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The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎)

The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎, Jade Tiger) is a 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen, adapted from Gu Long's novel, starring Ti Lung as Zhao Wuji avenging his father against the Tang Clan.

The Jam

The Jam: English mod revival/punk rock band from Woking led by Paul Weller with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler; six albums 1977-1982, four UK number one singles, disbanded 1982 at their peak.

The Jamie Foxx Show

The Jamie Foxx Show, WB sitcom (1996-2001), 100 episodes, five seasons; Jamie Foxx as Jamie King, aspiring entertainer at his aunt and uncle's LA hotel King's Towers, with Garrett Morris, Ellia English, Garcelle Beauvais; co-created by Bentley Kyle Evans.

The Jane Austen Book Club (film)

The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2007 Sony Pictures Classics romantic comedy-drama directed by Robin Swicord from Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel: six Sacramento friends, five women and one man, read Austen's six novels over six months as their love lives parallel the plots; 106 minutes, PG-13, 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Janoskians

The Janoskians (Just Another Name of Silly Kids In Another Nation) were an Australian YouTube comedy and pop group from Melbourne, formed 2011 by the Brooks brothers, Sahyounie, and Yammouni; known for pranks, Sony Music deal, Wembley Arena show, and 2015 mockumentary, inactive since 2018.

The Japan Steel Works

The Japan Steel Works (株式会社日本製鋼所) is a Japanese manufacturer of heavy steel forgings, plastics processing machinery, and defense equipment, best known for nuclear reactor forgings made at its Muroran plant.

The Japanese House

The Japanese House is the indie-pop and dream-pop solo project of English singer-songwriter Amber Bain (born 1995, Buckinghamshire), signed to Dirty Hit through The 1975's Matty Healy; albums Good at Falling (2019) and In the End It Always Does (2023).

The Japanese Wife

The Japanese Wife: 2008 short story collection by Kunal Basu and 2010 Aparna Sen film about Snehamoy, a Sundarbans teacher married by letters to Miyage, a Japanese pen pal he never meets.

The Jason

The Jason is a 1912 United States Supreme Court admiralty decision upholding a bill-of-lading clause requiring cargo owners to contribute to general average despite negligent navigation.

The Jaunt

The Jaunt is a 1981 Stephen King science fiction horror short story, first in The Twilight Zone Magazine and collected in Skeleton Crew (1985), about teleportation to Mars that drives conscious travelers insane.

The Jayhawks

The Jayhawks: Minneapolis alt-country/rock band formed 1985 by Mark Olson and Gary Louris; known for Hollywood Town Hall (1992), Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995), close harmonies, and the 2026 album Sanctuary Park.

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Bros., is the first feature-length film with synchronized spoken dialogue, starring Al Jolson in blackface as a cantor's son; its Vitaphone sound-on-disc success ended the silent era.

The Jazz Singer (1980 film)

The Jazz Singer (1980) is Richard Fleischer's musical drama remake starring Neil Diamond as cantor's son Jess Robin, with Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz; critically panned (Metascore 37) but its soundtrack yielded three Hot 100 top-ten hits.

The Jder Brothers

The Jder Brothers (Frații Jderi) is a three-volume historical novel by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu, published between 1935 and 1942, set in the Moldavia of Stephen the Great.

The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group, also called the JBG, was an English blues-rock band formed in London in 1967 by ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, and Micky Waller; its albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969) pioneered heavy metal before the band split in 1972.

The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons is a CBS sitcom (1975-1985, 253 episodes), a Norman Lear spin-off of All in the Family about George and Louise Jefferson, owners of a seven-store dry-cleaning chain, who move from Queens to Manhattan's Upper East Side; first TV series with an interracial married couple.

The Jengaburu Curse

The Jengaburu Curse is a 2023 SonyLIV Hindi thriller, billed as India's first cli-fi web series, directed by Nila Madhab Panda. Seven episodes follow analyst Priya Das in Odisha uncovering secret uranium mining, tribal displacement, and an international conspiracy.

The Jenny Jones Show

The Jenny Jones Show was an American syndicated daytime tabloid talk show hosted by Jenny Jones, taped in Chicago, running 1991-2003, best known for the 1995 Scott Amedure murder case.

The Jeremy Kyle Show

The Jeremy Kyle Show was an ITV daytime confrontational talk show hosted by Jeremy Kyle from July 2005 to May 2019, known for lie detector and DNA test segments; cancelled after Steve Dymond's death.

The Jerk

The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin in his feature film debut as Navin R. Johnson, a naive man raised by a sharecropper family.

The Jerky Boys

The Jerky Boys were a Queens, New York prank-call comedy duo of Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed whose 1993 debut went platinum and produced characters like Frank Rizzo and Sol Rosenberg.

The Jerma985 Dollhouse

The Jerma985 Dollhouse (also the Sims Stream) was a three-day interactive Twitch event, August 18-21, 2021, in which viewers controlled streamer Jerma985 via a custom Dollhouse extension in a real-life Sims set, peaking above 101,200 concurrent viewers.

The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon

The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, also called the MDA Show of Strength in later years, was Jerry Lewis's annual Muscular Dystrophy Association charity broadcast, held Labor Day weekends 1966 to 2014, raising over $1 billion and ending in 2015.

The Jerry Springer Show

The Jerry Springer Show (1991–2018) was a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer. It began as a serious political talk show, was reformatted in 1994 under Richard Dominick, and peaked above Oprah in late-1990s ratings.

The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post, founded December 1, 1932 in Jerusalem as The Palestine Post by Gershon Agron, is Israel's oldest and largest English-language daily, renamed in 1950, bombed in 1948, and owned since 2004 by Eli Azur.

The Jester (2023 film)

The Jester (2023 film), directed by Colin Krawchuk, is an American supernatural horror movie based on his YouTube shorts, starring Michael Sheffield, Lelia Symington, and Delaney White; released September 29, 2023 by Epic Pictures, 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Jester Race

The Jester Race is the second studio album by Swedish band In Flames, released in 1996, and a defining work of Gothenburg melodic death metal.

The Jesuit Relations

The Jesuit Relations (Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France) are annual reports from Jesuit missionaries in New France, published in Paris from 1632 to 1673.

The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain, Scottish alternative rock band formed 1983 in East Kilbride by brothers Jim and William Reid; known for feedback-laden Psychocandy (1985), shoegaze influence, 1998 split, 2007 reunion, and albums Damage and Joy (2017) and Glasgow Eyes (2024).

The Jesus Incident

The Jesus Incident is a 1979 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, sequel to Destination: Void and first Pandora Sequence book, set on planet Pandora where the sentient AI Ship demands human worship.