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Kodaka Masaru
Kodaka Masaru is a former actor and child actor from Koishikawa-ku, Tokyo. He joined Shinko Kinema in 1937 and debuted with "Otoko Narya koso." In 1938, he transferred to Toho. In 1944, after transferring to Shochiku, he entered the School of Political Science and Economics at Hosei University but dropped…
Okubo Tokujiro
Okubo Tokujiro was a Japanese composer, orchestrator and a jazz saxophonist.
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…
Fuyushima Taizo
Fuyushima Taizo was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born at a brewery house in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He dropped out of the mechanical department of the Osaka Higher Technical School and became an assistant in the mechanical department of Kyoto University. He joined the Hanshin Electric…
Tanaka Haruo
Haruo Tanaka was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to secondary leads and even into leading roles against actresses…
Shimazu Yasujiro
Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…
Hata Mineaki
Hata Mineaki is a Japanese screenwriter who started as an actor, using the name Shimazu Gen. In the spring of 2009, he formed the "Theatrical Yaroukai". He's also an author and rarely appears in television programs until his death on October 12, 2023 at the age of 80.
