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Katsuyuki Konishi was born on 21 April 1973 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Gurren Lagann (2007), Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle (2011) and Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998).- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Japanese director/writer/actor whose often kinetic, cyberpunk style is much imitated. He expressed appreciation over the similarity of the international hit German film "Run Lola Run" (1998) to his first film as a director/writer, "Dangan Runner" (1996). When asked at the Chicago International Film Festival to recommend a film school, the black leather-jacketed Tanaka replied (via translator) "I've written and directed 5 award-winning movies and I didn't go to film school - so you shouldn't have to either !" At international film festivals, enjoys having his picture taken with audience members.
Acted in at least 5 films, before his first as director/writer. Acted in 1 movie each by cult auteurs Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse (2001), aka Pulse) and Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive trilogy, Ishi the Killer). Has mostly used his birth name Hiroyuki Tanaka as an actor, often portraying cold-blooded gangsters, while mostly uses the name Sabu as director/writer.
His own films often involve yakuza and black comedy, but recent films are more stylistically diverse. Also wrote and directed "A1012K," a short science-fiction film (2002), about a robot gone berserk in a shopping mall. Older members of Japanese superstar pop/boy band V6 have appeared in several of Tanaka's movies.- Animation Department
- Director
- Writer
Kôji Morimoto was born on 26 December 1959 in Wakayama, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for The Animatrix (2003), Akira (1988) and Genius Party Beyond (2008). He is married to Atsuko Fukushima.- Stunts
- Actor
- Producer
Most recognized for his role as the host of MTV's hit show "Silent Library" and his part as the Yakuza weapons expert on Spike's "Deadliest Warrior". Zero was raised on Maui, Hawai'i after his parents moved there shortly after his birth in Japan. He grew up there for 20 years then moved to O'ahu where he lived for 4 years. After giving himself a deadline to leave, he moved to Los Angeles in 2007.
Apart from his career as an actor and stuntman, Zero is a capable director, dp and editor and has made over 50 videos/reels/short films since 2010.- Actress
- Soundtrack
The Tokyo-born Tabe Mikako, who has two older brothers, is an actress with roles on stage and the big and small screens. She began her career in 2002 at the age of thirteen by signing with a management office. She took up the role of Marina Moon in the Sailor Moon musicals. She was in movies by 2005 and garnered her first award for her role in Hinokio for which she won Newcomer Of The Year by the Japan Movie Critics and Blue Ribbon Awards. This role, featuring a robot, likely remains her more famous one although Fish Story has become a minor cult film since release. Like most Japanese celebrities she has done advertising for products like chips, chocolate, cider, etc. Makiko likes the colour pink, watching movies and jazz. She has stated that she would like to be married by age 30 and has been rumoured to have dated Masato Sakai (now married) and Kengo Kora (who was also in Fish Story) among others. She is handled by Hirata Office.- Naoki Tatsuta was born on 8 September 1950 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013), Anime san jushi (1987) and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (2005).
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yukio Noda was born on 2 February 1935 in Gobô, Wakayama, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Gangster Cop (1970), Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) and Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977). He died on 27 August 1997 in Japan.- Takashi Nagasako was born on 24 February 1964 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998) and Perfect Blue (1997).
- Masaki Miura was born on 16 November 1975 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for The Outsider (2018), Outrage (2010) and Another (2012). He has been married to Ai Sasamine since 11 January 2012. They have one child.
- Writer
- Animation Department
- Actor
Lynn Okamoto is a Japanese mangaka and the author of manga series such as "Elfen Lied" and "Brynhildr in the Darkness". While he was a student, Okamoto worked for Arc Work Systems on a part-time job basis and participated in the development of various TV/Windows games based on the Sailor Moon series. After graduating, he joined Bandai, and while there, continued to take part in game development, but this time he helped plan puzzle games for Sailor Moon. Although it was his dream occupation since his high school days, Okamoto gave up on it when he graduated from university. He later resigned from Bandai at the age of 28 in order to become a professional manga writer, another dream of his.
He is known to be an intensely private individual. Residing in Tokyo, Japan, he is the creator, and artist for the Elfen Lied Manga series and was a consultant on its anime adaptation.
He made his debut into the manga world in January 2000 with his first short story manga titled "Elfen Lied," which bears almost no connection with his 2002-2005 work, Elfen Lied. He says that the first "Elfen Lied," a tsundere type of love story about young musicians, is the only manga he wrote before becoming professional.
His other major works include Nononono (2007-2010), a romantic drama about ski jumping, and Brynhildr in the Darkness (2012-2016), a spiritual successor to Elfen Lied that focuses on Norse Mythology. The only one of his stories not illustrated by him as well is Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joou (2012), which was drawn by Mengo Yokoyari. Previously, all of his works have begun their serialization in Shueisha's seinen magazine Weekly Young Jump. However, his current work, Parallel Paradise, began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine starting in 2017.
He also wrote a short story called MOL which seems to have served as a prototype story to both Elfen Lied and Brynhildr in the Darkness, focusing on a boy who came across a girl who was being experimented on. It is unknown when it was exactly made but it has his really early 2000s art style before his art evolved later on and was officially published a year after Elfen Lied finished.- Rei Okamoto was born on 18 June 1991 in Wakayama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World (2008), The Ramen Girl (2008) and Ooku (2023).
- Takashi Okabe was born on 22 June 1972 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Zero-One (2019), In Love and Deep Water (2023) and Cursed in Love (2020).
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Yôichi Higashi was born on 14 November 1934 in Wakayama, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Village of Dreams (1996), Third Base (1978) and The River with No Bridge (1992).- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Kazuo Umezu was born on 3 September 1936 in Koyasan, Wakayama, Japan. He is a writer and actor, known for Mother (2014), The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) and Drifting School (1995).- Yasushi Fuchikami was born on 30 April 1984 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for The Outsider (2018), Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon (2014) and Erased (2016).
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Hyde was the guitarist in another band when he was "recruited" by Tetsuya in 1991 to form the band L'Arc~en~Ciel. Since then, Hyde became the main lyricist of the band, although he also composes music for the band, and for his solo work. In his solo work, Hyde started with singles such as "evergreen", "angel's tale" and "shallow sleep" in 2001, and then he released his first solo album "roentgen". This album was released with lyrics in Japanese and another album with lyrics in English. After that, Hyde released "666", an album with more rock sounds rather than the mellow ones on "roentgen". In 2005 he re-initiated his solo career with the album "faith" and a tour that went even to the U.S. In 2008, Hyde in his solo work from L'Arc~en~Ciel, formed the band "VAMPS" with K.A.Z., releasing a collection of singles and two albums to this date, the band also went on tour in 6 countries, including for the first time a Latin American Country.- Yoshikazu Takeuchi was born on 27 February 1955 in Wakayama, Japan. He is a writer, known for Perfect Blue (1997), Perfect Blue (2024) and Manga Entertainment: The Art of Anime (2005).
- Nenji Kobayashi was born on 7 February 1943 in Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Railroad Man (1999), The Twilight Samurai (2002) and The Drifting Classroom (1987).
- Kôji Ishii was born on 1 July 1960 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011), Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle (2011) and Gatchaman (1994).
- Yûko Aoki was born on 30 June 1963 in Wakayama, Japan. She is an actress, known for High Noon Ripper (1984), Mitsu ni nureru onna (1984) and Hakui chokyo (1986).
- Junpei Mizobata was born on 14 June 1989 in Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Akai ito (2008), Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge (2006) and Hurricane Polymar (2017).
- Yutaka Fujioka was born on 19 June 1927 in Wakayama, Japan. Yutaka was a producer and writer, known for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985) and Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (1978). Yutaka died on 30 March 1996.
- Yuzumi Shintani was born on 20 July 2003 in Wakayama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Isekai Izakaya, Nobu (2020), One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022) and Farewell Song (2019).
- Sanma Akashiya was born on 1 July 1955 in Kushimoto, Wakayama, Japan. He is an actor and producer, known for Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! (1985), Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021) and Tanba Tetsurô no daireikai 2: Shindara odoroita!! (1990).
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Animation Department
Seitarô Kitayama was born on 3 March 1888 in Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Nogi shôgun Aa, Nogi Taîsyo (1918), Taro Urashima (1918) and Chokin no susume (1917). He died on 13 February 1945 in Takaishi, Osaka, Japan.