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Mifune in 1939. Toshiro Mifune was born on April 1, 1920, in Seitō, Japanese-occupied Shandong (present-day Qingdao, China), the eldest son of Tokuzo and Sen Mifune. [12] His father Tokuzo was a trade merchant and photographer who ran a photography business in Qingdao and Yingkou, and was originally the son of a physician from Kawauchi, Akita Prefecture. [13]
Hiroyuki Sanada (Japanese: 真田 広之; né Shimozawa; born 12 October 1960) [1] is a Japanese actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Japan Academy Film Prize, two Hochi Film Awards, a Mainichi Film Award, three Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, four Kinema Junpo Awards, and honors from the Yokohama Film Festival.
Koichi Ose (大瀬 康一, Ōse Kōichi, born October 27, 1937), born as Kazunari Ōse (大瀬 一靉, Ōse Kazunari) [1] is a Japanese actor famous for his lead role as Samurai swordsman Akikusa Shintaro in The Samurai (TV series). This series made a huge impact when shown in Australia in 1965. He worked in television from 1958 to 1972 after ...
Nemuri Kyoshirō, the master of the Engetsu ("Full Moon Cut") sword style, was a wandering "lone wolf" warrior plagued by the fact that he was fathered in less than honorable circumstance by a "fallen" Portuguese priest who had turned to worshipping Satan and a Japanese noblewoman whom the "fallen" priest had seduced and raped as part of a Black Mass and who had committed suicide after ...
Shinichi Chiba (Japanese: 千葉 真一, Hepburn: Chiba Shin'ichi, born Sadaho Maeda; 22 January 1939 – 19 August 2021), known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. [4] Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later to an international ...
Tanaka Giichi (1864–1929) Prime Minister of Japan; Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong actor and martial artist; Okita Sōji (1842–1868) The captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period; Matsuda Yusaku (1949–1989) One of Japan's most important actors
Arino Shinya; Daiki Arioka; Goro Inagaki; Hamaguchi Masaru; Hamada Asahi; Hikaru Yaotome; Hiroki Uchi; Jin Akanishi; Jun Matsumoto; Junnosuke Taguchi; Junichi Okada
This is a list of Japanese actors who have their own Wikipedia articles. Note: All names must be written in standard [given name] + [family name] order and arranged ...