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Takahiro Miki was born on 29 August 1974 in Tokushima, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Drawing Closer (2024), Love Me, Love Me Not (2020) and The Door Into Summer (2021).- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Aki Toyosaki was born on 28 October 1986 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for K-On! (2009), K-On! The Movie (2011) and Re: Creators (2017).- Atsuhiro Inukai was born on 13 June 1994 in Tokushima, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Build (2017), Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: True Ending (2017) and Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Final: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders (2017).
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- Director
- Art Department
Kunihiko Ikuhara was born on 21 December 1964 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Yurikuma Arashi (2015), Mawaru-Penguindrum (2011) and Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997).- Music Artist
- Music Department
- Actor
Kenshi Yonezu was born on 10 March 1991 in Tokushima, Japan. He is a music artist and actor, known for My Hero Academia (2016), Chainsaw Man (2022) and The Boy and the Heron (2023).- Rio Yamashita was born on 10 October 1992 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Gannibal (2022), Zenryoku! Kurînâzu (2022) and Mahô tsukai ni taisetsu na koto (2008).
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- Producer
Sachi Hamano aka Sachiko Hamano and Chise Matoba, is a Japanese film director . She is the most prolific pink film director and written about.
Sachi Hamano was born in Tokushima prefecture in March 1948. While in high school, she decided that she wanted to become a film director. She studied photography for a time at university in Tokyo, then started working in film industry.
Although the film industry was male-dominated and reluctant to hire a female director, Hamano was able to begin working as an assistant director at independent studios starting in 1968. Early in her career, on the advice of film producers, Hamano dropped the feminine "ko" ending of her name, Sachiko. She also used the name Chise Matoba to direct the credits. She worked for a while at Kôji Wakamatsu Wakamatsu's Wakamatsu Pro, then for other major pink film directors, including Genji Nakamura. She made her directorial debut in 1971, with Million Film in Jûnana-sai, sukisuki-zoku (1972) (17-Year-Old Free Love Tribe).
With the goal of making films from a woman's perspective, in 1984, Hamano founded her own film production company, Tantansha. As a producer and director, she has released more than 300 films. For ENK, Hamano filmed the gay pinku eiga Honô no otokotachi (1990) in 1990. Her 1997 film, Pin-saro byôin: Nô-pan hakui (1997), received an Honorable Mention at the Pink Grand Prix. In 1998, with the financial support of over 12,000 donations from women all over Japan, she made the film Dai-nana kankai hoko: Osaki Midori o sagashite (1998) , based on the author's life and work, Midori Osaki. The film received the Amari Hayashi Award at the 2000 Japanese Independent Film Festival.
In 2001 she filmed Lily Festival (2001), based on Hôko Momotani's novel about sexuality among the elderly. The film received the award for Best Film at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 2003. In 2006, Hamano returned to Hôko Momotani, filming Kohorogi-jô (2007), based on another of her novels. Hamano published her autobiography, When a Woman Makes a Film in 2005.- Masashi Ikeda was born on 13 December 1999 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (2023), Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Donbrothers (2024) and Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger (2024).
- Actress
- Music Department
Nanami Yamashita was born on 19 July 1995 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Darling in the Franxx (2018), High School Fleet (2016) and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village (2023).- Chihiro Ohtsuka was born on 12 March 1986 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Dark Water (2002) and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003). She has been married to Kôsuke Suzuki since 7 October 2015.
- Hiroko Mima was born on 5 December 1986 in Tokushima, Japan.
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- Director
- Cinematographer
Kôsuke Mukai was born on 17 January 1977 in Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan. Kôsuke is a writer and director, known for A Man (2022), Linda Linda Linda (2005) and No One's Ark (2003).- Takako Kitagawa was born on 24 August 1955 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan (1981), Ultraman: Tiga (1996) and Bakuhatsu! Nana-han zoku (1976).
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Norihito Sumitomo was born on 27 February 1964 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan. He is a composer, known for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013), Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) and Howaitoauto (2000).- Satoshi Tomiura was born on 15 May 1991 in Tokushima, Japan. He is an actor, known for Taiyô no kizu (2006), The Projects (2016) and Someday (2011).
- Kazuhiko Kishino was born on 14 February 1934 in Tokushima, Japan. He was an actor, known for Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004), Kinnikuman (1983) and Wicked City (1987). He died on 22 February 2020.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Angela Aki, born September 1977 in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku is a Japanese singer and songwriter. In 2005 she was announced as the singer of Final Fantasy XII theme song, Kiss Me Good-Bye. Angela Aki is completely bilingual in English and Japanese, as she was raised in Japan and moved to Hawaii at the age of sixteen. She originally released an Indies album in the USA in 2000, called These Words, which gained a lot of critical acclaim. Five years later in Japan, she released an Indies mini-album under Virgo Music entitled ONE, which is what alerted Nobuo Uematsu to her music. Angela Aki is now signed under Sony Japan.- Actor
- Director
Kensuke Shinzaki was born on 2 December 1966 in Tokushima, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWF Superstars (1986) and WWF Action Zone (1994).- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Tetsuichirô Tsuta was born on 29 June 1984 in Ikeda, Tokushima, Japan [now Miyoshi, Tokushima, Japan]. Tetsuichirô is a director and writer, known for The Tale of Iya (2013), Yume no Shima (2009) and Tsuta kantoku: Kôkô yakyû wo kaeta otoko no shinjitsu (2016).- Composer
- Cinematographer
- Soundtrack
Minoru Miki was born on 16 March 1930 in Tokushima, Japan. Minoru was a composer and cinematographer, known for In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Karate, the Hand of Death (1961) and Ninomiya Sontoku no shonen jidai (1957). Minoru died on 8 December 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.- Writer
- Production Manager
Shigeru Yokota was born on 14 November 1932 in Tokushima, Japan. He was a writer and production manager, known for Megumi (2008), Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006) and Megumi (2008). He was married to Sakie Yokota. He died on 5 June 2020 in Kawasaki, Japan.- Kiyomi Tanigawa was born on 12 December 1967 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress, known for Summer Wars (2009), The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Asuka (1999).
- Actress
- Production Designer
Kimiko Koyama was born on 27 January 1979 in Tokushima, Japan. She is an actress and production designer, known for YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World (1996), Reideen (2007) and Negima!? Magister Negi Magi (2006).- Alexander Ohtsuka was born on 17 July 1971 in Tokushima, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ryû ga gotoku: Gekijô-ban (2007), Tokyo Yamimushi Part II (2013) and Yarukkya naito (2015).
- T-Stone was born in 1999 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for T-Stone: Iu (2022), T-Stone feat. Chico Carlito: Hitotsu no yoru (2022) and T-Stone feat. Watson: Star (2023).