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- An actor's actor whose versatility allows him to deftly assume a wide range of characters, Shiina's first true breakthrough performance was in the 1993 film Nûdo no yoru (1993) opposite 'Jinpachi Netzu'. His portrayal of a young yakuza enamored with his boss led to a Best New Actor Award at the 9th Takasaki Film Festival. Since then Shiina has kept busy with regular roles in television dramas, further filling out his burgeoning filmography with lead film roles and the infrequent return to his roots in live theater.
Shiina has largely managed to keep his private life private, which is quite a feat in a country with particularly overzealous paparazzi. The actor declines to talk much about himself in interviews, citing that his personal life is largely irrelevant for audiences that should be occupied with his characters instead. According to an interview with Yomiuri Shinbun, however, we do know that he was once quite the soccer player, with presumably enough talent to match his aspirations to play in Japan's professional league. When he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, though, he fell in love with acting and that was that. Also, according to the folks at his artist management firm, Humanite, he's talented in the boxing ring.
For those who do want little smidgens of insight from the usually private actor, he does have his own personal homepage (www.kippei.net). It is pretty bare bones and unpolished, with only occasional notes from the man himself, but these days it's fun to see a website that's not overproduced or pretentious. - Director
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Taku Furukawa was born on 25 September 1941 in Ueno, Mie, Japan [now Iga, Mie, Japan]. Taku is a director and cinematographer, known for From Heart to Heart (1993), Tarzan (1990) and Tokyo Loop (2006).- Director
- Writer
Born 1977 in Mie, Japan. After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under prolific film director Nobuhiko Oobayashi (House). She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film Eye won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film Grandmother won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, The Sakai's Happiness, which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film, The Sakai's Happiness, based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!, which played at the Busan International Film Festival and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee of Japanese producers. Her latest film, You Are a Good Kid, for which she re-teamed with the producer and screenwriter of The Light Shines Only There, will be released in 2015. In addition to films, she also writes and directs commercials and episodes for television.- Shuto Machino was born on 30 September 1999 in Iga, Mie, Japan.
- Takeru Nakanishi was born on 11 April 2001 in Iga, Japan.
- Marin Yamamoto was born on 11 June 1997 in Iga, Japan.