Famous People with Name Shozo

Shozo Saijo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shozo Saijo: a former professional boxer from Saitama, Japan. He is a former WBA featherweight champion.

Shozo Otsuka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shozo Otsuka: a Japanese football player.

Shozo Makino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shozo Makino: was a Japanese film director, film producer and businessman who is regarded as the pioneering director of Japanese film.Makino was born in Kyoto on September 22, 1878. His mother ran a theater, and his association with movies began when the motion picture fan, Naganosuke Yokota, asked for his help when filming a drama. Shozo discovered actor Matsunosuke Onoe working in an itinerant kabuki troupe. He enlisted Onoe and made him into Japan's first film star, and began directing over 60 Matsunosuke films a year in the early 1910s, all if not all short films.

Shozo Murata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shozo Murata: was a Japanese entrepreneur, cabinet minister and diplomat before, during and after World War II.Murata was a native of Tokyo and a graduate of the Tokyo Higher Commerce School (now Hitotsubashi University). After graduation, he went to work with the Osaka Shosen Kaisha (currently Mitsui O.S.K. Lines), and transformed the relatively small company into a major shipping company. He served as company president from 1934-1940. In 1939, he was appointed to the House of Peers.

Shozo Shimamoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shozo Shimamoto: He was an early member of the avant garde Gutai group founded in the 1950s, and his works are in museum collections such as those of the Tate Gallery and the Tate Modern (in both London and Liverpool) and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe, Japan. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith [1] has noted him as one of the most daring and independent experimentalists of the postwar international art scene in the 1950s. Internationally today he is especially noted for his work in the "mail art" genre, of which he was a pioneer.