Ko Hideo

Ko Hideo, born Yoshida Hideo (吉田英男) in Tomari, Sakhalin, Russia, was a Japanese singer and actor. The youngest of eight siblings, he was adopted by his maternal aunt's family shortly after birth. Both his biological and adoptive families were involved in the paper industry and had connections…

Horikoshi Kenzo

Horikoshi Kenzo is a Japanese film producer. He is the representative of the film production and distribution company Eurospace and also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the Anime and Manga Faculty of Kaishi Professional…

Ota Tadashi

Ota Tadashi was a Japanese composer and pianist born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He became acquainted with the organ at the age of 8 and began studying piano and composition at the age of 15. After graduating from commercial school in 1919, he composed numerous songs and children's…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Sakabe Fumiaki

Sakabe Fumiaki, born Sakabe Yuji (坂部裕治), is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Gunma, Japan. He is affiliated with the Gekidan Bungakuza (劇団文学座) theater troupe. (Source: MyDramaList)

Masaki Miki

Aonuma Saburo

Iwato Shisetsu

He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…

Dazai Osamu

Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji in Aomori Prefecture. His father, Genemon, was a landlord. Osamu was born as the sixth son of the Tsushima family. Due to his mother being ill and his father busy working after his birth, he was raised by a nanny for a year before his aunt, Kie, took over until he…