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Wakao Tokuhei
Born in Yamada Town, Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. The eldest son of Wakao Kinzo (the same grave), an adopted child of the Wakao Zaibatsu and a banker. Relatives are Shohachi Wakao (11-1-10). The wife of architect Kisho Kurokawa and actress Ayako Wakao is her niece. Graduated from Keio University…
Onoe Kajo
Onoe Kajo was a Japanese actor born in Kobe. He was a thorough supporting player of Kyoto historical drama, and at the age of 30, he also played a leading role. His older brother is actor Kataoka Matsuyan. He became a stage actor from early on under the name of Ichikawa Momotaro. After working in the…
Koda Hiroko
Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…
Oda Motoyoshi
An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…
Kita Takeo
Kita Takeo was an art director and producer of Japanese films and President of Toho Built. He was born in Osaka. He was the first deputy director of the Japan Film and Television Art Directors Association. His younger brother Kita Tatsuo is also an art director. In 1926, he graduated from Ichioka Junior…
Fujita Susumu
Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…
Oda Akane
Oda Akane is a Japanese actress. The affiliation office is Oscar promotion. Born in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. Graduated from Hinode Girls' College High School (now Hinode High School). In 1990, she was in elementary school in the upper Mikawa town adjacent to her hometown. She won the Grand Prix…
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…
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…
Kurahara Koreyoshi
He was born in the city of Kuching, then part of the kingdom of Sarawak (now a state of Malaysia) on Borneo. He was the nephew of literary critic Korehito Kurahara, and older brother of film director Koretsugu Kurahara. His son Jun Iwasaki, a former producer for Ishihara International Productions Inc.,…
