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Ishikawa Sayuri
Ishikawa Sayuri is a Japanese idol, enka singer, and actress. Her real name is Ishikawa Kinuyo. She was born in Akita Village, Kumamoto (now known as Minami Ward, Kumamoto). She graduated from Horikoshi High School. Her music label is Teichiku Entertainment, and her agency is Sayuri Ongakusha. When…
Tanaka Sumie
Tanaka Sumie was a Japanese screenwriter and playwright born in Tokyo. She was most well-known for her long collaboration with film director Naruse Mikio and for writing screenplays for Japan's first major female director Tanaka Kinuyo. Member of the Bungakuza theatre company, she was married to playwright…
Oyama Debuko
In May 1924 (Taisho 13), while attending Kosaka Elementary School (currently Kosaka Elementary School in Higashi Osaka City ), an old system in Osaka Prefecture , her sister Masako joined Shochiku Kyoto Studio and made her debut under the stage name of Kikuko Tachibana . In the same year, Yasu also…
Utsumi Toppa
Utsumi Toppa, born Kimura Sadayuki (木村貞行) in Utsumi, Minamiuwa, Ehime, Japan, was a Japanese manzai performer. He was the younger brother of screenwriter Misho Kingo (御荘金吾) and the husband of singer Maeshima Setsuko (前島節子). Toppa graduated from Naniwa Commercial School (浪華商業学校)…
Kobayashi Masaki
Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai film Seppuku (1962), and Ghost Stories (1964). Kobayashi studied ancient oriental arts and philosophy. Kobayashi embarked on a career in film in 1941 when he entered Shochiku…
Mitsuoka Sanae
Mitsuoka Sanae is a Japanese actress born in Keijo, Korea, during Japanese rule. She temporarily changed her name to Shiroyama Michiko (城山路子) from 1965 to 1966. In April 1941, she entered the elementary section of a national school in Keijo. Around the time of the end of World War II on August…
Ieki Miyoji
Though he has never acquired a reputation abroad, Ieki was a distinguished exponent of domestic drama whose films deserve admiration for their intelligence and humanity. He worked initially at Shochiku as assistant to Heinosuke Gosho and Minoru Shibuya, and his debut, Torrent (Gekiryū, 1944), made…
Kobayashi Satoru
Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…
Shimizu Hiroshi
Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…
