List of Famous people born in Japan

Takashi Koizumi is a Japanese film director. After graduating from Waseda University, he served as an assistant director for Akira Kurosawa for many years. He has received four nominations and four wins.

Toshio Masuda is a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series. His corporate drama Company Funeral (1989) earned him a Japanese Academy Award nomination and wins at the Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards. In Japan, his films are well remembered by fans and called genre landmarks by critics. He remains little known abroad save for rare exceptions of his post-Nikkatsu work such as Tora! Tora! Tora!. However, a number of his films were screened in a 2005 Nikkatsu Action Cinema retrospective in Italy and a few have since made their way to the United States. In 2009, he helped produce Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection.

Masaaki Shingaki , better known by his stage name Tarusuke Shingaki , is a Japanese voice actor from Kumejima, Okinawa. He is affiliated with Mausu Promotion. His most notable roles include Kariya Matou in Fate/Zero, Eishirō Kite in The Prince of Tennis II, Togusa in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Lemillion in My Hero Academia, Yashiro in Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather, and Yugo Kakitani in Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song.