Matsunosuke Onoe
Birthday: 1875-09-12
Place of Birth: Okayama, Japan
Biography: Matsunosuke Onoe sometimes known as Medama no Matchan ("Eyeballs" Matsu), was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura.[1] He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe. He gained great popularity, appearing in over 1000 films, and has been called the first superstar of Japanese cinema.
Movies
Jiraiya the Hero
Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning ...
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Shibukawa Bangorō
A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To para...
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The Mito Kōmon Chronicles: Part Two
Sequel to the film "The Mito Kōmon Chronicles" (1910)....
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The Hanging Ceiling at a Utsunomiya
The first version of a kabuki ghost story which would be filmed numerous times, the story is based o...
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Rashomon
Legend tells the Watanabe-no-Tsuna, one of Raiko's demon-hunters, was summoned to Rashomon where an ...
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Zōho kaitei Chūshingura
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master....
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The 47 Loyal Ronin
An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...
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TS-CAM
In the City of Saints, a woman's prayer gets painted and a failed cinematographer soothes his bitter...
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