Matsumoto Hakuō I
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Matsumoto Hakuō I, born Junjirō Fujima, was a Japanese kabuki actor, regarded as the leading tachiyaku of the postwar decades; he also performed in a number of non-kabuki venues, including Western the
Kōshirō Matsumoto VIII as Ōishi Kuranosuke in Chūshin gura 1954
Matsumoto Kōshirō VII
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Matsumoto Kōshirō VII was a Japanese actor. He was one of the leading tachiyaku Kabuki actors of Japan's Meiji period through the late 1940s.
Matsumoto Hakuō I
…performance. Originally appearing on stage as Matsumoto Sumizō II, he later took the names Ichikawa Somegorō V and Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII. The son of Matsumoto Kōshirō VII and son-in-law of Nakamura Kichiemon I, the man who would later be called Hakuō was born into the kabuki world, and grew up in it. His brothers, Ichikawa…
Kōshirō Matsumoto VII as Benkei