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Arikawa Sadamasa
Arikawa Sadamasa was a Japanese special effects cinematographer and director. After his tour as a bomber pilot during WWII, he joined up briefly with Toho, but soon left over disputes with the workers’ union. He encountered Tsuburaya Eiji and joined his private film effects company during the time…
Kurara Haruka
Kurara Harukaa, birth name Yamasaki Kumiko (山崎久美子) was a Takarazuka Revue Top Star before starting her TV and film acting career in 1984 with Toho Entertainment. Her stage name was given by the playwright Yashiro Seiichi. 'Haruka' (遥) means 'aimed at far away' while 'Kurara' is romaji for…
Daimon Masaaki
Daimon Masaaki is a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Commerce and has worked for Yoshimura Office, Bam, Toho Film, Kou Hirata Promotion HoriPro, and Tamura Pro. Discovered by director Masumura Yasuzo in 1971, he made his debut as…
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…
Ishii Teruo
Born in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood in 1924, Ishii developed a love of cinema early. His parents would often take him to see foreign films, particularly French movies. Ishii worked at Toho Studios as an assistant director beginning in 1942. His film career was interrupted when he was sent to Manchuria…
Ikezawa Ayaka
Ikezawa Ayaka is a Japanese talent, engineer, and programmer born in Tokyo. She graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. She belongs to Toho Entertainment. On January 9, 2006, she was selected for the Jury's Special Award at the 6th Toho "Cinderella" audition.…
Imai Tadashi
He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…
Yamaguchi Karin
Yamaguchi Karin is a Japanese actress born in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Her parents' home is "Chiyoda Bookstore", a long-established foreign bookstore in Nihonbashi Kabutocho. After graduating from Ochanomizu University Junior and Senior High School and Toho Gakuen College Junior College, she became an actor…
Kochi Momoko
Discovered, along with actors Akira Takarada and Yu Fujiki, in Toho's sixth annual New Face Contest in 1953, Momoko Kochi was immediately cast in her first film, A WOMAN'S HEART RELEASED. Two pictures with Toho's veteran director Kajiro Yamamoto followed the next year. It was probably in his mentor…
Asaji Yoko
Asaji Yoko is a Japanese actress from Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan. She graduated from the European and American Culture Course at Toho Gakuen College. After graduating from college and attending Bunka Fashion College, she was scouted by her senior, Yamamoto Wataru, and made her debut in 1974 with the TV…
