Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen, born Mikajima Ichiro (三ヶ島一郎) in Kitano, Kotesashi, Iruma, Saitama, Japan, was a Japanese actor and opera singer. He was the second son of an elementary school principal, and his family had been priests at Hikawa Shrine in Mikajima Village for generations, though his grandfather…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Tajima Yoshibumi

In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…

Fujiwara Kamatari

Fujiwara got his start in the Asakusa Opera Company at the age of 15 and continued pursuing music until the Great Kanto Earthquake. He transitioned into theater, performing in comedy with fellow actor Enomoto Kenichi. Fujiwara began appearing in comedies for PCL in the 30s; after the merger with Toho,…

Naito Takashi

Naito Takashi is a Japanese actor, voice actor, talent, and moderator born in Higashi-ku, Osaka and raised in Korien, Neyagawa. He graduated from Osaka Seikouin High School and dropped out of the Department of Film, Faculty of Arts, Nihon University. After working at Hyundai Production Building, he…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

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,…

Abe Hiroshi

Abe Hiroshi, born in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese model and actor. He began his career as a model, but successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. Abe graduated from Chuo University in 1988 with…

Watanabe Tetsu

Watanabe Tetsu, born in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan, is an actor and voice actor. His real name is undisclosed. He is currently affiliated with Owlm Co., Ltd (株式会社アウルム) and was previously with Imai Office (今井事務所) until March 31, 2015. Watanabe graduated from Aichi Prefectural Handa…

Ramen Samurai

6.6

Hikari receives news that his father passed away. Hikari decides to take over his father's ramen shop. To do so, Hikari quits his job at a design company and goes back to his home town of Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture.…

Soroban Samurai Kaze no Ichibei SP

6.9

Tatara Samurai

6.6

In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various…

The Haunted Samurai

6.9

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which…

Neko Samurai 2: A Tropical Adventure

7.2

Everyone’s favorite grumpy samurai and cute white cat are back! Once feared as “Madara the Devil,” master swordsman Kyutaro Madarame returns home from Edo a lowly ronin, living with his mother-in-law. When she…

Soroban Samurai Kaze no Ichibei

7.6

It is the Bunsei era (1818 – 1830). While the finances of samurai families were tight, people would entrust their household budget on a half-yearly basis to a roving steward who is the modern-day accountant and management…

11 Samurai

7.7

The film is set in November 1839, during the final decades of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate. The retired Shogun's youngest son, Lord Nariatsu, crosses into the neighboring Oshi fief, while he's hunting. Confronted by…

Punk Samurai Slash Down

6.3

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin…

My Samurai Boyfriend Is from a Game

Shino travels between reality and the end of the Edo period through a simulation game. There she meets Heisuke, a Shinsengumi samurai, with whom she ends up falling in love. Within the game, he interacts with other…

Last Samurai Standing

8.3

The story begins in Kyoto, Japan in 1878, 10 years after the glory days of the samurai. Stripped of their identity and status and no longer permitted even to carry swords, the samurai struggle to survive in this new…