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Kinugasa Teinosuke
Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell). He was among the pioneers of…
Tang Tak Cheung
Tang Tak Cheung is a Hong Kong stuntman, martial arts choreographer, actor and director born in Vietnam. He moved to Hong Kong when his father passed away in his teenage years with his mother and elder brother. A martial arts aficionado, he was trained since childhood and specialized in the Praying…
Ichikawa Ennosuke IV
The fourth generation Ichikawa Ennosuke is Kinoshi Takahiko. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, as the eldest son of Ichikawa Danshiro IV. His uncle is the famous Ichikawa Ennosuke III, father of the actor Kagawa Teruyuki. He graduated from Keio University in 1998 with specialization in Japanese literature.…
Willie Ying
Willie Ying is the Kiwi Chinese filmmaker, he immigrated to New Zealand from China at his 12 years of age. Ying attended Kelston Boys' High School in the 1990s. He took up martial arts when he found himself the target of bullies and this later turned into a career as a stuntman specializing in Chinese…
Matsukata Hiroki
Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…
Lek Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, nicknamed Lek, is a Thai singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and film director. He studied Mass Communication (with specialty in Film and Video) from the University of Lat Krabang. After graduating in Mass Communication (specializing in Film and Video) from the University of Lat…
Shindo Kaneto
Shindo Kaneto was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. Shindo was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and he…
Kayama Yuzo
Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…
Nishioka Ryuichiro
Ryuichiro Nishioka is a former Japanese actor. Representative director of Harley-Davidson's custom shop "Selected Co., Ltd." Born in Hikari City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. His paternal uncle is actor Tokuma Nishioka, and his cousin is actress Yuki Nishioka. Debuted in the entertainment world in 1996. In…
Lee Thongkham
Lee Thongkham is a director and producer from Ban Tha Kok Daeng, Nong Khai, Thailand. He graduated from Full Sail University, place in Winter Park, Florida. Thongkham was winner of the 2010 and 2011 of the Best Director award at the Florida Film Festival. He owns ThongkhamFilms, a film and television…
