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Akai (Chinese: 雅佳; pinyin: Yǎjiā, Japanese: Akai in rōmaji) is a consumer electronics brand, now headquartered in Singapore. At its peak in the late 1990s, Akai Holdings employed 100,000 workers and had annual sales of HK$40 billion (US$5.2 billion), but it collapsed in 2000 owing creditors US$1,100m. In addition to some development of musical instruments, the Akai brand name is also used to rebadge electronics manufactured by other companies. "Akai" means red, hence the logo color, earlier also accompanied by a red dot.
Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai and his son, Saburo Akai (who died in 1973) as Akai Electric Company Ltd. (赤井電機株式会社 Akai Denki Kabushiki-gaisha), a Japanese manufacturer in 1929 or 1946. At its peak in the late 1990s, Akai Holdings employed 100,000 workers and had annual sales of HK$40 billion (US$5.2 billion), but it collapsed in 2000 owing creditors US$1.1B. It emerged that ownership of Akai Holdings had somehow passed in 1999 to Grande Holdings, a company founded by Akai's chairman James Ting. The liquidators claimed that Ting had stolen over US$800m from the company with the assistance of accountants Ernst & Young who had tampered with audit documents going back to 1994. Ting was imprisoned for false accounting in 2005, and E&Y paid $200m to settle the negligence case out of court in September 2009. In a separate lawsuit, a former E&Y partner, Cristopher Ho, made a "substantial payment" to Akai creditors in his role as chairman of Grande Holdings.
Actors: Terry Sasaki (actor), Wei Ling Chang (editor), Wei Ling Chang (director), Wei Ling Chang (writer), Kai Issey (actor), Tom Forrest (actor), Katherine Bralower (actress), John C. Kim (producer), Benoît de Boursetty (producer), Caroline Rosenblum (actress), Benoît de Boursetty (composer), Noah Breymeier (actor), Gavin Glick (actor), Sam Goodstein (actor), Alex Potter (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi (actor), Keiko Han (actress), Keiko Kitagawa (actress), Masaya Kikawada (actor), Ryuta Tazaki (director), Mark Chinnery (actor), Ayaka Komatsu (actress), Ayaka Komatsu (actress), Jôji Shibue (actor), Jôji Shibue (actor), Naoko Takeuchi (writer), Miyû Sawai (actress), Izam (actor), Hiroyuki Matsumoto (actor), Myû Azama (actress),
Genres: Fantasy,Actors: Naomi Nishida (actress), Hitomi Kuroki (actress), Takashi Tsukamoto (actor), Nao Ômori (actor), Chieko Matsubara (actress), Hiroyuki Miyasako (actor), Masakazu Tamura (actor), Michiko Hada (actress), Kanako Fukaura (actress), Ai Katô (actress), Kazuhiko Yukawa (writer), Yasuo Yagi (producer), Makoto Kiyohiro (director), Yoko Imai (actress), Mahoko Takanari (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Shane Callahan (actor), John Sirabella (producer), Marc Matney (actor), Konami Yoshida (actress), Kevin Potts (actor), Tamara Burnham Mercer (actress), Jeff Johnston (actor), Yasuomi Umetsu (director), Yasuomi Umetsu (writer), Sean P. O'Connell (actor), Paul Johnson (actor), Dave Underwood (actor), Scott Bailey (actor), Larry Tobias (actor), J.R. Rodriguez (actor),
Plot: She may be cute. She may be young. She may seem innocent and naive, but don't be fooled. She's a cold-blooded killer, and if you're on the wrong side of the law, you may be her next target. After being orphaned at a young age, her parents victims of a brutal double murder, Sawa was taken in by the detective assigned to her case. Not content to just watch as the imperfect justice system let more and more criminals go loose every day, he's decided to train her to be his instrument of justice. After all, who'd suspect a pretty college student of being a deadly vigilante?
Keywords: 1990s, accident, accidental-death, accidental-suicide, ambush, anime, anti-hero, apartment, arm-blown-off, assassinActors: Shane Callahan (actor), John Sirabella (producer), Marc Matney (actor), Konami Yoshida (actress), Kevin Potts (actor), Tamara Burnham Mercer (actress), Jeff Johnston (actor), Yasuomi Umetsu (director), Yasuomi Umetsu (writer), Sean P. O'Connell (actor), Paul Johnson (actor), Dave Underwood (actor), Scott Bailey (actor), Larry Tobias (actor), J.R. Rodriguez (actor),
Plot: She may be cute. She may be young. She may seem innocent and naive, but don't be fooled. She's a cold-blooded killer, and if you're on the wrong side of the law, you may be her next target. After being orphaned at a young age, her parents victims of a brutal double murder, Sawa was taken in by the detective assigned to her case. Not content to just watch as the imperfect justice system let more and more criminals go loose every day, he's decided to train her to be his instrument of justice. After all, who'd suspect a pretty college student of being a deadly vigilante?
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Genres: Animation, Comedy,Actors: Chieko Higashiyama (actress), Fumio Watanabe (actor), Tatsuo Saitô (actor), Fujio Suga (actor), Cornell Woolrich (writer), Akiko Koyama (actress), Tsutomu Tamura (writer), Kimiyo Ôtsuka (actress), Nobuo Takagi (actor), Shinji Takano (actor), Kiyo Murakami (actress), Isao Suenaga (actor), Keiji Tsuchida (actor), Reiko Hitomi (actress), Fumio Toyama (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Bokuzen Hidari (actor), Kaoru Yachigusa (actress), Ichirô Satô (producer), Yûzô Kawashima (writer), Yûzô Kawashima (director), Takeshi Katô (actor), Tatsuya Mihashi (actor), Hisaya Morishige (actor), Frankie Sakai (actor), Keiko Awaji (actress), Masumi Harukawa (actress), Kyôko Kishida (actress), Chieko Naniwa (actress), Yukiko Todoroki (actress), Kokinji Katsura (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Mitsuko Yoshikawa (actress), Reikichi Kawamura (actor), Atsuko Ichinomiya (actress), Kon Ichikawa (director), Hideko Takamine (actress), Haruo Tanaka (actor), Hisako Yamane (actress), Ken Uehara (actor), Sôji Kiyokawa (actor), Yônosuke Toba (actor), Den Obinata (actor), Tadashi Hattori (composer), Yûji Hori (actor), Hideo Koi (producer), Shuntarô Emi (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Mitsuko Yoshikawa (actress), Reikichi Kawamura (actor), Atsuko Ichinomiya (actress), Kon Ichikawa (director), Hideko Takamine (actress), Haruo Tanaka (actor), Hisako Yamane (actress), Ken Uehara (actor), Sôji Kiyokawa (actor), Yônosuke Toba (actor), Den Obinata (actor), Tadashi Hattori (composer), Yûji Hori (actor), Hideo Koi (producer), Shuntarô Emi (actor),
Genres: ,When I think of it now that it's done
How it might've gone without a place to belong
I can see we played into their hands
And they picked our bones until we proved them wrong
It's only a moment
The minutes and hours, they fly from me now as then
It's all in the detail
I've been here before but still don't remember when
As we stared in the face of the storm
And the change began to gather over the bend
There was always a chance it would come
But if you can't make it happen nobody can
It's all but forgotten
The minutes and hours, they're nothing that can't be
bought
It's all in the detail