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Nanjo Reiko
Nanjo Reiko is a former actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She developed an interest in track and field during middle school and joined the track team at Bunkyo High School, specializing in long jump and high jump. She set a high jump record of 1.55 meters. In 1979, while studying English literature at Seisen…
Hagiwara Akira
Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…
Kojika Ban
Kojika Ban, born Kojika Atsushi (小鹿敦) in Asakusa, Kappabashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Initially interested in painting, he became passionate about theater after joining his high school drama club at Omiya High School (大宮高等学校). He later pursued a degree in Theater Studies…
Hazumi Tsuneo
Hazumi Tsuneo was a Japanese film critic and film producer born in Tokyo. He also made his debut as a screenwriter when he was 23. His real name is Matsumoto Eiichi, and he is different from the film director Matsumoto Eiichi, who was active in the era of silent films. In 1934, at the age of 25, he…
Matsubayashi Shue
Matsubayashi Shue was a Japanese film director, former naval officer, and a monk, born in Sakurae-cho, Gotsu-shi, Shimane. His Dharma name is Shaku Shue. After he graduated junior high school in 1938, he went to Kyoto and graduated from the Ryutani University specialized department. He moved to Nihon…
Wakahara Harue
Wakahara Harue was a Japanese actress and singer born in Azabu-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Takarazuka Music and Opera School, she made her movie debut in 1935 with "Hesitate Young People" directed by Satoshi Taguchi, produced by Nikki Tamagawa Film Studio. She also made her singer debut from Polydor.…
Kishi Matsuo
Kishi Matsuo was a Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. He is known as the critic who discovered the filmmaker Yamanaka Sadao. He graduated from Keio University. In 1937, at the strong recommendation of film director Shimizu Hiroshi, he retired…
Boya Saburo
Boya Saburo was a Japanese comedian and actor from Yubari, Hokkaido. After going through private Hokkai Junior High School, he went on to the Faculty of Religion at Nihon University, but transferred to the night art department to study vocal music. His name at birth was Ishikawa Hiroshi, but he was…
Sakamoto Haruya
Stocky, imposing, and big-eared actor who rarely played anything other than a soldier, a policeman, or a samurai. He was apparently strong enough to share the role of King Ghidorah in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) with Shoichi Hirose. He very rarely had speaking roles. Ironically, despite…
Ishimatsu Yoshihiro
Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…
