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HOTEI
Hotei Tomoyasu, known as HOTEI, is an acclaimed Japanese guitarist, songwriter, composer, performer and record producer, who currently resides in London. HOTEI has sold more than 40 million records in a 35 year career to date, and is best known internationally for the song “Battle Without Honor or…
Tsukitei Hosei
Tsukitei Hosei, formerly known as Yamasaki Hosei, is a Japanese solo comedian and rakugo performer, signed with Yoshimoto Kogyo. He is best known for being one of the five members (and the only solo comedian) of Downtown Gaki no Tsukai's regular cast. His role on the show is usually divided up between…
Hiromitsu Noriyasu
Hiromitsu Noriyasu is a Former Comedian and film director and a street poet. He was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1968. While performing in the Yoshimoto comedy duo“Team Zero”with Mr. Housei Yamasaki, he realized that filmmaking was what he had been looking for. After leaving Yoshimoto in 1998, he…
Kofujita Shoichi
Kofujita Shoichi was a Japanese actor born in Yushima, Hongo-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Fujita Masao. He has appeared in various Shinpa plays and is known as a child actor who played an active part in the Shochiku Kamata studio in the latter half of the Taisho era. In 1920, he joined Takeda Masanori…
Imai Miki
Miki Imai, born in Takanabe, Miyazaki Prefecture, is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She won the award for best newcomer at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Inuji ni Seshi Mono. At the 14th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Jan-Mar 2011), she won Best Supporting Actress for Fuyu no Sakura. She is…
Kikkawa Koji
Kikkawa Koji, born in Hiroshima, is a Japanese musician. He was supposed to represent Japan in water polo in the coming Olympics but chose to be a singer. His music career began on February 1, 1984, with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won 8 music awards in the same…
Esumi Makiko
Esumi Makiko, born in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi is most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi in the Japanese television drama series Shomuni. Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy…
Shimura Ken
Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…
