Dazai Hisao

Dazai Hisao was a Japanese actor born in Senzoku, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. During middle school, due to the impact of military training where he was fired at close range by a machine gun, his hearing deteriorated slightly, and since then, his voice became about one octave higher than others. Although…

Fumino Tomoko

Fumino Tomoko, born Kamiyama Sumiko (神山澄子), was a Japanese actress from Asakusa, Tokyo. She graduated from Miyoshi Women's High School and was associated with the theater company En. Her acting career began at Daiei before World War II. In 1946, she joined Bungakuza but left in 1963 to co-found…

Enomoto Misae

Enomoto Misae was a Japanese singer born in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Due to her underprivileged family, she was sent to servitude by the theater owner in Asakusa in 1934. In 1938 she became a geisha in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, and moved to Tokyo in 1940. She later studied singing at the…

Imamura Genpei

Imamura Genpei was born Onodera Yukio on June 15, 1910 in Kaminarimon, Asakusa, Tokyo (now know Taito, Tokyo). He used a variety of kanji for his stage name during his career. He belonged to Empire Kinema, Shinko Kinema, Yoshimoto Kogyo, and Moulin Rouge Shinjukuza and presided over the Imamurahara…

Hashimoto Izo

Hashimoto Izo is a Japanese screenwriter and film director from Shimane prefecture. He graduated from Shimane Prefectural Tsuwano High School. After working as an independent producer, he made his directorial debut in 1982 with the independent film "PC Wars ISAMI". After that, he made his major debut…

Sawamura Sadako

Sawamura Sadako was a Japanese actress and essayist born in Saruwakacho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her real name was Ohashi Teiko (大橋貞子). She was also known as an essayist, publishing memoirs such as "Song of Shells" and "My Asakusa." Her older brother, Tomokazu, became the fourth-generation Sawamura…

Kato Daisuke

Kato Daisuke, whose real name was Kato Tokunosuke (加藤徳之), was a Japanese actor born in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Seventh Junior High School and began his career as a kabuki actor before transitioning to film. His father, Takejima Denzo, was a playwright and assistant…

Atsumi Kiyoshi

Atsumi Kiyoshi (Born Tadokoro Yasuo) was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His vivid performance of a lovable, innocent man in…

Inoue Harumi

Inoue Harumi is a Japanese actress, model, and swimmer. She has a younger sister, Mami Inoue, who is also pursuing a similar career. Also, a younger brother, Eiki Kitamura, with whom she performed alongside in Rock Musical Bleach. Because of her spontaneity, poise and effortless abilities in front of…

Saotome Taichi

Saotome Taichi is a Japanese film and stage actor best known for playing beautiful young men and onnagata roles of women. He is known as "Nagashime Ouji" (流し目王子) or "Sidelong Glance Prince". His father is the head of the gekidan sujaku theatre troupe, and Saotome grew up within the troupe,…

Enko Elegy: Asakusa Aika

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

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Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. (Source: MUBI)

Zessho Rokyoku Story

Asakusa’s Mokubatei is the only theater in the Kanto region that regularly bills Rokyoku—a form of narrative singing accompanied by shamisen. Backstage, a variety of lives intersect, and the art is passed down…

Dancing Girl

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In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness. (Source: MUBI)

Otasukeya: Jinpachi the Helping Hero

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In Asakusa, there is a family of rickshaw runners that spans 5 generations. They are all known as Kurumaya Jinpachi. The current Jinpachi used to work in Osaka but was called back to Asakusa by his grandfather, who…

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

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Midori Asakusa wants to create an anime, but she's too disheartened to make that first step by herself. By pure chance, she meets Tsubame Mizusaki, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator.…

Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na!

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Midori Asakusa wants to create an anime, but she's too disheartened to make that first step by herself. By pure chance, she meets Tsubame Mizusaki, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator.…

Gaki☆Rock

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The story revolves around Asakusa-born-and-raised Gen, who helps out at his family's strip club. With his friends Makoto, Jimmy, and Mattsun, the four get into fights together, as well as help out with watching out…

Bungo Torimonocho

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The cultural and cultural affairs of the year Asakusa · between the two countries is the stage of the drama. Fledgling took over the ruins of the late father Meakashi Bungo is, intuition and excellent reasoning power,…