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Kundō Koyama (小山薫堂? nacido en 1964) es un escritor japonés. Él es mejor conocido por escribir la serie de televisión Iron Chef y el ganador del Premio Óscar a la Mejor película de no habla inglesa por Okuribito en 2009. Koyama también trabajó bajo el seudónimo de Udon Kumayakko, un anagrama de su nombre real leído al revés en japonés. Biografía.
Kundō Koyama (小山薫堂) (born 1964) is a Japanese writer. He is best known for scripting the television series Iron Chef and the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film recipient Departures. Koyama has also worked under the pen name Udon Kumayakko, an anagram of his real name read backwards in Japanese.
Kundō Koyama (小山薫堂? nacido en 1964) es un escritor japonés. Él es mejor conocido por escribir la serie de televisión Iron Chef y el ganador del Premio Óscar a la Mejor película de no habla inglesa por Okuribito en 2009.
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The film opens when Sayo Arima, a girl brought up in a wealthy family and now an elderly woman, unexpectedly receives a manuscript written by Haigo, a circus clown whom she met many years ago. It deals with the events seventy years earlier when Sayo was friends with Sota, a poor village boy who lived with his grandfather and dreamt of being a paint...
The actors cast for roles in the film include: 1. Shintaro Morimoto as Sota,a poor orphaned boy who lives with his grandfather. He is talented in drawing, and spends much of his time drawing because he cannot afford to go to school. He is frequently accompanied by the dog Chibi, whom he and Sayo found abandoned and injured. 2. Marino Kuwashimaas Sa...
Development
Snow Prince was directed by Joji Matsuoka, whose previous works include the films Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007) and Sayonara, Kuro (2003). Kundō Koyama wrote the screenplay of his film. Snow Prince is Kundo Koyama's second work, after his work on the Departures, which won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 81st Academy Awards. The film was inspired by the 1872 English novel A Dog of Flanders, written by Marie Louise de la Ramée, and by the film Small Love Melody,...
Casting
New actor Shintaro Morimoto and new actress Marino Kuwashima were officially revealed as the lead cast members of this film at the film's 10th press conference on 11 May 2009. They were handpicked from a group of 10,000 people in an audition by director Joji Matsuoka. Matsuoka reportedly decided to choose Shintaro and Marino because they "had a different twinkle in their eyes". In particular, Shintaro, the younger brother of Hey! Say! JUMP member Ryutaro Morimoto, was praised by the director,...
Filming
Scenes of Sota's and the Arima family's houses, the village and the playhouse of Sota and Sayo were shot at the "Shonai Movie Village"(庄内映画村, Shōnai Eigamura) in Shōnai, Yamagata. The filming at this location took place from November 2008 to February 2009. In addition, the scene where Mr. Arima's warehouse caught fire was filmed in "Sakata, Sankyo Sōko"(酒田 山居倉庫), Yamagata Prefecture. The railway tracks in the movie are those of the former "Naruto no Kurikumada Koen Railway Line"(鳴子のくりこま田園鉄道,...
Snow Prince had its first special screening in Flanders, Belgium, where the novel A Dog of Flanders was set. This was the first time lead actor Shintaro Morimoto traveled overseas, and he said that, "My heart was beating very fast, but seeing the audience response, I gained more confidence in this film". Morimoto became the spokesperson for the Fla...
The single for this film's theme song Snow Prince was released in a limited edition version and a regular version by Sony Music Entertainmenton 2 December 2009.
Critical reception
In a pre-release review of the film, Asahi Shimbun's Atsushi Ohara said that "the film has adapted Dog of Flanders well", but he took issue with the treatment of Sota and Chibi, saying that they were treated too harshly. He rounded off his review by saying that the dog acted superbly and was very adorable, and that the scenery in the film had a rare beauty. In another article written by him, he said that the audience should "expect to ponder about the events in this film", and finished by say...
Snow Prince at IMDbSnow Prince at Rotten TomatoesKundō Koyama was enlisted to provide the script, his first for a feature film; his previous experience had been in scripting for television and stage. Takita, who had begun his career in the pink film genre before entering mainstream filmmaking in 1986 with Comic Magazine , [g] took on the director's role in 2006, after producer ...
Kundō Koyama (小山 薫 堂) (nacido en 1964) es un escritor japonés. Él es mejor conocido por la serie de televisión de secuencias de comandos del cocinero del hierro y del 2009 al Oscar a la Mejor Película Extranjera receptores salidas.
Kundō Koyama. Kundo Koyama is a Japanese author, screenwriter and radio personality. Born in 1964, he began his career as a writer for many popular television programs including the Iron Chef series. In 2003, he wrote an international Emmy nominated program, The Perfect Manual.
