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Shindo Eisaku
Born in Hidakagawa, Wakayama Prefecture. He moved to Tokyo to become a professional kickboxer, but changed his course and joined the acting institute of Theater Group Yen and became an actor. After that, he worked as a member of Tokyo Kid Brothers musical theater. In 1984, he made his debut as the leading…
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…
Otani Kijaku
Otani Kijaku was a Japanese actor born in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He joined Yokota Shokai in the last years of the Meiji era and had supporting roles in silent movies mainly starring Onoe Matsunosuke. On September 10, 1912 , Yokota Shokai became Nikkatsu due to the merge with Fukuhodo, Yoshizawa…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
