391 results found for: Toho Nanafun
Fujiki Takashi
Fujiki Takashi was a Japanese actor and singer born in Fujiyama, Shizuoka, Japan. He was affiliated with Horipro. His real name was Endo Yoshihiko (遠藤與士彦). In the 1970s, he was active under the stage name Takashi Fujiki (藤木敬士). In 1959, after graduating from Toho Entertainment School,…
Tanaka Tomoyuki
Tanaka Tomoyuki was a Japanese film producer who was most famous for creating the Godzilla franchise. He was born in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan. Tanaka was married to the actress Nakakita Chieko (1926 – 2005). Soon after graduating from Kansai University in 1940, Tanaka joined Taisho Studios, which merged…
Osman Yusef
Osman Yusuf was a Turkish actor from the Ottoman Empire who lived and worked in Japan. He moved to Japan before World War II and obtained permanent residency. Yusuf was notable for his fluency in Japanese, which allowed him to act in films and television programs. He played a significant role in the…
Wakayama Tomisaburo
Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…
Ikebe Ryo
Ikebe Ryo was born on February 11, 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kyuketsu-ga (1956), Desertion at Dawn (1950) and Madame White Snake (1956). He died on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as…
Yamagata Isao
Yamagata Isao was a Japanese actor born in London, England, where his acrobat father toured. He grew up in Ichibei-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo. In 1935, he graduated from the Japan Academy of Actors. After completing his military service, he joined the Toho Theater Company in 1936. In 1942, he formed the theater…
Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin was a Canadian actor, born in Eba, Naka, Hiroshima, Japan, who portrayed Ramirez in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. He previously played Gordo in Chousei Kantai Sazer-X, a Sentai-like series produced by Toho. He passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 59 due to colon cancer.
Koyama Rikiya
Koyama Rikiya, born in Kyoto, is a Japanese actor and voice actor who is a member of Haiyuza Theatre Company. He has done popular voicing roles in Hajime no Ippo, Utawarerumono and Kamen no Maid Guy. He is also known by the nicknames "Rikki" and "Riki-chan". Koyama become well known for voicing Yamato…
Kayama Yuzo
Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…
Sugawara Bunta
Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…
