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Kawatake Mokuami
Kawatake Mokuami was a playwright of Kabuki and Kyogen during the late Edo period and Meiji era. Born Yoshimura Yoshisaburo (吉村芳三郎) in Nihonbashi, Edo, Japan, he used the pen name Sosui (其水) and was also known by the alternate name Furukawa Mokuami (古河黙阿弥) He was born the second…
Ide Toshiro
Ide Toshiro was a Japanese screenwriter for both film and television. Born in the village of Kitahata in Saga Prefecture, Ide graduated from the Tokyo Higher School of Arts (now the Faculty of Engineering of Chiba University). He initially worked as a magazine illustrator and advertising designer, but…
Asao Kuzaemon IV
Asao Kuzaemon IV was a versatile koshibai actor. He was for example able to play most of the major male or female roles of the famous drama "Terakoya", not only Matsuômaru, Takebe Genzô, Chiyo or Tonami, but although the evil Shundô Genba! He was a mainstay at the Miyatoza, Sakaeza or the Misakiza…
Fujino Chiya
Fujino Chiya is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Japan. She graduated from Azabu Junior and Senior High School and Chiba University’s Faculty of Education. After working as an editor for a manga magazine, she made her debut as a novelist by winning the 14th Kaien Newcomer Literary Prize in 1995…
Saotome Michiko
Saotome Michiko was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and translator born in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Chiyoda Jogakuen High School. Initially, she worked as an actress. In April 1954, she joined the Bunkaza theater company, and later married Miyazawa Toshikazu. In August 1963, she and Miyazawa…
Shinoda Masahiro
Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…
McKinley Belcher III
Belcher appeared Off-Broadway in Romeo and Juliet at Classic Stage Company in 2013 and in 2016 won a Drama Desk Award for his performance as amateur boxer Fish in the ensemble of Marco Ramirez's The Royale at Lincoln Center, directed by Rachel Chavkin. He also appeared as Sam in Darko Tresnjak's 2015…
