565 results found for: NHK Special: Nankai Trough Kyodai Jishin
Okamoto Nobuto
Born to his father, who was an architect (two boys and two girls). Born in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture , spent time in Sakai City until elementary school . He moved to Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo . Joined the theater company Himawari in the second year of junior high school . Debuted as a child…
Himura Yuki
Himura Yuki is a Japanese comedian, presenter, and actor, born in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. He is part of the comedy duo Banana Man. Himura grew up in Chuo, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, and is affiliated with Horipro Com. His wife, Kanda Aika, is a freelance announcer. He graduated…
Watari Tetsuya
Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…
Ota Rina
Ota Rina (married name: Matsuda Rina, married Ryuhei Matsuda) is a Japanese fashion model represented by Anore Inc. Ohta’s mother is half Russian. As a child, she spent two years in Moscow and can speak Russian and English in addition to Japanese. In 2001, Ota won the Grand Prix along with Yui Aragaki…
Yamada Yu
Yamada Yu is a Japanese model, actress, and singer best known for her modeling work with CanCam magazine. She graduated from Okinawa Actors School. In 1999, while working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine CanCam under an exclusive contract, she also worked as a singer in the group y'z factory…
Sasaki Kuranosuke
Sasaki Kuranosuke is a Japanese actor born in 1968 as the second son of the Katsuya Sasaki, the only remaining sake brewery in Kyoto. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Gakuin Elementary School, Kyoto City Nijo Junior High School, and Rakunan High School. In 1988, in order to succeed the family business,…
Amami Yuki
Amami Yuki, born Nakano Yuri, in Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese stage and screen actress. Amami joined the drama club in junior high school and the second year, she was recommended by her homeroom teacher who turned out to be a fan of Takarazuka Revue. She studied ballet in her high school…
Oguri Shun
Shun Oguri is a Japanese actor, voice actor and film director, son of stage director Tetsuya Oguri, and the youngest of 3 siblings, including older brother Ryo, who is also an actor. He started in small roles as extra in the works in which his father and brother worked. He began his official acting…
Kagawa Teruyuki
Kagawa Teruyuki is a Japanese screen and stage actor. Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Hama Yuko. His grandmother is the film actress Takasugi Sanae. In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps since…
Ibu Masato
bu Masato, born Murota Satoru (室田悟) in Nogata, Nakano, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator. His previous stage names included Ibu Sen (伊武専) from 1966 to 1969, Ibu Masami (伊武正巳) from 1970 to 1973, and Ibu Masayuki (伊武雅之) from 1973 to 1980. He is currently…
Shinsengumi!
Japanese Drama - 2004, 49 episodes7.8
The 43rd NHK Taiga Drama is Shinsengumi!. The arrival of Commodore Perry's "Black Ships" rudely awakened Japan from 300 years of peaceful isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and began to demand…
Hideyoshi
Japanese Drama - 1996, 49 episodes8.0
The 35th NHK Taiga Drama is Hideyoshi, the story of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord,…
Hikaru Kimi e
Japanese Drama - 2024, 48 episodes7.8
The 63rd work of NHK Taiga Drama depicts the life of Murasaki Shikibu, a Japanese female poet who wrote "Tale of Hikaru Genji". This story is set in the mid-Heian period. (Source: Japanese = nhk.or.jp || Translation…
Toshiie and Matsu
Japanese Drama - 2002, 49 episodes8.0
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political…
Suzuran
Japanese Drama - 1999, 156 episodes8.0
The 60th NHK Asadora Drama is Suzuran. Locations include Hokkaido Numata and Tokyo. Beginning in 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting…
Aoi Tokugawa Sandai
Japanese Drama - 2000, 49 episodes8.1
The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa…
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese Drama - 1983, 50 episodes8.3
The 21st NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Nobunaga
Japanese Drama - 1992, 49 episodes7.8
The 30th NHK Taiga Drama is Nobunaga: King of Zipangu. On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540 outside Lisbon,…
Komyo ga Tsuji
Japanese Drama - 2006, 49 episodes7.7
The 45th NHK Taiga Drama is Komyo ga Tsuji. Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi…
Totto TV
Japanese Drama - 2016, 7 episodes7.6
Kuroyanagi Tetsuko became NHK’s first television actress in 1953 (Showa 28), which was the start of television broadcasting. She has brought laughter and tears to TV viewers, and many people have supported her since…
