Omori Seitaro

Omori Seitaro was a Japanese composer and a trombone player. He wrote music for more than than 200 films and many books about Japanese Western music.

Nihonyanagi Hiroshi

Nihonyanagi Hiroshi was a Japanese actor from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Ohsaka Shiro

Ohsaka Shiro was a Japanese actor.

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Tonoyama Taiji

Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō…

Wakao Tokuhei

Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. 　Graduated from Keio University…

Wakao Ayako

Wakao Ayako is a Japaneses actress. She has appeared in over 100 films and won a handful of Best Actress awards. During the 50s and 60s, she starred alongside Daiei’s most famous actors in many of the studios biggest movies, including 20 films from maverick director Yasuzo MASUMURA. Her most prestigious…

Nakao Mie

She is a Japanese actress and singer. With Yukari Ito and Mari Sono, she co-starred in the hit 1963 teen movie "Hai, Hai Sannin Musume (Yes, Yes, The Three Girls)". The three actresses became the latest incarnation of the long-running series of "Three Girls" acts during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, under…

Furukawa Roppa

Furukawa Roppa was a Japanese comedian. He was born the sixth son of Baron Kato Terumaro, making him the grandson of Baron Kato Hiroyuki. The family custom, however, was to have the younger sons adopted by related families, so Furukawa was adopted by his father's sister and her husband, Furukawa Taketaro.…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Vanished Glory

Bright-eyed young men are hard at work as naval aviator cadet trainees while Japan's war prospect is getting dimmer. (Source: MyDramaList)

Young Swordman Shusaku Chiba

Young Boss

6.0

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang. (Source: Tmdb)

Young Boss Quarrel

Operation Rainbow

Torpedo-X

2.0

Young Takuboku: Clouds are Genius

4.0

Young Kodokan

The story of a young judoka who entered a modern judo hall from the old world of jujutsu.

I Want to Be a Shellfish

7.6

One relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder…