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Uno Chiyo
Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…
Fujiyama Ichiro
Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…
Shishido Joe
Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…
Cynthia Rothrock
Cynthia Rothrock is an American martial artist and actress specializing in martial arts films. Northern California was her home in 1983, where she worked with the West Coast Demonstration Team. At this time, Golden Harvest was searching in Los Angeles for the next Bruce Lee. Rothrock's forms and maneuvers…
Yokoyama Masaru
Born in Honjo Village, Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture (currently Chikuhoku Village ) . He learned the piano when he was in elementary school , bought a synthesizer when he was in junior high school, and became interested in composition. After graduating from the Department of Electronic…
Yanagiya Gontaro I
The first Yanagiya Gontaro was a Japanese rakugoka born in Honjo-ku, Tokyo. In 1939, he belonged to the Toho Meijinkai. In addition, h becomes a signboard rakugoka of Toho along with the 3rd generation Kinba Sanyutei. Even after the war, he remained popular but fell ill in 1950. At the same time, a…
Satomi Akira
Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…
Tsuga Shizuko
Real nam Shizuko Sunaga. Born in Tokyo Prefecture Tokyo City Hongo-ku, Komagome Sakashita-cho. Her father was also an actor working with the stage name Kiyoshi Toga, and her brother Kazushi Toga, was child actor. She had break in acting, between 1931-1935. After World War II she back to business again.…
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,…
Kikawada Masaya
Masaya Kikawada is a Japanese actor. His most prominent role has been as Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider #1 in the film Kamen Rider The First and its sequel Kamen Rider The Next.
