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Bun-O Fujisawa
Bun-O Fujisawa is a Japanese screenwriter, playwright, theatre director and lyricist born in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He has written, scripted, and directed musicals, straight plays, Japanese anime, video games, and readers’ theatre. On December 4, 2005, he made his debut as a playwright…
Muramatsu Eiko
Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…
Hirano Mana
Hirano Mana is a Japanese composer, arranger and pianist from Niigata. She majored in piano at Musashino Academia Musicae and also majored in composition at Tokyo University of the Arts. At an early age, she began to study classical piano music. At the age of 20, she found enjoyment in performing her…
Yamamoto Masahiru
Japanese storyteller, critic, food critic. President of Mashiro Japan Co., Ltd. His current wife, Mihoko Yamamoto, is a woven costume writer who produces stage costumes and Kabuki bags.
Nakano Minoru
Nakano Minoru was a novelist and playwright born in Osaka Prefecture. He dropped out of Hosei University's liberal arts department. In 1922, Nakano's play "Basue no Haru" was performed for the first time at the Park Theater in Asakusa. In the same year, he applied for "Chabanshi" in the script recruitment…
Ikenami Shotaro
Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…
Kuramochi Yutaka
Graduated from the Economics Department of Gakushuin University. Began acting, playwriting and directing as a member of the college drama club in 1992. In 1994 he appeared as an actor in the production of "Ice Cream Man" directed by the playwright, director, and actor "Ryo Iwamatsu" for young actors.…
Onoe Baiko VI
Onoe Baikô VI was one of the best onnagata of the Meiji, Taishô and the first years of the Shôwa eras. He costarred stage giants like Onoe Kikugorô V, Kataoka Nizaemon XI, Matsumoto Kôshirô VII or Onoe Kikugorô VI. The duo Onoe Baikô VI-Ichimura Uzaemon XV was extremely popular. He was expected…
Kinoshita Keisuke
Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…
Sasaki Kuranosuke
Sasaki Kuranosuke is a Japanese actor born in 1968 as the second son of the Katsuya Sasaki, the only remaining sake brewery in Kyoto. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Gakuin Elementary School, Kyoto City Nijo Junior High School, and Rakunan High School. In 1988, in order to succeed the family business,…
