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Bando Tsumasaburo
Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…
Toba Yonosuke
Toba Yonosuke, born Toba Teruo (鳥羽輝雄) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He initially trained at the Tokyo Free Theatre acting school starting in 1922. He dropped out of Okura Higher Commercial School during his third year and joined Ikawa Hachiro's "Kokusei Theatre" in 1923. By 1926, he…
Shimazu Yasujiro
Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…
Yamamoto Kajiro
Yamamoto Kajiro was a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and essayist born in Ginza Uomenomachi, Tokyo, Japan. He used the pseudonyms Hirato Nobusuke (平戸延介) and Hirata Nobusuke (平田延介) when writing scripts or debuting as an actor. During his time at the Keio University Faculty…
