642 results found for: Kawaki
Satomi Akira
Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…
Oyama Debuko
In May 1924 (Taisho 13), while attending Kosaka Elementary School (currently Kosaka Elementary School in Higashi Osaka City ), an old system in Osaka Prefecture , her sister Masako joined Shochiku Kyoto Studio and made her debut under the stage name of Kikuko Tachibana . In the same year, Yasu also…
Suzuki Yasushi
Suzuki Yasushi is a Japanese singer, actor, talent, and voice actor from Ota, Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University College of Economics. He made his first TV appearance in 1957 in "Sebango 16: Kawakami Tetsuharu Monogatari" (NTV). In 1961, he was scouted while performing at a jazz cafe and was…
Mimura Shintaro
Mimura Shintaro was a Japanese screenwriter born in Okayama, Japan. He moved to Tokyo and entered Meiji University but dropped out. His real name Iwai Shintaro (岩井伸太郎). He joined the screenplay collective "Narutakigumi" in Kyoto during the early days of the talkie era. In 1926, he joined the…
Matsuo Fumindo
Matsuo Fumindo was a Japanese actor born in Minami-Ota, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He began his acting career as a child actor at the Shinpa Theater at age four in 1920. He achieved early success at Makino Production in Kyoto and later took leading roles at Kawai Film Production in Tokyo. In May 1924,…
Kako Zanmu
Kako Zanmu, born Kaku Yasugoro (賀古保五郎) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, was a Japanese film director, producer, and novelist. He began his career in the arts as a playwright for new-school theater and later joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所), a major Japanese film studio.…
Matsumoto Taisuke
Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…
Matsumoto Eiichi
Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…
Ubukata Soji
Ubukata Soji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo City, Tokyo. His death date is unknown. After dropping out of the old junior high school, he entered the Japanese Film Actor School in Hongo Ward. He joined Kawai Productions, which was founded in February 1928. In 1931, he transferred to Teikoku Kinema,…
Ichikawa Kumehachi
Born in November 28, 1846 In 1858, she became the first woman actor in the kabuki theatre since the ban on female actors in 1629, and thus the acting profession was reintroduced for women in Japan. She was followed as a pioneer actress by Kawakami Sadayakko (1872–1946), who in 1903 became the first…
