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Chiba Kichizo
He belonged to the magic lantern club of Yoshizawa Shoten , he worked as a developing engineer, and became a photography engineer when the company started producing newsreels in 1903 (Meiji36) .. In 1905 (Meiji 38) Togo Taisho Katsudo Shashin was filmed and according to Edamasa, Chiba was the first…
Horiuchi Keizo
Horiuchi Keizo was a Japanese composer, lyricist, translator, and music critic born in Kaji, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. He also used the pen name Yasutani Shizuo (安谷鎮雄). He was the third son of Horiuchi Iataro, the owner of "Asada Ame". However, he abandoned his inheritance rights to Asada Ame at…
Minakaze Yoko
Minakaze Yoko was a Japanese actress affiliated with the Mingei Theatre Company. She was born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Her husband, Wakasugi Mitsuo, was a film director and producer, and their daughter, Wakasugi Tamami, is also an actress. Former Takarazuka Moon Troupe member Satsuki Rise was a distant…
Suzuki Noribumi
Suzuki Noribumi, also known as Suzuki Norifumi, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yaro series. Suzuki was born in 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University's Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei's Kyoto Studio as an assistant…
Takama Kenji
Takama Kenji is a Japanese cinematographer born on March 10, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cinematographers. As a student at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Takama Kenji first studied Economics. Later he began working as a camera assistant at Wakamatsu Productions and…
Miyashita Junko
Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…
Kaneko Shusuke
Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…
Nakazawa Yuko
Nakazawa Yuko is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume. Yuko Nakazawa was one of five runners-up in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese rock idol. After…
Harada Yoshio
Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.
Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…
Sonny Chiba
Chiba Shinichi, also known as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director, and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Born Maeda Sadaho in Fukuoka,…
