Japanese film
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...
directed by
Sō Kuramoto
, better known by his pen name , is a Japanese playwright and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Tokyo on 21 December 1934. He attended Azabu High School and studied aesthetics at Tokyo University. He then found work at Nippon Broadcasting S ...
Tetsuya Watari
born (December 28, 1941 – August 10, 2020) was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor.
Life
He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosu ...
*
Kunie Tanaka
was a Japanese actor. Tanaka first made a name for himself as the lecherous antagonist of the ''Wakadaishō'' series (1961–1981) of films. He is also well-known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the '' Battles Without Hono ...
*
Hideo Murota
was a Japanese actor who specialized in playing villains and tough guys. In 1957, he signed a contract with Toei Studio and appeared in over 1000 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in '' Shi ...
*
Minori Terada
is a Japanese voice actor and actor.
Life and career
Terada was born in Tokyo, as first son of Masaaki Terada, a famous painter. In 1961, Terada begun to be an actor.
Terada is known as a villain, such as Alien Metron in ''Ultraman Max'', an ...
*
Masumi Okada
was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was th ...
*
Toshiyuki Nagashima
is a Japanese actor. He won the award for Best Newcomer at the 3rd Hochi Film Awards for '' Kaerazaru hibi'' and for Best Actor at the 6th Hochi Film Awards for '' Enrai''.
Selected filmography Film
*'' Kaerazaru hibi'' (1978)
*''Third Base'' ...
*
Eri Ishida
is a Japanese people, Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for ''Chōchin (film), Chōchin'' and at the 13th Hochi Film Award for ''A Chaos of Flowers'', ''Hope and Pain'' and ''Wutheri ...
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.
The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanes ...
Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day.
It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''.
...