Major Mashiba is an intelligence officer with Japan's Imperial Guard. Together with First Lieutenant Koizumi and Master Sergeant Mochizuki, Mashiba attempts to execute secret orders to hide the treasures from the occupying forces of Douglas MacArthur in the hopes of funding the nation's reconstruction at some point in the future.
Out of necessity, 20 young schoolgirls are enlisted to help with the mission without being informed of the details.
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On April 2, 2013, he married actress Kanno Miho. After co-starring in the film “Ooku~ Eien~ [Emonnosuke・Tsukayoshi Hen]” (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) last December, Sakai and Kanno grew closer and with Sakai’s strong approach, they began dating seriously after the film was released.
They had their first son in August of 2015. On December 4, 2018 they announced the birth of their second child, a baby girl.
He joined Tanabe Agency in 1999. On January 5, 2023 it was announced that he has has left the agency", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/E1kgm_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aso Kumiko", "alternateName": "麻生久美子", "birthDate": "June 17, 1978", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kumiko Aso is a Japanese actress who was born in Sanbu-gun, Chiba, Japan.
She married stylist Iga Daisuke in 2007, and their daughter was born in 2012. She welcomed her second child, a boy, on November 15, 2016.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/2wQ2lV_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fukushi Seiji", "alternateName": "福士誠治", "birthDate": "June 3, 1983", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Fukushi Seiji is a Japanese actor. He was born on June 3, 1983, in Kanagawa Prefecture. He debuted onscreen in 2001 and his first TV role was in the Fuji TV drama Long Love Letters. He's currently represented by talent agency Imai Office.
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He has been active as an actor since the 70ies.
(Source: Nipponcinema)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/B063qc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nakamura Shido II", "alternateName": "二代目中村獅童", "birthDate": "September 14, 1972", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Born in Tokyo, the son of Kabuki actor Nakamura Shido I, young Nakamura made his Kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shido the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor was in his first film, Ping Pong (2002), in which he portrayed a skin-headed, demonically intense table-tennis champion nicknamed Dragon. His film debut won "Best Newcomer Award" at the 2003 Japanese Academy Awards. Since then, Nakamura has starred in a string of high-profile movies as well as TV dramas.
Nakamura came to international attention in 2004 after starring in the highly successful romance movie Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (Be With You) with Yuko Takeuchi, the two stars playing a couple separated by death. The two married for a short time after filming was complete, from May 10, 2005, until they divorced on February 29, 2008. WIth Takeuchi Yuko, he had a son born in November 2005. Takeuchi had custody of his first child after the divorce. In January 2015, he remarried a general woman whom he had been dating since 2010. His second son was born in December 2017, and the third one in June 2020.
In the Hong Kong/China martial arts movie Fearless starring international kung fu star Jet Li, and set in 1910s Imperial China, Nakamura plays a Japanese sword expert who is Jet Li's final opponent. He also has a choice role in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima.
Nakamura is the voice of Yoshitaka Mine, Chairman of the Hakuho Clan in Yakuza 3 (released in Japan as Like a Dragon 3 (龍が如く3 "Ryū ga Gotoku 3"?).", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/eYy6nn_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maro Akaji", "alternateName": "麿赤兒", "birthDate": "February 23, 1943", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Maro Akaji is a Japanese actor, butoh dancer, and director born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the founder of the avant-garde butoh group Dai Rakuda-kan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Camel Arts.
His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro was entrusted to his uncle and aunt who lived at the foot of Mount Miwa in Sakurai, Nara, Japan, when he was in fifth grade. Around this time, he was hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis, where he was influenced by another patient in the same room and became interested in literature and theater.
He graduated from Nara Prefectural Unebi High School and dropped out of the Philosophy Department of the First Faculty of Literature at Waseda University. During middle and high school, he was a member of the drama club and performed in plays. He joined the theater group "Budou no Kai", but became disenchanted with the political discussions of the upper echelons of the group and left. He then studied under the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi.
In June 1964, he joined the theater group "Jokyo Gekijo". He left the theater group in 1970. In 1972, he founded and directed his own butoh group, "Dai Rakuda-kan".
In 2006, he became an advisor to the Japan Outdoor Journalists Association and a visiting professor at the Ando Momofuku Memorial Nature Experience Activity Instructor Training Center.
His eldest son is film director Omori Tatsushi, and his second son is actor Omori Nao.
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