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Ikko Furuya
Born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Itabashi High School , he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Chuo University. While in college, he started his acting life after completing the 16th generation of Haiyuza Training School. Since 1977, he has consistently played the role of Kosuke Kindaichi , the main character in the "Seiji Yokomizo Series /Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series"; for 25 years from 1982 to 2007, he played the role of Sakon Taro, the main character of the "Mixed bathing open- air bath serial murder " series in "Saturday Wide Theater", and became a hit again. The eldest son is Kenji Furuya , the vocalist of Dragon Ash . His father Furuya appeared in TVCF for Dragon Ash's album " Viva La Revolution " ( 1999 ), and father and son co-starred in the movie "Letters" ( 2003 ), which Furuya starred in and produced.
Nao Osada
Nao Osada is a Tokyo based artist whose practice employs printmaking, photography, video and found material to create sculptural and installation based work.
Kurando Mitsutake
Kurando Mitsutake is from Tokyo. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Japan, the Japan Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild of America. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Graduate School of Film. He lives in the United States of America.
Mako Hyodo
Cast · Known for Aquarion
Mako Hyoudou is a Tokyo-born actress and voice talent. She debuted at 14 as a model for the cosmetic maker Shiseido.
Masaya Kakehi
Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha 's Chiba Tetsuya Award . In college, he completed two independent films, including “Scrap” and “Haraise”. Both were selected for the Yubari Film Festival . Enrolled in a video production company for a period after graduating from university, earning full-fledged CG and video editing related technologies. After leaving the company, he worked mainly on motion graphics and animation . In 2003, the independent movie “ Beauty Can ” was announced. The third challenge, Yubari Film Festival 03 Off Theater Division Grand Prix, other Pia Film Festival 03 Planning Award, Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival 03 Kadokawa Off Theater Competition Grand Prix, etc. The award will be used as a whole, and will be linked to the 2004 theater release. In 2005, he made a self-remake of “ Beauty Can ” starring Satoshi Tsumabuki in “The World's Strange Story '05 Spring Special Edition” . In 2006, he wrote the novel “Beauty Can”. In 2008, the short film “ Ross: Time: Life ” , which was previously produced as an independent work , will be made into an omnibus series drama on Fuji TV. He participated as a draft, general director and director. He also made a feature film director debut for theatrical performance in “ Sweet Rain Grim Reaper Accuracy ” slightly ahead of this
Harumi Shuhama
Japanese actress born in Tokyo who belongs to Avex Management. Most well known for her roll as Nao in the One Cut Of The Dead franchise
Sayaka Kanda
Born in Tokyo in 1986. While attending school in Los Angeles in 1999, she appeared in the short film "Bean Cake" directed by David Greenspan. The film won the Palme d'Or (highest award) for short films at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in 2001. She debuted as SAYAKA in 2001. Since then, she has attracted attention for her work in the commercial "Ice no Mi," the theme song for the drama "ever since," the heroine of the movie "Dragon Head," and the stage play "INTO THE WOODS." Since then, she has been active in commercials, movies, dramas, stage plays, and musicals, focusing on her singing career, and in December 2006, she changed her stage name from SAYAKA to her real name, Sayaka Kanda. Since then, she has been active mainly in stage plays and musicals. She has performed in hit productions such as "The Tale of Murasaki Shikibu," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Woman in White," "Dream Person," "Grease," "Les Miserables," "She Loves Me," "Gekidan Shinkansen Rose and Samurai ~ GoemonRock OverDrive," "Peter Pan," and "The Fantasticks." She is currently attracting a lot of attention as a talented actress.
Minosuke
Born 1965 in Tokyo, Minosuke (みのすけ) is a Japanese actor and musician.
Yuri Tsunematsu
Cast · Known for Alice in Borderland
She was born in Tokyo on October 9th, 1998 and began her career - a small role at age six aside - at age nine in the WOWOW satellite channel's Soratobu Taiya mini-serial. She has been active ever since on both the small and large screens including in scene-stealing performances in Have A Song On Your Lips and Before We Vanish. She has also done voice acting, appeared in music videos and jumped into the corporate commercial realm and pushed vitamins, noodles, MOS Burger and more. Not bad for a girl who worried her parents at a very young age for being too shy. Yuri is signed to the Amuse talent agency.
Hairi Katagiri
Born in Tokyo, 1963. Graduated from Seikei University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Literature. Started acting while working part-time at the Ginza Bunka Cinema, movie theater. Since the 1980’s, she has broadened her appearances to include television and film but mainly on the stage. In recent years, she has appeared on many stage performances directed by Suzuki Matsuo and Shūji Onodera. In TV dramas she has many diverse roles including an “Ama-san” (Sea woman), a teacher, and a scientist. In addition to her acting, she still volunteers sometimes in Kineka Omori, a local movie theater, as a ticket taker. Her latest films are ”Kinema no Kamisama” (release date: August 6th, 2021) and "Koi no Manazashi" (release year: 2021).
Ayako Kobayashi
Cast · Known for Oshin
Born 1972 in Tokyo, Ayako Kobayashi (小林綾子) is a Japanese actress. She became widely known for playing the main character in the 1983-84 NHK drama Oshin.
Rino Katase
Born 1957 in Tokyo, Rino Katase (かたせ梨乃) is a Japanese actress.
Kaito Ishikawa
Cast · Known for Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out, Haikyu!!, My Happy Marriage
Kaito Ishikawa is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. He is affiliated with Stay Luck (previously with Pro-Fit). He's the husband of voice actor Uchida Maaya.
Kotaro Tanaka
Cast · Known for Shape of My Heart
Tanaka Kotaro is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He belongs to Stardust Promotion. In 2000, he made his acting debut in the drama "Heisei Meoto Jawan: Dokechi no Hanamichi." His first movie appearance was in 2001 in the movie "Waterboys." Tanaka won the 42nd New Actor Award of the Television Drama Academy Awards for the TBS drama "Sekai no Chushin de, Ai o Sakebu" in 2004. (Source: chunyu at MyDramaList)
Kohsuke Meguro
Kohsuke Meguro was born in Tokyo on January 31, 1954. He is an actor, known for Reign: The Conqueror (1997), Knights of the Zodiac (1986), Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1989-1997), and Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984).
Isamu Tanonaka
Cast · Known for Dr. Slump
was a Japanese voice actor from Taitō, Tokyo. He was best known for voicing Medama Oyaji in nearly every adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō made during his lifetime. During his life he had been attached to Gekidan Tōgei and then Theatre Echo; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. He had a naturally deep voice but became famous for voicing characters with a high pitched voice. In addition to GeGeGe no Kitarō, he also had prominent roles in Tensai Bakabon (as the first voice of Honkan-san), Mazinger Z (as Mucha), Paul's Miraculous Adventure (as Doppe), Magical Princess Minky Momo (as Sindbook), Akuma-kun (as Youaltepuztli), Dr. Slump & Arale-chan (as Gara and Akira Toriyama), Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken (as Brass), and the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series (as Igor).
Maaya Kondo
Maaya Kondo is an actress born in Tokyo, Japan known for starring in several works such as Confessions, School Girl Complex, and more. She also has starred in the TV Drama Suzuki Sensei.
Naoki Takeshi
2.5 stage actor from Tokyo
Toshie Negishi
Toshie Negishi (born 3 February 1954 in Tokyo, Japan) is an actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Toshie Negishi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Saki Nakajima
Cast · Known for Duel Masters
Japanese voice actress affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. Her major roles include Chizuru Honshou in Bleach and Mimi Tasogare in Duel Masters. She is known as Ikawa Hazuki and Hanataba Fuukei when doing voice acting for adult games and anime.
Manami Hara
Manami Hara was born and raised in Tokyo Japan. She became fascinated with Western theatre and the English language and at the age of 18, left Japan home to become a stage actor in North America. She moved to Vancouver, took ESL classes and graduated from Studio 58, a two-year conservatory Theatre Arts program at Langara College. As an Asian actor in the early 1990s, she was given rare opportunities to play roles such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Carousel Theatre) and Miranda in The Tempest (Globe Theatre). As a young actor, working with Ruby Slippers on creating Herotica and Herotica 2 triggered a desire to develop and produce her own original art. ’Then,’ as Hara says, ‘came motherhood. I retired from the stage to care for my young family and I found myself losing my identity. My heart screamed and longed to live and breathe Theatre. So I began writing my first play at 2am in the morning when the house went dead quiet. Since then, my artistic path has lead me to be more than what I dreamed of. I am a playwright, a producer, an interpreter and a translator. I seek to explore creative and collaborative process where we take risks, fail, succeed, discover, grow and celebrate our artistry.’ Hara’s passion to teach youth the process of theatre making, acting and storytelling has grown over the years. She runs a drama program for youth called Acting Shmacting of which she says, ’It’s rewarding to witness young artists empowering themselves to become self-assured, creative and ensemble team players.’ Here is a list of companies Hara has had the privilege of working with over the years: Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Boca del Lupo, Presentation House Theatre, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre, The Frank Theatre, Small Wooden Shoe, Gateway Theatre, Pi Theatre, Rumble Productions, The Vancouver Playhouse, Yayoi Movement Theatre, Theatre Replacement, On the Board, One Yellow Rabbit, The Grand Theatre, Touchstone theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Arts Club, NAC, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, La Luna Productions, NeWorld Theatre, The Firehall Arts Centre.
Masako Miyaji
Masako Miyaji is an actress from Tokyo, Japan. She belongs to K-factory. She is 157 cm tall, weighs 48 kg, and has type A blood. Graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Drama Department, Acting Cours.
Vincent Montuel
Vincent was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He attended an American school there. He worked in theater, film and TV in France before studying in the UK and moving to the US.
Ryo Ryusei
Cast · Known for Vivant
Ryo Ryusei is a Japanese actor from Tokyo Metropolis. His hobbies include playing soccer and basketball, and is excellent in high jump. He debuted in 2010 and currently works under the talent agency KEN-ON. He is known for portraying Daigo Kiryu/(Kyoryu Red) in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger as well as his ancestor Moshinosuke Iwaizumi. In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: 100 YEARS AFTER, he portrayed Dai-kun, Daigo's great-great grandson.