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Umeda Haruo
Umeda Haruo, born Umeda Akira (梅田晃) in 1920 in Tokyo's Yotsuya district, was a Japanese scholar, playwright, novelist, and essayist specializing in French literature. He graduated from Keio University Graduate School and was involved in writing scripts for stage plays and radio dramas, as well…
Uchida Issaku
Uchida Issaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He was a member of the Directors Guild of Japan (日本映画監督協会). He graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University (早稲田大学) in 1946. Uchida joined Nikkatsu (日活) in 1954,…
Tsuboi Taku
Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…
Totsuka Mutsuo
Totsuka Mutsuo was a Japanese comedian born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Fujioka Hajime, was a prominent swordsman actor. Growing up, influenced by his father who was an actor in sword-fighting dramas, he developed an affinity for chambara films and popular theater. After graduating from Tokyo Shibaura…
Fukada Koji
Fukada Koji is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening…
Ishihara Shintaro
Ishihara Shintaro was a Japanese politician and writer who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, Ishihara is one of the most prominent conservative right-wing politicians in modern Japanese politics. His arts career included a prize-winning…
Ishii Kenichi
Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…
Furusawa Takeshi
Furusawa Takeshi began making 8mm films in college and won the scriptwriting award for his film home sweet movie at the 1997 Pia Film Festival. He enrolled at the Film School of Tokyo in 1997. After graduating, he worked as a director's assistant for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, and Takahisa Zeze,…
Asato Mari
Mari Asato is a Japanese film director born in Okinawa on March 14, 1976. Primarily known for the film Ju-On: Black Ghost (2009) as part of The Grudge film instalments. Other films include the politically undertoned Samurai Chicks (Dokuritsu Shôjo Gurentai) (2004), the cinematic rendition Boy From…
Terayama Shuji
Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. His oeuvre includes a number of essays claiming that more can be…
