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Nakai Asakazu
Born in Hyogo prefecture . In 1927 he joinedEmpire Kinema . Later, he moved to Shinko Kinema, and then moved to Oizumi Studio via Kyoto Studio. In 1932 (Showa 7), he was promoted to a cameraman at Shinko Kinema. Contracted with Toho in 1941 (Showa 16) . Before and after, he was in charge of shooting…
Hayashi Hiroshi
He was born in Kyoto on January 31, 1905. His real name is Inagaki Saburo. He dropped out of his junior high school and moved to Tokyo. He began acting on stage soon after. In 1940, he married Takeda Moto. With her, he had two children but the two divorced in 1965. After WWII, he joined Shin Toho and…
Amamoto Hideyo
Amamoto Hideyo, also known by the alternate name Amamoto Eisei (天本英世), was a Japanese actor born in Wakamatsu, Fukuoka, Japan. He came from a wealthy family, with his father working at the Sumitomo Coal Mining Company (住友石炭鉱業株式会社) in Fukuoka. Amamoto graduated from Wakamatsu…
Tanaka Tomoyuki
Tanaka Tomoyuki was a Japanese film producer who was most famous for creating the Godzilla franchise. He was born in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan. Tanaka was married to the actress Nakakita Chieko (1926 – 2005). Soon after graduating from Kansai University in 1940, Tanaka joined Taisho Studios, which merged…
Tsuruta Koji
Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…
Okamoto Kihachi
Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among…
Shirakawa Yumi
Yumi Shirakawa was a Japanese film and television actress. She starred in Rodan and many other Japanese movies and TV shows. She was married to actor Hideaki Nitani until his death in 2012. She died of heart failure on June 14, 2016 at the age of 79.
