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18-513: Itoi ( 糸井 ) may refer to: People Shigesato Itoi , Japanese author and game designer Yoshio Itoi , Japanese professional baseball player Hajime Itoi , Japanese backstroke swimmer Places Itoi Station , a railway station on the Muroran Main Line in Tomakomai, Hokkaidō, Japan Izushi-Itoi Prefectural Natural Park ,

36-478: A more role-playing experience. Itoi launched a photo creation tool called "Dokonoko", which is designed specifically to be used with pets. It has been described as an "Instagram for pets". Dokonoko is most famous for a particular Japanese Labrador Retriever named Corky, who made front line news because of the abnormal length of her tongue. Itoi was born on November 10, 1948, and raised in Maebashi, Gunma . He

54-426: A series of long conversations with, for example, an expert on neurology Yūji Ikegaya, about how to live as a human being in the world. Books collecting Itoi's past essays written on the site's front page are also available for purchase. Itoi has voiced Satsuki's father, Tatsuo Kusakabe, in the original Japanese version of the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro . He has been a judge on several episodes of

72-464: Is a Prefectural Natural Park in northeast Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan Itoi (Hitui) , a village in India See also [ edit ] I'itoi , the cosmology of the O'odham peoples Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Itoi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

90-535: Is a quiet and serious young man in 1960s Tokyo whose personal life is in tumult, having lost his best friend Kizuki after he inexplicably commits suicide. Seeking an escape, Toru enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, during a walk in a park, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko, and they grow close. Naoko continues to be devastated by the loss of Kizuki and spirals into a deep depression. Toru sleeps with Naoko on her 20th birthday. Shortly afterwards, Naoko withdraws from

108-536: Is an avid Monopoly player and is President of the Japan Monopoly Association ( 日本モノポリー協会 , Nihon Monopoly Kyōkai ) . He also competed in the 1992 Monopoly World Championships and placed eighth. Itoi's video game development company Ape, Inc. developed two Monopoly games for the Super Famicom , with Itoi serving as producer. These versions of Monopoly were not released outside of Japan and featured

126-442: Is everything that Naoko is not—outgoing, vivacious, and supremely self-confident. The story then follows Toru as he is torn between the two women in his life, and choosing between his past and his future. The score was composed by Jonny Greenwood . He used a Japanese nylon-strung guitar with home recording equipment from the 1960s, attempting to create a recording that one of the characters might have made. This film debuted in

144-697: The 67th Venice International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Lion . It was then subsequently released in Japanese cinemas on 11 December 2010. In the United Kingdom, it was released on 11 March 2011. In the United States, the film had a limited release on 6 January 2012 in New York City and Washington D.C. In Canada, the film was released on 2 March 2012. The Daily Telegraph said that Hung

162-645: The Internet and bought his first Macintosh . In 1998 he started the website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"), which is the center of his activity today. Under the theme of "creating good mood", the website has been updated every day for the past 15 years, with Itoi's essays on lifestyle, interviews and articles, and merchandise sales. He talks about his pet dogs and his interviews with artists, craftsmen, businessmen, etc., which tend to center on philosophical issues. Itoi has co-written several books modeled on these interviews, in which he has

180-616: The 1980s Itoi established the profession of writing copy for advertisements among the general public in Japan. In 1981, he co-authored a collection of short stories titled Yume de Aimashou ("Let's meet in a dream") with writer Haruki Murakami . Later Itoi branched into writing essays, lyrics, and designing video games. He is best known outside of Japan for Nintendo's EarthBound , released in 1994 in Japan (as Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back ) and in 1995 in North America. In 1997, Itoi began using

198-554: The Famicom, he was lead designer, writer and director, while on Mother 2 (released as EarthBound in the West) for the SNES, Itoi was producer, director and writer. He had initially envisioned Mother 3 as a highly ambitious title for the ill-fated Nintendo 64DD peripheral which would have transitioned the series into 3D graphics and featured elaborate cinematic cutscenes; however this version of

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216-459: The Japanese television shows Iron Chef and Hey! Spring of Trivia . He made his live-action acting debut in 2010, when he played the role of a professor in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood . Itoi established the company Ape, Inc. as a venue for external developers to help make games for Nintendo. He was the creator of the Mother series. In the original Mother for

234-683: The final battle of EarthBound with Giygas was inspired from his accidental childhood viewing of the Shintoho film titled The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty . Specifically, the scene that inspired the battle was a scene depicting a woman being murdered, which he mistook for rape. Itoi has said that he would not be involved in a fourth title of the series. Itoi's works have had an impact on other games and other media, including Undertale , and others. Shigesato Itoi worked with Nintendo to design video game-themed haramaki . Itoi

252-428: The game never came to fruition due to the failure of the 64DD, and Mother 3 was instead reimagined as a 2D title for Game Boy Advance closer in scope to the first two titles, with Itoi credited as the writer of the story. Another unrealized 64DD title Itoi had been involved in developing around this time was the pet simulator video game Cabbage , which was canceled after years in development hell . Itoi claims that

270-426: The game, Ninten, also has asthma, which was one of the first aspects of his character Itoi came up with. Norwegian Wood (film) Norwegian Wood ( ノルウェイの森 , Noruwei no Mori ) is a 2010 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Tran Anh Hung , based on the 1987 novel by Haruki Murakami . It was released in Japan on 11 December 2010. The score was composed by Jonny Greenwood . Toru Watanabe

288-419: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Itoi&oldid=1114276672 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shigesato Itoi During

306-438: The world and leaves for a sanitarium in a remote forest setting near Kyoto. Toru is anguished by the situation, as he still has deep feelings for Naoko, but she is unable to reciprocate. He also lives with the influence of death everywhere, while Naoko feels as if some integral part of her has been permanently lost. He continues with his studies, and during the spring semester meets an attractive girl and fellow student Midori, who

324-422: Was a heavy smoker until he quit in 2002. Itoi has been married to actress Kanako Higuchi since 1993. In a 2019 interview, he mentioned that he has asthma , which causes him to cough when lying down. He would often play Mario when he was unable to sleep at night due to his asthma, and stated that he felt "indebted to Nintendo" and specifically wanted to work with them on Mother due to this. The protagonist of

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