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.
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning
Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played the keyboards in the influential
electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single
in the Japan's Oricon charts history.
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is an actress. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy
Award winner. De Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead
from Gone with the Wind.
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.
