Richard Angst

Richard Angst was a Swiss cinematographer who worked on more than ninety films during his career, most of them in Germany. Angst emerged as a leading photographer of mountain films during the silent era. While he worked on some Nazi propaganda films such as My Life for Ireland, many of the films he…

Ruth Eweler

Ruth Eweler was a German actress born in Plettenberg, Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nakamura Kichiji

Bando Minosuke II

Bando Minosuke II, born Morita Mitsuhisa, is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor, and the leading bassist of buyo Bando-ryu. He is the current and second holder of the Kabuki name "Bando Minosuke", and the eldest son of Bando Mitsugoro X. He is represented by the Horipro Agency.

Matsubara Momotaro

Fushimi Sentaro

He was the second generation Matagoro Nakamura 's disciple. In 1954, he was scouted for a bit part in Shochiku 's "Bikkuri Gojusanji" under the name of Mataichi Nakamura. In 1955, he became a Toei actor with the name Sentaro Fushimi. Debuted with "Moon Whistle". After that, he starred in "The Adventures…

Ueda Isamu

Walter Riml

Walter Riml was an Austrian cameraman and actor born in Innsbruck, Austria. As a passionate sportsman and skier, he contacted the mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanck who made a film in the Tyrolean area of Arlberg in 1927. Because of a bomb attack in 1944 in Berlin, he lost his archive with more than…

Onuma Asao

Onuma Asao is a Japanese actor.

Tsunoi Heikichi

Tsunoi Heikichi is a Japanese art director.

Otokomae!

8.5

A story about two young samurai who set out to fight against evil. Todo Itsuma and Takeda Shinsaburo, both 25 years old, are best friends and work at the north magistrate's office. Their ultimate goal is to become…

Otokomae! 2

7.0

This is a story about two young samurai, Itsuma Toudo and Shinsaburo Takeda, who set out to fight against evil. Their ultimate goal is to become like their boss Kinshiro Toyama, who supports the less privileged commoners,…

Yoidore Kotoji

7.9

Akame Kotoji became a wandering samurai in order to avenge his lord and the uproar over the stolen lances, settles down at a tenement house in Edo that Kujiya Shouemon owns with the intention of spending the rest of…

Sakura Housara

7.0

Furukehashi Shonosuke is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents…

Yoshiwara ura Doushin

7.3

Kamimori Mikijiro is a junior samurai and is absconded by two people. After escaping his pursuers he wanders around the northern provinces for three years. He ends up in Edo's red-light district Yoshiwara. There are…

Bushi to Sono Tsuma

Born to the second son of a samurai family, Kogoro has been treated as useless. Etsu is the only daughter of a strict samurai family who has great looks. Though they are supposed to have a little happiness in a humble…

Illusion of Blood

7.0

A story of the unfaithful samurai who's haunted by the ghost of his wife. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the play "Yotsuya Kaidan" (四谷怪談) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV (鶴屋南北4).

Kurama Tengu

8.0

A story about a masked samurai who takes sides with the good and wipes out the evil. In the late Edo period in Kyoto, samurais are killing each other because of the differences in their beliefs in the Tokugawa shogunate,…

Fukuzawa Yukichi

6.8

Fukuzawa Yukichi is a young samurai who, instead of going patriarchal road of tradition, chooses his own way of translator. His school, originally opened for other samurai to learn Dutch language, becomes a one of…

Gate of Hell

7.2

It tells the story of a samurai who tries to marry a woman he rescues, only to discover that she is already married to someone else. Filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei Film's first color film…