Yamamoto Togo

Yamamoto Togo, born Yamamoto Kenzo (山本鎌藏), was a Japanese actor. He began his career in Hollywood before returning to Japan, where he worked with studios including Shochiku Kamata Studio, Nikkatsu Uzumasa Studio, and Shinko Kinema Tokyo Studio. Born in Negishi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Yamamoto…

Ohara Joji

Ohara Joji was a Japanese cameraman and cinematographer born in Tokyo. He is the father of bassist and composer Ohara Ray. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin Middle School, he joined Matsutake Kamata Photo Studio in 1924, when he was 19 years old. In 1927, he was promoted to a cameraman and made his…

Enatsu Yuko

Enatsu Yuko, born Suzuki Chiyo (鈴木千代) in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese actress. After marriage, she changed her name to Meguro Chiyo (目黒千代). She graduated from Tokyo Kasei Gakuin High School (東京家政学院高等学校). In 1966, she joined the Toho Theater Division (東宝演劇部)…

Kojima Yoyo

Kojima Yoyo, born Kojima Masaji (小島正次), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and opera singer. He began his career in Asakusa opera and Shinpai before moving into film acting. Born in Okachimachi, Shitaya, Tokyo, he attended Urawa Junior High School in Saitama and later enrolled in the Tokyo Music…

Date Satoko

Satoko was a Japanese actress active during the Showa era. Born in Shioiri, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, she moved to Tokyo during childhood and attended Bunkagakuin Junior High School after graduating from Hikawadai Elementary School in 1923. She developed an interest in acting at Bunkagakuin and, following…

Matsumoto Eiichi

Matsumoto Eiichi was a Japanese film director born in Mukojima Susaki-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo. He played an active part in the era of silent movies. Matsumoto graduated from Kogyokusha Junior High School around 1912 and worked at the Railway Institute Ueno Station. After that, he entered Waseda University,…

Arnold Fanck

Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre, born in Frankenthal, Germany. Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern, Bernhard Villinger, and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Fanck, who held a PhD…

Yoshida Kenkichi

Yoshida Kenkichi was a Japanese stage set designer, film art director, costume designer, and typographer born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 17, he exhibited "Engekijin" at the Nikakai exhibition and achieved his first selection. He enrolled in the former Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko (now Tokyo University…

Okada Masumi

Okada Masumi was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the…

Masuda Kiiton

Masuda Kiiton, born Kimura Hajime (木村一) in Aoyanagi, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, was a Japanese actor and comedian, also known by the name Masuda Kiiton (益田キートン). His family, originally samurai from the Aizu domain, relocated to Hakodate after losing a battle in Niigata. They initially…

I'll Never Forget Cowra

During World War II the Cowra 12th Prisoner of War Camp granted the POWs a certain degree of self-governance and maintained a semblance of democratic order. However, when orders came down to move some of the prisoners,…

Er Long Lake Monster

When World War II broke out and the Japanese army occupied the northeast, they repeatedly sent mysterious troops into a massive cave near Dida Juzi. According to legend, the Japanese discovered an immense treasure…

Eyes of Heaven

During World War II, Phaen, a poor girl from Ayutthaya, escapes her abusive home and follows a rich family to Bangkok. Starting out as a maid, her ambition drives her to build fame and wealth as an actor, but ambition…

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

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Set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo. (Source: Wikipedia)

Operation Undead

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1941: World War II in Chumphon, Mek, a new sergeant, and Mok, his younger brother in the Youth Soldier unit, face a mysterious threat when "something" belonging to the Japanese goes missing during their landing. This…

Unbreakable Spirit

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During the World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese air force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. ~~ A co-production with U.S.A.

Women of the Night

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After World War II, Mizoguchi was inspired by Italian neorealism to make one of the most emotionally and visually raw films of his career. Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters—Fusako,…

Okinawa/Santos

During World War II, Brazilian authorities forced many Japanese immigrants who were living in Santos, Brazil, to relocate. Most of them were from Okinawa. With the help of local people of Okinawan descent, the film…

Proxy Exam

North Korean defector II Hyun Joo is stateless. Hyun Joo cannot go to school because he has no status and cannot do many ordinary things. Hyeon Joo, who cannot even apply for a fan meeting of her favorite idol singer,…

Casino Tycoon 1

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Set in World War II, “Casino Tycoon” chronicles the story of Benny, a university student, on a difficultly-earned scholarship, who flees Hong-Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for the gambling haven of…