391 results found for: Toho Nanafun
Yamamoto Satsuo
Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 15, 1910. He dropped out of Waseda University to join Shochiku, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse and others. He followed Naruse when he moved to PCL, and became a director in his own right after the company was reborn as Toho.…
Yamamoto Kajiro
Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…
Shimazu Yasujiro
Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…
Unagami Hideo
After dropping out of college in 1932, Unagami began a career as a theater actor, only for his career to be interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, Unagami became an actor for Shochiku and appeared in the 1946 film Comedy is Endless. He soon left…
Egawa Ureo
Egawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture to a German father and a Japanese mother. His name "Ureo" is a Japanification of his German name "Willy". He joined the Taikatsu film studio in 1920, but not finding stable work, he joined a gang of delinquents. Egawa of this period became the model for Ton Satomi's…
Tajima Yoshibumi
In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…
Fukuda Jun
Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China (currently Changchun City). He spent his childhood in Manchuria because his father worked for the South Manchuria Railway. Although he went on to Nihon University, he rarely attended lectures and spent most of the day reading and watching movies. In 1946, Toho…
Omura Senkichi
Small, thin, weasely, buggy-eyed actor typically cast as comic relief. Born the son of a vaudeville entertainer in 1922, Omura made his film debut in 1933 at age 11. He joined PCL (later Toho) in 1934. In 1938 he was sent to war, and was away from Japan until the war’s end in 1945. His first major…
Nihei Masanari
Nihei Masanari was a Japanese actor born in Nagata-cho, Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Senshu University High School. He had worked at the Nihei office and belonged to Mesena. His father was German. Because he liked movies, he aspired to be an actor in his third year of high school and…
Ninagawa Yukio
Yukio Ninagawa (蜷川 幸雄, Ninagawa Yukio, October 15, 1935 – May 12, 2016) was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of Hamlet. Ninagawa was…
