Reports: Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Wada dies

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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.

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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.

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GKIDS, the producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (Gyoko no Nikuko-chan).

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.

The full list ranks a total of 100 records, with the top 20 – topped by ‘New Long Leg’ by Dry Cleaning, and rounded out with records like Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Jubilee’, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ by Little Simz and ‘Daddy’s Home’ by St. Vincent – all receiving new colourways exclusive to Rough Trade.In a statement shared alongside the news, Dry Cleaning said: “Rough Trade record shops have played a huge role in our musical lives.

Emi Wada, the Oscar-winning costume designer of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” has died, the Associated Press reported.

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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.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car triumphed this eve at the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The movie scooped best film, which Japanese filmmaker Hamaguchi shared with producer Teruhisa Yamamoto, and best screenplay, which the director shared with Oe Takamasa. Scroll down for the full list of winners on the night.

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