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Matsunosuke Onoe

Stage name	Matsunosuke Onoe
Real name	Kakuzo Nakamura
Nickname	Medama no Matchan
Date of birth	September 12, 1875
Date of death	Died on September 11, 1926, at age 50
Debut starring work	December 1, 1909 Goban Tadanobu Genji Ishizue – filmed and distributed by Yokota Shokai
Best works	Jiraiya in Jiraiya the Hero (1921, Nikkatsu) Mataemon Araki in Araki Mataemon (1925, Nikkatsu) Yasube Nakayama in Nakayama Yasube (1925, Nikkatsu) Kuranosuke Oishi in Chushingura: the truth - Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki, and Hito no Maki (1926, Nikkatsu)
History	1909: Debut as a lead actor in the movie Goban Tadanobu Genji Ishizue, directed by Shozo Makino of Yokota Shokai. 1912: Nikkatsu Kansai Studio was founded through merger with Yokota Shokai. Jiraiya, Sarutobi Sasuke, etc.—ninja movies that he starred in—became a major boom. 1921: Appointed as the executive manager of Nikkatsu Taishogun Studio. 1923: Appointed as a director of Nikkatsu.