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Takasugi Teppei
Takasugi Teppei is a Japanese male actor, voice actor, and narrator born in Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University, and made his debut in 1938. After working for the theater company Small Theater, Toho Theater Club, Takarazuka Theater, and theater company Togei, he became the Tokyo Actor's Life Cooperative…
Matsuzaki Keiji
He was born in Kyoto Prefecture Graduated from. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He was active as a translator of Soviet - Russian literature and participated in Prokino ( Proletarian Film League of Japan ) formed in 1929, but gradually strengthened his relationship with commercial films and…
Yamamuro Ko
Yamamuro Ko, born Nishimori Takashige (西森高茂), was a Japanese actor from Kochi, Japan. He graduated from Kochi Castle East Commercial School. In 1927, he joined the Nikkatsu Daishogun Studio under the stage name Murakami Eiji ((村上英二), occasionally working under his real name. In 1933,…
Sano Kazuhiro
Sano Kazuhiro is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Sato and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno). Sano's films differ…
Hanayagi Kogiku
Hanayagi Kogiku was a Japanese actress born in Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. Her husband is actor Nakamura Takeya. After graduating from Tsukudo Jinjo Elementary School in Ushigome-ku, she adopted the name of Kogiku to become a geisha in Kagurazaka. Even after the war, she was active in Shochiku, Toho, Daiei,…
Nakamura Kinji
Nakamura Kinji, born Yoshida Kokichi (吉田幸吉) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. His father was the head clerk to the first generation of Nakamura Kichiemon I (初代中村吉右衛門), which led Nakamura to begin his career as a stage actor at a young age. After World War II, he worked…
Otabe Michimaro
Otabe Michimaro, born Toki Michimaro ((釈通麿) in Yanaga, Sanmon, Fukuoka, Japan was a Japanese actor and chief priest. He was also known as Otabe Doma (小田部道磨). The son of a temple family in Yanagawa Town, he was drafted into the Pacific War at the age of 18. After returning, he attended…
Takagi Jiro
Takagi Jiro, born Takagi Kinjiro (高木緊二郎) in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Waseda Technical High School (早稲田高等工学校) and joined the Taiisen Artist Group (太泉アーチストグループ) in 1949. Takagi made his film debut in 1950 and was contracted with…
Sakaguchi Yuzaburo
Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…
Hasebe Takeshi
Hasebe Takeshi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto, Japan. His real name is Itsumi Ryuji (逸見竜治). He dropped out of Meiji Gakuin University. In 1948, he made his first appearance in Daiei's 'Doburoku no Tatsu' under the stage name Nakano Ryuichi (中野竜一). In 1949, after joining Daiei, he…
