query: educated_at osamu dazai
supports: Osamu Dazai (   Dazai Osamu , June 19 , 1909 -- June 13 , 1948 ) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th - century Japan . A number of his most popular works , such as Shay and Ningen Shikkaku , are considered modern - day classics in Japan . With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life , Dazai 's stories have intrigued the minds of many readers . His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature , mental illness , social relationships , and postwar Japan . One such literary work , Ningen Shikkaku , has received quite a few adaptations : a film directed by Genjiro Arato , the first four episodes of the anime series Aoi Bungaku , and a manga serialized in Shinchosha 's Comic Bunch magazine . While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan , he remains relatively unknown in the United States with only a handful of his novels available in English . , born on 24 May 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, "Branded to Kill" (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taish Trilogy, "Zigeunerweisen" (1980), "Kagero-za" (1981) and "Yumeji" (1991). Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest.  Life and career.
  Takahata was born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan. On June 29, 1945, at just nine years old, he survived a major US air raid on Okayama City. Later on in life, after seeing a French animated cartoon feature called "Le Roi et l'Oiseau" ("The King and the Mockingbird") he became intrigued by the animation that was used. He graduated from the University of Tokyo French literature course in 1959. While he was job hunting at his university, Takahata was tempted to join Toei Animation by a friend who knew the company wanted an assistant director. He took the company's entrance examination, and was hired. The reason he decided to join the company was his thought that "If it was animation, I can be something interesting, too". Ten people joined the company that same year which made it hard for Takahata competitive wise to later achieve the status of director. Takahata finally directed his first film after he was recommended for the position by his instructor Yasuo tsuka. His directorial debut was "" which unfortunately ended up being a commercial failure resulting in his demotion. The remaining staff members who had not been demoted for the failure of "Hols" went on to work on a different Toei film. Unable to move forward, in 1971 Takahata left Toei Animation along with Yichi Kotabe, and Hayao Miyazaki to make the animated feature "Pippi Longstocking". To make this happen, he transferred to an animation studio called "A Production" (now known as Shin-Ei Animation) which was founded by his former superior . The last thing was to acquire the animation rights and to hunt for locations. Takahata, and Miyazaki travelled to Sweden but were met with a dead end when author Astrid Lindgren turned them away ending their hopes for Pippi. Later in the same year they both requested to direct episodes seven, and onward of the first "Lupin III" TV series anime as at the time it was suffering from low ratings. The offer was accepted by animation director Yasuo tsuka, who was also an old acquaintance. They accepted the offer under the condition that their names were not to be released, and the direction credited to only "A production directors group". Although his directing in the original was well received, he did not participate in the second series leaving Miyazaki to go ahead with the work. New Zealand is an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmassesthat of the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Mui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamuand numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney. Central Park Media was an American multimedia entertainment company based in New York City, New York, that was active in the distribution of East Asian cinema, television series, anime, manga and manhwa titles in North America prior to its bankruptcy in 2009. It was headquartered in the 250 West 57th Street building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Career.
  In 1980, Arato produced "Zigeunerweisen" for director Seijun Suzuki. He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially-built, inflatable, mobile tent. The film won four Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was voted the best Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics. He also produced Tatsushi mori's "The Whispering of the Gods" in 2005.   Shinchosha 1988. In 1967, Shinchosha published a short story named "Grave of the Fireflies" as a novel written by Akiyuki Nosaka. 21 years later, "Grave of the Fireflies" was turned into a film by director Isao Takahata, animated by Studio Ghibli and co-distributed by Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and Toho. In turn, Shinchosha produced that film as Shinchosha 1988. The film was released in Japanese theaters on April 16, 1988. It was then licensed and released in North America as a subtitled VHS by Central Park Media on June 2, 1993, and later a 2-disc DVD by the same company in the same region, with the 1st disc featuring an English dub produced by Skypilot Entertainment and the original Japanese with English subtitles. The 2nd disc contained a retrospective on the author of the original book, an interview with the director, and an interview with critic Roger Ebert, who had expressed his admiration for the film on several occasions and ranked the film as one of the greatest of all time. Following the April 27, 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films acquired the North American rights and re-released it on DVD on July 7, 2009, followed by former CPM titles such as "MD Geist", "Now and Then, Here and There" and "The World of Narue". Following the September 1, 2009 shutdown and rebranding of ADV Films, their successor, Sentai Filmworks, rescued the film and re-released it a remastered DVD on March 6, 2012 and plans on releasing the film on digital outlets. A Blu-ray edition was released on November 20, 2012, featuring an all-new English dub produced by Seraphim Digital. StudioCanal released a Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2013, followed by a "Kiki's Delivery Service" release on that same format. with Madman Entertainment releasing the film in Australia and New Zealand. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes Australian and foreign films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Madman is one of the major entertainment companies in Australia. It employs approx 100 people and has an annual turnover of around A$50 million. Its headquarters is in Richmond, Victoria.
candidates: actor australia new york university of tokyo
answer: university of tokyo