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Yokoo Dekao
Yokoo Dekao was a Japanese film actor active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He featured in over 90 films. Born in Saga Prefecture, Yokoo studied Western painting at the Tokyo Bijitsu Gakko (now the Tokyo University of the Arts). He joined the art department of the Shochiku studio in 1923, eventually becoming…
Oda Erika
Born in Okinawa, Erika (AKA Erika Oda) was selected from 3,000 applicants and came to the attention of international audiences with the female lead role in After Life (1999). Since then she has appeared in numerous critically acclaimed films and returning to Cannes in 2005 in Shinji Aoyama's apocalyptic…
Chiba Yasuki
Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…
Kusanagi Kojiro
Kusanagi Kojiro was a Japanese actor. Kusanagi made his film debut in 1956 in Darkness at Noon, which was based on the true story of an innocent man arrested, tried and executed for a crime he didn't commit. Kusanagi appeared in over 40 films, mostly in supporting roles, in films such as Alone on the…
