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- Kim Sun-young was born on 16 April 1976 in Ganggu-myeon, Yeongdeok-gun, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Three Sisters (2020), Concrete Utopia (2023) and Crash Landing on You (2019).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Born Hiramaru Kumiko in Chiba Prefecture's Sanbu-gun (now separated into Sanmushi and rural Sanbu-gun), which is next door to Narita, Japan on the 17th of June 1978, Kumiko Aso began her film career with 1995's Bad Guy Beach despite a lack of interest in acting at the time. It was 1998's Dr. Akagi, which introduced her to a wide audience in Japan. She garnered Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actress for this film. Ironically, her manager had sent her to this movie's auditions and Kumiko would claim later she was not even sure what she was auditioning for. Either way, this film would not be the last, which would accord her an award. She had initially aimed to become a pop star and had sent an application for an audition. She participated in a Japanese schoolgirl audition for the Young Jump weekly magazine, which she won in 1995. She has become a well-known actress, model and product representative in her native country. Aso has also starred in a couple of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films, had a cameo in the cult film Tenten and became a stalker in Moteki, by which time she had cut her hair for an older look. Earlier she had expanded her horizons and played a leading role as an Iranian-Japanese in the 2007 Iranian film Hafez. She had contemplated quitting acting in 2006, but persisted in the profession because she enjoyed her time in Jiko Keisatsu TV serial. She married stylist Daisuke Iga in late 2007 after dating for four years and gave birth to their daughter in 2012. She gave birth to a boy in 2016. She cites reading manga as a hobby. She is signed to the Breath talent agency.- Director
- Producer
- Writer
The pioneering Kôji Wakamatsu (born Ito Takashi) was a contemporary of Oshima Nagisa and equally controversial, yet not as famous. The man was born in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Japan before dropping out of agricultural school, some say following a physical altercation, moving to Tokyo at age seventeen, joining the yakuza and landing in prison for a year as a consequence. While with the yakuza he would work for the mob collecting payments on film sets among other thuggery. Upon release and following odd jobs he became an assistant to a film director and eventually make his own pink film erotic feature called Sweet Trap in 1963. Twenty or so films, including several acclaimed ones for Nikkatsu Studio, later he created his own Wakamatsu production where he and crew would push back against norms by shooting softcore pink features, violent movies, left-wing resistance cuts and even internationally bent movies on topics like the oppression of the Palestinian nation and the Japanese underground. His efforts would take him to events like the Berlin Film Festival - occasionally to the annoyance of the official motion picture association of Japan - and have him work with other avant-garde directors like the aforementioned Oshima. He would also be blacklisted by foreign governments like the United States, which imposed a travel ban on him. Both he and the mainstream moved closer to one another eventually and before his death in a car accident where he was hit by a taxi in 2012 several of his films had garnered mainstream interest and miscellaneous Japanese and foreign awards. At the time of his death he was returning from a meeting regarding his latest project, which concerned Japan's nuclear industry lobby and the Tokyo-based TEPCO company. The topical subject matter followed on the heels of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.- The Nara-born actress got an early start in the much praised and oft discussed The Taste Of Tea before staying with the profession and graduating to adult roles. Before that, however, the youngest of four sisters had debuted in Suzaku after, legend has it, director Naomi Kawase spotted her cleaning shoe boxes at her junior high school. She has won several awards since.
- Hideo Takamatsu was born on 24 October 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan. He was an actor, known for The Last Emperor (1987), Kyojin Ôkuma Shigenobu (1963) and Shogun (1980). He died on 26 February 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.
- Denjirô Ôkôchi was born on 5 February 1898 in Iwaya-mura, Chikujo-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan [now Buzen City, Fukuoka Prefecture]. He was an actor and writer, known for No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), Sanshiro Sugata (1943) and Oatsurae Jirôkichi kôshi (1931). He died on 19 July 1962.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Masayoshi Nogami was born on 2 March 1940 in Shiranuka-gun, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He was an actor and director, known for Wakazuma hitojichi: Sei gômon (1983). He died on 22 December 2010 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- Rampo Edogawa was born on 21 October 1894 in Nabari-machi, Naga-gun, Mie Prefecture, Japan [now Nabari City, Mie Prefecture]. Rampo was a writer, known for Edogawa Rampo no bijo (1977), Shonen tanteidan: Teki wa genshisenkoutei (1959) and Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki (1957). Rampo died on 28 July 1965.
- Kan Shimozawa graduated from the Department of Law of the University of Meiji. Then he decided to be a journalist and joined reputed Yomiuri Shinbun and later Tokyo Gendai. In the 20s he began to write novels and focused in period aventure dramas. From 1931 his novels were converted into movies (there are more than 100 film adaptations), but he did not gain a reputation until the publication of his revolutionary novel "Shinsengumi Chronicles" in 1937. It is a new version of the famous story of Isamu Kondo and Ryoma Sakamoto, and has been made into a movie twice, in 1954 (by Juichi Kono) and 1963 (by Kenji Misumi). Other significant novels were "Kaishu Katsu" and "Fujitaka", as well as his compilation "Atsuta Diary". His most famous creations have been made into severals films: "Obozu Tengu" ("Goblin Priest") in 1954 ("The Gay Revenger") and 1962 ("Devil Priest"); "Yataro Gasa" twelve times between 1931 and 1960; and the popular "Zato Ichi" more than 20 times starting in 1962...
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Maki Asakawa was born on 27 January 1942 in Mikawamachi [now Hakusan-shi], Ishikawa-gun, Ishikawa, Japan. She was an actress, known for Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971) and Horror Theater Unbalance (1973). She died on 17 January 2010 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.- Minoru Takada was born on 20 December 1899 in Higashinaruse-mura, Ogachi-gun, Akita, Japan. He was an actor, known for Wakasa yo saraba (1924), I Graduated, But... (1929) and Den'en kôkyôgaku (1938). He died on 28 December 1977 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Etsuko Kozakura was born on 22 February 1971 in Mizuho-cho, Nishitama-gun, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998), Project X Zone (2012) and Tenchi the Movie - Tenchi Muyo in Love (1996). She is married to Jin Domon.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Japan's "Queen of Boogie" ("Bugi no Jo" - or "Buugi no Jou") in the postwar years. She was born in Kagawa on August 25, 1914, and scored her first success in a girls' opera company before the war. After the war, when American troops filled Japan's cities and their pop culture became the rage, Kasagi began recording jazz and boogie-woogie songs with an American sound but distinct Japanese subject matter. She became an instant star, and many other singers imitated her trademark, a sort of worldless growl/roar at the end of each song.
Her best-known song outside Japan is probably "Jungle Boogie" ("Jianguru Bugi"), which she sings and Toshiro Mifune dances to in Kurosawa's Drunken Angel (1948). Bigger hits in Japan included "Tokyo Boogie" and "Shopping Boogie" ("Kaimono Bugi"), the latter of which she sang and acted to in a great short film that's easily seen on the web. She was a huge influence on the young Hibari Misora, who was originally billed as "the Baby Shizuko" before going on to become Japan's most popular singer.
Kasagi didn't do as well surviving the end of the "Bugi-Ugi" craze and in 1957 gave up singing to concentrate on acting. She died in 1985, at the age of 70, of ovarian cancer.- Sanshô Shinsui was born on 5 May 1947 in Amakusa-gun, Kumamoto, Japan. He was an actor, known for Parasite Eve (1997), The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and Kizudarake no kunshô (1986). He was married to Midori Hagio. He died on 30 December 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Koume Akasaka was born on 20 April 1906 in Kawasaki-machi, Tagawa-gun, Fukuoka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ohara Shôsuke-san (1949), Matashiro's Fighting Journey (1956) and Awa-odori tanuki gassen (1954). She died on 17 January 1992 in Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan.- Eiko Namiki was born on 16 February 1938 in Akkeshi-chô, Akkeshi-gun, Hokkaidô, Japan. She is an actress, known for Minyô no tabi: Akita obako (1963), Botchan yaro seizoroi (1961) and Kita kikô yori: Wataridori kita e kaeru (1962).
- Norio Nishikawa was born on 12 May 1951 in Yoshino-gun, Nara, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! (1985), Gorufu yoakemae (1987) and Chie the Brat (1981).
- Miho Shimao was born on 24 October 1919 in Prefecture Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchi-cho, Japan. She was a writer, known for Life and Death on the Shore (2017) and Dolce... (2000). She was married to Toshio Shimao. She died on 25 March 2007 in Prefecture Kagoshima Amami, Japan.
- Nak Yoon Choi was born on 27 January 1984 in Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon, South Korea. He is an actor, known for Agents of Mayhem (2017), Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023) and Exos Heroes (2020).
- Shinsuke Chikaishi was born on 20 January 1931 in Toyotama-gun [now Nishiogikubo, Suginami], Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for The Boy and the Beast (2015), Himeyuri no tô (1982) and Roujin Z (1991). He died on 5 October 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Kyuzo Mifune was born on 21 April 1883 in Kujicho, Kunobe-gun, Iwate, Japan [now Kuji-shi, Iwate, Japan]. He was an actor, known for Kôdôkan monogatari (1954), Sports Graph (1957) and Kamiwaza Mifune judan (1955). He died on 27 January 1965.
- Takashi Nagatsuka was born on 3 April 1879 in Kosshomura, Okada-gun, Ibaraki, Japan [now Kossho Ishige-machi, Yuki-gun, Ibaraki, Japan]. He was a writer, known for Earth (1939). He died on 8 February 1915 in Japan.
- Sakae Tsuboi was born on 5 August 1899 in Sakate-mura [now Shôdoshima-chô], Shôzu-gun, Kagawa, Japan. He was a writer, known for Onna no koyomi (1954), Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to (1952) and Sôtome ke no musume tachi (1962). He died on 23 June 1967.
- Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll-Gyllenband was born on 14 February 1877 in Güns, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Köszeg, Vas, Hungary]. He died on 14 September 1944 in Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Adonis Johnston was born on 9 November 2001 in Nabari-machi, Naga-gun, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for Depiction (2017), Happy (2019) and Gone Boy (2017).- Masako Bando was born on 30 March 1958 in Sakawa, Takaoka-gun, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He was a writer, known for Inugami (2001), Hanezu (2011) and Shikoku (1999). He died on 27 January 2014 in Sakawa, Takaoka-gun, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
- Lee Hee-beom was born on 23 March 1949 in Chilgok-gun, South Korea.
- Sun-yup Paik was born on 20 November 1920 in Kangso-gun, Japanese Korea. He died on 10 July 2020 in Seoul, South Korea.
- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hideaki Yashima was born in 1915 in Makkari, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido, Japan. He was a composer and actor, known for Hana to musume to shiroi michi (1961), Hahakozuru (1952) and Utsukushiki teikô (1960). He died on 19 March 1985.- Art Director
Eikyû Matsuoka was born on 9 July 1881 in Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo, Japan. Eikyû was an art director, known for Princess Kaguya (1935). Eikyû died on 2 March 1938.- Seiji Haji was born on 14 September 1893 in Kokufu-son [now Osafune-cho], Oku-gun, Okayama, Japan. Seiji was a writer, known for Denshi chitori mo nochi: Youjorougumo (1955), Sunae shibari: Dai-ippen (1927) and Sunae shibari: Dai-ippen (1927). Seiji died on 4 February 1977.
- Imasuke Kokontei was born on 12 June 1898 in Sakaimachi, Sawa-gun, Gunma, Japan. He was an actor, known for Ashita wa gekkyûbi (1952), Odoru machi (1953) and Hatsukoi tokoshan musuko (1952). He died on 10 December 1976.
- Kiyoyasu Adachi was born on 15 August 1951 in Akkeshi-chô, Akkeshi-gun, Hokkaidô, Japan. He is an actor, known for Housewife's Experience: Tenement (1975), Forbidden Ordeal (1979) and Joshidaisei: Môteru Utamaro asobi (1975).
- Yôko Namiki was born on 16 February 1938 in Akkeshi-chô, Akkeshi-gun, Hokkaidô, Japan. She is an actress, known for Minyô no tabi: Akita obako (1963), Botchan yaro seizoroi (1961) and Uwaki neya (1973).