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Major is a sports manga series by Takuya Mitsuda. It has been serialized in Shōnen Sunday and has been collected in 78 tankōbon volumes. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.
The manga series concluded in the 32nd issue of Shōnen Sunday for 2010, while the 78th and final volume of the manga series was released in the middle of December 2010 together with a special original video animation (OVA).
The series has been adapted as an anime series produced by NHK and Studio Hibari titled Major (メジャー, Mejā?) (using katakana instead of the manga's English characters). The first episode was broadcast on November 13, 2004 and has completed six seasons. The final episode originally aired on September 25, 2010. An animated film telling the story between the first and second seasons of the anime was released on December 13, 2008. Two OVAs were released on December 16, 2011 and January 18, 2012. They deal with The World Series chapter, which was skipped in the TV series.
The story of Major follows the life of Gorō Honda, from kindergarten to being a professional baseball player, seeking and overcoming tremendous challenges.
Actors: Elai Faezah (actress), Said Dashuk-Nigmatulin (actor), Yank Kassim (actor), Kamaliya (actress), Sugi Compros (editor), Miza Mohamad (producer), Mikhail Dorojhkin (actor), Miza Mohamad (director), Dasha Markova (actress), Mohd. Rafa'e Abdullah (producer), Fayes Weiss Al-Sabbagh (producer), Khairul Anuar Mohd. Ariff (producer), Sharifah Hendon Syed Hassan (producer), Azmer Shazly Norazhar (producer), Aliyar Ali Kutty (director),
Plot: Sam Weston, the owner of Weston Technologies is furious over the security breach in his Research Lab. The prototype of his latest weapon system "Mantera" or MAN - Transformable Exo-Robotic Armour was sabotaged and destroyed. Invaluable research data was stolen and deleted from the company's mainframe. His main scientist who is leading the research team, Dr. Natasya was missing. The buyer for the new technology is pressuring Sam to deliver the prototype or the deal is off. To make matter worse, the wreckage and debris from the destroyed "Mantera" was accidentally shipped to the other side of the world.... to a young man by the name of Azman, in Malaysia. Who is Azman, and what makes him the chosen one? Everything will be revealed in 'MANTERA'.
Keywords: battle, cgi, fiction, fight, ironman, movie, one-word-title, robot, robotic, transformersActors: Linda Darlow (actress), Zak Santiago (actor), Jerry Wasserman (actor), Ty Olsson (actor), Aaron Pearl (actor), April Telek (actress), Jeffrey Nordling (actor), Michael Kopsa (actor), Michael Adamthwaite (actor), Eric Keenleyside (actor), Tom Butler (actor), Barry W. Levy (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), David Gerber (producer), Gwynyth Walsh (actress),
Plot: On September 11th 2001, four domestic flights are hijacked by terrorists in the United States of America. After the collision of three against selected targets, the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 fight against four terrorists to take back the control of the airplane.
Keywords: airplane, airplane-crash, answering-machine, bandanna, battle, beating, bomb, box-cutter, brawl, cell-phoneActors: Jacques Witta (editor), Jean Cosmos (writer), Zbigniew Preisner (composer), Ernst-Georg Schwill (actor), Benoît Magimel (actor), Jacques Villeret (actor), Suzanne Flon (actress), Victor Garrivier (actor), Manfred Andrae (actor), Michael Hanemann (actor), Gerald Alexander Held (actor), André Dussollier (actor), Thierry Lhermitte (actor), Isabelle Candelier (actress), Jacques Giraud (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Harry Robertson (producer), Terence Alexander (actor), Harry Robertson (composer), Harry Robertson (writer), Joyce Turner (miscellaneous crew), Frank Godwin (director), Frank Godwin (producer), Frank Godwin (writer), Beryl Cooke (actress), Derek Benfield (actor), Eddie Tagoe (actor), Richard Mason (editor), Melissa Wilks (actress), Robert LaBassiere (actor), Gordon Hagan (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Lars Lind (actor), Janne Carlsson (actor), Lars Amble (actor), Lasse Åberg (director), Lasse Åberg (writer), Lasse Åberg (actor), Örjan Ramberg (actor), Agneta Prytz (actress), Bo Jonsson (writer), Bo Jonsson (producer), Lars Molin (writer), Palle Granditsky (actor), Sylvia Ingemarsson (editor), Stina Klemming (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Ungewitter (actor),
Plot: It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades doesn't take it very serious - but they have a jolly good time. A female journalist follows the exercise to write an article, and gets interested in him.
Keywords: army-life, boot-camp, conscription, dream-sequence, golf-course, journalist, military-exercise, restaurant, secret-identityActors: Ken Annakin (producer), Aldo Sambrell (actor), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Harry Andrews (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Marianne Stone (actress), Terence Alexander (actor), Yul Brynner (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Andrew Keir (actor), Jeremy Lloyd (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Ken Annakin (director), John Scott (composer),
Plot: Superintendent Stafford of the United Provinces Police, has his men arrest an entire tribe on vague allegations of poaching and theft in British India. Their leader, Sultan, father of a young boy, Munnu, whose wife, Tara, is expecting their second child, is also arrested and held in a cell with criminals in Fort Najibabad. Sultan, Tara, and many others manage to break out, but Tara and the newborn both pass away. Sultan, with the help of his men, decides to revolt against the oppressive British - who create a mobile unit, led by Freddy Young, to counter this revolt as well as announce a reward of Rs.500.00 - but Sultan manages to elude them. Then amidst clashes between Freddy and Stafford, and the entry of Jane Stafford, it is made known that Sultan's tribe will be transported by train to a compound in Delhi. This news reaches Sultan and he prepares to attack the train and free his people - little knowing the trap he and his men will soon be walking in to.
Keywords: army, bald, bald-hero, bald-man, battle, battlefield, bayonet, british, british-accent, british-armyActors: Michael Ross (actor), Gene Barry (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Alvy Moore (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), Mike Mahoney (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Earl Holliman (actor), Johnny Downs (actor), Peter Baldwin (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Don Taylor (actor), William Schallert (actor),
Plot: In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
Keywords: airport, based-on-novel, englishman, father-daughter-relationship, housekeeper, innocent, island, sailor, spinster, united-states-marinesActors: Emil Rameau (actor), Alan Napier (actor), Eric Wilton (actor), Tito Vuolo (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Walter Pidgeon (actor), Francis L. Sullivan (actor), Clive Morgan (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Robert Coote (actor), Henry Kulky (actor), Peter Lawford (actor), Argentina Brunetti (actress), Antonio Filauri (actor),
Plot: Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia, Nicobar, and his military aides Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister and Audrey Quail, become involved in the plight of a young ballerina who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.
Keywords: 1940s, army, austria, ballerina, based-on-novel, british-accent, british-army, catholic-church, cigarette-smoking, citizenActors: Frank Albertson (actor), Lee J. Cobb (actor), Arthur Kennedy (actor), James Seay (actor),
Plot: U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Artur Cederborgh (actor), Gunnar Sjöberg (actor), Börje Mellvig (actor), Olav Riégo (actor), Svend Rindom (actor), Willy Peters (actor), Sven Lindberg (actor), Ragnar Arvedson (actor), Arne Lindblad (actor), Åke Engfeldt (actor), Josua Bengtson (actor), Åke Ohberg (actor), John Melin (actor), Gideon Wahlberg (actor), Eric von Gegerfelt (actor),
Genres: Drama,