Tsugawa Masahiko

Tsugawa Masahiko (January 2, 1940 - August 4, 2018) was born in Nakagyo District, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, whose real name is Kato Masahiko. He is a right-wing actor, film director, acting producer, and critic. He was affiliated with the entertainment firm Grand Pa Production, and served…

Nakamura Ganjiro II

Nakamura Ganjiro II was a Japanese film and Kabuki actor born in Osaka. He's mostly known in the west for his role in "Conflagration" (1958), "The End of Summer" (1961) and "Floating Weeds" (1959). The current holder, the fourth generation of "Nakamura Ganjiro" name, is his grandson.

Hidari Sachiko

Hidari Sachiko was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1952 and 1995. At the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her roles in "Kanojo to Kare" and "The Insect Woman". In 1977, she directed and starred in the film "The Far Road",…

Kaji Meiko

Kaji Meiko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. She has appeared in about 100 films, with her most famous roles being outlaw characters in early 1970s films, such as the rebels of the "Stray Cat Rock" series, the assassin Lady Snowblood, or the murderous Sasori from the "Female…

Wakao Ayako

Wakao Ayako is a Japaneses actress. She has appeared in over 100 films and won a handful of Best Actress awards. During the 50s and 60s, she starred alongside Daiei’s most famous actors in many of the studios biggest movies, including 20 films from maverick director Yasuzo MASUMURA. Her most prestigious…

Yamazaki Tsutomu

Yamazaki Tsutomu, born in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actor. He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the…

Nishimura Kou

Nishimura Kou was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Kurosawa Akira's "The Bad Sleep Well" and "Yojimbo", Okamoto Kihachi's "Sword of Doom", Nomura Yoshitaro's "Zero Focus", and Ichikawa Kon's "The Burmese Harp". (Source: Wikipedia)

Inoue Waka

Waka Inoue is a Japanese idol, tarento and actress. She was born in Meguro, Tokyo as Naoko Aramura. Her mother is former actress Kyoko Saga. Waka's main claim to fame in the tarento circles is her bustline. Although she moved away from bikini modeling as her primary work in 2006, she has continued to…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Harada Ryuji

Harada Ryuji is a Japanese actor. In May 2019 Weekly Bunshun reported that Ryuji had been having affairs with multiple women. Later the official Twitter account of the Sazae-san stage play announced that he will be dropped from the cast and was replaced by Katsurayama Shingo. The Sazae-san stage play…

Love's Twisting Path

6.3

A love story torn by swords... Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and…

Kakekomi

7.3

The story is set in the late Edo period when the divorce rate was two times higher than the present. In feudal Japanese society, men could easily divorce their wives whereas wives had great difficulty exercising the…

The Lonely Swordsman Part 2

Continues the tale of the master swordsman and the two decapitated hina dolls that hold the key to the shogun’s power. Megastar Tsuruta Koji reprises his role as the nihilistic swordsman with his own unique set of…

Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

7.2

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning…

Lady Kasuga

7.8

The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters, at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical…

Ooku Sai Shusho

7.0

Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun, instituted the Kyoho Reforms aimed at rebuilding the government’s finances. He is called the ancestor who restored the Tokugawa family and is also well-known as the…

Ooku 3 SP: Meiji-hen

7.7

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love,…

Ooku 2003

7.3

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love,…

Ooku 3 SP: Bakumatsu no Onnatachi

8.2

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love,…