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- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of the widescreen, and in the strong, angular patterns seen in many of his compositions. He has directed Mr. Pu (1953), a popular film based on Junichi Yokoyama's "Mr. Pu" comic strip. At various points in his career Ichikawa has shown that he is capable of appealing to a popular audience without compromising his artistry. A great visual stylist and perfectionist, Ichikawa excels at screen adaptations of literary masterpieces, including Sôseki Natsume's The Heart (1955), Yukio Mishima's Conflagration (1958), Jun'ichirô Tanizaki's Odd Obsession (1959) and I Am a Cat (1975) and Tôson Shimazaki's The Outcast (1962). He has also remade film classics, such as Yutaka Abe's Ashi ni sawatta onna (1926) (Ichikawa's version: 1952) and Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojô henge: Daiippen (1935) (Ichikawa's version: 1963), transposing them to contemporary settings.
The West was first introduced to Ichikawa when his The Burmese Harp (1956) won the San Giorgio Prize at the 1956 Venice Film Festival. His epic documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) (released the following year) and Alone on the Pacific (1963) explore, with dignity and imagination, the limits of human endurance. He has also worked in the thriller genre, with The Hole (1957), The Inugami Family (1976) and The Devil's Island (1977). Ichikawa tends to present strongly etched, complex characters: the stuttering acolyte who desires to preserve the "purity" of the Golden Pavilion (ENJO); the elderly husband who resorts to injections and voyeurism in order to remain sexually active (KAGI); the member of a pariah class who tries to deny his identity and to "pass" in regular society (HAKAI). More recently, Actress (1987) is a tribute to the fiercely independent Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who starred in many of Kenji Mizoguchi's films and was herself a director in later life. On the lighter side, Ichikawa's characters also include a 19th-century cat; a good-hearted, hapless teacher; and a baby who narrates how the world looks from his vantage point. He is especially adept at mixing comedy and tragedy within the same story. Until 1965, Ichikawa's close collaborator was his wife, screenwriter Natto Wada, with whom he produced most of his finest films.- Actor
- Executive
Kazuhiro Yamaji was born on 4 June 1954 in Mie, Japan. He is an actor and executive, known for Ghost in the Shell (1995), Raped with Eyes: Daydream (1982) and The Boy and the Beast (2015). He has been married to Romi Park since 22 January 2020.- Wasabi Mizuta was born on 4 August 1974 in Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (2013), Eiga Doraemon: Shin Nobita no daimakyô (2014) and Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur (2006).
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Former female impersonator who entered films in 1917 as an actor, turned to directing in 1922 and made some of the most formally brilliant Japanese films of the following decades. The few of Kinugasa's early works to have reached the West betray a highly mature, sophisticated talent. His best-known silent films are _Kurutta Ippeji (1926)_, an old print of which was found by Kinugasa in his attic and re-released in the 1970s, and Crossroads (1928), the first Japanese film to be commercially released in Europe. Both have been hailed for their inventive camera work, which has been compared to that of the celebrated German expressionist films being made during the same period. (It was not until 1929 that Kinugasa himself traveled abroad and encountered European directors and their films.) In the 1950s and 60s Kinugasa made a number of period dramas noted for their sumptuous color and imaginative use of the wide screen; Gate of Hell (1953) was named best film at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival and won an Oscar for best foreign film.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Fumihiro Hayashi was born on 26 September 1964 in Ichishi Town, Ichishi District, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He was an actor, known for Lost in Translation (2003) and Father's Day (2003). He was married to Kazumi. He died on 9 July 2011 in Japan.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Born in 1955. Filmmaker, director, visual artist. Starting out in music video clips, has branched out to a wide range of fields including stage and music events (over 20), TV dramas (over 100 episodes), TV commercials (16), and films (9 to date). His film 'Keizoku/eiga (2000)' (Keizoku: Beautiful Dreamer) recorded a box office hit in Japan.- Writer
- Composer
- Music Department
Jun Maeda was born on 1 January 1975 in Mie, Japan. He is a writer and composer, known for Charlotte (2015).- Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture and raised in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture until grade five Mizuno Miki moved to Fukuoka for grade six where she remained until ending junior high school. Upon birth and as a child she needed constant blood dialysis. She came in second in the confectionary sponsored Princess contest. The prize allows the winner to appear in TV commercials. She was picked up by an agent. She then moved to Tokyo for work as she had begun modelling and appearing in commercials and advertisements. She was the mainstay actress in the Odoru Daisosasen TV serials and movies, but was not cast again in 2010. Reports emerged that she was blacklisted after departing Burning Productions in 2005, which is yakuza owned, and as such was replaced by that agency's actress Uchida Yuki. She and a partner founded Propeller Ken in 2007 in order to stage theatrical shows. She professes a love for the theatre. She was on screen nude in the film Koi No Tsumi for the first time in 2011. Her popularity increased partly for this reason and the general notoriety of the Sono Sion directed film. It was revealed in October of 2016 that she had married illustrator and actor Karahashi Mitsuru in June of 2016. They had met and dated three months before the wedding. She gave birth in July of 2017. She has a line of hand bags and other merchandise called Third Factory. She likes action scenes, fishing and practices martial arts. She speaks English and has a motorcycle license. She often does her own action scenes on the set. She maintains her own management office.
- 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.
- Writer
- Art Department
Mengo Yokoyari is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted as an adult manga artist in 2009. Her most famous work is the series Scum's Wish, which was adapted in a one-season TV anime series by the studio Lerche. Mengo Yokoyari dropped out of high school to become a mangaka assistant. She had wanted to become a manga artist since she was little.
Yokoyari made her debut in 2009 with Maken H Zemi!, which was published in Magazine WOoooo! and later collected as part of the Mokkai Shiyo? compilation.
After contributing regularly to the magazine, she was invited by a Futabasha editor to draw a series for one its magazines. It would materialize as Haruwaka, Yokoyari's first serialization work.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Yôsuke Kuroda was born on 29 March 1968 in Mie, Japan. He is a writer and actor, known for My Hero Academia (2016), Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (2018) and Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2010).- Hyôe Enoki was born on 1 March 1928 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for The Last Dinosaur (1977), Yomigaeru kinrô (1979) and Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963).
- Natsuki Okamoto was born on 13 September 1989 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Cell Phone Investigator 7 (2008), Gomen (2002) and Subete wa umi ni naru (2010).
- Animation Department
- Director
- Art Department
Futoshi Higashide was born on 13 July 1966 in Ise, Mie, Japan. He is a director, known for Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), Samurai 7 (2004) and Batman: Gotham Knight (2008).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Die was born on 20 December 1974 in Mie, Japan. He is an actor, known for Dir en Grey: Obscure (2003), Dir en Grey: Jealous (1998) and Dir en Grey: I'll (1998).- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Toshiyuki Mizutani was born on 10 January 1955 in Kawagoe, Mie, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Raped with Eyes: Daydream (1982), Hikinige Family (1992) and Ryôshoku OL okasu (1982).- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Director
Chisako Yokoyama was born in Mie, Japan. He is known for Repo Men (2010), Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005).- Izumi Matsuoka was born on 9 February 1980 in Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Shoplifters (2018), After the Storm (2016) and Missing (2021).
- Masayo Kurata was born on 21 May 1969 in Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Love Hina (2000), Active Raid (2016) and s-CRY-ed (2001).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hitoshi Ueki was born on 25 February 1927 in Mie, Japan. He was an actor, known for Ran (1985), Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986) and Only Yesterday (1991). He died on 27 March 2007 in Tokyo, Japan.- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Kazuo Kuroki was born on 10 November 1930 in Matsuzaka, Mie, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for The Face of Jizo (2004), Tomorrow - ashita (1988) and A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002). He died on 12 April 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.- Manabu Ino was born on 7 October 1972 in Mie, Japan. He is an actor, known for I'm Home (2015), Hush! (2001) and Hasen no marisu (1999).
- Director
- Writer
Born 1977 in Mie, Japan. After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under prolific film director Nobuhiko Oobayashi (House). She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film Eye won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film Grandmother won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, The Sakai's Happiness, which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film, The Sakai's Happiness, based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!, which played at the Busan International Film Festival and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee of Japanese producers. Her latest film, You Are a Good Kid, for which she re-teamed with the producer and screenwriter of The Light Shines Only There, will be released in 2015. In addition to films, she also writes and directs commercials and episodes for television.- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Wataru Mimura was born in May 1954 in Mie, Japan. He is a writer and actor, known for Godzilla 2000 (1999), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) and Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992).- Ayaka Ônishi was born on 29 June 1990 in Ise, Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Pending Train (2023), Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2014) and Beauty and the Boy (2015).
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Tsunekazu Ishihara was born on 27 November 1957 in Toba, Mie, Japan. He is a production manager and producer, known for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998) and Super Smash Bros. (1999).- Sayuki Matsumoto was born on 9 December 1985 in Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Chokorêto derinjâ (2017), Hansamu sûtsu (2008) and Lalapipo (2009).
- Yûya Takagawa was born on 8 November 1962 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. He is an actor, known for 13 Assassins (2010), Silk (2007) and Tokyo Sonata (2008).
- Writer
- Director
Taijirô Tamura was born on 30 November 1911 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Nikutai no mon (1948), Story of a Prostitute (1965) and Kyo wara renaisu-daiichibu aishuhen dainibu tosohen (1949). He died on 2 November 1983.- Shuto Machino was born on 30 September 1999 in Iga, Mie, Japan.
- Kakumatsuro Arashi was born on 15 May 1878 in Matsusaka, Mie, Japan. He is known for Shibukawa Bangorô (1922), Son'nô jôi (1927) and Hiren shinjugaokâ (I) (1926).
- Mika Hagi was born on 27 September 1983 in Tsu, Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kami no Shizuku (2009), Pro Golfer Hana (2010) and Hoshi no furu oka (2010).
- Yoko Todo was born on 22 September 1948 in Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kamen Rider Super-1 (1980), Sandakan No. 8 (1974) and Oshishousan wa meitantei: Shamisen satsujin jiken (1983).
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Masato Kobayashi was born on 28 October 1973 in Mie, Japan. Masato is a writer and producer, known for Ramen Fever (2021) and Beyond Blood (2018).- Writer
- Actor
Fumio Niwa was born on 22 November 1904 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for Tokyo no josei (1939), Love Letter (1953) and Tokyo no josei (1960). He died on 20 April 2005 in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.- Animation Department
- Director
Kôji Nanke was born in 1952 in Mie, Japan. He is a director, known for Urusei yatsura (1981), Gatchaman The Movie (1978) and Gatchaman (1972).- Ayumi Oka was born on 18 September 1983 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Crows Zero II (2009), Crows Zero (2007) and Sweet Revenge (2021).
- Goseki Kojima was born on 11 November 1928 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. He was a writer, known for Shogun Assassin (1980), Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) and Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972). He died on 5 January 2000 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Actress
- Director
Sumie Sakai was born on 24 November 1971 in Suzuka, Mie, Japan. She is an actress and director, known for Worldwide Dojo Captured Lightning (2021), Ring of Honor Manhattan Mayhem VIII (2018) and WEW Nude Locker Room Mayhem (2006).- Sound Department
- Composer
- Music Department
Kenji Yamamoto was born on 25 April 1964 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is a composer, known for Metroid Prime 3 Remastered, Metroid Prime (2002) and Metroid Prime Remastered (2023).- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Mitsutaka Nakamura was born on 24 October 1972 in Mie, Japan. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Ultimate Target (2000), Dogwood Tree (2010) and Kami no hidarite akuma no migite (2006).- Kouki Okada was born on 4 April 1975 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan.
- Producer
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Hitoshi Yoshikawa was born on 2 May 1978 in Tsu-shi Mie, Japan. He is a producer and writer, known for Anne Jennings (2010), Slit Mouth Woman in LA (2014) and Ordinary Life (2012).- Takuma Asano was born on 10 November 1994 in Komono, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Naoki Segi was born in 1963 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. Naoki is a director and producer, known for Watch with Me: Sotsugyou shiashin (2007), Izure no mori ka aoki um (2004) and Good Luck (2012).- 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).- Yûko Yamamoto was born on 14 August 1974 in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. She is an actress, known for Boys on the Run (2010), Human Comedy in Tokyo (2008) and Good Stripes (2015).
- Kazuo Ozaki was born on 25 December 1899 in Ujiyamada, Prefecture Mie, Japan. He was a writer, known for Mole Alley (1953), Nonki megane (1940) and Tenmeitarô (1951). He was married to Matsueda and Yamabara Matsueda. He died on 31 March 1983 in Japan.
- Director
- Animation Department
- Cinematographer
Taku Furukawa was born on 25 September 1941 in Ueno, Mie, Japan [now Iga, Mie, Japan]. Taku is a director and cinematographer, known for From Heart to Heart (1993), Tarzan (1990) and Tokyo Loop (2006).- Kenji Yuri was born in 1904 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is known for Taiyô no musume (1932), Sâkaeyûku michi (1933) and Furyô shônen no chichi (1934).