Onihei Hankacho: Ketto

A young woman named Omasa, the daughter of a tavern keeper who helped Heizo in his youth, appears and asks to become an informant. When Heizo denies her request, Omasa learns that Heizo is searching for Sagihara Kuhei,…

Dojo Yaburi

7.0

Misawa Ihei is traveling with his wife Tae who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan’s chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan…

Hissatsu Shiokinin

8.0

When the rich, powerful, and corrupt of feudal Japan seem to be above the law, dedicated civil servants like Mondo Nakamura cuts them down to size while moonlighting as an assassin with his partners Jo and Tetsu! (Source:…

Nihon Gankutsuou

6.0

Samurai seeks revenge on his traitors in Japan of the 17th century. ~~Inspired by the famous Novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas Pére (Source: IMDB)

Dokufu Oden to Kubikiri Asa

Crimes and misadventures of a girl named Oden. Loosely based on actual story of Takahashi Oden. (Source: IMDb)

Shinsengumi of the Dead

8.0

Zombies suddenly appear in the final years of the Edo period in Kyoto. Kuzuyama Gesutaro is a samurai who belongs to the Shinsengumi. The Shinsengumi is a special police force organized by the Bakufu (military government)…

Hakuouki

6.7

Tange Tenzen is made a vassal to the shogun. He is a master of the single long sword fighting style. But in order to defend the honour of his wife, Nagao Chiharu, he loses an arm, and his family is also wiped out.…

Blood and Guts

Risking his own life, a young swordsman must match his strength, courage, and fighting skills to slay the Devil Knight. This is no easy task as he must battle untold assassins and dastardly kung fu experts. (Source:…

Neko Zamurai: Tamanojo, Edo e Iku

A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Madara the Devil". He was somehow hired for killing a cat named Tamanojo.…

Akogare wo Koeta Samuraitachi Sekai Ichi e no Kiroku

8.7

Fujita Makoto

He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Ohkochi Denjiro

Ohkochi entered Shinkokugeki, training under Sawada Shojiro. Shinkokugeki was known for jidaigeki, the period drama genre, particularly for its realistic sword fights (tate) or swordplay (kengeki). With this background, Ohkochi entered the Nikkatsu studio in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara (sword-fighting)…

Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Sengoku Noriko

Sengoku Noriko was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as "Drunken Angel" (1948), "The Quiet Duel" (1949), "Stray Dog" (1949), "Scandal" (1950), "The Idiot" (1951)…

Fukumoto Seizo

Seizo Fukumoto is a Japanese actor. Born February 3, 1943, he entered acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often plays a ronin, but in his hundreds of appearances he has taken nearly every role. His forte…

Kurosawa Toshio

Kurosawa Toshio is a Japanese actor and singer from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Best known for his role as Ashio Ryurei in "Lady Snowblood" (1973), he was a prominent actor in Japanese cinema during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. First starting his career at Toho in 1965, on Kihachi Okamoto's…

Shihomi Etsuko

Etsuko Shihomi was born on October 29, 1956 in Okayama City, Okayama, Japan as Etsuko Shiomi. She is an actress, known for Sister Street Fighter (1974), Legend of Eight Samurai (1983) and Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess (1976). She has been married to Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi since 1987. They have three children.

Oguni Hideo

Born in Aomori, Japan, Hideo, was a prolific Japanese writer who completed over 100 screenplays. He is best known for co-writing screenplays for a number of films directed by Kurosawa Akira, including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden Fortress. His first film with Kurosawa was…

Minowa Yasufumi

Yasufumi Minowa is a Japanese actor. As a child, he especially liked to watch action movies and hoped that he could be a martial arts star like Jackie Chan when he grew up. He went to China as early as 2010 to seek development. Graduating from Beijing Sports University, he has mastered Chinese martial…