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Nakahara Junichi
Nakahara Junichi was a Japanese painter, fashion designer, editor, illustrator, and doll maker born in Shiratori Honmachi, Okawa, Kagawa, Japan. In 1915, his family moved to Funabamachi, Tokushima, due to his father's job. He later relocated several times, moving to Yumimachi, Tokushima, in 1920, then…
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre, born in Frankenthal, Germany. Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern, Bernhard Villinger, and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Fanck, who held a PhD…
Yoshida Kenkichi
Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…
Yamamoto Togo
Yamamoto Togo, born Yamamoto Kenzo (山本鎌藏), was a Japanese actor. He began his career in Hollywood before returning to Japan, where he worked with studios including Shochiku Kamata Studio, Nikkatsu Uzumasa Studio, and Shinko Kinema Tokyo Studio. Born in Negishi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Yamamoto…
Futamura Teiichi
Futamura Teiichi is a Japanese actor, singer, opera singer born in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He is the son of Sadae Nimura, the owner of the restaurant "Kaitsuki" in Shimonoseki, and Toki Hayashi, a geisha of Gidayu. Although he entered the Osaka Pharmaceutical School in 1915, he devoted…
Kurihara Thomas
Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara (栗原喜三郎), was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled in a school for film actors in 1912. After graduation, working as an extra, he entered Oriental…
Ishikawa Rei
Ishikawa Rei, born Ishikawa Ryohei (石川良平) in Honjo, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Following his marriage, he was also known as Saito Ryohei (齋藤良平). His wife was dancer Fujima Tsumie (藤間寿美枝), whose birth name was Saito Chiyoko (斎藤千代子). Ishikawa's father was a…
Mihashi Ko
Mihashi Ko was a Japanese actor who flourished during the Taisho and Showa eras. His real name was Ohashi Yoshio (大橋芳雄). Born in Tokyo, he dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and joined the New Theater Association. He made his debut on stage in February 1920 in "Blue Bird"…
Hidari Bokuzen
Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…
Shimizu Hiroshi
Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father…
