Yasuo Furuhata (降旗 康男 Furuhata Yasuo, born 19 August 1934 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Poppoya.

Takako Tokiwa (常盤貴子; born 30 April 1972) is a Japanese actress. Takako was born in Yokohama, Japan.

She was nominated for the "Best Actress" award at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2005 for her performance in Akai Tsuki.

Teruyuki Kagawa (香川照之, Kagawa Teruyuki^?, born December 7, 1965) is a Japanese actor. He has twice been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award at the Japanese Academy Awards, once for Warau Iemon and once for Kita no zeronen. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt. Tsurugidake.

His father is the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III, and his grandmother the film actress Sanae Takasugi.

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (born 29 April 1922, Brussels, Belgium), known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century.

He has worked as a bandleader (scoring an international hit in the 1960s with his song "Bluesette"), as a sideman (notably on many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones), and has appeared on dozens of film soundtracks. In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.

He is perhaps best-known to the American public for whistling the melody in commercials for Old Spice cologne.

Thielemans started his career as a guitar player. In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. In 1949 and 1950 he participated in European tours with Benny Goodman, making his first record in Paris with fellow band member, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims. In 1951 he became a band member of the singer-songwriter and compatriot Bobbejaan Schoepen (at the time still as a guitarist).

Serge Losique (born in 1931 in Yugoslavia) is the founder & president of the Montreal World Film Festival since its opening. He is the father of television host Anne-Marie Losique.