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- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Yûgô Sakô was a director and writer, known for Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama (1993). He died on 24 April 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- 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.- Takeo Chii was born on 5 May 1942 in Chiba, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kaigun tokubetsu nenshô-hei (1972), Kita no kuni kara (1981) and Trucker Yaro IX: A 5000 Km Run (1979). He was married to Saori Maki. He died on 29 June 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Umetsugu Inoue was a director of over a hundred films in a wide variety of genres; working with all six major Japanese film production companies over his 35 year career. He was first noticed early on at Nikkatsu Studios for establishing a new genre of high action musical films, charged with the impulsive energy of the young Jazz culture of 1950s Japan. Just after the war, these 'Nikkatsu Action' films created by Inoue, catapulted Yujiro Ishihara into becoming the most popular singing film star in Japan. As a scriptwriter, Inoue wrote 101 screenplays and the original story for five films.- Writer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Zenzô Matsuyama was born on 3 April 1925. Zenzô was a writer and director, known for Happiness of Us Alone (1961), Niji no hashi (1993) and Burari burabura monogatari (1962). Zenzô was married to Hideko Takamine. Zenzô died on 27 August 2016 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Yumi Shirakawa joined Toho when she was just 19, in 1956. By the end of the year, Toho had catapulted the beautiful actress into her first starring role, alongside Kenji Sahara in RODAN (Sora no Daikaiju Radon, 1956). Director Ishiro Honda took a shine to her and cast her in several of his subsequent movies, both science fiction (THE MYSTERIANS, THE H-MAN) and not (INAO-STORY OF AN IRON ARM, THE SCARLET MAN). Shirakawa's innately noble good looks tended to typecast her, and her early roles were either beleaguered victims or patrician ice princesses. One surprising exception was her charming ingenue in THE TELEGRAPHED MAN (aka DENSO NINGEN, 1960). By 1961 however, Shirakawa had attracted the attention of such noted directors as Yasujiro Ozu, who put her into his AUTUMN FOR THE KOBAYAKAWA FAMILY (aka EARLY AUTUMN, 1961). The same year, Shirakawa contributed a nuanced performance as a brave schoolteacher facing the end of the world in SEKAI DAISENSO (aka THE LAST WAR). Although she was married in 1962 (to Hideaki Nitani), unlike many of her contemporaries in Japan, her career did not end with marriage. It continues, mainly in television performances, up through at least the late 1980s.- Yoshiko Tanaka was born on 8 April 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), Black Rain (1989) and Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992). She was married to Kazuo Odate. She died on 21 April 2011 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Kiyohiko Ozaki was born on 1 January 1943 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. He was an actor, known for House (1977), His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) and Akuma no youna aitsu (1975). He died on 31 May 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Eimei Esumi was born on 5 October 1935 in Shimane, Japan. He was an actor, known for Gate of Flesh (1964), Yomigaeru kinrô (1979) and The Flowers and the Angry Waves (1964). He died on 22 August 2004 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Yuzuru Fujimoto was born on 24 September 1935 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Metal Gear Solid: Integral (1999), Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001). He died on 10 June 2019 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Chosuke Ikariya was born in Tokyo in 1931. First a factory worker, he aspired to be an artist. After learning the double bass he managed to become a renowned player of this instrument, performing in various bands, from an amateur Hawaiian music one to a country and western one to the fabulously successful "The Drifters" (from 1962 to 1985). Chosuke Ikariya later became the leader of "The Drifters", giving the band a a slapstick comedy lowbrow humor trend. A very tall person, always prone to antics, he could in no way remained unnoticed, nor was he by talent scouts who detected his acting abilities. Not too sure of his talents, Chosuke Ikariya hesitated but finally tried his luck and soon discovered he was as good an actor as a musician and even won a Japanese Best Supporting Award for his performance of Heihachiro Waku in 'Katsuyuki Motohiro's "Bayside Shakedown" (1998). His most remarkable role though is the Crying Demon who haunts Akira Kurosawa as a young man in his 1990 "Dreams". Ikariya died of cancer in 2004, at the age of 72.
- Ako Kawada died on 25 May 2008 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Kunihiko Kase was born in 1941 in Japan. He was an actor, known for Warui ko atsumare (2021), Sanctuary (1995) and Songs (2007). He was married to Yasuko. He died on 21 April 2015 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- Actress
- Director
Mariko Nonaka was born on 23 May 1927 in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress and director, known for Ultraseven (1967), Matsumoto Seichô no Atsui kûki - Kaseifu wa mita! Fûfu no himitsu 'Kogeta' (1983) and The Long Darkness (1972). She died on 19 January 2014 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.- Takanori Taitô died on 28 June 2012 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Yoshino Sasaki was a producer and production manager, known for Shall We Dance? (1996), Ganbatte ikimasshoi (1998) and Waterboys (2001). She died on 24 September 2009 in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.