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Kawakami Otojiro
An entertainer / artist who predominated the world, and the founder of a new school drama. The Shosei play and Soushi play that Kawakami started became a new school, and became more popular than the old drama ( Kabuki ). He is called father of New school drama. Spouse is Geisha and actress Sado Sadayakko.
Kobayashi Satoru
Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…
Yokouchi Tadashi
Tadashi Yokouchi is a Japanese actor. Born in Dalian, Manchuria, he graduated from high school in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A member of the 13th group of actors and actresses trained at the Haiyuu-za, he counts Tetsuo Ishidate, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tomomi Satou, and Gou Katou as classmates.
Ishida Ayumi
Ishida Ayumi, born January 7, 1997 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a 10th generation member of Morning Musume. Prior to joining Morning Musume, Ishida was an official backup dancer for the Avex Trax girl group Dorothy Little Happy. Ishida Ayumi was selected from Morning Musume's 10th Generation audition…
Sato Minami
Sato Minami is a Japanese idol and a member of AKB48's Team A. Minami ranked #39 in episode 8 of Produce 48 and was eliminated. After graduating from AKB48 in July 2024, she has since focused on her career as a voice actress. On January 1, 2025, she announced a name change to Satou Minami. (Source:…
Higashi Yoichi
Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…
Ogata Ken
Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]
In television,…
Ishii Takashi
A sometime manga artist, Ishii entered the film industry as a writer, scripting Roman Porno at Nikkatsu for such directors as Chūsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Shun Nakahara, and Shinji Sōmai. Many of his scripts were based on his own manga Angel Guts(Tenshi no harawata), which Nikkatsu adapted into a series,…
Miike Takashi
Miike Takashi is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over ninety theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions in the years 2001 and 2002 alone. His films range from violent and bizarre…
