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Tsuneari Fukuda was a Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic. From 1969 until 1983, he was a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. He became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1981.

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Kazuo Hasegawa was a Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1927 and 1963.

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Yoshi Hijikata was a prominent Japanese theatre director. His real name was Hisayoshi Hijikata . He studied at the University of Tokyo.

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Kaneta Kimotsuki was a Japanese actor and voice actor who was most known for the roles of Takeshi Goda before Suneo Honekawa in Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon.

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Tomoharu Takeo , known by his stage name Ryūsei Nakao , is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer from Tokyo. He is attached to 81 Produce and worked under the name of Tomoharu Minamiya . He is married and has a son and a daughter.

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Rokurō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and the brother of voice actor Gorō Naya (1929–2013). He was a lifelong resident of Tokyo and was affiliated with Mausu Promotion at the time of his death.

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Yukio Ninagawa was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of Hamlet. Ninagawa was also emeritus of the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.

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Nachi Nozawa was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Tokyo. He was affiliated with Office PAC at the time of his death. His real name was Yasutomo Nozawa . Nozawa was the official dub-over voice of Alain Delon and Al Pacino. Also he was known for dubbing over Giuliano Gemma, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis, Illya Kuryakin, C-3PO and Nash Bridges. He was also known as his roles in Cobra, Dororo, Gokū no Daibōken, and the Sakura Wars series.

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Kaoru Osanai was a Japanese theater director, playwright, and actor central in the development of modern Japanese theater.

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Shinobu Sakagami is a Japanese tarento, essayist, film director, television presenter, singer and actor. Sakagami entered the entertainment industry at the age of 3 as a child actor, marking him one of the longest tenured in the industry for his age.

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Tadashi Sawashima was a Japanese film director and theatre director. He directed films from the 1950s to the 1970s. He died on 27 January 2018 of multiple organ failure at the age of 91.

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Koreya Senda was a Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Kazuyuki Sogabe was a Japanese actor, voice actor, musician and narrator from Chiba Prefecture. During his life, he has been attached to Theatre Echo; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. He also served as guitarist for the band Slapstick, which he formed in 1977 with fellow voice actors Tōru Furuya and Toshio Furukawa.

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Tadashi Suzuki is a Japanese avant-garde theatre director, writer, and philosopher.

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Akira Takayama is a Japanese theatre director. He is the leader of the theatre unit Port B, which he founded in 2003 to create site-specific performances.

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Tetsuji Takechi was a Japanese theatrical and film director, critic, and author. First coming to prominence for his theatrical criticism, in the 1940s and 1950s he produced influential and popular experimental kabuki plays. Beginning in the mid-1950s, he continued his innovative theatrical work in noh, kyōgen and modern theater. In late 1956 and early 1957 he hosted a popular TV program, The Tetsuji Takechi Hour, which featured his reinterpretations of Japanese stage classics.