Mizushima Michitaro

Date Saburo

Hamada Torahiko

Hamada Torahiko was a Japanese actor born in Nahari Town, Aki District, Kobe Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University [Faculty of Letters. Hamada belonged to the Haiyuza Theater Company. After working as a research student at the mobile theater company Mizuho Theater Company, he joined the theater…

Kono Akitake

Kono Akitake was a Japanese actor, born in Shinko, Annaka, Nagasaki, Japan. He was originally performing under the stage name Yamazaki Shinzo (山崎進蔵). He attended Shimabara Prefectural Middle School and later Tokyo Physics School, though he left in November 1930. In November 1931, Kono joined…

Abe Kusuo

Kusuo Abe was born on July 24, 1910 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan as Ishitaro Ito. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Ikiru (1952), Miyamoto Musashi (1961) and Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji Temple (1964). He died on November 2, 1965 in Kyoto, Japan.

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his music. Becoming a professional comedian, he appeared in many famous film comedies, such…

Hanabusa Yuriko

Iida Choko

Ito Daisuke

Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…