Otake Shinobu

Shinobu Otake is a Japanese film and stage actress, known for The Wind Rises (2013), Go (2001), and Like Asura (2003). She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for Poppoya, and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress (Jiken) and Best Supporting Actress (Seishoku no ishibumi).…

Sato Kei

Sato Kei was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Oshima Nagisa, and for several films with Shindo Kaneto, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no Akuryōo He also…

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Taguchi Tomorowo

Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer, and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan…

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,…

Hara Hideko

Hara Hideko is a Japanese actress and talent born in Tokyo. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. She graduated from Kurume Nishi High School in Tokyo and dropped out of Nihon Kogakuin College. She debuted as an actress as a research student of Shiki Theater Company. In 1979 she made her movie debut in "Yuyake…

Nakamura Yui

Nakamura Yui is a Japanese actress from Togane City, Chiba Prefecture. She graduated from Dokkyo University Faculty of Foreign Studies.

Honda Ishiro

Honda Ishiro was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for his kaiju and tokusatsu films, including several entries in the Godzilla series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career. His early film career included working…

Amemiya Nozomi

Sanada Hiroyuki

Sanada Hiroyuki is a Japanese actor and stage actor working in Japanese and British plays and theatre. He is also known as a recording artist in Japan. In Asia, he is most famous for his martial arts roles and historical films. Outside of Japan, Sanada was often credited in his younger days as Henry,…