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The pioneering Kôji Wakamatsu (born Ito Takashi) was a contemporary of Oshima Nagisa and equally controversial, yet not as famous. The man was born in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Japan before dropping out of agricultural school, some say following a physical altercation, moving to Tokyo at age seventeen, joining the yakuza and landing in prison for a year as a consequence. While with the yakuza he would work for the mob collecting payments on film sets among other thuggery. Upon release and following odd jobs he became an assistant to a film director and eventually make his own pink film erotic feature called Sweet Trap in 1963. Twenty or so films, including several acclaimed ones for Nikkatsu Studio, later he created his own Wakamatsu production where he and crew would push back against norms by shooting softcore pink features, violent movies, left-wing resistance cuts and even internationally bent movies on topics like the oppression of the Palestinian nation and the Japanese underground. His efforts would take him to events like the Berlin Film Festival - occasionally to the annoyance of the official motion picture association of Japan - and have him work with other avant-garde directors like the aforementioned Oshima. He would also be blacklisted by foreign governments like the United States, which imposed a travel ban on him. Both he and the mainstream moved closer to one another eventually and before his death in a car accident where he was hit by a taxi in 2012 several of his films had garnered mainstream interest and miscellaneous Japanese and foreign awards. At the time of his death he was returning from a meeting regarding his latest project, which concerned Japan's nuclear industry lobby and the Tokyo-based TEPCO company. The topical subject matter followed on the heels of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.- Watanabe Natsuna was born in Toda, Saitma, which is a suburb of Tokyo, in May 1989. She has two younger brothers. She was scouted in Tokyo when she was a junior high school student, but refused the offers due to her school's strict policy. She changed her school in the third year and joined the ranks of models and actresses. She began modelling and acting and dedicated herself by reducing her name simply to Natsuna in November 2009. She also skipped attending university. She had been acting since 2005 when she appeared in Nobuta Wo Produce, but gained fame through her role in the Gantz fantasy films where she appeared naked. She related that her parents, brothers and her have a habit of being nude at home, especially after showers, and as such she has no qualms with nudity. Nonetheless, the shorthaired actress found no offers during this period and had to revert to part-time jobs to make ends meet. She had resisted cutting her hair short despite her manager insisting that she does so because a specific role required a masculine woman. She had to compete against hundreds of applicants for the lead role in NHK's Asadora Jun To Ai, which was the national broadcaster's morning serial, in 2012. She was dating football player Yoshizumi Ogawa in 2012. That lasted a year. She entered a relationship with a small business owner in 2014. She cites ballet, cooking and shopping as hobbies. She is a gamer and loves Zelda. She also loves to drink sake and reports that she was reported missing by her parents one time when she spent overnight at a train station on a bench drunk.
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Kiyono Yasuno was born on 9 July 1989 in Toda, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Parasyte: The Maxim (2014), No. 6 (2011) and Black Clover (2017).- Misa Ishii was born on 28 January 1991 in Toda, Saitama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Astral Chain (2019), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (2022) and Deca-Dence (2020).
- Rina Kishi was born on 23 September 2007 in Toda, Japan.
- Haruka Kurosu was born on 28 February 2001 in Toda, Japan.