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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020 film)

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) is a 2020 Bones anime film directed by Kotaro Tamura, adapting Seiko Tanabe's short story about wheelchair-using artist Josee and student Tsuneo in Osaka; Japan Academy Prize winner, Busan 2020 closing film.

Oct 3, 2026

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) (2003 film)

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) is a 2003 Japanese romance drama by Isshin Inudo, adapted from Seiko Tanabe's short story, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Chizuru Ikewaki; it drew about 300,000 Japanese admissions and inspired 2020 anime and Korean remakes.

Josef Albers

Josef Albers (1888–1976), German-born American painter and educator of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; creator of Homage to the Square and author of Interaction of Color (1963).

Josef Anrather

Josef Anrather is an Austrian-trained neuroimmunologist, Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine's Brain and Mind Research Institute, known for research on inflammation after ischemic stroke.

Josef Arneth

Josef Arneth, full name Joseph Arneth (1873–1955), was a German internist whose 1904 classification of neutrophils gave hematology the Arneth count and "shift to the left."

Oct 21, 2026

Josef Beranek

Josef Beránek names two Czech Olympians: a Greco-Roman wrestler (1891–1959/61) at the 1912, 1920, and 1924 Games, and an ice hockey forward (born 1969, Litvínov) who won Nagano 1998 gold and played 531 NHL games.

Josef Bican

Josef Bican (Pepi), 1913–2001, Austrian-born Czechoslovak centre-forward for Rapid Vienna and Slavia Prague, counted among football's all-time top scorers with about 805 official goals, 1.52 per game, and 12 league scoring titles.

Josef Breu

Josef Breu is a German materials chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, known for synthetic layered silicates and polymer nanocomposites.

Josef Breuer

Josef Breuer (1842–1925) was an Austrian physician and physiologist in Vienna who discovered the Hering–Breuer reflex, established the sensory function of the inner ear's semicircular canals, and co-founded psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud.

Josef Bühler

Josef Bühler (1904–1948), Nazi state secretary and deputy to Hans Frank in the General Government of occupied Poland; urged the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference; executed in Cracow in 1948.

Oct 22, 2026

Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek (1887–1945) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and writer who, with his brother Karel, led interwar Czechoslovak culture and proposed the word robot for the play R.U.R.

Sep 20, 2026

Josef Coresh

Josef Coresh is an American epidemiologist known for the 2009 CKD-EPI equation for estimating kidney function and for founding the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium.

Oct 21, 2026

Josef Csikany

József Csikány (born 1943, Budapest), Hungarian backstroke swimmer of Ferencvárosi TC; 1960 and 1964 Olympian, two European bronze medals, 16 national records, and founder of Hungarian masters swimming.

Josef Davies

Josef Davies is a British actor and LAMDA graduate (2015), distinct from composer Joe Wilson Davies and comedian Huge Davies. Known for Young Wallander, Andor, The Hunt for Raoul Moat, 1917, and Star City (2026).

Oct 22, 2026

Josef Dobrovský

Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) was a Czech philologist, historian, and linguist who dominated the first period of the Czech National Revival and is regarded as a founder of Slavic studies.

Josef E. Fischer

Josef E. Fischer (1937–2021) was an American surgeon and physician-scientist from Brooklyn who made surgical nutrition a discipline, chairing surgery at Cincinnati and Beth Israel Deaconess.

Josef Fares

Josef Fares, Lebanese-born Swedish film director (Jalla! Jalla!, Zozo) and game director, founded Hazelight Studios in Stockholm, creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, Game of the Year winner It Takes Two, and Split Fiction.

Oct 21, 2026

Josef Feistmantl

Josef Feistmantl (1939–2019), Austrian luger from Absam, Tirol; with Manfred Stengl the first Olympic doubles luge champion at Innsbruck 1964, 1969 world singles champion, 1976 Innsbruck flame lighter.

Josef Ferdinand Arens

Josef Ferdinand Arens (1914–2001) was a Dutch organic chemist who co-authored the first synthesis of vitamin A with David van Dorp and held chairs at Bandung, Groningen, and Utrecht.

Josef Fessler

Josef Fessler (1813–1872) was an Austrian Catholic priest, patrologist, and church historian who served as Bishop of St. Pölten and as secretary-general of the First Vatican Council.

Josef František

Josef František was a Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. He was the highest-scoring pilot of No. 303 Squadron, credited with 17 confirmed victories.

Josef Fried

Josef Fried (1914–2001) was an American organic chemist at Squibb and the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, whose fluorosteroids and prostaglandin syntheses produced the first superpotent anti-inflammatory drugs.

Josef Ganz

Josef Ganz (Joseph Ganz, 1898–1967) was a German-Jewish automotive engineer and journalist who designed the Standard Superior and influenced the Volkswagen Beetle, before fleeing Nazi persecution to Australia.