1. Matsunosuke Onoe, sometimes known as Medama no Matchan, was a Japanese actor.
12 Facts About Matsunosuke Onoe
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Matsunosuke Onoe is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe.
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Matsunosuke Onoe gained great popularity, appearing in over 1,000 films, and has been called the first superstar of Japanese cinema.
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Matsunosuke Onoe made his movie debut in Goban Tadanobu that year.
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Matsunosuke Onoe's troupe proved consistently popular, and Makino chose Matsunosuke Onoe to star in his future movies.
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Matsunosuke Onoe starred in hundreds of films; the 1925 Araki Mataemon was advertised as his 1,000th film.
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Matsunosuke Onoe played the lead characters in almost all dramatizations of stories published by Tachikawa Bunko, which at the time was a best-selling publisher.
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Matsunosuke Onoe's films were well-received, earning him the affectionate nickname "Medama no Matchan", after his large eyes.
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Matsunosuke Onoe was especially popular among children, who took to imitating his ninja performances in their games.
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Matsunosuke Onoe's films were silent, voiced-over by a live narrator in the theaters.
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Many of Matsunosuke Onoe's works were short films; however, he starred in feature-length movies.
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Matsunosuke Onoe's funeral was the subject of a 1926 documentary, The Funeral of Matsunosuke Onoe.