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- Writer
- Director
- Art Director
Kaneto Shindô was born on 22 April 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Naked Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on 29 May 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.- Ichirô Nagai was born on 10 May 1931 in Ikeda, Japan. He was an actor, known for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Ninja Scroll (1993) and Vampire Hunter D (1985). He was married to Ayako. He died on 27 January 2014 in Hiroshima, Japan.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Tadao Nakamaru was born on 31 March 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for The Sword of Doom (1966), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Chushingura (1962). He died on 23 April 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan.- Transportation Department
- Actor
Born in 1888 and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, Toraichi Kono immigrated to the U.S. around 1906 to study law and become a lawyer. In 1916, when Charles Chaplin was recruiting a trusty for his secretary, Kono applied for the position and immediately obtained it. Chaplin hired the Japanese allegedly because the cane, one of the trademarks of the Little Tramp character Chaplin played, was made in Japan. During the next 18 years, Kono was Chaplin's right-hand butler both in his public and private life. As a result, strongly impressed and admired by Kono's trustful job performances, Chaplin visited Japan 4 times in his lifetime (1932, twice in 1936, 1961). However, their close relationship with trust ended in 1934 when Kono reproached Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's 3rd wife, for being a spendthrift. It made Chaplin angry and made him dismiss Kono after 18 years as his butler. As Kono, 1-year older than his boss, was thinking of returning home to Japan, Chaplin appointed him as the chief manager of the United Artists Japan. According to Kono himself, Chaplin visited him one day at his house and appeared to be eager to have him back, but Kono declined. Not fitting in the new position as well as the old one, Kono came back to Los Angeles and worked as a lawyer. Toraichi Kono died in his home Hiroshima, Japan in 1971 at age 83.- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Keiji Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, Japan in1939. His father was opposed to Japan being involved in a war that they would lose and that it was a reckless war. But when he was six years old, the first nuclear weapon "" has detonated above his home of Hiroshima, killing his father sister, and little brother. He and his mother had to struggle for survival in the chaotic aftermath. Even the most basic information on radiation and it's effects were classified until 1957 and those who were victims had to hide their origins, or face discrimination, as many outsiders thought they carried disease or even a curse.
Keiji became an artist in Tokyo, publishing his first work in 1963, his first creations being boys' adventure stories such as "Spark One" and "Space Giraffe". But in 1966 he rushed home for his mother's funeral and was angered by the fact that there were so few bone fragments left of his mother's cremated remains. When he had dug his father and siblings out of the ruins, their skulls were in tact, so he felt that in his mother's case, the bomb had deprived her of even her bones, after surviving 21 years on. He vowed never to endure wars and atomic bombs, returned to Tokyo and risked pariah status by openly discussing his experiences of the bomb and then writing of them, with the first of his "Black" series, "Beneath The Black Rain".
In 1972 the boys' magazine "Shonen Jump" began running stories about the lives of manga artists, Keiji used it as a platform to publish "I Saw It", an account of Hiroshima, which eventually formed the opening chapters of his ten-volume series "Hadashi no Gen" (aka Barefoot Gen). It was published at the height of the cold war and shortly after student demonstrations over Japan's "Security Treaty" with the US. Large publishers had previously refused to publish it out of fear of finding themselves on CIA blacklists. The family saga was not completed until 1987.
Later volumes (two of which became the basis for Barefoot Gen 2 (1986) detail the attempts of the survivors to stay alive in the ruins and were told in a cartoon-ish style that was popular in comics in the 1970s. A group of Americans including Jared Cook and Frederik L. Schodt acquired copies of Barefoot Gen and began "Project Gen". The group was formed by a group of students from Japan, USA and Russian that sought to translate the manga series into several languages and distribute them worldwide as an attempt to spread an anti war/nuclear weapons message. The story was also adapted into live action films (the first of which won Best Screenplay at the Czech Film Festival in 1977) and two animated versions. Keiji is credited as screenwriter for the 1st anime, but had no direct involvement in the 2nd.
Keiji went on to write many more manga, including some more that involved the Japanese experience surrounding the second world war, such as "Okonomi Ha-chan" which was turned into a live action movie (Okonomi Hatchan (1999)), with Keiji writing and directing.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tetsuya Yamanouchi was born on 20 July 1934 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for The Ninja Hunt (1964), Zenigata Heiji (1966) and Mei shan shou qi guai (1973). He died on 2 April 2010 in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Akiko Futaba was born on 2 February 1915 in Hiroshima, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo no josei (1939), Akatsuki no Kyushu (1951) and Lover's Duet (1939). She died on 16 August 2011 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.- Mitsuharu Misawa was born on 18 June 1962 in Koshiyaga, Japan. He was an actor, known for AWA: WrestleRock (1986), Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup (1986) and Muhito (2005). He died on 13 June 2008 in Hiroshima, Japan.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Seiji Yokoyama was born on 17 March 1935 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a composer, known for Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (1995), Chogattai majutsu robot Ginguiser (1977) and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (1982). He died on 8 July 2017 in Sera, Hiroshima, Japan.- Sunao Tsuboi was born on 5 May 1921 in Hiroshima, Japan. He died on 24 October 2021 in Hiroshima, Japan.
- Suzuko Numata died on 12 July 2011 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
- Sadao Maruyama was born on 31 May 1901 in Ehime, Japan. He was an actor, known for Wakaki sugata (1943), Alps taishô (1934) and The Opium War (1943). He died on 16 August 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan.