Kaburagi Hajime

Kaburagi Hajime was a Japanese composer and orchestrator from Kanagawa, Japan.

Date Saburo

Suga Fujio

Fujio Suga was born on July 27, 1927 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was an actor, known for Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963), A Japanese Tragedy (1953) and Fencing Master (1962). He died on July 20, 1998.

Emori Toru

Emori Toru is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Natsuyagi Isao

Natsuyagi Isao was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2013. In 1960, Natsuyagi began attending the Bungakuza (a Japanese theatre company) actors school while attending Keio University. He eventually left Keio before graduating and entered the Haiyuza actors…

Katsu Shintaro

He was born Okumura Toshio on November 29 1931. Shintaro Katsu began his career in entertainment as a shamisen player. He switched to acting because he noticed it was better paid. He played the role of blind masseur Zatoichi in a series of films in 25 movies between 1962 and 1973, starred and directed…

Ujiki Tsuyoshi

Tsuyoshi Ujiki is a Japanese entertainer, actor, musician, and singer who is represented by the talent agencies Heart Cleaning Company, then Flos. His nicknamed Jick from his surname.

Machida Masanori

Machida Masanori is a Japanese actor.

Kato Takeshi

Kato Takeshi was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films. He graduated from Waseda University. He first became a middle school teacher, but then joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1952. He died on July 31, 2015, after collapsing in a sauna. (Source: Wikipedia)

Mud and Soldiers

Chocolate and Soldiers

A hard-working father is called up and sent to the front. He keeps in touch with his family by writing letters home. These include chocolate wrappers collected from his comrades; his son is collecting the wrappers…

Story of Second Class Private

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…