154 results found for: Ikitai Tasuketai
Kikuchi Rinko
Kikuchi Rinko is a Japanese actress. Kikuchi is the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years. She is currently Japan's only living female Academy Award nominee in acting categories. She debuted in 1999 under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo-directed…
Himeda Shinsaku
Himeda Shinsaku was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kakogawa City, Hyogo Prefecture. He dropped out of the Imperial Art School and joined the Nikkei Tamagawa Photo Studio in April 1937 as a photography assistant. After working as a special effects photographer under Watanabe Goro, he moved to the…
Sakata Koichi
Sakata Koichi Sakata is a Japanese composer and orchestrator. Professor Emeritus of Shobi University. He worked as an assistant to Yamamoto Naozumi from 1963 to 1967, and at the same time studied composition and arrangement. He debuted as a composer in 1965 and has been producing music for numerous…
Kataoka Tomie
Tomie Kataoka was born on November 2, 1944 in Chiba, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ponyo (2008), Wolf Children (2012) and Kingdom Hearts II (2005).
Otowa Nobuko
Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She appeared in Story of a Beloved Wife and became the mistress of the director Kaneto Shindo. She later married him in 1977 after his previous wife divorced him and then died. She posthumously won the award for best…
