Kataoka Chiezo

Kataoka Chiezo was a Japanese period drama star, who was active before and after the war. He is considered one of the six big stars in Japanese period dramas. After the war, he became an executive star of Toei and remained a front-line star until his death. His eldest son Motoharu and his daughter Chie…

Ino Manabu

Fukada Kinnosuke

Asahara Yuzo

Asahara Yuzo is a Japanese filmmaker from Takamatsu city, Kagawa prefecture. In 1987, after graduating from university, he joined Shochiku. (Source: Written by MyDramaList)

Iwai Nanase

Matsumoto Runa

Matsumoto Runa is a Japanese actress.

Kitani Kuniomi

Yorikawa Uta

Yorikawa Uta is a Japanese actor.

Kosugi Isamu

Kosugi Isamu was a Japanese actor and director. His son, Kosugi Taichiro (小杉太一郎), was a Japanese composer.

Kobayashi Gen

The Master Spearman

7.3

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his…

Paper Crane Palanquin

The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to overthrow the Shogunate. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Ninja Hunt

Four ex-samurai are hired to find and kill ninja infiltrators who are intent on destroying the Matsuyama clan. (Source: IMDb)

Incident at Blood Pass

8.2

A wandering samurai accepts a mysterious assignment that takes him to a mountain pass, where he is to await further instruction in an isolated teahouse. The warrior -- through conversations with the tea house's patrons…

Hito Goroshi

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Hito Goroshi" (ひとごろし)…

Zipang

6.9

Jigoku is a samurai outlaw who is on the run with his motley bunch of followers. There's a bounty on his head with a cute female bounty hunter named Yuri The Pistol who's an ace gunslinger hot on his tail. (Source:…

Mangetsu: Mr. Moonlight

6.0

Koyata Sugisaka is a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. One day, while travelling to Ezochi under the command of the clan, he gets caught up in a time slip and ends up in modern Sapporo. There he meets a woman named Mari,…

The Demon of Mount Oe

6.2

A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape-changing, supernatural creature. ~~Adapted from Matsutaro Kawaguchi's (川口松太郎) novel

Yagyuu Renyasai: Hiden Tsukikagesho

6.7

Increased competition between two samurai brothers, threatening to tear their clan apart, eventually leads them to a duel to death in the early Edo Period. One of them is trained in the famous Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, while…

Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict

7.5

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his…