The Daughter of the Samurai

The story revolves around Kiyo, a young Japanese woman who is engaged to marry Teruo. Teruo returns to Japan after studying abroad in Europe, accompanied by a German journalist named Margot. Kiyo struggles to adjust…

The Death Match: Fighting Fist of Samurai Joe

A former mercenary, Joe was trying to help a married woman, Lisa, who was suffering from domestic violence by her husband. But Joe killed him by accident. After completing his six-year term in the jail, he found out…

Sakura, Sakura - The Life of Samurai Chemist Jokichi Takamine

6.0

Story based on the biography of Takamine Jokichi. a chemist who discovered and found use for "koji", a fungus used later in the manufacture of soy sauce and miso.

The Foreign Girl and the Samurai

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

7.4

Set during the 17th century when the samurai class struggled to find work. Poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro enters the House of Ii, run by Kageyu, and requests to commit seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) in their…

Itosato A Kyoto Courtesan at the End of Samurai Era

8.0

Itosato is a geisha who belongs to the Shimabara wachigaiya in the geisha quarter of Kyoto during the closing years of the Edo Period. She has her heart set on the deputy commander of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata Toshizo,…

Yamamura Misa Suspense: Red Hearse 30 - The Tatsuno Samurai Parade Murder Case

4.0

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sogiya Shacho Ishihara Akiko Series" (葬儀屋社長 石原明子シリーズ) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).

Shinsengumi Monogatari Yori

Utai to Dai Yohin

Ude ni Oboe Ari 3

4.0

Yoshioka Riho

Yoshioka Riho, born January 15, 1993, is a Japanese actress and model. Born in Uzumasa, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City where the famous Toei Kyoto Studio Park is located and influenced by the family that runs video-related business, Yoshioka grew up being familiar with various forms of arts and culture - film,…

Aiba Hiroki

Aiba Hiroki is a Japanese actor, dancer and singer. He is best known for his role as Fuji Shusuke in The Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, and the live film adaptation. He was also part of a young men's 3-member streetdancing group called Brights, which was disbanded in 2004. His current most…

Watanabe Ken

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award…

Sonny Chiba

Chiba Shinichi, also known as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director, and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Born Maeda Sadaho in Fukuoka,…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Tanaka Min

Tanaka Min is a Japanese actor and dancer. He was trained in ballet and modern dance, but in 1974, turned his back on these forms. He began his solo career with a series of nearly-naked primarily outdoor improvisational dances that took place throughout Japan, often dancing up to five times a day. For…

Morita Suzuka

Suzuka Morita is a Japanese gravure model and actress who was a 2nd generation member, number 11, of Idoling!!!. She was also the 7th generation member of Hop Club. Morita is best known for playing Shinken Yellow in the TV series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. She has also appeared in several stage plays.

Fukasaku Kinji

Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), yakuza films including the seminal Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), samurai period pieces such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), and his controversial…

Koyuki

Koyuki began her career after winning a modelling competition in 1995 for Non-No magazine. Two years later, she became a professional model. In 1998, she landed several supporting roles in television dramas and appeared in numerous print ads and TV commercials. In 2003, Koyuki played her first starring…