Toura Rokko

Toura Rokkou was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1960 to 1993. Before he started his acting career, he was a high school teacher but became an actor by Oshima Nagisa's recommendation. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ohara Reiko

Ohara Reiko was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo in 1946 to a family that sold Japanese confectionery in the Hongo area. Upon graduating from high school, she made her debut as an actress. She appeared in what came to be called “trendy” dramas, including “Rikon Tomodachi” with actor…

Otsuka Michiko

Otsuka Michiko was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Otsuka Michiko (大塚道子) was a Japanese actress and voice actress born in Tokyo. She attended Tokyo Women's High School (東京女子高等師範学校付属高等女学校) but did not complete her studies. After training…

Kawarasaki Choichiro

Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature. He is the eldest son of Kawarazaki Chojuro IV. His wife is Ito Eiko. His younger brothers are Kawarazaki…

Ito Daisuke

Ito Daisuke was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He is one of the famous directors who laid the foundation for historical films, and is also called the "father of historical films". After graduating from junior high school, he gave up going to school…

Nagata Yasushi

Nagata Yasushi was a Japanese actor born in Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan. He graduated from Taipei High School's humanities program and later moved to Tokyo, where he joined the Shinkyo Theater Company in 1930. Nagata made his stage debut in "The New Account of the Battle of Coxinga" and his film debut…

Muto Shosei

Muto Shosei was a Japanese actor born in the market town of Atsuta-ku, Nagoya City. He graduated from Aichi Prefectural Zuiryo High School and Senshu University. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kato Shigeo

Born June 16, 1925 in Hase, Kamakura City , Kanagawa Prefecture . Ishikawa Island Aviation Industry youth school (Ishikawa Island Technical High School later) then in 1946 he joined Kamakura Academia theater department and graduated in Graduated 1949 . 1952 quasi-exclusive contract with (at the same…

Mikimoto Shinsuke

Mikimoto Shinsuke was a Japanese actor. His credits include at least fifty films, as well as numerous television appearances, in a career that spanned several decades. Born in Kanazawa, he graduated from high school there. Then he attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduating from the Faculty of Economics.…

Ishiguro Tatsuya

Ishiguro Tatsuya was a Japanese actor born in Hiroshima Prefecture. He graduated from Okayama Prefectural Daiichi Junior High School. He participated in the new Tsukiji Theater Company, which was split from the Tsukiji Small Theater, and appeared in stage plays. However, on August 19, 1940, he was arrested…

Dekansho Samurai

The Samurai of Edo

6.0

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the changing times from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration. (Source: IMDB)

Wakasama Samurai Torimonocho: Senketsu no Ningyo

4.0

Adapted from a novel Ningyo Oni: Wakasama Samurai Torimonochou (人魚鬼 若さま侍捕物手帖) by Jou Masayuki (城昌幸).

Mushikera Samurai

The story of three conflicted samurai - Shosetsu, Masayuki and Marubashi. Each of them perceives the role of ronin differently and tries to get their way, by gathering people around them, faithful to their ideals.…

Young Samurai Tokujo Black Tsubaki

3.0

Adapted from Masayuki Shiro's original book "Youth Samurai Collecting Book. "

The Gambling Samurai

~~ Adapted from the work "Jusatsu" (銃殺) by Kubo Sakae (久保栄).

Tsukkake Samurai

Onmitsu Samurai Kiki Ippatsu

A Boy and His Samurai

7.5

Yasube Kijima, a samurai from the Edo Period, travels through time - 180 years - to arrive in present day Japan. He then meets divorcee Hiroko and her son Tomoya. Yasube ends up working for Hiroko as a housemaid in…

The Twilight Samurai

7.8

At the start of the film, the main character, Iguchi Seibei, becomes a widower when his wife succumbs to tuberculosis. His wife receives a grand funeral, more than what a low-ranking samurai such as Seibei could afford.…