1398 results found for: Edo Ninpouchou
O-Edo Steam Punk
Japanese Drama - 2020, 10 episodes7.1
Oedo is a lively town where various people live. Yuta, who is training as a blacksmith, wants to help people but is weak. One day, he meets the inventor, Hiraga Gennai. Gennai gives Yuta the steam-powered armor that…
Takada Kokichi
Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…
Ima Harube
Ima Harube, born Takasaki Eiichi (高崎英雄) in Kiyase, Kurate, Fukuoka, Japan, was a Japanese writer and playwright. He also used the pen name Ima Uhei (伊馬鵜平) earlier in his career. Born into a merchant family with roots dating back to the Edo period, Ima graduated from the former Kurate…
Mizushima Ryotaro
Mizushima Ryotaro was a Japanese actor and film director born in Higashifukuda-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His wife is actress Suzuki Utako, and actor Mizushima Michitaro is his nephew. After graduating from the Japanese-French Law School, he entered "Kawakami Otojiro Ichiza". After that, he joined the Yoshizawa…
Yamauchi Masato
He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law in 1950. In 1949 he joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System troupe along with Ryo Kurosawa and Kiyoshi Kawakubo. Debuted as Kirino Kojiro in the radio drama " Fuebuki Doji " . After that, he acted as a voice actor, and after the overseas drama " Captain…
Miyagi Ayako
Miyagi Ayako was born in Musashino, Tokyo. Since the age of 15, she aspired to become a novelist. She went on to debut in 2006 with "Hanayoi Dochu (A Courtesan with Flowered Skin)", set in the Edo era.
Bando Tsumasaburo
Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…
Izumi Kyouka
A Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. He is best known for a…
Hirotsu Ryuro
In 1899, Ryūrō met Ozaki Kōyō, and joined his literary group Ken'yusha. In 1895, he published two novels which enabled him to achieve literary recognition: Hemeden and Kurotogake. These were the first of a new genre in Japanese literature, the "tragic novel", which he created. Heavily influenced…
Sawamura Gennosuke IV
Sawamura Gennosuke IV was an outstanding onnagata actor, who was also able to play a wide range of male roles. Akuba roles were his field of excellence, like Otomi ("Kirare Otomi") or Dakki no Ohyaku ("Hyaku Monogatari"). He moved at the beginning of the 20th century from ôshibai, where he was supporting…
Sugita Shigemichi
Sugita Shigemichi is a Japanese director and film director. He has served as an Executive Director at Fuji Television and as the President of Nihon Eiga Broadcasting. He was also the President of the Japan Association of TV Program Directors from 2003 to 2015. He was born as the youngest of three siblings…
