Maro Akaji

Maro Akaji is a Japanese actor, butoh dancer, and director born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the founder of the avant-garde butoh group Dai Rakuda-kan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Camel Arts. His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Nomura Mansai II

Nomura Mansai II, born April 5, 1966 under the name Nomura Takeshi, is a well known Kyogen stage actor, and film actor. Takeshi is the eldest son of Nomura Mansaku II, a Kyogen master. His debut was at the age of three in the drama, Quiver of The Monkey. Since then he has also been cast in the dramas:…

Kanie Keizo

Kanie Keizo was a Japanese actor. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for "Angel Guts: Red Classroom" and "Jūkyūsai no Chizu" and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for "Ware ni utsu yoi ari" and "Boku to, bokura no natsu". Kanie died on March 30, 2014,…

Yakusho Koji

Yakusho Koji is a Japanese actor. In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In 1983, he landed the role of Oda Nobunaga in the year-long NHK drama Tokugawa Ieyasu and was catapulted to fame.…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

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…

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…

GACKT

Gackt Camui is a Japanese musician, actor, and author under Glab Entertainment. Usually referred to by his mononymous stage name, he is known for his career as a solo artist and as the former vocalist for the defunct band Malice Mizer. He has released fourteen albums and thirty-nine singles as a solo…

Yamada Takayuki

Yamada Takayuki is a Japanese actor, singer, and producer in Japan. At the age of 15, he was discovered by his Talent Agency Stardust and made his debut in Psychometrer Eiji 2. His subsequent portrayal as the "cool" younger brother of the heroine in the hit NHK Asadora Drama Churasan won him wide recognition.…

Marubashi Chuya

a rōnin (masterless samurai) from Yamagata, and instructor in martial arts and military strategy, most famous for his involvement in the 1651 Keian Uprising which sought to overthrow Japan's Tokugawa shogunate.

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…

Chushingura 1/47

7.3

The story tells the true story of Asano Naganori who attacked Lord Kira Kozenosuke with his sword in the Edo Castle after Kira had coaxed the young lord in the late 18th century. Even though the wound was only superficial,…

Sanadamaru

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NHK's 55th taiga drama series. Sanada Yukimura was born to a lord who owned a small piece of land in Shinsu (present-day Nagano Prefecture). He survived using wisdom, courage and much effort during the Sengoku period…

Ooku

7.7

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years after…

Kamen Rider G

6.8

Goro is a sommelier who transforms into the titular Kamen Rider G to fight the former anti-terrorism unit Shade, who captured and brainwashed him into a soldier, before the unit went underground due to the use of kidnapped…

The Lightning Tree

7.1

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry…

Ooku: The Inner Chamber

7.5

In the Edo era during the reign of the third shogun, a mysterious smallpox epidemic affects males only, causing the number of males to plummet to one-fourth of the population. The roles of males and females are reversed.…

RYOMADEN

7.9

The 49th NHK Taiga drama is Ryoma den, set back in the Bakumatsu period. The story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa…

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

8.5

Before Himura Kenshin met Kaoru, he was a fearsome assassin known as Hitokiri Battousai. "Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning" tells the story of a young Kenshin who became the number one assassin for the Ishin Shishi (which…