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Cinema Museum of Iran closed its doors to the public until further notice, due to Japanese TV drama the high rise in the coronavirus cases. According to IRNA, the museum hosted film lovers during the Norouz holi- ‘Oshin’, dies at 95 days from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. so that 9,000 visitors visited the museum while observing social distancing and health protocols. Sugako Hashida, a scriptwriter During the said period, children made up 11% and young people 55% of the known for her work on the in- visitors, according to IRNA. ternationally acclaimed televi- Cinemas, theaters and other cultural centers in the Iranian capital Tehran sion drama series, ‘Oshin,’ in were also once again closed as of April 5 because of the increasing number of the 1980s, died of lymphoma coronavirus cases and it was announced that Tehran’s color-code changed from at her home in the city of Ata- orange (medium-high-risk) to red (high-risk). mi, in Shizuoka Prefecture, her Movie theaters as well as stage theaters and concert halls in Iran resumed foundation said Monday. She activities in mid-June last year after a four-month closure due to the COVID-19 was 95. pandemic, but failed to attract audiences and were forced to close again. The series, which originally The Cinema Museum of Iran at Ferdows Garden (Bagh Ferdows), housed aired from 1983, depicted the in a beautiful Qajar-era mansion, surrounded by a pleasant garden, has dis- life of a woman born in a poor played exhibits of equipment, photos and posters from Iran’s century-old movie farming village who became industry. the successful founder of a su- piranoos.com permarket chain. The show was broadcast in dozens of countries and re- gions including China, Iran, Gaming technology recreates 16th-century music Thailand and the United States, reported japantimes.co.jp. Former Chinese President in Scottish chapel Hu Jintao told a group of Japa- nese reporters in 2008 that he japantimes.co.jp The sounds of an Easter con- used Lidar scanning – a rotating Consulting with buildings stained glass windows, as well Choirbook – one of only two was “deeply impressed” by the cert performed for James IV in laser gun that takes measure- archaeologists and HES, then as the altar, throne and drapes. large-scale collections of music series. a Scottish chapel recreated us- ments of the building – to cap- cross-referencing with archival James Cook, a lecturer in to survive from pre-Reformation Taiwan media reported the passing of Hashida in breaking news. ing gaming technology along- ture the Chapel Royal as it cur- records of what materials were early music at Edinburgh Col- Scotland. Professional singers The scriptwriter had the status of a “national treasure in Japan’s cultural side groundbreaking recording rently stands, before transferring bought to construct and furnish lege of Art, said: “Some of the from the Binchois Consort re- field,” a China Times report said. The newspaper also said the drama se- techniques that allow specialists the information to game technol- the chapel, the academics were aspects we know are absolutely corded the music in an anechoic ries was being rebroadcast in Taiwan. to model how acoustics would ogy and producing a virtual ren- able to pinpoint the position and correct, and some are intelligent chamber – a setting with almost Pinko Izumi, a Japanese actress known as “Oshin mother” abroad due have been affected by long-de- dering of the interior. make-up of doors, tiled flooring, guesswork. But what that en- no natural acoustics – which was to her role in the series, remembered “being loved (by Hashida) like a stroyed interior details, such as ables you to do is build a recon- then overlaid with the recon- daughter.” the curve of an alabaster sculp- struction using the Lidar scan as structed acoustic modelling of “I have also started living in Atami, and at the end I was able to stay ture or an oak roof beam. the basis, and then use historical the chapel. with her for a long time,” Izumi said. Researchers captured how techniques to work out what [the A CD recording of the music In Japan, Hashida also earned support from housewives with her use of they believe choral music would chapel] might look like inside.” is available, while visitors to dry humor to portray family situations. have sounded when played and In order to recreate the authentic Linlithgow Palace will be able In another hit TV drama series, ‘Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari,’ which sung in the now-ruined chapel acoustics of the space, the sound to view the virtual renderings started in 1990, she depicted very common issues in Japanese households at Linlithgow Palace, west Lo- properties of different materials of the building – and step be- such as the tensions between housewives and their mothers-in-law. thian, which was the birthplace and objects in the virtually recon- tween past and present – once The theme of a woman struggling to protect her family was also applied of Mary Queen of Scots and structed chapel were measured. it reopens to the public later this in historical drama. In ‘Onna Taikoki,’ aired in 1981, she adopted a female where James IV visited for Eas- “You need to know how oak ab- spring. perspective to depict Japan’s Sengoku period of constant civil war and so- ter celebrations around 1512, the sorbs sound and how it scatters “A lot of this project has cial upheaval that lasted between the 15th and 16th centuries. The drama Guardian wrote. sound, or what an alabaster sculp- been about reconstructing frag- focused on the life of Nene, the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was one Experts from the Edinburgh ture with this degree of curvature ments,” said Cook, “the build- of the most prominent warlords of the period. College of Art and the universi- would do,” Cook added. ing, but also the repertoire and Hashida, whose real name was Sugako Iwasaki, was born in Seoul. She ties of Birmingham and Mel- The researchers then chose some of the music. What we became a TV drama scriptwriter after joining Shochiku Co. bourne collaborated with Histor- music that would likely have want to do is offer something She received the Order of Culture in 2020 from the Japanese govern- ic Environment Scotland (HES) been performed in the chapel, that essentially wasn’t possible ment for her outstanding achievements and cultural contributions. on the project, which initially theguardian.com selecting works from the Carver in reality.”