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Uno Chiyo
Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…
Danny Chan
Born as Chan Pak Keung to a wealthy businessman family in Hong Kong, the late Danny Chan was a very popular Cantopop singer-songwriter, records producer and actor in Hong Kong. Rather than focusing on his studies, Chan wanted to sing and loved playing the keyboard and piano. After graduating from middle…
Wakao Tokuhei
Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. Graduated from Keio University…
Ike Reiko
Ike's career was launched with the fourth entry in Toei's Hot Springs Geisha series, Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971). A media frenzy erupted following the release of this film when Ike claimed to have lied about her age to gain a part in the movie. Claiming to have in fact been sixteen years of age…
Kotobuki Minako
Kotobuki Minako is a Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer. She played Tsumugi Kotobuki in the anime series K-On! about a high school girl band. The show launched her music career as she performed the opening and ending themes, and joined three other voice actresses as the music group Sphere.…
Fujitani Ayako
At age 12, she won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the sixth girl to lead the Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This began her modeling career. She was featured regularly in magazines and television commercials.…
Shimura Ken
Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken) (born Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori), February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020) was a Japanese comedian. He co-starred with Masashi Tashiro, Nobuyoshi Kuwano in the Japanese variety show Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama. He was known as "Japan's Robin…
Tsukamoto Shinya
In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…
Nakamori Akina
Akina Nakamori is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Japan. She is known for her deep, power-house voice. Akina made her debut in 1982 with the single Slow Motion. Within two years of her debut, she set herself apart from all the singers of her…
Matsumoto Hitoshi
Matsumoto Hitoshi is a Japanese comedian best known as the boke half the popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Masatoshi Hamada. He was born and raised in Amagasaki, just outside of Osaka city and prefecture, and technically in Hyōgo Prefecture, though he usually refers to himself as an Osakan. He…
