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Ichikawa Utaemon
Ichikawa Utaemon was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Makino Shozo. Quickly gaining popularity, he followed the example of Makino stars such as Bando…
Fujiwara Kamatari
Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…
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…
Hirayama Hideyuki
Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…
Ohkochi Denjiro
Ohkochi entered Shinkokugeki, training under Sawada Shojiro. Shinkokugeki was known for jidaigeki, the period drama genre, particularly for its realistic sword fights (tate) or swordplay (kengeki). With this background, Ohkochi entered the Nikkatsu studio in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara (sword-fighting)…
Sengoku Noriko
Sengoku Noriko was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as "Drunken Angel" (1948), "The Quiet Duel" (1949), "Stray Dog" (1949), "Scandal" (1950), "The Idiot" (1951)…
Shihomi Etsuko
Etsuko Shihomi was born on October 29, 1956 in Okayama City, Okayama, Japan as Etsuko Shiomi. She is an actress, known for Sister Street Fighter (1974), Legend of Eight Samurai (1983) and Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess (1976). She has been married to Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi since 1987. They have three children.
Fujita Makoto
He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…
Minowa Yasufumi
Yasufumi Minowa is a Japanese actor. As a child, he especially liked to watch action movies and hoped that he could be a martial arts star like Jackie Chan when he grew up. He went to China as early as 2010 to seek development. Graduating from Beijing Sports University, he has mastered Chinese martial…
Inagaki Hiroshi
A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…
