Mickey Curtis questions

[Mark Nornes]

One of the more brilliant casting choices I've seen was Mickey Curtis 
as the gangster in Kamikaze Taxi. It brought a wonderfully ironic 
subtext to the racial and historical discourses in the film.

Markus


On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:42 AM, Bourdaghs, Michael wrote:

> Hi, all:
>
> According to _Popyuraa ongaku jinmei jiten_ 2nd. edition (Nichigai
> Associates, 2000), both of Mickey Curtis' paternal and maternal 
> grandfathers
> were British.  He was born in Tokyo in 1938, moved to Shanghai at age 
> 4, and
> then returned to Japan after the war.  He made his debut at the 1st
> Nichigeki Western Carnival in 1958, and quickly rose to prominence as a
> rockabilly singer and remained active in recording and performing well 
> into
> the 1970s (his hard rock group Samurai toured in the West), and still
> performs today (http://db-pro.net/mc/).
>
> Hope this helps --
>
> Michael Bourdaghs
>
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>
>
> Hi Kinejapanners,
>
> I'd like to pick some brains about the actor/musician Mickey Curtis.
>
> I know that started off as a famous rockabilly singer, as part of a 
> group
> called Rokabiri Sannin Otoko (maybe mis-romanised), who gained 
> prominance in
> 1958.
>
> Looking at the various web resources, both Japanese and otherwise, I 
> see he
> was born in Tokyo as a certain Brian Kachisu, with his surname spelt in
> kanji characters but obviously approximating the English name Curtis. 
> But I
> don't see any mention anywhere of his parent's nationality. I am 
> assuming
> his father must have been an American (though he was born in 1938, so
> obviously not a child of the occupation). Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Hope you can help!
>
> Jasper
>
>
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