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Hayasaka Fumio
Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…
Yokota Einosuke
When Inabata Katsutaro, the Japanese businessman who introduced cinema to Japan with the Lumière Cinématographe on 15 February 1897 swiftly grew disenchanted with the work, he turned to Yokota Einosuke, the owner of a Kobe export-import business. The very opposite of the meticulous and restrained…
Date Satoko
Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…
Mitsutake Kurando
Originally from Tokyo, Japan. Graduated with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. A member of the Directors Guild of Japan and Screen Actors Guild. Mitsutake made his feature film directorial debut with MONSTERS DON’T GET TO CRY in 2004. In 2008, Mitsutake produced, wrote, and directed his…
Horikawa Hiromichi
Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…
Kamei Fumio
Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…
Crown J.
Crown J studied abroad in the United States since a young age, and continued his education in the Department of Economics at the University of Santa Monica, then transferred to UCLA. He had an interest in basketball but had to return to South Korea to fulfill his mandatory military service. During the…
Alexander Lo
Alexander Lo won the Taiwan 1978 Tae Kwan Do championship and got into the movie business after his older brother Tong Lung introduced him to director Robert Tai, with whom he most frequently collaborated. Alexander worked on many films about Ninjas, such as Wu Tang vs. Ninja (1987), The Super Ninja…
Gang Mun
Gang Mun was born Oh Jin Hui in Seoul, and when she was 9 years old, she was the fourth out of 5 siblings and raised by a single mother. She graduated from Muhak Girls' Middle School and Chuncheon Girls' High School. She lived in Chuncheon until she dropped out of the Chuncheon Agricultural University…
Hasebe Yasuharu
Hasebe Yasuharu was a Japanese film director best known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976), Rape! (1976), Rape! 13th Hour (1977) and Raping! (1978). Earlier genre films directed by Hasebe include Black Tight Killers (1966) and the…
