Emi Wada, Oscar-Winning ‘Ran’ Costume Designer, Dies at 84

OK, so the Sex And The City revival finally premiered to… well, a mixed reception, let’s say. Old school fans have a lot of opinions about the new directions the show is taking. But one of the major criticisms of And Just Like That… is about what’s NOT there: Samantha Jones.

NES and SNES, Masayuki Uemura, has died at the age of 78.As first reported in detail by VGC, Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972 originally helping to develop physical gun games. These included the Laser Clay Shooting System which was popular in Japanese arcades at the time.From there, Uemura was put in charge of R&D2, the division responsible for creating Nintendo’s hardware.

what happened to Samantha — but if Carrie’s still, after all these years, sporting her signature nameplate necklace.Costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago remained tight-lipped about whether Carrie (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) would revive some of her most notable looks in “And Just Like That…,” a 10-episode sequel to the original “SATC” series debuting Thursday on HBO Max.

Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa’s epic adaptation of King Lear, which transposed the play to ancient Japan. Of the four nominations received by the movie, hers was the only one to be converted into a prize.

Janty Yates was given the staggering responsibility of recreating three decades worth of fashion, as well as the personal style evolutions of the main characters. “You had to have a huge arc because it was from 1975 to 1995 and my God, what an era,” she reflected in an interview with TheWrap.

Universal Parks & Resorts made a number of big announcements today, among them that Karen Irwin, President of Universal Studios Hollywood, will become President of Universal Orlando Resort. That property’s current president, Bill Davis, is retiring after 15 years at his post.

For over two years, Virgil valiantly battled a rare, aggressive form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma. He chose to endure his battle privately since his diagnosis in 2019, undergoing numerous challenging treatments, all while helming several significant institutions that span fashion, art, and culture.Through it all, his work ethic, infinite curiosity, and optimism never wavered.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Papa Fujii’s Unexpected Journey,” a film project about a Japanese man’s attempt to understand his dead daughter’s life in Taiwan was named as the grand prize winner at the 2012 edition of the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion event. It wins a NT$1 million ($36,000) prize.Prizes were announced on Wednesday evening at a ceremony as part of the ongoing Golden Horse Film Festival (Nov.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCostume designer Janty Yates was fortunate to have unprecedented access to the Gucci archives when she was planning the looks for “House of Gucci,” but the wardrobe for the Ridley Scott film also encompassed pieces from Yves Saint Laurent and several noted menswear tailors.Yates says the Gucci collection she saw was “exquisite but small,” since the Gucci Museum in Florence, Italy, was in the process of moving its archive.

Bo Burnham’s song “All Eyes on Me” from Inside, H.E.R.’s Oscar-winning song from Judas and the Black Messiah, the Oscar-winning score from Soul and the scores from Warner Bros’ Dune and Netflix’s Bridgerton were among the film and TV works  nominated for Grammy Awards on Tuesday.

Emi Wada, the Japanese costumer designer who was an Oscar winner in 1985 for her work on the Akira Kurosaw classic Ran, has died at the age of 84.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWada Emi, the celebrated Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for Kurosawa Akira’s “Ran” in 1985, has died.Wada’s family told Japanese media that she died on Nov. 13, 2021, but did not disclose the cause or the place of her death.Appreciated for her painstaking attention to detail – she hand-dyed the costumes for “Ran” – and for playing hard to get, Wada won numerous awards in addition to the Oscar and BAFTA.

TOKYO -- Emi Wada, the Japanese costume designer who won an Oscar for her work in Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died, Japanese media reports said Sunday. She was 84.Wada died Nov.

Zoe Hewitt The age-old struggle between original source material and creative interpretation rears its head again with Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop”, a new take on the acclaimed Japanese anime originally released in 1998.

Production designer Stefan Dechant and costume designer Mary Zophres said director Joel Coen instructed them to make his film The Tragedy of Macbeth more abstract than a literal adaptation. Zophres and Dechant spoke with Deadline’s Justin Kroll at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday.

Tomris Laffly A melancholic memory piece that continues to follow the young, budding filmmaker Julie’s (Honor Swinton Byrne) personal and artistic journey, Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical “The Souvenir: Part II” picks up her tale where the former film had left it off, sculpting a B-side just as haunting and immersive.Reuniting with Hogg after infusing “Part I” with her thoughtful vision, costume designer Grace Snell once again dresses Julie and her world through a sophisticated ‘80s lens.

West and Morgan take us through the original artist renderings of the suit — check out the fantastic sketches in the video — and then through the process of design and construction. Each suit was made from well over 100 unique pattern pieces.

Guy Lodge Film CriticFilm festivals have been the primary hatching-ground for Oscar contenders ever since the Academy’s tastes shifted predominantly from studio to independent cinema earlier this century — though in the international feature category, this has been the case for far longer.

health declined recently and she had been treated at a hospital in Kyoto, where she died on Tuesday of heart failure, according to her temple, Jakuan.Born Harumi Setouchi in 1922 in the city of Tokushima on the southwestern main island of Shikoku, she debuted in 1957 and has since published more than 400 books.