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Kotegawa Yuko
Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…
Okamoto Kihachi
Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among…
Miyamura Yuko
Miyamura Yuko is a Japanese voice actress, actress, J-pop singer, and director of audiography. Her married name is Seki Yuko, although she still works under her maiden name. Miyamura was born in Kobe, and graduated from the theater division of the Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music. Her pet name…
Takahashi Yumiko
Takahashi Yumiko, born 7 January 1974, in Omiya-ku (formerly Omiya), Saitama, Saitama is a Japanese actress and singer. She is nicknamed "Good-P". She has been represented by several agencies, including Big Apple, Hirata Office, Toho Entertainment, and currently Connie.
Manaki Reika
Manaki Reika is a Japanese actress and former Top Musumeyaku (female lead) of Takarazuka Revue’s Moon Troupe. She was born in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. She is currently signed with Amuse. Her nickname, Chapi, originates from the sound of her real name. She entered Takarazuka Music School…
Nakajima Haruo
Nakajima was born in Yamagata, Japan. His first credited role in a motion picture was in the 1952 film Sword for Hire. He began his career as a stunt actor in samurai films and he acted in a small role in the 1954 film Seven Samurai, portraying a bandit. He was considered by many to be the best suit…
Hanafusa Mari
Hanafusa Mari is a Japanese musical theatre actress and a former Top Musumeyaku (female lead) of the Takarazuka Revue's Snow Troupe and Cosmos Troupe. She made history as the first performer to portray Elisabeth in the Japanese production of the musical "Elisabeth" in 1996. Currently, she is signed…
Takarada Akira
Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor who is most known in the west for his roles in the Godzilla film series. Takarada was born in Japan-occupied Korea, and lived for a time in Harbin, China. His father worked as an engineer on the South Manchuria Railway. After the war, he remained in Harbin, and…
Higuchi Shinji
Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…
Chiaki Minoru
Chiaki Minoru was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. In real life, he was the last of the seven actors to die. Chiaki was…
