Unpei Yokoyama
Unpei Yokoyama

Unpei Yokoyama. Actor: Sunae shibari: Dai-ippen. Born Yokoyama Yataro, the young man was in a theatre troupe in 1893 until in 1899 he moved to Tokyo to join another theatre company. In that same year the Japanese begin to use film cameras and make movies. The official first film of Japan was Pisutoru gôtô Shimizu Sadakichi (1899) the story of an escape from jail where Yataro played the role of...