AK100 World Tour
THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF AKIRA KUROSAWA'S BIRTH
Tour Outline
The legendary Movie Director Akira Kurosawa traveling around the world in an official tour
The year 2010 is the 100th birthyear of Akira Kurosawa. The AK100 committee, in conjunction with Kurosawa Productions, plans to hold the AK100 WORLD TOUR to celebrate the life and work of the late director.
We are planning to go to Paris, London, LA,Zaltz Burg, Warshaw,Florence,countries of Asia, Canada, Germany, and Australia, where film making is popular.
The final events are to be held in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto).
| Date | April 2009 The end of December, 2010. And the stage starts in 2011 |
|---|---|
| The host area | North, South, and Central America, Europe, Asia & The other countries |
| The Host | The countries involved 'AK100 Project' assent |
| Assent | Kurosawa Production & The executive committee of AK100Project |
| Official Visual Designer |
Jean Giraud ： MOEBIUS / France THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF AKIRA KUROSAWA'S BIRTH Official concept designer |
| AK100 Project Film Concert Conductor |
Tomomi Nishimoto |
| AK100 Project Music Advisory |
YOSHIKI(X JAPAN) |
| Music theme | hide (MISERY) |
| Contents |
Screening of "Ran" and film concert conducted by Tomomi Nishimoto  Concert image(photo by Kunihiro Takuma) 
Image Photo "Yojimbo" world-wide stage performance 
2003 examples of famous scenes from "Yojimbo" |
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Jean Jireau Moebius / Tomomi Nishimoto / YOSHIKI / hide
Jean Giraud : MOEBIUS
Jean Giraud was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris. MOEBIUS/Giraud is known to be a friend of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. From December 2004 to March 2005, the two of them shared an exhibition at La Monnaie in Paris which showcased work by both artists. He even named his daughter after Nausicaa from Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
As Jean Giraud
Blueberry (29 volumes, English translation, 1965 - ), artist
Jim Cutlass (7 volumes, 1979 - 1999), artist
XIII (volume 18, La Version irlandaise in 2007), artist
Marshall Blueberry (3 volumes, 2000), writer
As MOEBIUS
Le Bandard fou (English translation, 1975), writer & artist
Arzach (English translation, 1976), writer & artist
Le Garage Hermetique (The Airtight Garage, Tueur de monde (1979), writer & artist
l'Incal (The Incal, 6 volumes, English translation, 1981-1988), artist
Venise celeste (1984), writer & artist
Le Monde d'Edena (1985-2001), artist
Altor (7 volumes, 1986 - ), writer
Silver Surfer: Parable (Originally in English, 1988-1989), artist
The Long Tomorrow (Originally in English, 1989), artist
Halo Graphic Novel (Originally in English, 2006), artist
& others
Tomomi Nishimoto
photo by Kunihiro Takuma
Born in Osaka , Japan in 1970, Tomomi Nishimoto graduated with a degree in music composition from Osaka College of Music in 1994. In 1995, she was admitted to Saint Petersburg National School of Music in Russia where she studied opera, symphony conducting under the tutelage of Viktor Fedotov and Ilya Moussin.
In 2002, appointed Principal Conductor of Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra "Millennium," a post she held until 2004. During her two-year tenure with the orchestra, she conducted numerous concerts, including the annual New Year Concert hosted at the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. She also brought the orchestra to Japan in September of 2002.
In August 2006, conducted “The 52nd Split Summer Music Festival” and “The 57th Dubrovnik Summer Festival”. In October of the same year, scheduled to conduct G. Puccini's “Tosca” by Hungarian National opera ground visit to Japan performance.
In February 2007, she conducted Moscow Symphony Orchestra “Russian Philharmonic”.
In 2009, she is scheduled to conduct the England Royal Philharmonic.
She has been elected for a Young Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum.
Official site : http://www.tomomi-n.com/
YOSHIKI(X JAPAN)
Message from YOSHIKI about AK100 Project
Formed "X" in 1982. Their unique and original visuals combined with their beautiful and emotional music established "visual-kei", a new music genre becoming a social phenomenon and setting a great number of records and legends.
Before X's major debut he established his own label "EXTASY RECORDS" in 1986.
In 1993 they transferred to Warner Music's "Atlantic Label" and changed the band's name to
"X JAPAN ". X JAPAN was the first Japanese band to perform concerts at Tokyo Dome for 3 days in row (with more than 50,000 fans in one concert). They are famous for breaking records and common sense in the Japanese music scene.
YOSHIKI who is in charge of writing lyrics, composing and producing, has widened his scope by producing the main theme song of a TV program, movie music direction and collaborating with other artists on a parallel with X JAPAN.
He collaborated with ROGER TAILOR, the drummer of "QUEEN" and appeared on a tribute album for "KISS".
X JAPAN supported Ralf Schumacher, a top F1 driver as a main sponsor of his racing team when he won the Formula Nippon championship in 1996.
Classical music is an essential part of YOSHIKI's music.The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed in "YOSHIKI presents ETERNAL MELODY",his original classic album, collaborating with GEORGE MARTIN, a producer of the BEATLES.It was released in 1993 and sold more than 300,000 copies and was one of the best selling classic albums in Japan.
X JAPAN broke up at the end of 1997. YOSHIKI left the music business because of the sudden death of his band member, but started his music career again with "Anniversary", a song to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the emperor's ascension to the throne in Nov. 1999.
It was performed with a 77-piece orchestra in front of 15,000 people, including government officials, athletes and so on. It was broadcast by the major Japanese TV stations and he received a certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Education for contributing to Japanese culture and society in the year 2000.
And then he was offered to produce the main
official song for the "Aichi Expo" by
the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
in 2005.
He composed and wrote lyrics for the main theme tune "CATACOMBS", a Hollywood movie which was produced by the team of the movie "SAW" in Oct. 2007 and was recognized by not only his fans but also people from the film industry, and the new tune of X JAPAN "I.V." was chosen as the worldwide main theme song for "SAW4", the latest movie and one of the biggest box-office hits of the "SAW" series.
Oct.22 the music video for "I.V." was shot in public at the Tokyo Aqua City Odaiba and he announced a reunited performance of X JAPAN. More than 10,000 fans staying there let out a whoop of joy.
2008
Jan.20 YOSHIKI announced a 2-day-concert at the Tokyo Dome at a press conference in Shibuya.
Jan.23 Started selling "I.V." via iTunes in over 23 countries all over the world. It meant the worldwide debut of X JAPAN.
Feb. More than 100,000 tickets of a 2-day-concert were completely booked by YOSHIKI mobile, his official mobile site and it was decided to lengthen it to a 3-day-concert on very short notice.
Mar. Wrote a new tune "Aisuru hitoyo" for Masafumi Akikawa as the theme song of " Tokyo daikuushu"(Great Tokyo Air Raids), a TV drama for the 55th Anniversary for NTV.
Mar.28-30 X JAPAN KOUGEKI SAIKAI 2008 I.V. ～ HAMETSUNI MUKATTE ～
May 4 Performed on stage at the "hide memorial summit" at AJINOMO TO STADIUM
June Announced the postponement of the X JAPAN World Tour including France , USA and Taiwan .
Official web-site in Japan , Korea , France , Taiwan and England were flooded by a huge number of guests.
Sep. Attended the establishment ceremony "Help As One", a charitable organization in LA.
Sep.15 Press conference was held at the Olympic Plaza in the National Yoyogi Stadium and announced the restart of the X JAPAN world tour and "ROCK STAR" produced by YOSHIKI. A few thousand people came there to see him.
The World Tour will start in France on Nov.22.
Official site : http://www.yoshiki.net
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This will be a collaboration between Akira Kurosawa’s movies & works and the world renowned music of hide.
This will without doubt bring a great movement to Japan's music industry. The song, "MISERY" will have an honorable role of collaborating with an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of Akira Kurosawa. "MISERY" was written toward a girl that holds a heavy disease. hide was able to communicate love through this song, and he was able to give dreams and hope to many people. "Embrace everything, and enlighten yourself. Be grateful for the fact that you are alive".
Even now, after the death of both Akira Kurosawa and hide, the works they left behind still enlighten us.
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