944 results found for: Taiyou no Ko
Kitagawa Machiko
Born as a daughter of a stationery store in Tokyo (Chikada Co., Ltd., a sales and wholesale company for office supplies). She had an older brother, but he died in the war. In 1949, while a student at the higher girls' school decided to try out for new Toho when she went to visit the studio. She was…
Asano Shinjiro
Born in Fukagawa, Tokyo. Aiming for a career in acting, he joined the newly opened drama research institute and received guidance from Sawada Shojiro. He made his film debut in 1929 with a small role after joining Nikkatsu's Uzumasa Studio. His oldest recorded appearance is 1931's Kimura Jiro directed…
Omura Senkichi
Small, thin, weasely, buggy-eyed actor typically cast as comic relief. Born the son of a vaudeville entertainer in 1922, Omura made his film debut in 1933 at age 11. He joined PCL (later Toho) in 1934. In 1938 he was sent to war, and was away from Japan until the war’s end in 1945. His first major…
Ishihara Yoshizumi
Ishihara Yoshizumi is a Japanese weather forecaster, TV personality, and actor. Born in Zushi, Kanagawa, he is the second son of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, and brother of politicians Nobuteru Ishihara and Hirotaka Ishihara. (Source: Wikipedia)
Sera Masanori
Masanori Sera is a Japanese musician and singer, and occasionally actor. At the time of his debut, in 1977, Masanori Sera brought an energetic rock & roll sound to an unsuspecting Japan. Within the Japanese music business, Sera was the first to take Japanese rock music mainstream, practically owning…
Fujiwara Tatsuya
Fujiwara Tatsuya is a Japanese theater and film actor. In theatrical works, he is known for collaborating with Ninagawa Yukio, one of the most influential directors in Japan. He started his career in theatre, before his screen debut, with the title role of Shintoku-maru, the boy who has an obsessive…
Takeuchi Ryoma
Takeuchi Ryoma is a Japanese actor and model, who portrays the main protagonist of Kamen Rider Drive, Shinnosuke Tomari. Ryoma started playing soccer when he was 5, and during high school he played with Tokyo Verdy, but after receiving a recommendation to continue playing in university he thought he…
