3761 results found for: Koi to Shukatsu no Danpa
Otani Kijaku
Otani Kijaku was a Japanese actor born in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He joined Yokota Shokai in the last years of the Meiji era and had supporting roles in silent movies mainly starring Onoe Matsunosuke. On September 10, 1912 , Yokota Shokai became Nikkatsu due to the merge with Fukuhodo, Yoshizawa…
Matsumoto Taisuke
Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…
Arashi Kakumatsuro
Arashi Kakumatsuro was a Japanese actor born in Matsusaka Village, Iitaka District, Mie Prefecture. His father is the kabuki actor Arashi Kojuro. Around 1897, when he was 19 years old, he became a disciple of Arashi Rikaku IV, an actor of Kansai Kabuki. In 1913, around the age of 35, he began appearing…
Ohki Minoru
Ohki Minoru, born in Osaka, was a Japanese actor. After serving as a lighting assistant at the Nikkatsu Tamagawa Photo Studio for 10 years, he became an actor at the recommendation of actress Kogure Michiyo. He made his movie debut in 1951 and since then he starred in many Shochiku works as a hard-line…
Okada Masumi
Okada Masumi was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the…
Bando Kotaro
Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…
Kono Akitake
Kono Akitake was a Japanese actor, born in Shinko, Annaka, Nagasaki, Japan. He was originally performing under the stage name Yamazaki Shinzo (山崎進蔵). He attended Shimabara Prefectural Middle School and later Tokyo Physics School, though he left in November 1930. In November 1931, Kono joined…
Kawamura Reikichi
Kawamura Reikichi was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Kawamura Ishigoro (河村石五郎). After graduating from the preparatory department of Nishijin Castle Commercial School in Kanda, he made his stage debut at the age of 13 at Shinshaza in Nakasu. He joined an…
Ito Daisuke
Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…
Takada Minoru
Takada Minoru is a Japanese actor who was something of a heartthrob in silent films during the 1920s and 1930s. In his later years, he typically played authority figures, such as military officers, which constituted the majority of his sci-fi roles. Takada dropped out of Tokyo College of Music in 1918…
