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The word Hara can refer to:

• Hara (band), a Romanian pop-band
• Hara (Bible), a Biblical name
• Hara (company), a Japanese sake company
• Hara (film), a forthcoming Indian 3D computer animated historical drama film
• Hara (genus), a fish genus in the order Siluriformes
• Hara (Hinduism), a disambiguation page
• Hara (field) (原), a meaning of field in Japanese language
• Hara (tanden) (腹), a Japanese martial art term referring to the stomach
• 4640 Hara, a main-belt asteroid
• Harā Bərəzaitī, a legendary mountain in Persian mythology
• Hara Huna Kingdom, an ancient Chinese tribe close to Himalayas mentioned in the epic Mahabharata
• Avicennia marina, a species of mangrove known as the hara tree in southern Iran
• a word and name meaning joy in Greek language
• the word used for feces in Maltese language
• the word for greens in Hindi language
• the word for pen, coop or pigsty in Latin
• the word as the feminine version of Rajah.

HARA is an acronym for :

• Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts
• Hyperbolic absolute risk aversion, a term in econometrics

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

Places[link]

• Hara Arena, a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Trotwood, Ohio, United States
• Hara Bay, a bay in Estonia, in the Gulf of Finland
• Hara Castle (原城, Hara jō), a castle in Hizen Province, Japan
• Hara, Ethiopia, a town in central Ethiopia
• Hara forests, a forest in southern Iran
• Hara Island, an island in the Hara Bay off the northern coast of Estonia
• Hara, Harju County, a village in Kuuslalu Parish, Harju County, Estonia
• Hara, Lääne County, a village in Noarootsi Parish, Lääne County, Estonia
• Hara, Nagano, a village in in Suwa District, Nagano, Japan
• Hara Seghira Synagogue (Arabic: معبد حارة صغيرة‎), a synagogue on the island of Djerba, Tunisia
• Hara Station (disambiguation), various places
• Hara University (Pashto: حرا پوهنتون), a university located in the eastern province of Khost, Afghansitan
• Bizen-Hara Station (備前原駅, Bizen-Hara-eki), a train station in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
• Herat, an ancient city in South Western Afghanistan

People[link]

People with given name Hara

• Hara Chandra Ghosh (1808–1868), a leader of the Young Bengal group
• Hara P. Misra (born 1940), an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology at Virginia Tech
• Hara Patnaik (Oriya: ହର ପଟନାୟକ, born 1958), a Oriya movie stars in the state of Orissa in India
• Goo Hara a Korean singer, member of girl group Kara

People with the surname Hara

• Hara Masatane (原 昌胤?, 1531–1575), a senior retainer of the Takeda clan during the late Sengoku period
• Hara Nagayori (原長頼, 1544–1600), a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through late Azuchi-Momoyama periods
• Hara Setsuko (原節子, born 1920), a Japanese actress
• Hara Takashi (原敬, 1856–1921), the 19th Prime Minister of Japan
• Hara Torayoshi (原 虎吉), a retainer under the Takeda clan of samurai during the late Sengoku period
• Hara Toratane (原虎胤, 1497–1564), a Japanese general under Takeda Shingen
• Arthur S. Hara, a prominent Japanese-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• Atsushi Hara (原篤志?, born 1979), a Japanese professional radio-controlled car racer
• Aya Hara (原亜弥), a Japanese voice actress
• Burt Hara, the principal clarinetist with the Minnesota Orchestra
• Chihiro Hara (原千尋, born 1984), a multiple award-winning Japanese adult video performer
• Chūichi Hara (原 忠一, 1889–1964), an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
• Eriko Hara (原 えりこ), a Japanese voice actress
• Fumina Hara (原 史奈, born 1981), a Japanese actress and idol
• George Hara Williams (1894–1945), an American farmer activist and politician
• Hidenori Hara (原秀則, born 1961), a Japanese manga artist
• Hiromi Hara (原 博実, born 1958), a Japanese ex-soccer player and former manager of F.C. Tokyo
• Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation)
• Kanesuke Hara (author abbreviation Hara, 1885–1962), a Japanese botanist and mycologist
• Kazuki Hara (原 一樹, born 1985), a Japanese football player
• Kazuko Hara (原 嘉壽子, born 1935), a prolific Japanese opera composer
• Kazuo Hara (原一男), a Japanese documentary film director
• Keiichi Hara (原 恵一, born 1959), a Japanese director of animated films
• Kenya Hara (born 1958), a Japanese graphic designer and curator
• Kenzaburo Hara (disambiguation)
• Komako Hara (1910–1968), a Japanese actress
• Marika Hara, a Finnish mountain bike orienteering competitor and world champion
• Masafumi Hara (born 1943), a retired Japanese football player
• Mikie Hara (原 幹恵, born 1987), a Japanese gravure idol and actress
• Naohisa Hara (原 直久, born 1946), a renowned Japanese photographer
• Nobuki Hara (born 1979), a former Japanese football player
• Ryuta Hara (原 竜太, born 1981), a retired Japanese football player
• Sachie Hara (原沙 知絵, born 1978), a Japanese actress and model
• Saori Hara (原紗央莉, born 1988), a Japanese adult video idol, model and actress
• Setsuko Hara (原 節子, born, 1920), a retired Japanese actress
• Taira Hara (はら たいら, 1943–2006), a Japanese manga artist
• Tameichi Hara (原 為一, 1900–1980), an Imperial Japanese naval commander during the Pacific War
• Tamiki Hara (原 民喜, 1905–1951), a Japanese author and survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima
• Tatsunori Hara (原 辰徳, born 1958), the current manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball
• Tetsuo Hara (原 哲夫, born 1961), a Japanese manga artist
• Ville Hara (born 1974), a Finnish architect
• Yasuyoshi Hara (原康義, born 1952), a Japanese actor and voice actor
• Yoshimichi Hara (原嘉道, 1867–1944, a Japanese representative of Emperor Hirohito during World War II
• Yuko Hara (原由子) (born 1956), a keyboard player for Southern All Stars
• Yumiko Hara (原裕美子, born 1982), a Japanese marathon runner
• Yutaka Hara (原 ゆたか), a Japanese manga artist
• Yutaro Hara (原 裕太郎, born 1990), a Japanese football player

See also[link]

• O'Hara (disambiguation), an Irish surname
• Haras (disambiguation)

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Kim Wan-sun (or Kim Wan-seon born May 16, 1969 as Kim I-seon) is a Korean female singer. Since her sensational debut at the age of 17 in 1986, she's been considered to be "Korea's Madonna / female Michael Jackson" or "the dancing queen of Korean popular music renaissance era", as she is known for her beauty, clear voice, charismatic stage presence and catchy hits from the mid 1980s through the early 1990s. Her fifth studio album, released in 1990, produced three consecutive #1 songs and sold more than 1 million copies.^[1]
In the mid 1990s, she achieved success in Taiwan, releasing three albums in Mandarin under the name of 金元萱 (Jin Yuan-xuan).
From the late 2006, she lived in Hawaii for about 3 years and studied digital arts at the University of Hawaii.^[2]
She returned to the music scene in April 2011, releasing the Super Love EP.^[3]

Profile[link]

• Height: 163 cm
• Weight: 43 kg

Discography[link]

In Korea[link]

Studio Albums

EPs / Singles

In Taiwan[link]

Studio Albums

In Japan[link]

Singles

As featured artist[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website

References[link]

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Takashi Miike 三池 崇史
Miike at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1960-08-24) August 24, 1960 (age 51) Yao, Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Director, producer, writer, actor
Influenced by	Shohei Imamura,[1] Hideo Gosha,[2] Akira Kurosawa[3]

Takashi Miike (三池 崇史, Miike Takashi^?, born August 24, 1960) 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. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Japan, an area inhabited by the working class and immigrants. His family was originally from Kumamoto Prefecture. During World War II, his grandfather was stationed in China and Korea, and his father was born in Seoul. His father worked as a welder and his mother as seamstress.^[4] Although he claimed to have attended classes only rarely, he graduated from Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film (Yokohama Hoso Eiga Senmon Gakko) under the guidance of renowned filmmaker Shohei Imamura, the founder and Dean of that institution.^[5]

Career[link]

Miike's first films were television productions, but he also began directing several direct-to-video V-Cinema releases. Miike still directs V-Cinema productions intermittently due to the creative freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the medium and the riskier content that the producers will allow.

Miike's theatrical debut was the film The Third Gangster (Daisan no gokudô).^[6] However it was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) that was the first of his theatrical releases to gain public attention. The film showcased his extreme style and his recurring themes, and its success gave him the freedom to work on higher-budgeted pictures. Shinjuku Triad Society is also the first film in what is labeled his "Black Society Trilogy", which also includes Rainy Dog (1997) and Ley Lines (1999). He gained international fame in 2000 when his romantic horror film Audition (1999) his violent yakuza epic Dead or Alive (1999), and his controversial adaptation of the manga Ichi the Killer played at international film festivals. He has since gained a strong cult following in the West that is growing with the increase in DVD releases of his works. His latest film Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[7]

Themes of his work[link]

Miike has garnered international notoriety for depicting shocking scenes of extreme violence and sexual perversions. Many of his films contain graphic and lurid bloodshed, often portrayed in an over-the-top, cartoonish manner. Much of his work depicts the activities of criminals (especially yakuza) or concern themselves with non-Japanese living in Japan. He is known for his black sense of humor and for pushing the boundaries of censorship as far as they will go.

Despite his notorious reputation, Miike has also directed movies in a range of genres. He has created lighthearted children's films with (Zebraman and The Great Yokai War), period pieces (Sabu), subdued pictures such as the road movie The Bird People in China, a teen drama (Andoromedeia) and farcical musical-comedy-horror in The Happiness of the Katakuris. Other less controversial works include Ley Lines and Agitator, which are character-driven crime dramas.

While Miike often creates films that are less accessible and target arthouse audiences and fans of extreme cinema, such as Izo and the "Box" segment in Three... Extremes, he has created several mainstream and commercial titles such as One Missed Call and The Great Yokai War.

Miike claims that Starship Troopers is his favorite movie.^[8] He admires film directors Akira Kurosawa,^[3] Hideo Gosha,^[3][9] David Lynch,^[10] David Cronenberg,^[10] and Paul Verhoeven.^[10]

Controversies[link]

One of his most controversial films was the ultra-violent Ichi the Killer (2001), adapted from a manga of the same name and starring Tadanobu Asano as a sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer. The extreme violence was initially exploited to promote the film: during its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the audience received "barf bags" emblazoned with the film's logo as a promotional gimmick^[11] (one typically flamboyant gory killing involves a character slicing a man in half from head to groin, and severing another's face, which then slides down a nearby wall).

However, the British Board of Film Classification refused to allow the release of the film uncut in Britain, citing its extreme levels of sexual violence towards women. In Hong Kong, 15 minutes of footage were cut. In the United States it has been shown uncut (unrated). An uncut DVD was also released in the Benelux.

In 2005, Miike was invited to direct an episode of the Masters of Horror anthology series. The series, featuring episodes by a range of established horror directors such as John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and Dario Argento, was supposed to provide directors with relative creative freedom and relaxed restrictions on violent and sexual content (Some violent content was edited from the Dario Argento-directed episode Jenifer). However, when the Showtime cable network acquired the rights to the series, the Miike-directed episode Imprint was deemed too disturbing for the network. Showtime cancelled it from the broadcast lineup even after extended negotiations, though it was retained as part of the series' DVD release. Mick Garris, creator and executive producer of the series, described the episode as "amazing, but hard even for me to watch... definitely the most disturbing film I've ever seen".^[12]

While Imprint has yet to air in the United States, it has aired on Bravo in the UK, on FX in Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela, on Nelonen in Finland and on Rai Tre in Italy. Anchor Bay Entertainment, which has handled the DVD releases for the Masters of Horror series in the US, released Imprint on R1 DVD on September 26, 2006.

Filmography[link]

Director[link]

Actor[link]

• Agitator (2001), as Shinozaki
• Graveyard of Honor (2001), as Restaurant gunman
• Ichi the Killer: Episode 0 (2002), Kakihara (voice)
• Last Life in the Universe (2003), as Yakuza
• Neighbour No. 13 (2005), as Kaneda
• Hostel (2006), as Miike Takashi
• Dōbutsu no Mori (2006), as Rokusuke/Pascal (voice)
• Tenchijin (2009), as Hyogo Kariyasu
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (2010), as himself, a friend of Bishop (voice)

Producer[link]

• The Making of 'Gemini' (2000)
• Ryu ga Gotoku (2006)

Other work[link]

In 2005 Takashi Miike directed a Kabuki style stage-play entitled Demon Pond. The DVD recording of this has been released by Cinema Epoch.^[14][15]

Quotes[link]

"I go to the dentist, not a shrink." (interview with Daniel Robert Epstein^[10])
"Me, a 'Master of Horror'? I'm the guy that made 'Salaryman Kintarō'!" (Miike about his movie for the Masters of Horror series).

Further reading[link]

• Mes, Tom. Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike. Godalming: FAB Press, 2003. ISBN 1-903254-21-3
• Williams, Tony. "Takashi Miike's Cinema of Outrage." cineACTION 64 (2004): 54-62
• "Izo: Takashi Miike's History Lesson." Asian Cinema 16.2 (2005): 85-109.
• Gerow, Aaron. "The Homelessness of Style and the Problems of Studying Miike Takashi." Canadian Journal of Film Studies 18.1 (2009): 24-43

References[link]

External links[link]

• Takashi Miike at the Internet Movie Database
• Suicide is for the Birds: Takashi Miike's Tales of De-territorializing Flight at Fantasia 2003 and Beyond
• 2002 Interview at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film
• SuicideGirls interview with Miike by Daniel Robert Epstein
• Takashi Miike at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
• Interview with Takashi Miike by Mark Schilling
• Interview on midnighteye.com
• Interview with Miike regarding his Yakuza work on 1UP.com
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060508104916/www.pulp-mag.com/archives/6.01/film.shtml
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060508105742/www.pulp-mag.com/archives/5.07/feature_miike_interview.shtml
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060508105746/www.pulp-mag.com/archives/5.07/feature_miike.shtml
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060508103046/www.pulp-mag.com/archives/6.08/film.shtml

Bibliography[link]

• Black, Art (2003). "Takashi Miike Revisited". Asian Cult Cinema 38 (1st Quarter): pp.12–17.