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Chieko Nakakita

**Chieko Nakakita** (中北千枝子, *Nakakita Chieko*, birth name: *Chieko Tanaka* (田中千枝子), May 21, 1926 - September 13, 2005) is a Japanese actress and wife of film producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. She joined Toho after finishing high school in 1944, and appeared in Akira Kurosawa’s One Wonderful Sunday in 1947. She also appeared in a supporting role in several films by Mikio Naruse. Nakakita is best known to sci-fi fans as the grieving mother in the very beginning of Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966) and as a mother desperately trying to reunite with her daughter towards the end of The Last War (1961). One Wonderful Sunday was Nakakita's favorite film to be ever appeared with Isao Numazaki.

## Career

Born in Tokyo in 1926, Nakakita joined Toho in 1944 after graduating from the Japan Film School. In the same year, she made her first film debut in "Nichijō no tatakahi" (directed by Yasujiro Shimazu). In the late 1940s, Nakakita both starred in Kurosawa's One Wonderful Sunday in 1947 as Yuzo' fiancée Masako and Shirō Toyoda's My Love is Beyond The Mountains where she plays as a devoted nurse to the doctor who is a wife who plays the role of Yoshi Ikebe at the Kanmura clinic and suffers from the conflict between personal love and professional ethics. After that, she appeared mainly appeared in Mikio Naruse's films such as "Repast", "Floating Clouds" and "Nagareru". She was also popular as "Nissei's Auntie" in the Nippon Life commercials and advertisement, which appeared from 1969 to 1986. During the 1980s, Nakakita made a special appearance as an insurer in "Tora-san's Song of Love" in 1983.

In addition, starting around 2009, several versions of the Trygroup Inc., which used video from the crime drama "Tokusou saizensen" which once appeared as a guest, have been shown. She passed away at her home in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo on September 13, 2005 from an acute myocardial infarction at the age of 79.
Enver Altenbay

**Enver Altenbay** (エンベル・アルテンバイ, *Enberu arutenbai*, April 12, 1925 - November 21, 2004) is a Turkish actor who appears in numerous Japanese films and television shows. His grandson is Komatsu Emeru who later became a writer and a novelist. Enver speaks several languages such as English, Turkish, Russian, German, and a bit of Japanese. He played the foreign characters from European diplomats, ambassadors, gangsters, henchman/minions, agents, military personnel, scientist, cowboy, law enforcement and other minor roles.
Ryō Ikebe

**Ryō Ikebe** (池部 良, Ikebe Ryō, February 11, 1918 – October 8, 2010) was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Rikkyō University and originally wanted to be a director, but ended up debuting as an actor at Tōhō in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s. He expanded his acting range in the 1950s, while still frequently appearing in genre films, such as Tōhō tokusatsu films and yakuza films at Tōei. He was also known as an essayist. On October 8, 2010, he died of blood poisoning at the old age of 92, making him the oldest actor survived in the 20th century.

## Life & Career

Ikebe originally aspired to be a director, but by the time he graduated from film school in 1941 the war time effort had put a damper on the film industry and there was no vacancy for assistant directors. He managed to land some small acting roles before he was drafted in the Imperial Japanese Army and deployed to China during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. In 1944 his transport ship was sunk by US bombers and he swam for 10 hours before being rescued by the navy. After the war he was undecided on whether or not to continue pursuing a career in film, but was persuaded to do so by director Kon Ichikawa.

Throughout the 40s and 50s Ikebe appeared in dramas, romances, and gangster films, and he became well-known for his handsome appearance. In 1965 Ikebe became president of the Japan Actors Guild, at which time he dealt with a gun-running scandal involving actors and yakuza. He left Toho that same year and founded his own production company, but the venture quickly floundered and left him in debt. Fellow actor Ken Takakura lured Ikebe into co-starring in the Remnants of Chilvalry in the Showa Era yakuza film series, which became an immense hit and restored Ikebe’s fortunes, and was something of a renaissance for the actor’s later career. Ikebe is best known to sci-fi fans as the young scientist leading the charge in Battle in Outer Space (1959). He played a similar role in 1977’s War in Space, which was styled as a loose sequel to the 1959 original.
Jidaigeki

**Jidaigeki** (時代劇, "period drama") is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. Jidaigeki show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. Jidaigeki films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of jidaigeki. Jidaigeki rely on an established set of dramatic conventions including the use of makeup, language, catchphrases, and plotlines.
Sachiko Chiba

**Sachiko Chiba** (千葉早智子, *Chiba Sachiko*, February 16, 1911 - October 22, 1993) is a former Japanese actress and Mikio Naruse's ex-wife. She was the first film actress to be starred in PCL/Photo Chemical Laboratories (later Toho) movies. Her real name was Tsuruko Chiba (千葉鶴子,*Chiba Tsuruko*).

## Sachiko Chiba

### Genre

Opera
feature film (modern / historical drama, talkie)

### Active content

P.C.L. Movie Factory → Toho (1933)
Retired in 1943

### Well known

Intoxicated Life (1933)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
The Girl in the Rumour (1935)

Sachiko Chiba was born to an upper-class family as Tsuruko Chiba. She learnt to play koto and other musical instruments growing up and even travelled to the United States Of America to showcase her skills with the former instruments. Most directors treated her kindly, except Mikio Naruse, who at one point on the set of Tsuma Yo Bara No Yô Ni even made her cry. Women being what they are she ended up marrying the man who put her acting down less than two years later. Her mother asked Naruse to join her family as opposed to the other way around. Moreover, due to differences in classes and a clash between Chiba's mother and Naruse the differences continued and culminated in a divorce. Naruse, nonetheless, suggested they remarry if Chiba's mother dies. In the meanwhile, acquiescing to her mother's wishes she quit the acting profession and instead managed a high-end restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo called Kicchouso.

## Filmography

* Sakebu Ajia (1933)
* Ongaku kigeki horoyoi jinsei (1933)
* Junjô no miyako (1933)
* Sakura Ondo - namida no haha (1934)
* Odoriko nikki (1934)
* Enoken's Story of a Young, Drunken Tiger (1934)
* Arupusu taishô (1934)
* Kinu no dorogutsu (1935)
* The Actress and the Poet (1935)
* Rajio no joou (1935)
* Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
* Tokai no kaii shichi-ji san-pun (1935)
* The Girl in the Rumour (1935)
* Kyukon san-jyush (1936)
* Wagahai wa neko de aru (1936)
* Man of the House (1936)
* The Road I Travel with You (1936)
* Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
* Tokyo rapusodei (1936)
* Sengoku guntô-den - Dai ichibu: Toraôkami (1937)
* Sengoku guntô-den - Dai nibu: Akatsuki no zenshin (1937)
* Seishun butai (1937)
* Otto no teiso - haru kitareba (1937)
* A Husband's Chastity: Fall Once Again (1937)
* Rônin fubuki (1939)
* Onna no kyôshitsu - Gakkô no maki: Nanatsu no omokage (1939)
* Onna no kyôshitsu - Chû-kôhen (1939)
* Sono zen'ya (1939)
* Niizuma kagami: Kôhen (1940)
* Okumura Ioko (1940)
* Hasegawa Roppa no Iemitsu to Hikoza (1941)
* Shirasagi (1941)
* Otoko no hanamichi (1941)
* Midori no daichi (1942)
* Haha no chizu (1942)
* Watashi no uguisu (1944)
Takashi Tsuboshima

**Takashi Tsuboshima** (坪島孝, *Tsuboshima Takashi*, April 13, 1928 - August 12, 2007) is a Japanese film director. He is known for directing numerous comedy action and musical films. His most well-known movie would be the 1974 heist comedy film, *Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy*, which was based on Monkey Punch's original manga and the first live action movie based on the character, Arsene Lupin III.

## Career

Tsuboshima attended the Waseda University Faculty of Commerce in 1952. While attending the university, he watched all kinds of movies, both Japanese and Western, and aspired to become a film director. He joined Toho when he graduated from university in 1956. However, at that time, Toho had stopped officially hiring assistant directors due to the Toho Dispute and so he was assigned to acting affairs (a person in charge of paying dividends to actors). After three years of acting affairs, he became an assistant director in 1955 and studied under Kajiro Yamamoto, Yasuki Chiba, Jun Fukuda and others.

In 1963, Tsuboshima became director after directing his first feature film, *Bet on Life at the Moment*, which starring Yosuke Natsuki and Yuriko Hoshi. He also directed Crazy Cats films such as *Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin*, which became Toho's dollar box program at that time. Tsuboshima would work under Kengo Furusawa in many movies.

In Crazy Cats comedy movies, he directed many films that was a bit different from Furusawa, with a lot of wit and fine gag. Starring space alien entrepreneur Kei Tani in *Kureji da yo: kisôtengai* (1966), Crazy Casts member dancing in the streets of Las Vegas in *Kureji ogon sakusen* (1967) and other latter projects during his time as a director. His representative works included the absurd comedy *Kiki kaikai ore wa dareda?!* (1969), which was warming up the project.

During his career, Tsuboshima created the so-called program pictures in succession, but in addition to crazy movies, the comedy-touch action work *International Secret Police: Keg of Gunpowder* (1964) starring Tatsuya Mihashi and the suspense drama "*Ai no Kizuna*" (1969) based on Seicho Matsumoto's original novel. He has left a fine work such as. Around 1968, he established "Jack Production" with Yasuo Tanami, Ei Ogawa, Tsugunobu Kotani and others. In addition to the subsequent films, he directed TV dramas and commercials, and produced events.

He died of lung adenocarcinoma on August 12, 2007 at the age of 79.
Akiko Wakabayashi

**Akiko Wakabayashi** (若林映子, *Wakabayashi Akiko*, December 13, 1939) is a retired Japanese actress. She played an active part mainly in Toho movies. Aiko's real name is the same and was named after she was born around the time when the evening glow increased.

## Akiko Wakabayashi

### Genres

Drama films
(historical / contemporary drama, special effects films, talkies)
TV dramas

## Career

Akiko Wakabayashi was born on December 13, 1939 in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. During her work in movies, she became one of Japan's most popular actresses of their cinema's "Golden Age", ranking with actresses Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama. One of her first films was Akiko (1961), which was named after her. Interestingly, the movie title shares both her real and character names. Her career took off when she came to Toho Studios

, appearing in a host of sci-fi films, including that of the sexy gangster moll in Dogora (1964) and the bewitching alien-possessed princess in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964). However, in the Western Cinema, she is probably best-known for her role as Bond girl "Aki" in the 007 epic, You Only Live Twice (1967), appearing alongside actor Sean Connery. When production of the 007 film began, Wakabayashi was originally chosen to play Bond girl "Kissy Suzuki" and her co-star, Mie Hama, is to play Bond girl "Suki". As Hama had a difficult time mastering the English language, the two actresses switched roles. In addition, Wakabayashi suggested her character name be Aki instead of Suki.

In the late 1960s to early 1970s, Japan's movie industry experienced an economic slump, which resulted in severe budget cuts. During that time, Wakabayashi made a rather abrupt end to her acting career, and has never been seen on the big screen since. Whether or not the economic slump played a factor, Wakabayashi remains one of the most memorable actresses of Japan, especially to Toho Studios' sci-fi fandom.
Shiro Toyoda

**Shirō Toyoda** (豊田 四郎, *Toyoda Shirō*, January 3, 1906 – November 13, 1977) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter & occasional actor.

## Shiro Toyoda

### Occupation

Director
Writer
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

### Years active

1925-1976

After bypassing university studies to join Shochiku in 1924, Shiro Toyoda began directing at a relatively young age, starting out with silent films in his native Kyoto in 1929. In 1937, Toyoda moved to Tokyo, where he scored his first major success with Wakai hito (Young Person). After joining Toho, he accepted a number of different kinds of assignments, but remained best known for stately literary adaptations such as Yukiguni (1957). Like many Toho directors, he also turned his hand to special effects extravaganza (Byaku fugin no yoren, 1956) and the occasional ghost story (Yotsuya Kaidan, 1968).

## Career

Born in Kyoto, Toyoda moved to Tokyo in his teens and began studying under the pioneering film director Eizō Tanaka. He joined Shōchiku's Kamata studio in 1924 and worked as an assistant director under Yasujirō Shimazu. He debuted as a director in 1929 and moved to the independent Tokyo Hassei studio in 1935, where he scored a hit with Young People and gained a reputation for directing literary adaptations with a humanistic touch. After a slump during World War II, he became one of the top directors at Toho (into which Tokyo Hassei had merged during the war), famed for his adaptations of literary works by such giants as Yasunari Kawabata, Kafū Nagai, Naoya Shiga, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Masuji Ibuse, and Ango Sakaguchi. He was particularly known for portraying weak men and strong women with a humorous touch, such as in films like Meoto zenzai (1955). His career continued until the 1970s.
Ed Keane

**Ed Keane** (エド・キーン, *Edo kīn*, April 17, 1913; Quebec, Canada - November 19, 1986; Chicago, Illinois {age 73} ) is a Canadian-born American actor who starred in many Japanese films as a police chief, criminal mastermind, and mafia boss. Sometimes he appeared in American movies. His Americanization name was **Edwin Melvin Keane**.

## Career

Born in Quebec to a French immigrant family, Keane study agriculture at the Ste-Foy Elementary School. In 1920, the family moved to Custer, South Dakota after their plantations are failing.As Keane attended at Custer High School, he joined the stage club and made his first appearance on stage in many William Shakespeare's plays. When he was 18, Keane joined the Rapid City Journal where he delivery newspapers around the neighborhood after graduation high school. In 1937, Keane moved to Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, to which he got an acting degree.

After finishing up at the university, Keane met Hilary Evelyn (1918-2004), an artist and latter a professional painter. The two married in 1942 and had two children, Duncan (1944-) & Claire (1946-). In 1946, Keane land a job at Universal Pictures and the family moved to New York where Keane became an actor for 16 films. Then in 1950, Keane Family visits Japan on a vacation when Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka met him and cast as a foreigner. From 1957 to 1969, Keane appered in many films for other studios like Toei, Toho and Shochiku. After they moved back to the state in 1971, Keane continued acting for other projects until retiring in 1974.

During the 1970s and 80s, Keane would do some hobbies like fishing with his son, camp outside of the house and wrote stories. Keane passed away in 1986 from myocardial infarction. He is survived by his children.
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

***Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts*** (乙女ごころ三人姉妹, *Otome-gokoro - Sannin-shimai*) is a 1935 Japanese drama film created by Toho Company Ltd., and was the company's first movie. The film was released to Japanese theaters on March 1, 1935. The movie was directed and written by Mikio Naruse and based on a original story by Yasunari Kawabata.

## Plot:

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different characters, variously become involved in the world of criminals, sacrifice themselves and find love.

## Staffs:

* Director & Screenwriter: Mikio Naruse
* Based on: 1911 short story "Asakusa no shimai" by Yasunari Kawabata
* Composer & Musical Director: Kyôsuke Kami
* Cinematography: Hiroshi Suzuki
* Editor: Kôichi Iwashita
* Decoration: Kazuo Kubo
* Assistant Director: Ishirō Honda
* Sound Recordist: Koichi Sugii

## Casts:

* Chikako Hosokawa as O-Ren
* Masako Tsutsumi as O-Some
* Ryuko Umezono as Chieko
* Chitose Hayashi as Hahaoya - the Mother
* Chisato Matsumoto as O-Haru, youjo
* Masako Sanjo as O-Shima, youjo
* Mariyo Matsumoto as O-Kinu, youjo
* Heihachirô Ôkawa as Aoyama
* Kaoru Itô as Wampaku-kozou
* Osamu Takizawa as Kosugi
* Akira Kishii as Kyaku - the Guest
* Kamatari Fujiwara as Yopparai - the Drunkard
* Masao Mishima as Bad boy at Rokku (uncredited)
* Jun Ôtomo as Bad boy at Rokku (uncredited)
Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Shirei dai hachigo

***Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Shirei dai hachigo*** (国際秘密警察 指令第8号, *International Secret Police Directive No. 8*), also known as ***Interpol Code 8***, is a 1963 Japanese comedy-spy film directed by Toshio Sugie. It is the first installment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, a parody of James Bond-style spy movies.

## Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Shirei dai hachigo

### Produced by

Reiji Miwa
Tomoyuki Tanaka

### Written by

Moriyuki Mafuji
Ei Ogawa

### Starring

Tatsuya Mihashi
Makoto Satô
Yosuke Natsuki
Kumi Mizuno
Akiko Wakabayashi
Jerry Itô

### Distributed by

Toho
TohoScope

## Plot

A construction investigator named Quyen was killed in Saigon, southern Vietnam, and Akimoto, an employee agent of a Japanese trading company in contact with the government official, disappeared. Jiro Kitami was sent to Japan from the I.S.P. headquarters in Paris, alleging that a German-American merchant Rudolf Kent, was involved in the incident.

Kitami, along with Akimoto's colleague Natsuo Ezaki, gets up to stop the Kent Gang from selling weapons to the Viet Cong guerrillas.

## Cast

* Tatsuya Mihashi as Jiro Kitami
* Makoto Satō as Natsuo Ezaki
* Yosuke Natsuki as Akimoto
* Kumi Mizuno as Saeko Kinomiya
* Akiko Wakabayashi as Mie Tsugawa
* Jerry Ito as Rudolf Kent
* Seizaburô Kawazu as Managing Director Ashiya Haitani
* Rie Taniuchi as Mary Sono
* Kiyoshi Kodama as Anzai
* Tetsu Nakamura as Binh Hoa
* Keiichi Taki as Viet Cong guerrilla commander
* Shin Otomo as Tan
* Jun Hamamura as Nonozaki
* Hisaya Ito as Tejima
* Hideyo Amamoto as Shû
* Shôji Ôki as Tatsumi
* Ed Keane as ISP Chief in Paris
* Hiroshi Hasegawa as Drunk Huon
* Heihachirô Ôkawa as Quyen
* Kennori Yashiro as Detective A
* Tadashi Okabe as Inspector A

## Staff

* Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Executive Producer: Reiji Miwa
* Screenwriter: Ei Ogawa
* Screenplay: Moriyuki Mafuji
* Director: Toshio Sugie
* Cinematographer: Taiichi Kankura
* Music Composer: Yoshiyuki Kozu
* Production Designer: Kazuo Ogawa
* Lighting Technician: Ichirô Inohara
* Sound Recordist: Shôichi Fujinawa
* Photographer: Masao Soeda
Godzilla

**Godzilla** (ゴジラ, *Gojira*) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films of the same name. The character first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produced by Toho, four Hollywood films and numerous video games, novels, comic books and television shows. Godzilla has been dubbed the King of the Monsters, a phrase first used in Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, the Americanized version of the original film.

Godzilla is depicted as an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Lucky Dragon 5 incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Others have suggested that Godzilla is a metaphor for the United States, a giant beast woken from its slumber which then takes terrible vengeance on Japan. As the film series expanded, some stories took on less serious undertones, portraying Godzilla as an antihero, or a lesser threat who defends humanity. Several post-1984 Godzilla films shifted the character's portrayal to themes including Japan's forgetfulness over its imperial past, natural disasters and the human condition.

Godzilla has been featured alongside many supporting characters. It has faced human opponents such as the JSDF, or other monsters, including King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla and Gigan. Godzilla sometimes has allies, such as Rodan, Mothra and Anguirus, and offspring, such as Minilla and Godzilla Junior. Godzilla has also fought characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as the RKO Pictures/Universal Studios movie monster King Kong, as well as various Marvel Comics characters, including S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. He dubbed as the King of the Monsters by fans and the medias.

## Appeared in films

* Godzilla (1954)
* Godzilla Raids Again
* Mothra vs. Godzilla
* Destroy All Monsters
* Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
* Son of Godzilla
* All Monsters Attack
* The Return of Godzilla
* Godzilla vs. Biollante
* Godzilla (1984 film)
* Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
* King Kong vs. Godzilla
* Godzilla 2000: Millennium
* Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
* Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
* Godzilla: Final Wars
* Godzilla vs. Hedorah
* Godzilla (2014 film)
* Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
* Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
* Shin Godzilla
* Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
* Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle
* Godzilla: The Planet Eater
* Godzilla Singular Point

## Television

* Zone Fighter
* Godzilla (1978 TV series)
* Godzilla Island
* Godzilla: The Series
* Godziban
* Godzilla Singular Point
Yasujiro Shimazu

**Yasujirō Shimazu** (島津 保次郎, *Shimazu Yasujirō*, June 3, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the *shōshimingeki* genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan.

## Yasujiro Shimazu

### Occupation

Director
Writer
Producer

### Best known

Our Neighbor Miss Yae
A Brother and His Younger Sister

## Carrer

Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shōchiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai. He was recognized as a director from 1923 and began specializing in the films about the middle class (shōshimingeki) that were favored at Shōchiku's Kamata studio. He especially came into his own in the sound era, but eventually moved to the Tōhō studio. There he made some films in cooperation with the Manchuria Film Association. He died of lung cancer just after the war ended. Many famous directors, such as Heinosuke Gosho, Shirō Toyoda, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Keisuke Kinoshita, trained under him.
TohoScope

***TohoScope*** (東宝スコープ, *Tōhō sukōpu*) is a an anamorphic lens system developed in the late 1950s by Toho Studios in response to the popularity of CinemaScope. Its technical specifications are identical to those of CinemaScope. This widescreen format was first used for the black-and-white films The Men of Tohoku, and On Wings of Love, made use of color in The Last Pursuit, and debuted in full-color (and tokusatsu) with The Mysterians (all 1957). The label fell out of use in 1965 to be replaced by Panavision lenses of similar specifications.

In contemporary popular culture, the recognizable Toho Scope logo prefaced Godzilla: Final Wars, one of many homages to older science fiction productions made throughout the film.
Osman Yusuf

**Osman Yusuf** (オスマン・ユセフ, *Osuman Yusefu*, May 23, 1920 - August 29, 1982) was a Turkish actor who appeared frequently in Japanese films and television.

Characterized by his large stature and tendency to wear sunglasses in many of his roles, Yusuf was born in the Ottoman Empire in 1920 and moved to Japan prior to World War II, earning permanent residence. As a foreigner fluent in Japanese, Yusuf became a valuable supporting actor in Japanese productions. Yusuf also worked as an interpreter for Toho along with fellow actor Henry Okawa. Yusuf's younger brother, Omar "Turk" Yusuf, was also a professional wrestler and actor in Japan. Osman Yusuf died on August 29, 1982, at the age of 62.

## Career

Turkish born actor living in Japan. Yusef was somewhat fluent in Japanese, which made him a hot commodity for films that required actors of Western appearance that could convincingly interact with Japanese co-stars. Yusef also served as a translator between actors of different nationalities, along with fellow actor Heihachiro “Henry” Okawa, who also spoke English. Yusef’s hooded eyes and broad physique led to his casting in intrepid or officials roles, such as astronauts and submarine officers. He also had a notable appearance as one of Jerry Ito’s henchmen in Mothra (1961). He, along with fellow English-speaking actor Harold Conway, appeared in scenes filmed for Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) that were only shown outside of Japan.
Mechagodzilla

**Mechagodzilla** (メカゴジラ, *Mekagojira*) is a fictional mecha character that first appeared in the 1974 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and the 1975 film Terror of Mechagodzilla. In its debut appearance, Mechagodzilla is depicted as an extraterrestrial villain that confronts Godzilla. In subsequent iterations, Mechagodzilla is usually depicted as a man-made weapon designed to defend Japan from Godzilla. In all incarnations, the character is portrayed as a robotic doppelgänger with a vast array of weaponry, and along with King Ghidorah, is commonly considered to be an archenemy of Godzilla.

## Appearances

### Films

* Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
* Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
* Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
* Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
* Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
* Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
* Ready Player One (2018)
* Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
* Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

### Television

* Godzilla Island (1997-1998)
* Godzilla Singular Point (2021)

### Video games

* Godzilla: Monster of Monsters (NES – 1988) – as Mechagodzilla (1974)
* Godzilla / Godzilla-Kun: Kaijuu Daikessen (Game Boy – 1990) – as Mechagodzilla (1974)
* Battle Soccer: Field no Hasha (Super Famicom – 1992) – as Mechagodzilla (1974)
* Super Godzilla (Super NES – 1993) – as Mechagodzilla (1974) and Mechagodzilla 2
* Kaijū-ō Godzilla / King of the Monsters, Godzilla (Game Boy – 1993)
* Godzilla: Battle Legends (Turbo Duo – 1993)
* Godzilla: Monster War / Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters (Super NES – 1994)
* Godzilla Giant Monster March (Game Gear – 1995)
* Godzilla Trading Battle (PlayStation – 1998) – as Mechagodzilla (1974) and Mechagodzilla 2
* Godzilla Generations (Dreamcast – 1998) – as Mechagodzilla (1974)
* Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Nintendo GameCube, Xbox – 2002/2003) – as Mechagodzilla 2 and Mechagodzilla 3 (Xbox exclusive)
* Godzilla: Domination! (Game Boy Advance – 2002) – as Mechagodzilla 2 and Mechagodzilla 3
* Godzilla: Save the Earth (Xbox, PlayStation 2 – 2004) – as Mechagodzilla 2 and Mechagodzilla 3
* Godzilla: Unleashed (Wii, PlayStation 2 – 2007) – as Mechagodzilla (1974, Wii exclusive), Mechagodzilla 2 and Kiryu
* Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash (Nintendo DS – 2007) – as Kiryu
* Godzilla on Monster Island (AVP Slot – 2011) – as Kiryu
* Godzilla (PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 – 2014/2015) – as Mechagodzilla (1974), Mechagodzilla 2 (1975, PS4 exclusive), Super Mechagodzilla, and Kiryu
* City Shrouded in Shadow (PS4 – 2017) – as Kiryu
* Godzilla Defense Force (2019)

### Literature

* Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters (1998)
* Ready Player One (novel – 2011) – as Kiryu
* Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters (comic – 2011–2012)
* Godzilla: Gangsters and Goliaths (comic – 2011)
* Godzilla: Legends (comic – 2011–2012)
* Godzilla: Ongoing (comic – 2012)
* Godzilla: The Half-Century War (comic – 2012–2013)
* Godzilla: Rulers of Earth (comic – 2013–2015) – as Mechagodzilla (1974) and Kiryu
* Godzilla: Oblivion (comic – 2016)
* Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse (novel – 2017)
* Godzilla: Project Mechagodzilla (novel – 2018)
Kumi Mizuno

**Kumi Mizuno** (水野久美, *Mizuno Kumi*, January 1, 1937) is a Japanese film actress, most famous for appearing in several Toho kaiju films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

## Kumi Mizuno

### Genres

Movies
TV dramas
Stages

### Spouse(s)

Gaku Yamamoto (1966 - 1969 divorced)
Michio Igarashi (1973 - 1999 his death)

### Office

Office PSC

Mizuno was active in drama club in high school, playing the heroine in the annual play three years in a row. She made her film debut at Shochiku in 1957. She also acted in films for Toho, but unlike most of her colleagues she was not under an exclusive contract. Mizuno is popular among genre fans for her bewitching looks, especially in films such as Matango (1963), Monster Zero (1965), and Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966, of MST3K fame). Her American co-star from Monster Zero, Nick Adams, was rumored to have had an affair with her, and he allegedly asked her to marry him. She enjoyed appearing in sci-fi, and appeared in two of the Millennium Godzilla films, including the 50th anniversary film Godzilla: Final Wars (2004).

## Career

Mizuno was born **Maya Igarashi** on January 1, 1937 in Sanjō, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. She was acquainted with Giant Baba, her junior by one year, who is also from Sanjō. She enrolled and eventually graduated from an acting school and began a professional career in film in 1957 in *The Unbalanced Wheel* (Shochiku). In 1958, Mizuno appeared in *The Spell of the Hidden Gold* (Toho).

Her most famous roles include Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. She is also known for her role as Azami in the 1959 epic The Birth of Japan. By the time she started working on A Bridge for Us Alone (1958), her second movie, her name had changed to Kumi Mizuno. Mizuno first worked with director Ishirō Honda in Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers in 1959. She would later work with Honda in Attack of the Mushroom People, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Gorath, Invasion of Astro-Monster and The War of the Gargantuas.

In 1991, she played Kanako Yanagawa in Kihachi Okamoto's Rainbow Kids.

Mizuno returned to the kaiju genre for 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and again for 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars.
Skeleton Minion

Medium Undead, Lawful Evil
CR 1/4 (XP 50) (Proficiency Bonus +2)
**Armor Class :** 14 (Armor Scraps)
**Hit Points :** 15 (2d8 + 6)

**Mana Points :** X

**Speed :** 30 Feet

**Skills :** X

**Damage Vulnerabilities :** Bludgeoning

**Damage Resistances :** X

**Damage Immunities :** Poison

**Condition Immunities :** Exhaustion, Poison

**Senses :** Darkvision 60 Feet, Passive Perception 9

**Languages :** Understands all languages it knew in life but can’t speak

Actions

* **Shortsword :** Melee Weapon Attack; +5 to Hit, one target, reach 5 Feet. On Hit; 6 (1d6 + 3) Piercing damage.
* **Shortbow :** Ranged Weapon Attack; +6 to hit, Range 80/320 Feet, one target. On Hit; 4 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.
Warlock

Demon Magic is a very powerful, but corrupting, magic. While many would look at the demonic magic has something that should be eradicated, as something purely evil, the warlocks of the world see opportunity and power. They not only wield the violent magics of the world, but can also summon lesser demons to their command and can use special soul shards to create powerful items at will. The warlock is living proof that with great risk comes great reward.
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Shaman

There are specialized spellcasters who decided to hone their powers with the elements directly, rather then using the arcane to bend them to their will. These casters, called shamans, embrace the raw power of the elements and utilize them for their own purposes, whether that's to face their foes, heal their allies, or even stop elemental events such as storms.
Hans Horneff

**Hans Horneff** (ハンス・ホルネフ, *Hansu horunefu*, March 10, 1917 - April 30, 1995) is a German-born American film actor who appearance in both Japanese and American films. He speaks fluently German and English. Horneff was also a radio host for the CBS News Radio and voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions.

## Career

Hans was born to a German immigrant family in New York City to Klaus Horneff (1883-1959) and Christel Bergmann (1887-1962). He had three siblings; Andreas (1919-1988), Marie (1923-2006), and Wanda (1929-2013). At age 15, he first appeared in vaudeville during his high school time. Hans began his career in radio in 1941 and continued active for more than 60 years later.  During his time working at CBS Radio, he was

approached by MGM Studio executives, who were impressed by his amazing acting performance, offered Hans a job at their studio to play in movies and moved to Hollywood. There he became began playing different minor roles in films such as military personals, bystanders, customers, law enforcement, gangster, cowboy, and even a journalist.

He worked with MGM from 1942 to 1959. In 1949, Hans married fashion designer Georgia Clark (1925-2009) and had two children; Thomas (1950-) and Sarah (1954-). In 1959, the family moved to Japan where he was given a picture deal with other Japanese film studios to play various roles such as mafia boss, police officer, soldier, diplomat, ambassador, scientist, villains, henchman, prime minister, and many others from 1960 to 1970. He retired from acting in 1975 and moved back to America with his family where he devoted his life to writing and film lectures. He died from heart failure at the age of 78 in Buffalo, New York. He was also the voice actor for different cartoon series, including Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Harold Conway

**Harold Conway** (ハロルド・コンウェイ *Harorudo Conuei*, May 24, 1911 - December 19, 1996) was an American tax advisor and actor who appeared frequently in Japanese films and television between the 1950s and 1970s.

He was one of a trio of foreign actors appearing frequently in Toho's Showa era productions, along with Andrew Hughes and Osman Yusuf. Delivering his lines in both English and Japanese, he was perhaps best recognized for his role as Dr. Immelman in *The Mysterians*, a part which he reprised for the film's 1959 sequel, *Battle in Outer Space*. Conway acted in his last known role in 1975's *I Am a Cat*, and passed away sometime during 1996.

## Career

A tax accountant living in Japan who somehow managed to play in multiple films over a span of 20 years, speaking both English and Japanese as the occasion required. He is best remembered in Japan for his role in The Mysterians (1957) as Dr. DeGracia, the creator of the Markalite FAHPs used against the titular aliens; apparently his Japanese in that role, delivered with the appropriate theatricality, was considered impressive for a non-Japanese speaking actor.

Conway appeared with other English speaking actors in scenes filmed for Godzilla vs. the Thing (1964) that were not included in the original Japanese version, but were shown in other English speaking markets.
Wand of Illusions

**Item Level :** 3

**Category :** Charged

**Item Type :** Wand

**Gold Cost :** 750gp

**Material Cost :** 10 Herb Points, 6 Essence

**Weight :** 1 Pound

**Requires Attunement? :** No

As an action, you can point this wand as a creature. The wand will create an illusion of the creature in an unoccupied, adjacent space. The illusion has the same current health as the creature it's based on. It can move the same speed, attack with the same weapons, but cannot use any spells the creature had (but still benefits from passive abilities and resistances). The illusion will deal half the normal attack damage and will take double damage from all sources. Has 3 charges. After all charges are used, the wand will crumble into dust.
Jun Fukuda

**Jun Fukuda** (福田純, *Fukuda Jun*, February 17, 1923 - December 3, 2000) is a Japanese film director, writer and producer. Fukuda was probably the second most prominent director of Toho sci-fi behind Ishiro Honda. He grew up in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation, and was a poor student, preferring leisure activities to studying. He was picked up by Toho during a recruitment drive and became an assistant director, working under Hiroshi Inagaki and Ishiro Honda. The Secret of the Telegian (1960) was his second film as director, and his first sci-fi effort.

Fukuda’s films had significantly more movement and energy when compared to Honda’s films from the same period. For this reason he preferred to work with composer Masaru Sato, since Sato’s jazzy style complimented his directorial sensibilities more than that of genre regular Akira Ifukube, which was more somber. Fukuda had a more hands on approach with special effects, often treading into what had traditionally been the exclusive jurisdiction of the special effects staff.His last film was The War in Space (1977).

## Career

Jun Fukuda would spend his childhood in Manchuria before attending Nihon University College of Art. His interests would lead him to filmmaking and in 1946 he joined Toho as an assistant director. In his tenure as an assistant director, he would work under filmmakers such as Hiroshi Inagaki and Ishirô Honda, leading to his first work in special effects filmmaking with Rodan (1956). His career as a full-fledged director would take off in 1959. His early work leaned more towards mystery but he began to expand into more action and comedic centric works by the mid-1960s. Around this time, Toho gave Fukuda the opportunity to direct a Godzilla film. Beginning with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Fukuda would become Toho's go to director for special effects films after Ishiro Honda.

Fukuda's films would develop a unique identity beginning with his his choice to replace series composer Akira Ifukube with Masaru Satô. His films would be full of colorful characters and vibrant action demonstrating his filmmaking craftsmanship. During his career he would direct five Godzilla films, along with espionage films and comedies. He would also write the un-produced screenplays of The Invisible Man and Invisible Man vs. the Human Torch. While Fukuda was known to harbor a disdain for his work, he would seem to develop an understanding of what his work met to people as fans would send him letters and messages during his final years. Fukuda would passed away from lung cancer on December 3, 2000, at the age of 77.
Arcane Blast

Evocation Cantrip

**Casting Time :** 1 Action

**Range :** 60 Feet

**Components :** V, S

**Duration :** Instantaneous

You extend your hand and make a burst of arcane energy erupt from a target within range. If the target is a creature it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Arcane damage. A creature forced to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration because of this spell, makes the saving throw with disadvantage.

This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), 17th level (4d8).

**Classes :** Mage
Tetsu Nakamura

**Tetsu Nakamura** (Japanese: 中村 哲, *Nakamura Tetsu*, September 19, 1909; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – August 3, 1992; Tokyo, Japan {age 82} ), born **Satoshi Nakamura** (also credited as Tatsu Nakamura and **Tetu Nakamura**), was a Japanese film actor and opera singer active from the 1940s to the 1980s. He featured in over 40 films.

Canadian born actor who was fluent in both Japanese and English. His tough guy expression made him ideal for roles as gangsters or other sleazy characters. Indeed, he played crooked characters in both *The H-Man* (1957) and *Mothra* (1961). He’s best seen speaking all his lines in English in *Latitude Zero* (1969, easily the best English-speaking performance among the Japanese actors in that film). He also appeared as the Japanese Ambassador in Terence Young’s *Red Sun* (1971, also starring Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, and Toshiro Mifune).

He was the Japanese MC for Peter, Paul and Mary’s second Japanese tour in 1967.

## Early life

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a father involved in the lumber industry, Nakamura studied at Britannia Secondary School before enrolling at a music academy to become a baritone singer. After graduating, he performed on radio and in recitals before moving to Japan in 1940. There he enrolled in Nikkatsu's film acting school, and graduated in 1941. In the meantime, he was selected by the opera singer Yoshie Fujiwara to appear as Escamillo in Carmen in a performance at the Kabuki-za.

## Career

He became a contract actor at the Toho Studios in 1942, and started appearing in roles in such films as The Opium War (1943), Ano hata o ute, and Aru yoru no tonosama (1946). After touring the United States as part of Fujiwara's opera company in 1953, he concentrated on film acting.

With his fluency in English, he often appeared in foreign co-productions. He played the antagonist in Tokyo File 212 (1951) and a supporting role in Geisha Girl (1952). Writing about Tokyo File 212 in his book Korean War Filmography, Robert J. Lentz opined that "Nakamura [was] smooth and oily as the villain Oyama, who at heart [was] as much a capitalist as a Communist".

His other prominent roles include Dr. Robert Suzuki in George Breakston's science-fiction horror film The Manster (1969), Japanese Ambassador in the international co-production Red Sun (1971), Dr. Kawamoto in the B-movie The Last Dinosaur (1977) and other roles in Oriental Evil (1951), Futari no hitomi (1952), The H-Man (1958), Mothra (1961), The Lost World of Sinbad (1963) and Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965).

He also appeared on television well into the 1980s.
Watanabe Productions

**Watanabe Productions Co., Ltd.** (株式会社渡辺プロダクション, *Kabushiki-gaisha Watanabe Purodakushon*) is a multimedia management company in Japan dealing in recordings, films, television, music publishing and artist management as well as the main subsidiary of the Watanabe Production Group.

Formed by bandleader Shin Watanabe and his wife Misa Watanabe in 1955, the company has become one of the most influential of its kind in Japan. It is referred to informally in Japanese as **Nabe-pro** (ナベプロ, *nabepuro*).

## Talent clients

* Mickey Curtis
* Hajime Hana & The Crazy Cats
* Jun Hamamura
* The Peanuts
* Mie Nakao
* Yukari Ito
* Mari Sono
* The Drifters
* Kenji Sawada
* Akira Fuse
* Shinichi Mori
* Rumiko Koyanagi
* Mari Amachi
* Candies
Size Categories and Bonuses

The following table shows the new size categories for creatures and the changes in their ability scores and natural armor.

For their changes in other areas, use the following rules. These are opposite (penalties become bonuses and vice versa) for creatures smaller than medium size.

* AC/Attack: a doubling penalty for each size above medium (-1, -2, -4, -8, -16, -32, etc.).
* CMB/CMD: a doubling bonus for each size above medium (+1, +2, +4, +8, +16, +32, etc.).
* Fly skill: a cumulative -2 penalty per size above medium.
* Stealth skill: a cumulative -4 penalty per size above medium.
Major Mana Potion

**Item Level :** 5

**Category :** Consumable

**Item Type :** Potion

**Gold Cost :** 550gp

**Material Cost :** 20 Herb Points, 10 Essence

**Weight :** 1/2 Pounds

**Requires Attunement? :** No

A large blue potion with energizing magics. As an action, you can consume this potion in order to regain 2d4+4 Mana.
Frost Salts

**Item Level :** 2

**Category :** Consumable

**Item Type :** Narcotic

**Gold Cost :** 1200gp

**Material Cost :** X

**Weight :** X

**Requires Attunement? :** No

A small pile of powder-blue-colored powder, with texture like salt. When consumed, grants the consumer resistance to Frost damage for 10 Minutes. However, has a 1 in 4 chance to cause an addition, and, if addicted, deals 1d8 Frost damage to the consumer. This damage ignores all resistance and immunities.
Speaker’s Smite

Evocation Cantrip

**Casting Time :** 1 action

**Range :** 120 feet

**Components :** V, S

**Duration :** Instantaneous

A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Arcane damage.

The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.

**Classes :** Speaker
Hideo Shibusawa

**Hideo Shibusawa** (渋沢秀雄, *Shibusawa Hideo*, October 5, 1892; Tokyo City - February 15, 1984; Tokyo {age 91} ) is a Japanese businessman and a person of culture from Tokyo City.

## Life

Born in a Western-style building in Nihonbashikabutocho as the fourth son of industrialist Shibusawa Eiichi. When he was a child, Hideo would swim in the Nihonbashi River near their mansion.

From 1916 to 1917 when he was in college, he married Yuko Ueyama (1903-1986), a school teacher and divorced in 1930. His eldest son, Kazuo (1919-1998) was an accordion player and Hanako (1920-2003) is a novelist. Hideo attended the Department of Buddhist Law at Tokyo Imperial University Law University in 1917. After graduated, he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan, but retired after working for a year and a half. After studying housing in both Europe and the United States, he joined Den'en Toshi Co., Ltd., which had just been established, as a director. The company carried out planned and large-scale residential land development in both Denenchofu and Senzoku Den'en Toshi, laid railroads and supplied electricity for the development area, and operated the Tamagawaen Amusement Park.

Since then, he has served on the board of several companies. After Japan lost the war in 1945, he resigned from those positions due to the expulsion of public office by the GHQ (General Headquarters) and lived in the world of hobbies. He focuses on his essay writing, paintings, haiku, nagauta, and kouta. At the age of 56, he remarried a art painter named Naoko Shintani (1911-1989) in the Hanamachi district who had loved him for a long time and had a child in between. He also served as a member of the broadcasting industry.
Ring of the Warmage

**Item Level :** 6

**Category :** Permanent

**Item Type :** Ring

**Gold Cost :** 4800gp

**Material Cost :** 1 Ring of the Magi, 4 Metal Points, 15 Essence

**Weight :** X

**Requires Attunement? :** Yes, by someone with a Spellcasting level of 1 or higher

A special ring that allows the spellcaster attuned with this ring to gain a +2 to spell attack rolls while wearing it.