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Arashi Kakumatsuro
Arashi Kakumatsuro was a Japanese actor born in Matsusaka Village, Iitaka District, Mie Prefecture. His father is the kabuki actor Arashi Kojuro. Around 1897, when he was 19 years old, he became a disciple of Arashi Rikaku IV, an actor of Kansai Kabuki. In 1913, around the age of 35, he began appearing…
Yoshimoto Mayumi
Yoshimoto Mayumi is a Japanese actress, moderator, and talent from Osaka prefecture. She belongs to the theater company Hollyhock Academy. After graduating from Kyoto Seika Girls' High School, she joined the theater company Hollyhock Academy. She initially worked behind the scenes, but she longed to…
Kato Bin
Kato Bin was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and horse racing commentator born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Ichikawa Asataro, who turned from a Kabuki actor to a movie actor, is his older brother. He dropped out of the Kansai Engineering College and became a reporter while aspiring…
Uchida Akari
Originally, she was active as a singer of a local jazz cafe under her real name, Kuniko Ogata. After that, she was scouted at the age of 16, 1966, appeared under the name Kuniko Fuji in "Saturday Tiger" on TBS, the 1967 "live in love the days of limited" than Toshiba record (the name at this time Made…
Katsura Bunshi VI
Katsura Bunshi VI is a Japanese TV presenter and rakugo artist. His former stage name was Katsura Sanshi. Sanshi received this name from his shisho (master) and one of the celebrated postwar Kamigata Rakugo greats, Katsura Bunshi V. Sanshi's "san" came from, originally, being Bunshi's third deshi (pupil),…
Utsumi Toppa
Utsumi Toppa, born Kimura Sadayuki (木村貞行) in Utsumi, Minamiuwa, Ehime, Japan, was a Japanese manzai performer. He was the younger brother of screenwriter Misho Kingo (御荘金吾) and the husband of singer Maeshima Setsuko (前島節子). Toppa graduated from Naniwa Commercial School (浪華商業学校)…
Kodo Kuninori
Kodo Kuninori was a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Tanigawa Saichiro. Before the war, he was active in Teikoku Kinema and Utaemon Ichikawa productions and appeared in Toho during and after the war. In 1901, after dropping out of the junior high school of Kansai…
Oda Masao
Oda Masao, born Saiki Masao (斎木政雄) was a Japanese actor born in Waseda, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. He later changed his name to Oda Masao (織田真佐男). He began his acting career at age six and graduated from Tokyo Prefectural School of Arts (東京府立工芸学校). In 1930, he enrolled…
Kitabayashi Tanie
Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue…
Sakura Mayumi
Sakura Mayumi is a Japanese actress born in Imabari, Ehime, Japan. She is affiliated with Niko Film. Sakura developed a passion for films of various genres from a young age, influenced by her mother. Although she aspired to pursue a career in acting, she decided to enter the Department of Sociology,…
