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Tono Eijiro
Tono Eijiro was a Japanese actor and essayist born in North Kanra, Tomioka, Nanokaichi, Gunma, Japan. His stage name before the war was Honjo Katsuji (本庄克二). He was affiliated with Actor's Studio (俳優座). He was born into a sake brewing family. Tono's father moved to the Kanto region from…
Misawa Akemi
Misawa Akemi is a Japanese enka singer and actress born in Ina City, Nagano Prefecture. She currently lives in Tokyo. She passed the 7th Toei New Face, after which she joined Toei and made her debut in 1959 with the NET TV drama "Fuebuki Doji". She made her movie debut in 1961 and is active in historical…
Wada Akiko
Wada Akiko is a Japanese singer of Korean ethnicity. Her birth name is Kim Bok Ja and she changed it to Wada Akiko when she acquired Japanese citizenship. She has released many hit songs and performed 39 times at NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen as of 2020. (Source: Wikipedia)
Huang Ting Ting
Huang Tingting (born September 8, 1992 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese idol singer. She is a member of Team NII of Chinese idol group SNH48, of which she served as vice-captain from February 13, 2015, to December 22, 2017. On 18 August 2013, Huang was among the 34 shortlisted candidates for…
Naoto Inti Raymi
Nakamura Naoto, better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun." He was born in Mie Prefecture in Japan and later grew up in Chiba Prefecture. For two years from 2001, he used his given…
Yamazaki Toyoko
Yamazaki Toyoko was an acclaimed Japanese novelist. She was mostly famous for her Showa era based business, political, and social themed serial novels. Yamazaki was born in Senba, Minami-ku (now part of Chuo-ku), Osaka, to a family of long-established kelp business called Oguraya Yamamoto. After graduating…
Mizuki Yoko
Mizuki Yoko was a Japanese screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, she later graduated from Bunka Gakuin and began writing screenplays to support her family after her father died. Mizuki was active in the 1950s era of the Japanese studio system and is notable for her work with directors Tadashi Imai and Mikio…
Kinoshita Keisuke
Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…
Ichikawa Kon
Ichikawa Kon was a Japanese director born in Ujiyamada, Mie. He has worked on a wide range of films, from entertainment films to documentaries to TV historical dramas, and was involved in film production for a long time. His major directorial films include "The Burmese Harp," "Flame," "Ototo," "Key,"…
