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…

Hasegawa Kazuo

Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…

Enami Kyoko

Kyoko Enami was discovered through Daiei's New Face program in 1959, and was promptly made a star in 1960. An awesome beauty with remarkably pale skin, she also conveyed a kind of steeliness that turned out to make her ideal for the popular film series "Gambling Woman," which made her one of the first…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Harada Yoshio

Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…

Ozawa Maju

Maju Ozawa was born on January 3, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gekijôban kamen raidâ Agito: Purojekutô jî fô (2001), Hyakunin no Ijin (2006) and Dong jing gong lüe (2000).

Tsukamoto Takashi

Takashi's interest in seriously pursuing an acting career was stimulated by his memorable experience while filming the popular cult classic Battle Royale, in which he played tech-savvy Shinji Mimura. He is a talented young drama and film actor with the natural ability to bring to life a wide variety…

Toda Erika

Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model by the age of 13. She moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school and started her acting career…

Fujikake Aika

Chisaka Kensuke

Kensuke Chisaka is an actor, known for Gantz (2010), Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011) and Inugoe (2006). (Source: imdb.com)