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Suzuki Noribumi
Suzuki Noribumi, also known as Suzuki Norifumi, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yaro series. Suzuki was born in 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University's Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei's Kyoto Studio as an assistant…
Sasaki Yasushi
Sasaki Yasushi was a film director in the Showa period. He dropped out of the Japanese Literature course at Hosei University. He belonged to Shochiku, Toei, and Toei Television Productions. Known as a master of fast-shooting, he produced a succession of hit movies during his Shochiku era, including…
Shinagawa Ryuji
Shinagawa Ryuji is a Japanese actor, lyricist, and narrator from Nakazumori, Takamura, Minamitsuru, Yamanashi, Japan. When he was in the third year of Tsuru Junior High School, his brother died in a traffic accident, prompting him to run away from home and head to Tokyo. Afterward, with the support…
Chiba Yasuki
Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…
Kataoka Chiezo
Kataoka Chiezo was a Japanese period drama star, who was active before and after the war. He is considered one of the six big stars in Japanese period dramas. After the war, he became an executive star of Toei and remained a front-line star until his death. His eldest son Motoharu and his daughter Chie…
Takamatsu Kinnosuke
Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Takamatsu acted in shinpa theater before joining Makino Film Productions in 1924. He left the studio in 1926 and joined director Kinugasa Teinosuke in the independent production of the avant-garde film A Page of Madness, playing the crucial role of the bearded inmate. He…
