1323 results found for: Taiyo wa Ugokanai
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…
Nakakita Chieko
Nakakita Chieko (1926-2005) was a Japanese actress. A character actress who never quite got her due, despite roles in numerous high-profile movies from the 1940s onward. Although a vigorous participant in Toho's labor disputes of that early period, like so many others she never really left, in part…
Tsuchiya Yoshio
Tsuchiya Yoshio was a Japanese actor. He had a long-standing interest in UFOs and had written several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction films, usually as aliens or people possessed by them. He lobbied for the title role in "Tomei Ningen" (1954), but was forced by the studio…
Kawachi Tamio
Kawachi Tamio was a Japanese actor. He was a student at Kanto Gakuin University when Ishihara Yujiro, one of his neighbors in Zushi, Kanagawa, invited him to join the Nikkatsu studio. He made his debut in A Slope in the Sun (1958) playing Ishihara's younger brother. The studio initially sold him as…
Akimoto Naomi
Akimoto Naomi is a Japanese actress and singer from Nagano, Japan. She is represented by the entertainment agency Staff-up.
Inaba Yoshio
Yoshio Inaba was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
Harukawa Masumi
She was born Takigawa Machie in Utsunomiya, Tochigi. From the 1950s, she was a dancer under the stage name Mary Rose at the Asakusa Rock Theater. Shortly thereafter, she moved to the Nikkei Music Hall before being recruited by the film industry. She made her film debut in "Temptation on Glamour Island"…
