On this day, 150 years ago, on September 12, 1875 (August 13, 1875 lunar calendar), Japan's first film superstar, Matsunosuke Ogami, was born. Matsunosuke Ogami (1875.9.12-1926) Japan's first film actor, known as Taichiko Matsuke. Born in Okayama City, his real name is Nakamura Tsuruzo. He was already a famous theater star when he was a teenager. After being discovered by Makino Province, he first participated in "Chessboard Tadanobu Genji" in 1909. He soon became a representative actor of the old drama school of Kyoto DAU Co., Ltd. From the first film in the autumn of 1909 to the "Canyon Crescent" shot in 1926, he participated in 1,005 films in his life, sometimes an average of three days to release a new film. This number is unimaginable today. In the early Japanese film and theater circles, he enjoyed a supreme reputation. When he died of a heart attack in September 1926 at the age of 52, the funeral was held in Kyoto, with more than 200,000 mourners, and the pomp was unprecedented and unparalleled. In 1966, the Kyoto municipal government also painted a bust of him on his cemetery. As the most representative number one movie star of the Taisho era in Japan, he made great contributions to the development of Japanese film, and his name will go down in Japanese film history forever.