Having celebrity parents and still being able to make a name for yourself is honestly, a true display of talent. Follow up on this article to get introduced to some of Japan’s most famous parent-child celebrities.
1. Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa Akira was a Japanese filmmaker and director. He directed almost 30 films in his days and is regarded as one of the most prominent and influential directors in the history of Japanese films. He has two children, Kurosawa Hisao and Kurosawa Kazuko. Kurosawa Hisao practically followed in his father’s footsteps and became a film producer. Kurosawa Kazuko, on the other hand, became a professional Japanese costumes designer.
2. Miura Mariko
Miura Mariko, better known by her stage name, Jun Arisu, was a Japanese singer and actress. She is well-known for starring in ‘Mama wa Rival’. She is also known for her appearances in teleshopping, along with her husband, Miura Koichi. Miura Koichi is also an actor. Mariko and her husband have three sons together. Miura Ryosuke is a Japanese actor famous for his portrayal of ‘Momose’ in ‘Kamen Rider Decade’. Miura Kota, like his brother, is also an actor and is popularly known for his roles in ‘Kamen Rider Amazons’ and ‘Gunshi Kanbei’. Ryosuke and Kota’s older brother isn’t involved in the entertainment industry and is a teacher at a cram school.
3. Miyazaki Hayao
Miyazaki Hayao is a Japanese animations director. His work has won him both critical and popular acclaim. He is the founder of Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli is famous for its fantasy anime movies such as, ‘My Neighbour Totoro’, ‘A Whisker Away’ and ‘Spirited Away’. He has two children, Miyazaki Keisuke and Miyazaki Goro. Miyazaki Keisuke is a Japanese printmaker, and one of the co-founders of Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki Goro is a Japanese film director.
4. Watanabe Ken
Watanabe Ken is one of the prominent Japanese actors and is familiar to western audiences. He has appeared in a number of Hollywood productions including, ‘Memoirs of A Geisha’ and ‘The Last Samurai’. Ken has two children Watanabe Anne and Watanabe Dai. Anne is a Japanese professional fashion model, singer, and actress. Watanabe Dai is an actor.
5. Iwamatsu Makoto
Iwamatsu Makoto was a Japanese-born American actor. Many of his roles credited him only using his first name, Mako. He is an Oscar and Tony-nominated actor. Iwamatsu has two daughters. Both sisters, Iwamatsu Sala and Iwamatsu Mimosa, are actresses by profession. Iwamatsu Sala is known for her roles in ‘The Blacklist’ and ‘Two Lies’.
6. Sato Tadanobu
Sato Tadanobu, professionally known as Asano Tadanobu, is a Japanese actor known for his work in ‘Picnic’ and ‘Swimming Upstream. He has two children one daughter and one son. SUMIRE is an actress who has featured in ‘River’s Edge’ and ‘Aku no Hado’. Sato Himi is an actor known for ‘Moonlight Shadow’.
7. Utada Junko
Utada Junko, known by her stage name Fuji Keiko, was a professional enka singer and actress. She was married on-and-off to Utada Teruzane, a Japanese actor. They had one daughter together. Utada Hikaru is a Japanese singer-songwriter and music producer. By the end of the 2000s, ‘The Japan Times’ had deemed Hikaru ‘The Most Influential Artist of the Decade’.
8. Miura Kazuyoshi
Miura Kazuyoshi is a Japanese professional footballer. He is a ‘Forward’ for the Yokohama FC team in the J1 League. Kazuyoshi was the first Japanese player to be awarded the IFFHS Asia’s Footballer of the Year Award. He has two children. Miura Ryota is an actor known for his roles in ‘What She Likes’ and ‘New World Makers’. Kazuyoshi’s other son Miura Kota, unfortunately, do not have much information on him.
9. Ono Jiro
Ono Jiro is a Japanese chef who owns Sukiyabashi Jiro, a sushi restaurant in Tokyo. He is regarded as one of the greatest living sushi craftsmen. He has two sons. Ono Yoshikazu and his brother Ono Takashi are both, like their father, professional Japanese chefs. While Yoshikazu still works under his father at Sukiyabashi Jiro, Takashi has moved work to his establishment, Sukiyabashi Jiro Roppongi.
10. Baisho Mitsuko
Baisho Mitsuko is an actress known for her roles in ‘Vengence Is Mine’ and ‘The Ballad of Narayama’. She was married to Inoki Antonio, a once-renowned martial artist, and wrestler. They had one child together. Their child Inoki Hiroko is an actor.
