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November 23, 2022. ( 2022-11-23) Women in Taipei ( Chinese: 台北女子圖鑑) is a 2022 Taiwanese television series that is an adaptation of the 2016 Japanese series Tokyo Girl. Both series were inspired by the Tokyo Women's Campaign column that appeared in Tokyo Calendar magazine in 2015. The series premiered on September 21, 2022, as an ...
Original release. Release. 2016. ( 2016) –. 2017. ( 2017) Tokyo Girl (東京女子図鑑), or Tôkyô Joshi Zukan, is a Japanese television drama series that aired in 2016–2017, written by Hisako Kurosawa and directed by Yuki Tanada. The show was streamed on Amazon Prime starting in 2018.
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Edward Lewis, a powerful corporate raider from New York City, acquires and dismantles struggling companies, selling their assets for profit. He invites his girlfriend, Jessica, to join him on a business trip, but she grows weary of being at his constant beck and call and decides to end their relationship. One night, while leaving a business party i...
As per the opening credits 1. Richard Gereas Edward Lewis, a rich corporate raider from New York who hires Vivian to be his escort for a week 2. Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward, a free-spirited Hollywood prostitute 3. Ralph Bellamyas Jim Morse, owner of Morse Industries, a troubled shipbuilding company Edward plans to take over 4. Jason Alexanderas Ph...
Development
The film was initially conceived as a dark drama about prostitution in Los Angeles in the 1980s. The relationship between Vivian and Edward also originally involved controversial themes, including Vivian being addicted to drugs; part of the deal was that she had to stay off cocaine for a week. Edward eventually throws her out of his car and drives off. The original script by J.F.Lawton, called 3000, ended with Vivian and her prostitute friend on the bus to Disneyland. Producer Laura Ziskin co...
Casting
The casting of the film was a rather lengthy process. Marshall had initially considered Christopher Reeve, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin Kline, and Denzel Washington for the role of Edward, and Albert Brooks, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds turned it down. Pacino went as far as doing a casting reading with Roberts before rejecting the part. Sam Neill, Tom Conti and Charles Grodin tested for the part along with Roberts. Gere initially refused but when he met with Roberts, she persuad...
Filming
The film's budget was substantial, at $14 million, so producers could shoot in many locations. Most filming took place in Los Angeles, California, specifically in Beverly Hills, and inside soundstages at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. The escargot restaurant the "Voltaire" was shot at the restaurant "Rex," now called "Cicada." Scenes set in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel lobby were shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Filming commenced on July 24, 1989, but was immediately plagued by pro...
Box office
In its opening weekend, the film was at number one at the US box office, grossing $11,280,591 and averaging $8,513 per theater. Despite dropping to number two in its second weekend, it grossed more with $12,471,670. It returned to number one at the US box office in its sixth weekend and was number one for three weeks. It was in the Top 10 movies in the US for 16 weeks. In Australia, it was number one for 12 weeks and was number one for nine consecutive weeks in the UK. As of September 29, 200...
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Pretty Woman may be a yuppie fantasy, but the film's slick comedy, soundtrack, and casting can overcome misgivings." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade of "A" on an...
American Film Institute
1. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions– #21
The soundtrack features the songs (among others); 1. "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, which inspired its title 2. Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love," originally released in December 1987, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100in June 1990 3. "King of Wishful Thinking" by Go West 4. "Show Me Your Soul" by Red Hot Chili Peppers 5. "No Explanation" ...
A stage musical adaptation of the film opened on Broadway on July 20, 2018, in previews, officially on August 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. This follows an out-of-town tryout at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, which ran from March 13 to April 15, 2018. The musical has music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance; the late Garry Marshall and J...
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Anna Sawai[a] (アンナ・サワイ, born June 11, 1992) is a Japanese actress, singer, and dancer.[3][4] Born in New Zealand, she moved to Japan with her family at age 10 and rose to fame in Japan as one of the lead vocalists of the girl group Faky from 2013 to 2018. She is best known for her acting roles in Colors (2018), Giri/Haji (2019 ...
Junko Furuta ( Japanese: 古田 順子, Hepburn: Furuta Junko, 18 January 1971 – 4 January 1989) was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers, Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17), and took ...
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