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- Japanese film/stage actor Ryohei Suzuki began acting at 18 in a small student theatre while he majored in English at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He started his career as a fashion model but debuted as a professional actor right after graduating. Ryohei played leading roles in the feature film "Swing Me Again (2009) ", and" HK: Hentai Kamen (2013)" but became more famous as a supporting actor in his 20s.
His breakthrough came in 2013. NHK offered him a leading role in the TV series "Hanako to An," which eventually gained a rating of as high as 24%. Ryohei's performance as a caring husband of the heroine was loved by the nation. In 2018, he was cast as the lead in NHK's series "Segodon (2018)", making him one of the most acclaimed and most known actors of his age in Japan.
He won five Best Supporting Actor awards in 2022, including Academy Awards Japan, for his terrifying performance as a sadistic murderer yakuza in the film "Koro no Chi: Level 2 (2022)". He also won the Best Actor in the Asian Contents Awards 2022 in Korea for his performance as a paramedic in TBS's popular series "Tokyo MER (2022)". Its sequel feature film was released in April 2023 and became the number-one live-action film at the domestic box office in the first half of the year, beating out all international films.
In 2023, Ryohei starred in "Egoist (2023)", a feature indie film about a gay couple, which has become a long-run hit in Japan and brought him the Rising Star Award at New York Asian Film Festival and the nomination for Best Actor at Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. In 2023, Ryohei was selected as "the best Japanese actor in their 30s" in a web survey held among the Japanese audience.
In 2024, He starred in the Netflix film "City Hunter (2024)", a live-action of a legendary manga from the 1980s, which became a huge international hit. It stayed number one on Netflix Global Top 10 (film, non-English) for two weeks, bringing him worldwide fame. Ryohei also received the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award at the Asian Cinema Awards 2024 for his dedication to the Asian film industry.
Ryohei is also famous as a voice actor for playing Buzz Lightyear in the Japanese dubbed version of Disney's "Lightyear (2022)".
He is known for his thorough dedication to his roles. In "The Emperor's Cook (2015)" he lost 44 pounds in six months to play a TB patient. And right after it was over, he gained 66 pounds in 40 days for his sturdy, rugged high-school student role in the comedy feature "Ore Monogatari (2015)". After returning to his regular physique, he gained his weight again, up to 220 pounds in "Segodon (2018)," to embody the actual historical person.
Ryohei is fluent in English. He went to a high school in Oklahoma from 1998 to 1999. - When Mana was 3, her mom thought her becoming an actress would be fun & guided her into the vocation. Her 1st role came in 2009. She was in the TV show Mother on Nippon Television Network Corporation in 2010. The director was looking for a 7-year-old & was reluctant to audition a 5-year old, but things changed when they met, adjusting the script to suit her. She appeared in a historical drama in 2011. She was given the lead role in the serial Sayonara Bokutachi No Youchien ('Good-bye Our Kindergarten') in 2011, which made her at age six the youngest lead actress in Japanese TV history. She appeared in Marumo No Okite ('Marumo's Rule') & also sang the serial's theme song, Maru Maru Mori Mori. It became a Top 10 hit. Next, she became 1 of the Rookie Of The Year Award winners at the 34th Japan Academy Awards for her work in the movie Ghost. She also branched out into voice-over for foreign films' dub into Japanese. She became the youngest person to win Japan's Blue Ribbon Award. She was also the host for the talk-show Meringue No Kimochi in 2011, thus becoming the youngest talk or variety show hostess ever in Japan. She signed w/ Universal Music, debuting a single & an album, supporting her music career by giving concerts in 2012. She was also in the Hollywood movie Pacific Rim. She had earlier become the winner of Celebrity Kids Edition of the Japanese version of the contest Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
She's an avid reader & rides a unicycle. It's said that she could read by 4 & would read 60 books a month, starting from kindergarten. Her fans call her Mana-chan. She's represented by JobbyKids agency. - Tsutsumi Shinichi is known primarily as a stage actor. It appears after Yamato nadeshiko (2000) he has gained much attention in Japan, though his performance in _"Pure" (1996)_, in 1996, garnered good attention for his sensitive portrayal of the orphaned journalist Sawatari Toru. Tsutsumi trained for the stage with the theatre project Tokyo in the early '90s after leaving the JAC where he had met his mentors, 'Hiroyuki Ada' and Tamasaburô Bandô, through whom he drew much inspiration. At the JAC, he had started out with the intent of learning how to play action roles, of which we still see much of in his wonderful film roles for the actor/director Sabu, but his destiny has since unfolded to deliver more of this talented, unassuming and sincere actor through his sensitive and detailed acting style. Tsutsumi struggled to find his path in his teens, skipping school before returning to complete his high school out of a sense duty and filial piety to his mother. At 18 he left to join the JAC Kyoto, and at 20, he finally arrived in Tokyo to join the JAC branch there. Life was difficult and he worked at other jobs but by 1990 he had joined the theatre project Tokyo, and there met David Leveaux, with whom he trained and honed his skills as an actor. The 1990s was a prolific decade in the theatre for him and aside from the TPT, he worked also with Hideki Noda - their latest collaboration was in June 2001 for the play sakura no mori. At present he is starring in Koi no chikara (2002). Tsutsumi works alongside his close and long time associate and friend Eri Fukatsu. In May, Tsutsumi will move on to his next work, a stage performance in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which will be directed by the acclaimed Yukio Ninagawa . Later this year, his next film with Sabu, Doraibu (2002), will be released. in it, he plays a salaryman who is kidnapped by a bunch of bank robbers. Tsutsumi Shinichi is a classically trained actor who has brought his considerable talent to bear in his stage, drama and film roles, but more than all this is his sense of professionalism - his will to create, through being a part of the ensemble, the beauty of the work as a whole. Mldesu.
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- Soundtrack
Hideo Ishikawa was born on 13 December 1969 in Nishinomiya, Japan. He is an actor, known for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005), Naruto (2002) and Kamen Rider Movie War Mega Max: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO (2011).- Actress
- Producer
Norika is a Japanese beauty queen, model, and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in many commercials, TV shows, and films in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. She has also acted in a couple international films as well. She was the voice for Princess Fiona in the Japanese-dubbed versions of Shrek 1 and Shrek 2.
After several years of model and acting work, she has since worked internationally as a journalist and spokesperson, including acting as an ambassador for the Japanese - Korean friendship during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, reporting from the 2004 Olympics in Greece, and going to Afghanistan and holding a photo exhibition there. She was also appointed as one of Japan's ambassador for the Red Cross and goes on missions around the world to support people in need.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Born in Japan in 1930, Shogoro Nishimura joined Nikkatsu Studios in 1954, and was first promoted to director in 1963 with the well-received Keirinshô ningyô jôki. He spent the rest of that decade directing Nikkatsu programmers of varying quality. With the 1970s came the studio's shift to making exclusively soft-core "Roman porno" films (usually more story-driven and elaborate than their Western counterparts). Rather than look for work elsewhere, Nishimura found this to be a genre which agreed with him: by the time of his retirement, he had completed fully 83 films in that.- Masaki Terasoma was born on 8 May 1962 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Black (1987), Kamen Rider Den-O (2007) and Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen (2012).
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Yoshihiro Kawasaki was born on 15 October 1948 in Nishinomiya, Hyôgo, Japan. He is a director and assistant director, known for Ulin Monogatari - Jemin Y To S (1983), College Girl: The Spot (1981) and Hell in a Bottle (1986).- Akira Tozawa was born on 22 July 1985 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. He is an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE: 205 Live (2016) and WWE NXT (2010).
- Hidenori Inoue, Bass, hails from Himeji, Japan.
In 2017-18 he debuted the role of Timur in Turandot and covered the role of Méphistophéles in Faust with Tulsa Opera. Most recently he sang Makoto Kobayashi in the east coast premiere of Jack Perla's An American Dream and the Baron in La Traviata with Opera Maine. He was also heard as Padre Guardiano and the Marquis in Verdi's La forza del destino with New Amsterdam Opera, and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with New York City's ARE Opera.
2018-19 engagements include the roles of Leporello and Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Opera Steamboat, the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with Virginia Opera and Opera Omaha, a reprise of his role in An American Dream at Anchorage Opera, a return to Tulsa Opera as the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, a role debut as Sarastro in The Magic Flute with Opera Maine and North Carolina Opera, and yet another Commendatore with Penscola Opera. He debuted with the Spartansburg Symphony as bass soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and will be heard in the same work with the York Symphony in 2020.
In 2016-2017, Hidenori sang the title role of Don Pasquale with the Manhattan School of Music, Pistola in Falstaff with the Italian La Musica Lirica, Benoit and Alcindoro in Puccini's La Bohème with International Vocal Arts Institute, and Barbemuche in Leoncavallo's La Bohème. Voce di Meche lauded Inoue's "deeply resonant" and "flawless" performance as Don Magnifico in 2017, writing: "In this wide range of emotion and behavior, there was not a false note, not vocally, not dramatically." In 2016, Inoue performed Monstre Cathos in Jacques Ibert's Persée et Andromède with the Manhattan School of Music. Hailed as "the smoky-voiced bass" by the New York Times and "assertive" by Opera News, this performance was listed in The New York Times as one of the Top 10 Vocal Performances of 2016.
Mr. Inoue holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. - Writer
- Director
- Soundtrack
Masaya Ozaki was born on 17 April 1960 in Nishinomiya, Hyôgo, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Her Sketchbook (2017), Randebû! (2010) and Ikisudama (2001). He is married to Benio Saeki.- Ryutaro Okada was born on 27 December 1993 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Zero-One (2019), Kamen Rider Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Vulcan & Valkyrie (2021) and Kamen Rider Zero-One: Real×Time (2020).
- Tarô Suruga was born on 5 June 1978 in Nishinomiya, Japan. He is an actor, known for The Fighter Pilot (2013), Hard Days (2023) and Arakawa Andâ Za Burijji (2010).
- Director
- Animation Department
- Art Department
Azuma Tani was born on 27 June 1973 in Nishinomiya, Hyôgo, Japan. Azuma is a director, known for Haiyoru! Nyaruani: Remember My Mr. Lovecraft (2010), Transformers: Cybertron (2005) and Hill Climb Girl (2014).- Kenji Takaoka was born on 4 August 1949 in Nishinomiya, Japan. He is an actor, known for Aka chôchin (1974), Virgin Blues (1974) and Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1974).
- Atom Shukugawa was born on 22 December 1979 in Nishinomiya, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ôoku: Tanjô - Arikoto · Iemitsu-hen (2012), A Fading Summer (2015) and Hello, We Love You (2016).
- Minami Koike was born on 14 November 1998 in Nishinomiya, Japan. She is an actress, known for Zankoku na kankyakutachi (2017), Who Killed Daigorô Tokuyama? (2016) and Bokutachi no Uso to Shinjitsu: Documentary of Keyakizaka 46 (2020).
- Suzuha Yamane was born on 11 August 2000 in Nishinomiya, Japan.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hirofumi Suzuki was born on 3 November 1998 in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Avataro Sentai Donbrothers (2022), Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger (2023) and Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Donbrothers (2024).- Rena Inoue was born on 17 October 1976 in Nishinomiya, Japan. She has been married to John Baldwin since 2018. They have one child.
- Rika Kihira was born on 21 July 2002 in Nishinomiya, Japan.
- Haru Kakiuchi was born on 18 April 2006 in Nishinomiya, Japan.
- So Taguchi was born on 2 July 1969 in Nishinomiya, Japan.
- Ayumi Shibayama was born on 26 February 2008 in Nishinomiya, Japan.
- Additional Crew
Akira Tonomura was born on 25 April 1942 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Akira is known for A Night with the Stars (2011). Akira died on 2 May 2012 in Japan.