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Kimura Kinka
His real name is Kinnosuke. He was born in Tokyo Iwato-cho (now Ushigome of Shinjuku-ku, Iwato-cho) and grew up in Shintomicho (now Chuo-ku Shintomi ). His father was the first member of the first Ichikawa Sandan troupe, and Kinnosuke also worked as a writer after serving as a child under the name of…
Kodo Kuninori
Kodo Kuninori was a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Tanigawa Saichiro. Before the war, he was active in Teikoku Kinema and Utaemon Ichikawa productions and appeared in Toho during and after the war. In 1901, after dropping out of the junior high school of Kansai…
Umemura Yoko
Umemura Yoko was a Japanese actress born in Nihonbashi Kakigara-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo. Her real name is Suzuki Hanako Suzuki. In 1922, she joined Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio and made her debut in the movie world with "Chiri ni Shi Hana" directed by Shimazu Yasujiro. Due to the Great Kanto Earthquake…
Uchida Tomu
Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…
Suzuki Noribumi
Suzuki Noribumi, also known as Suzuki Norifumi, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yaro series. Suzuki was born in 1933 in Shizuoka. He dropped out of Ritsumeikan University's Department of Economics, and subsequently joined Toei's Kyoto Studio as an assistant…
Senda Korenari
Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known mostly for founding the Haiyūza theatre company, and translating and directing the works of Bertolt Brecht in post-World War II Japan. He appeared in over 50 films between 1936 and 1970. His stage name comes…
Ikenami Shotaro
Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…
Yoshida Yasuhiro
Yoshida Yasuhiro is a Japanese film director and screenwriter from Osaka, Japan. Born in 1979 in Osaka. Yoshida Yasuhiro studied filmmaking under director Izutsu Kazuhiro and worked on films such as We Shall Overcome Someday (dir. Izutsu Kazuhiro, 2005), and Memories of Matsuko (dir. Nakashima Tetsuya,…
Azuma Shizuko
Azuma Shizuko was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She became a contract actress with Toho after graduating from the Toho Acting School. She made her film debut in the 1953 film "Himawari Musume". After the collapse of Toho's exclusive actor system, she joined the Shinsei Group. There is no…
Kobayashi Keiju
Kobayashi Keiju was a Japanese actor. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films…
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