Famous People with Name Kazuo

Kazuo Ohno            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuo Ohno: is a Japanese dancer associated with Butoh. He has become a guru and inspirational figure. It has been written of him that his very presence is an "artistic fact."He began in 1960 to work directly with Hijikata Tatsumi, who may be said to be the originator of Butoh technique. Ohno, on the other hand, was less a technician and choreographer and more of a solo performer. Ohno and Hijikata form the nucleus of what has become known as Butoh. Students who have spent time with Ohno generally seem to be more eclectic and individual in approach.

Kazuo Ishiguro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuo Ishiguro: A number of his novels are set in the past. His most recent, Never Let Me Go, had science fiction qualities and a futuristic tone; however, the given time period is the late 1990s, and thus takes place in an alternate, though very similar, world. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, takes place in an unnamed Central European city. The Remains of the Day is set in the large country house of an English lord, in the period leading up to, and the period after, the Second World War.

Kazuo Homma            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuo Homma: a Japanese football striker currently playing for Diósgyori VTK.

Kazuo Ozaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuo Ozaki: a Japanese football player who was the second Japanese to play in Fußball-Bundesliga after Yasuhiko Okudera.

Kazuo Funaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Kazuo Funaki: a Japanese Enka singer. Kazuo also has a career as a stage actor, a film actor, and a TV actor.

Hirotsu Kazuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hirotsu Kazuo: was a novelist and literary critic active in the Showa period Japan.However, Hirotsu did show a talent for literature from an early age. While attending Waseda University he started submitting articles to various literary journals. In 1912, he joined Kasai Zenzo in establishing his own literary magazine, Kiseki ("Miracle"), to which he contributed short stories and translated works of foreign authors. In 1913, Hirotsu published a translation of Guy de Maupassant's Une Vie, which marked the beginning of a career of literary criticism and translation of various European writers.