Famous People with Name Toshio

Toshio Fujiwara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Fujiwara: a well known Japanese former kickboxer who teaches at his own gym, Fujiwara Gym, in Tokyo. His most famous student in recent years is Satoshi Kobayashi, but many other well known kickboxers and mixed martial artists have also trained with him.

Toshio Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Masuda: 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.

Toshio Matsumoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Matsumoto: a Japanese film director and video artist. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.His first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955, however his most famous film is Funeral Parade of Roses (aka Bara no soretsu). Funeral Parade of Roses influenced Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange heavily. The film was a retelling of Oedipus Rex, featuring a transsexual (portrayed by Peter (actor)) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese gay bars.

Toshio Iwai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Iwai: a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.Iwai was born in Kira, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As a child, he spent time creating flip book-style animations in the corner of text books and making motor-driven mechanical toys, since these were the only technologies available to him.[1] In 1981 Iwai matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media.[2] Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren[3

Toshio Shimao            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Shimao: was a Japanese novelist.Shimao was born in Yokohama, graduated from Kyushu University, and in 1944 was sent to Japan's southern Amami Islands as an officer for a naval suicide attack (kamikaze) squadron in World War II. The war ended while he was still waiting for his orders. His wartime experiences inspired his earliest works, including Shima no hate (1946) and Shutsukoto-ki (A Tale of Leaving a Lonely Island, 1949), as well as several later works including Shuppatsu wa tsui ni otozurezu (1962) and Gyoraitei gakusei (Student on the Torpedo Boat, 1985).

IKEDA Toshio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

IKEDA Toshio: the pioneer of computer domestic production in Japan.When he was a general manager at Fujitsu, Ikeda was made one of the planners of the Osaka Exposition. One of his ideas was to have visitors play go against a computer as an event at the exposition. This idea quickly proved to be impractical, however. To begin with, a go-playing computer needs a completely logical set of rules.

Tosanoumi Toshio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tosanoumi Toshio: is a sumo wrestler. He first reached the top division of professional sumo in 1995, longer ago than anyone except Kaio among active wrestlers. He has won 13 special prizes and earned 11 gold stars for defeating yokozuna over his long career. The highest r