Beautiful People ( Japanese : ビューティフルピープル , Hepburn : Byūtifuru Pīpuru ) is a josei manga by Mitsukazu Mihara . It is a collection of six short stories and was published by Shodensha on October 20, 2001.
20-475: [REDACTED] Look up beautiful people in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beautiful People may refer to: Film, television, and theater [ edit ] Beautiful People (film) , a 1999 British comedy Beautiful People (1974 film) or Animals Are Beautiful People , a South African wildlife documentary Beautiful People (American TV series) ,
40-402: A 1952 short story by Charles Beaumont See also [ edit ] " Beautiful People Beautiful Problems ", a song by Lana Del Rey Beauty Jet set Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Beautiful People . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
60-1292: A 1990s UK Jimi Hendrix tribute act 120 Days , originally The Beautiful People, a 2001-2012 Norwegian band Albums [ edit ] Beautiful People (album) , by The New Seekers, 1971 Beautiful People , or the 1967 title song, by Kenny O'Dell , 1968 The Beautiful People (album) , by SiM, 2016 Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits of Melanie , a compilation album by Melanie , 1999 Songs [ edit ] "Beautiful People" (Australian Crawl song) , 1979 "Beautiful People" (Barbara Tucker song) , 1994 "Beautiful People" (Big Country song) , 1991 "Beautiful People" (Chris Brown song) , 2011 "Beautiful People" (Ed Sheeran song) , 2019 "Beautiful People" (Pet Shop Boys song) , 2009 "Beautiful People", by ASAP Ferg from Always Strive and Prosper , 2016 "Beautiful People", by Carolina Liar from Wild Blessed Freedom , 2011 "Beautiful People", by Mark Pritchard, with vocals by Thom Yorke , 2016 "Beautiful People", by Melanie from Affectionately Melanie , 1969; also recorded by The New Seekers (1971) "Beautiful People", by Rusted Root from When I Woke , 1994 "Beautiful People", by Stress , 1991 "Beautiful People", by Wiz Khalifa, featuring Sia , 2013 "Beautiful People (Stay High)", by
80-411: A 2005 drama series Beautiful People (British TV series) , a 2008 sitcom The Beautiful People (audio play) , a 2007 Doctor Who – The Companion Chronicles audio play The Beautiful People (play) , a 1941 play by William Saroyan Beautiful People , the working title for the 2014 film Dead House Music [ edit ] Performers [ edit ] Beautiful People (band) ,
100-460: A bullied teenage boy who discovers that his online friend might be his mother, who left him with his father when he was young. In "The Lady Stalker" ( ストーカーの女 ) , a woman who believes she is stalked by a co-worker is later revealed to be delusional since the co-worker is in fact stalking her friend. The protagonist of "Beautiful People" ( ビューティフルピープル ) has plastic surgery done in the hope that she would become beautiful and loved, but after meeting
120-400: A girl stitched from corpses, realizes that it was the girl who was truly beautiful since she gave love. The last story, "Blue Sky" ( 空気の中を抜ける空 ) , focuses on the lifelong relationship between an abandoned girl and a vampire. Reviewers have identified multiple themes and literary elements in the manga. Mania Entertainment's Sakura Eries wrote that while the collection lacked "an overt theme,"
140-461: A modernized version of " Time Enough at Last ", a Twilight Zone episode. Koulikov wrote that "Electric Angel" and "The Lady Stalker" examines a darker side of the Japanese society not typically presented in manga. Written and illustrated by Mitsukazu Mihara , the six short stories of Beautiful People were published in a tankōbon volume by Shodensha on October 20, 2001. Tokyopop licensed
160-579: Is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like Catch-22 , it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war." James Berardinelli gave it the same rating and made most of the same comparisons; according to Berardinelli, "Dizdar has accomplished what few filmmakers are capable of—taking a serious subject and crafting an effective comedy from it that is defined by rich characters, genuine laughs, and an unpredictable plot." He concluded: After appearing as an 'Un Certain Regard entry in
180-555: Is funny, not merely grimly amusing. This makes Beautiful People one of the most intriguing and thought-provoking comedies to reach U.S. theaters in early 2000. Unlike those made by Ebert and Berardinelli, the comparisons made by the Boston Phoenix are more precise: the film "combines British social realism with the bitter, jagged humor of Balkan directors like Emir Kusturica ( Underground ) and Srdjan Dragojevic ( Pretty Village, Pretty Flame )." According to Scott Tobias of
200-415: The 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Beautiful People received international acclaim through film festival screenings and during its regular U.K. release (the screenplay was nominated for a British Independent Film Award ). However, the most impressive thing about this film is not the recognition it has received, but the accessibility of the humor. While Beautiful People is best described as a black comedy,... it
220-505: The A.V. Club, "Though its title seems ironic at first, Beautiful People is boundless in its optimism, growing increasingly contrived as it progresses, steering the messy lives of about 25 interconnected characters in the same hopeful direction....[Dizdar] displays a gift for light absurdist comedy... but as lively and skillfully orchestrated as it is on the whole, Beautiful People adds up to curiously little, limited in large part by Dizdar's narrow view of humanity. In his enthusiasm to resolve
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#1732851880757240-590: The Black Keys , 2024 "The Beautiful People" (song) , by Marilyn Manson, 1996 "The Beautiful People", by Tom Sankey from The Golden Screw , 1967 Other uses [ edit ] Beautiful People (manga) , an anthology of short stories by Mitsukazu Mihara BeautifulPeople.com , a dating website The Beautiful People (professional wrestling) , a professional wrestling stable The Beautiful People (book) , by Marylin Bender , 1967 The Beautiful People ,
260-513: The air conditioning is turned off. He uses the water to help grow a flower, something she had always wanted. "World’s End" ( WORLD´S END ) focuses on the two survivors of a biochemical weapon: a spoiled lesbian and a male homosexual. Both live together but most of the time are annoyed by each other's presence. At one point the tension rises to unbearable levels for both and she forces him to leave, only to later realize that she needs him. The third story, "Electric Angel" ( アンチテレフォニカ ) , features
280-834: The best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival . Beautiful People is set in London during the time of the Bosnian War . In London during October 1993, England are playing the Netherlands in the World Cup qualifiers . The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from former Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile,
300-495: The cultural differences between his former and present home, his disparate characters are all tossed into the same flavorless, homogeneous soup." Beautiful People (manga) Beautiful People consists of six unrelated short stories , a format Mitsukazu Mihara frequently uses for her narrative. In "Princess White Snow" ( 雪白姫 ) , a man finds an abandoned snow maiden. He brings her back to his apartment, but despite his efforts to keep her alive she dissolves into water after
320-446: The effect of a person on another is the focus of the six stories. IGN 's A.E. Sparrow considered the theme of Beautiful People to be the meaning of beauty, and Mihara argues that beauty is found in one's character. Mikhail Koulikov of Anime News Network classified "Princess White Snow", "Blue Sky", and "beautiful people" as urban fantasy . Eries categorized "World's End" as post-apocalyptic fiction , while Koulikov considered it
340-530: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beautiful_People&oldid=1197289989 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Beautiful People (film) Beautiful People is a 1999 British satirical comedy film written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar . The film won an award for
360-605: The lives of four English families are affected in different ways by an encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs Netherlands match. The film was selected as an Un Certain Regard entry at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival . Roger Ebert gave the film three stars (out of four), and made several comparisons: Beautiful People "loops and doubles back among several stories and characters, like Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia "; "it
380-585: The manga for an English-language release in North America along with four of her other works: The Embalmer , IC in a Sunflower , Haunted House and R.I.P.: Requiem in Phonybrian . Translated by Haruko Furukawa and adapted for an English-language audience by Nathan Johnson, Beautiful People was published it on February 7, 2006 ( ISBN 978-1598162431 ). However, Tokyopop's North American branch stopped publishing on May 31, 2011. Beautiful People
400-465: Was positively received by English-language reviewers and readers. It reached the 98th place in the list of 100 best-selling graphic novels for January 2006 with an estimated 823 copies sold. Reviewers praised Mihara's short stories and the ideas examined. Koulikov described it as "one of the finest examples of literary manga currently available in English." Sparrow wrote that some of the stories would have
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