Anzai Kyoko

Anzai was a member of the Osaka Shochiku Opera Company from 1950-1953. She entered film immediately after resigning from the company. She retired from acting completely following her marriage in 1961 to fellow actor Tatsuya Mihashi. They remained married until her death in 2002. While her film career…

Sanjo Miki

Sanjo Miki graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Sakuramizu Women’s Commercial School and went to work for Daiei Studios in their accounting department. After the war, she caught the eye of Daiei president Nagata Masakazu and was approached to appear in a film. She debuted in 1946 and continued to appear…

Hama Mie

Hama Mie is a Japanese actress. She was working as a bus conductor when she was spotted by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. She went on to become one of the most in-demand actresses in Japan. Notable appearances included the 1965 spy comedy Kokusai Himitsu Keisatsu: Kagi no Kagi, which was the source for the…

Tajima Yoshibumi

In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…

Arikawa Sadamasa

Arikawa Sadamasa was a Japanese special effects cinematographer and director. After his tour as a bomber pilot during WWII, he joined up briefly with Toho, but soon left over disputes with the workers’ union. He encountered Tsuburaya Eiji and joined his private film effects company during the time…

Fukuda Jun

Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China (currently Changchun City). He spent his childhood in Manchuria because his father worked for the South Manchuria Railway. Although he went on to Nihon University, he rarely attended lectures and spent most of the day reading and watching movies. In 1946, Toho…

Suzuki Haruo

Suzuki Haruo is one of those ubiquitous supporting actors tucked away in the background of several sci-fi films and easily mistaken for other actors with a similar appearance. His roles rarely offered any dialogue. His most prominent speaking role is as the general trying to keep the giant electrodes…

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…

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Omori Kazuki

Born in Osaka, Ōmori studied at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and holds a license to practice medicine. While in school, he began making films independently, with Kuraku naru made matenai! (1975), which featured Seijun Suzuki, receiving particularly high praise.[3] His script "Orenji rōdo…

Gwan Gung Vs. Aliens

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A widowed sculptor in Hong Kong races against failing eyesight to finish a statue dedicated to the spear-wielding deity of war Gwan Gung in the hope of attaining a miracle, much to the skepticism of his scientist son…

Monster Next Door

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Cute introvert Diewdai likes living in his ultra private world, hiding away in his apartment. His best friend is a turtle called Khun Shy. Diew's life of peace, however, is destroyed when God—an extroverted senior…