He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/EBA4p_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shimura Takashi", "alternateName": "志村喬", "birthDate": "March 12, 1905", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936).
In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa and he appeared in 21 of Kurosawa's 30 films. His roles include the doctor in Drunken Angel (1948), the veteran detective in Stray Dog (1949), the flawed lawyer in Scandal (1950), the woodcutter in Rashomon (1950), the mortally ill bureaucrat in Ikiru (1952), and the lead samurai Kambei in Seven Samurai (1954).
In fact, Kurosawa's cinematic collaboration with Shimura, from 1943 to 1980, started earlier and lasted longer than his work with Mifune (1948–65). Shimura appeared in the director's debut film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), and the last film of Kurosawa's in which he acted was Kagemusha (1980), for which Kurosawa specifically wrote a part for Shimura. However, the scene was cut from the Western release and so many did not know that he had been part of the film. The DVD release of the film by The Criterion Collection restored Shimura's footage.
Outside of his career working with Kurosawa, Shimura is probably best known for his roles in several Japanese monster films, including the scientist Kyohei Yamane in the first two Godzilla films (and the first to reprise the role before Raymond Burr in the English form of Godzilla and Megumi Odaka in the Heisei Godzilla films).
Shimura died on February 11, 1982 in Tokyo, Japan, from emphysema at the age of 76. (wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/X0poJ_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Okada Eiji", "alternateName": "岡田英次", "birthDate": "June 13, 1920", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.
Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second-billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American.
Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theater company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/qYgkXd_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kayama Yuzo", "alternateName": "加山雄三", "birthDate": "April 11, 1937", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese affluence and confidence, most famously in his title role in the 17 original "Young Guy" movies for his father's home studio, Toho.
A popular singer as well as an actor, Kayama specialized in romantic comedies that encouraged him to break spontaneously into song, as showcased even in movies where he wasn't playing the Young Guy, such as "Oyome ni Oide" (1966). Though like his father, he also starred in some of Toho's war films, and crime and action thrillers, such as his debut "Otoko tai Otoko" (1960), he largely bypassed serious dramas until Akira Kurosawa tapped him for the lead alongside 'Toshiro Mifune' in Barberousse (1965), the two-year shoot of which Kayama found the most difficult experience of his life, but which also yielded the work of which he is proudest.
Other than a single return to the Young Guy character, "Kaettekita Wakadaisho" (1981), ten years after leaving the series, Kayama, also like his father, in later years moved towards playing a series of kindly authority figures, while still maintaining his romantic appeal to nostalgic audiences with musical appearances on the stage and on television.
He has overcome many challenges during his long life - the burning down of his ship 'Mitsunori Maru' as well as suffering a compression fracture in his hip, a stroke, and a cerebral hemorrhage.
On June 21, 2022, he announced that he would retire from stage after his concert aboard the luxury liner Asuka II in December 2022.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/ZYN5J_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aoki Yoshiro", "alternateName": "青木義朗", "birthDate": "September 20, 1929", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "He was also in Tora Tora Tora!", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/d0WzPW_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Namisato Tatsuhiko", "alternateName": "波里達彦", "birthDate": "", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/dnOQd_5c.jpg" } ], "director": [ ]
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