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Sato Toshiki
Sato Toshiki is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Zeze Takahisa, Sano Kazuhiro and Sato Hisayasu, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno). (Source: Wikipedia)
Hamamura Jun
Jun Hamamura was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 1995
Tonoyama Taiji
Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō…
Funakoshi Eiji
Eiji Funakoshi was a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain.
Masumura Yasuzo
Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…
Sugimura Haruko
Sugimura Haruko was a Japanese actress born in Nishijido, Hiroshima, Japan, then a military town. Her mother was a geisha, and her father, reportedly a military man, died when she was young. She was adopted by a building materials merchant and a teahouse owner in the entertainment district. Her adoptive…
Moro Morooka
Moro Morooka was born on February 20, 1959 in Yachimata, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Koroshiya 1 (2001), Shin Godzilla (2016) and Dolls (2002).
Hiroki Ryuichi
Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the…
