642 results found for: Kawaki
Kajima Shunichi
Kajima Shunichi is a Japanese film and television director. After a brief stint at a publishing company, he joined Toei Tokyo Studio in 1970 as an assistant director, apprenticing under prominent filmmakers such as Toshiya Ito, Kinji Fukasaku, and Junya Sato while also engaging in labor union activities.…
Kunishima Soichi
In 1914 (Taisho 3), he entered Fukushima Junior High School (currently Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School ), but dropped out on July 3 of the same year to join Masao Inoue's troupe and took the first stage at Hongo-za. . Joined Shochiku Kamata Film Studio in 1922 (Taisho 11), under the name of…
Yokota Einosuke
When Inabata Katsutaro, the Japanese businessman who introduced cinema to Japan with the Lumière Cinématographe on 15 February 1897 swiftly grew disenchanted with the work, he turned to Yokota Einosuke, the owner of a Kobe export-import business. The very opposite of the meticulous and restrained…
Kawazu Seizaburo
Kawazu Seizaburo, born Nakajima Seiichi (中島誠一) in Kakigara, Nihonbashim Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was adopted by Kawazu Kaichi (河津嘉一), who operated a machiai, a tea house, in Hamacho. After graduating from Toka Elementary School (東華小学校), he attended Seisoku English…
Araki Shinobu
Araki Shinobu was born in 1891 in Niigata. He spent the early part of his life in a small traveling theater company and performing in Asakusa, before joining Nikkatsu Mukojima in 1921, stepping into the world of acting for the first time. He began by appearing in the Shinpa dramas Futari Shizuka (Two…
Nishi Kanako
Nishi Kanako is a Japanese novelist born in Tehran, Iran, where her father was stationed on an overseas assignment, but returned to Japan at the age of two when the Iranian Revolution occurred. After that, she spent her first to fourth grade of elementary school in Cairo, Egypt, and then grew up in…
Gosha Hideo
Gosha Hideo was a Japanese film director born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon Television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957, he moved on to…
Michishige Sayumi
Michishige Sayumi is a Japanese idol and a 6th generation member of the J-pop group Morning Musume and has the third-longest tenure of any member in the group (behind Niigaki Risa and Takahashi Ai and tied with Tanaka Reina). She was born in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She joined Morning Musume…
Matsuzaka Keiko
Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…
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…
