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Ichikawa Udanji II
Ichikawa Udanji II was a Kamigata actor, who followed in the footsteps of his father, excelling in hayagawari and keren, like the koi tsukami scene, the chûnori in a wicker basket for the robber Ishikawa Goemon, or the stage tricks of "Yotsuya Kaidan", "Hôkaibô" or "Kohata Koheiji". He was also a…
Ogawa Mayumi
Ogawa Mayumi is a Japanese actress born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from a Japanese and Western Women's Junior College with a degree in Japanese literature. Her father, Shin, was an actor affiliated with the theater group Shin Tokyo, founded before the war. She began studying ballet and Japanese…
Yanagi Sakuko
Yanagi Sakuko was a Japanese actress born in Nicho-cho, Asakusa-ku, Tokyo. Her real name is Kuroyanagi Chiyoko. In the 1920s, she was the heroine of numerous Shochiku films. She lost her father shortly after birth, and her mother died when she was five years old. Yanagi, who became an orphan, was taken…
Konishi Miho
Konishi Miho, born 13 August 1977, is a Japanese actress. She started acting at high school at the age of 15 years. In 1997 she was selected from 1,789 actresses in auditions and debuted as the lead role in the NHK Asadora "Yanchakure", televised nationally from 5 October 1998 to 3 April 1999, spanning…
Kagaya Fukunosuke
The store name Narikoma-ya. Adopted by the fourth generation Nakamura Shiba, and first staged under the name of the first Nakamura Kotaro. In 1881 (Meiji 14), the fourth generation Nakamura Fukunosuke was attacked and gained enormous popularity. At a young age, he became the next generation to serve…
Ninagawa Yuki
Ninagawa Yuki, born in Yokohama, is a Japanese actress, filmmaker and painter. She is a daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi and elder sister of the actress/singer Ninagawa Miho. Ninagawa's acting debut was a role in the 1978 rock opera "Salome". In films, she appeared in "Kurutta Kajitsu" in 1981,…
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
Ichimura Uzaemon XV was one of the best tachiyaku of the first half of the twentieth century. He had a great physical appearance, a strong presence on stage and an amazing voice. He was the nimaime or the sabakiyaku par excellence. He kept on playing young lover roles even in his latter years and never…
Hasegawa Kazuo
Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…
Ichikawa Ennosuke IV
The fourth generation Ichikawa Ennosuke is Kinoshi Takahiko. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, as the eldest son of Ichikawa Danshiro IV. His uncle is the famous Ichikawa Ennosuke III, father of the actor Kagawa Teruyuki. He graduated from Keio University in 1998 with specialization in Japanese literature.…
Ohkawa Hashizo II
Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…
