Tony Tony Chopper in the manga and anime series One Piece. She is currently attached to Mausu Promotion... |
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| Poketto Monsutā Ratiasu and Ratiosu, the Guardian Gods of the Water Capital Pokémon Heroes Pokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias, originally released in Japan as , is a 2002 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. It is the fifth film in the Pokémon series, complimenting Pokémon: Master Quest... |
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| Returner Returner is a 2002 Japanese science fiction film, directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Anne Suzuki and Takeshi Kaneshiro.-Plot:Milly is a soldier from 2084, where humanity is on the verge of extinction because of the "Daggra", an alien race. In mankind's final stronghold in Tibet Milly leaps into a... |
Takashi Yamazaki | Anne Suzuki Anne Suzuki is a Japanese actress.A model since the age of three, she got an early break in her acting career at 12 when she starred in the Hollywood film Snow Falling on Cedars with Ethan Hawke. She was next featured in the action movie Returner opposite Takeshi Kaneshiro, and won the Best New Actor at the... , Takeshi Kaneshiro Takeshi Kaneshiro Takeshi Kaneshiro , born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwan-born Japanese actor and singer.-Name:... |
Science Fiction Science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic... |
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| A Saloon Wet with Beautiful Women A Saloon Wet with Beautiful Women is a 2002 Japanese Pink film directed by Tatsurō Kashihara. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Screenwriter Tatsurō Kashihara's directorial debut, he was awarded at the Pink Grand Prix for his screenplay and as Best New Director... |
Tatsurō Kashihara | Koharu Yamasaki | Pink | Best Film, Pink Grand Prix Pink Grand Prix The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public.... |
| Suicide Club Suicide Club (film) Suicide Club, known in Japan as is a 2002 Japanese independent horror film that gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its controversial subject matter and gory presentation, and has since developed a significant cult following. It won the Jury Prize for... |
Shion Sono | Horror Horror film Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres... |
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| Tomie: The Final Chapter -Forbidden Fruit- | ||||
| The Twilight Samurai The Twilight Samurai The Twilight Samurai or is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and... |
Yoji Yamada Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy .... |
Hiroyuki Sanada Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor.-Life and career:Sanada was born in Tokyo. Originally aiming to be an action star, starting with shorinji kempo, he eventually took up Kyokushin kaikan Sanada began training at age 11 with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club where he developed good... |
Samurai film | Blue Ribbon Award Blue Ribbon Awards The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers... winner Japan Academy Prize Japan Academy Prize Japan Academy Prize may refer to:*Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, an award of the Japan Academy to non-members in recognition of outstanding academic achievements.... for Best Film |
| Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet is Cosmos theatrical film adaptation, was released in Japan on August 3, 2002. It is a tokusatsu film series Ultraman franchise, it also direct sequel to the original Ultraman Cosmos television series.-Summary:... |
Kaori Sakagami Kaori Sakagami Kaori Sakagami is a Japanese singer and AV Star who is noted for singing Platonic Tsuranuite, the first ending of Ranma 1/2. Also in Kiteretsu Daihyakka, she sang Race no Cardigan for the ending theme in the first season... , Hidekazu Ichinose Hidekazu Ichinose is a Japanese voice actor.- Anime :* Eyeshield 21 , Taiga Kamiya* Bokura ga Ita , Kagawa * Katekyo Hitman Reborn! , Hayato Gokudera- External links :... |
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| Phone Phone Within phonetics, a phone is:* a speech sound or gesture considered a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language* a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties... |
Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim, Woo-jae Choi | |||
| Women in the Mirror Women in the Mirror Women in the Mirror is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mariko Okada - Ai Kawase* Yoshiko Tanaka - Masako* Sae Isshiki - Natsuki* Hideo Murota - Goda... |
Yoshishige Yoshida Yoshishige Yoshida is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi... |
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival 2002 Cannes Film Festival The 2002 Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski.-Jury:* David Lynch * Sharon Stone* Michelle Yeoh... |
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External links
- Japanese films of 2002 at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...