Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Kawa Michiko

Kawakami Lynn

Kawakami Rin, known professionally as Lynn, is a Japanese singer, dancer and member of tripleS (트리플에스). She is enrolled at Hanlim Arts High School. She made her official debut in December 2023 as part of sub-unit NXT with their first digital single, "Just Do It". Later, in May 2024, she made…

Yada Minoru

Yada Minoru is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and children's song singer, affiliated with Kekke Corporation. He also serves as an advisor to the Japan Actors Union. Born in Yodobashi, Toyotama, Tokyo, Japan, he began his career in 1939 as a children's song singer, working with labels such as Nippon…

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Nozawa Hisashi

Nozawa Hisashi was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the Kuniko Mukōda Prize in 1998 for his screenplay Nemureru Mori (A Sleeping Forest) and Kekkon Zen'ya (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1997 for Hasen no marisu (Dotted-line Malice) and the…

Kahara Natsuko

Kahara Natsuko, originally Tsukahara Natsuko (塚原初子), was a Japanese actress and director associated with the Bungakuza theater company. Following the "Koto no Yoru" incident in December 1963, she left Bungakuza and co-founded the NLT Theater Company in January 1964, where she later became the…

Katsuragi Yoko

She was born in Yotsuya (now known as Shinjuku), Tokyo on April 6, 1930. In 1946, she graduated from Kojimachi Women's Commercial School in Tokyo (currently the Tokyo Shiba Commercial High School) and joined the Shochiku Opera Company after the war. In 1948, she caught the eye of Kinoshita Keisuke and…

Tono Eijiro

Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…

Iwashiro Taro

Iwashiro Taro is a Japanese composer, arranger, pianist, and music producer born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, he entered the Department of Composition, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department…