708 results found for: Ito no Mori no Ie
Hidari Bokuzen
Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…
Masumura Yasuzo
Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…
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…
Kurotsuchi Mitsuo
Kurotsuchi Mitsuo was a Japanese screenwriter and director born in Kumamoto. Following his graduation from Kumamoto High School and the law department of Rikkyo University, he became an assistant director with Kinoshita Keisuke Productions. After two years of work, he became a freelance writer. He debuted…
Taichi Kiwako
Taichi Kiwako, also known by her stage name Shimura Taeko, was a Japanese actress born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. She was separated from her biological mother shortly after birth and adopted by her foster parents, a fact she discovered during high school. Kiwako attended Ushigome Nakano Elementary School,…
Horai Ryuta
Horai Ryuta is a Japanese Screenwriter born in Kobe, Hyogo. In 1999, he participated in the launch of the theater company Modern Swimmers. Since then, he has worked and directed all its performances. Outside of his theater company, he is busy screenwriting for anime, movies, and TV dramas. On April…
Lily Franky
Lily Franky is a Japanese essayist, actor and writer of the best-selling autobiographical novel, “Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad” which was turned into a film released in 2007. ~~~ NipponCinema "Best Newcomer" (All Around Us/Guguri no Koto) - 2008 (51st) Blue Ribbon Awards | February…
Ninomiya Kazunari
Ninomiya Kazunari, often called Nino, is a singer-songwriter, actor, presenter, and radio host. He is a member of the boy band Arashi and portrayed Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima. Ninomiya began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese…
Okada Masaki
Okada Masaki, born in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor managed by Stardust Promotion. Okada was scouted in Harajuku when he was in the second year of junior high school. Initially, he refused the offer as he was absorbed in the activities of the basketball club. After entering high school he contacted…
Shuri
Shuri is a Japanese actress. She is the daughter of actor Mizutani Yutaka and actress/singer Ito Ran. Trained in classical ballet and aspired to be a ballerina, she had to give up her dream because of injuries. It was after her dancing career was prematurely over that she started to seriously consider…
