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Hara Setsuko
Hara Setsuko became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these…
Emoto Akira
Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor from Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for the best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san. His wife is the…
Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director, known for his eminent film scores for world famous directors. Hisaishi was born as Fujisawa Mamoru, on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan. At the age of five, he started taking violin lessons, at which he made rapid progress. At the age of nineteen,…
Abe Shinnosuke
Abe Shinnosuke is a Japanese actor, born on in Osaka. He debuted as an actor in 2003, when he played in three dramas and the movie The lover's kiss. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)
Imai Tsubasa
Tsubasa Imai (今井翼, Imai Tsubasa?, born October 17, 1981) is a Japanese singer, actor, and dancer in the Japanese agency Johnny & Associates. He joined Johnny & Associates in 1995 and officially debuted in 2002 in the duo Tackey & Tsubasa with Hideaki Takizawa. They are signed under…
Usui Masahiro
Masahiro Usui is a Japanese actor and the second-youngest of the acting group D-BOYS, produced by Watanabe Entertainment. Usui joined D-BOYS through the 4th D-BOYS open audition, held on May 28, 2007. Winner of the audition's Grand Prix, Usui was officially added to the group on December 30, 2007, after…
Tabata Tomoko
Tomoko Tabata is a Japanese actress. She won the best-supporting actress award from the Mainichi in 2004 for The Hidden Blade and Blood and Bones, and the best actress award at the Mainichi Film Awards for The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky in 2012. She married actor Okada Yoshinori on New Year's Day…
Fukiishi Kazue
Fukiishi Kazue is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 28th Yokohama Film Festival for What the Snow Brings, Tegami and Memories of Tomorrow. Her father, Fukiishi Tokuichi, is a former Kintetsu Buffalos baseball player. She married actor Fukuyama Masaharu on her birthday…
Obayashi Nobuhiko
Obayashi Nobuhiko is a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements who is well known for his surreal visual style. He began his career as a pioneering figure in Japanese experimental film during the 1960s before transitioning to directing more mainstream works such…
