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Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.
In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball. Although the manga was never completed, it is regarded as a milestone in Otomo's career as it contained many of the same themes he would explore in his later. In 1982, Otomo made his anime debut, working as character designer for the animated film Harmagedon. The next year, Otomo began work on a manga which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira. It took eight years to complete and would eventually culminate in 2000 pages of artwork. While the serialization of Akira was taking place, Otomo decided to animate it into a feature film, although the manga was yet to be finished. In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.
Otomo became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013.- Writer
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Having received his education at Yokohama National University, Shunji Iwai started out in the entertainment industry by directing music videos and television dramas, including the likes of Maria, Lunatic Love and Fireworks, for which he received the award for Best Newcomer from the Japanese Director's Association. He eventually moved onto larger things with his short film Undo (1994), later followed by the hit Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) starring Japanese pop singer, Chara.
As his career progressed, he received even more awards, especially for his films Love Letter (1995) and All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) (All About Lily Chou-Chou). Shunji Iwai resides in Japan.- Kanata Hongô was born on 15 November 1990 in Miyagi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Returner (2002), Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) and Attack on Titan Part 1 (2015).
- Hirohiko Araki was born on 7 June 1960 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He is a writer, known for Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2019), Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020) and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (2022).
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Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu was born on 14 December 1946 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Entrails of a Virgin (1986), Modaete nurete (1981) and Rabbit sex: Joshigakusei shûdan bôkô jiken (1980).- Director
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The pioneering Kôji Wakamatsu (born Ito Takashi) was a contemporary of Oshima Nagisa and equally controversial, yet not as famous. The man was born in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Japan before dropping out of agricultural school, some say following a physical altercation, moving to Tokyo at age seventeen, joining the yakuza and landing in prison for a year as a consequence. While with the yakuza he would work for the mob collecting payments on film sets among other thuggery. Upon release and following odd jobs he became an assistant to a film director and eventually make his own pink film erotic feature called Sweet Trap in 1963. Twenty or so films, including several acclaimed ones for Nikkatsu Studio, later he created his own Wakamatsu production where he and crew would push back against norms by shooting softcore pink features, violent movies, left-wing resistance cuts and even internationally bent movies on topics like the oppression of the Palestinian nation and the Japanese underground. His efforts would take him to events like the Berlin Film Festival - occasionally to the annoyance of the official motion picture association of Japan - and have him work with other avant-garde directors like the aforementioned Oshima. He would also be blacklisted by foreign governments like the United States, which imposed a travel ban on him. Both he and the mainstream moved closer to one another eventually and before his death in a car accident where he was hit by a taxi in 2012 several of his films had garnered mainstream interest and miscellaneous Japanese and foreign awards. At the time of his death he was returning from a meeting regarding his latest project, which concerned Japan's nuclear industry lobby and the Tokyo-based TEPCO company. The topical subject matter followed on the heels of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.- Kyôka Suzuki was born on 31 May 1968 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Sukedachi-ya Sukeroku (2001), The Kiyosu Conference (2013) and Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989).
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Takashi Ishii was born on 11 July 1946 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Original Sin (1992), Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend (2013) and Gonin Saga (2015). He died on 22 May 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.- Writer
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Kankurô Kudô was born on 19 July 1970 in Miyagi, Japan. He is a writer and actor, known for Go (2001), Too Young to Die! Wakakushite shinu (2016) and Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san (2005).- Shuntarô Yanagi was born on 16 May 1991 in Miyagi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Alice in Borderland (2020), Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I - The Final (2021) and New Nobunaga Chronicle: High School is a Battlefield (2022).
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Mika Doi was born on 4 August 1956 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984), One Piece (1999) and Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982).- Makoto Togashi was born on 5 June 1973 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Cure (1997), Memories of Matsuko (2006) and Inugami (2001).
- Isshin Chiba was born on 26 June 1968 in Miyagi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Project X Zone (2012), Cowboy Bebop (1998) and .hack//SIGN (2002).
- Sôjin Kamiyama was born on 30 January 1884 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. He was an actor, known for Seven Samurai (1954), The Crimson City (1928) and The Sea Beast (1926). He was married to Ura Mita. He died on 28 July 1954 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Tamaki Komiyama was born on 10 March 1948 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Fighting Elegy (1966), Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974) and Female Prisoner 101: Sexual Hell (1976).
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Mayo Suzukaze was born on 11 September 1960 in Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Rurouni Kenshin (1996), Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal (1999) and J-Stars Victory VS (2014). She was previously married to Kiyoshi Imaizumi.- Cinematographer
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Yasuyuki Sasaki was born in 1980 in Miyagi, Japan. He is a cinematographer, known for Cloud (2024), Strangers (2024) and Solaris (2007).- Actor
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Ayumu Nakajima was born on 7 October 1988 in Miyagi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), Shigatsu ni nareba kanojo wa (2024) and Omimi ni aimashitara. (2021).- Minako Ogawa was born on 4 March 1962 in Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress.
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Kôji Miura was born on 28 March 1995 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She is a writer, known for Blue Box (2024).- Kaoru Hirata was born on 15 December 1989 in Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012), Mahou Sentai Magiranger (2005) and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011).
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Tôru Yuri was born on 13 May 1921 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. He was an actor, known for Zenka onna: Koroshi-bushi (1973), Kureji no daiboken (1965) and Konto Gojugo-go: Uchu daibôken (1969). He died on 20 May 1999.- Erika Mori was born on 4 October 1988 in Miyagi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kamen Rider Hibiki (2005), Kamen Rider: The Next (2007) and My Cactus (2016).
- Yoshitaka Yamaya was born on 15 February 1992 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Aldnoah.Zero (2014), Afterlost: Where I End and You Begin (2019) and Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023).
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Kiyono Yasuno was born on 9 July 1989 in Toda, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Parasyte: The Maxim (2014), No. 6 (2011) and Gekijouban Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!! (2021).