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| Miyazaki Hayao anime film of 2001 in which the main character, Chihiro, changes from being a young ineffectual girl to a mature, independent, and hard working person by working in Yubaba’s bath house. |
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| the 1984 directorial debut by Itami Juzo, is a comedy film which starts with Amamiya Shokichi, a difficult 69-year-old man, dying suddenly of a heart attack. |
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| writer and director of I Live In Fear aka Record of a Living Being, or What the Birds Knew, which concerns Mr. Nakajima, elderly factory owner who is dying of stomach cancer and who has gone insane due to his fear of nuclear weapons. |
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| a 1985 film “about ramen noodles” in which the truck drivers, Goro and his young sidekick Gun, help out a woman determined to succeed at a ramen shop. |
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| (young girl) the focus of much Japanese contemporary popular culture, including anime and manga, which is said to occupy the site of play (asobi) and serves as an appealing alternative identity in contrast to the image of the hardworking, highly pressured Japanese male. |
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| (1911-1993) director of the monster movie classic Godzilla: King of the Monsters of 1954. |
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| a Miyazaki Hayao anime film of 1989 in which the primary mise-en-scene is a Mediterranean/Scandinavian setting. |
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| in this 1995 film directed by Koreeda, a weird light guides Yumiko’s grandmother away, never to be seen again, and after Yumiko meets her future husband, she dreams that he is her grandmother reincarnated. |
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| a film directed Higashi Yoichi about 9-year-old identical twin brothers, Yukihiko and Seizo; both are artists and recall their summer as children in 1948 in a village on Shikoku. |
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| the 1987 film directed by Itami Juzo in which Itakura Ryoko is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion, but her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Gondo. |
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