Yoko Ono Lennon, (born February 18, 1933), is a Japanese-American artist and musician. She is known for her marriage to John
Lennon and for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician.
Hayao Miyazaki is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli,
an animation studio and production company. He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until
Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. By that time, his films had already enjoyed both commercial and critical success
in Japan and abroad.
Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred
to as Andō Hiroshige (安藤広重) (an irregular combination of family name and art name) and by the art name of Ichiyūsai Hiroshige
(一幽斎廣重).
Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is a British American actress. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She is
the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner. Along with Luise Rainer, Gloria Stuart, Shirley
Temple, Deanna Durbin and Olivia de Havilland, Fontaine is one of the last surviving female stars from Hollywood of the 1930s.
She is notably the only actress to ever win the Leading Lady Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Takashi Miike (born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy
theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited
with directing fifteen productions.
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, October or November 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of
the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo, Hokusai is best-known as author
of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.
