60 results found for: Nichirin no Isan
The Legacy of the Sun
Japanese Movie - 20117.2
The film revolves around a top secret mission to hide Japanese treasures near the conclusion of World War II which would currently be valued at around 200 trillion yen. Major Mashiba is an intelligence officer with…
Tetsudo Sosakan 6: Okayama-hatsu Tokkyu Super Yakumo no Satsui Satsujin wo Yokoku Sareta Shacho ga K
Japanese Special - 2005, 1 episodes
~~ Adapted from the novel "Tokkyu 'Nichirin' no Satsui" (特急『にちりん』の殺意) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎).
Ichikawa Ennosuke II
Ichikawa En'ô I was a revolutionary and dynamic actor, who created many new dances. Ichikawa En'ô I's best dance-dramas were gathered in 1964 by his grandson Ichikawa Ennosuke III in a special collection named En'ô Jûshu: "Akutarô", "Kurozuka", "Kôya Monogurui", "Kokaji", "Koma", "Ninin Sanbasô",…
Kinugasa Teinosuke
Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell). He was among the pioneers of…
Onoe Matsunosuke
Onoe Matsunosuke was a Japanese actor. He was initially an actor with an itinerant kabuki troupe. In his autobiography, he claimed that he had made his stage debut as early as 1880, in a performance given by the Tamizo Onoe company. Fascinated by the stage, he left his home by the age of 14 to travel…
Sakura Hisako
Sakura Hisako, born Kanzaki Fujiko (神崎不二子) in Otemachi, Hiroshima, Japan, was a Japanese actress and former musume-yaku performer of the Takarazuka Girls' Revue (宝塚少女歌劇団). Later in life, she became a Buddhist nun under the name Ogasawara Nichio (小笠原日凰). She was also…
Kishida Kyoko
Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…
Matsukata Hiroki
Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…
Ichikawa Suminojo
Ichikawa Suminosuke was a Japanese Kabuki actor and actor born in the Miyazu clan of Tango Province. He is sometimes referred to as Ichikawa Tomiyuki, and his real name is Okumura Sukichi. His old stage names are Nakamura Umetaro and Nakamura Rokusho. His death date is unknown. In 1867, when he was…
Matsumoto Hakuo II
The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…
Matsuzaka Keiko
Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Japanese Movie - 19587.6
As Japan prepares to face the greatest crisis in the 1200s, a solitary Monk named Nichiren Daishonin proposes a theory that, while it goes against commonly held beliefs of the time, still offers a possible solution.…
