391 results found for: Toho Nanafun
Deme Masanobu
Masanobu Deme was a Japanese film director. Born in Shiga Prefecture, Deme graduated from Waseda University before joining the Tōhō studio in 1957. After serving as an assistant director under such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shūe Matsubayashi, Hiromichi Horikawa and Kengo Furusawa, he made his…
Sugiyama Tokuko
Sugiyama Tokuko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo. She graduated from Jissen Girls' School and initially worked as a nursery school teacher and in the advertising department at Chiba Shimbun. In 1946, she joined Toho's New Face program and trained at the Academy of Stage Arts. She became a member…
Takizawa Eisuke
Takizawa Eisuke was a Japanese film director. Born in Tokyo, Takizawa worked at Toa Cinema and Makino Film Productions before debuting as a director in 1929 with Aru Onna to Gaka. He later directed primarily jidaigeki at Toho and Nikkatsu. (Source: Wikipedia)
Koizumi Hiroshi
Hiroshi Koizumi was a Japanese actor who began as an announcer for NHK before transitioning to film in 1950. He was accepted into Toho as part of the 3rd New Face program for new actors and made his film debut in 1952. He first appeared in sci-fi in 1955 as a pilot in Godzilla Raids Again. He would…
Aoyama Kiyoshi
In 1955, while enrolled at Chuo University's Faculty of Letters , he passed Toho New Face Audition and entered the film industry. After dropping out of college and making his debut in Asagiri (Director: Seiji Maruyama , 1955), he moved to Nikkatsu, where he resumed filmmaking, and became a participant…
Kodo Kuninori
Kodo Kuninori was a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Tanigawa Saichiro. Before the war, he was active in Teikoku Kinema and Utaemon Ichikawa productions and appeared in Toho during and after the war. In 1901, after dropping out of the junior high school of Kansai…
Yamaguchi Masatoshi
He is from Kobe City , Hyogo Prefecture . After graduating from Toho High School and the University of Tokyo Law School , he studied at Columbia University and acquired an MBA (Master of Business Administration) and then joined Fuji TV . He had a connection with an actor belonging to Stardust Promotion…
Kamei Fumio
Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…
Taniguchi Senkichi
Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. (a precursor to Toho) in 1933 and began working as an assistant director to Kajirō Yamamoto alongside his longtime friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker,…
Fujiki Yu
Fujiki Yu was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2005. Born in Tokyo, Fujiki graduated from Doshisha University and joined the Toho studio in 1954. He began by playing straight male leads but later shifted to more comical roles, especially in combination with…
