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Shimizu Takeshi
Shimizu Takeshi is a Japanese film art director from Kanagawa, Japan. He began his career as an art assistant on the special effects television drama "Ultraman 80" and later worked at Tokyo Disneyland. He joined Toho, where he initially focused on special effects art before making his debut as an art…
Andrew Hughes
Turkish-born businessman who lived in Japan and was recruited to play Western parts in Japanese films. For 1961’s The Last War, Hughes worked as an intermediary between the Japanese crew and the sizable Western cast of that film; although he apparently served as an interpreter on occasion, he did…
Satsuma Kenpachiro
Satsuma Kenpachiro was a Japanese actor and suit actor born in Kagoshima, Japan. He was also the head of the Satsuma Goken Training Institute. In 1965, he joined Kawasaki Steel Corporation. The following year, he transferred to Chiba Steel Works. In 1967, he left Kawasaki Steel and entered the Nikkatsu…
Kumagai Jiro
Kumagai Jiro is a Japanese actor who appeared (or at the very least had a presence in) no less than 20 sci-fi films, and many other films besides. He reportedly lived no more than 3 minutes away from Toho studios during the height of Toho’s output. From 1963 onward he acted under the stage name “Kumagai…
Tachibana Masaaki
Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…
Natsuki Junpei
Natsuki Junpei is a Japanese actor born in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a supporting player for Toho in the 50s and 60s, recognizable by his high forehead and dry, often worried expressions. He's best remembered for a single, lingering shot as a power plant worker in the original 1954 film, Godzilla.
Ubukata Soji
Ubukata Soji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo City, Tokyo. His death date is unknown. After dropping out of the old junior high school, he entered the Japanese Film Actor School in Hongo Ward. He joined Kawai Productions, which was founded in February 1928. In 1931, he transferred to Teikoku Kinema,…
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…
Koizumi Hiroshi
Hiroshi Koizumi was a Japanese actor who began as an announcer for NHK before transitioning to film in 1950. He was accepted into Toho as part of the 3rd New Face program for new actors and made his film debut in 1952. He first appeared in sci-fi in 1955 as a pilot in Godzilla Raids Again. He would…
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…
